Has Ukraine Lost the War?
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Can Ukraine still win the #war? After Ukraine's failed counteroffensive and the loss of international support, alarm bells have been ringing about Ukraine's future and its resistance to the Russian invasion.
Where exactly are we and why did the counteroffensive not work? In this first video in a new series on #Ukraine we tell you all the details.
#putin
Who is here after Avdiivka fell
Why they wanted that city? So many people died for some *random Ukrainian city*
Avdivka was used since 2014 as a bastion to launch rockets on civilians living in Donetsk.
Have you ever seen the map or are you not even a human?
It’s a strategic location
@@JackSeries44 How come Donetsk looks so good compared to Mariupol if it was bombarded all this time?
@@JackSeries44 Rockets were never launched on civilians, you are a mindless Russian bot
Your analysis capacity is just brilliant. 1 year ago Russia was terrified of ucranian winter and we all know that Russia is very warm country, they don't know what cold weather is, just look at an history book. 11 months ago you said russian army was exausted and underequiped (soldiers using spades to fight was on every news channel). 6 months ago your question was if Ukraine could get Crimea back. Now you wonder if Ukraine has lost the war?
Lmao. This comment should be pinned
Yes the war is still ongoing not the easy affair tyrannical putin assumed!!!😊
Brilliant
Genialny
11 months ago the Russian army and reserves that were fielded on the Ukrainian border were exhausted. They had used up most of the old reserve equipment, many had died and the replacements were as bad as prisoners with the worst equipment Russia had to offer. Unfortunately for Ukraine, Russia was training another 150k fresh troops while pulling in another 70k for training as well, they retooled and sourced new production and raw resource lines for their military equipment and added much in the way of completely new equipment and modern war doctrine. The Ukraine is now getting slowly ground down by the new equipment and new troops with training in new warfare doctrine coming to and overwhelming the Ukrainians who are running out of mercenaries, running out of conscripts and running out of equipment. The problem with these green analysis types is they don't understand the impact of logistics. Russia understands logistics. Logistics defeated every western invader into Russian territory for around 400 years.
Bro fuckin doesn't know what a howitzer is XD
Who is “we”? Have you been fighting there?
This channel lost all credibility over this conflict..
It lost it long before that even
this channel lost its charm after Simon's departure. It was really good back then.
Does Russia pay a lot for your trolling? Or are you simply bad at making arguments?
@@chrismath149 hit that cope, everyone is getting paid by Russia, everyone is a bot that doesn't fit into your mainstream narrative...🙄😂
@@windturbinesystems570 No, u mentality commonly found in a kindergarten playground.
Visualpolitics has been one of the better channels when trying to predict what was going to happen (going back years when they said the Russian Army was rubbish).
STOP CALLING ARTILLERY SHELLS HOWITZERS!
Please forgive this noob.😂
That usage is actually in the OED, with citations given from 1761 to 1998.
And he further talks about " intelligence services views" those who blamed Russia when Hillary lost election 😂😂😂
"Russia funds war at the cost of huge cuts in education, healthcare. etc" Russia announced only a few days ago that they are planning to upgrade the medical supplies in all institutions as well as add more funding to the Russian pharmacutical (already extremely well regarded, even in western Europe) and medical equipment industries. But yeah, *cuts*
Literally everyone is roasting these guys for not knowing the difference between howitzers and ammunition lol
One million howitzers is something that happens in a strategy game when you use cheat codes, not something that is happening in Ukraine right now.
bluds are playing hoi4 millenium dawn irl now
SHIFT + ALT + CTRL + C;
core 99
enter
SHIFT + ALT + CTRL + C;
prestige 99999
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Now pick new stuff!
😂😂😂
perfectly said LMAO
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I remember playing Civ1 and 255 units of any kind was the limit. That was a problem on bigger maps since I also had max cities and trouble putting an acceptable defence into each of them. And even in later versions or other games, even a thousand howitzers / artillery would be able to steamroll everything.
"How can this be done? - Very EASILY. By increasing factory orders and investment in the sector".
Wow, what a high quality analysis.
The factories do not exist. It’s 2024 not 1944.
Your knowledge and understanding of the issue just blows my brains out. Being dumb is an understatement for you.
He is a cousin of johnie bolton and boyfriend of lindsay graham, sibling war mongers.
@@ignoreme1141 evey hopeful point for ukis winning is pie in the sky. its simply delusion.
@@ignoreme1141 Ehm.. is there even a need to refute something so obviously erroneous?
Correction rajiv is clued in and this butterfly hosting visual politik is nothin more then a lobbyist for the brit lost cause war machine where the brits shud be more concerned with their demise of anything resembling a power or global force (LOL). London is going the way of say Chicago or Philadelphia.
Him: Russia is tricking you with their reinforcements
Today's headlines: Ukraine retreating from Aadivka
Avdiivka
avdiivka small town russia lost 17000 people dead for that town
@@Alexpro556 Oh yeah? how about the well known and talk about on the Ukrainian summer offensive with german Leopard tanks? How many kilometers did the Ukraine took? Oh right, only Robotyne. While Russians captures Bakhmut and now Avdiivka despite people saying they don't have the capability months ago. Those Russian FAB bombs wrecked those Ukries. Keep being blinded by western media. And I'm talking this as a Pro-Ukranian myself. I've donated them and know what they are dealing with. Saying Russians are weak is an insult towards my Ukranian friends. Watch and see both side of media next time buddy.
@Alexpro, I'm glad that helps you sleep at night. But the morale of the soldiers on the opposing sides will be vastly different.
@@yangerjamir0906Ukrainian morale is fine,
No Kidding? 200 Bradleys weren't enough to fight along an 800 mile front, against the second largest military in the world? Who would have thunk it? 🙄
The real offensive was hardly couple dozen miles, not entire front though. And didn't western and Ukrainian generals plan for everything and did their calculations? Didn't such geniuses have such questions, when a person in CZcams comment section can raise them?
@@ashishIMpro Oh please. Stop pretending you know anything about me.
Also stop pretending you know how the operation was executed. You clearly don't.
The US did not give Ukraine what we thought was needed. We gave Ukraine what we could within the confines of the aid budget. Any US general would have told you to F off if asked to assault with what Ukraine had available.
Ukraine split the Bradleys up and stationed them in the hot spots ALL ALONG the front lines, rather than concentrating them all on one spot like US wargamers intended (not because 200 was enough for an assault, but because that was the best we could do). And Ukrainians were right to do that, because we massively underestimated the density and size of minefields. There was never going to be a breakthrough in 2023 with such limited resources. That was just wishful thinking on our part.
@@a5centgreat point. NATO is not helping Ukraine enough, that's the main reason why Ukraine is struggling. It depends on whether the US decides to help them or not
200 Bradleys would be significant in autumn 2022, after the Kharkov and Kherson offensive. Russian morale was low, Ukraine had momentum, but the west decided to limit support because they didn't want to "humiliate" Russia so they slowed down their supplies. Russians built thousands of kilometers of fortified trenches and laid millions of mines, while Ukraine was waiting for heavy equipment they needed to continue. Now it's too late. Bradleys are not designed to plow through minefields.
@@milobem4458 Absolutely. That is entirely true. The west wasted the opportunity to get this done cheaply.
We were still clinging to hope that Putin would eventually see reason and call off his invasion. Of course, with the benefit of hindsight, it is easy to criticize.
I will smoke whatever this guy is smoking. It's probably Howitzers
The fact so many people have died from another pointless war is just sad
its not so pointless when you are trying to stop your lands being invaded by those who will bring upon you a regime of brutality where rape and torture are just another tool used to make a nation bend the knee. where i do agree is, it's sad indeed..
There would not be a war of Russia didn’t invade. Was Ukraine not suppose to fight back.
@@terrymckenzie8786there would not have been a war had America not tried to incorporate Ukraine into NATO, Putin told every President Russia does not acknowledge Ukraine as a Country
@@thegoodpimps I don’t remember Ukraine wanting to join NATO. In fact I remember Ukraine giving up all its nukes to Russia for its safety, and even gave them unhindered access to Criminal so they could look after their fleet. I remember Sweden also did not join NATO to let Russia live in peace also. Of coarse that’s all changed now with Russias advance. Russia lost Ukraine after the Soviet Union fell apart and lost Ukraine.
@@terrymckenzie8786 Doesn't look to me like Russia lost Ukraine. America told Ukraine to give up all it's nukes, and explicitly it was said there plans for Ukraine to join NATO and the EU. Russia thought the Cold War had ended when the Soviet Union fell, but it's clear America continued it's Cold War tactics so Russia had no option but to prepare for War. America did not play by the rules of the United Nations, they've pursued an agenda unilaterally without consulting the other nations of the world and completely ignoring they're perspectives.
Avdievka of Donbass was taken by the Russian troops on Feb 16.
Avdiivka (in Ukrainian) or Avdeevka (in Russian), but never Avdievka
3,5 million howitzers impressive… hard to take you guys seriously these days…
They clearly mean ammo not arty pieces...it does sound like what you mean through.
Also does not know the 60 billion bill passed congress and Russia does not have a magic way of fighting wars for FREE. What even economic hardship the west feels just X10 that for Russia .
Canada has a larger economy than Russia if he bothered to look anything up .
It’s a direct translation from Spanish
They have more howitzers than troops 🤣.
After the war, the OUN circles operating in exile conducted a systematic action of changing history. In publications, studies and memoirs, the topic of cooperation with Germany, participation in the Holocaust and murdering Poles was omitted. The OUN and the UPA were presented as noble organizations fighting for a free Ukraine against two enemies - the Third Reich and the USSR. An idealized image of Bandera was also built as an outstanding politician, leader of the nation, thinker and noble fighter for freedom. All those who recalled the Ukrainian collaboration, participation in the Holocaust and the Volhynia massacre were called Soviet agents. Rossoliński-Liebe
Bruh.1 million howitzers?? Really? You need at least 5 million people to crew those?
Confused howitzers with artillery shells 😂
And each howitzer get 1 shell each year.
Thank you for saying what I was thinking. I was like, WTF? Never heard of an artillery shell being called a howitzer before.
🤣
And total number of howitzer per country wont even go up to a million
For almost every point VP EN talks about at 2:30 in this video there's a counterpoint:
1. Unsustainable Russian losses (without any proof of losses), this is easily debunked by looking at concrete numbers published by Mediazona, they conduct thorough research of Russian losses with a proven methodology.
3. No words about Polish farmers blocking trade routes. Also, Israeli parallels.
4. They already have capability to do that on line of contact and about 10-20 km behind it
"Russia funds war at the cost of huge cuts in education, healthcare. etc"
*Literally shows nothing but bad weather*
What is funny is that Russian military spending + interest on debt < US spending on same.
no Dude. Russia pumps more oil then opec and gas. wheat, corn and on and on. they are so rich and stocked they can give free grains to 5 african countries.. you have been lied to and believed it. This is just a nato/ USA game.
As a Russian, I can confirm that some tolls were paid. But they are not of extreme significance. Something like Corona expenses or even fever.
So then where is the money coming from?
@@maryanchabursky9148 It's just not as expensive as may see. Russia mostly wages the war with its economically ineffective population like jobless people from poor villages. The money also comes from sanctions, since they deny transfer them from Russia to the US/EU, so the oligarchs have no choice but invest in Russia. And one of the main sources is the new population - the people of the new regions. While it's true that some of Donetsk/Lugansk men relocated to Ukraine, most of the population is (and was) extremely pro-Russian. Now they contribute to the economy and to the war power as well. I know some people who've been fighting Ukraine since 2014 as separatists, now they are both Russian citizens and soldiers.
To keep it short, Russia trades inefficient population for the greater amount of efficient and motivated.
How do you not know what a Howitzer is????
He meant shells
He's some guy who makes videos on CZcams.. You could do that too . anybody can.
Aren't the Howitzers the guns? The shells are ... well 155mm artillery shells
The howitzer is the delivery component. They fire shells.
This turkey makes so many mistakes in his videos I’m embarrassed for him.
@@johnmorris679and the US don't produce a million 'Howitzers' a year. They produce the shells. The comment was pointing out the host was incorrectly referring to the shells as howitzers for some reason.
Yes.
@@Nick-jn2fq because its written by chat gpt
“The victor is not victorious until the vanquished considers itself so” an ancient Roman quote
"The peace won't be signed until I say so." - BoJo quote.
Lost the war, lost land, lost a generation but a few have gained massive fortunes instead
Nah ruSSia didn't lose yet but yeah Oligarchs did earn a lot of money - that is why ruSSian army equipmnet is shit.
@@user-hm5dt2bd5qIt’s crap when Russians use it but when Ukrainians use the same thing it’s amazing and wonderful 🤩 You have the mindset of a 5 year old
@@spitfire3797 Ukraine got weapons from the west that are much better then the weapons from World War II that ruSSians got. There is a reason why Ukrainians use ruSSian tanks as toilets.
Bro was busy an year ago saying ukriane is straight to victory .. now making these things 😂
one year ago was quite the different scenario wasn't it
Slava 🇹🇼 Heroyam TAIWANese 🦾
Ikr. I knew this will happen. and hate to say "i told you so".
Slava Z
Like the infographics channel
Him: “Just simply supply Ukraine more.”
Western Politicians und Generals: “Why didn’t I think of that? Hammocks!”
You are old
Slava 🇹🇼 Heroyam TAIWANese 🦾
Without recruits😂😂
1. there's not enough to supply at all, much less in time 2. some systems take YEARS to introduce to service.
Just so we are clear if ukraine loses. Its western delayed aid fault
Pointless war...Military companies will just make money
Calling arty shells howitzers is new level special.
Aargh. The repeated incorrect use of “howitzer”.
Still somehow less irritating than the old host who couldn't pronounce Missiles.
Never mind...
Never Say NEVER 😎 Justin Bieber
why?
As an ex Artillery Gunner, it really got to me 😂
You told us during the counteroffensive that Ukraine was on its way to take Crimea
He forgot to share more of his income to that cause as we tax payers do 🎉
That was in his heart.
Wait, you’re telling me things change in life?!?!?’? How can this be!?!?
The ruble is currently experiencing a period of strength against the dollar, unlike any other time in the last two decades. Despite this, a content creator has pointed out that Russia's economy may still be at risk of severe consequences. It is important to remember that Russia is an autonomous nation with access to ample natural resources that can be utilized to meet its basic needs.
"Vladimir Putin decreed the partial mobilization of troops, which implies the call-up and entry into combat of Russian civilians. And he has done so because Russia is losing the war that they themselves unleashed against Ukraine."
This was from your video exactly one year ago....
lol and in the meantime, how many Ukrainians were captured on the streets of their cities, thrown in to the meatgrinder with a few days worth of training? Russia was not losing a year ago and they certainly aren't now.
@@rageagaintstheNWO And Western Lamestream Media and politicians are panicking now! Good! All US Congress people RESISTING pressure from Senile Joe to sign off on more Ukraine aid, HOLD THE LINE! NEVER GIVE IN!
Yes, failing the objective and getting forced to route early on was clearly winning. @@rageagaintstheNWO
@@Blastna22It was a setback. They were not losing the bigger war. Ukraine spent everything pushing back the Russians, then the counter-offensive ran out of western toys and manpower, and while they were waiting to get new toys and train new batch of troops to continue, Russia was not sleeping. You can see the results now.
At the end of the war... "Well Ukraine is not that strategically important anyway"
It never was, only as a opportunity to weaken Russia
Ukraine and Poland are at best highways for groujd forces into West Europe or into Russian hearrland
@@ThemoonsFullofgoons-qn9xl It only strengthened Russia.
@@hijazzains What drugs they are giving you these days???
@@ThemoonsFullofgoons-qn9xlThank you that you show your true face to the Ukrainians;)
imagine giving Ukraine like 10 tanks and 5 himars, not giving F16-s, advising them to attack russian fortifications with tank columns and causually saying they should just drive around the minefields... And then making a surprised Pikachu face when the offensive goes nowhere
The phrase "setting up for failure" comes to mind. NATO teaches the Ukrainians combined arms, and they fails to provide them the critical air component of that system.
Fortunately, the Ukrainians have taken the elements they CAN use and have hybridized it with their Warsaw-Soviet system into something that is surprisingly effective and given the west something to consider going forward.
Considerably more tanks plus other armored vehicles. But yeah I agree Ukraine seems to be given just enough to keep fighting
haha because the russian took bahkmut without airsupport. Giving f-16 would not make any difference against a nation with many anti air defense system. Being too reliant on the airforce makes NATO tactics impractical, did not work in vietnam and afghanistan
True, they don't want Ukraine to win
Ukraine has gained more support than any nation on earth. And its still begging for more more more. Get lost.
Give Russia land it wants for peace. Much cheaper outcome for the whole world.
When the war started I followed both pro Ukrainian and pro Russian channel, Two years later Pro Russian remained the same but pro Ukrainian changed their stories many times. Moral, of the story things are not good for Ukraine.
Shovels and washing machines made all the difference🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫
This assessment rather assumes that conflicts are binary: win or lose. Things aren’t that simple. We have lots of examples of frozen conflicts. The sides effectively fight to a stalemate. Neither side can win a decisive victory. We then enter a rather different, longer-term dynamic. This is actually quite common in the former Soviet space. Most conflicts have become frozen. This could well be the most likely scenario in Ukraine too. This could suit Russia now. Moscow would claim that it has what it wants, and need not press ahead any further. The longer term battle then becomes political. Will the West eventually decide that it is better to engage with Russia than maintain sanctions. It is a medium to long strategy. But again, this goes beyond a standard military analysis.
Nice to see you here.
that's what you write when Ukrainians are loosing
@@monkeydank7842 Hi there! :-)
@@louisecorchevolle9241 No that’s what I write when I have studied conflicts for decades and understand the political dynamics of these sorts of situations.
Nice to see you here! I love your in depth videos, they are very clear to understand.
I like that he states 130 billion in aid is manageable yet 80% of that aid is American yet we here in American can't even provide aid to people in a forest for in hawaii
Maybe because USA doesn't think residents in Hawaii as Americans. US soldiers in Pearl Harbour didn't even bother to help firefight.
He literally said “They have stopped Moscow’s latest offensive dead in its tracks” as Ukraine’s greatest fortress (Avdeevka) is folding as we speak😂😂😂
A war of attrition against a country who have much more of everything (soldiers, vehicles, missiles) cannot succeed. That's what happened in Bakhmut, and will probably happen in Avdiivka (since the same general who lost in Bakhmut is in charge of this area)
Lol, this comment was spot on
lmao
Unless you are suffering far lower losses
@@maryanchabursky9148 And they aren't. So, if the west slows downs support for Ukraine even more, Ukraine has no chance.
@@Randomguy7261 yes they are according to all estimates of personnel losses and all visually confirmed material losses.
I am sure he means 3.5 million shovels a year, that makes more sense 😂
Define "winning" please 🤨
disarmamnet of RF
@@sillysad3198 Yes, you are silly,
@@sillysad3198hahahahaha
ok russ
@@Voltaire-yy2rn Ivan, doesn't your supervisor fine you for irrelevant comments?
Do we (The USA) really want to throw our economy in the dirt by spending over 40-60 billion dollars out of our federal reserve? Also how can we help other countries when we can't even help our own people and get the country back to business? I mean, East Palestine Ohio and the victims of the Maui fires got close to nothing while we prioritize foreign aid- illegal migration- the crisis with Fentanyl and other harmful addictive substances, gang crime, living costs as a whole.
The war was lost from day one, even without hindsight this was obvious.
True, the special operation was doomed from the beginning. Russia is an embarrassment.
@@karlwedin5979 Yeah that is why Russia is currently retreating back to the original border and suing for pea- wait a minute....
today, all kids are military specialists!
This channel is a joke.
Slava 🇹🇼
😂
@@Booz2020 14 year olds trying to drag us in another war 🤦go to school kid crazy this is what you spend your free time doing
@@Booz2020doesn't exist 😂
I think VisualPolitik EN does not know the difference between "Howitzers" and "Ammunition". Their figures are WAY off on the number of Howitzers. Those figures are more inline with the number of rounds of ammunition which is different from the tubes that fire them.
Which is why i don’t take their videos so seriously
@@worththewatch1517Nobody take seriously anything of this dudes.
They just said what their owners wanted to generate a parallel reality and hope the más believe it as true.
The OED supports that usage.
@@dixonpinfold2582 That is not what the military which USES "howitzers" refer to them as.
And if by OED, you are referring to "Oxford English Dictionary", it defines "howitzer" as follows:
howitzer, n.
A piece of artillery with a relatively short barrel, and typically of relatively light weight, designed for firing shells on high trajectories at low velocities.
The other definitions are archaic and no longer in use. (not used since the 1700's)
@@computernerdtechman Wrong. From the current OED (rev. 2014):
howitzer ɴᴏᴜɴ [2nd sense]
1.b. A shell fired by this piece of artillery.
𝘓𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘻𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭.
And it gives quotations of this sense with citations from 1761 up to 1998. Oxford English Dictionary has a website.
I came here after Ukraine was defeated in Adeevka 😂
"if the headline is a question, the answer is no" howie carr, newspaper columnist and radio host
I said it before and I'll say it again. You cannot win a war only on the promises of an Ally. You have to stand on your own and fight till the end. So far, Ukraine has shown that they are not able to fight without help from other countries. This is not sustainable.
Slava 🇹🇼
You do realize that after what happened in Kabul in July, the U.S. and NATO refused to provide Ukraine with any heavy weapons for fear of them surrendering them to the Russian army? It wasn’t until the AFU stopped the invaders at Kyiv and Kharkiv, outnumbered 10:1 in troops and armor. But not only outnumbered, the Russians had modern tanks and planes vs Ukraine’s far fewer, older and less capable Soviet armor and planes!??
@@JimCOsd55lol.. AFU didn't stop Russians on kiev, Russians withdrew from Kiev as goodwill gesture during peace talks in Istanbul.
@@Manikanta-hh7wp Yea yea and the Germans surrendered at Stalingrad as a goodwill gesture to Stalin! 😂
After invading February 24, 2022, Russian forces initially captured several towns and cities, but logistical and supply failures, stiff Ukrainian resistance, and subsequent poor morale caused the advance to stall. With heavy losses and the inability to make further progress, Russia withdrew its forces from Kyiv and Zhytomyr oblasts in April 2022, and Ukrainian forces retook control.
@@Manikanta-hh7wp You should do stand-up
Click bait title. Buhhhh!
That’s like 80% of all CZcams vids nowadays. These GenZ don’t want to have to go out and get real job, duh.
How is it a click bait, when Russia occupies Ukraine land area bigger than other European countries? Do you think it's a win for Ukraine? In the end Russia occupies Ukraine lands. Russia should have been defeated by now with all those sanctions. And Russia since WW1 and WW2 have many deaths when they go to war. That's their tactics all along just like 6 Million deaths during WW2 in just 3yrs.
So ukriane is winning? 😂😂
What's your point ? It will be wise if they surrender putting down their flag .
This boy has still got the mentality of the boy scout. excellent imaginative mind for computer games. lol lol .
A howitzer just flew over my house
Correction. Ukraine counter offensive has never gained ground.
The thing about videos like this is that sooner or later, one side will have to eat humble pie. The after conflict lying will be quite interesting to watch too
You are absolutely right. Can't wait for "post mortem" comments and narrative.
well, the "Ukraine can win faction" will make their own "Dolchstoßlegende" (like the german right wing after WWI). It was not, that Ukraine could not have won. It was (Republicans, Trump, Germans not giving Taurus...fill in as pleased). That we cannot produce so much artillery and air defense as russia can drones, rokets and artillery. And that it takes a lot of time to build such factories. That Ukraine has not enough manpower. They will blame "Lacking Will of the West".
Just like the covid scam and everyone who was rabidly pro-vaccine/illegal lockdowns tried to pretend they werent lol.
No, just make up a new narrative. Have you ever followed politics?
Indeed it will be quite funny to hear ruSSia claim that they were fighting regular NATO troops all along.
I used to think of this channel as unbiased. Boy was I wrong.
Nobody is ever unbiased. Especially when $$$ & Politics is involved.
really tired of my hard earn money going overseas instead of domestic problems
Every single person and country in the West has seriously underestimated Russia and what they are doing.
Quite the opposite. Everyone overestimated Russia, and their disastrous offensive on Ukraine was what made everyone think again. Seems Russia wasn't nearly as strong as everyone once thought.
@@danilolabbateAfganistan Vietnam wars 😂😂😂
@@offred6013"Kiev in 14 days"- Putler
@@Tonius126 western media said that. LMAO
@@offred6013 no media said "three days" but in actuality putler said said fourteen. Lol lmao.
If Ukraine wasn't a corrupt hellscape, itd be easier to sell aid to the western public.
But I'm tired of sending my taxdollars to Ukraine so Zelensky can take his wife shopping in Paris
1 Million howitzers ? blud is toomuch playin Barbie 😂
Did not know the artillery pieces were shooting howitzers!
That some strange artillery
I assume howitzers means howitzer ammunition.
Stalemate is just a euphemism for Ukraine debacle. Zelenskyy is running out of cannon fodder. He fired his top general ( who paid at least lip service to common sense) and replaced him with his minion (Politico quotes Ukrainian soldiers calling him a butcher in an article "Zaluzhny is out, the ‘butcher’ is in") that wasted lives of close to 100 000 Ukrainian troops trying to hold Bakhmut when all escape routes were under Russian fire control and then launching wave after wave of suicidal counterattacks for months trying and failing to recapture the city. Even NYT noticed in desperation: "Bakhmut has become something of an obsession for Mr. Zelensky and his military leaders. " Western allies are running out of ammo. Zelenskyy offensive proved to be an epic unmitigated disaster. Russians rejected any freeze of the conflict. Putin spokesperson said quite bluntly that all Russian goals had to be met (denazification, demilitarization and a neutral status of Ukraine). At this point unconditional surrender is the only practical solution for Ukraine. Hitler's Germany also refused to admit defeat until Hitler killed himself, then Keitel signed unconditional surrender.
100,000 is a gross exagerration, but you are right that Syrski has a bad reputation here in Ukraine. Did you know he is Russian? He is not Ukrainian. He is of Russian blood, born in Russia and grew up there, studied there, and his mom and brother both live in Russia and regularly post pro-Russian stuff on twitter/X. He is a Soviet Russian with Soviet Russian tactics - they work great if you are Marshal Zhukov with hordes of men and massive industrial capacity. They do not work if you are smaller and poorer than your enemy. Everyone who isn't a Russian or a brainwashed westerner who doesn't understand the situation misses Zaluzhny. *Edit* but surrender is unacceptable. Better to fight like the Viet cong or Afghans. We have experienced Russian rule in all of its genocidal brutality before. We have seen how Russians behaved in occupied areas towards ethnic Ukrainians. No, sorry , going like lambs to the slaughter or gulag (whatever they call it now) is not acceptable.
It's nice when you go to comment something, and its all everyone is talking about already...
The russian army do not suffer massive losses. And the losses on the ukrainian side are much higher.
No. Who paid you to write this nonsense?
Right... describe to me what a Ukrainian victory actually looks like. This channel has been saying for literally years that the Russians are on their last legs/won't succeed. The front line that the Russians maintain today is practically the same as it was a couple of months into the war. If they wanted to advance further, the reality is that they could. The Ukrainian military is toast. Russia has 300,000 reserve troops on the border and can reastically hope to mobilise a further million. Meanwhile, Ukraine has lost more troops in this war than the Americans did in the entirety of the Second World War. Continuing to fund this war in order to protect democracy, and a "democratic state," will be regarded as the main catalyst for Western downfall in the future should our many idiot politicians not have a major change of course soon. STOP THE WAR and STOP THE KILLING. We (the collective West) are responsible for this war and it is now our responsibility to halt it. Negotiate now!
I'm sensing a bias in your news coverage @VisualPolitik EN. I can already get that from the regular TV news. But thanks for your effort.
What latest offensive? That one which was never announced?
From what I've heard it takes on average 2-5 years to properly train an F16 pilot. I assume the Gripen is similar. You can't be just give a country weapons and assume they can use be them effectively.
Also a howitzer is a gun... Not an artillery shell.
Praying for peace ✌️ 😢
Is the other voice a bot ? I found it so hard to focus on it and not sure why. (sorry if I'm wrong)
You said: "Ukrainian army went from 150k troops to >700k" but in 02.2022 Ukraine had a total of 250k (150k of which were combat units). You continue with: "About 100k soldiers were trained by NATO countries" but do you know that 90% of these soldiers are not combat ready after their training ? An average soldier that returned to Ukraine from training in (for instance) UK has to be 'thrown into water' - close to combat conditions near the front line. This means that the troops at the frontline take him close enough, say a few km from contact with the enemy to show him what the real war looks like. Some of these 'trained soldiers' went AWOL after seeing all of that, for others it took a month to get used to it and join the fight. There are other factors either not mentioned or not inaccurate...
Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Raytheon...
The counter-offensive did not fail, it was defeated.....
Isn't that the same thing?
@@lateralus6512 " defeated" means that Russia has actively won
it was not due to mistakes but due to inferiority of NATO
it did fail they didn't achieve their goal they setout.
@@andreainzaghi7373 nor Ukraine defeated not Russia won it is stalemate: Valerii Zaluzhnyi ( former army chief)
After the war, the OUN circles operating in exile conducted a systematic action of changing history. In publications, studies and memoirs, the topic of cooperation with Germany, participation in the Holocaust and murdering Poles was omitted. The OUN and the UPA were presented as noble organizations fighting for a free Ukraine against two enemies - the Third Reich and the USSR. An idealized image of Bandera was also built as an outstanding politician, leader of the nation, thinker and noble fighter for freedom. All those who recalled the Ukrainian collaboration, participation in the Holocaust and the Volhynia massacre were called Soviet agents. Rossoliński-Liebe
You mention that countries supplying aid could increase their aid support by a few billion…however most developed countries are having their own economic issues especially with inflation, housing, etc. Also should note a lot of supporting countries, especially the US are in an election year, hence spending billions overseas rather than on domestic issues will not play well with voters.
It's true many western donor countries have their economic issues. But what use is a fine economy when your security is threatened by a genocidal maniac. In the Maslow pyramid (physical) security comes first.
Voters are dumb. Aids sent to Ukraine are in the form of military hardware and not actual hard cash. Not sending artillery systems or tanks to Ukraine won’t solve those issues, homelessness and the costs of living would still rise, due to COVID and the war in Ukraine. If THE STATES or Europe were to cut off aid to Ukraine, those things will still exist and won’t go away.
Also typically most of "money for Ukraine" don't go to Ukraine.
At best they go to domestic companies and to produce whatever they can. Not what Ukraine needs and not in time
At worst it's some refugee camp on the other side of the world by reasoning of increasing stability in face of Russian attack or something
You think Russia has a magic way of fighting wars for FREE?
Canada has a larger economy than Russia . Who do you think will go broke over the war first?
1979-89 invasion of Afghanistan broke and collapsed the USSR.
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Larger economy doesn't mean bigger industry. Netflix and Microsoft doesn't pump out artillery shells, especially when it costs 10 times more in the West because of energy prices and gouging than in Russia. They have 3,5 million people working in the defense indusrty, how much is that in Canada?😅
It has moved on from Avdeevka, the Russians are closing in on Chasov Yar.
What do you classify is a win?
Forcing a superpower into a stalemate ain't losing.
oooh i just thought that russian army was called second in Ukraine in last year, but now it's superpower
Kinda, but we have to see further.
So you prefer to be superpower when you can’t force them on something. 😂 nice 😂
@@evillars8117 Has the Russian army taken over Kiev yet?
It’s not a stalemate. They loss and the West is setting this narrative
There is no force in universe that can dissuade Russia from this war, simply because Russia sees it as an existential war. Allowing Ukraine to join NATO and have that long border on a flat terrain with a NATO member, all with NATO bases and troops, and weapon systems including the nuclear weapons is suicidal for Russia. To them, every scenario is better than this one. This war was easy to predict, but the steps towards it were made however.
Exactly
This comment could be beliavable some two years ago.
Currently we're at the point where the initial "NATO threat" claimed by Russia has proven to be quite ridiculous, along with those claims about Ukraine being a "country of nazis".
Oh no! What would happen if poor Russia gets 10/100/10000000 more kilometers of common border with NATO??? Like they haven't already had shared some for years. Pity of an excuse.
What about Finland - they joined the NATO because of fear! I cant believe Putin did not know this would happen when starting the war! He has to blame himself extending those NATO borders (!) Finland did not join the NATO just for fun ! And Sweden wont either!
You are a genius, this is why Russia attacked Ukraine, stupid people don’t understand this. Any state would do the same if a hostile state were located 100 kilometers away
I played linebacker in college, and even at my biggest, I have never owned shirt nearly so tight on my arms! In fact, I have never seen any of the incredible strong man competitors at my gym with shirts so tight on their arms! 🤣
it is part of their psyop, check all their videos in all languages, they only wear tropical shirts.. perhaps some epstein symbolic deal going on lol
I think you meant to say "howitzer shells", not "howitzers". The first is that encased that what is lobbed at the enemy, the latter that what is doing the lobbing.
In THEORY this would work. Only a few problems:
1. With the current situation, it would take quite some time to increase the production of artillery shells and other weapons. Not sure that Ukraine has that much time left.
2. You could THEORETICALLY increase production tomorrow by going into a war economy, similar to what the US did after Pearl Harbor. The only problem is, how will you explain it to the population. If the population of Poland and the Baltics take a hypothetical Russian threat seriously, Germany, France, the U.S. and UK don’t. Mind you, it is the latter 4 countries with the theoretical capacity to produce what is needed for Ukraine to win. While Poland and the Baltics simply lack that capacity. So how will you convince them he populations of Western Europe and North America to sacrifice their way of life in favor of a war economy (which involves rationing and suspension of civilian production). Heck, many countries in Europe are already protesting due to their standard of living going down. So unless Russia launches a direct attack to those countries, you can forget about being able to pull off a war economy. Which is why Russia won’t do that. They aren’t stupid. They know that if the populations of the west aren’t threatened directly, there won’t be any direct military involvement from them.
3. Manpower. Simply put, Ukraine is short on people they could send to the front. Let alone people who have been trained. And it takes about a year to train a soldier, in order for the soldier to be effective. This is just infantry. Not to mentions Artillery and AD operators, and forget about pilots - that takes 3-4 years MINIMUM. The alternative would be to send western troops in. There are 2 ways to go about that: A. Contractors/Mercenaries/Volunteers - very few will go. It is too risky of a proposition. Simply put, they couldn’t possible get enough QUALIFIED western volunteers, that would be needed to turn the tide. B. Direct confrontation between NATO and Russia. This could in theory help Ukraine. But on the flip side, it would give the Russians legitimate reason to strike at NATO territory, and they will strike. After that, it will escalate to the point where it will be -30 in the summer (and I’m not talking about Antarctica). The west knows this and Russia knows this - so there will be no direct confrontation. Simply put, the escalation ladder will be uncontrollable at that point.
As far as conscription in the west goes - this is nonsense and not worth entertaining, for the simple reason that the current generation of under 30 year olds in the west just won’t have it.
The key thing here is manpower, forget trained manpower.Part of the reason Zuluzny had to go is that he required 500,000 new conscripts a plan Zelensky disagreed with.
"As far as conscription in the west goes - this is nonsense and not worth entertaining, for the simple reason that the current generation of under 30 year olds in the west just won’t have it." this is the ONLY thing my generation have done that makes me proud. Its a shame that everyone didnt have this view. Perhaps if people werent so happy to go abroad and kill people they dont know, people like hilter wouldnt have been able to start wars and kill millions.
What if the US offered citizenship to the migrants if they did a tour in Ukraine?
Just thinking outside the box over here.
I love your idea of a war economy. But if they did, would Putin just counter by sending its country into a war economy? The average age of a Ukrainian soldier is 43, Ukraine does not use its men as meat waves, So having 40 year olds would actually be effective, as they are using good gear. Men in their early 40's are close to what men in their 30's are. So I think foreign conscription can work if we set up a really good system for it.
I think its really about Bric vs G7. If the Bric dies or trade with China dies, Russia dies. I think its really that simple.
Many say that Ukraine has already lost, and they say it happened between the failed Ukrainian counteroffensive and the cost of donating a standard NATO 155mm artillery shell rose from $1854 in 2022 to $8545 per shell!! In 2024.
In the eyes of all geopolitically literate people tracking the conflict since the early days, Ukraine lost the moment Zelenskyy turned down Putin's last call to negotiations before the war even began.
@@koskok2965 look at it geopolitically, Russia should be in the suburbs of Wasaw, not taking two fields right outside of Adivka, while the entire Russian navy is being sunk.
The obvious discrepancy between what Russia should be capable of and what it is actually capable of is so huge, that to a Western audiance, there is no point in putting more money into a war, that Russia hass zero chance of ever seriously commiting to.
If Russia was an actual threat Ukraine has 30 times more money at it's disposal, instead of twice the money that is on the table now.
The West is not really commitiing itself, because it just sees Russia as making a fool of itself. And doesn't really care about Ukraine. It is a David and Goliath story, you are just confused about who the David and who the Goliath is.
@@koskok2965there was no call for negotiations only a call to surrender. It was ruSSia that turned down Ukraine invitation for negotiations 4 TIMES leading up to the war
As an American I don’t want my tax money going to Ukraine.
Production of howitzers ? Do you mean 155mm howitzer shell production or actual artillery system production ? It is just weird to hear that.
It's so surprising that all the negative things that you said about Russian economy is what's happening to the European economy, especially Germany(the largest European economy)
One Russian Ruble worth less than 1 ( ONE ) cent of an US $ dollar. Even the chinese bank don't trade in Rubles, Rubles are trash. Siemens and General Electric turbines of Russian heating and power plants are nearly dead, for asence of maintenance and spare parts, the same is for the electric locomotive engines, the Civil Russian Airfleet, and most important the lackness of tecnology for the
manteinance of Western oil plants in Russia, and the absence of spare parts. Moreover we are having an even too warm winter in Europe... im Moscow 25 degrees below zero were reached. In St. Petersburg too i remember, and the power plants frozen, so I saw with my eyes on TV people from Moscow withot hating, lights, elecrtic power, water ( warm and cold water , because the water piplines are
frozen ), people i said screaming we are frozing in the streets . 😂😂😂 I still laugh when I remember the Russian propaganda in 2022/2023 showing the European Capitals frozen for the lackness of Russian natural gas 😢 . Anyway good for the Russian evil Empire if its echonomy is so great. Do you think you can take all you want because you are evil, strong, selfish, you don't care about the life of the other people? Dear Ruzzian in a few years we will see, at the moment remember that The President Vladimir Putin do not cares about your lives.... really i can't understand how Russian people like the idea of a war with NATO..
@@luigigandolfi4788Russia is doing fine even though there are sanctions.
@@luigigandolfi4788From the creators of:
"They eating Ukrainian parrots "
"Russia's economy will collapse in this summer "
"Russian economy will collapse 2 : late summer early spring "
"Putin is terminally ill... with disco fever"
"Rockets always go to heaven" "Dishwashers strikes back"
"Gerasimov- risen from the dead (4 times) ".
You have no clue about economics. The Russian economy is more doomed than the sovjet economy after the Afghan war. It still took years ubtill the USSR collapsed. As long as the war economy runs we will not see an Russian collaps but they never can stop war.
@@luigigandolfi4788 That event with a part of a city in Moscow area freezing indeed happened due to a malfunction because of poor maintenance. People responsible were found and punished. Now everything works fine, and it had nothing to do with "power plants frozen" which never happened in the first place. And it was a single event, not something systematic.
Essentially, the current strategy is for both sides to hold until the other one is voted out.
Undemocratic Russia is having elections soon. Democratic Ukraine has cancelled the elections.
Clown world.
Putin will never be voted out. You fools still stuck on that train. That's how you know Ukraine is losing
You think there is voting in Russia? Wow
Ukraine has high morale, even before the war they had the highest number of people willing to fight to defend their country in Europe. Over 70% compared to Britain which was just 10% of their people willing to fight. The problem is, its supporters do not have such enthusiasm. Russia has 100 years of experience in information warfare, they spend billions of dollars worth of bots and disinformation spamming Ukrainian support online. The real battle is against democracy.
@@sandybarnes887 yeah, sometimes dead people vote. Sometimes ballots appear out of nowhere in the middle of the night. Sometime the media bans together to keep the public in the dark.
Oh sugar plums, I am thinking about the US.
NATO was happy to help Kosovo separate from Serbia. Why are they not happy to let the Russian speaking areas separate from Ukraine?
Politicians lie and the public have short memories. Most westerners cannot remember the news from three days ago. So the historical fact of innumerable western deployments overseas, or that they are acting as a global empire, escapes the notice of the public.
At the same time that Russia is condemned for protecting the breakaway regions from Ukrainian state suppression, we are supporting Taiwanese opposition to Chinese relations.
In the end we can only conclude, a cause is just if it furthers progressive liberal global ambitions, and unjust if it furthers conservative national interests.
The rules based order is about Democrats making the rules for everyone else.
"Confused howitzer sounds"
"Could Ukraine lose the war?"
Define lose. Do you mean massive losses of land and lives and resources to a forign military? Yes. But in Reddit Gold? Ukraine has this in the bag.
Even with additional aid, there is no ammunition for Ukraine to buy, small arms ammo excluded. The supplies were exhausted and manufacturing isn't keeping pace. F-16's won't do any good because Ukraine would get a neutered version of it. They are going to be given the version given to other countries. The advanced weapons systems and radar are not going to be included. Also, it takes 4 to 5 years for a pilot to become proficient flying the F-16. Lastly, even if they got unlimited artillery, armor, and F-16's, it won't matter. They don't have enough manpower to operate any of the equipment. Absent direct intervention to provide additional troops, this war is over.
yep, this war which transitioned to war of attrition is all about meat grinding manpower. that kind of war favors russia.
"F-16's won't do any good because Ukraine would get a neutered version of it" Where did that info come from? Its old tech for the west so need need to protect it, Its even been supplied to Turkey. "it takes 4 to 5 years for a pilot to become proficient flying the F-16" If he is not already a fast jet pilot but these guys are. The real concern is actually about keeping them safe on the ground given Russia's reach.
I keep hearing 'the war is over, the war is over'. The war was going to be over in three weeks. Then the war was going to be over in a couple of months. Then the war was going to be over by the end of the year. We're now two years in but I'm still being assured by Mr Putin that the war's going to be over in a few more weeks. The reality is that even if Russia manages to take the whole of Ukraine they'll just end up fighting a forever war against insurgents.
Ukraine would be getting the F16AM/or BM Block 15. That was cutting edge technology in 1988. They are used aircraft that have recently been taken out of service by the countries willing to supply them. While the radar can be upgraded rather easily, it won't. We don't want that falling into the wrong hands. All other upgrades would take a hell of a long time and would delay the project by years. The planes Ukraine would be getting are about 6 or 7 generations behind the current F16. Even with training, these planes will just be flying targets for the Russian SU57. It is more manuverable, carries a bigger payload, the weapons system has a longer range. It is just a much better plane. Long story short, Ukraine is done. Stop wasting time, money, and most importantly, lives.@@nigelcaine6139
Isn't 'the' article with russian federation grammatically incorrect?
I do not know) It's english thing, russian does not have articles. So, we do not care.
2:25 Your definition of "strategic patience" is completely off. Russia is indeed fighting a "war of attrition" and so is Ukraine, but that is completely different from strategic patience. The latter is Iran's strategy whereby they refrain from engaging in pre-emptive or reactive invasions and full-scale wars, instead choosing to see how things play out over the course of years and decades.
13:55 Firstly, how is Iran "autocratic" exactly? Khamenei doesn't dictate state policy outside of religion like Putin and Xi Jinping does. That's decided by the lawmakers in parliament and the IRGC. Iran's parliament debates issues, and rival politicians and factions openly criticize the President and the ruling cabinet. Secondly, since when does Iran invade and try to annex countries? Their policy is actually the opposite. They don't want to annex foreign territories and instead back allies because they prefer buffers.
Join the frontline and finding out?
Also the actual "funds", the supposed money spend on hardware sent to Ukraine is actually a fictive number estimated by lawmakers and put on outdated equipment already sent to depots. Wierd how one can spend X amount on hardware that was already decommissioned, isn't that equivalent to saying we are giving Ukrainians an armored vehicle worth USD 1,5M, when that was the procument cost as a new vehicle. Odd.
Because it's all a gaint money-making scam by politicians on both sides, both Washington, and Kiev. It has been a cash cow for both sides well before the first bullets were fired by Russia.
0:27 "they have even stopped Moscow's latest offensive in its tracks..."
Haha this didn't age well!
4 days later Adveevka fell
Investments into ammunition production would take years to drip down into real ammunition production. An you’ll be lucky if it will not have to be done under risk of cruise missile strikes on the production lines (as is the case in Ukraine).
So you suggest NATO should surrender?
@@maritaschweizer1117 Negotiations is most likely, or a frozen conflict
@@SuperHotshot74 negotiations with somebody who breached all previous contracts does not make sense. Putin need the war for his political survival. Without war the Russians would ask why they earn less and less money and Inflation is still accelerating.
How is a country on sanctions spending 11 billion dollars a month?
Russia still earns about half as much fossile energy revenue comoared to 2021 and the difference comes from the aavings. Russia saved money since 10 years for this war.
The good old trick from England themselves while Napoleon time
There are more than 150 nations that haven't joined sanctions against Russia lol
Ahh the million "howitzers".. words are hard.
They’ve gotta come up with a peace agreement that works for both sides
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