What makes the RUSSIAN ARMY so INEFFECTIVE? - VisualPolitik EN
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Russia is making a fool of itself in the invasion of Ukraine. Despite having a much larger and better equipped army than the Ukrainians, the Russians have been unable to take the country's major cities in a whole month of invasion.
Leaving aside the atrocities committed by Russian troops and crimes against humanity, this Russian failure highlights a reality that has surprised many: the Russian army is not living up to the expectations it has generated for years. In 2008, Vladimir Putin embarked on an ambitious process of modernizing the military. Key figures such as Sergei Shoigu and, especially, General Valery Gerasimov initiated a reform process to do away with the Soviet heritage and bring its armed forces into the 21st century. The reality is that the old problems of the Soviet army persist or have become even worse.
The question is, why is the Soviet military still so ineffective?
*Video made in collaboration with Guillermo Pulido
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20k common man that is propoganda any one with the right mind would never believe this
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That is why so many generals are being killed in this war, because those generals are leading and taking on the role of sergeants on the battlefield.
The russian generals are being given the Rommel option..... along with all of those fsb boys......
They're actually taking the role of Commissar. When the Soviet Union fell, the Russian military dropped Commissars but kept the problems they existed to fix. Mainly the use of conscripts and very brutal (civilian unfriendly) tactics. Conscript morale is obviously going to be low and even motivated soldiers bottom out after seeing enough elderly and children dead in the rubble.
Combine that with poor logistics and poor maintenance due to grift on the part of high officials, and their ground forces only have a few weeks of functional morale before they simply start refusing orders, wounding themselves to go home, deserting etc. That's where having a Commissar around to crack the whip came in handy. Now, high command has to do the babysitting as they are the only ones not affected by morale issues.
It also doesn't help that the various branches of their military don't like to work together and see each other more as competitors for what little funding (and glory) there is to be had. As a result you get a lot of friendly fire issues with air strikes, artillery, etc. not properly coordinating with ground forces and often hitting them instead of or along with the enemy. Further killing morale.
That's a very interesting observation and one that I had wondered about. Typically, generals are kept well out of harm's way.
Russian General wanted to die first to testing Ukrainian weapons…. So Russian army will win later 😎
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In an information war, the one who tells the truth always loses. He is limited by the truth, and a liar can carry anything. Robert Sheckley
P.S. All Russian media are blocked. Western propaganda lies 24/7 It's called democracy)))) The final has come to the Western world....
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so is the presenter
Unless its Homer Simpson, it's not funny! 😂😂 - I'm 30, I belive im losing my head mop too. Lol
I spent several months working a a US Navy facility. The Chiefs were older than most of the officers and had far more experience than those officers. The Ensigns and Lieutenants also realized the importance of the Chiefs and showed great respect for them and their knowledge.
All levels of the USN chain of command understand that "Chiefs run the Navy."
May it always be so.
No
@@jerrycottrell302 Respect your elders
Have the Russians never seen John Wayne movies? Yep the chiefs. and in BOB, the sergeants!
Is the same US that has lost every war since World War II? Korea, stalemate the nearest thing to a success.
In Poland, we have another saying from the communist era: "mediocre, passive, but loyal" and it seems to reflect Putin's priorities in filling positions well.
If only Putin was gone, all problems of the west be gone too. People around him are loyal enough no MI6 or CIA got even close to him. All western clowns is a small fry trying desperately to outplay Russia in game that was invented by Russians - chess. I suggest switching to Russian roulette that will put a lot of you out of misery.
The russians shit on you and I am happy for that
@@bobtate6812 You are right that the Russians are good at chess, but you know what beat Kasparov? Deep Blue computer created by IBM and similarly in a war technology wins, and Russia with its economy based on raw materials (even 80% of the export value) and the lack of possibilities in the production of chips does not look good.
Really, where? For the most part Russin command is top notch. They did not allow ukraine to do any major counter attack. We have kherson, or failed attack at kupiansk. Using tiny forces efficiently Russian command rules.
@@tomk3732 for the most part, ruzzian command is dead or in prison.
"It's not a war. It's a military exercise."
"It's not a war. It's a peacekeeping mission."
"It's not a war. It's a special military operation."
"It's not a war. It's... oh shit it is a war!"
😂😂😂
Do we have the moral right to condemn Russians?
Who bombed Yugoslavia, Syria, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan...
Why didn't you get outraged then???
Who turns a blind eye to the fascist units of ukriana "Azov", "Aidar"?
Who hid from the world community the genocide in Donbass, where more than 14,000 people died in 8 years?
Why were 150,000 Ukrainian soldiers concentrated on the border with Donbass?
Why did we applaud the drug addict Zelensky, who declared that he intended to create an atomic bomb?
Why are all Russian media blocked?
Why do the media cover only one side of the conflict?
The Western media are skillful factories of lies! Even presidents believe them…
The world has long been a hostage of diabolical democracy!!!
It has already been proven that Ukrainians themselves staged sinister provocations in Buchi, Crematorsk, thereby extorting lethal weapons…
There is not a single proof that the Russians are killing civilians!
The Russians are the only nation in the world that has fought evil all its history!
Back in 2007, Putin warned NATO that if it approached Russia's borders, he would respond. Then they laughed at him..
We woke up the Russian bear in vain… He will turn the whole world upside down and become the winner! This is understood by the Chinese, Indians and Arabs. The world is going through an unprecedented economic crisis. It's only going to get worse every day...
I'm against the war!!!! I am against fascists!!!!!!
PS Pray for the Russians, they are saving the world from the fascists!!! If Putin wanted to, he would have captured Ukraine in 10 days. All he had to do was bomb the cities of Ukraine, like the United States in Syria, the city of Raqqa...
The voice of real America - Lara Logan. She wasn't afraid to tell the TRUTH! Bravo!!!
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The opinion of an American military analyst. The UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq.
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It's not as unusual as you might be supposing. The US in Vietnam was never a declared War. Neither was Korea. A "Declaration of War", since 1908 has become a legal term. By not declaring war, legalities are sidestepped. It also makes sense in planning.
"It's not a war. It's a nuclear war."
Lmao!!!!
In our navy, if all our officers were taken out, the force would continue to function. But take out the Chiefs and petty officers and everything would grind to an immediate halt.
In a well trained military someone who step in to that role.
@@Tugela60 us army soldier here if we lost all our ncos senior specialists would immediately fill the role and do a good job
Who would give the orders? 🤷🏻♂️
@@officialWWM The Chief Petty Officers. That's business as usual.
That’s the reason why russia’s army is so disorganized. They’re so used to Putin giving all the orders and the field officers don’t know how to make decisions on the fly.
A good lesson for all westerners who rave about the effectiveness of dictatorships
In Israel, compulsory service is 2 years for woman, and 3 years for the men. This is for the regulars. If you sign for being an officer, you have to sign up for much more years. The minimum is 4 years, and for specials forces you have to sign for many years, and you get your salary accordingly. This knowledge is from self experience.
Good information for comparison purposes.
Highly motivated as well. IDF is always close to a level of war and conflict far above most countries. Also it shares information tactics and has support form the west especially USA. And at 10:26 a mention of johnson micro managing the vietnam war..Beg to differ. General Westmorland make the cockups lyndon went ahead with his tactics of throwing more troops in and heavy bombing of not just vietnam but laos and cambodia too...total mess.
The isreali defence force only has to shoot at little kids though, not a modern army.
In the US our military is completely volunteer based.
"compulsory service is 2 years for women, and 3 years for the men" is only a part of the story.
The real Israeli army is its reserves and men serve around 30 days per year until the age of 45.
The experience is retained and augmented from year to year.
In combat units, NCOs are mass-produced within the conscripted training/advanced training phases.
Officer candidates are selected based on merit from each unit's NCO pool.
Immigrants from the former USSR and Russia today excel within the IDF and their potential is exploited.
The outcome of the war in Ukraine will force necessary changes, but it will be messy, brutal, and very painful. Such is the Russian mentality and culture.
For years, I've heard that Russia has a serious demographic issue. Peter Zeihan has written a lot about this. Apparently, Russia has a serious population decline problem. Russian men also supposedly have seriously bad life expectancy figures. The alcoholism rate is so high that the government doesn't publish the statistics. Zeihan has also written that the HIV AIDS infection rates are extremely high. Apparently, 1/3 of their army is going to age-out in the next 5-7 years. Zeihan characterized this as a motivator for Russia to wage these wars now, while they still have the manpower. Comments?
I’ve heard about the demographic issues, but if all the information provided is even mostly true, in regards to Russias military. Russia as a waining super power is guaranteed.
I am Russian - you say everything 100% correctly. Our demographic is shit - a lot of us die out or move to another country (we are the third largest diaspora in the world!). It is actually true what you say about alcoholism, one independent Russian media investigated that and they found out interesting fact. Instead of noting cause of death as "alcohol intoxication" they put something that was CAUSED by alcohol. Like men falling asleep in the cold and freezing to death. So if you see some region has a lot of "froze to death" - it is most likely from alcohol.
Russia is very rich and could have been one of the best countries in the world after Soviet Union fell. Instead of increasing quality of life with proper education, social policy and healthcare - Putin spent a lot of our money in military, police and FSB.
@@Butter_Warrior99 Thanks for the feedback. I guess it depends on the definition of "superpower". It used to mean big economy and big military. I'm not sure where that leaves Russia. Their economy isn't great, but they still have significant nuclear capability.
@@Butter_Warrior99 Seems trying to maintain peaceful relationships with neighboring countries with trade would be a better alternative.
Also brain drain. Smart people leave Russia to work especially in the tech sector. Ironically Ukraine is the biggest destination. Notice how the Russians are kidnapping them back into their country?
This is what happens when corruption becomes endemic in a country.
Usa ?
@@dgs3002 . Say it loud !!! .
@@HinduPAGANcowpissdrinkerRAKESH Did you buy a police officer or just lies?
This is why that Pax Americana, the period that the US has been the most powerful nation in the world, has been the best possible option. Imagine if Russia or China were the dominant powers of the world the last 80 years instead of the US. Liberal democracies would be much weaker and the world would be much more violent and chaotic
I think that you meant "epidemic". Unfortunately corruption is not bound only to Russia
In Russia, the armed forces are in competition with security services, the FSB, National Guard and Border Guards for recruiting young men and women who would be suitable for NCO or specialists serving high-tech equipment. And salaries and working conditions are generally better in the security services.
Very few people work for the Russian military aside from conscripts who mostly get out as soon as their one-year term is up.
As far as I know, Sergei Lavrov has not retracted his claim that "Russia has not attacked Ukraine." This man is a true Soviet because he is prepared not just to tell half truths or half lies but real whoppers that are so big no one else would think of telling them. He should be given Russia's highest honour for Glorious Mendacity.
good friend of trump as well
Its not just a Soviet thing to tell gigantic whoppers. Adolf did that too, and so did Trump.
@@havable I know that others tell whoppers but apart from Trump's entirely unmoored from reality allegations of voter fraud I don't think there can be anything to match Lavrov's lies in recent times. I don't think that even Adolf came up with "we have not invaded Poland" or "we have not attacked the USSR." I still think Lavrov's call puts him in a league of his own.
The problem is they think the lie is the truth. and the thruth is a lie.
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@@boelensds It must be horrible to be them.
Perhaps highly authoritarian dictatorships have these problems because in their armed forces loyalty is more important than competence. In western democracies, the military typically does not exercise excessive political power, so merit can exceed the need for fanatic personal loyalty.
"In western democracies, the military typically does not exercise excessive political power, so merit can exceed the need for fanatic personal loyalty." Are you dumb or dense?
There is truth to this. Surenas was a Parthian general who attacked and destroyed a group of Roman legions at Carrhae. When returning to the capitial, the King of Parthia had Surenas killed because he feared that the general had now become too popular a figure.
Well, the US military is being purged of all conservatives (anyone who voted for President Trump) and many others who are not loyal to the current regime.
@@DarthPlato And its pretty common for elite units in these sort of countries to be picked for their loyalty not their skills.
And it makes sense they are not specialists in stuff like tank battles or anit air.
Another story I read is that Russia military intelligence both stole loads of money designed for bribes to be used inside Ukraine as they knew it would not work but also told Putin it would be an walkover, no not the same people but still.
I don't know and will never understand the Western because they everyone should do what they do. You're not best than people on the planet. Bullshit, go and sleep
I think that before this war started we all regarded the Russian military as a power to fear. Now I regard it as a blind and drunken giant wielding a club.
Now its such a power to fear that Germany DUBLED their budget. Certainly if Russia was doing soooo poorly Germany would not DOUBLE their military spending no?
Russia would still destroy any country one on one, maybe not the United state or China. The only competent army in Europe is probably Germany or France. UK is nothing but a small island with US weapons.
Hahaha, so apt a comparison.
That's because most people don't make a distinction between Russia and the Soviet Union.
Yet all of NATO is on pins and needles and declaring serious military budget increases. The actions of NATO contradict the paper tiger image of Russia in this war.
That's the problem with dictatorships - the feedback and response cycles are ponderously slow and inaccurate. A devolved command structure is far more agile with better resultant emergent behaviour. We see this same phenomenon in economics, warfare and many other complex human organizations or processes.
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I hired a young Russian immigrant for my team in Canada. He served in the Russian army, and said the brutality was bad. You had to fight all the time he said. And his assessment of the Russian army was “its shit”.
@@paulthomas963 I'm just relaying a conversation. That said, I think the russian army is so incompetent at this point, they'd struggle with the salvation army.
@@paulthomas963 Considering the size of Canada's land mass, that's an impossible achievement for all of Russia's army.
@@paulthomas963 if Ukrainians have managed to sink 2 russian ships and damage others , imagine what canda with modern jets and destroyers would do to Russia .
The mistake everyone seems to make when showing the statistics of the two armies is that the Ukraine army and equipment is all in Ukraine and involved in the war. The Russian army is not and never will be. Russia must maintain territorial defenses across a massive country including the major cities and borders. They cannot send all soldiers or even all tanks and other equipment into Ukraine. They cant even send all the supplies like bullets or mortars/missiles. They need some reserve in case of being attacked by a third party or a revolution at home. Ukraine on the other hand will use every last soldier and weapon they can because there is no possible greater threat.
Japan could take Kurils back, Georgia could restore its borders with help of western weapons, and we have that Transnistria thing stabbing Ukraine in the back.
And Ukraine has 10 mlion men on standby!
It would be hilarious if china invaded Siberia when Russia get really weak after all this.
You talking BS.
With all these nukes nobody will touch mother Russia.
Lots left Ukraine, but came back to fight this war.
A few reasons:
1. Russian weaponry is often less successful than advertised.
2. Half the Russian navy is basically private yachts for Putin's buddies.
3. Lower-ranking officers aren't really trained how to adapt plans to a changing battle. The general gives the order and you follow them. If the enemy didn't do what the general anticipated, you're screwed.
4. Their logistics weren't really designed for anything past the Russian border. Inside Russia, they can move everything quickly by train. Across the border, they ran into trouble.
5. Giving Putin any bad news has been proven to be bad for your health. As a result, Putin's advisers tell him what he wants to hear so that they don't go to prison or find radioactive particles in their drinks.
6. They don't have a NCO class. You can see how the training of Ukraine by NATO changed the style of the armed forces.
Canadian commander who helped train Ukrainian soldiers has 'immense confidence' in them
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In a modern NATO army the NCO run the army at the platoon level while officers have the responsibility while looking at the Russian army they look so unprofessional.
Succinctly accurate
The thing that keeps surfacing is that Russia is ready to defend itself. The key to that is no one wants to invade the frozen land
I'm going with:
6. The entire training budget of the Russian army having been diverted into investments in villas in Tuscany and yachts in the Mediterranean. I've been watching interviews with Russian POW and radio intercepts and a whole bunch of those kids said their training consisted mostly of marching around the landscape and a whole bunch of them reported getting little to no firearms training which is pretty astounding. The lack of training at lower levels of the Russian army is hands down their biggest failing along with the logistics being a shambles. Conscripts don't necessarily have to be bad soldiers. The Finnish army that handed the Soviet army its ass in 1939/40 were conscripts, very, very well trained conscripts. If you train your conscripts thoroughly and motivate them conscripts can kick ass.
@@ChristianThePagan a culture of cross country skiing and hunting made those conscripts effective before the war started. The Swiss have long distance tons of shooting clubs and a mandatory military training.. no Russian I know has ever shown interest xcountry or knows anyone that does.. biathalon medal nations of northern Europe would tear up an occupying force guerrilla style, maybe all year long..
Great in-depth analysis. You don’t see this sort of detail in the mainstream media or even on special news programs like panorama. Well done
Great video. Very informative and hits the nail on the head. Thank you!
I would think it is the strongman command structure. Western countries have their field officers able to make tactical decisions without higher up approval based on the situation while Soviet strongman style won't allow field officers to make a move without approval
Russia has a top down command structure without a proper NCO corps. Their NCOs can't take initiative and change on the fly. They are given vague orders and have to carry them out no matter what. Look at the 15 attempts to take one airport. It also leaves their commanders exposed far more on the battlefield, and when they're taken out they basically have no clue what to do.
In World War 2, I think Eisenhower once quipped that an American 2LT had more independent decision-making authority than a Soviet Front Commander. He was perhaps exaggerating a tad, but it is suggestive.
As per the Stalin purges, officers learned that independent, innovative self-starters were not wanted.
The greatest military leaders in history have been strongmen. It centralizes decisionmaking, which is tantamount in military science. What matters more is sound military science. Governments that don't bear this mind--whether it's Nazi Germany or the US in Vietnam--will ultimately fail. That's why the US has botched nearly everything since after the Korean War with few exceptions. It's also why Russia is failing now--Russia's grasp of military science is atrocious.
Be have the same issue in the US. You can't act until approval from above by then the situation has changed
This is a glaring omission in the video. Senior NCO's and junior officers are encouraged in western armies to apply initiative and to regard tactics as flexible. When soldiers fear that doing so will result in disciplinary action, they will follow orders no matter how much the situation changes so that the one giving them the order is the one who will face trouble. 'I did exactly as I was told so cannot be blamed'.
Little to no competent and effective leadership. The miscalculation was assuming ukraines army was still the same as it was in 2014. They spent 8 years gaining combat experience, especially nco's , in the donbass and training with nato. Ukraines military became a very different animal from the one in 2014 while russia's didn't.
Do you really think that the Russians are that unobservant? Just wait and see what happens once the Ukro-nazis in the Donbass are exterminated and the next phase begins.
Also, they spent those 8 years learning how to fight Russia specifically. And Vlad was dumb enough to play along by having Russian troops pose as "civil warring Ukrainians" in the east for that entire time. Now Ukraine knows more about fighting Russia than anyone.
Since u hv been watching one sided information by western media u ll never know the reality. Just remember the biggest war that started in Feb was info war and those who control the narratives (in this case western media) will always control the outcome. No matter how good russian performance in this war western media will always show then in negative way.
Indeed
All these videos are going to age so well… I can’t wait!
I served conscript term (the year which every one must serve) since summer 20 to sumer 21 in Tamanskay division. There no "dedovshina" or at least not on same level when you can be killed or hurt, but overall we was poorly supplied. Sewing skill is essential for russian conscript because you are given clothes of your predesecors and most likely you'll need to repair it. But i must say that Tamanskay division is stationed in Moscow's outskirts and overall is good place to serve your conscript year. Mostly people from poor regions sign army contracts because conditions are poor even in such divisions.
I was an infantryman in Afghanistan in 2009. Our primary mode of transportation was either the MRAP or MATV. We would have to clean and maintain those vehicles after every patrol. It was awfully tedious, but necessary. Looking at the Russian military vehicles, they are really not well maintained.
The Ministry of Defence has refused to confirm that Ukrainian troops are being trained by British military personnel, stating that it could not comment on special operations. The accounts confirm the long-held expectation that Britain has sent “trainers” to Ukraine from the beginning of the war.
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@@markant9534 who cares
@@markant9534 good on the British if they are doing it. Ukraine should be helped to defeat Russia aggression.
@@markant9534 smart move by the British. The Ukrainians seem to be good students.
I think the whole point about effective leadership was illustrated in the memoirs of a British Army sergeant who served in Iraq. His patrol was was ambushed, and after looking at the situation, he decided he could fight the ambush, rather than withdraw. The contact was called in and other units moved in to support him. Long story short, he ended up with 2 Battalion commanders (Lieutenant Colonels) following his orders as he managed the contact. Compare that standard of training, and the Army's trust in it's NCO corps to the Russian army's situation and I think you start to understand the situation in Ukraine
Let the sergeant's fight leave them alone they'll get it done!! Is general Bradley 1943
Could you provide a source for that story please? Thanks.
The Russians actually identified the creation of a professional NCO corps integrated into the command structure in their 2009 army reform plan. The original timeframe was 2-3 years which was obviously absurd and was revised to be completed by about 2023. I'm guessing they missed that deadline too.
@@lynchmobfc As a young Lieutenant on the American Southern Border fighting against Poncho Villa, Lieutenant Bradley was taught by his Sergeant, Sgt Gallaher how to fight and stay alive! Later before WWII, he kept in contact with Sergeant Gallaher until Gallaher was killed during the Normandy invasion!
A battalion only needs two officers. Sergeants can do most tasks up to a a major’s job. In many wars that was the case. Decentralization is also critical to tactical and operational success. Only strategy should be managed by generals and grand strategy by politicians and diplomats. We were always taught that sergeants are the backbone of the Army and that decisions should be made closest to the front line as possible by those most familiar with the situation. I can’t imagine conducting a mission with POTUS watching in real time.
From what I have seen, I agree with everything you said. There is also another metric at play: Corruption. From top to bottom, corruption is a way of life for Russian society. The annual Russian military budget is equivalent to over $60 Billion, but by the time the top tier officials get their "cut", only around $25 Billion is left to be spent on everything a military requires. These numbers were provided by a former high ranking Russian official in a recent interview. Then you have to consider the people running Russian industry where military hardware and supplies are manufactured .... and so on, all the way down to the private in the Russian army who is selling gasoline and diesel fuel to supplement the abysmal pay he receives for his service. There is a reason why the famous Russian dissident, Alexei Navalny has been harping on corruption so diligently for so long. And he is right.
In the end, if you have nukes, the army is the last thing you gonna need to be concern
I' m shocked there doing so badly in Ukraine. They did so well against Pussy Riot.
They thought that beating up peaceful protestors. And attacking a soreign country was much the same
You just about nailed the problem. To bully unarmed civilians is one thing, but a trained army....!
Keep listening to the western legacy media and you would remain dumb enough to believe that
@@tiernanwearen8096 'Peaceful Protesters' is increasingly becoming a common replacement term for what would've been called simply 'criminals' in the past.
Naturally I don't approve of the invasion, but I'm not drastically upset at the arrest of people who chose to vandalise a church
it is over little above month, it is lie served by your media, they went against whole west and won in cca 50 days, how is that bad, pull your head out of you ass, real information like corona
The way they try to sell product AGAINST BALDING in the show with COMPLETLLY BALD HOST, is downright GENIUS!!!
It's like Simon Whistler getting Dollar Shave Club sponsors.
@@ricojes Simon has done hairloss ads too
its a perfecet warning what can happen
Thankyou visualpolitik
Once again enlightening me on complicated subjects with multilayered view points,
And also reminding me on the real need to brush my teeth twice a day
Great video, very informative, thank you. :)
The Chechens won the first war even though they lacked all the necessary equipment and weaponry, Putin was pissed and wanted to make Russian people believe they needed a strong leader in order to win the election as president so he had the FSB carry out terrorist attacks on his own people in order to justify the second Chechen war and the tactics he used is the same ones they're using in Ukraine so nothing has changed plus the oligarchs steal most of the military budget so that explains why their equipment is shitty the soldiers don't even get paid properly then they're being lied to in order to lure them into war, of course they know once they step into another country that's sovereign it's illegal and they know it's war but that explains the lack of morale.
ITS EASY TO IDENTIFY WESTERNERS, THEY NEVER HAD, WELL MSOT OF THEM NEVER HAVE ANYTHING POSITIVE TO SAY ABOUT Russia. WHAT IS BEHIND IT ALL? JEALOUSY? PROBABLY
not only are the Westerners going to lose that war in Ukraine, but their influence and criminality will also be destroyed, once and for all. their Biolabs to build bioweapons to unleash on Russia. the Russians have destroyed them all and it will be exposed to the world after the war is over()
All the Western criminality.. such as money laundering, the Biolabs activities, organ harvesting, child and drug trafficking, and every other form of criminality by the West will be exposed to the world---that's what the West fears, and its their reason for trying to prolong the war-
-but the fact remains that, they are already on the losing end--Western civilization does not have a future---they have wrecked enough terror on the planet. their time is up, so they can either step aside or be pushed aside. The Russians prepared for such a moment for many years to take them on and they are going to put a beat down on the West)_
the scansion they imposed on Russia has bounced right back in their faces and is doing more damage to their economies than that of Russia. thats because the Russian currency is now gold-backed, compared to the monopoly fiat dollar of the West that is backed by nothingness
This war has made me wonder about china's army as well. It seems like they don't have the production issues that Russia does and they're definitely taking notes from the invasion. At the same time, they're totally un-battle tested and there's evidence of corruption in the high ranks, which doesn't make for good leadership. What do yall think about the threat they pose
Also very important to note, Taiwan is a completely different ball game than Ukraine. Taiwan is further away, much harder to access, has better equipment and training, and has loads of allies in the area who would rush to fight.
and many generals who have been put in jail don't like the "president" , because of his anti-coruption policy.
and with the New events of rebellion in china because of food i thing they leader Will need a Lot of ideias to don't die soon.
Well, to be honest speaking about Taiwan, they have much worse training than Ukraine, but we do not count for Taiwan in this war, the main sides are US and China, and China is having similar problems as Russia, because it’s weapons is worse than American and military system is a total stupidity. So in this war China is doomed to be defeated
A limited one. Logistics have been their achilleas heel for most wars the Chinese army have been in. They pose more of a threat to Taiwan than anybody else, but that Island is a fortress. They are trying to bully other neighbors but that also means that they made enemies with most of them. In an event of a war, they will very quickly run out of food, coal, oil and gas. Right now most of their army is occupied for internal order. You can expect the first stages of such a war being a naval blockade, hindering them access to those resources.
The western nations have seen their fault on relying on these autocratic regimes for manufacture and resources, and we see a lot of industry returning to western nations again. Russia caught Europe off guard, it's a problem that takes time to fix, but it is being done now.
Keep in mind that China's military is the product of the One Child policy and that the line doggies are very spoiled little kiddies. I don't see them being willing to go tooth on nail with just about anyone.
The problems of the russian army are since Putin took the leadership:
A lot of rich russians bought a general seat.
People like General Valeriy Gerasimov were never in military school for officers he is a former KGB agent then later FSB director.
The problem of this invasion is that Putin led it not generals. I think if Russian generals would lead this operation things would be different.
Snappy production well done !
In t he Federalist Papers, Hamilton argued that a dictatorship was an inherently weak form of government
It’s the nepotism, he put loyalists and friends in important positions. As a result, merit was ignored and every part of the governments riddled with corruption
They also argued that democracy devolves into dictatorship which is why America is not a democracy but constitutional republic. A fact which we are trying to change unfortunately
The war in Ukraine just proves my point about both Russia and China. They love their military parades and both regimes constantly make false and fantastic claims about their military capabilities. The loss of life in Ukraine just shows how unprofessional the Russian military is. Russia has lost almost 15k soldiers in Ukraine. The war is barely two months old.
Isnt it closer to 20-30k?
@@jjdelft3216 the best numbers point to about 15k. Ukrainian estimates aren't as bad as Russian estimates, but aren't exactly unbiased
@@speakingwithoutnet Ukraine's figures likely also count Russian-backed separatists and pro-Kremlin militias.
The big difference I would draw about Russia and China is what they do not share with the US.
No US soldier ever shows up in someone else's home and says "This is now the US."
BOTH Russia and China do that.
@@speakingwithoutnet One should add 3 times that number in wounded/captured to that though.
Great production quality, great episode
Great video subbed!
All over-centralized structures are prone to failure and eventual collapse.
Not sure what you mean. Clausewitz explained that unity of command, essential to military science. Centralized structures work just fine, so long as command is unified.
@@DarthPlato Military science? Like the art of war? Man I'm lost, but according to The Peter Principle, Zoltan may have a point.
@@DarthPlato any sufficiently large organization requires a massive amount of decision making and leadership at all levels. The upper levels of the pyramid simply cannot understand and respond to every situation. So if there is a gap in mid level leadership and decision makers, the heads of state/CEOs/generals either ignore the issues and leave underqualified people to fend for themselves, or overcompensate with sweeping decrees and generalizations that do not address every situation with the nuance it requires. Both are doomed to fail.
This is why authoritarian societies have such catastrophic failures of core functions like food production or keeping the currency somewhat stable. Lots of other examples like the Great Leap Forwards or the current Russian Army
Depends what over-centralized means. If you have one "stable genious" like DJT as your omni-impotent leader, you will surely fail.
But if it is some kind of democratic centralized structure with transparancy and free press, then you have the tools to replace the people in that stucture in a healty way.
@@la7dfa In those system, they will eventually lose to decentralized and more competitive systems. They will collapse from outside competition instead of internal problems.
they do not have 900,000 TROOPS!!! People, stop saying that! They have (maybe?) 900K "military personnel" which includes how many tens/hundreds of thousands in the NAVY (which is useless here), in the nuclear forces (which are useless here), in the airforce (which are largely useless here - pilots, sure, but most are group support personnel). if you actually look at the number of actual fighting people who are relevant to this (i.e. infantry, armor, artillery) the number is faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar smaller, and how many of them are conscripts which are forbidden by law to be there?? And they can't pull the military from the whole huge country to fight here, they can't leave Moscow undefended, they can't leave Kaliningrad undefended, they can't leave the far east undefended... Whereas Ukraine's 200K is all pure fighting, and they are mobilizing close to a million others.... So comparing "900K" to "200K" is pure nonsense, it has nothing to do with reality. Please. Stop. Doing. That. Like. Now. Already.
I agree with your numbers which begs the question: Why is Russia still doing this. There isn't enough troops left to scrape out of the bottom of the barrel and they are launching an offensive? Basic military math says that the attacker has to outnumber the defender by a factor of 3 to 1.
Tooth versus tail
@@philbrand8820 TTTR. I saw another CZcams video on Tooth To Tail Ratio.
Many support personnel needed for each man who,fires a weapon.
The numbers I've seen report are that Russia has committed 76 combat battalions into Donbas where Ukraine has 10 combat brigades (40 battalions). That's about 65,000 Russians against 40,000 Ukrainians. It's about 1.6 to 1. Russia will have to seize the initiative and fully employ maneuver tactics to situationally create the 3 to 1 or 5 to 1 ratios they need to sustain offensive operations. Nothing in their execution to date suggests they're capable of that level of execution. On the other hand Ukraine is replacing front line troops with hastily trained civilians and foreign volunteers. There is a real possibility that Ukraine's best units will be cut off from logistic supports and Ukraine is dealing with relocating 15%-20% of its civilian population (4-8 million displaced people). In the short term Russia can afford to lose 2 to 1 in military personnel. I don't expect Ukraine to hold Donbas on its own. The questions are how badly they hurt Russia and how much of their own fighting force they are able to retain.
@@thomashunt6681 Hello, Ukrainian side says there are 40,000 Russians on Donbass against 44,000 Ukrainians
So, Ukraine will hold Donbass 100%
Excellent Way Of Description
Stopping the Russian paper juggernaut with one hand tied behind their backs was quite simply astonishing. Not many countries could have done this well. ❤
I thought the russian military has always been about using sheer brute force and quantity (and not efficiency) to grind down and overwhelm the enemy. During ww2 ussr suffered twice as many casualties as germany. Also russia is huge. Although their total military force is impressive they need to spread them throughout the country which means locally in ukraine russia doesnt have a huge numerical advantage.
Yep I said same thing roughly about Russian losses, is all part of glorious plan made while drunk on vodka
When they fought the Germans they wouldn't even attempt an attack unless they outnumbered them 10 to 1 and now they are actually attempting to destroy 40K dug in highly motivated and tough as nails Ukrainians with less than 100K of Putin's clown soldiers. Well, good luck with that...
Soviet Union had twice the population and an average age of 20 in WW2, families often had 7 children.
Now a couple have 1.4 and the birthrate collapsed on fall of USSR.
That's why they were struggling to field full units, they have too few young men to put in the meat grinder
One benefit of Russia’s strategic understanding of China is that they felt free to strip most of their garrisons out of the Far East for this “operation”. Without which they’d be in even worse shape now.
Russia's population is larger than Ukraine's, but it's not so much larger that they can win by pure brute-strength when Ukraine is in a Total War with full conscription/reserve-use and Russia is not. It's a 3-1 difference, not 10 or 15-1. Plus, compared to WWII, it's population is much, much older (so is Ukraine's to be sure).
Also, there is not the same ideological fervor factor as with the USSR, not is it a matter of homeland defense - unlike for Ukraine - so the conscripts themselves are not highly motivated.
Russia has lost a frigging 3rd of their tanks deployed in Ukraine. So that comes out to losing 10% of all available Russias total tanks in only 50 days.
and counting !! SLAVA UKRAINI
@@JustMe-ok8nl Heroyam slava!
Only if you believe the absurd, mendacious and hyperbolic western propaganda. The Ghost of Kiev and the Snake Island heroes come to mind....or do you still believe this insane nonsense?
Great isn’t it
and don't forget that they are now running short of spare parts to fix the other stuff due to sanctions.
It is pretty sad if they need to go to North Korea to ask for ammo!
Russia has always played Chess with one king, a handful of rooks, and a few million expendable pawns. Whereas a professional standing military understands the usefulness of knights and bishops when you're playing the game of geopolitics.
Training costs money. Each training means a general will have to wait longer fir his yacht.
Moldova stand with Ukraine! 🇲🇩❤️🇺🇦 #StandingUpTogether
Do you think is possible recover the control of Transnistria?
@@luisalfonso20 After the war, it's almost inevitable I would think.
Thanks Moldova we stand stronger together 🇺🇦❤️🇲🇩 I also thing after the war you will regain the control over Transnistria.
Present day Russia reminds me of what happened to Germany in the 1930s. There a man also took total power and dictated over the heads of his generals how his war was to be conducted. The results were his downfall.
I suppose that could happen in Russia but not for the reason you suggest. I believe that the Russian military are champing at the bit to use overwhelming shock & awe tactics to utterly trash Ukraine in true American style. Putin stands in their way.
that's just pure post war propoganda, the generals in germany had huge freedom how to fullfill the orders they received, A.H. directly gave order only a handfull of times, but after the war all the generals wrote their "memoirs" and blamed all their mistakes on A.H. not defending the guy here but we need to stop blindly believing any general on why he lost
It's a myth. Most Germans supported everything
Only if an alliance is built to defeat him…
Hitler's generals were also often stupid and were in the end outsmarted by the soviet generals.
Wow I never knew and now I know, very informative video thank you!
Watching Russia now is like watching the last years of the Rome. We are witness in Real Time, the Death of an Empire.
The death of russian empire began with the collapsing of USSR
And what exactly is happening to Russia?
What will happen
Another problem is, that Russia is HUGE. Therefore their army might seem stronger on paper, but is seriously stretched thin. Out of those forces mentioned quite a lot of them have to be stationed along other borders (China, Finland, Kazakhstan...) or maitaining order within borders. Thats why we see more like 1:1 ratio in soldiers on the Ukraine battlefield. Every Ukrainian fights the invaders, not every Russian is invading. Supply would be nightmare and Russia does not really have any more somewhat experienced men to spend.
Second, they inhereted a metric f*ck-ton of soviet equipemt, their military budget fell from 300+bilion dollars in 1987 to 7-ish in 1993. There is just no way, how to keep such inventory properly maitained, crews trained and happy and develop new kinds of system. Thats why you see Russia boasting about SU-57 which is somewhat comparable to raptor (25 year old plane) with 5 in service. Same with T-14 armata. Most of the tanks on ground however are T72s or even older and MiG29s. Plus, American MBT is Abrams, thats it. Same spare parts, same crews, same maitanence. Russia has myriad of tanks of all shapes and sizes.
Anyway, thats my two cents. Great video and keep up the good work :)
Just to add, how do you expect a country run by kleptomaniacs and a GDP inferior to Spain's or even Canada to fund and maintain such a gigantic army? This explains the poor maintenance of the equipment and poor training of the soldiers. Russa would be trashed in a conventional war against NATO. furthermore, I'm starting to really have doubt about their nuclear capability, knowing how much money it takes to maintain such complex systems...
@@patricklarocque1550 Why would someone skilled and smart enough to maintain nuclear weapons work for the Russian government? A doctor in Russia might earn less than a cleaner in my country. It all depends where they work, but my point still stands: someone who is smart enough to fix nuclear weapons isn't going to be working for the government in Russia.
Except that they aren't under threat from any other country. They don't really need massive numbers of troops elsewhere.
@@patricklarocque1550 Pretty sure they maintain their nuclear arsenal to the best standards because thats the only thing stopping the NATO from invading them
Good point
people need to stop showing the size comparison between the two countries. its meaningless because Russia is unable to actually mobilize its military by law without war being declared. So long as Putin maintains this is a 'special military operation' and NOT a war, he only has access to a fraction of the Russian military. So the ACTUAL size comparison, able to be brought to bear, is actually fairly equal.
I’ve never thought of Russia as a serious threat, but western governments sure like to. They need to justify their military spending.
Some of these trends, like horrendous hazing and no effective NCO corps, go back centuries. Older than the Russian federation. Older than the Soviet Union.
No, effective NCO corps goes back forever, but numbers were once good enough to make up for it. In WWII, the Germans were twice as effective as the Soviets, but the Soviets had better than merely twice the number of men.
Small correction, Israeli men serve 32 months (down from 36) and women only 24 months.
That's better than Taiwan which forces a mere 6 months
Female privilege
Also, most of Israeli soldiers, especially combat ones, do reservist service on yearly basis. And there a lot of professional NCOs that choose military service as career.
@@rejvaik00 wow 6 months? That seems really low, why even do conscription if it’s that short? Doesn’t seem like enough time to have a prepared pool of soldiers.
@@bowenc24 I completely agree, even S. Korea has a minimum of 1 year if I remember correctly
that's why even though I am rooting for Taiwan to win against the Chinese mainland I think they are going to have some issues
Its very difficult for Taiwan to recruit career soldiers that go on to serve 10+ years
If Putin treats conscripts like that imagine how he treats officers who fail. All those generals who died on the front lines may have been executed or shot by their own troops. And the generals who are arrested are tortured to death. Falling out of windows is common in Russia.
Known in Viet Nam as "FRAGGING", incompetent Officers are always potential targets of their own troops- it comes with the territory...
Excellent and accurate presentation. Thanks.
Because whenever the government approves military spending the oligarchs buy more yachts
it's a pitty they were interrupted - they bought them in germany.
That scene with the Russian hierarchy sitting facing Putin is so revealing, How does a soldier “retire” when ordered to go the Ukrainian front?
War wasnt declared, during peace time a contract soldier can forfit his pay/privilages and resing
Generally fround uppon, like having a criminal record in the USA
but considering the alternative
You probably can bribe someone. This is Russia
@@JCdental Didnt know criminal records were only fround upon in the US..
@@informant09 Isn't it a little extra in the US?
@@JCdental Depends on where you are trying to get into. Not sure I'd want a bank robber to work the bank teller, but it's not gonna keep you out of most places unless it's sex or gun violence related.
Check uniforms. My rule of thumb: the effectiveness of a military can be ascertained by 2 factors. The size of their hats, and the amount of gold braid on their officers.
A paper tiger that's been fighting the combined arms of 81 countries? While the us couldn't handle 2?
Corruption and the lack of truth and facts in any dictatorship are always the problem.
you're describing America
Also, male pattern baldness
@@ketofitrecipes6795 yes 100%
Corruption is Worst in Russia..even soldiers food is tainted with corruption..expired food for their deserving soldiers
@@ketofitrecipes6795 If America and other democracies lack truth, then authoritarian countries don't even understand the concept of truth.
That explains that video that recently came out where a Russian convoy of "commandeered" civilian vehicles got ambushed and ended up with the Russian soldiers cowering on the ground near their vehicles while Ukrainian soldiers lobbed grenades at them from over a wall.
These Russian soldiers were obviously untrained and completely inexperienced. They didn't recognize an obvious ambush funnel and had no idea how to react to enemy fire. They just laid down and waited to die.
I think one group was suppressing fire while the other came around throwing grenades at the ruSSian occupiers, so they lay down.
@@dmitrikulkevicius9161 That's a textbook example of a way for infantry to flank and destroy an enemy position.
My point being that there were also texbook ways the Russians could have reacted to this to give themselves a good chance of surviving the ambush and they didn't do any of it. They just didn't seem to know what to do and allowed the Ukrainians to keep them pinned down and do as they please with them. To me this is evidence that these Russian soldiers did not have adequate training nor did they have competent leadership present.
Conscripts thrown in ĺike cannon fodder , Sickening for them and their families. Worst still they had no idea what horrors they were sent in to do . Poor hungry Eastern Russian unemployed lads. Many many lying dead and for What ? Ask putin 9n his gold Ship !
I believe those were LPR / DNR conscripts. Russia has been using them as meat shields, going door to door and forcing young men into the army, giving them shit gear and throwing them in to soak up Ukrainian ammo.
The worse his army gets the longer his table gets
Lack of a professional NCO corp is the biggest problem. They train their soldiers, they mentor officers.
It is common knowledge, those western armies that have followed British military doctrine and procedures, the NCO's from the humble Corporal to a Warrant Officer is the back bone of the military.
mind and heartless robots those brits.
@@lunafringe10 Russian shills are not welcome in this establishment. Go take your business elsewhere.
@@lunafringe10 You have obviously never met any.
@@lunafringe10 How many of us have you actually met? We may not be as emotionally over-indulged as your average American child (such as the many ones who are technically legally adults), but I dare you to go to a British football match and say that a single person in the stands is heartless.
Did you know the British were the first to have a professional military. It trained and paid a body of men specifically in all aspects of warfare .
It has been mentioned here about the structure of the Russian army being top down. I have seen in civvy street how that can make the simplest decision difficult. I worked on a project for an english company where command was bottom up i.e. decisions only moved up the chain when you could not deal with it yourself. By contrast the spanish company who was also on the project was top down and when I asked for a decision to be made was told that he would have to ask his manager so I went to ask him instead to be told that he would have to ask HIS manager and so until it got to the top!. This obvioulsy causes delay and the people at the top are having to make decisions about something they know nothing about. The lower levels do not want to take the blame for anything and you end up with a complete mess. I have seen in this in another company I went to work for. There was a real blame culture and passing the buck which really lowered morale such that I and another person left the company within a very short time. Military units at lower levels need to exist as families. If those families are dysfunctional the whole system starts to break down. If you combine that with poor pay and prospects and a top down approach it is easy to see that the war machine will not work effectively. Traditionally the Russian army has placed huge emphasis on artillery and this is still their main method. If you look at the history of the Russian military over the years it is one of neglect. The Tsar's armies had a lack of weapons and soliders who were not fit for service as did Stalin and so on to the present day. There has been a lot of talk about Russia's modern weapons but these are generally just versions of artillery. There is very little of anything else of note especially reforms. Coupled with the corruption and general lack of zeal for real change it is not surprisining the Russians are not doing so well. Another point which is misleading is comparing Ukraine to Chechyna or Georgia or even Syria. Those campaigns were very different. The nearest analogy is that by Lord Kitchener speaking of what a war in Euorpe would entail in comparison to the small colonial wars that the major powers had fought. previously He correctly foresaw that Britain would need at least a million men and that the war would last years. In my opinion the Ukraine war will bog down for Russia but Ukraine may actually be able to retake land. That depends on whether they get sufficient equipment and supplies for a prolonged offensive. It is quite possible that they will wear the Russians down until they are exhausted and then launch a counter blow - much as Zhukov did against the Japanese and later the Germans.
you have that the wrong way round russia attacked japanese army 6 days before the end of the second world war in manchuria he was the commander during stalingrad 1942
@@josephberrie9550 He means Manchuria in 1939. Khalkhin Gol battles.
The only viable way to fight a war with unmotivated, poorly-trained conscripts is with artillery. Let them stand in the distance and lob shells at the enemy.
In a word "Empowerment"
Brilliant!
Well done and explained. Did not expect a lot originally from this host, but he put things in the right perspective for those who are not knee deep in the politics of the region.
"The people pretend to work and the government pretends to pay." 😆😅 Oh, man. Funny as hell.
The foundations of Lenins Communism....that is why it always failed !
My husband is from Poland and he told me this saying as well existed in Poland in communist times.
Saying Russia is 'militaristic' is like saying an abusive ex is a 'martial arts master'
That’s awesome. You win the internet today.
Meh... 😕
Great explanation.
In order to develop effective solutions, one needs to honestly examine one's problems. The propaganda and lies of Russia's authoritarian regime prevents them from improving their army (and from making real economic gains for their country, in general).
It's the same in China I distrust any country that has exorbitant riches in the hands of the elite
War is hell because both sides are going to take damage. Then the fight takes on a more sinister side where civilians become targets. It is often said that the American Civil War was brutal because it was fought by soldiers who wanted to fight, lead by officers that wanted to win. The three essentials of war are Numbers, Weapons and the Will to fight. Ukraine has two of these essentials and will be very successful if the West can supply them with the weapons. It also helps to be smart ; thank God, the Ukrainians are the smart ones.
God is not in both sides
"Then the fight takes on a more sinister side where civilians become targets."
In the Ukraine war, civilians were the first targets and are targeted every day for the sake of genocide.
The most telling thing about Russia's military is that after claims of war crimes committed by Russian troops, the leadership immediately claimed they were untrue and gave all kinds of nonsensical explanations of "staging" by Ukraine. A professional military would not act this way. They would state that such behavior is unacceptable and that they at least intend to conduct an investigation. Then they would publicly and forcefully notify everyone that if this is proven true, heads will roll. That would at least make soldiers think twice. By not doing so, they can be said to not only accept such behavior but endorse it. Nothing "professional" about that! Such behavior is not "professional military" but more "criminal horde" mentality. Nothing could make a population more likely to resist than that!
"We declared war on you, but you murdered your own civilians, because we're the good guys. Oh, also we never did anything wrong."
Historically Russian army has been brutal to the civilian population . It is in their cultural history - going back centuries.
Almost everything in this war is repeat of Soviet ww2 style in diplomacy and military conduct- they learned a wrong lesson from total impunity back then, failing to notice how it doesn't work in modern, globalised information world. They resorted to exactly the same absurd denials and name-calling when Katyn Massacre was discovered. The difference was, in WW2 most of "free world" felt obliged to pretend to believe them as key allies, with even US putting in strong censorship on such topics.
Never thought of it that way
At the very least they could have appeared that they tried to investigate and punish the worst offenders, if only for a propaganda defense.
We now should know that militaries on "paper" don't tell the real story.
Easy, they haven't developed tactics for an enemy possessing modern weapons, due to lack of money. They quite simply don't know what to do.
I get the feeling that ...let's just say it.....Soviet soldiers are competent in the operation of their weapons. But it takes more than competence with weapons...it's how to use them in coordination with each other as well as with other arms of the service all under the overall command of senior leadership. In a western army ,if a branch of the military like infantry, armor, artillery and air takes losses in achieving the objective higher than the other branches, it's not considered a failure on their part. I feel in...say the Russian infantry battalions if one takes excessive losses that it's sister battalions don't necessarily support it because they want to come out more intact and therefore in their minds, more successful. The other thing they lack is an experienced core of career soldiers in the NCO ranks mixed in with the new guys. That is obvious when you look at the lack of discipline among the privates.......I mean they don't even police their trash and just leave weapons and ammo lying about. The other thing the Russian aren't very good at is logistics. I read how shocked they were to see in the Gulf War how the U.S. was able to get close to 500,000 troops over to Saudi Arabia and supply them to the points where we brought Burger Kings with us. Russia could never project a force that size that fast even over a 500 mile distance. That holds true even with aircraft. The U.S. has tons of air transports and refueling tankers. I don't remember what the ratio of support troops to actual fighting troops is in the U.S. Army but it's like four or five or more to every guy out on the line with a rifle. Rhe Russian Army is the reverse.
you believe the bullshit that this gut is talking about? he is a westerner. they usually have nothing to positive to say about Russia
To be fair, these are the same problems Imperial Russia had for centuries. Really nothing has changed: when you think about it, WWII was not a success for the Soviets, when you counter in, the excessive loss of men, materials, and natural resources in the conflict.
You forgot the obvious part: the loss of prestige and reputation.
Despite being part of 'the Allies' they were still a pariah.
Being a Finn myself it is my belief that the Soviets were equally as culpable in starting the tragedies of the Second World War as the Germans.
While many historians call Molotov-Ribbentrop pact a non-aggression treaty, well, for me it is simply an alliance.
Surely a chapter in the glorious soviet history that they've tried revision many times over and over again.. Heh.
True and don't forget the "Lend Lease" with free delivery by the Allies, which they did not pay back and stole all the design patens from the west.
Yes, many Soviet people died on the eastern front, but even that was due to the way they prosecuted the war and used their people like cannon fodder.
Indeed. It's a somewhat hard concept for Westerners to grasp, but a big problem the Russians have with military recruitment is a societal aversion to being a professional enlisted solider. It is not seen as a proper, respectable occupation. It's considered more like being a mercenary. Being conscripted and doing your national service is considered perfectly patriotic, but enlisting and taking a salary for being a soldier is seen as somehow criminal.
@@Sphere723 Where'd you get that info from? I haven't heard this before. Is that really the way how it goes down for career soldiers?
@@whitegoose2017 Russia is huge country, and generalizations have a limited usefulness. But yes, there is a cultural aversion to enlisting for money (not so for becoming an military officer, that is something different).
The Wests use of professional soldiers was derided as employing mercenaries and murders to do their fighting, rather than fighting for patriotism and their country. Soldiering as a profession is basically only one generation old.
And professional soldiering is a rather new concept in Russia. Nobodies grandfather enlisted, and very few peoples father enlisted. But Russians have served as conscripts for centuries. It's a deeply ingrained cultural norm.
Could have gone in to a bit more about the logistical problems (over dependence on rail lines etc) but otherwise very insightful informative thank you!
One RICH Russian said only 10% are idiots, in every country. Suppose that one can see where these 10% are at the moment.
There are three other key reasons why Russia is failing:
1) Motivation -- Your counter-example of Israel is also a great way to illustrate this. In Russia's war, they are the aggressors who could simply stop fighting and go home; conversely, in Israel's wars, they have been the defenders, fighting explicitly genocidal enemies who will kill their families if they fall. They don't have the option to just give up. Unmotivated soldiers are MUCH less effective than soldiers who have a personal stake in the fight. We see this in Ukraine, with the Ukrainian military.
2) Corruption -- Russian military leaders are notoriously corrupt and have embezzled the money needed to properly maintain their equipment prior to the invasion. This means that a lot of the Russian weapons and vehicles were derelict before the first shot was even fired.
3) Logistics -- Russia has never been competent at maintaining an effective logistics pathway when in combat, and the Ukraine fight is no different. Even if their equipment weren't derelict, it isn't reaching the troops who need it, when they need it, because that isn't something they have invested resources in.
I would add arrogance, technical disability, just look at the aerial drones and nearly useless air force. Its seems like a very long list!!
Come back in a year's time and see if your statements stand up. I suspect you'll have to eat crow.
@@tonylaverick7865 they already eat shit and talk shit...
The Ukrainian Armed Forces do not come into direct contact with the occupiers. Usually these are small groups of 5-15 military personnel who fire at tank columns moving without cover. These attacks are very productive, they also exhaust the voag, slowing down the speed of movement. The occupier's motivation is a monetary reward, an increase in well-being on someone else's grief and misfortune. Ukrainians have a struggle for survival, protection of their families and country. Idea of the Nation - Independence! And that means Selflessness Heroism.
@@innosoul where do you get your information?
Dedovschina is a Russian word for senior, or grandfathers (dedovschina is a slang for someone who has served longer then you) The dedovschina haze new recruits
"we were suffering, so now you will too" .
Good job!
IMO 2 most important factors:
1. "Russia is a state of mind"
2. Corruption
One point. Young soldiers are not a problem. I and others like me joined boy service in the British Army aged 15-16. By the time I was 20 I had soldiered in Malaya, Germany, Norway and done two tours of Northern Ireland ( 2 Para.) I went on to serve 24 yrs 139 days according to my red book. The problems of soldiering in the Russian military is one of initiative (yes, including poor kit upkeep little live firing i grant you that.) The problem with the Russians is they HAVE NO initiative. They have a strict plan and if it goes tits up (and most plans do) they are unable to regroup and replan. Theyre just not given that option in their training. Look at the total fuck up at the school siege at Beslan! Look at Georgia. Initially, the Georgians absolutely kicked their arses. The Russian military has SO many shortcomings. No initiative, bullying is rife, logistics is very poor. Kit maintenence is virtually non existant due to them being skint. Military training a professional soldier is expensive and that is also an area where Russia is poor. I do believe the GDP of Russia is beaten by the GDP of California alone. That is a circle that will never be squared.
Thank you sir. Was living in UK for 11 years and always admired british way of planning.
And yet, despite everything you have said, Russia will win NATO's proxy war in Ukraine.
"Lives are cheap"
- every russian doctrine since like 1400 or something
"I do believe the GDP of Russia is beaten by the GDP of California alone."
While this is true, that's not the embarrassing part. California's economy dwarfs the GDP's of most nations on earth, including the United Kingdom, France, and India. According to the United Nations statistics, California's economy is more than twice the size of Russia's. California would be the 5th largest economy on earth, if it were its own nation.
Russia's economy is beaten by three US States: California, Texas, and New York.
But we can say the same about Ukranian army. Or are there some differences?
Respect to you for looking at the issue in such a balanced way. It is almost impossible to find videos that are true journalism or pure derivatives thereof instead of propaganda for one group or another.
PUTIN-SUPPORTING Americans do exist and get covered by CZcamsr Telltale, among many other problems-needing-attention.
awesome video. 👌 👏 👍
good critical reporting: thanks for the info
Sun Tzu: Pretend you're strong when you're weak, and weak when you're strong.
"Quote Sun Tzu when you have absolutely screw up so people don't think you're so stupid" Tzu, the Sun.
His words didn't saved china
@@akeshshi9137 Tzun Tzu was a General. He went to war with a small force of 20,000 and defeated a force of over 120,000.
@@eee9034 China uses too much Marxist indoctrination.
I always thought Russia had a strong, elite army until they messed with Ukraine. All they're really good at is shelling civilian targets that don't shoot back.
Dont forget special forces and CIA were sent to train ukraine starting 2014.
To be fair Russia has spent considerable effort playing itself up. Lots of chest beating and kicking down on significantly less equipped nations. There's a little overlap there with the US, Iraq is of comparable size to Ukraine's GDP/resources/size. But Russia's focus was Georgia, Armenia, Tajikistan, who combined only rival Ukraine in size geographically.
If we measure the GDP gap Russia's peak was 2T. We'll use that for reference because it's just easier.
Tajikistan a peak of 9B is a 9:2000 ratio
Georgia a peak of 16B is a 1:250 ratio
Armenia a peak of 12B is a 3:500 ratio
Ukraine has a peak of ~184B is a 23:250
This is the biggest hill Russia has ever tried to climb itself.
@@marvinp.8208 Did you take your meds today? Sure, there were military advisors, but the CIA? Whoa.
@@whitegoose2017 The CIA was sent to train their intelligence officers
@@marvinp.8208 Yeah and the Moomin Trolls too.
Great presentation. Love the shirt.
Insightful! Think tank level analysis and evaluation. This is the best summary of the Russian military. I have subscribed to your channel.
I can tell you, what you said about the NCO's is true.
When I was in the Mechanized Infantry (as a corporal signals mechanic, Dutch Army in the 90-ties) one of our platoons got a fresh out of the Academy Platoon Lt. So he was basically in charge. BUT!!! But the captain said to that Lt: "You are in charge of all the logistics of your platoon while we are at the base,... But until I trust you can do the job in the field, when we are on military exercise your platoon Sergeant-Major is in charge of the fighting, as he actually knows what he is doing as he has been doing this for countless years. And you are the second in command in the field, until I decide differently."
ROFL !!!
Hi, when I was a fresh Lt. (Ok, Oberleutnant) in Germany I asked the sergeant major for "advice" about more or less everything.
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But I did it behind doors, like all smart officers do.
@@julonkrutor4649 Well,... if I had been a Gefreiter in your unit, and I had overheard you asking you SM for advice,... I would have figured you for a very smart officer. There is NEVER a shame in admitting you do not know something! Never. Especially not when it concerns life and death.
Officers who pretend to know it all whilst they do not,... get soldiers killed.
@DolphinsWIthIgloos Ha LOL... So true! But tbh,... that goes for some NCO's as well.
I think it is kinda a curse for some soldiers, wether soldier, NCO or officer,... to admit they have absolutely zero map-reading abilities.
So funny!
But that was peacetime. Imagine war time and being a person not able to read a bloody simple map. ROFL,... that be absolutely HORRIBLE!
I am actually amazed about some Ukrain vids I saw. Drone footage, and a few minutes later artillery on Russians positions. Some folks over there for sure know what they are doing!
Kudos to the Ukrainians!
austrian army is the same. one time ive heard a sergeant major yell to an leutnant from a different building.
it is a common knowledge that as an first or secound leutnant you discuse what you want todo with the sergeant-major. when he gives you the ok, everything is fine. when not, you get f***ed.
@@julonkrutor4649 thats how is done in austria too. but only the smart leutnants understand the real hierarchy.
Not only most of the invading troops are unexperienced, they were also deceived into believing that they are out for some training (without their phones and documents). So for a large part of the lower ranks the war came as a surprise with the first retaliation or attack. Also to be mentioned, in Donetsk occupied area they send into war literally every man they can get on the streets. Teachers, professors, street cleaners, bums, etc. And those are mostly Ukrainian nationals that have been occupied for 8 years already.
Это собачья чушь. Это специально заготовленная речь на случай пленения.
Not really,there are chechen war veterans in the mix including the chechen themselves
czcams.com/video/LDlK1pzIEpM/video.html
That's not true, that's just what the russians are instructed to say if they are taken prisoner. Russians lie about everything, it's their official policy.
@Nichòlas Nicholas Ukrainians aren't the ones invading and killing thousands of innocents though.
It was said that a dictator are often insane but a nation is rarely insane. Putin can hardly use Russian nuclear weapons without risking somebody (including his personal guards) assassinate him.
TRAINING TRAINING TRAINING !!!! Oh God how I remember it so well .