BELOUSOV IS RUSSIA'S NEW MINISTER OF DEFENCE | This Is Super Good For Ukraine
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Welcome Adolfs best friend and architect, Albert Speer, who became Minister of armamanents in 1942 which also was a surprise for all.
Putin has found a new minister to fix the supply chain issues and production issues but has no military clue. Will become funny how the general staff will behave after not having been elected.
My name is Thiago, i'm from Brasil. Is it wrong to think that Putin and the oligarchs are in route of collision? What the oligarchs can do against Putin ? Thanks for your excellent job!
Inside Russia how are you? Have a great week.
you're outside russia i believe. anyways tell me if ukraine is winning or losing.
@@tg4481 what is your assumption based on?
Another good way to see why Russia puts business majors in charge of the military is that the country is being run as a resource extraction corporation with an army.
Good point. Very efficient way to destroy a country while all the BRICS brainwashed youtubed commentators slavishly jabber on about what a “strong” leader putin is and how fabulously well he made russia as a country. It just shows you how propaganda can mess with peoples heads, telling them that what’s white is black and what’s bad is good. And they believe it, hook, line and sinker.
We can expect a repeat of the breakup USSR situation in due course, whereupon everyone will be surprised.
Well stated, sir!
If you put that statement into stanzas and call it a poem you have created the best allegory I've heard.
Skalds throughout history would be writing about its perfection.
Well done.
(Edited because of spelling mistake)
It’s not a military as in battle planning and strategy, not military command. Ministry of defence is in charge of supply and logistics for army. Putting economist instead of fire and rescue chief is good move.
@@BigFatSoul The minister of defence is also in charge of staffing, so not having a military person in charge means they don't know how to pick other people who know how to run a military organization. Putin's first minister of defence, Ivanov, was a KGB man instead, and he appointed siloviki to top positions.
Putin is steering toward being the new Stalin
A communist is always a communist 🤮
He is already there
Putins feet are too tiny to fit in Stalins big boots
Putin has connived to become PUTINSTALIN since the day he got power.
I’m pretty sure he’s there.
If I correctly took Konstantin's point, Belousov is a guy whose knowledge of finances comes exclusively from having obtained an economics degree in . . . Soviet economics; and his main recently demonstrated skill seems to be not in competently managing a functioning economy but merely in extorting money from producers, mafia-style. If that is the case,. then he can be expected not only to contribute nothing much to the Russian military capacity but also to accelerate the death-spiral of the Russian economy by bleeding it dry. Too many Western media seem to have become fixated on Belousov's supposed status as an 'economist', when in fact he is something else entirely: he is the soviet idea of an economist. If he is, he sounds very much like the doom of both the Russian military and the Russian economy, and things are indeed looking up.
Doesn’t sound too different from the government approach to the economy in the UK - just get as much money out of it as you can for the government to squander and misappropriate and to hell with the consequences.
correct; to paraphrase "russia is its own world where normal rules do not apply".
you hit the nail on the head that western analysts look at russia in the prism of western culture and norms, and that is simply wrong.
for starters, what western country would do WW1 era infantry pushes with attendant casualties - could you see France, UK, Poland, Romania, Turkey doing that? The gov would fall next day.
Bro read, he got economic phd in 2006, this is not soviet union ed
I would like to correct you, it was Belousov who was responsible for restructuring the Russian economy in 2022 and putting it on a war footing, as a result Russian economy withstood nuclear strike (now 16,000 sanctions have been imposed against Russia) and it not only survived, but is still growing. Belousov had no influence on the army, he only dealt with civil economics.
Today all chains(include military economic chains, military factories etc) are in his hands, now Belousov has all the levers to control the army, decide for yourself whether it’s good or bad.
Great news! That individual appears to be just as incompetent as Shoigu. Quite a relief.
Ukrainians must be bad soldiers if they have their a55 torn apart every day by incompetent Russians despite the 261 billion they have received
Sadly, chief Shoi'gu was actually very very competent, in his task and purpose and capabilities to yes, execute even far greater hell and devastation around the planet.
Dear chief Belousov... please, as one of your first tasks as incoming secretary outside of issues dealing with resolving the terrible invasion War of Ukraine , also consider creating a technical method to financially help in fairly compensating families of the 10s of thousands of children needing vital assistance in Myanmar - due to the truly brutal atrocities against Myanmar ethnic groups and populations committed by the illegitimate Myanmar Mil junta coup power apparatus cabal, ushered in largely by ex-chief Shoi'gu himself (representing Ru MIC strategic interests), back in February of 2021.
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If he starts listening to the generals instead of being focused on funneling away into privat pockets as much money as he could, we could wish Shoigu back soon.
@@brunsheimmasterbaitwilfrie2811 If. We'll see in time. I'm optimistic after having heared what Konstantin, Vlad Exler and Max Katz had to say about the reshuffle.
Keep dreaming! There is no way this guy is as incompetent as Shoigu. He is also far less corrupt. This change isnt good for Ukraine at all.
He doesn't speak like the new terrifying minister of defence. He speaks like a very nervous accountant.
Why should an accountant be nervous?
He talked like putin: sdes eeeee cto to nado eeeee delat khmm, khmm, vobsenta eeeee tak,
So did Putin when he was new.
He’s a bean counter!
@tokyosundeiru2006 and the Russians are quickly running out of beans to count
He knows he is more secure flying commercial aircraft 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I thought the same thing!
Not in russia. Much of the commercial planes drop because of lack of maintenance and lack of spare parts
Shoigu needs to find a ground level concrete bunker with no windows and an official food tester.
You are better than 90% of professional jouralists.
"professional jouralists" have to serve the interests of their owners and related bodies, like d-e-m party.
You dont know how to spot good journalism then.
@@bushwalker6214 There´s a world out there. Not all media function like the American ones. Still some independent media in my country.
That said, most of them really don´t give as good and easy-to-understand explanations as Konstantin does.
@@NotUnymous Yeah, there are good independent journalists out there. The problem is that journalists use a specific language in a lot of countries. (Not in all countries, Latvia and Estonia don´t really have a journalism jargon).
And the Russian politics, and world events in general, are so complicated that it´s much better to use a simpler language and explanation style, and add some fun trivia, if you want people to understand.
A lot of journalists use their usual style for Russian and world politics, and that makes them harder to understand.
@@bushwalker6214 It's not hard to find the brainwashed americans under every freaking video...
Damn you people must be so proud to shout this garbage out so freely...
Because you give the news of Russia in English. I can see inside Russia. Thanks buddy you are the best!
"As Mars is from Uranus". Killing me here Konstantin!
GREAT VIDEO K. YOU TELL IT LIKE IT IS 👍❤️
Putin is just shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic
💯👍👍👍
Well said!
I wish I could be as confident.
A New Six-Year Term for Vladimir Putin Begins Amid Scandals and Purges in a Key Ministry and an Inevitable Struggle Over the Huge Military Budget
As usual in Russia, there is another paradox. Today, almost a year after the uprising and eight months after the execution of Yevgeny Prigozhin, and four months after the assassination of Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin is starting to implement their ideas.
Prigozhin wanted to hang them.
Years ago, Navalny accused Minister Sergey Shoigu and his general clan of large-scale corruption. He showed how the head of the ministry and his cronies lived in grand style, far beyond their means. After Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation scrutinized the minister, it was said that Prigozhin himself might have helped with the investigation.
When Putin's "chef" Prigozhin, with his "Wagnerites," took over Rostov-on-Don last June and marched on Moscow with the "March of Justice," he rebelled not against the tsar but against the minister and generals whom he accused of robbing the army, not supplying the front with equipment and ammunition, and thus being responsible for the unnecessary deaths of many soldiers.
Prigozhin did not march to Moscow to stage an armed coup. He intended to conduct a people's court in the presence of the Kremlin's master over his uniformed boyars, and then hang Shoigu, his deputy Timur Ivanov, and others on Red Square. However, they turned out to be stronger then.
A few days ago, Shoigu lost his ministerial seat, which he had occupied for 12 years thanks to his cunning and friendship with Putin. In the ministry located on Moscow's New Arbat, known as the "Arbat Military District" and governed by its own laws, the purge is gaining momentum.
Shoigu's deputy, Tatiana Shevtsova, asked for her resignation. The other deputies are also reportedly writing their reports. Rumor has it that even Igor Konashenkov, the defense ministry's spokesperson who lied daily about the army's successes on the Ukrainian front, earning himself a lieutenant general's star, is packing up.
Shoigu is leaving, and Russia is preparing for a bigger war.
The arrest of Timur Ivanov, Shoigu's deputy, on corruption charges shook the Russian public opinion significantly. His Rolls-Royce, which he used to drive his wives during vacations in Saint-Tropez or another Courchevel, captured the imagination of his compatriots.
After all, given his rank and position, he had no right to enjoy himself in the West, which he should have loathed due to his official duties. He couldn't be there because the sanctions imposed by Europe also prohibited it.
Most importantly, as an official with access to state secrets, he was not allowed to wander around hostile territory for private purposes. And yet he did, ostentatiously squandering millions there.
The depth of the moral rot in the army's leadership is illustrated by the way Yuri Kuznetsov, the recently dismissed and also arrested head of the defense ministry's personnel department, earned his living. Previously, he headed the 8th Department of the General Staff, established to protect state secrets.
He traded the most valuable asset he had, which was precisely those secrets.
Only those who passed a tedious verification process could become executors of the highly paid orders of the defense ministry and special services, proving they were trustworthy enough to be officially granted access to state secrets.
With Kuznetsov, the guardian of the homeland's secrets, such a certificate could be purchased. Cheaply. As "Novaya Gazeta Europe" writes, for one percent of the contract's sum.
One could also buy a denial of access to secrets. Anyone who had a chance to sign a profitable contract with the ministry could pay to prevent competitors from accessing classified information.
Another service could be paid for by someone who desperately wanted to visit a place like Saint-Tropez but couldn't due to their knowledge of state secrets. It was enough to obtain a certificate stating that the individual had no contact with classified information.
The Ministry of Defense turns out to be quite the Augean stables. As Moscow's "Kommersant" writes, last year, the Russian Financial Monitoring Service questioned 2,000 contracts related to the ministry's orders. Fifty thousand companies were involved in suspicious transactions.
Dear Russians
The Kremlin has begun to acknowledge that the war with Ukraine is expensive. Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced that Russia's military spending would approach what he called the "critical level" of the mid-1980s, which was "7.4 percent of GDP" (he got it wrong, as the USSR at that time spent 15 percent of its product on arms and security, which led to its ruin).
However, the Kremlin's master himself has just said that the Russian Federation is already allocating 8.7 percent of GDP to defense and security, a third more than planned for this year.
It is expensive partly because Russians have suddenly become expensive. Specifically, soldiers. The country has had cannon fodder practically for free for centuries. A conscript called up for mandatory military service is entitled to a salary of less than 100 zlotys.
A contract soldier, however, goes to the front for the equivalent of 2,000 dollars, which is as much as a private in the US army gets. For his death on the battlefield, the family receives 130,000 dollars, more than the relatives of a fallen American.
Meanwhile, Russian generals squander expensive and scarce (also for demographic reasons) human material like Stalin's marshals, using up more in a month than Americans have lost in all their anti-terrorist wars in recent decades.
The war is more expensive than Moscow calculated because, due to sanctions imposed on Russia, what is imported for the defense industry goes through numerous intermediaries, each of whom must get their share. Added to this is enormous corruption, confirming the old truth that it is easy to steal on a grand scale during wartime.
New Broom and Clans
The new head of the defense ministry, former Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov, is supposed to be the fresh broom that will clean up the "Arbat Military District." However, it will not be easy to bring order and balance, as the generals, who form the ministry's backbone, will defend their positions and, above all, their illicit incomes.
According to Putin, the turmoil in the war ministry will not affect the situation at the front, which is still under the responsibility of the same General Staff. But this is rather wishful thinking.
Problems also arise from the change in the Federation Council, where Sergey Shoigu, removed from the Ministry of Defense, replaced Nikolai Patrushev, who had led it for 16 years.
Under the previous head, the Council was "Putin's politburo," which met every Saturday in the presence of the Kremlin's master to devise the state's strategy.
In Russia, the importance of an institution often depends on the "weight" of its head. The "shot down" Shoigu does not have the authority and influence of Patrushev, to whom many people in the services owed their careers and who formulated the conservative state ideology close to Putin with his backward views.
It is unclear whether the Security Council will remain the "politburo" under Shoigu or if another institution will have to take on this role.
Who Will Overturn the Chessboard?
Tensions in Moscow are also rising due to the West's changing approach to the war in Ukraine. Russians have become accustomed to threatening their partners, hinting at escalation, and pretending they are about to "overturn the chessboard." The fact that people like Emmanuel Macron or Alexander Stubb, the President of Finland, have started talking to them in this style is an unpleasant surprise for Russian politicians.
In Moscow, they expected that the West, and especially the USA, would not support Ukraine with equipment and money. When the opposite happened, the General Staff hastily, regardless of enormous losses, aimed to capture as many completely destroyed Ukrainian villages and towns as possible before aid reached the opponent's army.
Besides Shoigu and Patrushev's dismissal and Belousov's appointment, Putin made another personnel change that many Moscow observers deemed very important.
Political scientist Vladimir Pastukhov predicted in advance that if the Kremlin's master brought Alexei Dyumin, the governor of Tula, to Moscow, it would be a sign that he expected the new term to be "difficult."
And so it happened. Putin's former bodyguard, commander of the Special Operations Forces that occupied Crimea 10 years ago, and former deputy defense minister became an important assistant to the state leader responsible for the arms industry. And this is again something Prigozhin would have wanted, as he saw Dyumin as a good candidate for defense minister.
The Fifth Commandment: Kill. Cyril as the Patriarch of Orthodox Jihad
It is hard to say why Putin brought to Moscow a man many consider his potential successor. Does he want to have him by his side in case of trouble or keep an eye on him to prevent Dyumin from causing trouble?
When shortly after the inauguration, Patriarch Cyril blessed Putin, he surprised everyone by wishing him to rule "until the end of his days." Why did he do that? The church leader is too smart and too high-ranking to simply express his boundless loyalty to the ruler this way. Rather, he took a stand and opposed something he feared himself.
Putin: " Belousov!!!...WHERE is Gare ASS-imov???
Damn, now people have to update all their memes.
"Belousov! What is air defense doing?!" 🤣
LOL
I mean the secretary of defense in the US is almost always a civilian and we do OK, although there is no absolute power involved in it.
And oaths are made to the Constitution, not the leader of the country
Russia is different
Yes, but he doesn't dress up as a soldier
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Just remember the obstacle this presented for Lloyd Austin to become the DoD secretary.
Gladly he overcome the hurdle
True: oath is to the Constitution. However the Constitution declares the President is Commander-in-chief of USA military, whose #1 duty is the defense of the Republic, with various operational responsibilities in turn delegated to the Secretary of Defense. Thus USA military must function balancing duty with principles.
The vibe of this video is top notch
It's like shuffling the deck chairs of the Titanic.😂
Interesting explanation, I figured that Little Vlad did not want to try his best buddy for treason when the war fails, so get this other guy and you have a perfect fall guy.
Putin:: "This war is costing me a fortune! I NEED someone who can do some "Economic Forecasting" so I know when the money will all run out! I know!... hire Andrei Belousov!"
Excellent 17 minute lecture. Very informative.
One thing I've learned from Russian politics is to judge from the deeds and totally disregard the words.
If this guy is totally owned - body and soul, by Putin, then his policies can and will change according to the whims of his political master.
WOW !!! Excellent analysis !!! Thank you Konstantine !!!
Hitler did the same and took war planning away from the Wermacht Generals.
A spineless administrator.
If I was living for a year in a stinking death pit in Ukraine I’d now know for sure I was dying for nothing & surrender after this speech.
There is an army flash mob in his support and shoigu leaving his post was met positively by most, he is one of the most hated ministers
One of belousov main thesis was “mistakes are forgivable, but lies are not”, and there are several arrests made for corrupt high ranking officers and officials from ministry of defence immediately after belousov was put in charge.
I must put 👍.
Good video because it even made me think about things.
Konstantin: Even though I don't always agree with you on everything, I have to say completely honestly that you know how to bring things up. You have a calm voice, you think lot about things, you bring up things and/or perspectives that we wouldn't necessarily think of.
Thank you & Greetings!
Adapted:
Must say you are doing really, really hard work. Every day you give your all, in many different ways.
I have to appreciate that👍!
Russia is Russia's own worst enemy.
That is certainly true.
Shoigu should stay away from open windows in future.
Haha the front asking for more ammo and equipment: sorry it's not in the budget guys
Thank you Konstantin. Only you can provide this information so clearly. Be safe. The world needs you.
I am sure there will be new "windows of opportunity" open for "poor" Shoigu 😂
Removing a military leader might be reminiscent of Hitler, who overruled his generals as the war turned against the Nazis? If so, as happened in WW2, is this the end game for the Russian military forced to take action irrespective of losses or strategic gains?
It's not unique to Hitler. It's actually quite common for military leaders to get removed/fired during major wars. Both the USA and USSR did this during WW2.
Agreed. Time will tell
Stalin acted started as a stupid supreme commander and learned the hard way to leave matters to Zhukov and his men. Hope this will not happen this time.
The previous country to do something this extreme was Ukraine, last year. At first, it was reported that he was fired, then they said he was promoted to a diplomatic position. IDK what will be the fallout from this - I assume the Russian "Spring offensive" was planned before this move. Personally, I think the Kremlin will order their troops to do offensive things whether it's Shoigu or Belousev.
Shoigu needs to wear a wig, grow a beard, put on a dress and head for the border.
He's going to be the fall guy.
He's going to look pretty silly in a dress with a beard!
@@TheVaporEyes Uh.....he looks silly in his staged dime store uniform.
Putin always plays games and never shows the full picture… Patrusjev is the only one Putin shuld fear. But no matter what happens in Ukraine, Russia have lost everything.
Putin still can win. Right now Ukraine and RuZZia are both losing the war. We must make sure it is Putin who will not be the last man standing.
So true, and i also think Putins insane mobilisation is because he wants to erase the young generation in Russia who is 100 % "anti Putin"
Why Patrusjev?
Yes that’s one of the things besides my grief over what’s happening to the Ukrainian population is that Russia has screwed itself in the butt. It’s in serious trouble and I don’t know how they’re ever gonna climb out of this pit. It breaks my heart.
Most of all, Russians have lost their freedom. So once again there is no word for freedom in the Russian language, just an empty promise of it.
A Soviet economist appointed MOD. Has anyone realized that the Soviet Union Collapsed??? This will be interesting to see how it plays out.
He finished two more degrees in economics in 2003 and 2007, he worked in Russian IRS and he is good at it. He is mostly appointed for army audit, to weed corruption
He sounds like the minister of Veterans Affairs.
*I personally believe that Belousov was appointed as an economic expert to root out corruption. A bit like Albert Speer was appointed in Germany in 1942 to boost production. Shoigu, on the other hand, was rather promoted to secretary of the Security Council. The most interesting thing is what happens to Patrushev. To the man who hired a mind reader to read Madeleine Albright's thoughts that the USA wants to take over Siberia. In addition, Patrushev's son, Dmitri, has even been rumored to be Putin's successor.*
Ensuring access to medical care by injured military personnel is also critical to moral in both the member and his family. Not providing proper care will spread virally through the family network and cause many to avoid service. Would any sensible Russian mother want to send off her son to war knowing that if he gets injured he will not receive proper care?
I can see a resistance movement growing out of such a problem.
This new guy worries me. He's an organizer in a world of CHAOS. If he can navigate the top criminals in ruzzia, he'll be scary.
Another "Albert Speer" would be a nightmare to the west.
Agreed. The military will stand behind him simply because he is not Shoigu.He has at least one year where he can act freely. If he knows his trade that would be extremely bad news.
He was the only one of the economics team who backed the war, the Russian Patrick Minford. I'll take that.
@@maxotaurus5140Speer didn't have to deal with centuries of endemic cortuption.
@@maxotaurus5140 I somehow doubt Speer would have been a good Minister of Defense.
Being a stickler for details & cost/benefit decisions are great qualities for
a Minister of Armaments & War production (Speers' actual job),
but leading a military in a time of war is a very different gig.
It also remains to be seen how good Belousov works without a net.
Thus far he's always been somebody's number two,
but now he's the guy who actually has to make decisions
- in a field he knows nothing about.
Can he fix the Ruble? Can he fix the Military? Somehow I think not. LMFAO
Where is Gerasimov, indeed?
Shoigu started out in disaster management, and ended up managing a disaster. 😎👍
But I wonder: does the decision to sack Shoigu indicate that there's growing discontent in the military ranks?
How do we know he was sacked? He was named at another position.
@@jean-michelvanpruyssen936 He was in fact promoted to the head of the Security Council, the place where all important decisions are made wuth Putin. Medvedev is the deputy head. The notion that he was sacked is just ignorance of the workings of the government and of western leaders who have seized on a bit of what they think is unfavourable news about Russia and Putin.
@@pandora8377 Western leaders have nothing to do with this story.
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@@corvanhoute8072 Putin made a huge mistake on February 24 2022, he knows it. He's now in damage control mode. Unfortunately it's too late, he's destroying Russia and the russian federation will not survive. It's not the West's fault, it's Putin's fault.
WHERE IS GERASIMOV !
They call Belousov "Putin's Albert Speer".
If this would be true, this would be actually really bad news for Ukraine.
I hope you are right. Thank you for keeping our hopes alive!
Albert Speer ! I heard the same thing on french TV.
My interpretation is that Shoigu was spending way too much, and it could not be sustained. So Putin wants someone to do the same job, just cheaper. Hence, the bean counter boss.
Shoigu promised 5000 Armata tanks, delivered 5 and none of them didn’t make to the parade,
I am speculating with no real data, here, but: Perhaps Putin saw Shoigu as a threat, and that caused Putin to separate Shoigu from power. Belousov's longevity hinges on his ability to appear to be loyal and benign. The welfare of the troops is always a popular topic, but if Putin perceives Belousov is becoming *too* popular with the troops, it will be time for him to play Superman flying out of a window.
This new guy sounds like he’s going to take care of the administrative side of the military and not actually combat tactics. Very strange.
Dr Smith from. " Lost in Space. " You're in trouble now!!!
It looks like the nobody is the fall guy for the war. If Shoigu is still a friend, maybe this is how he lives. Let the other guy take the fall.
Yours is an interesting theory: very plausible as keeps his longer term loyal friend -who knows the military- preserved, while the newbie gets thrown under the bus.
I thought so too. If Putin sttill wants to be friend with Shoigu but knows the end is near (retreat) then giving it to a fall guy so that his buddies record can be spot free when he gives the title back after the war sounds like something Putin would do.
Another civilian defense minister, oh good.
Soviet Economics.
They very definition of Failure
What’s it like to be a top US economist and end up with your own incompetence, believing that Russia will collapse in April 2022?
Or believe that Russia will collapse after an economic nuclear strike with 16,000 sanctions?! But this didn't happen. Lol.
You seem to be poorly informed that it was Belousov who was involved in putting the Russian economy on a war footing and now he also has all the leverage over the army. Is it good or bad, decide for yourself.
But entire economic, political, industrial, information machine of NATO turned out to be incompetent against alone Russia, thanks to just a few people, including Belousov.
Very definition of failure is NATO, and especially the US, who, with the help of sanctions against Russia, destroyed German industry, increased their own debt and forced BRICS to abandon the dollar.
Russia is such very tough nut to crack, which is stuck in teeth of US, it crushing US teeth right now... and it looks like it will soon break their jaw.
Ultimately, that means that he can't trust his closest advisors and so he's firing them and rehiring morons. It's a bad slippery slope
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Dont you think that this change will improve Russia's ability to be more cost efective in its army and be more efficient in these war economy times?
Agreed. Belousov's appointment makes perfect sense since war is primarily about industry and economy. Not to mention that the liberal technocratic types seem to be much more competent than the siloviki.
In a completely corrupt system? I don't think so.
In a low corruption environment it might have worked.
commentators in Poland say that it is actually not good for Ukraine, because Belousov is a guy who knows finances and is supposed to stop the escape of money from the Russian army (fight corruption). More money for the army - more weapons and money for buing new soldiers.
to fight corruption you have to start at the head, which is Putin. they will just make a show of swapping out individuals to different posts, jailing others, but the self-serving kleptocracy will carry on business as usual.
Yeah, I'm worried too. It sounds like they are appointing an actual minister for defence rather than what they had before, a civilian klutz that dressed up in military clothes and commanded the military around without any knowledge (sounds way better for Ukraine). But I still hope it's good for 🇺🇦 💪
Suggest that it is too late for him to turn around the Russian kleptography...it is too deeply rooted
@@geoffgill5334 I hope so.
Maybe you should watch the video, and this time, perhaps listen to what is explained.
My theory: Shoigu himself requested that demotion. I suspect he started to fear high windoes and military installations or tonreduce the risk of heart attack.
I suspect he knows things are about to get a lot worse on the battlefront as soviet stocks run out. Hence step down while you can so that Putin's revenge will fall on your successor.
I hear Shoigu got a new job driving a tank.
Belousov sounds more competent than Shigou. May not be all that good for Ukraine although the way the Russian generals have fought the war so far shows complete incompetence.
Well having a bean counter is like ashtrays on motorbikes - Seems like a good idea but no very practical
So how is a bean counter going get the military to work ask the men to use less of something they don't have
Shoigu also had no millitary experience. He was also a nobody. He was in the "ministry of emergency situations" or whatever russia calls it, then he was a mayor for literally a month before becoming the minister of defense.
from that speech I suppose Putin needs to answer the many complaints of problems of the veterans coming home lacking benefits so to bolster the home front confidence and get more solders volunteers
The only danger that I see is that ge might be so lame that a competent general might lead from yhe shadows.
❤K❤
Wonderful analysis!!!!
Having an economist in charge of military production might actually be a clever move.. if he is any good.
Real economist will see Ukraine war is costly and unproductive, you can fix a money pit. As soon as Belousov tells Putin that the war in Ukraine is what putting Russia in the poor house, Belousov will flying out of a window.
@@BBradshawProductions Good point, but what indicates, that the Putin gouvernment cares for any kind of civil growth? Just squeeze the national potential for armory?!
Minister of Defense being a civilian acts as a buffer between the military and government. If a general was given ultimate control of the military, the military would be his to control, but a loyalist to Putin means Putin has the ultimate control of the military.
@INSIDE RUSSIA AS WE SAY IN ENGLISH KONSTANTIN, “THE BIGGER THEY ARE, THE HARDER THEY FALL.”
Thank you K. Your work is splendid and keeps amazing me every time again. ❤
Shoigu should stay away from open windows
It sounds like Shoigu actually got promoted for the Stellar job he did .
@@derricklarsen2919 The job has no specific responsibilities. The former dipsomaniacal president and then later PM is also on that August body.
@WilliamViets kind of like Martin Bormann
It may be good for Ukraine, but it's also good for Putin. He's digging in like a tick. A quarter century in power teaches you a few things about calculation I suppose. Thanks Konstantin, very sharp analysis.
Very interesting perspective.
Thanks Konstantin from US
This new minister sounds like what I’d expect to a new head of the American Veterans Administration, not the Minister of Defense.
You are well informed Sir
Nailed it!
The new defence minister seems to regard troop morale as a top priority. If so he's probably right. Whether he actually gets anything done is another matter.
2 words - Fascinating - Educational. Thank you sir!
Thank you for your insights which are most informative. Greetings from 🇵🇱
The show must go on.
Imagine a Russia with an actual sensible and world friendly government. Imagine.
I have heard the opinion that Belousov was hired as an essentially a crisis manager to reduce spending (read: corruption) in the military.
Earlier it was like: you get 1 million dollars, you steal 500 000 and put the remaining 500 000 into production
Now you would only be able to pocket 200 000.
The problem is: in order to get that 1000 000 you would have to spend twice the time and do twice the paperwork which severely increases the lag between an order and the realisation
Excelent analysis and executed. I think you are absolutely right, this was about dearming Sjojgu. But the old grey eminence is out, what will he and his think?
Sounds like the new appointee is going to really put the squeeze on russian businesses and people.
Looks like Putin is concerned about all if those convicts, wounded veterans and angry widows he created by invading Ukraine. Also maybe he has finally gotten some real death tolls and losses too. It will be interesting to see what calls he makes in the war going forward.
Sounds plausible
oh man, this guy is really on his toes!
The little dictator shuffles the dorkoviki.
Military moral is greatly affected by things like not being paid. This problem can be overcome simply by instigating electronic transfers. This allows access to the solder pay by himself and his family. It also reduces the ability of commanding officers for stealing money from the troops.
Thanks!
Thank you, Richard! Much needed these days and very appreciated ❤️
Thank you for the insight Konstantin 💙
Well kind of.. that's not really how orders work in the US military. From the start of basic training you are instructed that you are not required to follow an unlawful order and you can refuse.
Most of the newspapers you mentioned are on the way out but keep up the good work Konstantin. We value your perspectives.
In fairness though he was talking about articles that came out in 2003.
Hey Constantine, apart from this very informative video whats with the zoom in zoom out routine ?
keep up the great streams always look forward to watching.
good job Konstantin!
Putin’s change with Belousov, shows he is in this war for the long haul! Shoigu threw huge resources (money) at the war, at many things that didn’t work against Ukraine. Prigozhin complained about Soigu’s incompetence). Putin was bleeding money by him. He needed Belousov (loyalty) experience managing money, and modernizing military, as to where to best spend their limited supply of money, to create better use, such as inexpensive drones, etc., on things that will be most effective at lower costs.
Putin is setting up for long term war!
What happens when Belousov says this war is economically unsustainable, something which is patently obvious to most Western analysts. This factoid has been kept from putin, and because putin can’t or won’t use the internet, he just isn’t smart enough to have figured it out. Is putin stupid? Everyone keeps saying he’s intelligent, however his reading of history is farcical.
Many sociopaths and criminals are still quite smart with high IQs.
Is putin prepared to destroy his own country to further his war fantasy, and why would millions of russians go along with it when they eliminate their own futures to do so?
Hiring a bean counter to run the army, means they are running out of money and looking for cost savings!
i thought the SMO was going to plan...
@@SchutzeAmon going according to Zelenskys plan now...
Nice picture of Brezhnev. A blast from the past
"This Is Super Good For Ukraine" - it's exactly the opposite, this man was appointed to tighten and improve the financing of the army in Russia. I will come back to the opinion expressed here in a year.
I watch your postings every day and enjoy them very much. I took three semesters of Russian in college and about all I remember is "koshka na stolye." I know it is as difficult for you to learn English as it was for me to learn Russian, so I am much impressed with your English. That said, I hope you won't feel offended when I correct a minor mistake you make. The proper way to say "I bring you nine news" is "I bring you nine news stories." Better yet, I would say "I bring you the nine news stories I consider to be most important."
I worry about your safety and no doubt many of your subscribers worry also. I hope you are taking precautions and thinking about emigrating to a country where you would be safer.
The "Elk Herder" is no more...
He sounds like an economist ,oh wait.....
Sad to see Ukraines best friend gone, but the new guy seems very capable of filling shoigus shoes.
Less experience, the better.
Im going to miss Shoigu but this guy sounds great.
According to a reliable source, the new one is not nearly as corrupt as Shoigu and is said to have very good connections in the industry. Oh I really hope Konstantin is right, I don't believe it yet.
@kasauerkrautimgulasch don't worry he will learn while on the job .
What these tiny things doing in the office,
Aaa, these are Shoigu shoes,