Questionable Russian Attempts to Rebuild their Army
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Russia tries to add 147,000 troops 6 months too late with little training, while Ukraine had 1 million units doing 6 months of training. Yeah. Its way too little to late. Now if Ukraine could convince Biden to LOAN 700 Abrams pulled from Reservist unit storage (plus logistics and repair gear), then war will end fast.
dell? More like cringe
Dude, you got a Dell. (I'll see myself out now...)
Yo cappy I know you're reading this! Have a good day!
Don't forget about "MacNamara's 100,000" -- drafting troops who normally wouldn't be accepted into the service due to low IQ during the Vietnam War. It was a disaster.
Don't stop them from making a mistake.
Forest Gump.
But who's gonna get Bubba?
@@acctsys A CZcams comment is going to stop Putin from going all in. And those forced volunteers will be cut down like wheat.
@@swaghauler8334 BIeq people.
"Deployment to war zone - Welcome to NJ" had me cracking up
Same lmao glad someone else noticed
A woman from Jersey saw an alligator in S. Carolina and tried to make it into a handbag ... It didn't end well.
Coming from an NJ resident, spot on.
I appreciate him for not making the usual joke about Chicago 👏🏼
I was an infantryman in the ‘hollow army’, 1975-1980. The recruiters would go to the courthouse and be given the choice, go to the army or go to jail. A few found a home in the army and were awesome troops. Most were misfits who left with over a dozen Article 15’s ( no joke. Knew a guy with 17! Then wanted to re-enlist! Army said no.)
Happened to my uncle during Desert Storm. No one believes me but I was there. Remember the guys in the K car driving him away to the base. After he returned from service he told me, "jail would have been a smarter choice."
Really? I served in the Army 75-99 as a tanker. Heard about the guys given the choice but never met one. You should have stayed longer. 1980 was the start of a great builded up.
@@rogerwarner7825 I retired in 2004. Half of my anti tank platoon would March down to the orderly room on Monday morning for their weekly Article 15. While we would joke about that, it was not far from the truth. Drugs were rampant as was racial violence. Germany and Korea got a lot of these misfits as nobody wanted them in the US.
What kind of crimes did they allow?
@@filippocorti6760 petty theft, drugs, and most non violent crimes
As someone who works in electronics manufacturing, I can say it would unfortunately be very hard to cut off a supply of these high tech components to Russia. Most of these parts are widely available for civilian use, and as Chris pointed out, they are traded like commodities through many different hands with no way of tracking. The best you can hope for, is that it becomes expensive and slower for them to get the parts.
Russians also tend to use off the shelf components for that very reason.
Russia has a large, experienced gray market that is very integrated into the larger economy. That can't be stopped, but slowing it and making it cost more means an undersupplied Russian military is hurting even more.
Artillery requires very little. Russia's army consists of people and artillery. Lots and lots of artillery. NATO's army is one of weapons and few people. You do the math.
Well, Russian trade has opened up since the invasion, so whatever critical supply links they needed have likely been expanded.
Astronaut Lev from Armageddon(1998) smashing valve on crumbling Russian space station: Russian Parts! American Parts! ALL made in Taiwan ! 🙂
Russian prisoners: "So we're some kind of suicide squad?"
Ukraine prisoners: trust me bro it's a real fun
@@Sam-hu3cw It is for the Ukrainians they are winning
the same thing happend in germany, WW2, disciplinary batalions, worst of the worst scumbags they would find, all knew they are for the meat grinder, few survived, read the books wrote by Sven Hassel
Government : Throws you in the gulag for some BS pissing the prisoners off.
Also Government : Lets you out and gives you military weapons to fight the enemy.
Prisoner: You are my enemy.
Yes, but there are no penalties for battlefield behavior against civilians.
Was a M1 tank crew member back in the day. We were out in the field training (typical temporary razor wire perimeters, tanks in columns with gun tubes over the side for line of fire). I was a gunner at the time and had just got done pulling guard and switched with the driver (the driver hole is comfortable, the gunner seat not so much). The driver went to sleep on the back deck (still warm from idling the tank) after his guard. TC announced refueling, which means we needed to put the gun tube over the front so the fuel truck can squeeze between the column. My Tank commander was a butter bar straight from school. I hated him from day one. The guy was dumb enough for me to question how he even gained entry to the Army. A M1 tank turret uses a joystick in both the TC and gunner seats, and can swing it very fast. SOP is to alert soldiers in the vicinity BEFORE rapidly swinging it because it can literally chop a thinner tree right in half, or take your head off, or worse. My TC swung the tube fast without warning, catching our driver's legs in the back rack, pinning them against the turret and ripping both almost off completely. I heard the screaming in the driver's hole while wearing a CVC helmet. The driver was a young kid straight from basic. Needless to say, he went home. My TC was moved, leaving just me and my loader. Had to qualify with a new TC and driver. One stupid but preventable mistake nearly made a tank non effective. Technically a loader can drive and a gunner can load and shoot, but quite slowly and poorly, making it useless. Russia has worse training. Imagine what I described happening but on a much more massive scale. If you can't trust the man next to you in war, you are both good as dead.
Geez...parhaps another reason for no backracks in Russian tanks... but yep I'd imagine stupid stuff is happening all over the place. I did medevac flights years ago in Africa and it was very evident that a large proportion of casualties in war zones were not actually related to combat.
@@WhoNow283 t62 doesn’t have auto loader tho
@@WhoNow283 new ones might. old ones? probly not
Well said but the jailbird volunteers will be cannon fodder, poormans infantry. More scared of their pistol toting NCOs and officers than the enemy. Freeing his best troops to be re-equipped with his best newly procured weapon systems.
It's the foreign "volunteers" Putin can secure with Desperation Deals that worry me. How many men and materials, would Iran supply in exchange for nuclear warheads and advanced missile technology?
What would China do for access to Russia's most advanced military technology and their vast Siberian natural resources?
What would the CCP ask for, to supply Russia with the products of their massive manufacturing capability?
Then there is North Korea, what would they provide Putin for food aid and high tech weapons supplied by a compliant Chinese industry?
Remember, Putin and his close comrades are the product of KGB/STASI training. I don't know if you served during the Cold War but those people were masters of manipulation, evil subterfuge, double dealing and doing the unexpected. Things Putin was very good at being one of the youngest loyal Colonels and a high flyer when the USSR went tits-up. Look how quickly he took control of Russia. Superrich Oligarchs, Russian Mafia, endless corruption and all. Do you think he is going to worry about nuclear proliferation or more likely, consider the destabilisation of the world as a bonus. Iran firing nuclear missiles at Israel, would be right up his street!
I know he will attempt all of the above before releasing tactical nukes to his army generals. Things he hinted at with his poorly translated "winds changing direction speech." Those winds were political rather than fallout laden.
The United States suffered more casualties training for D-Day than they did on D-Day itself. For the exact reason described above. Green soldiers with only minimal training and no experience, commanded by "90-Day Wonders," rehearsing very complicated amphibious assaults with unproven equipment, sometimes in live-fire conditions.
Take all of that confusion and throw in Russian prisoner mercenaries, with near zero training, lacking decent equipment, with decisions coming only from the highest levels, and you have a total shit-show. They may end up killing more of their own guys than they do Ukrainians. The only way it could be made worse is throwing in a bunch of robot North Korean slaves who don't even speak Russian.
The t62 isn't for the Russian Ground Forces (RGF) it's for the Luhansk and donestk separatist
I'm very much appreciating the level of research and detail that have been going into all of your recent videos! Y'all have been a blessing as a resource the longer the fighting goes on!
Imagine you go to prison for being anti war and criticizing the "Special Military Operation" then Putin pulled you into the damn war.
I'd make it my goal in whatever was left of my life, to sabotage the effort as much as I could.
Well yeah you join and then immediately surrender to the Ukrainians when you get a chance lol.
Not a single person has been sent to jail in Russia for criticising the war. Even people who were caught funding the UAF were only "publicly shamed" on TV but not jailed. 2 people are on trail both are senior politicians and career anti Putin activists.
Unlike in the EU where 15 people have been jailed for sentences of up to 12years for "supporting the enemy"
Well, they would know who to turn their weapon towards then the moment they get it. Those two grenades they get would also come in handy for this.
Ah good old Penal Batallion XD
The best part of that prison recruitment video is that you're not allowed to retreat or become POW. If you get captured, you have 2 grenades for that situation.
How do they enforce this?
Hands weapons to Ukrainian soldiers and surrenders, asking for refugee status.
@@aaronbaker2186 they have fanatical officers in the back of course. no literally
Russia also just amended their laws on surrendering, back to Stalin's times. If you surrender you get 10 year prison sentence.
@@stupidburp lmao. Won’t work. Few Russians are being taken as POWs. Lefties always accuse their enemies of what they themselves do, there are plenty of unmarked mass graves to be found after this is all settled 😉
Amazing offer to help former criminals get rehabilitated is so generous. I applaud this second chance opportunity.
Love this show!! Thanks for your time to make these
sadly, the whole war is a show...
It's funny that throughout my military career from 1983 to 1999. It wasn't unusual for the old 60's-70's era senior NCO's and mid level Officers who were previous enlisted to have been go to war go to jail or let in if the recruiter's ocould swing a misdemeanor and suspended sentence with immediate enlistment.
Hell I was one of those. An as--- old cop took an interest in me when he stopped me. Made me get my GED. I had breakfast with him once a week at 6AM for 6 months. He said I had potential and dont waste it. He saved my life.
I Also remember this. Several guys I know made this choice.
I think I speak for a lot of people when I say thanks for sharing that story
That's something that definitely seemed to have died out. I went delayed entry program in 1996 then off to boot camp in 1998. For me it was poor choice in friends upon getting in trouble we all were about to be pretty fucked.
That is until the cop who was a retired Marine decided to get creative. Told my friends he was going to walk back to his car get something and walk back. All the alcohol better be disposed when he came back upon which time THEY would be written up for curfew violation and I didn't exist. That my friends should thank me for saving thier sorry asses. And for me was told this is the first time and probably not the last time MY ass got saved by the United States Marine Corps... He knew when my shipout date was and God wouldn't even be able to help me if I wasn't gone. To make sure I understood he had me drop and do 50 push-ups then said if I wasn't gone I'd be front lean and rest until HE got tired then sent us on our way.
Life doing what life does apparently thought this was too funny to not milk some more. The day I was to ship out we were running late my mom decided her 30ish years of having a perfect record should give some leeway and makes an illegal left turn. Seconds later cop lights, I see a familiar face walking up to the car. I say absolutely nothing cop asks why she did that and she tells him I was off to bootcamp. He says mam I'm not writing you up just see he doesn't miss his bus, then Son when you're 21 you owe the Corpse many drinks...
The Wagner officer said literally "The war is heavy, nothing like Afghanistan or Chechnya". That shows that the Russians are aware of their problems when discussing internally, even in front of new recruits, only downplaying it on TV for propaganda purposes, so that the general population thousands of kilometers away from the war zone doesn't freak out and become troublesome.
No because both sides have high tech weapons
The Ukrainians are making no new inroads. Their offensive has petered out after taking staggering losses . Now winter comes and they have Nato weapons ( their original Soviet weapons have been destroyed ) not suitable for winter conditions
They are also in wide open areas with no fortifications . Very vulnerable
@@trevorcrook5753 It would be very unusual for the Russians to regain momentum. Where do they get the microchips from? Where do they get the money? They are still selling energy resources to Asian states, but countries like China are ripping them off, knowing that the European customers who have the big money and were willing to pay it are gone. If you think that Ukraine lost more of the momentum than Russia, you are going to be negatively surprised.
@@trevorcrook5753 Oh come on, that was the same line with Kharkiv offensive. You russian bots are returning to the old excuses? Anyway, my response is the same. Come back here a month after and we'll see how wrong you are. Proved every russian bot wrong everytime since the BS Russia will take kyiv "in 3 days" from the start of the war
@@trevorcrook5753 russian bot spotted
Remember too that Russia's own population has declined or been stagnant for a significant period in the last 20 years--not as many young people to pick from.
You are correct on the moral waivers. I was a Battalion XO and had to do an Art 32 on a guy who stabbed a fellow trainee (who was later not convicted in a court martial. They obviously never consulted my Art 32). I discovered the Soldier had a moral waiver--he'd been convicted of assault on his own brother only 18 months prior. Groovy. Even better--these records and even the fact moral waivers were being used was NOT common knowledge--my Brigade Commander didn't even know. The waiver was on record at the REPLACEMENT COMPANY, and not transferred to the training battalion. Even more groovy.
Same goes to Ukraine. As a young, abled and educated people, who wants to stay in the poorest and corrupted nation in Europe.
and ours is shrinking also. hope everyone is ready for the fun to come.
During the Vietnam war, it was 2 months of basic training and 2 months of advanced training for infantry, artillery, and military police. I was a draftee and had both artillery and military police training. When I arrived in Vietnam it had been almost 5 months since I had received artillery training. No, big deal. When I was sent out to the field, because of the rotational system, the majority of the people in an artillery battery were experienced. This allowed the newcomers to get up to speed without affecting the fighting capabilities of the battery and it doesn't take long to get up to speed, exponentially faster than even a year of training could provide.
Maybe those convict squads will have commissars or neck band detonators...
They have political officers.
Bruuhhh if they can't even properly maintain most of their guns and engines on their flagship navy vessels then how you expect them to have functional neckband bombs? They'd be the most impressive part of their logistics if they actually work when detonated.
For the emperor!
With any luck, maybe enough survivors of these penal legions will make it across hostile lines and explode
@@idunusegoogleplus They don't have to work the convicts just have to believe they do.
fascinating, i had no idea, that's why i'm here! Thanks!
Also those Iranian drones have been allegedly failing hard. There were multiple articles stating how they have been breaking down.
I think this and the Armenian conflict have given us a glimpse of the use of cheap drones in future wars.
The Iranian drones are exactly that. Basically it doesn't need to be super successful all the time, especially if it's role is literally loiter near a battlefield until a target is selected and then just fly into it.
Ex British Army (24 Yrs) I am now over 50. I can't move for about 3 days after running about with my Granddaughter for a few hours. How the hell are these guys going to fight at my age? Thanks for your uploads very entertaining. By the way "can't move" is British for a bit stiff using muscles I not used to using. I'm thinking in the case of starting as a soldier from the start. I can see older gents with past training in sangers, stores, guard duty and driving. Not in urban assault teams.
I think the actual age limit is 42.
Lotta vodka
You can drive trucks or pack rations and supplies 😊😊
Probs going to delegate them to support roles.
My guess is drugs they pump them full of stuff we never heard of no one cares for the long haul
one mission one firefight thats enough these old dudes are literal cannon fodder
As you are pardoned after 6 months no matter how long your original sentence you're far more likely to get mass murderers who are in prison for life compared who's only in prison for a few years for drug possession. Another year in prison is better than 6 months at war.
Agreed. Those will be some sadistic people being set loose in Ukraine. I'm sure the war crimes will increase as soon as they get there.
I've heard that the time they'll have to serve will be different based on their crime. Apparently the worst criminals will have to serve twice or thrice that amount from what I've heard.
@@fanta4897 seems fair actually
@@357SWAGNUM_MAGA_X Yeah, serving that long in infantry assault units in Ukraine is bordering on death sentence so I have no complaints there.
@@fanta4897 I really doubt that anyone will survive they will be used as cannon fodder
Good research and lots of smooth editing. Thx.
Another great video! Thank you for the info!
This channel has taken a deep breath, gotten serious about itself, and has improved in depth, analysis, and detail, in a very noticeable way. Another great episode!
Not in-depth and biased
@@trevorcrook5753 Send me someone that fits your criteria for in depth and unbiased then.
No its BS.
It has got more
I remember at the beginning of the war he literally took his sources from channels like RT and claimed Kyiv would be taken over by Russia within a week. Now he actually studies his material and stops with the cheap jokes. He has gotten serious and I applaud that.
I was very irritated when the Canadian preper referred to you as a court jester because of your interpretation of how the war is going, he is very pro Russian. I find it quite refreshing that you present clear and well researched information.
Historically sometimes the court jester is one of the only person who can speak the truth
Your commenting to propaganda! 😂🤣
@@Taskandpurpose Indeed and often, more than any others, the jesters had the king's ears
These were court players, not just clowns
Poets, musicians, comedians, masters of intrigue and even spies
Im not pro Russian or pro USSA im Anti entanglements as Our US Constitution says we should be.Do lots of world wide research before you cast your Lot with either side A or B as America is way more corrupt than any other country on earth and it brings tears to my eyes.
@@laurierose970 lol You've never heard of the CCP.
Go on. Look it up.
Generals with dozens of mansions.
Go ahead.
You and your production team are doing a professional job , I have learned so much, wish I could remember it
This is a brilliantly researched video, nice!
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Easy to get when you shill for the western imperialism
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I just for lols looked at that rugged laptop, pretty cool. expensive. but cool.
@@kadincetanner5080 new is relative. but there is a such thing as manufacturing with tolerance. inevitably you will get some OBF or other issues. if it's new just have them send you a new one or just exchange it at the store if you bought it there.
I love Cappy's mispronuntiations of non-english names, Harrison Oblast, Zi Jiping, Uagner Group.
Keep on rocking, Cappy!
Don't forget Kim Jong Own 13:46
@@Rain322- 😂😂😂
Tooth-to-nail.
i cant help but laugh and giggle ahahaha
When I first started watching this channel I though he was pronouncing his name as Chris Caffey.
Interesting side note on US contractors- the figure T&P cites comes from a worker’s comp program that the government uses to track insurance costs for any work done for the US overseas. This would cover construction, food services, interpretation and security work. About 23% of contractor deaths were American according to a 2007 paper that attempted to dissect the casualties. The highest losses came from Titan- telecom and translation lost 323. Supreme- a logistics company lost 169 and Compass Security lost 159.
Another great vid. Thanks Cappy.
The cost of 20-25% of the Soviet economy being military? The entire civilian sector was completely hampered. Rampant shortages of civilian consumer goods Americans and westerners would consider common.
What? Russia spends ~4.0% of their GDP on their military
the Soviet union man
@@milotura6828 Planned economies… to ensure labor every sale had three lines, one to check the inventory for the product, one to pay for the product a third to get the product.
Every long distance train was loaded with the few consumer goods as people took days and long range trips to gather them at the major cities where they congregated.
@@paydenladeroute7129 modern Russia. But Modern Russia isn’t the Soviet Union.
No matter how powerful the military, you have to make your citizens happy or else they will rebel. The US goverment does just enough to keep their citizens in check and stable unlike Russia where most are poor
At 4:00 Platoon knife guy has been upgraded to platoon machete guy. "Hey guys, Watch me spin this machete"
The Korean war didn't just involve the United States. We may have led the effort but it was a true United Nations vs North Korea/China war. The soldiers from other nations totaled as many casualties as the Americans for a total of 120,000 allied dead.
Excellent video as always! Your channel is great!
The Wagner Group cannot be 100% combat people. They need support just like any military. So if they are not supporting themselves, then the Russian military has to be supporting them. One way or another they are getting support.
Yes, but casualties Wagner group sustains doesn’t tally with casualties in Russian army. Mercenaries are cannon fodder.
They are just using a corporate lingo. They are 50 percent fighters, 50 percent support. So they split into "Wagner Group ltd." and "Wagner Support ltd." and then they claim they are 100 per cent fighters.
I agree. Like SF or AB, they don't use heavy equipment, thus a smaller logistic train. Depend on other units to provide artillery support. Like other contractors, they are seen with suspicion by the offical Russian Army.
If they move fast enough they can plunder as they go.
I am not a vet but, could each unit have a few guys to bandage some equipment? Maybe Chris means in a over all, capable, unit dedicated to maintenace? supples?
I've verified with a Russian friend that in some rural areas, they are indeed enlisting 60 year old people and offering 3-6 month contracts to fight in Ukraine after 1-2 weeks of 'basic training'. If sending grandpa off to war after a week in Reception Battalion seems like a bad idea...that's because it is.
One can make the argument that this does more harm than good. These are more bodies to cloth, equip and feed. It's also more 'units' that generals have to maintain command/control over. It's also units that you can't rely upon at all to do what they are supposed to do. I remember in Iraq saying that I'd rather roll short-handed with guys that I trusted as opposed to full strength with guys I didn't. Why? Because everyone's role in combat is vital. If you can't trust someone to do their job, then they are a huge liability. It's a whole sector that is theoretically covered, but not really.
The real question to me is why are these short-term soldiers being sent to Ukraine? Why not rotate them to Eastern Russia (which still has some of Russia's strongest combat formations) and move the trained, equipped combat formations to fight in Ukraine? It says to me that Russia's 'friendship without limits' with China isn't as strong as they want the west to think, since many of those elite Russian formations have been there since the Soviet-era to deter the Chinese. Still, if I were a Russian general, I'd be sending the untrained volunteers to eastern Russia to get some training and bringing my trained combat formations to fight in the war. Of course, given corruption issues, 'trained' might be a bit of a relative term for the Russian army.
You assume they're sending 60 year olds right to the front line with a gun? Russia is probably short on logistics people working in the rear. He'll be driving a truck, not fighting in the trenches. You seem to miss that simple point which makes what you said kind of moot.
you cant send "reservist" with 1 month training to equip ballistic missile units or special forces or navy vessels, but you can send them in trenches in ukraine, that's why
didnt ukraine say this to? Banning 18-60 aged men to leave? It's sad both sides seems to be getting Desperate but so far im Suprised and happy in how well ukraine is doing with what they have againt Russia.
@@tommyfortress7515 defending is easier than attacking. Grandpa can sit in a trench with a gun. It's unrealistic expecting him to storm a trench.
With the shorter lifespan in Russia, even 50 is kind of getting into 'grandpa' territory.
Chris,
what a great concise presentation.
Very informative. Thanks
Cappy has been on point with the News & Updates from Ukraine.
Well done and cheers to 800k!
I love his reports for entertainment and learning about weapon systems and tactics. But as far as up to date information on the war in the Donbas and Crimea, not so much. It's just the same DoD and WH bs that the media regurgitate. Not accurate at all. Ask any ham radio operator 🤣
Prisoner recruits and military equipment from North Korea, what can possibly go wrong with that?
Yep. With allies like China and North Korea, who needs enemies?
Putin. Apparently.
North Korea is recently looking for more support from Russia, either energy or military (economic support I don't think is possible). After all, it is closer to Beijing and further away from Moscow, so Russia will be more supportive than China.
Keep telling yourself that.
If your a prisoner in North Korea, most likely you were a political prisoner, or miss fed and starving. Not a good individual to hand a gun to.
@@huwhitecavebeast1972 this czcams.com/video/dNgKGL8lQck/video.html
Excellent presentation of relevant information!
Very useful video, thank you!
I've got a request for a future story! I hear all the time how important defensive fortifications are in the war in Ukraine, but I never see a story about them. I know there's more to it than just digging a trench, but I don't know what. I'm sure that there are thick manuals on how to build fortifications, and that lots of specific training for it. I'm sure others are curious also. Please please please?
Search for North Vietnamese tunnel systems.
You're talking about bunkers mostly. Are the Russians digging bunkers, I'd assum,e they are, since they are going to need a whole lot of them if they have any hope of holding on to their stolen Ukrainian real estate. And the Ukrainians have them for sure, they've been digging in since 2014 if not longer! But they are probably NOT eager to show off what they've built for obvious reasons.
A 100% Tooth-to-tail ratio *sounds* scary... but I defer to General Bradley's dictum "Amateurs study tactics, Professionals study logistics"
*Somebody* has to provide the tail to those Wagner mercenaries. They can't operate in a vacuum, still need food, ammo, other supplies, transport, intel, medical support, etc., etc. If they are all "tooth", that just means all the rest of the stuff has to be provided by someone else. Or they simply won't be able to function.
@@Ulfcytel Was going to say this. If there's no tail, there's no bullets, no food, no fuel. If they're claiming all Wagner members are riflemen, then it means they have civilian contractors embedded all the way up to the front, doing the non-combat jobs.
Professionals of the other side usually disrupt logistics... and then the only thing that matters is tactics. )))
That's why American Army couldn't pass the minefields on the way to Berlin, and were stopped by Zigfried line which was an empty shell, as Gen Patton (I think) put it.
@@elchinpirbabayev5757 The Western Allies stopped at the border of Germant in 1944 because a) most of all, their logistics from Normandy were overstretched (having failed to open Antwerp); b) the River Rhine is a significant natural barrier; c) The winter of 1944-45 was particularly severe; d) the Westwall was no 'empty shell', as witnessed by the ferocity of the battles in the Hurtgen Forest and at Aachen..
Tail is probably provided by Russian military or contracted out to some other group.
So I've been following you for some time and i gotta say the depth of info in your videos has increased by a great deal. Kudos for all the research that goes into it. At the same time though, you make sure to keep it as amusing and interesting as ever. Thanks for your work, all the best and keep them coming! Slava Ukraini!
Warzone.. features Jersey sign in background. I love this channel
Tooth to nail? Not tooth to tail? Well I guess it’s now one shot one team, one fight one kill. Oh Cappy, never change
Smh. The graphic clearly reads "tooth to tail" yet somehow "nail" slips into the voiceover. This channel is on the speary end of the point.
Glad it wasn't just me. Made my eye twitch.
@@wolfgangklotz7820 That and his pronunciation of "Chech-NEE-Yens". It's "Chechens", right?
@@whutthufug Yep. Chechens from Chechnya.
@@wolfgangklotz7820 😂 I mean at least he hasn’t used the word “irregardless”, that takes me from eye twitch to full blown seizure.
Love the way you work subtle and not so subtle humor into these interesting and informative videos. Keep up the good work Cappy and may your spare parts supply never run dry!
Don’t forget that every adult of age in Russia has already completed (on almost all cases) their minimum COMPULSORY military service. Recruiting out of prisons is just re-recruiting
This is untrue. Though Russia conscripts, and every male age 18 to 27 is eligible barring those who are granted exemption such as medically unfit, the number actually inducted is much smaller than the available pool. About 1.2 million men are eligible to be drafted each year, but only about 250,000 to 300,000 actually end up serving. There are two call ups annually, spring and autumn. The spring 2021 call up had 134,650 inducted. Autumn 2021 saw 127,500 inductees. Spring 2022 had 134,500 Russians sent to the ranks of the armed forces. After their mandatory period is finished they are offered the opportunity to become contract personnel
I don't believe even the Soviet Union had universal compulsory military service. Russia certainly does not.
Not really, most people who are eligible don't end up serving
Always interesting.
Surprised Russia hasn't brought out the T34-85 yet
czcams.com/video/yL5juYdu3wE/video.html&ab_channel=MILITARYTUBETODAY
Its not bad until the T34-76s are deployed.
After T-62s, the T-55/54s come out then the T-34s
Everyone gansta till the Russians pull up in their BTs
Wait until tsar tanks start rolling in Ukraine
This was a very well researched and delivered video. Provided a lot of insights that I haven't seen in most channels on this particular subject of the Ukraine war.
History Legends does it better cos there is a bit of bias in this channel
@@Xelogenic timestamp?
@@Xelogenic it is literally impossible to not have a bit of bias. no matter how hard you try.
That prison recruitment video was like the start of an action film.
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A Dell sponsorship is insane. Congrats man.
So much goes into each video you make, keep up the good work!
Good job bro!!
As always great video
Wow you guys did a great job laying that out in a way that common person can understand thank you very much and please keep up the good work...you guys are more information and direct to the point then most news outlets I have a feeling your channel will grow fast 👍👍👍
That Chechnya leader said that Finnish army are weak. I'm a finn and I say: You're welcome to try. 82% are ready to defend.
You will have help now from NATO if they try. We are glad to have Finland and Sweden in the alliance. Greetings from Seattle, Washington USA 🇫🇮/🇸🇪/🇺🇸
82% of who? Coke-sniffing feminists and Somalians?? 😂
You wouldn't find Kadyrov daring to test that in person....
he is just a goofy talking head, he alredy proved that his tik tok fighters are just a joke
If I remember my history, a vast amount of Russians liked Finland so much they stayed (under Finland) last time they picked a fight.
There's an old saying in Mandarin: "China has no allies, only vassals." It's called "The Middle Kingdom" for a reason.
The one time I bought a MIL-STD 810 notebook (ASUS) it started causing problems a mere 2 years in, starting with loud fan noises that didn't go away after flushing the air intake with pressurised air several times and after a few months, max. another year, it stopped working altogether, i.e. no reaction when pressing the power button.
Lesson: a rugged casing can still house a crappy notebook.
Meanwhile the supposedly mediocre Acer I replaced with this rugged military-grade wonder is still working without a hitch after 6 years, and after having to have a broken display replaced.
I am retired and spend a lot of my time watching YT videos and Chris, yours have become my favorite. They are informative, interesting and never drag. Keep up the good work!
Haha
you're the perfect vessel for propaganda lol
You know how the number of young, fertile Soviet men that died during ww2 still affects their population curve majorly and is one of the biggest reasons why Russia's economy stalled?
This war might not be as extreme but since Russians today are older, more free to leave the country and informed about hardships coupled with already low birth rates, they're not recovering a healthy demography in this century without mass migration.
There was also a 90's demographics crisis when after the fall of soviet union due to uncertanty in the future there were born much less people than usual. And right now those low numbers of people that were born in those times (20-30 years old basically) are getting trown into the meat grinder. Russia is soooooo screwed.
Instead of trying to fix the demographic problem putin just decides to send more men to die
You should have waited a day with this video. (Putins announcment about partial mobilizing)
Del?! Goin' up in the world Cappy!
Wow! This presentation is packed full of incredibly important information! Well done! 💜
I don't know where he got such a figure about the loss of 40 thousand soldiers. Officially, Ukraine lost 10-12 thousand dead. So as a source of information it is unreliable. And his experience of serving in the US Army does not make him an analyst in this field.
and in general, his pro-russian position is very disturbing, it is he who praises the actions of russia and shames everything that Ukraine opposes
@@vovchikdesu1552 huh? Shames everything that Ukraine opposes… so he praises and shames Russia?
Cappy consistently repeats western media talking points and information. So he is absolutely NOT pro Russia.
He tries to tell reality though. It’s just hard for partisan citizens to appreciate anything their ‘assigned’ enemy does. That’s you
@@LibertyGoose Guy who watches Steven Crowder and Tim Pool accuses someone else of being brainwashed
@@LibertyGoose "Cappy constantly repeats the Western media" "He tries to tell about reality" these sentences oppose each other. "appreciate everything that their "designated" enemy does" sorry, but Ukraine does not suffer from Stockholm syndrome. To bury the truth, you need to see the truth from the original source, if so, why isn't it on the boundary of separation, and doesn't show how you say "the truth"? but he just switches channels at home on the couch and notes something down for the next video of the same type. It's you
An amazing analysis that boils down a very complicated geopolitical situation so that an average civilian can almost comprehend. Thank you for the work your teams put into these presentations.
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Great job!
I can totally imagine north Korea
Joining the war, sending over troops, and then all those troops defecting the second they cross the ukraine border and are safely far away from north Korea lol.
North Korea is not sending soldiers.
Those North Koreans would get a rude awakening to modern war. Have they even fought since the korean war?
North Korea has already sent thousands of workers in countries like Poland, Russia or Kazakhstan who are doing mainly construction work. To be eligible for such a Job, which can earn you a little bit more than the average at home, you need to be married with a kid.
If you run away, they will kill your family -> So no-one runs away. I would assume that they would do something similar with their 100.000 soldiers.
They’ll sign up in droves once they learn Ukraine has lots of wheat and corn, but they’ll just run for the nearest grain silo instead of fighting. 😆
@The Unforgiven bro s NK SOF said they didn’t have GPS and didn’t have enough food
Those prisoners are most likely cannon fodder meant to exhaust the Ukrainian army but they’re gonna be a liability due to Russia’s supply issues. A additional 100K troops might sound like a huge boost but remember that you have to feed them. Like the Chechens in Ukraine, shooting at traffic lights do nothing but waste ammo.
Supply might not be as much as an issue with the amt Urkaine has pushed russia back though except for kherson because supply route got cut by ukraine’s attack in kharkiv
@@s2wuolf508 yeah but the objective of the russian army isnt to just hold the little territory that they have left but to take all of ukraine, that requires logistics that they simply don't have
@@carso1500 at this point it’ll be a success if they can even hold kherson with how corrupted the Army is
there's also the issue of them being convicted criminals
I'll throw in. - How about Supply problems with now added Discipline, and morale issues? Convicted rapist, fighting under Russian banner who was just released from Max Sec Penal Colony, given about 3 magazines and maybe grenade or two. Then without any real fire or medical support sent towards the enemy's general direction. Someone might ask "What could go wrong?" Putin's Ministry reply? "I don't see a problem there!"
Russia has alot of old tanks and parts in storage. Their relatively simple design makes them fast to repair.
Old tanks are useful for supporting infantry. It is why both sides use T-55's.
GLORY TO UKRAINE!
Love the content, always informative and refreshing takes, never shying away from inconvenient truths. Would you be able to link some of your sources in the description? Only if it's not too much more work ofc
a 21 minute task & purpose video, day just got a ton better
The Dell ad is just in time for a Christmas present from me to me.
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I don’t think North Korea wants to send their soldiers outside their borders.
One, because there’s a decent chance that many of them will just escape to freedom. Plus having thousands of soldiers not return home, either because they defected or died, would be kinda hard even for them to fully hide.
Two, because the last time the world got to examine their soldiers was when a border guard, who should have been the best of the best, tried to cross the Demilitarized Zone. He died, but managed to drag himself to the South Korean side before expiring. During the autopsy, they found that he was horribly malnourished and filled with parasites; likely as a result of eating crops grown in human excrement and not properly cleaned. This one guy provided a massive amount of intel and told a tale of a country stuck in the Middle Ages. Imagine what thousands of living soldiers could tell of their incapabilities.
Yeah, that’s just a rumor… they’d surrender as soon as they reach Ukrainian soil.
Millions of North Korea are working in Foreign countries. They will send ones least likely to escape , the one who has families that can be punished if they desert
@@sorryi6685 Yeah, but isn't the rumor that NK was gonna send 100,000 soldiers? If a single dead guard can reveal so much, what would even a handful of soldiers from presumably a variety of sectors be able to tell? It'd be a huge risk.
Best T&P to date! Keep up the good work.
Damn this channel is doing well, very glad for you 👍
Pretty sure training during Vietnam was 6 weeks. We've had our own sordid history in making recruitment numbers
The 3rd Corps suffered heavy losses during the Ukrainian attack on Izyum. It was the 4th Guards Tank Division, a major part of 3rd Corps, that got trashed at Izyum, left their equipment and ran. All those tanks, including at least 1 T-90M, were destroyed or captured by Ukraine. The current status of the remainder of 3rd Corps is unknown.
The 4th guard tank division belongs to the 1st Guards Tank army and is a very established unit, not a new one. They have been in the fighting since the start, first around Kharkiv then at Izym. The embartrassment here is that this is a supposed elite formation that had to cut and run.
according to whom?
@@TeamJY Have you checked the internet recently? Ukraine has scored over 130 tanks, a couple hundred BMPs and BTRs, artillery systems, TORs, etc. Do a little research.
@@mangalores-x_x You're correct but the 4th is not at Izyum for months.
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How long does is take to train a good NCO or junior officer? Answer: Several years.
Junior officers and NCOs are the guys that make a military work. They have the training, skills, and authority to hold small units together on the battlefield. They have the technical combat skills to know what to do when their unit comes under fire or encounters unexpected opposition.
Junior officers and NCOs are often the most vulnerable to casualties in combat operations. And they are the hardest to replace. Training one takes years. Not weeks or months.
It also takes other experienced NCOs to teach them. Which Russia didn't really have at the start of the war either.
Right you are, and historically though, Russian armies do not rely on a well-trained cadre of NCO's, (the kind every other army in the world finds indispensable). They have a whole lot of officers instead, with "senior soldiers" just soldiers who have been in longer, to carry a lot of what NCO's would do in other armies. To the question of Does this system even work, I think the results are only too apparent in Ukraine right now.
Bravo!
This is a great channel. It just keeps getting better.
your vids are always fantastic to watch and give excellent insight into the current conflict in Ukraine keep it up Cappy!!
Lol
China might be looking at Siberia and thinking, "It would sure be sad if someone were to... take that from you."
Excellent.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned much outside of Perun's brilliant military analysis channel (shout out to Perun everyone should check out his channel)- the reason for Russia's manpower struggles is entirely endemic to how they run their military. Their higher quality contracted, volunteer troops maintain a low-strength peacetime force. Upon declaration of war, the conscripts are called in to fill in the ranks of less specialized rolls like infantry grunts. The volunteer troops get the conscripts up to speed and get them kicking doors and banging heads.
Russia HAS NOT declared war and CANNOT legally call upon conscripts to fill these basic rolls. Because of that, Russia has relied on sending column after column of essentially unsupported armored vehicles to the slaughter. They're exhausting their training staff, drivers, commanders, gunners, pilots, spotters, sappers, elite infantry units, etc because there is nobody else to fill in the lines. That's why Russia is relying on Wagner, Chechnya, DPR and LPR conscripts, prisoner volunteers, and so forth to make up for the lack of actual conscripted Russians. But getting all of their highly trained specialists killed is going to completely kneecap their lethality for years to come. That's not to mention the volume of now-irreplacable technological pieces being destroyed or smart ordinance stockpiles being exhausted.
Russia could still theoretically declare war, train up a few conscript waves, and completely saturate Ukraine with guys with AK-74s. A second invasion might have to be done with BTR-60s, T-62s, and steel helmets Afghanistan style, but they could still bring a huge force to bear. Very unlikely since Russia has been activating their training battalions for active duty, but it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility.
Ukraine isn't messing around though and has been taking thorough notes from western military doctrines.
I'm not sure what a wave invasion will do vs modern NATO weaponry. T-62s have their uses but can they really stand up vs a handful of modern tanks?
@@mormacil that isn't the issue. Sure, the T-62s would probably get smoked in tank combat, but the Ukrainians would no longer have the luxury of engaging unsupported armored vehicles. The Russians wouldn't even have to give them the opportunity. They'd actually be able to use tanks as stand off fire support while the infantry gets to work instead of parking tanks in the middle of ambush zones like the Syrians.
That's the #1 reason why Ukraine has been able hold the lines and reverse course so well- there just isn't enough Russian infantry in the fight. Russian units have seemingly been fighting somewhere between 0 and 50% strength when it comes to dismount infantry. Think of all the videos we've seen, countless IFVs and APCs everywhere, but none of them ever actually have infantry squads in them.
@@mormacil and I don't mean a literal wave of people and tanks like it's the Fulda Gap in 1970. I'm just referring to actually utilizing infantry per their own doctrine. Ukraine still fights with similar offensive doctrine and is proving it effective when done properly.
@@jurassicturtle3666 They also get smoked outside of tank combat. Sure the unsupported Russian tanks would stop showing up but Ukraine has also moved on from the first weeks of the war with just piles of manpads.
@@mormacil it's a lot harder to ambush tanks and get shots off with anti tank weapons when there's an actual screening force, which is my point.
It's not like the Taliban and Iraqis didn't have plenty of RPGs. The US just didn't send columns of Abrams and Bradleys into city centers to be ambushed
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This was a lot to encapsulate in one short vídeo. After hearing some comments from Marc Polymeropoulos in a Team House interview, I'm inclined to believe this was well sourced. That said, wow it's a lot. Any chance at a follow up with source captions?
lol'd at that Egevni Prognozev
This was a great video! Thank you for digging deep.
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Excellent reporting! I find this channel to be one of the top CZcams channels on analysis of the current war of Russias invasion of Ukraine. Well done👍🇺🇸🇺🇦
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