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You're working on the albigensian crusades? I know that the cathars were a much bigger deal at the time but It would really be appreciated if you touched on the Waldenses who were killed at the same time. As a protestant I find them fascinating especially since they survived (albeit much reduced) to the present day. I've heard that some of them traced their movement to Claudius of Turin in the 800s although it's more commonly believed that Peter Waldo began the movement with his bible translation contemporary with the cathars.
Its very bad when your country is absolutely nothing, just a mountain of free meat. In the end, such a toy will break or they will simply lose interest in it.
The problem at least in the us isn’t interest. It’s the fact that Trumps political faction have turned it into a political football against the rest of the government as they seem to be more and more pro Putin
What are you talking about? Only the imbeciles from Murica lost interest. Here in Europe we are talking about possible NATO troops in Ukraine, which we weren't talking a year ago... If anything European interest is increasing! Don't forget the Czech Republic's initiative for the 800K artillery shells, which we didn't have a year ago also. Slowly Europe is waking up, with the exception of Germany ofcourse... They will wake up soon, though.
Well it's not about losing interest It's about losing business War is a very good business The longer it lasts more profit u get So all this country trying to help Ukraine for freedom and independence and democracy . and u people really think that's the case. U are clearly brainwashed.
Because the separatist had observed the area and informed the Russians about their secret escape roots like the big tunnel. Which a spetnaz group used to sneak in. Plus the Ukrainian soldiers 5hat defended it were demoralised from the failed counter offensive. So many surrendered instead of fighting.
@@shayaldwarka7907dpr forces discovered the pipe shortly before using it themselves. Spetnaz weren’t involved in the pipe attack that was all dpr. I think the Ukrainians were more demoralised by the fact they were getting 20-30 fabs dropped on them daily than the counteroffensive. The large majority of Ukrainians that surrendered were immobilised (apparently quite a few were executed), those who could ran away even before the retreat order was given and many of those soldiers died from drones and artillery deployed mines
Considering that Russia was not integrated into NATO war machine... Of course Russian military complex has to produce everything itself, from shovels to guided missiles.
@@yamatohime2035 No shit. She has allies but at the end of the day she still has resources to produce the weapons her self. I have no idea why Nato thinks sanctioning countries still works. Especially Russia they clearly don't care.
It's more about optics for NATO members to remind them of it's authority to internal stakeholders, so it knows most of what it's doing is only for show but needs to keep doing so as to not lose it's ability to bring together the united power of it's members. Another key reason is the simple fact the NATO does not want to be the ones blamed for WW3, if it was not clear for one nation to block trade of another nation against it's will is very much an act of war. So for NATO to block for instance North Korea from supplying weapons or from China from it's own support would be deemed an act of war and this would be used as grounds by the dictators of the three nation as grounds for a global conflict. SO I know it can be frustrating when the solution to blocking Russia's trade seems simple, but the reality is far from simple and it will take much more hardship and a more clear global threat before any group like NATO is willing to act directly against this current Axis of aggression. @@mrbeep8096
@@mrbeep8096 because Nato after the collapse of USSR never dealt directly with an other equal super power, this tactic worked on Iraq and Syria and many other less poorer countries who do need access to international market. its about time some one who is equally powerful stepped in.
You didn’t mention the amount of shovels and washing machine used by Russians.. and number of Siberian bears were sacrificed to launch bear wave attacks .😮
Bro that HistoryLegends joke is 2 years old now. Prigozjin wants his joke back. Yes, he did in fact push the shovel meme. Just look at him using the meme when standing with two russian soldiers. If I recall correctly he calls one of them "bieber". He himself made fun of the Russian army's equipment
You remember when the West said Russia was going to lose the war in a matter of months because of all the old equipment they had for war and how they were loosing too many soldiers.😂...there's videos of americans fighting for the russians
@@ninja.saywhatRed Alert 3 is probably why us millennials used to think Russia was formidable. Tesla Coils + Mammoth Tanks FTW! Now, after the failed invasion of Kiev, we’ve seen them in action, and Putin has inadvertently revealed his army to be a paper tiger to NATO. But also that he doesn’t care how many Russians die to get what he wants.
Arguably, Putin is in the best position he's been in in a long time. He crushed the Wagner Uprising, and subsequently eliminated both Yevgeny Prigozhin and Wagner's influence. And now with his most outspoken critic Alexei Navalny dead, the last major symbol of opposition has pretty much crumbled. And with Russia cut off from much of the global economy due to the sanctions, Putin was able to capitalize on that and expand the state's influence over the economy. I said before that Putin's real war of attrition wasn't with Ukraine, but the West. He was banking on the alliance breaking apart through his opponents losing political power, and it seems to be working. Arguably, the biggest winner in the Israel/Hamas Conflict is Russia. And with the USA's political infighting, it doesn't even matter to Putin if Trump loses the election, as long as the results keep Congress in gridlock. And while Ukraine's ammo stockpile continues to dwindle, Russia is able to both keep pumping out ammo in the factories, as well as getting new shipments from other powers like North Korea. At this rate, all Putin has to do is just keep up the slow march of attrition, and he likely will be able to claim victory.
Could you go into more detail? I think the commenter's thought that Putin's position is more solid than it has been since the start of the war is accurate. As for the war of attrition, I wish I had a better idea of materiel production from both sides. Absolutely fascinating how modern war (excluding the US' barbaric invasions of Middle Eastern states) has become highly dependent on drones and anti-aircraft capabilities. I wonder what is going to be the next great military technology borne out of this war.
Correct. The West ( especially the U.S ) are only interested in quick easy victories. Once it’s clear that not the case they quickly loose interest. Their populations are tired of war after all the pointless conflicts their “leaders” have dragged them into the last few decades.
@@jooseppielleese7156 like the fact that 80% of the Russian National Wealth Fund has been spent over the last 2 years. Or that most Soviet tank/ifv/artillery storages have been ransacked and there is a limit to how many tanks/ifvs/cannons they can field. Russia has the initiative, but this is hardly over.
Regarding the "decision on the new mobilization is not made yet" This is not very correct statement because mobilization in Ukraine continues on daily basis and never stopped. It is not as efficient as we expected but it is in progress. The new "decision/law" is NOT about the additional mobilization. It is about the increasing efficiency of current daily mobilization via increasing the punishment for draft-dodgers and via promotion of the recruiting and via reducing the minimum age for mobilization. From what I heard Zelenskyi also decided to make an "audit" of the already mobilized stuff since many of them are in the rare and have never been to the front-lines (due to corruption, bribes, influential relatives or other factors such as alcoholism or zero physical form).
Zelensky is afraid to announce an official mobilization because then his ratings will drop. But in fact, there are no men left in the small country villages - they have all been taken away.
@@drunknklr3071According to Ukrainian law the minimal age for forced mobilization is 25. So those who are below 25 are only accepted as volunteers. Moreover, students do not have to fight according to the same law. In Ukraine you are a student from 16 to 23 years in general. That is one of the main reason of the average age mid-40. The other reason is the population pyramid of Ukraine. The number of people aged 40-60 is MUCH bugger than the number of people aged 20-40 (1990s was a very hard time in Ukraine due to hard transition from communism to capitalism - the fertility level seriously declined).
@@Anton_Danylchenkoeven in the capitalist west birthrates are dog shit. Just to point that out. Communism and capitalism kinda both have that in common.
I have a quick question for you guys at Kings and Generals; The list of unit losses for both Ukraine and Russia shows 290 drones and 350 drone losses respectively. But when it comes to a loss of a 'suicide drone' like the shahed types, Are you counting it as a loss if the Shahed has been shot down or destroyed on the ground before launching it? Or are we counting the drones that successfully hit their targets as losses? Technically the drone has been lost, but it did its job successfully. Afterall the Shahed's are designed to be destroyed.
@@gunterthekaiser6190 True, but ALL missiles are designed to strike targets. I was trying to make the distinction between drones that were essentially missiles and ones that were reconnaissance assets.
That stat was reported by CNN, if I am not mistaken. Thing is Russian number is for all calibers and the western number is for 155mm only. Still not pretty, but this context matters.
@@KingsandGenerals We've scaled down production of almost everything military related here in the US. All of that money reportedly going to defense most certainly isn't. The criminals in the government are pocketing the money for themselves. Over half of our Congress are millionaires. We're being robbed blind, but everyone is too worried about whether or not someone has a "R" or "D" in front of their names.
@@rodafowa1279Congress isn't directly siphoning money from the defense budget you would see them to be billionaires by now how congressman and woman makes their money is mostly through stock options as they get insider knowledge
@@rodafowa1279The reason is we have a lot of waste in our system with generally the US investing more into Air Force than Russia investing into artillery it's very simple Russia's has maintained their production for artillery rounds and US has gone for air superiority it's all the way back into the Cold war. in maintaining a modern Air Force like the US takes a lot of money if you notice that we are again upgrading the f-15 to EX because it's a lot of money to maintain modern stealthcraft operationally
@@rodafowa1279You're just saying they're corrupt you providing no receipts no actual argument definitely there's corruption in the US system but the f****** hell everyone just yells corruption!!!!!!!! that's it nothing else
No amount of equipment would have saved Avdiivka. Tactical mismanagement on the Ukranian side caused the collapse. Multiple units have been noted to have been fighting for months (some since the start of the war) without being cycled for freash troops. The point is, the Ukranian lines shattered because the regiments there were just left there by their commanders to be eradicated by the Russians. Also, it's poignant to note that Avdiivka is the battle in which the Russian army finally figured out how combined arms warfare works. Before it seemed that the Russians had no idea how Close Air Support works.
correct. The extended use of russian FAB bombs with the new gliding kit hammered down the ukrainian lines. These bombs can glide over 60-70km and the jets are out of reach from UA air defence.
Nah it's very clear that ever since the west lost interest in the war, ukraine stopped having any momentum. Before, ukraine was gaining ground.. Slowly, but they had victories. Now it's the other way around. I suspect the war to end in a complete russian victory as soon as trump is elected.
@@akhsdenlew1861 "Before, ukraine was gaining ground.. Slowly, but they had victories." Not gonna deny that in 2022 Ukraine made serious ground and the Russians were forced to retreat. However, while in 2023 they did gain ground they were minor and the Ukrainians wasted too much of their potential at that time. And if you actually look at the gains in 2023, at the actual land and the tactical significance of it compared to the general state of the war effort on both sides, at least in my opinion the Ukrainian offensive was disastrous for Ukraine. The only goal Ukraine achieved in 2023 was in PR and that was only true in the first part of the year. After that its all downhill. And the downhill part was so predictable because Ukraines offensive at least to me seemed like a guy who really pumped himself up, told all his friends how he was gonna fuck this guy up, made a trailer about how this guy who previously ran away was gonna get his ass handed to him, swallowed his own koolaid then ran straight into a brick fucking wall without a helmet. And well now hes brain damaged, lost a lot of his competency and decided it might be time to start building up a wall. Then when all his friends saw the state of the guy they kinda went...well you know...maybe we should rethink this.
@@Butmunch666 ok first you need to understand 1 thing. That even if west is giving ammunition and equipment, it is STILL a war between Ukraine and Russia. The fact that this war is still going and russia hasn't won already, is enough of an upset. EVERYONE around the globe were 100% of a quick russian victory. NOONE would believe that this war would end up in a 2year+ struggle. The ONLY reason that ukraine was, is and will be for a little bit longer in the game is becouse of the western support. Without the western support ukraine will just be part of russia. As i said... the west has already gained what they wanted to gain from this war. it is very clear that the west has no more interest in ukraine. Trump's election will be the final nail in the coffin. THE ONLY reason ukraine was making progress in 2022 and 2023 was becouse of some limited western equipment... 16 HIMARS vehicles did more damage to russia than russia's last 3 wars.
He openly supports Ukraine. As many many countries do. But that doesn’t mean the information is wrong in any way. This is the most reliable channel for in depth view of the battlefield. Accuracy here is leagues ahead of what you get from the Russian. Even ukranians which tend to be less delusional in reporting the battlefield. But still exaggerate. Another good channel is Perun. He also supports Ukraine. But is extremely unbiased in his reporting.
@@gundissalinus not according to UN General Assembly. The vote overwhelmingly condemned the invasion of Ukraine with 141 votes in favor. 35 abstained (including “best of friends” China, Iran, South Africa). And 5 against. Russia, North Korea, Eritrea, Syria and Belorussia. Now what do these countries have in common? lol
@@gundissalinus I live in the said “west” I haven’t met a single person, not one, who is openly on Russias side. Everybody knows Russia is a shithole, dictatorship, heavy censorship. Proof? Russians flee to the “west” nobody goes to Russia.
The night is darkest before the dawn, it could very well be that this turn of events will push NATO towards bigger involvement from fear of Russia gaining further legitimacy from it's allied nations and how this unity among dictators would spell the end to global peace as we know it. Currently a possibly outcome would be for Putin to be assassinated by a local Russian leader as part of a internal political upheaval (of course it would be likely with support of foreign nations looking to end the conflict without a direct engagement). The litmus test for this outcome would boil down to Russian public opinion, the west lives in hope that Russia is wanting to be free of Putin but the reverse could be proven to be true should Putin be taken out of the picture and it be shown the the average Russian is as fanatical as the media portrays them to be (uniting behind an even worse dictator and pushing towards WW3). A key reason the average Russian dislikes the west is around the global energy revolution, Russia is still very much a traditional energy producer and faces economic destruction should it not be able to remain viable in a renewable's led energy future (it's massive troll campaign is very much also directed at attaching renewable's at any given chance). In fact the invasion of Ukraine was very much to buy time (along with other reasons) for it's energy sector to buy time while the world moves away from it's products. Ukraine's electric grid and it's nuclear/renewable growth meant it could undercut the nord pipelines or any attempt at Russian electric offerings to Europe (the massive amount of land between would make Russia's product more expensive then any offering by Ukraine). So it was no surprise when Russia invaded and systematically destroyed the energy infrastructure whenever it had the chance.
Tusk is a prime minister, not a president, that's one thing. The other one is that there is little to none pro-russian activists in Poland. The protests are about the grain import (and also the new EU agricultural regulations, which are protested against in whole Europe, not only Poland), and polish transport companies being pushed out by cheaper, non-regulated ukrainian counterparts. Both of which damage polish economy in a substantial way. There is nothing in this matter that can be called "pro-russian". As a Pole I can assure you, we wouldn't do anything that can be called "pro-russian".
Rafal Mekler, leader of the Confederation Party, is pro Russian and is a leading figure in the protests, despite not being a farmer. Also, why arent the protesters objecting to Russian grain? 12 million tonnes of Russian grain are imported each year into the EU compared to 4.3 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain.
@@mango2005 He is only a minor leader (of a minor party) in the voivodeship bordering Ukraine, imo he tries to make his own local politics on that matter. But yeah I agree, and as I said in my first comment, there are some black sheep in every society, nevertheless, in Poland there is far less of the pro-russian ones compared to some other EU countries. And about the russian grain import: the difference is that we did import russian grain before the war, and we still unfortunately do (though there is a plan to stop this). We also did import some of the ukrainian grain, but now as the war is ongoing, Poland became a literall dumpster for ukrainian farmers to sell their produce easily, without transporting it very far. That is the issue: the massive influx in import of low-grade, cheap ukrainian grain, that replaces the polish one.
Not only Poland; the Agricultural sectors of other European countries (including France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Bulgaria and Romania) also feel the unfair competition with the much cheaper grain imports from Ukraine.
You're saying this despite slogans like "Putin please come and clean up this mess!" used by protestors? And atleast one person being charged with prison because of it?
Plenty. Some of them since 19th century: 1. Napoleonic Peninsular war (7 years, winner: Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese coalition) 2. Second Boer War + follow up operations (4 years, winner: British Empire) 3. Mahdist war (8 years, winner: British Empire & Egypt) 4. First Italo-Ethiopian war (2 years, winner: Ethiopia) 5. WW1 Western Front (4 years, winner: Entente) 6. Second Sino-Japanese war (8 years, winner: China) 7. WW2 Eastern Front (4 years, winner: USSR) 8. US intervention in Vietnam (~6 years, winner: North Vietnam) 9. USSR intervention in Afghanistan (10 years, winner: Taliban) 10. US War in Afghanistan (20 years, winner: Taliban) 11. ISIS invasion of Iraq and Kurdistan (4 years, winner: Iraq & Kurdistan) 12. Saudi intervention in Yemeni civil war (9 years, ongoing) 13. 2022 Russo-Ukrainian war (2 years, ongoing)
There's no such thing as "Western propaganda", cope. Propaganda implies governmental control over the media which is non-existent in the freedom of media democracies. Western media just reports naked truth as it is with either left-wing or right-wing bias. While kremlin has an all-out war propaganda machine full of lies and post-modern "you'll never know the truth" paradigm, typical for the dictatorships. Get the facts right
How do the Russian have a 7 to 1 manpower advantage ? If it was material advantage like 7 to 1 artillery ok i guess. But manpower ? In the begging of the war Ukraine had the manpower advantage. Last year about equal. Now the Russians have 7 to 1. How does that make any sense ? 7:18
Because people like to compare all of Russia vs all of Ukraine. When in reality, it's around equal. If Russia went full YOLO then yes. But people are really bad at analyzing stuff. No one on youtube is an expert. And the "experts" are incredibly biased. Russia needs these pitched battles because they can't push against the whole line. They have to concentrate around a single battle.
@@nicholasgutierrez9940 well of course, but that is a local superiority. If both sides are equal it means that if 1 side concentrates force in one area, the other side can do the same or concentrate it's forces and push in another. But if the numbers discrepancy is 7 to 1 over all, the battlefield would look like the Ukraine 2022 offensive. they would just rush B.
Maybe it could reach 7 to 1 theoretically in certain places where the manpower was concentrated but it it’s unrealistic if we mean total numbers probably like 500K Russians in the war zone vs. 700-800K Ukrainians.
@@randomaccount0023except its a fact unlike you bots who are just here to inject a narrative. Tell your overlord to not scare the west with nukes then west vs russia will become true.. russia will get to see what west really has. You only see surplus of weaponry in ukrain..
"the world is really throwing everything at russia" huh pardon??? the USA and the rest of NATO have barely sent anything to ukraine, when NATO start's sending thousands of abrams, leopards and F-35's ill start thinking they're throwing everything at them
Half of every video is about arms deliveries to Ukraine, I wonder how come Russia can outproduce all these tens of billions of dollars of deliveries and sustain war for so long?
because all of this are mainly promises until 2027, what ukraine gets this year might be like a 25%, probably less of all of that so basically thats why. That in the grand picture is very little. than what a big country like russia can produce or buy. since these same countries keep buying russian gas , oil, grain...
Well russia do receive a ridiculous amount of shells from north korea and another factor is they are not outproducing the rate of losses they are pulling out a bunch of equipment the soviet already make. The west isnt as committed to that degree as russia is.
For one, Ukraine has only received a small portion of pledged equipment. For another, countries are not giving all they can produce to Ukraine. They are giving what they fee they can spare
Hold up - 7-1 advantage in favor of russia? Pentagon estimates claim Russia doesnt suffer dobule the losses of Ukraine, which means that Ukraine is gonna lose because there too many Troops for russia!
7-1 advantage in Avdiivka. Because not enough ammunition. Which forced Ukrainians to fight in a more dispersed formation and allowed the Russians to build up forces without worrying about the artillery barrages.
Would it not be quite interessting to compare different sources of the losses from both sides? I think russia would have more accurate numbers related to ukraine and ukraine would have more accurate numbers related to russia. What do you think?@@KingsandGenerals I think the numbers of losses from ukraine from western sources are underestimated. Same story for russia
@@babymonkey882 yes they should show Ukrainian estimates of Russian casualties and Russian estimates of Ukrainian Casualties! That way its a fair game! Cause any western based 3stimations are ukraine biased and Russian ones are always in favour pf Russia!
@@scottkrater2131 they are called proxy wars, but this one is modern and Russia and US are actually fighting each other be it directly or not so directly, unlike Syria
@@someguy4512 That's opinion, Russia didn't invade Ukraine to fight the US. And the Ukrainians resisting Russian aggression is not being a proxy of the US. Might as well say the Allies fighting Germany were just proxies of the US to fight the Germans before December 7th.
@@scottkrater2131 research what a proxy war is before commenting. the vietnamese where fighting U.S soldiers and it was a proxy war, Syrian and or Libyan civil war was a proxy war. have you forgotten Donetsk and Luhansk?
To all you guys about Polish farmers protest!!! Its not thats Ukraine food is just more competitive. Its all about UE regulations hardly hindering the production. Polish farmer can not rival with Ukrainian as they can use like anything making thing way more cheaper but with not known quality. So already costs of production are higher than sell price as the cheap food is still coming with mostly no regulations
This is a complete delusion, in all countries in which grain is imported there are mandatory checks that the grain must pass. If they did not pass any inspection, then it would not be imported. The reason for the cheapness of grain is that the prices on the international grain exchange are lower than usual, and Russia is to blame for this, which stole Ukrainian grain and sells it at reduced prices.
In this case I would suspect it's a bit more convoluted then a case of farmers being undercut by foreign growers (yes this may the the end conclusion but to get here there is an elephant in the room needing to be discussed). That elephant in the room just happens to be international big business, with it's combined power to influence regulation (leveraging things like quality of crop to it's advantage) the end result is the farmers who are forced to work under these rules lose the ability to self produce things like seeds or the ability to self manage fertilisation and pest control over their fields. As time marches on the companies extend their influence over farmland via intellectual property and in many ways can be seen as joint owners in every farm that uses their products despite being paid by the farmers for the product and the business not actually buying the farmland itself (if it does it is with the money paid to it by the farmers in the first place). There is much debate about how this process of corporate control will take shape in the next stages of it's push to control global food production. One outlook could see mega farms appear and the average farmer pushed out of business (forced to sit on fertile soil and unable to produce commercial offerings due to the seeds and everything else needed being owned by the big companies and the regulations making any attempt at growing food illegal). The other option would see farmers taking on debt to the companies they get their products from and this debt being leveraged as growing ownership over their farmland until they are run out of business, from here automation would pick up and the farmlands would be run into the ground with only a few major centralised farmlands remaining in each nation (again the big finish would be the mega farms but in this case there would be a few more steps involved). The European Union like much of the rest of the world needs to contend with the growing power of a few to control the means of food production on a global setting before the world itself if brought to it's knees in a way not yet seen before (Russia would likely be laughing the entire way as it needs global anarchy for it to continue it's goal of toppling the world order in its favour)
The sheer scope of logistics needed for all kinds of equipment from all over the western world... that must be some Extreme Starcraft Micromanagement :D
“Haha this war is like StarCraft” while hundreds of thousands of human beings are dead in the mud what the fuck is wrong with you what a place for a happy emoji
Nice joke (a bad one tho) but it is not so much as Moves per second as it is about managing momentum (of both sides) in accordance to the supply situation.
7-1 advantage in Avdiivka. Because not enough ammunition. Which forced Ukrainians to fight in a more dispersed formation and allowed the Russians to build up forces without worrying about the artillery barrages.
@@LEFT4BASS Entire front is around 1 to 1 in manpower. However, Russia artillery has significant advantage in numbers across, which allows Russia to concentrate forces by stripping other fronts.
All this is based on speculation. Ukraine says something they believe them instantly because of heavy bias. EU and US frogs. I don't believe none of them and I am from Russia. Their numbers always screwed in their favor either to claim an advantage or a victim status (women right, gay rights, LGBT you know, used to it).
Yes and no, at the airbase south of advivka there was a panic. Majority of high rank officers abandoned the airbase and leaving a few hundred to fight on there own. But In the city they had a better chance of a tactical withdraw
"Estimating the start at such an early stage, even before the end of the operation, is very difficult and carries the risk of quite large errors. After the above warning and coming to the point: The minimum personnel losses of the RUS can be estimated from October 2023 in the battle for Avdiivka at: 15-18 thousand dead 38-45 thousand injured total loss of people: 53 - 63 thousand I emphasize that these are estimated and minimum values. Realistically, they may be higher, but in my opinion, writing about 50,000 deaths and 100,000 deaths. this is wishful thinking with no support from anything other than AU propaganda. Ukrainian losses are estimated by pro-Russian sources at 5,000-7,000 dead, but in my opinion they are greatly overestimated. Based on my sources, I estimate very uncertainly at up to 3,000-4,000 dead and about 15,000 wounded. But this value will certainly be revised. I estimate the irretrievable personal losses at approximately 5:1 minimum in favor of the Ukrainians. Return personal losses, however, are less favorable and amount to a minimum of 3-4 to 1. Again, I emphasize that these are the first estimates" J.Wolski 19.02.2024
@ns987 Авдіївка is Ukrainian spelling, it also did not change since its settlement in 1778. the Russian spelling however is Авдеевка and because it's now controlled by Russia you can argue that but it still is disputed territory therefore should be named Авдіївка (avdiivka)
Russian assault formations have now entered Berdychi. This new line is unstable and many pro-Ukranian youtubers are claiming this line is a temporary distraction meanwhile an actual line is drawn up down Kupiansk. Who knows?
Depends on your definition of a victory. Will Russia get pushed back to pre-war borders? Most likely not. Will Russia win this war without a massively bleeding nose? I've seen videos from people living in Russia and the economy there is in an even worse spot it had been before. Not to mention civil unrest everywhere but Moscow. I have no doubt that this war will eventually end in a treaty that will see Russia going home wit ha hefty chunk of Ukraine. But whether or not they'll be able to keep things stable in their own borders is another matter entirely. The main thing that keeps Putin in power is money, and a lot of powerful people are very salty about how deep he's starting to dig in their collective purses. Putin is far more replaceable than he makes himself out to be. Time will tell, but I wouldn't be surprised if NATO as a whole comes out of this stronger, while Russia will have a limp and internationsal shame/isolation to deal with for years to come. Whatever the case, none of this was worth the cost in human life...
People said the same thing to me two years ago lol. Take a look at the facts and how war machines run and it was obvious how the war was going to go so far for the most part. Reading about wars past and how the soviets conducted themselves you can point to all the similarities. I don’t think it will be clean but I think Russia may eventually have to back down, as long as goods flow in from the west and grain and other exports flow out, Ukraine will more than likely hold for at least three more years
@@michaelsanchez7848 I actually don't think you're right. I think that the decline from here on out is going to accelerate dramatically. And the bigger problem with that is that the worse things get for Ukraine the worse all of their issues will get as the western partners slowly back out. I'll gladly eat my words if I'm wrong but in my opinion whatever remains of Ukraine will be a shitty rump state that potentially even loses Odessa. But we'll see. If NATO sends troops directly then we're all gonna probably die and this won't have any relevance anyway.
@@Butmunch666 that's the golden question, is support directly proportional to success. I feel in the United States it's more of a case of domestic neglect from our politicians fueling a resistance to give foreign support. average citizens feel their tax money is just being wasted and many are going hungry. roads aren't getting fixed, many cities are just falling apart.
Even though multiple other comments have said it, I feel that my repeating it is of extreme importance: Tusk is Lord Commander of Pole Hand, not the President
In Europe presidents usually are just figureheads, going to meetings with the heads of other states, saying some fancy stuff at new years eve and so on... They have no real power, except in France. The prime minister controls the government. Btw go go Poland.
@@melvinbrotherofthejoker436 for sure... but we're not the only ones... the thing is that WE 50-60 yr old rule the world... you 12 yr olds have to survive OUR RULE and a couple more to get your chance,,, so suck it up just as your Big Brother ''The JOCKER'' DID!
@@horoshkoaleksandr273 Time is on Russia's side. Russia is waiting for Western supply to dry up. Russia has unlimitted supply weapons, money from West and enough meat to lauch the offensive over and over again.
@albertohusay3002 Not true, Russians pre-war, oil funded financial reserves are running dry. The oil and gas they are selling now to Asia is not making as much of a profit. Meanwhile, the price of grain and fertilizers (two of Russia's largest exports after oil and gas) has gone down globally. Russia has stepped up shells and tanks, but not drones or missiles. This reflects what russia can and can not make in large numbers. As a result, russian logistics will likely be more vulnerable. More shell and tanks don't mean much if they don't reach the front line. Time is not on Russia's side. But I assume a Russia bot like yourseld would already now all this.
@@albertohusay3002 the EU has been looking for alternative source of energy, and Ukraine has been attacking Russian oil refineries more and more often. While much of the oil and gas russia sells to india and Pakistan goes to europe, the Russians still see a drop in price, while the EU still pays more, motivating them to find other solutions (india and Pakistan get a good deal though. So that's nice). In short, Russia is making less money off oil and gas then they did pre-war. And their pre-war funds (like sovereign wealth funds) have been depleted to pay for the war. If the war doesn't end in a year or two, Russia's energy wealth will start to dry up.
@@albertohusay3002 The EU has been searching for alternatives sources of fuel and energy. And Ukrain has been attacking Russian oil and gas refineries. Russia is selling more and more of their oil to Pakistan and India at a discounted price. This means Russia earns less, but the EU pays more, with Pakistan and India rising on top. In general, russia is making less profit on oil and gas then pre-war. And their savings from the pre-war market are drying up. Time is not on Russia's side.
they would not be out of tanks because they had over 10,000 in storage. You mix new production and restoration of older tanks together like they have been doing, and they would still be fine. This is what is happening@@Theaverageazn247
@@Theaverageazn247The 300 is specifically newly produced. They're also refurbishing outdated tanks from the rather large Soviet era stockpiles. It's estimated to be roughly breaking even now.
The US has the stockpile but not the political will to use them in this fight. Which honestly feels even worse then just not having them in general. This is the best chance to knock out Russia as a geopolitical rival for the rest of the century, but congress is just sitting in their thumbs because it's an election year so everyone insists on acting more absurd than normal.
@FallingPicturesProductions regardless of what the US decides, it will be shit on by the global community. If we didn't get involved at all, if we put troops on the ground, or if we met in the middle and ramped production. Someone would cry "well the US Should've done this instead". We have a ton of issues ourselves, although the vast majority of Americans favor Ukraine, we can't ignore our own problems either. Its important to not that a lot of US media is incredibly left leaning, like the New York times, so the world only sees 1 perspective. Europe is just as much to blame, they were all incredibly relaxed on defense spending, until Russia scared them into action.
It would leave the pacific front vulnerable as well. US values Taiwan more than Ukraine, not that they care about the Taiwanese people though, they’re just a puppet interest for US influence in the pacific.
If Russia was half as mighty as the world thought it was, Ukraine wouldn’t have survived the first year of the war. I’m not too worried about the west being able to beat Russia.
This is Red Alert 2, but without a military laboratory, planes, air defense, and money in general :( I am already silent about nuclear weapons and strategic bombers, which Ukraine was deprived of.
Every democracy will inevitably turn into a dictatorship just like China, North Korea, Russia and literally every other democracy in this world. So there's not much difference
@eddyr1041 not really a problem Poland is in nato so it doesn't matter if russia is next to them and i mean Belarus is bordering Poland so it basically same sh*t
@ljuma0124 on the other it will increase direct border to rusian by much like more than half... I guess poles feel vulnerable that way considering what happen in both ww and after ww.
@@profinneupane6883 That was proved to be a lie. Russia claimed to hit a training ground that was for some reason only 20km away from the front, you do not put a training ground that close to the front and you don't send one of your most battle hardened units to training they do that everyday in the field, it's nothing but propaganda from a regime known for lying daily. Also it's spelled Iskander.
NATO isn't fighting and ukraine isn't in NATO, are you the product of Russian education? No wonder you country hasn't done anything for the last century.
The problem with "mobilisation" is that it reduce your economic output & your logistical ability. You gain manpower at first, but it does have an heavy cost.
As this war continues, Russia can play the long game as long as it takes. Ukraine on the other hand will have to use everything at their disposal to merely survive. Meanwhile, behind the scenes political machinations are taking place. Just as Putin stated, "The West will lose interested in the war." It would seem his omen is beginning to sound true. Its only a matter of time before one nation is standing.
As Ukrainian I can tell that problem with mobilisition is a real thing. Every country will be having such issues if people understand that partners decided to limit support and without this support you can't survive. Going to the front will mean death as there are will be no ammunition and air support. You will live in the trench and wait for the shell, termobaric or air bomb to fall on you. This doesn't help with morale. When Ukrainians will see that they have ammunition, drones and airsupport required to fight and win the situation with morale will change again. History is watching USA. They are the ones that will decide how this war will go.
Че ты несешь ? Просто никто не хочет становиться калекой или сдыхать за "свободу и демократию" ) Ты вот сам воюешь за Украину ?) или отмазки есть типа здоровье не позволяет или возраст ?)
I've never seen such an obviously biased video before. The people who made this video are clearly against Russia and seem to favor Ukraine, twisting the story to paint Russia in a negative light and support Ukraine, whereas you should have been objective and present the facts as they are.
There is nothing surprising. People like the owner of this channel are only interested in money and don’t care about the truth. Even if the world is drawn into a nuclear war.
If you're asking about specific points in the video I'm thankful for, these are: - the author's position throughout the war - the war is unprovoked, and Russia is the aggressor - maps on which it is indicated that Crimea and other occupied territories are Ukraine, but occupied - the author notes that Ukraine is a democratic country, despite Russian propaganda - other mentions by the author about a lot of Russian propaganda, which is still propaganda, not truth @@MercurialStatic
@@deadlock_problem never claimed that russia is the democracy. it's a very-well running dictatorship, which i don't mind and even support, when comparing to "democracy" in the west, which is not democracy at all. btw have you already transitioned? what's your pronounce?
@@ilyazugumov3763 "well running dictatorship" a country next to europe with 150 million people, a rich history of innovation and lots of land and resources should be running ALOT better. Educated people should not be leaving that country en-mass, the country in question should be contributing to science/technology and culturally a lot more than it is doing. It is not running well. >transitioned? what's your pronounce? ESL
Manufacturing of 60-70 T-90M a month is a lot especially since the Russian Federation is under extreme sanctions. It is way more than what many Nato countries can produce in domestic production.
How do you guys determine where to place the rectangles on the front or what unit they represent? As far as I know, there aren't many ways to determine this at the present (other than sparse reports) although deepstate appears to show a good portion of the Russian formations. The front line is PACKED
The problem with the UKRAINE aid bill is that it also includes Israeli and border security funding and other measures not involving Ukraine. I don’t think all republicans are against aid to Ukraine, just how the bill is written.
They haven't. Avdiivka was the case where having too many troops was detrimental - artillery and air superiority belonged to the enemy, so the Ukrainians fought in a dispersed formation.
Don't you know? The only reliable sources are western media and the government. Don't question or research this stuff. If you do, you're a "Russian agent". 😅
Consider this - the Kremlin has made it illegal to question anything they say about the war in Russia. Not even a pro-Putin blogger could save himself when he committed "suicide" after revealing the true scope of Russian losses in Avdiivka.
This isn't about money. That money is allocated for production INSIDE the US, this isn't about sending cash to Ukraine. They need the US' production capacity since it will take the EU time to ramp up its own capacity. You cannot just say "let's produce more". Companies need time to create new factory expansions, change production lines, introduce shift work, hire people... that cannot be done overnight. The US has the capacity right now and would be needed to bridge the time until the EU can produce. And even then it's needed to add to the European production to really massively outproduce Russia. This isn't about money, it's about leaving Ukraine without shells when all that ammo is already there or ready to be produced. They just need the ok to send it. Stop talking about this as if it's sending Ukraine a check. That's what keeps people from being supportive in the first place, everybody thinking Ukraine gets free money.
At this moment the EU has surpassed the US in their support for Ukraine for a while now. Both in supplies as in money. So stop acting as if your paying it all. Also the only thing this is showing is that America has a big mouth when saying yes, yes we will help our friends and allies when being attacked. Oh but not right now because we are having elections. Good luck with your war. I am sure that has shown alot too America's allies aswell like taiwan and such in the Middle-East, Asia or in Africa.
Same problem here hot shots. We've been ramping up production cause our stocks were running low. We cant give away more than we would need for our own fights. You missed the part about "we support Ukraine". We've given the most support to Ukraine by far. I will happily say that I wish we had started arming and training Ukrainians before the war and that we would donate alot of our surplus fighters. My point is stop acting like this war is our fault.
@@dutchwolflord5859Im glad to see that an entire continent is only just now after 2 years begining to supply more than A SINGLE COUNTRY. If you do not see what is wrong with that then you are a lost cause.
24:00 Poland farmers aren't interesting into allowing passing Ukranian good through Poland coz they are also exporting their goods in other EU countries. EU made Ukranian good duty-free which makes them much cheaper than Polish goods and making em incompetitive so blocking will continue due to Poland goverment itself aren't interesting into ruining their own aggrocultural enterprise in favor of Ukraine. They are ready to support Ukraine in war against Russia coz it in their interests but ruining own economy obviously aren't.
The problem is with framing. There were never billions of dollars, it was equipment. And among the equipment pledged and delivered, the artillery ammunition is lacking.
What is your point? Artillery ammunition has to be ordered and the west is lacking capacity at the moment. The most money was in other aid like TANKS or armored vehicles etc
Most of the money went to American companies that made stuff to send to Ukraine. As for what happened to the ammunition, it was shot in the direction of the invading/occupying forces.
I thought Ukraine had been given months of supply of ammo and shells? Where has it all gone? It doesnt seem like they shouldve been using as much as it woildve taken to be nearly depleted
@@SaucyAlfredoand russians use, 2-3x more if I remember correctly. I don't know if you can even imagine that, it's hard for me to comprehend this magnitude of artilery barrage
Ukraine is looking like South Vietnam all over again, a relatively new nation/country, relying heavily on outside supports since its infrastructure is too weak and new to produce its own supplies, and will be abandoned by its foreign supporters in the long run, it is a shame, i really wanted Ukraine to win, but i respect the hell out these guys, they went down swinging and made Russia paid for every inch of their gain, a very Swedish way of waging war, and the only strategy a small country can adopt when being outnumbered and outgunned, once again, god speed to you all you magnificent b**rds
first of all, there's a historical relationship between Sweden and Ukraine... with Rurik the founder of the Kyivan Rus being a Swedish Prince, the ''trident'' was his family insignia, and the two countries share the same colors on their flags [yellow-blue] so yes!... there's a connection there!... and yes, the ''Fat Lady'' hasn't come to the theater yet... we should order fresh popcorn...
Its been 3 weeks since this video came out and Russians are about to enter Chasov Yar. You always say in this documentary, "Russia's unprovoked war".... Should I call this Lying or being uninformed? As everyone other than representatives of the pride flag do admit that Russia was one way or another was provoked by the Western alliance since 2014. I have also noticed that you use no such "humane" terms in the Israel- Gaza conflict when documenting it. You are a western propagandist. And since Russia is kicking your butt now, you are not making documentaries on Russia-Ukraine war as frequently as you were before. Ha ha ha, good to see Nazi's lose. Slava Russia.
"Russia was provoked into genociding it's neighbor because it's neighbor didn't want to deal with a 3rd world dictatorship". You literally are the nazi's, you are doing what the Nazi's did to the Czech, literally the same playbook. May russia continue to stay a poor 3rd world country like it has been since the fall of the soviet union.
America: "You Europeans have your (next) war." America is staying out of it. You know, until we can't anymore (again). "Those who do not learn from their past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana
@@Lili_Chen2005я например даже не знал о существовании этого блогера. С другой стороны я как и многие русские прекрасно понимаем, что на самом деле случается когда кто то внезапно исчезает или заканчивает жизнь самоубийством.
Why would they care? The reason the West cares is because Russia is anti-democratic. Most of the countries in the regions you listed are either similar or too poor to send aid to a conflict half a world away.
@@pandagrandpa you are not answering the question and I asked a legitimate question. Instead of scrolling by you decided to leave a horrible statement to a real question. Is it not reality as explained in this video where the aid is coming from? That is what brought about my question. Indeed the internet is filled with little kids who like to insult without thinking.
@@flameofhades8553 Right now this is the war between Russian and Western and the remaining world is neutral. It has been two years, I assume the above should be well-known fact whether you like it or not.
Hitler had a much bigger army on there home front and was destroying there towns , cities and factorys And couldn't knock out all the russian tank production It's gonna be hard I think you're gonna see tanks until the end of the war
@@KingsandGenerals I know this is completely different circumstances Russia started this on their own terms The USSR was forced into that And never stop producing Whip occupied Territories on their home front None of their production is damaged but Ukraine's production is damaged. I see no chance of production stopping
I also don't believe the hype in the brain drain Or man power fighting and dying were already enlisted The previous war they lost 30 million People Between Stalin killing his own people and the war In a opinion Was the single greatest factor in stopping in Germany in World War 2. I'm not taking either side I'm just looking at facts and at history.
24:20 FFS it could be so easy: Poland allows Ukraine to export its Grain THROUGH Poland but not INTO Poland. And that' s it. Ukraine gets to sell its grain, Poland gets to keep their farmers
There is nothing controversial about this. Ukraine was invaded on a false pretext in a naked display of imperialism. Lots of historical videos are still being made, though. I haven't even noticed a slowdown.
That grain crisis in Poland is orchestrated by Russia. Because Poland is not actually loosing anything, most of the grain goes in transit trough Poland to other countries... For example Latvia was exporting grain from Russia, but it could be easily replaced by Ukrainian grain.
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You're working on the albigensian crusades?
I know that the cathars were a much bigger deal at the time but It would really be appreciated if you touched on the Waldenses who were killed at the same time. As a protestant I find them fascinating especially since they survived (albeit much reduced) to the present day. I've heard that some of them traced their movement to Claudius of Turin in the 800s although it's more commonly believed that Peter Waldo began the movement with his bible translation contemporary with the cathars.
Can u do a video on the taliban? And thier conquest in 2021
It will be interesting to see the video of what happened in Georgia in Abkhazia and Samachablo in 1992 and 2008.
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And what, pray tell, is it?
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On a real note, Putin talked about west losing interest a year ago, seems like he’s not wrong.
Sadly :/
Its very bad when your country is absolutely nothing, just a mountain of free meat. In the end, such a toy will break or they will simply lose interest in it.
The problem at least in the us isn’t interest. It’s the fact that Trumps political faction have turned it into a political football against the rest of the government as they seem to be more and more pro Putin
What are you talking about? Only the imbeciles from Murica lost interest. Here in Europe we are talking about possible NATO troops in Ukraine, which we weren't talking a year ago... If anything European interest is increasing! Don't forget the Czech Republic's initiative for the 800K artillery shells, which we didn't have a year ago also. Slowly Europe is waking up, with the exception of Germany ofcourse... They will wake up soon, though.
Well it's not about losing interest
It's about losing business
War is a very good business
The longer it lasts more profit u get
So all this country trying to help Ukraine for freedom and independence and democracy . and u people really think that's the case.
U are clearly brainwashed.
this city was fortified for 10 years with dozens of bunkers, a lot of concrete, trenches, etc... 10 years imagine that
Ukraine lost 18 Command posts by the way, i cant catch numbers
Because the separatist had observed the area and informed the Russians about their secret escape roots like the big tunnel. Which a spetnaz group used to sneak in. Plus the Ukrainian soldiers 5hat defended it were demoralised from the failed counter offensive. So many surrendered instead of fighting.
@@shayaldwarka7907 won't matter if the supply route get mined
@@shayaldwarka7907dpr forces discovered the pipe shortly before using it themselves. Spetnaz weren’t involved in the pipe attack that was all dpr. I think the Ukrainians were more demoralised by the fact they were getting 20-30 fabs dropped on them daily than the counteroffensive. The large majority of Ukrainians that surrendered were immobilised (apparently quite a few were executed), those who could ran away even before the retreat order was given and many of those soldiers died from drones and artillery deployed mines
@@shayaldwarka7907 Russia lost 15k kia taking Avdiivka, a claim from Russian sources to. Paid off though
"Sanctions fails to slow Russian war production" No surprise there.
Considering that Russia was not integrated into NATO war machine... Of course Russian military complex has to produce everything itself, from shovels to guided missiles.
@@yamatohime2035 No shit. She has allies but at the end of the day she still has resources to produce the weapons her self. I have no idea why Nato thinks sanctioning countries still works. Especially Russia they clearly don't care.
It's more about optics for NATO members to remind them of it's authority to internal stakeholders, so it knows most of what it's doing is only for show but needs to keep doing so as to not lose it's ability to bring together the united power of it's members.
Another key reason is the simple fact the NATO does not want to be the ones blamed for WW3, if it was not clear for one nation to block trade of another nation against it's will is very much an act of war. So for NATO to block for instance North Korea from supplying weapons or from China from it's own support would be deemed an act of war and this would be used as grounds by the dictators of the three nation as grounds for a global conflict.
SO I know it can be frustrating when the solution to blocking Russia's trade seems simple, but the reality is far from simple and it will take much more hardship and a more clear global threat before any group like NATO is willing to act directly against this current Axis of aggression. @@mrbeep8096
@@mrbeep8096 because Nato after the collapse of USSR never dealt directly with an other equal super power, this tactic worked on Iraq and Syria and many other less poorer countries who do need access to international market.
its about time some one who is equally powerful stepped in.
@@yamatohime2035 I would be surprising if a military dictatorship (Russia) is not able to produce weapons.
You didn’t mention the amount of shovels and washing machine used by Russians.. and number of Siberian bears were sacrificed to launch bear wave attacks .😮
sounds like red alert 3
Bro that HistoryLegends joke is 2 years old now. Prigozjin wants his joke back. Yes, he did in fact push the shovel meme. Just look at him using the meme when standing with two russian soldiers. If I recall correctly he calls one of them "bieber". He himself made fun of the Russian army's equipment
You remember when the West said Russia was going to lose the war in a matter of months because of all the old equipment they had for war and how they were loosing too many soldiers.😂...there's videos of americans fighting for the russians
We shall never forget the real heroes of this war.... The bears. T_T
@@ninja.saywhatRed Alert 3 is probably why us millennials used to think Russia was formidable. Tesla Coils + Mammoth Tanks FTW! Now, after the failed invasion of Kiev, we’ve seen them in action, and Putin has inadvertently revealed his army to be a paper tiger to NATO. But also that he doesn’t care how many Russians die to get what he wants.
Arguably, Putin is in the best position he's been in in a long time. He crushed the Wagner Uprising, and subsequently eliminated both Yevgeny Prigozhin and Wagner's influence. And now with his most outspoken critic Alexei Navalny dead, the last major symbol of opposition has pretty much crumbled. And with Russia cut off from much of the global economy due to the sanctions, Putin was able to capitalize on that and expand the state's influence over the economy.
I said before that Putin's real war of attrition wasn't with Ukraine, but the West. He was banking on the alliance breaking apart through his opponents losing political power, and it seems to be working. Arguably, the biggest winner in the Israel/Hamas Conflict is Russia. And with the USA's political infighting, it doesn't even matter to Putin if Trump loses the election, as long as the results keep Congress in gridlock.
And while Ukraine's ammo stockpile continues to dwindle, Russia is able to both keep pumping out ammo in the factories, as well as getting new shipments from other powers like North Korea. At this rate, all Putin has to do is just keep up the slow march of attrition, and he likely will be able to claim victory.
This ignores a multitude of factors
Could you go into more detail? I think the commenter's thought that Putin's position is more solid than it has been since the start of the war is accurate.
As for the war of attrition, I wish I had a better idea of materiel production from both sides. Absolutely fascinating how modern war (excluding the US' barbaric invasions of Middle Eastern states) has become highly dependent on drones and anti-aircraft capabilities. I wonder what is going to be the next great military technology borne out of this war.
Correct. The West ( especially the U.S ) are only interested in quick easy victories. Once it’s clear that not the case they quickly loose interest. Their populations are tired of war after all the pointless conflicts their “leaders” have dragged them into the last few decades.
@@KingsandGeneralslike what?
@@jooseppielleese7156 like the fact that 80% of the Russian National Wealth Fund has been spent over the last 2 years. Or that most Soviet tank/ifv/artillery storages have been ransacked and there is a limit to how many tanks/ifvs/cannons they can field. Russia has the initiative, but this is hardly over.
24:15 - Tusk is prime minister, not president.
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@@LuisBrito-ly1ko He is so done this time
@@LuisBrito-ly1komore shame goes to the one who checks other’s comment history.
Regarding the "decision on the new mobilization is not made yet"
This is not very correct statement because mobilization in Ukraine continues on daily basis and never stopped.
It is not as efficient as we expected but it is in progress. The new "decision/law" is NOT about the additional mobilization. It is about the increasing efficiency of current daily mobilization via increasing the punishment for draft-dodgers and via promotion of the recruiting and via reducing the minimum age for mobilization. From what I heard Zelenskyi also decided to make an "audit" of the already mobilized stuff since many of them are in the rare and have never been to the front-lines (due to corruption, bribes, influential relatives or other factors such as alcoholism or zero physical form).
a defender is mobilized by the offender ORC!...
expect the cats and dogs to turn against your kind...!
Zelensky is afraid to announce an official mobilization because then his ratings will drop. But in fact, there are no men left in the small country villages - they have all been taken away.
Avg age of the Ukrainian soldier is Around mid-40's. The younger generation isn't interested in fighting
@@drunknklr3071According to Ukrainian law the minimal age for forced mobilization is 25. So those who are below 25 are only accepted as volunteers. Moreover, students do not have to fight according to the same law. In Ukraine you are a student from 16 to 23 years in general. That is one of the main reason of the average age mid-40. The other reason is the population pyramid of Ukraine. The number of people aged 40-60 is MUCH bugger than the number of people aged 20-40 (1990s was a very hard time in Ukraine due to hard transition from communism to capitalism - the fertility level seriously declined).
@@Anton_Danylchenkoeven in the capitalist west birthrates are dog shit. Just to point that out. Communism and capitalism kinda both have that in common.
I have a quick question for you guys at Kings and Generals; The list of unit losses for both Ukraine and Russia shows 290 drones and 350 drone losses respectively.
But when it comes to a loss of a 'suicide drone' like the shahed types, Are you counting it as a loss if the Shahed has been shot down or destroyed on the ground before launching it?
Or are we counting the drones that successfully hit their targets as losses? Technically the drone has been lost, but it did its job successfully. Afterall the Shahed's are designed to be destroyed.
No, these are bigger drones, think Orions and Bayraktars
@@KingsandGenerals Ahh, I see. Thankyou for clearing that one up.
Shaheeds are technically funny-looking missiles masquerading as drones.
I think a successful strike with a drone isn't a lost drone. Mostly because you wouldn't put a successful missile strike as a loss of a missile.
@@gunterthekaiser6190 True, but ALL missiles are designed to strike targets. I was trying to make the distinction between drones that were essentially missiles and ones that were reconnaissance assets.
russia also produce 3 million shells per yea compare to 1.2m of usa and europe combined
That stat was reported by CNN, if I am not mistaken. Thing is Russian number is for all calibers and the western number is for 155mm only. Still not pretty, but this context matters.
@@KingsandGenerals We've scaled down production of almost everything military related here in the US. All of that money reportedly going to defense most certainly isn't. The criminals in the government are pocketing the money for themselves. Over half of our Congress are millionaires. We're being robbed blind, but everyone is too worried about whether or not someone has a "R" or "D" in front of their names.
@@rodafowa1279Congress isn't directly siphoning money from the defense budget you would see them to be billionaires by now how congressman and woman makes their money is mostly through stock options as they get insider knowledge
@@rodafowa1279The reason is we have a lot of waste in our system with generally the US investing more into Air Force than Russia investing into artillery it's very simple Russia's has maintained their production for artillery rounds and US has gone for air superiority it's all the way back into the Cold war. in maintaining a modern Air Force like the US takes a lot of money if you notice that we are again upgrading the f-15 to EX because it's a lot of money to maintain modern stealthcraft operationally
@@rodafowa1279You're just saying they're corrupt you providing no receipts no actual argument definitely there's corruption in the US system but the f****** hell everyone just yells corruption!!!!!!!! that's it nothing else
No amount of equipment would have saved Avdiivka. Tactical mismanagement on the Ukranian side caused the collapse. Multiple units have been noted to have been fighting for months (some since the start of the war) without being cycled for freash troops. The point is, the Ukranian lines shattered because the regiments there were just left there by their commanders to be eradicated by the Russians. Also, it's poignant to note that Avdiivka is the battle in which the Russian army finally figured out how combined arms warfare works. Before it seemed that the Russians had no idea how Close Air Support works.
correct. The extended use of russian FAB bombs with the new gliding kit hammered down the ukrainian lines. These bombs can glide over 60-70km and the jets are out of reach from UA air defence.
So...why do you think they haven't been cycled? Because one simple explanation is there were no experienced, trained units to replace them.
Nah it's very clear that ever since the west lost interest in the war, ukraine stopped having any momentum.
Before, ukraine was gaining ground.. Slowly, but they had victories.
Now it's the other way around.
I suspect the war to end in a complete russian victory as soon as trump is elected.
@@akhsdenlew1861 "Before, ukraine was gaining ground.. Slowly, but they had victories."
Not gonna deny that in 2022 Ukraine made serious ground and the Russians were forced to retreat. However, while in 2023 they did gain ground they were minor and the Ukrainians wasted too much of their potential at that time. And if you actually look at the gains in 2023, at the actual land and the tactical significance of it compared to the general state of the war effort on both sides, at least in my opinion the Ukrainian offensive was disastrous for Ukraine. The only goal Ukraine achieved in 2023 was in PR and that was only true in the first part of the year. After that its all downhill.
And the downhill part was so predictable because Ukraines offensive at least to me seemed like a guy who really pumped himself up, told all his friends how he was gonna fuck this guy up, made a trailer about how this guy who previously ran away was gonna get his ass handed to him, swallowed his own koolaid then ran straight into a brick fucking wall without a helmet.
And well now hes brain damaged, lost a lot of his competency and decided it might be time to start building up a wall. Then when all his friends saw the state of the guy they kinda went...well you know...maybe we should rethink this.
@@Butmunch666 ok first you need to understand 1 thing.
That even if west is giving ammunition and equipment, it is STILL a war between Ukraine and Russia.
The fact that this war is still going and russia hasn't won already, is enough of an upset.
EVERYONE around the globe were 100% of a quick russian victory.
NOONE would believe that this war would end up in a 2year+ struggle.
The ONLY reason that ukraine was, is and will be for a little bit longer in the game is becouse of the western support.
Without the western support ukraine will just be part of russia.
As i said... the west has already gained what they wanted to gain from this war.
it is very clear that the west has no more interest in ukraine.
Trump's election will be the final nail in the coffin.
THE ONLY reason ukraine was making progress in 2022 and 2023 was becouse of some limited western equipment... 16 HIMARS vehicles did more damage to russia than russia's last 3 wars.
Why do I sense biasness towards Ukraine?
He openly supports Ukraine. As many many countries do.
But that doesn’t mean the information is wrong in any way. This is the most reliable channel for in depth view of the battlefield.
Accuracy here is leagues ahead of what you get from the Russian. Even ukranians which tend to be less delusional in reporting the battlefield. But still exaggerate.
Another good channel is Perun. He also supports Ukraine. But is extremely unbiased in his reporting.
@@IrrationalCharm Do you so ardently defend propaganda channels because you lack a brain or is it easier for you to live?
@@dupapek So if it doesn't support your side it's propaganda then
@@gundissalinus not according to UN General Assembly. The vote overwhelmingly condemned the invasion of Ukraine with 141 votes in favor.
35 abstained (including “best of friends” China, Iran, South Africa).
And 5 against. Russia, North Korea, Eritrea, Syria and Belorussia. Now what do these countries have in common? lol
@@gundissalinus I live in the said “west” I haven’t met a single person, not one, who is openly on Russias side.
Everybody knows Russia is a shithole, dictatorship, heavy censorship. Proof? Russians flee to the “west” nobody goes to Russia.
The grimmest the forecast has looked for Ukraine since day three of the war.
The night is darkest before the dawn, it could very well be that this turn of events will push NATO towards bigger involvement from fear of Russia gaining further legitimacy from it's allied nations and how this unity among dictators would spell the end to global peace as we know it.
Currently a possibly outcome would be for Putin to be assassinated by a local Russian leader as part of a internal political upheaval (of course it would be likely with support of foreign nations looking to end the conflict without a direct engagement).
The litmus test for this outcome would boil down to Russian public opinion, the west lives in hope that Russia is wanting to be free of Putin but the reverse could be proven to be true should Putin be taken out of the picture and it be shown the the average Russian is as fanatical as the media portrays them to be (uniting behind an even worse dictator and pushing towards WW3).
A key reason the average Russian dislikes the west is around the global energy revolution, Russia is still very much a traditional energy producer and faces economic destruction should it not be able to remain viable in a renewable's led energy future (it's massive troll campaign is very much also directed at attaching renewable's at any given chance).
In fact the invasion of Ukraine was very much to buy time (along with other reasons) for it's energy sector to buy time while the world moves away from it's products. Ukraine's electric grid and it's nuclear/renewable growth meant it could undercut the nord pipelines or any attempt at Russian electric offerings to Europe (the massive amount of land between would make Russia's product more expensive then any offering by Ukraine).
So it was no surprise when Russia invaded and systematically destroyed the energy infrastructure whenever it had the chance.
Tusk is a prime minister, not a president, that's one thing. The other one is that there is little to none pro-russian activists in Poland. The protests are about the grain import (and also the new EU agricultural regulations, which are protested against in whole Europe, not only Poland), and polish transport companies being pushed out by cheaper, non-regulated ukrainian counterparts. Both of which damage polish economy in a substantial way. There is nothing in this matter that can be called "pro-russian". As a Pole I can assure you, we wouldn't do anything that can be called "pro-russian".
Rafal Mekler, leader of the Confederation Party, is pro Russian and is a leading figure in the protests, despite not being a farmer. Also, why arent the protesters objecting to Russian grain? 12 million tonnes of Russian grain are imported each year into the EU compared to 4.3 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain.
@@mango2005 He is only a minor leader (of a minor party) in the voivodeship bordering Ukraine, imo he tries to make his own local politics on that matter. But yeah I agree, and as I said in my first comment, there are some black sheep in every society, nevertheless, in Poland there is far less of the pro-russian ones compared to some other EU countries. And about the russian grain import: the difference is that we did import russian grain before the war, and we still unfortunately do (though there is a plan to stop this). We also did import some of the ukrainian grain, but now as the war is ongoing, Poland became a literall dumpster for ukrainian farmers to sell their produce easily, without transporting it very far. That is the issue: the massive influx in import of low-grade, cheap ukrainian grain, that replaces the polish one.
thank blackrock
Not only Poland; the Agricultural sectors of other European countries (including France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Bulgaria and Romania) also feel the unfair competition with the much cheaper grain imports from Ukraine.
You're saying this despite slogans like "Putin please come and clean up this mess!" used by protestors? And atleast one person being charged with prison because of it?
Kings and generals: what was supposed to be a short victorious war has turned into a war of attrition.
Hmm where have I heard that one before 🤔
Germany in WW2 (Operation BarboRossa)
@@jamesemis7376 Schlieffen Plan in the west front in WW1 too.
Plenty. Some of them since 19th century:
1. Napoleonic Peninsular war (7 years, winner: Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese coalition)
2. Second Boer War + follow up operations (4 years, winner: British Empire)
3. Mahdist war (8 years, winner: British Empire & Egypt)
4. First Italo-Ethiopian war (2 years, winner: Ethiopia)
5. WW1 Western Front (4 years, winner: Entente)
6. Second Sino-Japanese war (8 years, winner: China)
7. WW2 Eastern Front (4 years, winner: USSR)
8. US intervention in Vietnam (~6 years, winner: North Vietnam)
9. USSR intervention in Afghanistan (10 years, winner: Taliban)
10. US War in Afghanistan (20 years, winner: Taliban)
11. ISIS invasion of Iraq and Kurdistan (4 years, winner: Iraq & Kurdistan)
12. Saudi intervention in Yemeni civil war (9 years, ongoing)
13. 2022 Russo-Ukrainian war (2 years, ongoing)
"We'll be home by Christmas."
Yep...
Glad to see you counter all that Russian propaganda with this Western one.
It's not Western, it's Ukrainian
There's no such thing as "Western propaganda", cope. Propaganda implies governmental control over the media which is non-existent in the freedom of media democracies. Western media just reports naked truth as it is with either left-wing or right-wing bias. While kremlin has an all-out war propaganda machine full of lies and post-modern "you'll never know the truth" paradigm, typical for the dictatorships. Get the facts right
@@lordfoxquaad1611😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂7
@@skun406 Western
Western propaganda is everything that makes me emotional because I don't believe in it
3:55 "committed suicide" righttttttt.
😂😂😂😂 something fishy going on there.
@@boxingsense3459 modern day ussr. Lets not forget its all Putin dreams about when he goes to bed.
SUS
I guess he was walking by a large window, the window suddenly opened up and he fell out of it
@@thementor664 Either that or large doses of plutonium.
It doesn't feel like this war reaching 2 years.
@TheBigExclusive actually WW2 lasted almost 6 years
Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014.
because it lasts since 2014, when russian shitheads invaded Ukraine for the first time and annexed Crimea
It is 3 day operation, maybe the Jupiter days
@@varg_314 Given that Japan signed the unconditional surrender on September 2nd, the duration is 6 years and 1 day.
How do the Russian have a 7 to 1 manpower advantage ? If it was material advantage like 7 to 1 artillery ok i guess.
But manpower ?
In the begging of the war Ukraine had the manpower advantage.
Last year about equal.
Now the Russians have 7 to 1.
How does that make any sense ?
7:18
Because people like to compare all of Russia vs all of Ukraine. When in reality, it's around equal. If Russia went full YOLO then yes. But people are really bad at analyzing stuff. No one on youtube is an expert. And the "experts" are incredibly biased. Russia needs these pitched battles because they can't push against the whole line. They have to concentrate around a single battle.
@@nicholasgutierrez9940 well of course, but that is a local superiority. If both sides are equal it means that if 1 side concentrates force in one area, the other side can do the same or concentrate it's forces and push in another.
But if the numbers discrepancy is 7 to 1 over all, the battlefield would look like the Ukraine 2022 offensive. they would just rush B.
Maybe it could reach 7 to 1 theoretically in certain places where the manpower was concentrated but it it’s unrealistic if we mean total numbers probably like 500K Russians in the war zone vs. 700-800K Ukrainians.
In the case of Avdiivka, where Russians did have a total air and artillery advantage, defending with fewer numbers was prudent.
Russia keeps adding people to the ranks while Ukraine struggles to do so, that's one difference anyway
Gotta admit the world really is throwing everything at Russia and there still trucking
The world is not throwing even 1% of its GDP.
@@randomaccount0023except its a fact unlike you bots who are just here to inject a narrative. Tell your overlord to not scare the west with nukes then west vs russia will become true.. russia will get to see what west really has. You only see surplus of weaponry in ukrain..
@@taxultHe just replied with a logical answer to Russian propaganda
"the world is really throwing everything at russia" huh pardon??? the USA and the rest of NATO have barely sent anything to ukraine, when NATO start's sending thousands of abrams, leopards and F-35's ill start thinking they're throwing everything at them
West is most of the worlds GDP, but even West doesn't throw 1% of its GDP@@timtam53191
Half of every video is about arms deliveries to Ukraine, I wonder how come Russia can outproduce all these tens of billions of dollars of deliveries and sustain war for so long?
because all of this are mainly promises until 2027, what ukraine gets this year might be like a 25%, probably less of all of that so basically thats why. That in the grand picture is very little. than what a big country like russia can produce or buy. since these same countries keep buying russian gas , oil, grain...
@@horoshkoaleksandr273ad hominem
Well russia do receive a ridiculous amount of shells from north korea and another factor is they are not outproducing the rate of losses they are pulling out a bunch of equipment the soviet already make. The west isnt as committed to that degree as russia is.
They are buying shells from North Korea which has been stockpiling since the 50s and more than likely buying ammo from Iran and China
For one, Ukraine has only received a small portion of pledged equipment. For another, countries are not giving all they can produce to Ukraine. They are giving what they fee they can spare
Hold up -
7-1 advantage in favor of russia? Pentagon estimates claim Russia doesnt suffer dobule the losses of Ukraine, which means that Ukraine is gonna lose because there too many Troops for russia!
7-1 advantage in Avdiivka. Because not enough ammunition. Which forced Ukrainians to fight in a more dispersed formation and allowed the Russians to build up forces without worrying about the artillery barrages.
@@KingsandGenerals Oh wow thanks for replying to clarify, I appreciate it. I must have mistaken something.
Would it not be quite interessting to compare different sources of the losses from both sides? I think russia would have more accurate numbers related to ukraine and ukraine would have more accurate numbers related to russia. What do you think?@@KingsandGenerals I think the numbers of losses from ukraine from western sources are underestimated. Same story for russia
@@babymonkey882 yes they should show Ukrainian estimates of Russian casualties and Russian estimates of Ukrainian Casualties! That way its a fair game!
Cause any western based 3stimations are ukraine biased and Russian ones are always in favour pf Russia!
Las estimaciones del Pentágono carecen de valor.
i think ukraine is sort of testing place of weapons, war vehicles and drones.
You mean just like every other war ever fought?
@@scottkrater2131 they are called proxy wars, but this one is modern and Russia and US are actually fighting each other be it directly or not so directly, unlike Syria
@@someguy4512 That's opinion, Russia didn't invade Ukraine to fight the US. And the Ukrainians resisting Russian aggression is not being a proxy of the US. Might as well say the Allies fighting Germany were just proxies of the US to fight the Germans before December 7th.
@@someguy4512 Your not a proxy defending your country against an invasion.
@@scottkrater2131 research what a proxy war is before commenting.
the vietnamese where fighting U.S soldiers and it was a proxy war, Syrian and or Libyan civil war was a proxy war.
have you forgotten Donetsk and Luhansk?
To all you guys about Polish farmers protest!!! Its not thats Ukraine food is just more competitive. Its all about UE regulations hardly hindering the production. Polish farmer can not rival with Ukrainian as they can use like anything making thing way more cheaper but with not known quality. So already costs of production are higher than sell price as the cheap food is still coming with mostly no regulations
This is a complete delusion, in all countries in which grain is imported there are mandatory checks that the grain must pass. If they did not pass any inspection, then it would not be imported. The reason for the cheapness of grain is that the prices on the international grain exchange are lower than usual, and Russia is to blame for this, which stole Ukrainian grain and sells it at reduced prices.
@@nicholasognev8716It's imported without the inspection though, hence the protests.
@@skun406 it is checked in all EU member states. What evidence do you have? Where does this information come from?
In this case I would suspect it's a bit more convoluted then a case of farmers being undercut by foreign growers (yes this may the the end conclusion but to get here there is an elephant in the room needing to be discussed).
That elephant in the room just happens to be international big business, with it's combined power to influence regulation (leveraging things like quality of crop to it's advantage) the end result is the farmers who are forced to work under these rules lose the ability to self produce things like seeds or the ability to self manage fertilisation and pest control over their fields. As time marches on the companies extend their influence over farmland via intellectual property and in many ways can be seen as joint owners in every farm that uses their products despite being paid by the farmers for the product and the business not actually buying the farmland itself (if it does it is with the money paid to it by the farmers in the first place).
There is much debate about how this process of corporate control will take shape in the next stages of it's push to control global food production. One outlook could see mega farms appear and the average farmer pushed out of business (forced to sit on fertile soil and unable to produce commercial offerings due to the seeds and everything else needed being owned by the big companies and the regulations making any attempt at growing food illegal).
The other option would see farmers taking on debt to the companies they get their products from and this debt being leveraged as growing ownership over their farmland until they are run out of business, from here automation would pick up and the farmlands would be run into the ground with only a few major centralised farmlands remaining in each nation (again the big finish would be the mega farms but in this case there would be a few more steps involved).
The European Union like much of the rest of the world needs to contend with the growing power of a few to control the means of food production on a global setting before the world itself if brought to it's knees in a way not yet seen before (Russia would likely be laughing the entire way as it needs global anarchy for it to continue it's goal of toppling the world order in its favour)
ukraine is NOT an EU member and perhaps that is the reason why it is not being checked@@nicholasognev8716
I bet someone already pointed this out, but Tusk is the prime minister, not the president.
This channel is another propaganda of the globalists of the Democratic Party. There's no truth here
thanks for the update
The sheer scope of logistics needed for all kinds of equipment from all over the western world... that must be some Extreme Starcraft Micromanagement :D
They lose them pretty quickly by drifting into minefields, so no need for long term logistics
@@SerialPatrik no they dont lmao
“Haha this war is like StarCraft” while hundreds of thousands of human beings are dead in the mud what the fuck is wrong with you what a place for a happy emoji
Nice joke (a bad one tho) but it is not so much as Moves per second as it is about managing momentum (of both sides) in accordance to the supply situation.
@@Darkcamera45 Surely the footage of the big offensive is all fake then
I dont really understand the claim that ukraine is outnumbered 7/1 when we know for a fact this to be untrue
7-1 advantage in Avdiivka. Because not enough ammunition. Which forced Ukrainians to fight in a more dispersed formation and allowed the Russians to build up forces without worrying about the artillery barrages.
@@KingsandGeneralsthat should have been better explained. It sounded like it was talking about the entire front
@@LEFT4BASS
Entire front is around 1 to 1 in manpower. However, Russia artillery has significant advantage in numbers across, which allows Russia to concentrate forces by stripping other fronts.
All this is based on speculation. Ukraine says something they believe them instantly because of heavy bias. EU and US frogs. I don't believe none of them and I am from Russia. Their numbers always screwed in their favor either to claim an advantage or a victim status (women right, gay rights, LGBT you know, used to it).
@@Patrick.Datura. ахахахахах. Йди дивись Скабєєву, шо ти тут на каналах загніваюшива запада забув? 🤣
Orderly withdrawal?
Yes
Yes and no, at the airbase south of advivka there was a panic. Majority of high rank officers abandoned the airbase and leaving a few hundred to fight on there own. But In the city they had a better chance of a tactical withdraw
@@matcha_546 fair assessment
@@myowngenesisThere was footage of roads leading out of Avdiivka absolutely covered in bodies of retreating defenders.
@@ByZHellas footage from whom! Putin pundits?
Indirectly, we seem to see the Soviet Union's counterattack in 1943 where they pushed back German troops from Ukraine
How many Ukrainians killed in avdeevka ??
Fewer than Russians, that's certain.
"Estimating the start at such an early stage, even before the end of the operation, is very difficult and carries the risk of quite large errors. After the above warning and coming to the point:
The minimum personnel losses of the RUS can be estimated from October 2023 in the battle for Avdiivka at:
15-18 thousand dead
38-45 thousand injured
total loss of people: 53 - 63 thousand
I emphasize that these are estimated and minimum values. Realistically, they may be higher, but in my opinion, writing about 50,000 deaths and 100,000 deaths. this is wishful thinking with no support from anything other than AU propaganda.
Ukrainian losses are estimated by pro-Russian sources at 5,000-7,000 dead, but in my opinion they are greatly overestimated. Based on my sources, I estimate very uncertainly at up to 3,000-4,000 dead and about 15,000 wounded. But this value will certainly be revised.
I estimate the irretrievable personal losses at approximately 5:1 minimum in favor of the Ukrainians. Return personal losses, however, are less favorable and amount to a minimum of 3-4 to 1. Again, I emphasize that these are the first estimates" J.Wolski 19.02.2024
avdiivka not avdeevka
@@technologystrong5190 avdeevka is russian spelling, avdiivka is Ukrainian spelling.
@ns987 Авдіївка is Ukrainian spelling, it also did not change since its settlement in 1778. the Russian spelling however is Авдеевка and because it's now controlled by Russia you can argue that but it still is disputed territory therefore should be named Авдіївка (avdiivka)
Russian assault formations have now entered Berdychi. This new line is unstable and many pro-Ukranian youtubers are claiming this line is a temporary distraction meanwhile an actual line is drawn up down Kupiansk. Who knows?
Praying for the whole situation. Thanks for keeping us informed.
I need ammunition, not a prayer. - Zelensky, probably
Then let zelensky go to the front lines.
@@Ghaztoir Doubt that will help without ammo.
@@liantuanghawlhang What is your source for that statement lol
17:45 That 245M pounds is for increasing shell production in the UK. Ukraine won't see a single shell out of that money before 2025.
Plus, assuming 4,000 pounds/shell, that’s only about 60k shells, which is what Russia uses every week.
Ukraine is still a democracy .... x_D
People do vote freely and fair and in secret as democracy should.
Not suddenly fly off some apartments 😅
@@eddyr1041 Interesting where they vote since elections are no more in Ukraine
@@eddyr1041didn't Ukraine ban their opposition party while simultaneous ban the russian language before the invasion
Ha Ha Ha
@@bunnitomoe3866 Complete Rubbish. I feel like its the same 20 people ferociously going around liking every dumb comment they find
I do think that anyone who thinks ukrain wins is delusional but this is still good to see
Depends on your definition of a victory. Will Russia get pushed back to pre-war borders? Most likely not. Will Russia win this war without a massively bleeding nose? I've seen videos from people living in Russia and the economy there is in an even worse spot it had been before. Not to mention civil unrest everywhere but Moscow. I have no doubt that this war will eventually end in a treaty that will see Russia going home wit ha hefty chunk of Ukraine. But whether or not they'll be able to keep things stable in their own borders is another matter entirely. The main thing that keeps Putin in power is money, and a lot of powerful people are very salty about how deep he's starting to dig in their collective purses. Putin is far more replaceable than he makes himself out to be.
Time will tell, but I wouldn't be surprised if NATO as a whole comes out of this stronger, while Russia will have a limp and internationsal shame/isolation to deal with for years to come.
Whatever the case, none of this was worth the cost in human life...
People said the same thing to me two years ago lol. Take a look at the facts and how war machines run and it was obvious how the war was going to go so far for the most part. Reading about wars past and how the soviets conducted themselves you can point to all the similarities. I don’t think it will be clean but I think Russia may eventually have to back down, as long as goods flow in from the west and grain and other exports flow out, Ukraine will more than likely hold for at least three more years
继续坚持挺好的，欧洲国家会有越来越穷，国内越来越多游行，动荡不安
@@michaelsanchez7848 I actually don't think you're right. I think that the decline from here on out is going to accelerate dramatically. And the bigger problem with that is that the worse things get for Ukraine the worse all of their issues will get as the western partners slowly back out.
I'll gladly eat my words if I'm wrong but in my opinion whatever remains of Ukraine will be a shitty rump state that potentially even loses Odessa. But we'll see.
If NATO sends troops directly then we're all gonna probably die and this won't have any relevance anyway.
@@Butmunch666 that's the golden question, is support directly proportional to success. I feel in the United States it's more of a case of domestic neglect from our politicians fueling a resistance to give foreign support. average citizens feel their tax money is just being wasted and many are going hungry. roads aren't getting fixed, many cities are just falling apart.
Even though multiple other comments have said it, I feel that my repeating it is of extreme importance: Tusk is Lord Commander of Pole Hand, not the President
@KingsandGenerals in previous videos you stated ashad drone was only 35K just wondering where that information came from?
small detail is wrong about describing Polish farmer protests there are no pro russians here in Poland and tusk is not president but prime minister 😉
yes they are!... also Poland is losing face world wide with this development... keep that in mind!
is there a difference between prime minister and president? are they two separate things?
In Europe presidents usually are just figureheads, going to meetings with the heads of other states, saying some fancy stuff at new years eve and so on... They have no real power, except in France. The prime minister controls the government.
Btw go go Poland.
@@user-McGiver Poland is losing face in the minds of 50 year old TH-cam commenters World WIDE!
@@melvinbrotherofthejoker436 for sure... but we're not the only ones... the thing is that WE 50-60 yr old rule the world... you 12 yr olds have to survive OUR RULE and a couple more to get your chance,,, so suck it up just as your Big Brother ''The JOCKER'' DID!
Ukraine's failed offensive resulted in the fall of Avdiivka and significant delays in US aid, demonstrating that Ukraine has no room for error.
@@horoshkoaleksandr273 Time is on Russia's side. Russia is waiting for Western supply to dry up. Russia has unlimitted supply weapons, money from West and enough meat to lauch the offensive over and over again.
@albertohusay3002 Not true, Russians pre-war, oil funded financial reserves are running dry. The oil and gas they are selling now to Asia is not making as much of a profit. Meanwhile, the price of grain and fertilizers (two of Russia's largest exports after oil and gas) has gone down globally. Russia has stepped up shells and tanks, but not drones or missiles. This reflects what russia can and can not make in large numbers. As a result, russian logistics will likely be more vulnerable. More shell and tanks don't mean much if they don't reach the front line. Time is not on Russia's side. But I assume a Russia bot like yourseld would already now all this.
@@AP-su9oc Dude if Russia is not selling enough oil, the price in world market will rise and the whole world will be affected.
@@albertohusay3002 the EU has been looking for alternative source of energy, and Ukraine has been attacking Russian oil refineries more and more often. While much of the oil and gas russia sells to india and Pakistan goes to europe, the Russians still see a drop in price, while the EU still pays more, motivating them to find other solutions (india and Pakistan get a good deal though. So that's nice). In short, Russia is making less money off oil and gas then they did pre-war. And their pre-war funds (like sovereign wealth funds) have been depleted to pay for the war. If the war doesn't end in a year or two, Russia's energy wealth will start to dry up.
@@albertohusay3002 The EU has been searching for alternatives sources of fuel and energy. And Ukrain has been attacking Russian oil and gas refineries. Russia is selling more and more of their oil to Pakistan and India at a discounted price. This means Russia earns less, but the EU pays more, with Pakistan and India rising on top. In general, russia is making less profit on oil and gas then pre-war. And their savings from the pre-war market are drying up. Time is not on Russia's side.
The format of these has always been so proffesionl.
"Russia can make 300 tanks per year"- Laughs in Soviet Tank-o-grad. Those are rookie numbers, got to get those numbers up!
they just can't, cuz russia is not USSR. diffrent economy, population, resources
Stalin was using 300 tanks as a decoy per week...
theres no way its that low. russia loses that much in a month. if they only made that many tanks, they be out of tanks which isnt the case
they would not be out of tanks because they had over 10,000 in storage. You mix new production and restoration of older tanks together like they have been doing, and they would still be fine. This is what is happening@@Theaverageazn247
@@Theaverageazn247The 300 is specifically newly produced. They're also refurbishing outdated tanks from the rather large Soviet era stockpiles. It's estimated to be roughly breaking even now.
NEVER FORGET THE SHOVELS!
So pretty much no country in NATO or the U.S. has the stock piles nor the economies for a modern war vs Russia
The US has the stockpile but not the political will to use them in this fight.
Which honestly feels even worse then just not having them in general. This is the best chance to knock out Russia as a geopolitical rival for the rest of the century, but congress is just sitting in their thumbs because it's an election year so everyone insists on acting more absurd than normal.
@FallingPicturesProductions regardless of what the US decides, it will be shit on by the global community. If we didn't get involved at all, if we put troops on the ground, or if we met in the middle and ramped production. Someone would cry "well the US Should've done this instead". We have a ton of issues ourselves, although the vast majority of Americans favor Ukraine, we can't ignore our own problems either. Its important to not that a lot of US media is incredibly left leaning, like the New York times, so the world only sees 1 perspective. Europe is just as much to blame, they were all incredibly relaxed on defense spending, until Russia scared them into action.
It would leave the pacific front vulnerable as well. US values Taiwan more than Ukraine, not that they care about the Taiwanese people though, they’re just a puppet interest for US influence in the pacific.
If Russia was half as mighty as the world thought it was, Ukraine wouldn’t have survived the first year of the war.
I’m not too worried about the west being able to beat Russia.
@@LEFT4BASSif russia can't even make it against ukraine alone, it stands no chances against the whole nato. A paper tiger much like china
This is Red Alert 2, but without a military laboratory, planes, air defense, and money in general :(
I am already silent about nuclear weapons and strategic bombers, which Ukraine was deprived of.
I stopped watching at 'Ukraine is a democracy ".
Of course it is democracy! They just held presidential elections.... oh wait
Every democracy will inevitably turn into a dictatorship just like China, North Korea, Russia and literally every other democracy in this world.
So there's not much difference
Far more of a democracy than russia has ever been.
@@deadlock_problem if you mean by amount of violent government changes - yeah
@@rebeli-argum Russia is as democratic as China aka not at all
Now no new video on this war😮😮😮
I mean you can't blame Poland for putting their own peaple livelihood over cheap Ukrainian grain.
Then why they importing cheap Belarusian grain?
@@sircatangry5864 Custom duties are imposed on Belarussian grain.
On the other , the prospect of having rusia by their border is not good for poland😅
@eddyr1041 not really a problem Poland is in nato so it doesn't matter if russia is next to them and i mean Belarus is bordering Poland so it basically same sh*t
@ljuma0124 on the other it will increase direct border to rusian by much like more than half... I guess poles feel vulnerable that way considering what happen in both ww and after ww.
7:47 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Good humor 😂
23:45 "pro russian activists in Poland".
Nice propaganda here.
At the end of the war, could you create a "TH-cam Series" of like 20, 1 hour episodes. Or a 2+ hour long film
The 3rd assault brigade wasnt fully commited, it was only 2 battalions to cover the withdraw of the 110th mechanized brigade.
You mean the AZOV Neo-Nazis that got smoked?
Some of them were smoked with Skander missile before reaching the city when they were grouping up
@@profinneupane6883 That was proved to be a lie. Russia claimed to hit a training ground that was for some reason only 20km away from the front, you do not put a training ground that close to the front and you don't send one of your most battle hardened units to training they do that everyday in the field, it's nothing but propaganda from a regime known for lying daily. Also it's spelled Iskander.
The 3rd assault brigade azov i find them quite unsympathetic with their Hindu symbols
@ambroisep.p8706 good thing they cleaned up the unit of those elements, now try an argument that isn't an outdated russian talking point
Nice infographics but already well long obsolete data.
Russia vs USA with their Founded NATO fraternity but still Ukraine is losing the War😱
NATO isn't fighting and ukraine isn't in NATO, are you the product of Russian education? No wonder you country hasn't done anything for the last century.
thanks for the upload .
The problem with "mobilisation" is that it reduce your economic output & your logistical ability. You gain manpower at first, but it does have an heavy cost.
Thank you for your continued coverage on this
24:16 Prime Minister, NOT President ;)
your so smartttt
As this war continues, Russia can play the long game as long as it takes. Ukraine on the other hand will have to use everything at their disposal to merely survive. Meanwhile, behind the scenes political machinations are taking place. Just as Putin stated, "The West will lose interested in the war." It would seem his omen is beginning to sound true. Its only a matter of time before one nation is standing.
This simplifies everything. There are many factors at play.
As Ukrainian I can tell that problem with mobilisition is a real thing. Every country will be having such issues if people understand that partners decided to limit support and without this support you can't survive. Going to the front will mean death as there are will be no ammunition and air support. You will live in the trench and wait for the shell, termobaric or air bomb to fall on you. This doesn't help with morale. When Ukrainians will see that they have ammunition, drones and airsupport required to fight and win the situation with morale will change again. History is watching USA. They are the ones that will decide how this war will go.
Че ты несешь ? Просто никто не хочет становиться калекой или сдыхать за "свободу и демократию" ) Ты вот сам воюешь за Украину ?) или отмазки есть типа здоровье не позволяет или возраст ?)
@@alexeyb6129 I do not reply russian nazi slaves.
@@sakonaga1 you are not american, I've checked your profile.
Maybe if Boris didn’t came to Kiev this all wouldn’t have happened i guess 🤷♂️
@@yurijmikhassiak7342I’m an American and I agree with him
I've never seen such an obviously biased video before. The people who made this video are clearly against Russia and seem to favor Ukraine, twisting the story to paint Russia in a negative light and support Ukraine, whereas you should have been objective and present the facts as they are.
All his videos are propaganda laden. Condescending wording against Russia.
So when talking about WW2, you talk about hitler in a light manner?
There is nothing surprising. People like the owner of this channel are only interested in money and don’t care about the truth. Even if the world is drawn into a nuclear war.
How can you favor Russia and its terrorist regime? One can't be objective about such actions.
@@IrrationalCharm russia is no where near comparable to hitler even though what they do is rephrensible in ukraine
Thank you very much for your great content
Thank you very much for the video from Odesa, Ukraine
@@MercurialStaticI wanna know too actually. Lol
@@gaz4553lol
The video, I'm commenting on@@MercurialStatic
If you're asking about specific points in the video I'm thankful for, these are:
- the author's position throughout the war - the war is unprovoked, and Russia is the aggressor
- maps on which it is indicated that Crimea and other occupied territories are Ukraine, but occupied
- the author notes that Ukraine is a democratic country, despite Russian propaganda
- other mentions by the author about a lot of Russian propaganda, which is still propaganda, not truth
@@MercurialStatic
@st6nlue243 Federation attack Zeon
"Ukraine is the democracy" lol.
Russia is a democracy even more LOL, found the vatnik
@@deadlock_problem never claimed that russia is the democracy. it's a very-well running dictatorship, which i don't mind and even support, when comparing to "democracy" in the west, which is not democracy at all. btw have you already transitioned? what's your pronounce?
@@ilyazugumov3763 "well running dictatorship" a country next to europe with 150 million people, a rich history of innovation and lots of land and resources should be running ALOT better. Educated people should not be leaving that country en-mass, the country in question should be contributing to science/technology and culturally a lot more than it is doing. It is not running well.
>transitioned? what's your pronounce?
ESL
@@deadlock_problem Ukraine is so democratic they just stopped having elections.
@@Theaverageazn247 I wonder why a country would stop having elections. Oh yeah it's at war with it's aggressive neighbor that is a dictatorship.
Thanks for the video
Manufacturing of 60-70 T-90M a month is a lot especially since the Russian Federation is under extreme sanctions. It is way more than what many Nato countries can produce in domestic production.
That is most likely a Ukrainian exaggeration. We are not seeing even 200 new T-90Ms annually.
@@KingsandGenerals I see !
How do you guys determine where to place the rectangles on the front or what unit they represent?
As far as I know, there aren't many ways to determine this at the present (other than sparse reports) although deepstate appears to show a good portion of the Russian formations. The front line is PACKED
The problem with the UKRAINE aid bill is that it also includes Israeli and border security funding and other measures not involving Ukraine. I don’t think all republicans are against aid to Ukraine, just how the bill is written.
The party, which at this point is openly pro-authoritarian and anti-democracy, are against any form of aid, but they won't prevail.
Depends on the Republicans. There's a split in the party that the leadership is trying not to exacerbate in advance of an election.
Ukraine had a million people mobilised. It doesn't make sense that they've run out of troops.
They haven't. Avdiivka was the case where having too many troops was detrimental - artillery and air superiority belonged to the enemy, so the Ukrainians fought in a dispersed formation.
Troops without guns or ammunition are kinda useless ngl
@@jaredjosephsongheng372 unless their willing to just horde the fucking russians yeah they are pretty useless without guns or ammo
only on paper.
Will you guysever cover the boer wars?
at some point
please do include namibia in it 🙌, it doesnt have to be of considerable length even just a mention would do, please@@KingsandGenerals 🙌
@@KingsandGenerals
Sure that would be an interesting war to follow, but at the moment, just stick to the current productions.
I would like to know what the reliable sources for this are. Who can be trusted to tell the truth? Too many talking heads and not enough real news.
Don't you know?
The only reliable sources are western media and the government. Don't question or research this stuff. If you do, you're a "Russian agent". 😅
@@RicArmstrong Our truth and reliable sources vs their propaganda and lies!
Consider this - the Kremlin has made it illegal to question anything they say about the war in Russia. Not even a pro-Putin blogger could save himself when he committed "suicide" after revealing the true scope of Russian losses in Avdiivka.
Michael Kaufman for one. RUSI.
"THE US ISNT THE WORLD'S POLICE!"
also
"WHERES THE US!?"
We support helping Ukraine but we aren't the only bank account in the world.
This isn't about money. That money is allocated for production INSIDE the US, this isn't about sending cash to Ukraine. They need the US' production capacity since it will take the EU time to ramp up its own capacity. You cannot just say "let's produce more". Companies need time to create new factory expansions, change production lines, introduce shift work, hire people... that cannot be done overnight. The US has the capacity right now and would be needed to bridge the time until the EU can produce. And even then it's needed to add to the European production to really massively outproduce Russia.
This isn't about money, it's about leaving Ukraine without shells when all that ammo is already there or ready to be produced. They just need the ok to send it.
Stop talking about this as if it's sending Ukraine a check. That's what keeps people from being supportive in the first place, everybody thinking Ukraine gets free money.
At this moment the EU has surpassed the US in their support for Ukraine for a while now. Both in supplies as in money. So stop acting as if your paying it all.
Also the only thing this is showing is that America has a big mouth when saying yes, yes we will help our friends and allies when being attacked. Oh but not right now because we are having elections. Good luck with your war. I am sure that has shown alot too America's allies aswell like taiwan and such in the Middle-East, Asia or in Africa.
Same problem here hot shots. We've been ramping up production cause our stocks were running low. We cant give away more than we would need for our own fights. You missed the part about "we support Ukraine". We've given the most support to Ukraine by far. I will happily say that I wish we had started arming and training Ukrainians before the war and that we would donate alot of our surplus fighters. My point is stop acting like this war is our fault.
@@dutchwolflord5859Im glad to see that an entire continent is only just now after 2 years begining to supply more than A SINGLE COUNTRY. If you do not see what is wrong with that then you are a lost cause.
That is how America destroyed Iraq, Libyan and Afghan towns
Difference is it didn't take the Americans 2 years to capture a small city of 30,000 people
@user-hl8ih4cd1m Difference is American were fighting on a completely different continent, Russia is fighting it's literal NEIGHBOR LMAOOOOOOOO
@user-hl8ih4cd1m Did you learn in school that North America has a sea between it and the middle east? Think about that.
“Who a few days after making this statement committed suicide”
Got to get it all back. 🇺🇦
@KingsandGenerals Just for correction Donal Tusk is not a Polish President, he is Prime Minister.
24:00 Poland farmers aren't interesting into allowing passing Ukranian good through Poland coz they are also exporting their goods in other EU countries. EU made Ukranian good duty-free which makes them much cheaper than Polish goods and making em incompetitive so blocking will continue due to Poland goverment itself aren't interesting into ruining their own aggrocultural enterprise in favor of Ukraine. They are ready to support Ukraine in war against Russia coz it in their interests but ruining own economy obviously aren't.
How many billions of dollars and they don't even have ammunition. Where the heck did all that money go?
Ammo is expended, not hoarded.
The problem is with framing. There were never billions of dollars, it was equipment. And among the equipment pledged and delivered, the artillery ammunition is lacking.
What is your point? Artillery ammunition has to be ordered and the west is lacking capacity at the moment.
The most money was in other aid like TANKS or armored vehicles etc
Most of the money went to American companies that made stuff to send to Ukraine. As for what happened to the ammunition, it was shot in the direction of the invading/occupying forces.
@@KingsandGeneralsno need to answer russian bots.
Remember, Avdivka held for a decade. Not just 2 years
ha? 😂
I don’t think it was always near the front though
Remember, Donetsk and Lugansk held off the Ukrainian army for a decade
@@Rokaize it was^^ you can see were the border the last 14 years was
@@denigster fair enough
I thought Ukraine had been given months of supply of ammo and shells? Where has it all gone? It doesnt seem like they shouldve been using as much as it woildve taken to be nearly depleted
Obviously not the case. You don't hoard ammunition. Ukraine needs 5-10k shells daily and they are not getting it.
@@KingsandGenerals dang didn't know it was that much daily
@@SaucyAlfredoand russians use, 2-3x more if I remember correctly. I don't know if you can even imagine that, it's hard for me to comprehend this magnitude of artilery barrage
Whats happened to all the money canada sent to ukraine?
laundered.
@@chrispsackett☝🏼dumb comment
Source i made it the F up!@@chrispsackett
Source: trust me bro
@@tygrenvoltaris4782 i mean its alot of money yet now they have no arty shells? Possibly why zeluzhny gone? Lemme stop
Ukraine is looking like South Vietnam all over again, a relatively new nation/country, relying heavily on outside supports since its infrastructure is too weak and new to produce its own supplies, and will be abandoned by its foreign supporters in the long run, it is a shame, i really wanted Ukraine to win, but i respect the hell out these guys, they went down swinging and made Russia paid for every inch of their gain, a very Swedish way of waging war, and the only strategy a small country can adopt when being outnumbered and outgunned, once again, god speed to you all you magnificent b**rds
It is not nearly over
Ukraine is not yet lost.
SV was pure corrupt & its government hated by most of its people
it is not a new nation/country, it is literally older then russian imperialistic quasi-shitstate
first of all, there's a historical relationship between Sweden and Ukraine... with Rurik the founder of the Kyivan Rus being a Swedish Prince, the ''trident'' was his family insignia, and the two countries share the same colors on their flags [yellow-blue] so yes!... there's a connection there!... and yes, the ''Fat Lady'' hasn't come to the theater yet... we should order fresh popcorn...
Its been 3 weeks since this video came out and Russians are about to enter Chasov Yar. You always say in this documentary, "Russia's unprovoked war".... Should I call this Lying or being uninformed? As everyone other than representatives of the pride flag do admit that Russia was one way or another was provoked by the Western alliance since 2014. I have also noticed that you use no such "humane" terms in the Israel- Gaza conflict when documenting it. You are a western propagandist. And since Russia is kicking your butt now, you are not making documentaries on Russia-Ukraine war as frequently as you were before. Ha ha ha, good to see Nazi's lose. Slava Russia.
"Russia was provoked into genociding it's neighbor because it's neighbor didn't want to deal with a 3rd world dictatorship". You literally are the nazi's, you are doing what the Nazi's did to the Czech, literally the same playbook.
May russia continue to stay a poor 3rd world country like it has been since the fall of the soviet union.
Great video once again
America: "You Europeans have your (next) war." America is staying out of it. You know, until we can't anymore (again). "Those who do not learn from their past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana
"Committed suicide" Yeah, we all know what happened here, there was a gust of wind and he fell out the window, 16 stories up. 😑
Clearly Russia is doing well, given the fact they're able to hand out all these free flying lessons to their biggest detractors
I have to wonder what Russians think of these lines. Do they really think it was suicide or is it more of a tounge in cheek thing?
Well is bad weather all the time in rusia 😂😂😂
@@Lili_Chen2005я например даже не знал о существовании этого блогера.
С другой стороны я как и многие русские прекрасно понимаем, что на самом деле случается когда кто то внезапно исчезает или заканчивает жизнь самоубийством.
He actually committed suicide. Before this, he wrote a suicide post on his Telegram channel
So how is Ukraine going to pay this back?
Great video as always!
Hope the alghorythm treats you as well as you treat us!
One question 🙋♂️ I have is why is the aid for Ukraine only coming from western allied nations. What about Africa, Middle East, even south east Asia?
日本以外アジア諸国はもう米国帝国の殖民地じゃありませんよ
Why would they care? The reason the West cares is because Russia is anti-democratic. Most of the countries in the regions you listed are either similar or too poor to send aid to a conflict half a world away.
How could you be so detached from reality?
@@pandagrandpa you are not answering the question and I asked a legitimate question. Instead of scrolling by you decided to leave a horrible statement to a real question. Is it not reality as explained in this video where the aid is coming from? That is what brought about my question. Indeed the internet is filled with little kids who like to insult without thinking.
@@flameofhades8553 Right now this is the war between Russian and Western and the remaining world is neutral. It has been two years, I assume the above should be well-known fact whether you like it or not.
I wonder if the Americans understand how the shifting of the balance of power to Europe will affect their position in the global order.
The Baltic states sweat the most for now
Very high quality vid. Well done.
But veryblow quality informations
Great explanation
Hitler had a much bigger army on there home front and was destroying there towns , cities and factorys And couldn't knock out all the russian tank production It's gonna be hard I think you're gonna see tanks until the end of the war
Completely different circumstances
Hitler was fighting against every single counrry in Europe, while russia is fighting single Ukraine
@@KingsandGenerals I know this is completely different circumstances Russia started this on their own terms The USSR was forced into that And never stop producing Whip occupied Territories on their home front None of their production is damaged but Ukraine's production is damaged. I see no chance of production stopping
I also don't believe the hype in the brain drain Or man power fighting and dying were already enlisted The previous war they lost 30 million People Between Stalin killing his own people and the war In a opinion Was the single greatest factor in stopping in Germany in World War 2. I'm not taking either side I'm just looking at facts and at history.
@@redblkbot again, this ignores many factors.
24:20
FFS it could be so easy: Poland allows Ukraine to export its Grain THROUGH Poland but not INTO Poland. And that'
s it.
Ukraine gets to sell its grain, Poland gets to keep their farmers
I miss the days of Historical content focus before everything waded into modern controversies.
Plenty of historical videos on the channel, at least 2 every week.
There is nothing controversial about this. Ukraine was invaded on a false pretext in a naked display of imperialism.
Lots of historical videos are still being made, though. I haven't even noticed a slowdown.
lol what? they make more historical videos than they do modern stuff. must not be a regular watcher
Contrary to this comment, I think this video is awesome. The video is engaging and it is informative about something happening right now.
That grain crisis in Poland is orchestrated by Russia. Because Poland is not actually loosing anything, most of the grain goes in transit trough Poland to other countries... For example Latvia was exporting grain from Russia, but it could be easily replaced by Ukrainian grain.
You barely explained the order of battle. 👎
We have been covering it for months. these videos exist to chronicle what was happening in a certain period
Thank you for these comprehensive videos. It’s probably my primary source for this war
Okay I give up, TH-cam keeps deleting my comments. Why can't I say that losing 8*2K for that is not an accomplishment to be proud of?
Whats happening with the drained lake? I would have assumed by now it would be viable ground. I guess is that its to exsposed?
Swampland with occasional rivers.