Russian Soldiers Speak About the War in Ukraine
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Interesting article in the Moscow Times that interviews a few Russian soldiers speaking about their experiences in Ukraine.
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"Drones flying over the battlefield & finishing off wounded" - Sounds like the Terminator movie
in ww1 ww2 there were places to hide rest trenches were safer but now youre a target everywhere it's a horror show
Ive seen alot of footage and its really scary to say the least. It can hit you while you sleep without making a sound and ukraine has millions of them thanks to western donations
@@codrinvechiu2832 there has never really been a safe place in war, even in the trenches and foxholes, a stray or targeted artillery she'll could take you and the trench with you at any time. What I find gnarly about modern combat is that a drone is doing it, with a camera and a person probably kilometers away watching you die from the other side of the screen probably with a blank expression. That's the most distopian part, not being able to see who is killing you, but they can see you perfectly, even with artillery there's a certain amount of anonimity. It's just a really scary though.
Wait till they're autonomous. Every nation with the capability is working on it right now.
the level of drone advancement is going to show how your military can be ruined when using armor that are just rolling death traps
So many broken men are going to come home after this is all over
And break so many others and pass on their trauma. Sucks...
There are plenty of articles from Russia and Ukraine of people going home violent and far different. There was a case where one of the surviving Wagner convicts ended up going home and if I remember correctly, committing homicide pretty much as soon as he was back. Terrible stuff
broken is putting it in mild terms , tp attack your neighbor and decry foul blah blah blah , when the world knows the truth and when we see returning men looking like skeletons there is a very moral and deep issue of what is coming to have to be faced out
War is hell. My deployment was nothing compared to this and guess what it was fuckin pointless 😢
@@mr_hitstick.4217 😔
About the Russians fear of being tortured. In Denmark we have a proverb: A thief thinks everyone steals.
Looks like in Denmark you only have one side of narrative.
Toy be surprised how nasty Ukranian nazis are. Look what they do to its own convicts. Now imagine what Russians go through.
There are many videos that came out of this war of both Russians and Ukrainians torturing POWs.
@@Allahuma.sali.ala.muhammad.I’m sure Iran and NK will lodge their complaints about this behaviour with Moscow.
Are you really shocked to hear that people with reverse Hindu symbol tattoos engage in torture?
The only accomplishment of this war will be the utterly pointless sacrifice of so many young men who could have put their skills into making their country a better place.
Not to mention ruined economies. How mush longer Russia and NATO can keep cranking out hugely expensive weapons and ammo before seriously affecting their civilian and fiscal sectors is anybody's guess.
accomplishment will be existence of Ukraine. You juts have no clue what will happened to millions if Ukrainian if they will stop pushing russia back. Please study a history for the last 500 years
thank Putin
Nah
And those that invaded are responsible for the wastage.
my grandfather was in the european theater in ww2. he took a round from a mg42 to the leg. went home for 6 months. healed and begged to go back. Ended up in africa and was hit twice in the chest by another mg42. survived. Died in the 90s of cancer. Patriotism is not the same today. War has a different perspective than those trying to imagine what it is like from a keyboard.
you are comparing soldiers to civilians and claiming based on that that the times/mentalities have changed?
No they were truly the greatest and toughest generation ever. They grew up during the great depression only to fight in the biggest war in human history. God bless the greatest generation.
Cause the world isn't the same today. Ukrainians are fine dying for their country. Young russian men have no desire to take ukraine for corporate overlords trading lives for land. There's nothing wrong with not wanting to fight a war that has no just cause. It's the main reason I never signed up to fight in the middle east. I'm not going to trade my life to protect corporate oil interests. If russia and china band together and try to fuck up the whole world, sure. I'll enlist happily and go sit in a trench waiting for death. But I will not fight for power hungry oligarchs and corporate cronies.
I think maybe he had a serious MG42 allergy.
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edit: I kid, but kudos to your gramps, and I agree with your point.
@JM-ct9mx need a name to look up on the purple heart registry, keyboard warrior?
The main difference between fighting in Europe in WWII vs fighting in the Pacific was not "they look different". The fighting was more intense against the Japanese because of their ideology. They would happily sacrifice themselves in forlorn Banzai charges, resist surrender to the point of killing themselves, and brutalize any Americans they captured. The Germans were simply not as brutal and tended to follow the rules of war that we did.
The German army was totaly superiour to the Japanese, even if they were not as fanatical, they did still inflict way more casualtys to the US, and allied troops compared to the IJA!
@@niclasjohansson4333 Japan had also been fighting since 1937 across far more territory than the average German soldier was.
It took an extensive blockade, the complete collapse of the Chinese front, the threat of a joint allied invasion, a far more destructive bombing campaign, and two nuclear bombs to the face to make the Emperor of Japan to order his war cabinet to surrender.
Even then, they had to put down a coup from the military, with numerous other units holding out for years after Japan surrendered.
When I was a kid in the 70s I remember a vet from the war against Japan talked about how brutal Japanese soldiers were. Atrocities were very common. They would mutilate dead marines. He said they should have dropped more A-bombs on Japan. My dad who fought the Germans said bad things happened also but he was much more forgiving to his opponents.
A captured Japanese soldier in WW2 was asked why an American soldier had been found in truly despicable condition with a sign-in scribbled English-that read “we tortured him, used him like a woman, and made sure he died slow.”
The Japanese POW replied that his commander made his unit do it so that American reprisals would be even worse…and the unit would know it. It ensured none of them would surrender (this POW apparently had been found unconscious).
The Russian soldier talking about carrying a grenade around his neck is so heartbreaking: the authoritarian doesn’t give a shit about his own men and would rather they kill themselves rather then be captured and risk seeing their opponent as a human being.
Undoubtedly if Russian soldiers see how they treat Ukrainian POWs they assume (and are very deliberately told) that the Ukr must do even worse.
Correction: Germans were not as brutal and tended to follow the rules of war towards Americans, Brits, the French, NOT towards i.e. Eastern Europeans, whom they considered inferior human races. They were absolutely inhuman towards the latter. And the Slavs don't even look that much different than Germans, not to the degree Japanese look in comparison to Americans. World War 2 Germans even stole Polish children to give them for adoption to German parents, thinking a lot of those kids didn't look any different than theirs.
Moscow times is based in Netherlands and was labeled as "foreign agent" by Russian justice ministry. Looks like a reliable source.
Anything and everything that doesn't promote the Kremlin's propaganda machine is deemed a foreign agent. The Moscow times was founded by Russian journalists that fled Russia because Putin has a habit of killing them off.
Very reliable :) it is not called information industrial complex for nothing. I see "independent" in their description and I laugh. IF somebody gives them the money to keep them from going out of business (most news papers can't survive), they are not independent.
every non-propaganda source is labeled as foreign agent by russian justice ministry. that's the same law that georgians were protesting against.
@FR-nt4ei Western foreign agents laws are very very draconian! How dare georgia want to run their own country by themselves and not by some western ngos with limitless funds. Gorgia is actually trying to copy western foreign agent laws. But they west wants georgia subjugated.
Remember, Only Kremlin is reliable source. Anyone else is Satan LGBTQ, Anglo-Saxon, Jewish N@z!s.
The guy who sends his men to the Meat grinder will go insane if he survives. You'll have to be a psychopath to trick men to go to their deaths without remorse.
Not when Russki Mir is your MO. You are brainwashed and no longer see that what you are doing is wrong (it's easier to live with that way) Psychopathy is a different matter altogether.
If you spoke ru you would know how prevalent is psychopathy there. They treat each other worse them most other cultures treat their enemies.
Nikita Khrushchev, former Soviet Premier, as a General in WWII sent regiments of men into the battle of Stalingrad unarmed. They were basically targets to draw out German positions for the troops that were armed. And he put officers in the rear ranks to shoot anybody who retreated. Nikita lived a long, prosperous and influential life after that. Seems some Russians don't possess the remorseful angst you think they do.
@@TWCH that’s the power of propaganda I suppose.
Lack of Empathy is one of "braces" of Russians.
There is alot of videos of russians using a grenade on themselves after being wounded
seen many with guns in their mouths too, crazy to see so much of it so frequently
I just watched an assault video in which Ukraine took 2 casualties assaulting a trench and Russia took 22 KIA and 2 captured defending it. These numbers feel like Japanese casualties from WW2. Russians are just dying far beyond how many are being captured, regardless of how indefensible their positions are. As the defender (in this video’s specific assault, I know they are the aggressor in the larger war) those casualty disparities are shocking.
You should probably watch some videos from the other side as well.. Ukraine is not winning this war and the vast majority of the videos from Ukraine are propaganda and some have even been proven completely fabricated like they are saying these are the Russians getting attacked by the brave Ukrainian heros but it's really the complete opposite, those are Russians attacking a Ukrainian position..2014 opended many peoples eyes on the situation and sadly many are still brainwashed who think Russia is just a bad country who wants to kill and take people's land for no reason completely ignoring 2014 and the shit nato is doing
@@stchaltin keep in mind that unsuccessful attacks are not posted but yeah
Of course this shows the self respect of those Russians who don t want to surrender but are ready to die for their country 😢
Nothing belonged to russia before russia existed. Kyiev existed before moscow was a name.
Hm.
@@mitchyoung93 Yeah, there was no Czechia, before it existed, it was Bohemia, stuff changes, the people are still the same yet they will call themselves Czechs. Just like Ukraine, theyre the same people under a different name now which unites them. You trying to justify your insane war doesnt change a single thing about the fact that Ukraine separated from the USSR - Russia and it doesnt want to be associated with it anymore.
It’s very interesting listening to the intercepted phone calls from Russian soldiers. Also the translated interviews of Russian prisoners
I think Russian troops just can’t forget the horrendous videos of their surrendered and unarmed fellow soldiers being executed in large numbers in the beginning months of the war.
There were MANY videos Ukrainian troops took and posted of themselves executing Russian troops, and almost always in incredibly inhumane ways at that (i.e. NOT single shots to the head)
One bound Russian was knifed to death that I saw. Most were sprayed with UN-aimed full auto bursts with AKs though and were either left to slowly and painfully bleed out as Ukrainians made fun of them, although were also sometimes shot in the head eventually as well.
An entire packed van of bound Russian POWs were knee capped at very close range one by one as the Ukrainians laughed and then applied tourniquets to their injured limbs.
NONE of these acts were ever covered in western media. None.
Although when Russians executed a single Ukrainian soldier on video ALL the big outlets covered it.
War is awful and makes savages of ALL participants. We should always do literally everything we can to avoid it, yet we seldom do.
Both sides have demonstrated the worst in humanity, especially for 2022-2024 in European countries.
It was covered in western media.
@@ChucksSEADnDEADyou sure? Preston and half his comments section seems to have never heard of it. 🤷♂️
The Moscow Times is not Russian newspaper.
It is, just not a Kremlin-sponsored one.
@@adamhall5298 "It is, just not a Kremlin-sponsored one." - correct, it is CIA-sponsored one
It’s not sponsored by Kremlin
@@harleyquinn8202stay coping
@@harleyquinn8202 Yeah, and the US forced Putin to invade Ukraine, right?🐒
Hopefully, more of these Russians open their eyes. Pull out of this mess their politicians got themselves in.
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Their eyes are open. Everyone knows. It's an open secret. They're not stupid, they live in a dictatorship where speaking out will get you in jail at the least or dead at worse
Will there be a point when 🇷🇺 soldiers wake up and realize that they die for the 🇫🇷 speaking politicians and 🇬🇧 speaking oligarchs whose families live in Miami and Paris?
They are making money and expanding their country back to the borders it used to have. At the least they are grabbing eastern regions with ethnic Russians. They VOLUNTEERED to fight. It's Ukrainian that have to be dragged off the street and drafted as cannon fodder.
Zelensky won't negotiate and believes in some fantasy of victory when in truth, Ukraine surviving at all is a victory. Fall 2022 was the time to press the victories and negotiate from strength. Russia is a bumbling bear in every war....until they aren't.
Iraq and Afghanistan seem so stupid by comparison. Like if we annexed Cuba, Venezuela or the Yucatan, id see a point. War on terror and spreading democracy? 😂😂😂
Better westerners open their eyes, this war created by USA and GB..
The publication "Moskovskoe Vremya" is recognized in Russia as a "foreign agent". Real Russian servicemen CANNOT give interviews to such a publication. Are these "Russian soldiers" of which army exactly?
You've mobilised hundreds of thousands into a traumatising meatgrinder, are you sure they're all keeping their lips sealed?
This is propaganda stuff . “The Moscow times “ is owned and created by Dutch Derk Sauer . This is not Russian newspaper . This is western propaganda
@@adamhall5298no it’s just a made up story, as are most that come out of jewkraine
@@adamhall5298 I say again: SOLDIERS of the Russian ARMY do not give interviews to SUCH a publication. These can only be "runners across Europe" who have nothing to do with the Russian Army today.
This is the same nonsense as an ACTIVE US Army soldier giving an interview on Solovyov LIVE... An example for the understanding of the "especially gifted"
What kind of gophers is all this designed for?
@@adamhall5298 We can speculate about the "meat grinders"
List of countries that were INVADED, bombed/attacked by the United States (along with NATO countries) after World War II:
Korea and China (1950-1953)
Guatemala (1954)
Indonesia (1958, 1966)
Haiti (1959)
Cuba (1959-1961)
Guatemala (1960)
Congo (1964)
Laos (1959, 1964-1973)
Vietnam (1961-1973)
Cambodia (1969-1970)
Guatemala (1960, 1967-1969)
Grenada (1983)
Lebanon (1958, 1983, 1984)
Libya (1986, 2011)
El Salvador (1980s)
Nicaragua (1972, 1980s)
Iran (1987)
Honduras (1988)
Panama (1989)
Iraq (1991)
Kuwait (1991)
Somalia (1993)
Bosnia (1994, 1995)
Sudan (1998)
Afghanistan (1998)
Yugoslavia (1999)
Yemen (2002)
Iraq (1991-2003)
Iraq (2003-2015)
Afghanistan (2001-2015)
Pakistan (2007-2015)
Somalia (1992-1994, 2007, 2008, 2011)
Yemen (2009, 2011)
Libya (2011, 2015)
Syria (2013 - present)
Bombing YEMEN and LEBANON - right now +
Supplying weapons to the Israeli army to exterminate the population of Gaza - right now
Willy OAM was a number of interviews with Russian soldiers. Very interesting hearing the other side.
Willy has a good channel.
thats a vatnik channel
@@patrickdufresne8485 Matt from Willy OAM is a former ADF infantry member and he's pro-Ukraine.
@@correctionguy7632 Matt from Willy OAM is a former ADF infantry member and he's pro-Ukraine.
10:27 Russia taking their land back? Ok?
Then all other lands can take their land back also, from Russia? Really?
@@mitchyoung93 - Finland, China, Japan, Georgia
They can try and take russia. They will fail
@user-yg5hl7gr7j for the same reason they speak russian in Transnistria in Moldova, that's what russians do, move their settlers to a new, captured territory so that in the future they could say this is our land historically, but in reality those territories were ukrainian speaking, even in Belgorod lots of people that use ukrainian words till now
@user-yg5hl7gr7jspeaking russian does not give anyone a right to bomb their homes and abduct their children. Ive personally spoken to many ukrai ians that were there before amd after war. None of them want russians there.
@user-yg5hl7gr7j That means nothing. There are many countries in this world with people speaking the same languages. So try harder, Ivan.
Maybe robots will fight for us one day.
That is the future - the military doesn't have to tell parents that their sons or daughters died anymore.
Imagine coming home after this and seeing a drone flying over. PTSD will be off the charts, both sides. Very sad. I've been taking care of soldiers and veterans my whole life. God bless these men.
Thanks for this work
You bring up an excellent point regarding prisoners on both sides .. where is any media coverage of that?
Thanks for the updates excellent research
About the guy with the nade on his belt, I bet he saw what Russians were doing to Ukrainians. When you see what your team is doing and you are told the other guys do the same, it is easier to believe it.
During the prisoner exchange, Russian prisoners usually had signs of torture and could not move. Blue from blows, broken bones, broken teeth and eyes. With one such exchange, the Russian soldiers could not stand it and quickly brought the Ukrainian prisoners to a similar state. After this incident, Ukraine does not torture those captured soldiers who are being trained for exchange
Thieves believe everyone steals.
@@championknife no they didn't
Lies
There still is a very graphic video evidence of such tortures in Ukrainian captivity from the early war time
@@TobiasC-mg4zk so the cut testicles are not cut testicles, because you made an analogy. Genius
Maybe we should be discussing the constant inebriation of soldiers, I remember reading accounts from the front in ww2 specifically from the soviets talking about how the men were pretty such constantly drunk---just to be able to even do there jobs
Alcoholism is an enormous social problem in Russia and always has been. Far worse than in the USA. And, not just in the military.
Reminds me a little of the American Civil War. People with some shared history, familial ties, same or similar language.
Very fair and impartial analysis: a rarity in this bitter war.
Good report. Thanks for what you do to keep us informed while being without bias as much as possible. War is hell
Hey Preston , what do you think of the Russian “navy” heading to Cuba ?
Why "navy" just becaus you dont like russia ? Damn pathetic
@@kuunoooo7293 i love Russia, one of the most interesting nations I have ever gotten to chance to visit. My wife is Russian, my kids are half Russian. That doesn’t change the fact that what is happening is morally wrong.
I wrote “navy” because the flagship the admiral Kuznetsov literally needs a tugboat nearby due to such frequent issues. The only thing admirable of the Russian navy is their submarine fleet, but even that has been neglected to the war machine it once was.
@@kuunoooo7293 Because it's barely a "Navy", lots of it's ships are coral reefs now.
atleast whats left of their 'navy'
@@dadistos4538*reefs. Not coral reefs.
Great video brother. Soldiers are Soldiers everywhere, there's only a few ways to blow off stress in those situations, drinking and a little PT/fist fighting...your videos have disappeared from my feed. Think I was researching campers and camping gear too much lol
Coming home on leave we got trashed on the plane,in the airport in Ireland on a layover and on the plane again. Coming home for good we got so drunk some guys needed to be carried off the plane to the welcome home ceremony. Getting drunk after leaving a war zone should be a right written into the constitution.
Another reason to get troops home by way of cruise ship. Gives the men time to decompress AND nicer surroundings to get drunk in. Just don't puke in the pool.
But Preston. They can just go home
I would not trust any official newspaper from moscow
My father, a combat veteran from World War Two, said it was easier to kill somebody if you hate them.
Alcoholism isn't an innate part of war, it's an innate part of Russian culture. The soviets literally kept their working class drunk as much as possible because drunk people don't complain about the government who ensures the vodka stays cheap. Literally - gallons of government discounted vodka could be bought nearly anywhere. Their entire working-class culture revolves around not just drinking but being completely wasted and it's well represented In their ruling class too. Putin is famously sober (as far as the public knows) because he felt that differentiated him from his rivals.
A view from the Russian side? and for some reason you read it in a Dutch newspaper? This is a view from the Dutch side.
"As long as you, Ukrainians, obey us and hold your tail between your legs, we feel that you are are our cute little brothers and we don't wanna fight you!" Yeah, so sweet and humane those Russians are. Just like us! Anyway, great coverage, thanks for sharing!
Wtf 😂
Never figured he would be an ruzzian apologist, last video I watch!
written in propaganda newspapers. Owned by Dutch, located in Netherlands.
What else would you expect from it to write.
The newspaper became online-only in July 2017 and launched its Russian-language service in 2020. In 2022, its headquarters were relocated to Amsterdam in the Netherlands in response to restrictive media laws enacted in Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. On 15 April 2022, the Russian-language website of The Moscow Times was blocked in Russia.[8]
Exactly. Zero pity for russians.
Independent media is banned in Putins Russia. Journalism doesn’t exist there. You’re either a propagandist or you’re in exile/prison if you don’t tie the Kremlin party line.
Thanks, Preston.
The part the russians leave out on their history is Ukraine was there BEFORE the russian empire then it fought the russian empire before eventually being taken and held captive until the fall of the soviet union
Who fought Russian empire? Bohdan Khmelnytsky?
Correct. Swedish and Ukrainian forces tried to team up against Russia during the Great Northern War. Ultimately, this failed, but it proves the lies on which the Russian narrative is built.
@@harleyquinn8202 read about Treaty of Hadiach. The commonwealth recogniyed ukrainians(ruthenians) as free, independent nation. except rusia as always ruined everything. than theres a ukraine-soviet war 1917-1921, after which ukraine was forced to join ussr
The original Rus who became the Muscovites were of Kievan origins. Ukraine gave birth to Russia.
@@mitchyoung93lies
You lie too much apologist
Preston, great review thanks. Just some corrections that Moscow times is not a Russian source. The newspaper is owned by the independent Dutch company and since 2022 added to the restricted list in Russian. If you need the Russian source you better go to the RU online source and then just use Google /browser translate.
Does russia know they can just go home ... Maybe they should do that
Or maybe the The West and NATO should’ve stayed out of it and the war would’ve already been over or perhaps never happened in the first place.
@@td811 The West and NATO isn't to blame for this
@td811 or maybe let another nation do what it wants because it's another nation and doesn't have to listen to another country
@@el_gabron dont you realize just how awful the West is for not letting a dictator and murderer have his way with it innocent people?
@@td811 How dare the west try to prevent our imperial ambitions, ukraine was our puppet state to rule - Putin 2023 maybe
9:40 Stop calling what Crapper Truckson did as an "interview". It was a monologue that was occasionally interrupted with pointless questions.
"In the year 1300......." Bruh, don't nobody give a shit about that. Americans certainly don't. All of American history is just like 270yo.
This is so sad. So many Ukranian lives ended for Putin’s arrogance/insanity
Remember Gonzalo Lira….
For context: The Moscow Times is an independent English-language and Russian-language online newspaper. In 2023, the Ministry of Justice of Russia designated the paper as a "foreign agent."
Russia is designating anything as foreign agents. Its the deathless equivalent of throwing their undesirables from windows...
Oh, so his official title is "Meat Wave Coordinator".
Assault shovel coordinator
Drinking is not a problem, demoralisation is. Fights, drugds, violence, absence of any laws, rule of fist. Hundrets of thousands returning home with ptsd and knowing violence as solution to every problem.
Dark times are coming to russia, maybe worst than 90's
It's nice to see the West is so concerned about the Russian people. In other news, NATO is losing the war against Russia.
Since when is NATO at war with Russia ? Are you commenting from a parallel universe ? Have you guys met any aliens yet ? How about cold fusion ?
Ahh all Nafo bots 😂
Ever heard about the stones and glasshouses?
@johanneslinnemann6660 explain please?
@@davidsmith-ef3rr You need explaining because you Mr. "David Smith" are not an English as first language speaker. You'd know about the stones and glass houses.
Ever seen Inglorious Basterds? This is you raising your fingers wrong.
@ChucksSEADnDEAD lol English is my first language. I asking you how to explain how Nafo bots is connected to stones and glasshouse?
@ChucksSEADnDEAD also you spelt bastards wrong
If you come back as veteran and you won the war its already bad, but if you come back and lost its even worse!
You mean like Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria were/are for American soldiers.
Yeah but in much greater numbers with way worse battles.
@@AlTarif - Years (20) vs. numbers does it really matter? Impact is impact.
@@SwordFighterPKN Yeah it matters. Russia will have a huge amount men with bad PTSD trying to get back into society. It will have a far greater impact on Russian society at large than those US conflicts did with their general population.
@@AlTarif that's happening today in America after 20 years of pointless conflicts. There is no difference. If you've not meet someone impacted by Americans useless conflicts your choosing to not look.
@@SwordFighterPKN yes 100,000 causalities is objectively worse than 20 years in Afghanistan
Also Iraq was one of the fastest wars in history
I usually agree with just about everything Preston but there is one thing I would like to point out here. Preston says that it’s harder to fight/be cruel to those you have shared culture/physical characteristics in common with, and he is probably correct. But he uses Americas fight against Japan in WW2 as an example, contrasted with americas fight with Germany. But the Japanese were as bad to the Chinese if not worse than they were to the Americans. The rape of Nanking occurred despite shared culture and similar physical traits between the Japanese and chinese. And the Germans were terrible to the Russians many of whom share similar religious beliefs and physical characteristics. I think Preston was correct in his statement, I just think the example he used wasn’t the best.
2:22 I do not agree. Look up soldier's accounts of the Yugoslav civil WR and what people who look the same an speak the same language will do to each other (I'v got info from the book "Psychologické aspekty zabití", not sure if there are available resources in English)
From what I can understand, you're referring to early point in the conflict, when Ukraine was doing well.
The table has turned, especially lately as we see Russian supremacy. Am I right?
Grettings from 🇲🇽
Preston makes a very good point about World War 2, and the racial angle of the war. I read War Without Mercy by John Dower, who argues that the war in Europe was considered a family fight while the war against the Japanese was against "the other". The incredible racism of Allied propaganda contrasted sharply with the propaganda of the Japanese, which did not include racist caricatures or slurs. This type of race hate made it easy to drop atomic bombs on Japanese civilians, and to send Americans who had any Japanese ancestry to concentration camps for years, destroying their lives. I see the exact same race hate with regard to China today.
No alcohol when i was in OEF going on leave coming back none.Not complaining just my little anecdote
Perfect analysis Preston 🙏🇺🇸
Which way was the train going if some were going to the front and others were coming back from the front?
Americans are happy when drunk and drink a lot of lighter beers. russians drink liquor and it's not just vodka. They actually love whiskey as well. In my experience about one out of three are let's say "unhappy" drunks to put it politely. Youre right though with soldiers enjoying the drink. These are guys who are encouraged to be high t, are mostly young and often in stressful situations. I'd rather deal with drunk Marines being annoyingly loud and a little rude than some guy headbutting random things until he falls over and his friends just let him sleep outside.
Regarding alcohol consumption, according to one of Stephen Ambrose's books, during World War II American soldiers did a lot of drinking.
We were sabotaging torpedos to drink the alcohol fuel lol.
But it doesn't compare to 66% of Russians being born with F.A.S, that's just another level...
2:18 I get your point, but there are significant historical exceptions to that. The Germans and the Soviets had many cultural and, depending on ethnicity, physical similarities. Germans were an ethnic minority in the Soviet Union and in the Russian Empire before that. Certain peoples were ethnic minorities both in Germany and the Soviet Union/Russian Empire.
However, they fought each other during both World Wars, and the war between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union is the most brutal and the deadliest war that has ever been fought in human History. When wars are fought, anyone can be vilified. If there are not enough differences that can be hated, people just find some...
я не вижу как говорит русский солдат. а ссылка на статью это мощно. еще можно сослаться на урсулу фондерляйн где она рассказывает что русские солдаты достают чипы из стиральных машин и ставят их на дроны.
I wish you can talk to Ruslan Leviev about this. Conflict intelligence Team
This war should stop now. 😢
Young men fight the wars of old feeble evil men.
Alcoholics are the standard in Kremlin: Medwedev, Gerrassimov, Schoigu and probably also Putin (since a few years - look at his face).
Medvedev is the Kremlin drunken fool. Putin is known to drink almost nothing, maybe a few sips for the cameras. I think his moon face comes from steroids for medical conditions.
If you don't want to fight - then don't. No one can ever force you to pull that trigger. What they mean is "I wouldn't fight you if they didn't promise to pay me so well." They're willing to sell their souls for money and lies.
Viet Nam marine combat vet 68/69
I certainly felt at times that we, on a platoon level while patroling in 'indian country', were used as 'bait' to draw out NVA units.
It's nothing personal Jack, it's just good business- pirates of the Caribbean.
We don't have the right to pit neighbors against each other on the other side of the world
Remenber guys golden words of Yurii, "Lord of war 2005" said at the end
🌍🕊☮❤
Extremely underrated movie.
Their suffering will fall on the deaf ears of those who cheered them on.
Bingo
Bango
Bongo
good point - this happens all the time
Old vet here. I didn't know how messed up I was for years after coming home. Thinking about the value of life and lost lives broke me. 3 marriages, nearly homeless.
Hope you are doing great these days, all the best.
Thank you for your service.
Prayers
@@dennisyoung7363 yes, good advice. Forgiveness and striving to help others ( getting over myself and my ego) I prayed and ended up becoming a chaplain in a jail working with some hard core inmates. Funny enough it feels " normal" in there. Thanks again I'll take those words to heart.
Meeting up with my foxhole buddies in 3 weeks. The BEST friends (and brothers) I ever had. 3 days of lies, stories, and fellowship with only those who can truly understand you. Hope you can connect….
In the British Army, excessive drinking is a regimental or battalion morale tester. "You love the Reg.......how much?" 😅
Yes...and it's a serious problem...or was when I was involved.
Alcoholism is one of our culture's masculine symbols, & IMO as an Aussie, us newer colonials, like you originals, are still heavily entrenched in these ideals in our male & warrior cultures. We respect our forebears so much, we keep repeating the problems which afflicted them. I never could be a warrior but I still struggle with alcohol & many of the other afflictions I've allowed myself to develop with the excuse that it was somehow part of me being a man. I still get childish kicks out of it sometimes though, when you hear stories of drunken boys doing something stupid but hilarious, & remember some of my own. LOL. Anyway, I know it's a Yank thing, but thanks for your service mate. Lest we forget.
This war should be called "The Stupid War"
only 1 side is stupid.
the most appopriate name would be "war against russian aggression"
@@leight420 The "big guy" isn't send fighters from far foreign lands to invade Ukraine. Just to be used as cannon fodder. Stop sending fighters and vehicles and this will be over.
@@leight420 LOL Your entire TH-cam channel is the greatest hits of BRICS alt-right propaganda. It's such an obvious astroturfing scam. It's also childisly simplistic and routine brainwashing.
Putin said it is to protect mother Russia. why don’t you criticise the leader and country invading its neighbour. Using words like stupid war is pointless when it’s already happening.
@@kennethprocak5176How is sending hundreds of thousands of your own people to die for nothing in another country not stupid?
Oh this should be interesting. Thanks, Preston.
There's one thing to understand is that this war has been going on since 2014 and not 2022. Also Russia has the right to defend itself and its ethnic people from harm from hyper nationalism that's being fueled by the western powers to be the biggest army in Europe to fight a tooth and nail bitter war with Russia and this war has been nothing but Brutal for both sides. Russia is winning slowly and Ukraine will be left depopulated as many flew the war violence and the corrupt 3rd world nation of Ukraine will be left defeated economically.
No, it's not. Here one example what's missing in this propaganda video: Russia could go full "Shock N Awe" on Ukraine any moment (btw that's a SOP for USrael). On the flipside Ukraine can't. So Russia has the ability to stop this war any moment, it just has too sink as low as the USA when it comes to morality. They don't. Why? Answer the question.
They are scared of being tortured because that’s what they do and they assume they will be treated the same.
Do your research, listen to what foreign volunteers say in their interviews (like in WillyOAM or Garand Thumb), both sides commit war crimes
What a liar
Agree 100% the Russians systematically torture and abuse Ukrainian soldiers and civilians alike, and expect to be treated the same. But this is not happening except for some fringe cases that the Ukrainians have started criminal investigations to root out.
@@KennethJohnson-st1uv thres a lot of evidence of rusians torturing ukrainian prisoners. somehow theres no evidence of ukrainians torturing rusians, quite the opposite. you can find lots of videos from POW camps in ukraine and rusian prisoners are getting much more care than they deserve. ukrainian prisoners coming out of rusias as if they were in concentration camps in third reich
Absolutely
My cousin and uncle are fighting in Ukraine against Russia... the stuff about Russian soldiers fearing torture is true.. but NOT because Ukraine is doing it (they don't, they are explicitly told NOT to ever abuse prisoners because besides the obvious morality reason, Ukraine cannot afford to lose the support of the west by behaving like monsters and torturing people). Instead, Russian commanders TELL their soldiers they will be sexually assaulted and tortured by Ukrainians if they are captured to ensure they do not surrender. Keep in mind.. Russia is the country that uses ENFORCER squads behind their forward assault squads (usually convicts and conscripts) who are under orders to SHOOT THEIR OWN MEN on the frontline if they try to fall back (we have seen this happen several times on Ukrainian recon drones.. Daily Mail's youtube channel has shown at least 2 instances of it happening).
Cope harder😂
@@Coloss92 And yet there are literally several thousand foreign legion soldiers fighting for Ukraine (my own family members being some of them). If Ukraine was torturing Russians on any meaningful scale beyond the odd rogue soldier who falls out of line, the foreign legions would've seen or heard of it and it would be known in the rest of the world. Nobody from the west is going to fight for Ukraine if they are committing atrocities... hence why Ukraine has strict standing orders for it's forces to handle Russian POWs under Geneva convention standards (something Russia doesn't even formally recognize).
@@Coloss92. Aww you been watching russian propaganda …..russian barrier troops love killing their own, every little helps😉
As well as Ukrainians,they use Kraken and others for this purpose,lots of videos were UK soldiers, who tried to surrender were shot in the back.
@@Hathurforeign volunteers have witnessed Ukrainian soldiers committing war crimes a u.s marine that was fighting for Ukraine defected and is now fighting for the Russians look up “ us soldier defects to Russia “ on TH-cam XD
I'm quite positive that there are cases of brutality towards russian pows, humans are humans after all. But as you said there's no evidence or even hint that this is widespread, common phenomenon. I remember once seeing a footage from ukrainian soldier during some kind of assault (there was intense shooting in the background) found a russian soldier crushed under the rubble trying to escape diasabled ifv. He was screaming at him, he was cursing and cussing at him, he was evidently enraged at him, but nonetheless he was hellbent on saving this poor young man, despite him telling them to leave him there to die. It was simoultainously really soulcrushing and heartwarming. Despite the imminent danger, despite burning hatred, humanity got the better of that soldier.
I see those types of videos every day from Ukraine.
I see horrible things from the russian side.
They aren't the same.
@@rffromusa8319 buddy there are also many videos of Russian soldier evacuating and treating wounded captured Ukrainian soldiers, it's not as if they are all monsters or as if every Russian soldier is going to end the lives of surrendering Ukrainians while every Ukrainian soldier is going to take Russian prisoners
@goncaloferreira8543 not saying that at all. Simply pointing out a trend with more bad treatments being published by russia. I watch both russian and Ukraine social media.
@@rffromusa8319 fair point
Personally, I wouldn't even bother taking prisoners.
I still don't understand the whole argument about how historically "ukraine never existed" as a justification for this war. Like honestly sit down and think about that. This whole thing baffles the hell out of me.
You try to apply logic to Propaganda. Propaganda is emotional and derogatory in nature. Putin does not want to discuss history with you. He wants to subjugate you, rape your wife in front of you, and have your children exist as soulless drones. You cannot ARGUE with that. He could say that the reason for the war is that bees are shitting honey out of their little penises. It would have the same origin, the same quality of thought as "ukraine never existed". People are cnfused about the things russians say about why they wage War in Ukraine. Because they try to THINK about it. Do not make the same mistake.
@@mitchyoung93 you left out the part where the American government starved millions of Texans to death so they could buy more industry up North, where millions of Americans and Texans vanish for speaking out against the government, where the last twenty years all elections were made with just one presidential candidate, where all of Nato states leave during a moment of American weakness and join CSTO as fast as they can, except for Canada where American soldiers help Trudeau remain in power for twenty years. In the past countries have tried to leave Nato, but US troops crushed those ideas really fast and with thousands of tanks
All the countries who left Nato suddenly become prosperous, and let's not forget thousands of Texans children 'found' by the US army, taken to America and adopted by American families to be raised 'as good Americans' while their parents desperately try to get them back
Fortunately you did not leave out the part where America is strong enough to take on the entire world with one hand tied behind it's back so they have no reason to fear a war at all
Just to get an idea of how American you are: how many people died in Donbass between 2014 and 2022?
@@mitchyoung93 you are dreaming if you think ukraine is more oppressive place than russia
@user-yg5hl7gr7jHe is totally right.
@@mitchyoung93Russia recognised independence of Ukraine, remember? Ukraine gave back they nuclear arsenal in return for security guarantees. Now try tould an analogy with Texas.
The German soldiers were told all kind of stories about what the Americans would do to them, including castration. I talked to one soldier who was kept as a POW in Louisiana, picking cotton. He stated that they were stated that they were treated very well as POWs.
The US treated them far better than the UK, and unfathomably better than the French.
These aren’t made up stories they’re referring to in this case though… there are plenty of vids on TG that show torture and executions. Even msm reported on some in ‘22 and ‘23. It’s definitely a real thing on both sides here.
My grandfather was a German POW in the US and always spoke fondly of his treatment by his captors. And was how he learned English.
But him and all his friends were terrified of French reprisal attacks at the end of the war. He was transferred to a French POW camp at the end and managed to escape and walk on foot back to the Rhineland, where he found a friend to boat him across the Rhine in the night into the American occupied zone, because it was not safe in the French zone.
Strong anti-NAZI all his life, but like so many others was forced to fight (in his case in North Africa at least not the eastern front)
Castration was openly promoted on air by Ukrainian doctor. He holds some position of power in Ukraine.
@@maxmagnus777stop your pathetic BS...
@@maxmagnus777ok? There’s controversial doctors everywhere look at Chinese traditional medicine
The problem is that Russians consider Moldova, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia part of "their historic lands" along with every country that was part of the USSR.
Humans are humans... Similar to how US views all of South and North America.
Similar to how China views Taiwan and the first island chain. As well as Tibet
russians dont want those shitholes.
Problem for russia.
It's not a soviet thing. The soviets were constitutionally sovereign republics, and free to secede. It's a Tsarist empire thing. That ended in 1917!
@@mu0FFpu0FF I don't know one American who feels that way in the same way many Russians feel about former Soviet lands. If there were lots of Americans who felt that way then I promise you that Cuba wouldn't be how it is today.
The Moscow Times is owned by a Dutchman it's headquarters in Amsterdam.
Yeah like that’s just suspicious at all. Anything with that kind of name deserves to be thoroughly inspected.
Russia has been running a propoganda campaign in Europe for years now, long before this conflict.
They were kicked out of Moscow for criticizing Putins regime , it was either going to jail and ending up like Navalny or leaving Russia, obviously they picked the second option
@@westlandluc12 what propaganda campaign??
@@oliveryt7168 Theres many, but the funnies of them all is probably the one when the whole of europe was supposed to freeze during the winter... Its been two winters, still havent frozen yet
Ukraine has been a part of the Polish and Lithuania empires first before russia got their grubs on Ukraine.
Also? Many parts of the USSR and parts of new-Russia were sovereign countries before.
And many of those countries are made up of what used to be smaller fiefdoms, and before that there were small towns, villages domestic and migratory tribes...
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It's all in exactly where and when you choose to draw you examples of justification.
Also Novogorod was a Viking trading post. Does that mean it belongs to Norway or Denmark?
@@mitchyoung93 You’d better take some lessons on that before you make ppl laugh next time, mate.
@@robbas_krk1510 that's not a counter argument.. that's not an argument at all. You're out of arguments??
bingo, this is why clinging to historic borders is dumb. Most countries can claim other territories this way. I hoped that people in Europe learned it after WWII, but Russia apparently didn't get that memo.
I was in Makariv, 1 hour west of Kyiv in late 2022. They had only been under russian occupation for 3 weeks early on. One night during a blackout the whole village looked like it was in the main street to buy alcohol and get drunk. I had never been to a place like that before, and the mood was very dark and depressed
Sounds like a night in Denmark or Sweden.
Sounds like Bradford or Birmingham in England or Glasgow in Scotland on any day of the week,
No such place
@@justonlyme6121 There certainly is.
@@WilliamHuntLatheCraft nope, have you ever had the stuffed chicken dish thats named after this city? WHATS IT CALLED????
Well Preston, you are right: Russians and Ukrainians ARE very similar, almos same culture... Some analysts think that this is closer to a Civil War than to a foreign war.
Those analysts are idiots who've never spoken to a Ukrainian.
The danger of claiming that this is like a civil war is that it supports of pro-russian narrative. Of course they would call it a civil war if they are denying Ukraine's sovereignty. They also want to sway public sentiment in the west so the citizens won't want their government to intervene is a "civil war" between 2 groups of people.
I am not denying the similarities and shared history between the two countries, but Ukraine has been an independent, internationally recognised sovereign state that held its own territory and jurisidiction since the fall of thre USSR. It became an official state at the same time as the current Russian state for f sake...
I am not saying that this is what you're claiming, you were just mentioning what some analysts were observing. I don't out-right disagree that there are parallels to a civil war, but I remember reading a post from a Ukrainian who explained how he met alot Russians in university and that Ukrainians and Russians would create memes back in the day about being brothers. He said he stopped considering Russians his brothers when the soldiers crossed the border and started shelling his home city, leveling places he had fond memories of and killing his relatives on the process, because apparently all that "brother" talk meant nothing to them.
I also remember a Ukrainian soldier saying that Ukraine was barely a country before 2014, but united and became one after Putin invaded.
Yeah but here's the problem with that statement. The only reason that even exists beacuse Ukriane was once part of the soviet union...a power that brutalized every former state that was once under it.
So even if that was true, the idea of Ukraine going back under Russian rule based on your Racist logic is laughable. Go back to mossco vatnik pig.
It really is like a civil war
@@Shik0njuul934 Tell that to Ukrainians. See how fast they'll shut you down.
i was once for 3 years in the East German Army and we were drinking a lot. But we had some contacts with the Russians and o boy, they ware of a whole different sort. What we drank in beer, they drunk in Vodka!
I hope you know how much we actually value and appreciate these videos and your take on things. We know we can rely on you to give it to us straight, just the way you see it, and helps us be aware of our inherent biases. 👍
Thanks a lot man, appreciate the kind words!
Fantastic news from Kherson! Drunk French and British mercenaries shot each other.
4 were sent to the hospital with injuries.
@@aov6563I wouldn’t call it amazing but yeah it happens
@@PrestonStewart You can"t be serious taking Moscow times as anything but manipulation! This is disinfo operation masquerading as a news paper. Even when they are telling the truth it is only because it suits their purpose which is to push certain narrative. The publish articles like this so guys like you can amplify them. Disinformation-industrial complex this is what it is.
You’re happy that people are getting killed because they volunteer to fight imperialist totalitarianism?
Weird
As a Russian citizen who's against the war i should say that 90% of the info and your conclusions are absolutely true. You're doing a pretty good job, thanks for your work.
Я как гражданин России который был на Украине до 2014 и видел что там происходило, был и после 2014 , участвовал в событиях 22 и 23 года, желаю тебе свалить с России и не возвращаться никогда. Такого говна нам не надо
Do you live in Russia?
Yeah, the difference is the US men are drinking when they get home from war Russia men drink even when they’re on the battlefield there’s number of videos showing it
Discipline vs. Depression.
They serve beer on US military bases. I get your point though. The American soldiers are drinking when they have free time not sitting in their foxhole waiting to fight.
@@lalzgarra9493source from Moscow
@Juicejunkie409 Your comment is unreasonable. The last time the US fought a long, high intensity conflict was in Vietnam. In that war, many of it's soldiers got addicted to heroin, and fragging incidents amounted to hundreds, if not thousands.
Since then, americans do not wage long wars of attrition in wet muddy camps and trenches. They pick vulnerable, substantially weaker opponents and fight from a relatively comfortable position of complete air and artillery superiority. They have never fought an opponent armed with drones and state-of-the-art precision missiles.
Show me
Belive me, problem with alcohol in USA is NOTHING compared with drinking in Russia.
Alcohol, drug and gambling addiction in the USA taken together is still a smaller and less common problem than alcoholism in Russia. Saying that American veterans drink as often as Russian veterans is an insult to Russians...
Coming from the U.S. military, I can assure you that we're at least as bad, and maybe worse.
@@cruise_missile8387 Nah. The military has a higher percentage of basket cases than the general population everywhere, but in the Eastern Bloc it's as normal to polish off a couple fifths of vodka in an afternoon as it is to have a couple of beers here. That's what happens when you defund social services and education in order to prop up pointless wars and a bloated arms industry.
@@cruise_missile8387 nah, it's a whole other level in russia, and not limited to the military. They have a real problem on a national scale.
@@cruise_missile8387 you can try. But next time when you see whole platoons drunk IN ACTION in Ukraine try to recall when was the last time you saw or heard about something similar in USA army.
@cruise_missile8387 they're both right alcoholism in Russia is a completely different beast.
It was but like 30(ish? ) years ago beer was recognized as an alcoholic beverage instead of a soft drink
Keep coping natobots.
I would like to remind you of only truth, the amount of vast and countles Ukrainian military-garveyards... Likes of wich do not exist in Russia.
OK russkiebot
@@jaxonl7810 that is smartest thing you can muster up? Sad little... Nazibot 😂
Excellent as always. Thank you.
I said it since day one, the dudes that are left when this is all said and done, are gonna be broken and russia will have a hard time dealing with the side effects for decades to come.
So will western nations when all those vets return.
Seems like no one cares about Ukr.
Russia has dealt with ww2 so I think they ll figure it out
research the Coo that happened in Ukraine in 2014. The people of Eastern Ukraine voted to join Russia again and a few days after the vote passed a violent overthrow of the government and installation of a puppet leader prior to Zelinski happened. Then for almost 9 years they have been shelling the cities of Eastern Ukraine and have been killing civilians daily. Totalling almost 20,000 civilians in almost a decade. Putin had warned Western leaders for years to stop killing ethnic Russians there and encroaching on Russian territory but They Refused to abide by there own (Minsk accord) and Putin finally said enough is enough and started the Special Military Operation. You have been lied to by Corporate media your whole life.
The most incredible (and deplorable) thing about social media is reading comments like this. A guy who knows the future of a country after a war, but doesn't know what he will do with his ordinary life in three days.
Looking at released Ukrainian POWs from russian "care" they look starved and tortured.
Im appalled the red cross hasnt gone into russia to check on the prisoners like Ukraine allows woth the Russians they have who even get to call home, medical care and better food then russians can get at home.
The Red Cross is only good for taking peoples money, not much else.
There are literally hundreds of hours of interviews with Russian POWs on YT. These guys aren’t being mistreated by their own admission and their appearance seems to indicate that they are being fed better in the camp than on the front lines.
Certainly there is a fair bit of ass whoop taking place on the front when enemies are captured and zip tied. It’s wrong to beat captured combatants but it happens.
What I see frequently when Ukrainian POWs are repatriated is sickening. These poor men look like they survived Dachau. Emaciated with horrific injuries that were not properly treated.
Russia is systematically mistreating Ukrainian POWs without any doubt.
The Red Cross went into Auschwitz concentration camp and wrote a letter to an American general who was concerned about the treatment of Jews, everything is fine said the Red Cross letter.
They have never been what they claimed to be.
Russia doesn't allow the red cross free access.
The red cross isn't what you think it is.
"Ukraine has never existed and those are Russian lands". That reason for the war is the most dangerous and threatens a number of other nations in the proximity to Russia
whats wrong ?
@@Chaldon-hl6yk, documented history. Why don't you care about facts?
no no thats not the case at all as ukraine legitimately has a wonky history
belarussians estonians and so on clearly have their very own cultures and loads of history
cant say that about ukraine thats been part of russia for like ever before 1990
@@danyvarna5094 documented history - ukraine created by Lenin
@@Chaldon-hl6ykUkraine already existed on medieval maps from the 1500s and was written of by famous historical figures, such as Voltaire
Moreover, the Kievan Rus is a much older civilization than Muscovia. .
war... war never changes.
War actually changes quite a lot and very rapidly even.
@@matteusvirtanen392 its a line in a video game. But it also encapsulates that fact that it really boils down to soldiers dying for the ideals of the leaders/people in power and not about how its fought
@@markburton5292 I am aware of both and I am annoyed at people parroting that quote as if it is some deep and intricate message. The only thing more annoying and pretentious would be posting something vaguely relevant in latin.
If you can't post anything with even some thought behind it then don't bother.
@@matteusvirtanen392 fair point, although I do think you are overreacting a bit. But I do understand where you are coming from.
I usually just move on, but I do have that feeling as well whenever I scroll past surface-level copy and paste comments, spouted so often they lose what little meaning they may have had.
Just feels indicative that the person parroting it has nothing more of value to say.
"Most of them are drinking."
A Russian who drinks. Not just normal but a historically accurate stereotype of those guys.
As for Ukraine never having been a sovereign nation, it is of course a matter of some semantics but not a completely unreasonable assessment; most nation are only some degree of sovereign for practical intents and purposes, and Ukraine was certainly in Russia's sphere of influence until Washington decided to put it in theirs'.
An empire should know when it's dead. Sooner or later they'll get sick of dying and go home.
Unfortunately the russians don't learn. They have had 3 empires fall and never change.
The real irony here is that is precisely the position America is in, in retreat all over the world by rising powers. Our time is ending and I don’t know how more people don’t see that yet. Russia and China aren’t going anywhere.
That's how the Russian Empire ended. Who knows, maybe history will rhyme.
The 3 times the russian empire collapsed, they just restarted where they left off. It appears they don't learn.
@@BlackEpyon the russian empire lost millions of its men before that happened
russia still has to reach its first million and its gonna be a long time till thats the case
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He’s confident that he will be tortured because he KNOWS that his side does it and he is unwilling to believe that the Ukrainians might be better people,
And he undoubtably had this lie drilled into his head by his superiors and propaganda spam.
Or dummy, because there is tons, and tons of proof that they do. Lol i get it you and people like you listen to other people talk instead of learning for yourself. The internet exists sweetheart and this is quite literally the most recorded war in human history. Meaning you can very, very, very easily find the footage.
@@youtoob4life you understand theres video evidence right? Youre an idiot.
@@youtoob4lifeOr he knows it's true. He wouldn't have any reason to say it even if it's embedded by propaganda. Neither side is good, it's a lot of lies on both sides. Ukraine has the West to cover up anything to fit "Russia bad, we good" narrative.
Absolutely. Same thing happened with Japanese soldiers and civilians at the end of WWII. They were killing themselves because they had been told Americans would torture them and were surprised to find that wasn’t the case.