Ukraine - Putin's big OOF
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I'm not long back from visiting family overseas so I apologize this is a low-effort video, normal scheduling will resume once I've had sufficient coffee to numb the pain I feel every day dealing with people's bullshit.
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I agree. NATO should definitely enforce a no-fly zone against Ryanair.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 OH MY GOD thatwasfunny!!!!
Sorry for being 6mo late but 🤣🤣🤣
globally please
hehehehehehehehehe! 🤣🤣👍👍
This joke is as true as its overused
its honestly impressive how Russia still, in almost a week of war, hasnt established air dominance, or at least air superiority. From everyone looking with fear at day 1 to an almost universal "what?" just five days later
Day 1 was like watching a semi truck heading towards a VW beatle at 200mph. Everyone was totally expecting a massacre. I know I was. I was only curious how the west would respond to the total conquest/annihilation of Ukraine.
But then it was like when the truck hit the beatle, it just flips right over it, lands upside down, and skids across the pavement until a spark ignites the gas tank and the truck bursts into flames.
It's pleasantly surprising... but makes me worried that this is some kind of trick. But how? Why would Putin so spectacularly burn his own army and economy?
And there's so much pro-russia coping rn it's hilarious. This entire war is an absolute shitshow. Whatever propaganda they've been doing for the past decade or so just got nullified, which in itself is even more wasted money that they barely even have
Russia’s military is corrupt and still using shitty tech. No wonder Ukraine is kind of pulling an Alexander here.
I’m honestly wondering if Russia can’t afford to put its entire air force into the air.
@@kurtsell8376 I think the fact that they havent been able to achieve air superiority is causing them to hesitate. They're just using artillery on everything now.
"Hearts of Iron 4 players know not to do that, and when the lowest form of human intelligence on the planet is outsmarting you its time to consider you might be wrong" As a Hearts of Iron 4 player... I agree with everything this man has said
Thoughts on hitler?
@@mothercollector1105 nasty man 🤢 🤢 🤮 🤮
@@mothercollector1105 he had a nice mustache
@@mothercollector1105 reject hitler, embrace Chang Kai-shek
@@mothercollector1105 Really nice person just minding their on business and helping outher countries agaist comunism
Just did some fun math.
Your average garden snail moves at about 0.048 km/h.
Since day 1 of the invasion, about 3800 hours have passed (Aug 1, 2022).
In that time, a snail could have covered about 180 km
and thus out-paced most of the Russian Army.
That is some fun math.
Did you do the math on that snail eating and stopping though?
@@ERM62 Snail is true Patriot. Snail does not need foot or sleep, only victory ! (In other words - No) 😄
@@A_Haunted_Pancake makes sense
That's not fair. The snail moves unopposed. You just twist facts to make russians look bad!
This is Putin's "Winter War". 1) Underestimate your opponent, 2) Blitz straight forward, 3) Get target fixation and ignore the flanks.
You forgot about making it an all-out invasion from all sides, getting insane casualties and fucking local farmers being a menace to entire armored columns
Sadly, I fear this will end the same way as the Winter War, with the defenders eventually overwhelmed through sheer numbers and firepower despite a valiant effort.
@@HelghastStalker Ukraine is getting 100000x more support than Finland did. The longer this goes on, the more heavily armed the Ukrainians will be.
Doesn't this remined you of Vietnam, what Russia is doing is the same thing that happened in Vietnam
@@sandvich4days871 Y'see, in Vietnam, the Vietcong at least had to resort to guerrilla tactics.
Ukraine has been fascinating. We get to see the LazerPig loop happening in real time. Everybody though Russian vehicles were tough, rugged, and battle hardened. Then their tanks fought the NLAW, and the NLAW won
Let’s not forget the Javelin too! Remember when everyone was going on about those Cope-Cages being able to stop the Javelin, and then they just punch right through them and blast the tank to hell
@@eazy8579 Seems they can’t even stand up to the old school soviet era RPG’s.
N-Law We Trust
@@eazy8579 ah yes, god bless america for Ukraine's forces patron Saints, Javelin and N-LAW we trust
Remind me of the lazerpig loop again?
If I had a penny for every T-14 tank Russia has, I'd probably have a dime.
According to reports. Two whole dimes. The Ukrainians better watch out... And get the Tractors ready to; "Help them out of the mud."
If I had a penny for every operational SU-57, I'd have a penny
@@Exile1a the russian billion strong warpropaganda for the past 20 years has turned into a huge free Meme in just a week.
What a huge circus that isnt worth shit without nukes
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti i think they spend more money on youtube comments than their military
@@mudkipsarelife4885 Gotta pay the trolls or you'll look like an idiot.
Putin: "General, tell me in one word how the war is going."
General: "Good."
Putin: "Now General, tell me in two words."
General: "Not good."
Ironically, this comment of yours actually describes the situation within the command structure of the Russian army unironically. Officers just keep sugarcoating the situation of the field from bottom to top over and over again until the higher ups get a pretty inaccurate vision of how the war is going on believing everything is going alright when in fact they're not.
@@mekingtiger9095 Perun just recently made a video about this (and by recently I mean over a month ago) and it is a very interesting watch.
"I tell Putin, Army is good and ready."
"I'm not sure that-"
"I not tell him part that is good is not ready and part that is ready is not good."
@@CruelestChris An apt update of an old comment!
Just like in China, no one wants to report bad news, at the risk of being blamed for it and being punished. So everyone with any kind of responsibility will be sure to sugarcoat, conceal, disguise, and masquerade the bad, at the same time taking any kind of positive information, making sure to enhance and magnify while taking credit for it all.
This seems to be a common theme for Russia for the past 100 years. The Russo-Japanese War of 1904 was a massively humiliating defeat for Russia. Then Stalin made the terrible decision to invade Finland before doing the required preparation and due diligence. After an embarrassing loss, Stalin shifts all of the blame to the military officers. He kept doing that throughout WW2. Then the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, without solid thorough preparation of their opponent. Again in Chechnya and Georgia, and now Ukraine. Entering a conflict without the proper preparation, often resulting in embarrassing and devastating losses and defeats.
"How do you fire a smart weapon and miss an airport by a mile?"
Weapon is smart. Operator, well...
Also their smart weapons are jury-rigged from parts they fished out of Radioshack dumpsters and are not very smart at all
You miss with hand written cordnates
Is a russian.
He quite literally missed by a mile
Maybe he didn't want to hit the airport...
Maybe...
“Especially Poland, Have been itching for this for a long time.”
A revenge 1,000 years in the making.
"Revenge is a dish best served cold." --- Old Klingon Proverb.
Poland and Baltic states been wating to do this for ever 😂
@@dirufanboy1971 It took me years to understand the meaning of this proverb ^^
@@dirufanboy1971 and it's very cold in space.
Huh? Dude en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Klushino - For most history, Russia has been takin a beating. Russia has official state holiday at date of explusion of POlish forces from Kremlin.
POLAND: we can begin our push to Moscow with just a couple weeks of preparation.
AMERICA: we appreciate the enthusiasm but how does this help with the Ukraine situation?
POLAND: Ukraine?
I'd love to see the Polish flag flying over Moscow
@@aidengriffin8377 putting the Polish flag over the kremlin reichstag style
GERMANY: Did I hear we are going to Moscow again?
i bet they're eager to unite with their long lost eastern brother
That would be the sweet historical revenge
March 2022: I don’t think the Russian military can look any worse than this.
Early September 2022: is that a challenge?
Edit: this ages better every month
Edit 2: Jesus shit Russia, it was a joke, not a recommendation
EDIT 3 (June 2023): I SAID IT WAS A JOKE
Many of our parents practiced drills in case the soviets attacked so they can increase their survival chances.
Now we shit post on YT while watching videos of russians getting fragged by modified consumer grade drones.
What a wild time to be alive.
Why? What happened? I don’t watch the news since I’m allergic to bullshit.
@@TrinityCore60 go back to sleep then
@@no-sway3709 it was supposed to be a jab at the news, sorry. That said, I do want to know what’s going on.
@@TrinityCore60 Massive Ukrainian counter offensive and efforts to retake territory. Russian army is not doing so hot
Russia isn't bad at war, it's just bad at special military operations
They're good at a style of war that hasn't been relevant since tge cold war. They're logistically and technologically failing to keep up with the way war is being fpught and their failure in tge ukraine is symbolic of that.
Russia is really good at war. Fortunately this is a special military exercise, and they are really shit at that
Kinda like America trying to find chemical weapons In iraq
@@genericname3206 nah man we found those chemical weapons in the homes of the civilians we killed lol 😂.
@@CHEWYLOE I wouldn't call whatever they're doing "winning". More like "not completely losing yet".
Also as a Hoi player I’ve never been so insulted by something I 100% agree with
Unless you’re trying to get across the Bosporus straight as Bulgaria and forgot to research naval invasions. 🥲
As a fellow Hoi player, I am absolutely convinced you stick one of us at Putin's war table and we could have planned this shitshow better.
@@randombrit4504 Here Here.
Ukraine is player Russia is AI. The only reason that we didn't just defend the border is that the conscript event only triggers when 10% of the country is occupied.
Maybe the plan is to look bad? I mean hear me out this might be just as crazy as putin himself but there's always a bigger fish right? So what if this is just hurr durr my army so bad and the next fkin moment the russians are in berlin and hong kong feels like it's under Japan again?
Edit this was the wrong comment im not typing this again
@@lazarpejic6415 Well i would ask one question. Why ? Why looking weak when everyone think you are strong ? Why looking weak for your people ? Why encouraging everyone to gang up and militarize again ?
So things i have learned in the last week
1) Most youtubers can plan better invasions than Russia
2) Putin has gone from global boogeyman to whiney 16 year old blogger
3) Ukraine has a solid meme game
😂👍
Honestly, the Ukraine meme game has been excellent.
@@Ichthyodactyl They got 8 years of combat experience. Meme front including.
Problem is that most Russia good, USA bad" or usually nwo bad people are turning into shills following this 16 year old blogger
Never thought I'd see Putin go from Trotsky to Nicholas II, lenin gonna wake up and slap that old man back to 53
“We’re very lucky they are so f*cking stupid” -unknown Ukrainian soldier
Coming from a country that got convinced by Nazis to lead over 300,000 of their young men to the slaughter, that's pretty rich.
@@mortarriding3913 So were just supposed to ignore that the Holodomor happened which led to Ukrainians fighting alongside the Germans against the Russians in WW2??
Russia made its own problems, and its now reaping what it sowed...
@@mortarriding3913 And if your reply is along the lines of whataboutism concerning how NATO is worse I could care less, seeing as I live in South East Asia and could care less about NATO. If that is your reply sounding like a Commissar from the Politburo, then I know youre just a shill for Russia/a tankie...
@@proudfirebrand3946 you're not from South East Asia though. Are you a sexpat?
If Russia had a clue of how to make efficient equipment, learn logistics, and had efficient soldiers they could be one of (if not the) most powerful militaries. Problem is they can't do any of that. They are years behind countries like the US and Germany, especially in terms of tactics. Trench warfare in the 2000s? Heck, they are still using an engine from the 1930s in their main tanks.
When your military budget is around 10% of the American budget, and you're building new SSBNs and fifth generation fighters you're skimping on something. Turns out it was logistics
and why did you get the idea that we have problems with logistics, this is a couch expert told you, the trucks in the pictures may belong to the syate republics, Russia is not fighting alone, there is also a Donetsk republican and Luhansk, both of them have 30,000 soldiers + equipment tanks artillery, believe Ukrainian propaganda it’s such a thing, Russia’s operation goes perfectly in military art, and there are always losses, this is a war and not a computer game, the war is modern and there has never been such a war anywhere
@@subcomandanteiska6134 So... Desert Storm was a game?
So there plan was to get 5800+ of there soldiers killed and loose billions of dollars of equipment? That's a good plan.
@@MrGunlover12 Maybe they plan to make good on that old ww2 propaganda of “You’re more useful as a sandbag then a soldier” quote iirc.
@@MrGunlover12 the plan is to ensure the security of the Russian state for decades, Ukraine will be disarmed, Ukraine will never join NATO, the Nazi elements will be destroyed and we will all live together and happily, who told you about 5 thousand killed in the Western media and Ukrainian, suppose that it's true, this is a war and they die in a war, this is a modern war of 2 modern armies, there has never been such a war, Ukraine has 200000 soldiers a couple of thousand tanks of armored vehicles artillery aviation, well, there is no aviation anymore, we completely destroyed it, so what did you mean by this, show me at least one war without loss idiot
I’m sorry to hear about your mother, Lazerpig. I hope the best for her.
Yeah I hope she's starts feeling better and I'd like to also say to not worry much at the time about posting videos if there something like that going on in ur personal life. Mental health and taking care of family matters more than any fans.
Seconded the above dude, family comes first and we can re-watch your vids (I'm on about 8 times with the Piorun and can easily do more :-)
dood focus on your mom. we'll be here when you get back
Same.
Me too i hope she gets better too
Former defense minister for russia tried to weed out corruption in the army and ran detailed inspections of their bases uncovering numerous cases of neglected tech and vehicles. He was swiftly replaced. And in this operation also proven right.
Reminds me of the US commander tasked with playing OpFor in an asymmetrical wargame and won because he used couriers on dirt bikes to deliver dispatches instead of radios, and got in trouble for it.
@@blackwoodsecurity531 how wtf lol
@@williewilson2250 Post 9/11 the US conducted a war-games against a fictional Iran to both serve flex/warning. During the exercise a USMC General who represented OpFor won with superior tactics. So they re did the exercise again but this time OpFor was nerfed hard because we can't have the US Armed Forces look bad.
@@westernspirit6399 I meant how did bikes win over radios
@@williewilson2250 They’d have to intercept the couriers physically. Harder to do compared to just listening in on the radio
Remember when saboteurs using ambulances was considered war crimes in this invasion?
Remember when Russia had any real chance of reaching Kyiv? Or before they started attacking nuclear power plants?
I occasionally re-watch this to remind myself that, somehow, Russia hasn't gotten any smarter in this whole ordeal.
Of course not
20+ years USAF here... in my wildest dreams I never imagined how incompetent Russia would prove to be at war fighting. At this point, with the equipment Russia presumably has, there absolutely should not be a single threat to their aircraft beyond random MANPADS. Powering up a Ukrainian radar should be suicide by now... but, here we are, Russia just throwing waves of ground forces into a wall.
If it wasn't for the human tragedy of the war I'd really be enjoying watching the Russian military get exposed again. People have genuinely been arguing for years that its a genuine peer for NATO forces never mind the USA.
Are you implying that Russia could have pulled off a Desert Storm style one sided ROFL stomp if only they weren't so incompetent.
Their fighter are carrying unguided rockets for heavens sake.
They don't have targeting pods, they don't know where their ground troops are, they couldn't make use out of air superiority if it was handed to them.
And as far as their super weapons go (T-14, Su-57, etc.) Russia has just found out the difference between Technology Readiness level 6 and 9.
@@kilianortmann9979 their vehicle’s seem to lack a blue force tracker as well.
Their ground troops Don't even have gps
The T-14 has been in the “it will complete state trials at the end of the year” phase for 7 years now. I’m not holding my breath.
ayyyy funny man
Is that before or after it broke down?
Apparent Germany and France took it serious enough to start the MGCS.
@@drakron It's the IS-3 all over again.
@@drakron honestly i think everyone has been waiting on the 3-2-1 Go on a True changeover to 3 man tanks. the proceeding failures of the T-14 have since slowed development, seeing as the current projected design for the MGCS is Rhinemetal Frankentank'd a Leclerc turret onto the Leopard 2 A7V
Watching this from one of Kyiv's bomb shelters I can say that everyone here who isn't busy fighting the russians is busy laughing at them. The sorry state of their army was a shocker to us too. The sad part is that they switched to familiar warcrime and terror bombing for the win tactics. Thanks for cheering me and my friends up, lazerpig, I wish good health to your mom, героям слава!
im so sorry you have to go through something like this , i wish you and your family good health and good fortune!
I wish you alla the best, brother I'll never meet
They are ridiculous, but there are so many of them. Stay safe brother.
It's the sheer weight forcing them forward at this point
Hang in there, dude. You just have to last until Evil Dobby is forced out of office.
So *THIS* is why Russian companies keep needing to artificially buff Russian vehicles and nerf NATO vehicles in their games.
Can be an actual yes and a fax I think, especially for the Gaijin Snail/🐌, their Warthunder videogame, and the Soviet/Russian bias of vehicles and stuff ingame that makes people playing the game itself feel like their T-34s or T-54s/T-55s are metaphorically or even literally made of a wacky, fictional, nonexistent but also very strong kind of material and/or an alloy of sorts called Stalinium.
The most confusing and depressing part of this war is the POW interrogations, the majority of the troops are young boys born after 2000, from infantry to tank crews. What's even worse is the paratroopers saying they didn't know they were invading. It's unusual since Russia does have combat hardened soldiers, but instead we've got teenagers marching into machine gun nests.
I'd use a lot of caution with those videos in particular. They reek of propaganda; I would not be surprised if most of them are completely fake.
And no I don't support Russia, this war is wrong. I just doubt the Ukrainians are capturing hundreds of Russian troops within the 1st week
@@fishjohn014
Given that Russia has actually Anti war protests erupting and they’re considering shipping off protestors to the front lines? No, these guys are MORE cartoonishly evil than you’d think
@@spindash64 You do realize that the Donbass has been in war for nearly a decade right? This is Russia finishing it in its entirety to uproot the Kiev regime and secure the sovereign rights of the seceding republics, the Russian populace is wholly mad because it tanked the economy even harder when they were already living in a heavily sanctioned state with another pointless conflict and social media adding fuel into the fire, stirring unrest (sort of like a bizarro Iraq war). Ukraine, however people try to paint this conflict, is also not wholly blameless. Nobody is cartoonishly evil in this scenario as much as you'd like it to be. It's just politics.
Sad we constantly have to say "No I don't support Russia" when just urging caution in taking everything as fact.
I talked to someone whom I have been able to tell the most offensive, over the top jokes with for five years now. Someone I have had a lot of polite disagreements with over the years even on hot button topics.
I said "Imagine hating Russia for their stance on gay rights and unsubtle white nationalist overtones, volunteering to help the Ukrainians fight them, and getting saddled up with the Azov Battalion."
They legit didn't know who that was. I explained. I must have said 'allegedly' like 27 times because I am not going to believe what the western media, Ukraine or Russia has to say on the matter and that filtering fact and propaganda is probably impossible.
"Because a country with a Jewish president would be in league with neo-nazis."
Explained that when your back is against the wall you aren't picky about who you ally with, I have no horse in this race.
Was politely informed by discord that that message didn't go through because they don't receive messages from people not on their friends list.
Still kinda stunned about that. Reminds me of ye olden days when talking about the lack of WMDs in Iraq meant you wanted Saddam to genocide the Kurds or something.
@@Ranchor489 yes they are evil you need to stop making excuses or you can move to Russia traitor
When the world needed him the most, he came back, slava ukraini!!
Ahhhhh, that's what he said at the end!
Slava Ukraini!
Slava Ukraini!
🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦
Slava Ukraini!
fuck ukraine
-things can’t get worse for Russian military
(Month and half later)
- things definitely get worse for the Russian military
Moskva is down! The quarterback is toast!
"and then it got worse" has essentially been the motto of the Russian Armed Forces since the time of the Tzars...
Putin: well, it won't get worst than that, right?
*Entire battalion got destroy while trying to cross the river*
@@lokisg3 is that for real? i know it definitely happened in the Winter War where finnish snipers shot a the frozen river and a whole soviet platoon sanked under the ice
@@portela132 yeah, tank battallion got wrecked by artillery while trying to cross a river. Same as usual, but near a river
Fun fact: What Russia is doing now is very simmilar to the soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Capture airport close to the capital, fly in troops, kidnap the goverment, force regime change. This was their plan (in 1968 they did no missile strikes, because they were allies of Czechoslovakia so it was a backstab). Its amazing how a country that prouds itself on its super duper KGB spy school failed so miserably to gain the simple intel of "Ukraine will fight" and "You willl not get into Kyijiv city center within the first week of the invasion".
I bet that Putin truly and honestly expected to march into Kyjiv, face some civilian protesters he could shoot, kidnap the goverment of Ukraine and declare victory. Instead it has been almost a year of absolute massacre with no end in sight...
The troops who marched into Czechoslovakia were Ukrainian.
@@mortarriding3913 orders came from the Kremlin so idgaf. Btw there were also Polish, German, Hungarian and Russian soldiers. But over all they were there on Moscow bidding.
@@mortarriding3913 Sure, and so were all of the troops who beat the nazi's
@@mortarriding3913 They were Polish, and Hungarian, mostly, actually.
"allies" is a generous term, more like overlord if you ask me, the countries of the warsaw pact were almost puppet states to the USSR at the time
"I have no idea what the fuck is going on and neither do you." The most accurate analysis I have seen anyone give on anything.
Underrated comment.
Truer words newer said. As human first step of becoming intelligent is to accept fact that we hardly know anything about anything, and can be truly knowledgeable of about 1 topic per lifetime, and rest are enlightened guesses.
Lol stfu we can see whats going on there. what a joke.
@@extended_e To sorta add on to your point, and/or to truncate it; true knowledge comes from finding answers to "I don't know".
@@CakePrincessCelestiaFr bro, but thankfully, atleast it had some likes and recognition to and for it as a comment which is enough anyway. :)😌
As a former War Thunder player, I have some suggestions for the top-tier Soviet tank tree to simulate realism.
When playing Tier VI-VII Soviets:
- Random chance to run out of gas
- Random chance to break down
- Random chance the crew will abandon the tank
- The battle map is disabled or displays an obsolete version.
- Radio comms from other players are disabled, while your comms are broadcast to everyone.
- Due to there being much less quantity than advertised, T-80/T-90 players may randomly spawn in T-72s
- If a player from Ukraine spawns in the match, there's a random chance your tank/helicopter/jet will explode
- If you drive off the map, your tank gets towed away by a Gypsy in a tractor.
You didn’t pay your recruits on time, they sell your gas and equipment to buy alcohol.
@@philippmackowiak7544 😂👍
- The map doesn't show you where the next objective is, you have to find a civilian car and ask for directions.
- If you leave your tank parked next to a tractor, you get towed away
- When you use artillery strike, you can mark the target and there is a 1/100 chance that is where the artillery actually lands.
Aye but what if you staple a Ukrainian flag to a T-80. Just saying.
Yep
The meme community appreciates Putin for his contribution to meme culture for the next couple of decades.
This comment right here is golden
Best comment
@@juniorsanchez4157 q
Next decades? More like the next centuries!
Somewhere, a lot of French and Italian veterans are grinning...
The idea that the VDV got fucked by civvies that barely know how to clean their weapons, is absolutely hillarious in a morbid way
Reminds me of Pakistani Commandos of the 19th Baluch Regt. that got dropped in India in 1965 war and then got lynched or arrested by civilian farmers led by Police. The farmers didn't have firearms at all.
tbh that's not even on the VDV. They're genuinely very well trained. But paratroopers without any kind of support are just light infantry. They have assault rifles, light machine guns, maybe one or two rpgs and that's about it. If a whole city decides they want them out, the cities is going to throw them out. Russian commanders are so bad that even the well trained parts of the army got fucked.
Same vibes as the Germans on Crete
Yeah; except it happened mostly on Twitter
@@death_parade So I recently got an old memory jumping into my concious; Åland, island near finland n swedesia, it had some farmers and 2 swedish soldiers drive off like 600-2000 russian infantry 🤭
“The main force of Russian troops have yet to arrive in Kyev… after five days”
::giggles in day 50::
their boat sank though, with 400 of the 500 crew on board.
*giggles in day 70*
Giggles in ABANDONED OBJECTIVE. And fuck that narrative is was a feint, guess VDV and troops were sent to die :P come pick yo peoples up putin... cmon dude.
*Giggles in day 75.*
@@wifi_soldier5076 crew survived
My Uncle served during Desert Storm in an Abrams. He is currently busy laughing his ass off over the russian advance
I wish my dad were still here, we’d probably be laughing our asses off at the sheer incompetence.
@@NoTraceOfSense I’m sorry for your loss
War criminal
@@sharudon666 Skill issue
@@sharudon666 don’t google who gassed the Kurds in the 90s.
I felt the same way you did, "No way Putin would invade, that's crazy." Then, "Oh man he did, wholly crap." Then, "What's his game, why are things going so poorly for Russia? Why are they being so restrained? What's Putin's goal here?" But like they taught me when I was being trained for generating intel briefs, "This isn't a movie, there usually isn't some high-level grand strategy or plot twist, people just make stupid decisions and then follow through on them."
if you watch his speech given at invasion kick off you can see his game. What does he really want? He wants the old Soviet empire back under the guise of Russian Federation. He wants the warm water port of Crimea and he needs land that supplies Crimea with easy access to food, water, power, etc. Throw in the fact Ukraine found gas and oil fields and was getting ready to compete with Russia for energy supplies to Europe AFTER Russia worked with Germany to build a gas pipeline that avoided Ukraine (don't want to pay those pesky "right to self-rule" royalties on Russian gas) entirely. So it's a bit of nostalgia, a bit of greed, and a bit of megalomania all wrapped up in psychotic Russian nationalism. Whee!
@@lexwaldez It has nothing to do with that, that's the propaganda motive they're selling you to justify a war because if not the USSR will come back and take over the world. It's the Cuban Missile Crisis but in reverse, imagine if Cuba joined the Soviet Union and became a missile site and military base during the cold war, that would have instantly launched a US invasion. As hard as it's been for me to realize this because we've been so propagandized to, if you hold onto your principles and understand the laws of war then invasion for the purposes of self defense is legal and morally acceptable. Ukraine is a corrupt puppet state and this whole adventure is squarely on the US government, it's corrupt and has to do with Biden getting a big payout if Ukraine joins the EU and all those stolen resources find investment and labor to extract it, beyond that there's a huge need to distract from his abyssmal failures at home and so many interests aligned with pushing for war, the MiC and corrupt elites that have their own vested interests. The great reset being one, rations on fuel meat and power, higher taxes and more wealth transfer to the top in order to create neo-feudalism, elites that own everything and then you toiling away every day for scraps. If you thought the Cuban Missile crisis was a lunatic step towards nuclear armageddon when Khruschev tried it and then capitulated to Kennedy then you better believe that the US shoulders the same blame and more because they did not back down like the USSR did in the fifties. Can you imagine Cuba becoming part of the Soviet Union and housing soviet military bases and missile sites, and Cuba is still seperated by the Florida straits. Ukraine has an unimpeded flat path over farmland straight into Russia.
@@bencheevers6693 Except there weren't any nukes being shipped to Ukraine, Ukraine was not part of NATO or the EU and wasn't going to be until Russia stuck their dumb knob into the situation as for self-defence what nonsense is that? This country dared to be independent so we invaded them? Go back to the Kremlin and collect your paycheck
@Ben Cheevers Uncited claims coming from an unhinged brain. If the Cuban Missile Crisis was inexcusable, and this is just same situation with the roles reversed (ignoring, for a moment, that the US did not send an army in), then it's still inexcusable. You already buried your own argument. Putin is the singular most important entity that led to this war, everything else is pageantry and paranoia. You have no principles if you believe in preventive war
@@bencheevers6693 You've been taking the alt right talking points from Putins propaganda machine far too seriously. Ukraine hasn't been interested in NATO for years and NATO certainly hasn't been interested in Ukraine. Ukraine Di want to join the EU, hence the Revolution of Dignity when Putins puppet PM scuppered the deal, because they wanted an end to the corrupt oligarchy Russian style that they'd been subjected to. Sure controlling Ukraine reduces Russia's land border, that is not a good justification for invading a sovereign nation, not unless you're a Putinist like you.
- Comrade Yuri, how is the 3-day special military operation in Ukraine to fight NATO going?
- Not very well, comrade Boris. Its been nearly a year and we've had tens of thousands of casualties, material worth hundreds of millions destroyed has been destroyed or captured, and morale is very low.
- Sounds terrible. But I bet NATO is suffering even worse, right?
- NATO has yet to join the fight...
One of my friends is a tanker in the US Army. He says everyone is chomping at the but to be deployed.
NATO was busy getting Finland to join, which happened recently. Russia now has one more NATO country to worry about, and it's one that's breathing down their neck.
@@TheCrimsonElite666 Putin's invasion of Ukraine for alleged fear of NATO encrouching Russia's border ended up doubling Russia's border with NATO countries. Truly a master strategist!
@@VorkKnightOfGood Once Ukraine finally ends this bloody war and repels Russia, NATO's likely going to swoop in and get Ukraine to join, tripling Russia's border with NATO countries. Russia's First Chechen War is a far less embarrassing defeat for them than this war with Ukraine.
Boris: "... Blyaaaaaat..."
Its honestly ridiculous how Russian leaders never learn, hope your family is well!
Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦
🇸🇪>:)
Героям Слава
russia only had 2 leaders yeltsin and putin who is still ruling russia
They literally keep doing the same thing over and over again wtf🤣🤣
At Milsim West a few years ago, an airsofter kept getting found because his Snapchat showed his exact location to everyone else who was taking part. Everyone made fun of him and said how no military would make that mistake in real life.
Fast-forward to 2022…
Today or yesterday one russian group was boomed on the march because one of the soldier posted a few photos from the frontline to the Instagram.
I recall reading a story nearly exactly like that about a Norwegian encampment in a NATO wargame. They used tinder to triangulate the position of the soldiers and called fire missions on their heads.
LOL
@@mauer594 it was trilateration actually, as tinder gives range instead of angle. So instead of drawing lines you draw circles.
@@mauer594 And that's why we do military exercises. To learn from our mistakes before they matter.
Watching Russia in this conflict is like watching a former football star who has grown old, fat and slow, but still thinks they can fairly wipe the floor against anyone.
Russia, the Maradona of warfare?
its paul vs mayweather but paul is actually good
My current mental imagery is of Putin as an old, fighty drunk threatening someone at a bar, and then he trips over a bar stool and K.O.s himself on his first swing.
@@BenjaminKibbey I'm imagining it with the sounds of Russian gibberish, the stool scooting on the floor a bit, and then Putin slamming his head on the bar counter and then the floor
10/10 but 100/10 when you imagine it with sounds
We really need to take their nukes away from them, or they’ll keep doing this.
It’s even funnier how america routinely spends hundreds of billions of dollars developing crazy new weapons to counter Russian equipment, only to find out that russia didn’t have that stuff to begin with. Now we have a new badass service rifle capable of punching through russian parartrooper armor that *they don’t even wear*.
Damn, remember that one Russian body armor that could "protect you against .50 Cal"? Cool concept, but where is it now when a good urban fighter needs it?
This is honestly depressing
I mean, there are still China
During the Cold War it was pretty common for the Pentagon to massively talk up Soviet capabilities because it justified their own calls for more money and cutting edge weaponry like the ridiculous SDI boondoggle. The CIA meanwhile tended to be much more accurate and realistic, pointing out that many of these supposed new weapons were actually just research projects or that the vast numbers of aircraft/tanks/missiles that the Soviets had supposedly deployed didn't exist and the real numbers were a fraction of that. It was the same in the USSR where elements of the military and weapons manufacturers pushed for greater spending on new toys to counter threats from America that weren't real. When Soviet rocket scientists appraised the Space Shuttle they were baffled that it even existed because it didn't make sense - never coming close to achieving its design goals and costing far too much for what it could actually do. Meanwhile the military and associated industry were pushing the narrative that it was a weapon, either for delivering a nuclear first strike without warning, or as a way of capturing Soviet satellites. The Soviet leadership bought the lies and committed to vast spending to counter a non-existent threat in part because of this fear mongering but also because they gave they Americans too much credit and couldn't believe that they'd have spent so much on a program that couldn't even replace what they already had, which could only mean it had some other secret capability.
@trolleriffic you know what they say, don’t bet against America’s disgustingly overfunded military industrial complex or you’ll find out why we don’t have healthcare.
As if by some miracle this video is released right as I'm about to sit on the can at work.Guess the bathroom is going to be occupied for approx 25 mins and 44 seconds, I don't think my coworkers will understand if I tell them it's Lazerpig's fault.
Side note, Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦
Eh just tell them you ate taco bell last night
Same. I'll just listen to it while working. And watch it a second time at home for the visuals.
Just say you had beljaschi is bomschami and they´ll understand
I was following the work of some pretty well-recognized experts in the field (whom I won't name but I suspect you'd recognize them) in the run-up to this renewed invasion, and as you know they have been proven devastatingly wrong on how this would go on H-hour. Some have admitted their miscalculations, others are coping and you can almost see them with fingers crossed, hoping for a big Russian win because their credibility's on the line. I was in Kyiv about ten days before it kicked off, when it was reported that the invasion would come at any moment, and I too remembered being worried that some time during the night the power would go out, internet and cell service would go offline, etc. Turns out none of that happened.
In general, I think the problem was these experts made too many assumptions based on watching Russian staged drills on TV Zvezda, and they also assumed the Russians would fight the war like we would fight the war- something like Desert Storm.
Also side note- a friend of mine was misidentified in a viral social media pic as the Ghost of Kyiv. He's just a war correspondent who happened to be standing in front of a Mig-29 while wearing a balaclava.
Anyway, love your work as always and I point people to it whenever I get the chance. Sorry to hear about your mother, I wish her health.
Слава Україні!
Glad to see you are okay. I was worried when I heard you were going back into the country.
Imagine hoping for a hostile invading nation to win just so your crappy military knowledge is proven correct.
I was talking to a friend in Kyiv and we were both amazed about power and internet.
Powers a bit tricky, you can't bomb nuclear plants and it's not like you can even guarantee that they are safe to switch off
But cell service is a no brainer, not that that stops broadband and wifi
@@MostlyPennyCat just because nuclear isnt exactly something you can hit directly doesnt mean its not easy to shut off, Nuclear is actually so high yield that it results in strategic consolidation
@@MostlyPennyCat transformer stations are still required to make the power useful and are pretty easy targets, the only reason for Russia not hitting them hard is incompetence.
I wouldn't have expected "rush B no stop" to be official Russian doctrine, but here we are. This whole incident has been...very informative.
They were told they were on a redecoration mission to replace all Ukrainian flags with Russian ones
Classic Leroy Jenkins
Rush K
@@chrisb9143 yeah that is more accurate
"The main forces have yet to arrive to Kiyev after 5 days"
And here I am watching this 8 months later
Same
Ditto
And then Ukrainian forces have entered and liberated Kherson. Lets go boyz
longest 5 days of my life
Unfortunately, the Russians(of Moscow) have reconquered the Vornezh and Rostov Oblasts(of Russia).
I am glad that I am not the only one who thought Russia was not going to actually inavde.
Russia is just making themselves look bad and NATO would walk over them in no time. SLAVA UKRAINI!
Speaking from Russian- no one thought he will. It's day 7, we yet to understand any reason for this war and our soldiers deaths. More over, official propaganda denying war itself. They don't even speak about Kiev assault.
Which is why pootin is bringing up nuclear weapons when nobody else is.
We've been all lulled by decades of "tensions rising" over exercises happening close to borders. Nothing ever happens, so we simply thought it couldn't.
All he had to do was not invade and make the west look like clowns for having warned about it for months, accuse them of stoking tensions with the weapons exports, etc.
And then he actually invaded and put the clown shoes on himself.
I thought they would Salami slice of Donetsk and Luhansk and that probably would have worked, I never imagined what the heck this is.
As a prior U.S. Marine who was logistics, everything you have brought up makes my head spin. Especially the photo of that bunched up convoy. That is a major NO from any convoy commander with 12 brain cells. You are right, what the hell are they doing?
Also side note, would you ever consider doing a video on the US AAV's? Keep up the great content, and hope your mom gets better.
Yea...you look at their supply chain and it made me lose my shit
From someone who has never done anything in this field, what exactly was wrong with it?
What always cracked me up was the media response to it.
"Oh noes, look at this enormous convoy, Russia is going to destroy Ukraine!!!"
It might, but this conga line of clown cars isn't doing it. This is just an epic fuck up.
I'm not a military commander and i have only 11 brain cells.
Whats wrong with them being bunched up? Does it just make ambushes and airstrikes more effective?
@@jammygamer8961 Mortars, Airstrikes, Ambushes, IEDs, VBIEDs, name a bad time and you're set up for failure
finally, the only objectively correct opinion on this conflict
@@psychosageio i do like both approaches
"Just the facts" released a really good video on it. Underrated channel even if he is an edgy kid barely old enough to drink.
this video is spoon fed NATO biased garbage lmao
I reviewed this video after six months of the war and I can only shrug. In that chaos of news and information miscarriages, not everyone could draw the right conclusions, but you did it. Kudos sir and best wishes from Kyiv.
I hope you're doing okay, dude
We have not tired of supporting you or watching Russia make themselves look like the world's biggest horses ass.
Well apart from the no-fly zone bit. But pretty good otherwise. I'm waiting for Gerisimov and Shoigu to get hung out to dry
@@geopolitix7770 Well Putin said such a thing would guarantee WWIII, so…
@@Kaiserboo1871 ...so nato should go for it? I mean whenever Putin says he'll do something he does the opposite right?
Those T14s that you see tankies drooling over I imagine suffer from the same problems as Super Heavy Battleships did in WW2. They're big, they're impressive, and they're expensive. So expensive that Russia doesn't want to risk potentially loosing them and destroy what little morale they have left.
Russia also does not have that many T14s and at the rate at which the get delivered they can't afford sending any. And a handful of T14s would likely be operationally insignificant anyways.
I bet they are also pissing themselves scared of NATO getting a hands on one from the Ukrainians in case their ill trained and unmotivated soldiers abandon one.
Most orders for T-14s. Were cancelled in 2020. They will get about 100 units and that's it.
They are reported as being cheaper than an Abrams M1A2 with a price tag of 7 million USD to the anerican's 8 million. But Russia is a poor nation. Those T-14s are irreplaceable.
On a side note, the T-14 looks like it strongly checks many hard factors. I can't wait to be proven wrong by Pig on that.
@@ThZuao
I believe those 7 million USD are more along the lines of 5 Million USD now. A couple more weeks of this and I can afford one.
@@smiglo112 That. And I'd probably go and extend it with "...abandon one when it inevitably breaks down."
Because let's face it, we know fuck all about how mechanically reliable the T-14 really is in field conditions. Given that one of those broke down during a parade, where all eyes were on them and there's a lot of extra scrutiny to make sure such embarrassing things don't happen... Well, field conditions in a country where your tanks are getting ambushed all the time are much, much worse than a parade and its rehearsal.
As a Lithuanian, I'm proud to see Russia fail so hard as they have had so far. It gives me hope they will lose and be held accountable for terrorizing eastern Europe for decades
Decades? More like centuries. Russia has much to answer for.
I'm here all waiting for Königsberg to be restored to Germany, that would be poetical
And your comment won't age well, just like your PoV. While you are being brainwashed by mass media, Russia is "losing" the war by pushing hard and soon to encircle Kyiv. Not even saying that they finally clearing up Marioupol and finally made it possible to get humanitarian corridors running after pushing back Azov shitters.
Keep trusting the lies, keep on lacking critical thinking.
@Shinshocks Ehm... So victory for you seems to be "complete annihilation"? Russia has made their demands public and they are negotiating it every few days, but nothing changes and they won't go for anything less than 3 claims they have announced.
As soon as Kyiv agrees to all three - that's going to be victory. And they will agree to all of it when Kyiv will be under the siege and things will be looking grim. ETA - anywhere from two weeks up to the end of May, but hardly doubt they will last till May (btw, May dates are provided by Ukrainian side).
@Shinshocks Screenshot your comment, so you can remind yourself how wrong you were. Might help you in the future to realize that your analytical skills are not the best and you might want to invest into improving them. Life becomes a bit easier, when you can analyze situation objectively.
Out of all of the possible outcomes I envisioned for this war, watching Ukrainian farmers stealing Russian tanks and taking them on joy rides was definitely NOT one of them.
"if you steal some shit from the Russians, it's tax free"
**Poor farmers living in post-USSR squalor** ?!?
pizza always taste better in the inner compartment of a tank.
Nearly 1000 days into Russias "3 day Special Military Operation" and Russia is still trying to break a brick wall with a plastic fork
3:47 "i don't know maybe there really is a guy swimming around the black sea with a knife destroying submarines"
Moscova's sinking really recontextualized that statement in hindsight
Maybe not guy with a knife, but with a trident.
@@costamcostam8961 A very big trident.
@@bell3287 An explosive trident
Now I am just imagining a very pissed off Ukrainian with a knife swimming furiously after a warship.
I think the Moscova might be in the video at 7:45 as well
Hope all is going well with your family
Glad to see your back
I hope he gets boostered. Yet another content creator who is suckling the Satanic Globalist tit and pushing the Ukraine lies. Ukraine is getting smashed, no one is coming to their aid. But perhaps by spinning the opposite the likes of Soros hopes to get those in need of Boosters to fight in Ukraine and kill more Brothers in wars?
@@TheBelrick stfu seriously what’s with this conspiracy shit
@@TheBelrick You do realise Russia's forces are out of food and fuel and have barely moved since about day 2 or 3 of this war right?
@bel rick
@@TheBelrick yes because a bunch of neo nazis wanted a jewish actor to be there president and they fight so hard against russia because it's just brotherly love to shot one another in home land of mother russia lol
Get real my friend no one wants this war putin has sent so many of his people to die over against people he has pissed off for many yrs with constant harassment and snipers and that's after Crimea
NATO before this was against america for Iraq and drone strike ect now they want more weapons and oil this will only hurt russia in the end
I remember the first time I saw a story talking about the "40 mile long convoy" pointing at Kyiv. Almost immediately I was thinking "that's not a convoy, that's a traffic jam. Of course they're having trouble with fuel, food, and ammo. Their resupply is at the other end of that mess".
The craziest part is the number of people claiming that somehow having a 40 mile long convoy is a show of... capacity? strength? People are still saying "when that reaches Kyiv" even though the convoy hadn't moved for a day, then two, then three.
If you actually look at the convoy, at least the footage before the raids started, you can see it's mostly a line of trucks, not tanks- the convoy *is* the resupply, not an armored super-army slowly crawling at Kyiv.
What an absolute disaster for the Russian military.
which is made dumber by having these massive convoys out in the open WITHOUT Air superiority.
thy are just begging to be strafed
The memes regarding it have been spicy too.
'A-10, for once in your life, do not brrrt.'
@@Bingo_Bango_ It's not that it's a show of capacity or strength. It's the enabler for the capacity and strength. If it reaches kyiv with any fuel remaining, it will not be the pain, but the pain will be able to move.
@@Bingo_Bango_ Exactly! You don't get a fucking convoy that long without raw fucking incompetence of the highest accord!
>6 months later
The OOF is so SO much bigger.
And seeing how things are going, I belive it will only grow even larger.
7 months later here still a BIG OOF.
Yesterday The OOF REACHED A GIGANTIC SCALE
@@kevinnac1 No no, gigantic it will be when Ukraine will retake Crimea and Donbas. Tho tbh, even without that (yet) it's still an embarasingly large OOF :F
@@ComissarYarrick at this Rate i Don't doubt it
When you make the Winter War look like a sharply executed operation, you know you done fucked up.
all i've been thinking is how close this does resemble winter war. even the opening artillery shots were similiar
You are literally my new favourite way to smash common sense into my mentally absent (and often physically absent) friends
Slava Ukraine, Slava LazerPig
Fun fact. Russians have actually deployed T-90s. The Ukrainians already captured a few and another has been found at the bottom of a lake flipped
I thought those were B's
@@LazerPig No multiple different tanks have been captured. The full scope of tanks , the russians havd abandoned are yet unkown but still there have been T-80s , T-90s and t-72s
@@oliwierkarnicki3953 don’t doubt you but do you have something about the tank in the lake?
the t90 sucks and isnt better than the t72b3. t90s designer said the t80u is straight up better in most ways
@@oliwierkarnicki3953 theirs been 4 confirmed T90As, 2 were destroyed and 2 were abandoned. There’s been 14 confirmed T72B3Ms, 4 T80BVMs, 13 T80Us, and like 35 other various T72 and T80 variants. This is just what’s been scraped together by a group looking through videos and photos aswell as digging to confirm they’re legit, so the real number is probably higher. About half are described as merely “abandoned” so they may have been recovered by Russia, or destroyed/ captured by ukraine.
Day 272, the russians have now lost the only regional capital they managed to capture and are resorting to fighting on the defensive and firing missiles at civilian infrastructure
They are also deploying Czech dragon's teeth, and Bakhmut looks pretty close to Verdun right now
@@notvonbayern9202 Bakhmut is the most bizarre part of this whole war for me, like how are we back in ww1 with human wave attacks against machine gun nests?? Even civilians like you and me don't make that mistake
@@robs.2671 desperation
@@robs.2671 Because Russia...
@@notvonbayern9202 The "Dragon's Teeth" have to depth, and still have loops by which a vehicle can move them. They are an inconvenience at best.
What baffles me is the lack of any modern tactics shown by Russian movements. There seems to be a mixture of 1950s era armored spearhead theory and maneuver warfare, but mostly nothing at all. No logistical planning was undertaken, no coordination. If I didn't know better I'd guess sabotage.
I’d wager even the 1939 Germans would be performing better than the Russians because at least they didn’t push straight down the middle
Probably the tried and true; over reliance on brute force thinking you’re too strong to be threatened.
Even the Elbonian army would laugh at this level of incompetence.
Let's be honest here. Has Russia ever actually fought a modern war successfully? People always just assume they will be successful because of memes, but time and time again they get exposed.
Too much reliance on the nuclear arsenal to threaten other countries has sapped conventional force support.
"Russia wanted to sow the seeds of panic and confusion"
Well they got one of those down. I'm pretty fucking confused
I’m still fucking confused
@@americankid7782 Very confuswd
Truth is sadly a first casualty in every war
Thank you for being very honest
In this case sanity. Ukrainians don't even need lie that much at this point, outside memeing...
@@TheRezro the shitposts are often correct
@@Miles26545 Yeh
"The Russian military will dominate Ukraine!" - Putin April 2022
"Jesus Christ..." - Putin April 2023
Gunshot- Putin 202? (Hopefully)
@@thedude4840almost. Almost.
2024 now, still a big Russian oof
@@lonewolf0712august 2024 Even oofer
What's funny. This war makes it clear the scenario of a handful of random highscool boys with hunting gear could humiliate Russia's military like in the movie Red Dawn. Isn't as far fetched and unrealistic as we may have originally thought.
The only thing unrealistic about Red Dawn is how long it takes for one of the Wolverines to get shot.
The Russian casualties are completely to be expected though.
Been a year but seeing how the war has been going. Its still pretty accurate... Militia can be very useful in the right circumstances... But Red Dawn should have ended in a nuclear exchange, its magical that somehow the US and Soviets agree to not nuke each other in such a situation. not even a a single defensive tactical nuke hitting the border or something. But paratroopers are pretty light-weight, they should not be anywhere near as effective as they are in HOI4. Don't care how "well-trained" they may be, you need weight to push into places. Operation Market Garden PROVED that problem.
Soviet army back in the day was real, just because Russia is a shell of its former self doesn't mean that post ww2 soviet forces weren't extremely competent.
That's how we got to this position really. Because when we finally got to see behind the curtain we found that they were far more than we had hoped.
That surprise was folded into ww2 sentiment and became the modern russian superiority complex that let them completely wither away.
"Main force of russian troops have yet to arrive in Kiev after 5 days" - 15 days now and counting.
20+ days and counting.
Day 25 and they have yet to even incircle the city let alone take it. This is embarrassing
Day 28 and there’s now news of some Ukrainian counter-attacks pushing the Russians away from Kiev. Nothing confirmed yet but huge if true!
I think it's 27 now, and I haven't heard of the city being encirlced, let alone taken.
Day 32 (holy shit)
More bombings and pushing to Kiev. Still haven’t gotten to Kiev
As someone who has people very important to me in Ukraine, the sheer horror of watching the initial strikes happen, to the confusion of watching repeated unsupported paradrops and air assualts, to the pure fucking comedy of a 50 mile convoy has been a roller coaster.
Hello
If it weren't for all the death and destruction happening, it would be comical.
@@glennheth3472 Legit. I expect this to be laughed at like the Winter War or the War of the Emus in a few generation's time but it's a lot harder to view the humor with some of the stories coming in real time.
Also remember that Ukraine has the third largest nuke collection.
Laser pig’s US loop: War happens, US tech proven to be ahead of everyone by a long shot. -> People forget about war. -> US tech is shit memes appears. -> ppl thinks US techs are all propaganda. And repeat
Not "us tech is shit" - "us tech is pointlessly overcomplicated"
It's not. It's wizardry.
You get what you pay for, and we shell out. It's that simple.
I've seen someone on Combat Footage subreddit summarize it well while talking about the Hostomel attack.
"It's like a teen watched a TV report on Desert Storm and tried to emulate the most flashy parts of it."
Reddit arm chair generals make the dumbest comments.
Followed by TH-camrs who take them seriously.
theyre trying their best ok
I hated and still hate the “WwiIi hAs StArTeD” shit, not only are they stupid, but the memes do not consider the fact that WWIII will be a lot different than WWII, when WWIII starts, communication would be down(as you said) and parts of the internet will go down if not the entire internet goes down. Also, holy shit is Reddit stupid, they are now realizing that tanks are not invincible nor are they fucking great in urban areas
They thought tanks were great in urban areas????
@@888alphaable apparently
@@rowmen6293 bruh moment
@@rowmen6293 they also thought dropping paratroopers into areas that are still heavily contested, and armed with SAM, was a great idea. The VDV has gotten completely fucking massacred so many times that I’m starting to think Putin has a personal vendetta against them
The idolization of armor is a classic error, in modern war the concept of bulletproof doesn't exist. There's always something that can poke a hole in you, the two things that keep that from happening are rational tactics and high tech electronics. Both things these people don't want to consider because hardware is cool, you can own a toy tank, you can drive tanks in games. You dont want to play a game where you never get hit because your higher-ups kept you in reasonably safe positions and because the box to the left of you does magic that keeps smart munitions from picking you out.
These same people also only ever think in terms of "total victory " because that's how games define victory, they can't conceive of tactical victory or strategic retreats or unconventional warfare.
My uncle was a weapons officer in the first Iraq war. He was part of that master work. Flying wild weasel in an F111.
He smiled at your discription of the air campain.
And wants to know when your F111 vid is coming.
WHEN IS THE F-111 VIDEO LAZERPIG
#JusticeForAardvarks
AAAAAAAAAAAAARDVAAAAAAAAAAAARK
#JusticefortheAARDBOYS
Bruh a wild weasel???
Truly gargantuan low hangers on that man
This aged quite well. The one thing you missed was that Russia did eventually decide to knock out the cell towers. That turned out to be a mistake as their secure communications depended on those towers. They then started communicating in the open and hilarity ensued. Also, we are over a year on and while Russia fights on it has lost half of its gains and is breaking out the T 54s and T 55s. It looks like Putin will ride Russia all the way down and we may well get to see the next Russian Revolution.
The one we got was boring and lame
@@TheTH-camUser69 Prigozhin died
Came for the cogent commentary, stayed for the violent sexual imagery.
I stayed for the sexually violent imagery.
@@kirknay I came.
Did you know the background music for that.
@@kirknay did you know the background music for that?
The best take on the situation i’ve seen so far. Just 2 weeks ago i laughed at a TH-camr who said 24 to 36 hours until russia captures kyiv and all of Ukraine in 3-4 days. 8 years of rotation on the eastern front gave the ukrainians the needed experience. To buy the Turkish drones was a good decision also.
Only sad part is that friends of me are still in kyiv. Slava Ukrajini
It has been a trip just watching this all unfold and all of us are like "This...this isn't right..right? Like no way they are THIS incompetent?"
Honestly, my heart breaks for all those Ukrainians who have lost everything already. And for those Russian soldiers who are just getting mopped over because their "leaders" have no idea what they are doing. And now the whole country is collapsing due to economic sanctions. It really is a horrible tragedy, in real time.
I don't feel sorry for the Russian soldiers or the Russian people anymore. Not after seeing the soldiers kill civilians, reading reports of them marauding, stealing and commiting acts of violence and murder against civilians in already captured villages and seeing many Russian citizens still defend Putin and this war.
I wish for Russia to just collapse once and for all.
I feel more sorry for the Belarussians, dragged into it against their will by their dictator and Putin's favourite fleshlight, Lukashenko. They protested against him some time ago and were taken care of by the police, army and Russian help and now they pay the price.
A few videos I have seen about Ukrainians talking to Russian troops has been mostly the Russian troops confused as to what's going on and saying they don't want to be there. Also running out of fuel.
@@smiglo112 some Russian people are protesting in Russia, and being silenced for it. Also, with the way their fed information I dont think its fair to judge them for what they think about the war. They dont know how twisted the news is that they get and have been told to believe anything from the west is propaganda. Ultimately, many people who have no say in this war are suffering because of a single stupid man, and i hope that Ukraine gets its peace, and the Russian people one day get a leader who actually cares about them.
@@markriley4100 While I agree that regular Russian are having tough time, let's not forget that it is the will of majority Russians to not oppose Putin, or he would not be in power. Russia is not North Korea or even China. Opposition leaders might get assassinated but government can't just black bag them and shove them into kangaroo courts like China or just shoot them like N. Korea. It is very much possible to go against government in Russia still, and if majority did, Putin and this war would end. And while majority Russians sit on their asses, Ukrainians are being bombed because of it, so I'm not going to cry for their woes and tribulations.
@@smiglo112 why the Russian people? They're actively protesting this shitstorm and are being arrested in droves. Russians and Ukrainians are pretty much the same group of people when it comes to culture and heritage.
Finding this channel and working my way back to his coverage of the Ukraine invasion, I am now not unconvinced the Russian military, planning an invasion of Florida, might conceivably be 8 hours into a joint aerial bombardment and amphibious invasion before it dawned on them that they were, in fact, shelling Cuba.
that would be funny
"You don't get all your troops formation marching as a gigantic f***ing arrow and just charge!"
Given my performance in most wargames, I'm starting to feel a little attacked...
This was an awesome video! Thanks so much for putting it together, despite going through a difficult time right now (and I wish you and yours the best in that!) I also know the pain of dropping a sponsorship because of all this- it was World of Warships, for me!
Oh, and Slava Ukraini, confusion to the invaders, and all that!
wow brandon f
@@rickastley4050 wow rick astley
the one and only Brandon F. thats unexpected. Sorry for the question but i wondered how armies where supplied during the napoleonic era on longer campaign. When napoleon invaded russia for example was there a constant stream of carriages going up and down the road to bring new supplies to try and supply the nearly 1million men strong army or where they mostly living or trying to live from the land? Also are there records of how much amunition (gunpowder, cannonballs, musketballs) and consumables (food, drink) they where carrying all together or per soldier? i mean the logistics must have been unbelievably complicated considering the capabilities at the time and the distance.
In all wargames i dont march in a arrow i fucking charge like a Japanese pilot
Putin be like:" I have an idea. RUSH B nobody would ever suspect it."
I was stunned by how badly the Russian's had fucked this. It's honestly insane, and when I was discussing it in the first few days I did genuinely bring up the Lazerpig Loop as part of the discussion, graphic and everything.
This whole situation was one shocker after another, it was shocking that they actually invaded, then shocking how quickly their economy tanked before the west even began their sanctions on day 2, then shocking how long Ukraine is holding on.
@@IgnoredAdviceProductions the only thing that would top it is if Putin pushes the red button and the missiles fail and nuke a nearby Russian city.
@@walkingstickman1 Putin's finger slips while trying to get a cup of tea
Russia just really showed their hand with this dumbass move lmao. Their entire military (save for AA) is dogshit tier. The logistics are just laughable
The arguments he gives to justify it are frankly stupid, as in Iraq US helicopters were also being taken down by old tech, even by machineguns, and there are plenty of M1 Abrams destroyed in service of other countries, (in US service too, but less). I'm starting to suspect this may just be another piece of anti Russian propaganda, or at the very least he didn't care about making any actually good arguments.
The argument about the S-400 is particularly stupid as we are talking about a ballistic missile which is a small target going hypersonic.
You can clearly tell the commanders of the Russian army have never played a single hour of HOI4, because their mistakes are pretty much 1:1 what NOT to do in HOI. These include but are not limited to:
- running out of motorized
- not putting up air
- attacking with tanks through the marshes of northern Ukraine
- force attacking while divisions are still training
- losing a fuckton of equipment to attrition, some of which was just yoinked by local farmers using tractors
Honestly the only reason the Russians are a second-rate power and not a 3rd rate power is their giant nuclear arsenal. Otherwise the US and China would totally eat their lunch in the great power game.
For example, I don't even have the chance to play HOI, but I easily see that Russia's generals are worse than I am in this bullshit.
Eat their lunch? Pft, more like shake them by their ankles for their lunch money.
@@DomR1997 For real. Without the nuclear umbrella Russia would've been middle east'd
i think this is a example why china maybe be in the same plate as russia , they make seem like they are super rich and the best army the world but in reality is totally the contrary what it is informed to the world
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Man, this is a fun time capsule, I had forgotten how wild that first week was. Still baffled at continued Russian incompetency now after almost two years of war.
Ungodly amount of diarrhea
The comparison with desert storm is a perfect one. The US managed to beat down a regional power on the other side of the globe, with almost pinpoint accuracy. Russia can't even take down a second world country with which it shares a critically important border for national security.
And not to mention if the casuality numbers are true the Russians have lost more men and equipment than the US did in Desert Storm or the 7 years of Iraqi Freedom. This whole thing has been making me think "Russia shouldn't be performing this bad"
@@erwin669 they're not true.
@@mortarriding3913 source? Because based on the countless videos of Russian equipment being destroyed they are taking heavy casualties. Based on the fact that Ukraine is on the defensive and Russia is attacking on. A wide front. Russian losses are probably around 10k killed if not yet then on a couple of days. This will be more than Americans have lost in the gulf War, the 2nd Iraq war, war in Afghanistan, and the against Isis combined. This being in one week vs American conflicts that lasted over a decade.
Dude, its no where near 10k killed. Where is your source on that? The number of dead tanks? You know, dead tanks/trucks don't = kills.
@@jamo128 you know Russians have a thing called infantry. They're squishy and prone to dying from small arms. You can see photos of said infantry lying all over Ukrainian streets and fields. Now considering the widespread nature of the conflict and that most battles and skirmishes won't have documentation. On top of the fact that Russians have taken heavy casualties from artillery. This is a high intensity conflict. Multiple sources including Russian leaks had Russian dead around 6k a day or so ago. This is before they got bogged down in a logistical nightmare that is vulnerable to Ukranain attack. They are likely approaching 10k dead not counting wounded. If they push into Kyiv proper than you will see a major spike as infantry and armored vehicles will have to fight in terrain that favors the defender. This isn't Syria. If it hasn't crossed into 10k yet it will soon. And all for what? So Putin can stroke his ego while Russia loses all credibility on the international stage. Whole thing is a disgrace.
As an ukrainian guy, I would give this video 12/10 rate, just because of the ending
russian guy*, welcome to the federation you will be a part of us again enjoy your stay
Ha-ha, not really. Yet you ivans can stay in Ukraine as a fertilizer
@@Mexicanj0ker2 name checks out
What is the name of the song ?
@@wmd1520 th-cam.com/video/W5llttifO7w/w-d-xo.html
Me 1 year Ago: If Russia invades Europe, they'll be at the Rhine in 7 days!
Me today: If Russia invades Europe, they'll break down 3 miles into Poland before being annihilated
No less by Polish Soldiers with their raging war boners.
Your statement is completely factually incorrect, there are various reports and numerous sources which clearly show that Russia would never reach the Polish border
@@plasticballs Hell, you let the poles into Ukraine and they'd reach Moscow in 2 weeks, at most!
@@airplanemaniacgaming7877 Lol I find it amusing to think that the Poles could technically still be in Ukraine while attacking Moscow.
Polish Command: Don't go further than the Ukranian border.
Polish soldiers: Did you say move the Ukranian border?
Polish Command: No wait-
Polish Soldiers: Expand the Ukranian Border all the way to Moscow? Got it.
*Polish army goes BRRRRRRR*
They ensured that Germany gets to re-militarize
It's a win in my books
Wehrmacht 2 electric boogaloo
I gave myself a Christmas present by watching this once more. With the benefit of watching the Russian army for ten months, I'm laughing just as much at the incompetence LazerPig so brilliantly described as I did initially.
We need a LazerPig podcast where he just gets sauced and rambles about military history on the regular. I like the high-effort videos, of course, but I want a regular feed of mah peeg.
Yes i want a blitzed hog yelling about tank destroyers or urban combat or whatever
The birthday bitch fest is a good one I loved it
Vtuber Pig Avatar
It could be called "The Pig Roast"
@@lucasrodillo6739 "The Pig's Roast"
Russia has a long history of being all bark no bite. Russo-Japanese War (1904-05), WW1 (1914-1918), Winter War (1939-1940), and etc. It seems that Russia is like that drunk at the bar. Shouting he could fight anyone. But when someone squares up with him. He hits the ground in two hits.
@Erwin Rommel and then go back to square one again
@Erwin Rommel Maybe because the Allies stuffed their ass full with everything. USA and Britain supplied them over 3 routes (Arctic convoy route, Persian corridor and the pacific route).
And they gave them everything. Russia got food (otherwise they'd have starved ans not been able to fight), they got their entire logistics from the allied (all of their Jeeps were from America), they got tanks and airplanes.
I'm pretty sure, the logistics equipmemt by the Allies alone back then was better than what they sport today.
I wouldn't be surprised if the supplies were even enough for russian personnel to steal equipment and still be more than german supplies.
@@Caesim9 The US send over 90% of all lend-lease shipments to the USSR. Although Britain sold some equipment to the Soviets in 1941 that was very helpful during the Battle of Moscow, the role of Britain in lend-lease is minor compared to the US.
I am also not sure about your statement, "... they gave them everything." Overall, most of the equipment used by the Soviets was made in the Soviet Union. And also, if you didn't know, millions of Soviets starved to death during the war. The military came first and was supplied and fed while the rest of the country was dying of famine. Your claim about logistics is also wrong.
All the Soviet logistics were created by the Soviets (what a surprise that a country creates its own logistics!) The logistics between the Soviets, Americans, and Brits were managed together between the countries. Do you know why the Soviets didn't have any Jeeps? Because Jeep is an American company that makes military equipment only for the US military. Over 50% of the supplies were delivered after 1943. By that time, it became clear that German is not capable of winning a war against the Soviet Union. German high command considered offering the Soviets peace after winning the Battle of Kursk (but they lost). It was in the US's best interests to supply the Soviets with the stuff they want so they continue the war.
Your claim about logistics equipment is simply stupid. Any military in today's world uses better logistics equipment that was supplied by the Allies to the USSR.
The claim about stealing isn't the brightest either. Of course, theft of food and clothes occurred, but they were minor and rare incidents. Why would a soldier steal a Stuart or a locomotive? And also how would he do that?
Lend-lease was very helpful to the Soviet Union and Britain during WW2 and probably saved millions of lives. There is no reason to argue with that, but saying that lend-lease was the only thing that saved the Soviets' military from complete collapse or carried them through the war is completely wrong.
@@Bilbo1teaBaggins Cope hardee, Moskal
To be fair to Russia during WW1, everyone was having a bad time so I don’t that’s a Russian problem.
I am just a guy with a history degree, a love for planes and videogames that works backoffice stuff. Yet... When in a 21st Century War involving russia on the 4th Fucking Day the opponents still have their command and control functional i am: Fuck that's pretty bad. Did the Russians really think that screaming very hard at the Ukranians would do the Trick?
They do not have command and control. They are putting up piecemeal resistance, in scattered parts of the country. The majority of their forces in Donbas are encircled and will not receive reinforcements or ammunition.
@@mortarriding3913
Whatever makes you sleep at night...
@@mrhawky45 well if you want to believe Ukranian or Russian propaganda. Most of the Ukrainian forces are in the east and if you look at the map of Russian positions, it's setting up a pincer movement.
@@mrhawky45 you're going to have a good time with your cognitive dissonance in the coming days and weeks.
@@mortarriding3913
I had a guy telling me that about a week ago after i was wondering about the apparent lack of progress...
Even ignoring that, if the russians now manage to start performing i would simply say: about fucking time. The first 8 days they were a shitshow... not that i think that is going to happen...
I love reading the comments where people say "this video aged like milk"
Mate the initial plan was to encircle Kyiv and you're celebrating because the Vatniks took Severodonetsk after 4 months of fighting
Y'all are unbelievable
And the casualties my god. Someone did the math. They are losing 3.3 men per sqaure kilometer at this rate if they occupy all of Ukriane it will cost them 2 million men
To encircle Kyiv AND cut the country in half, forcing a change in regime. Total failure from the original grand strategic plans
Please don't look at 700k ukrainians in reserve training when Russia is fighting for villages and losing tech. Nothing bad is going to happen soon, no mobilization is needed.
Right, comrade? Comrade? Why are you running with this washing machine?
I agree that things have not been going swimmingly as Russia expected. Although neither you nor I know what went on in the discussions when these plans were drawn up by the Russian General Staff.
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But Western propaganda on this conflict is even more insufferable. This video included. This dude here compares Desert Storm to Russian invasion. Why? Because your own propaganda wants to make you believe that Russia is the same threat that USSR was? And now that Russia doesn't show superpower levels of prowess, you can compare it to Desert Storm, which was basically a Superpower and its allies all ganging up on the army of a Warsaw proxy?
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Does Russia try to throw its weight around and want to regain its USSR glory? Yes. But the sane Russians aren't deluded when it comes to what the reality is.
@@seanmac1793 "Somebody" did the Math on a conflict where the propaganda is so strong, its making me feel like I should simply let this all play out and then watch the analysis in the aftermath of the conflict. Yet you want me to believe in Math that "somebody" did?
I think you're nuts if you think the EU or NATO is going to try for a no fly zone. But then again I thought people were nuts for thinking Russia would invade based on the American satellite footage which showed a severe lack of logistical buildup. Turns out, they did invade and then just fucking starved.
They aren’t stealing food from the local population they’re just carrying out “special nutrition operations”
There was logistics and medical clearly visible in the satellite images. There are images from early February showing this.
Lazer, as everyone of us, I hope that your mother gets well soon, your analysis as always is on point, thank you for your excellent (and barely drunk) content.
Also: SU-57 Femboy
Su-75 is the Femboy
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SU-57 burn well in Ukraine land🤪🤪🤪
@@PoTato-c7u they don’t even need Ukrainian AA to catch fire
Regarding the main roads I have a depressing little factoid for that point; The Russians stick to the main roads because THEY HAVE NO CHOICE. Yes, you read that right. They have a massive long snaking convoy stuck on a road because if they tried to head across the Ukrainian fields they would lose the convoy before it even reached any Ukrainians. You see in the Russian military corruption is so endemic it has rotted everything from the top to the very bottom. They only care about their own personal wallets and appeasing their direct superiors with lies. Officers embezzle left right and center. Conscripts sell almost any equipment they are issued with on the black market. No one wants to report anything because doing so might turn attention to their own wrongdoings and those who rock the boat rarely last long.
So what does that have to do with Russian equipment being stuck traveling on roads? Well, maintaining vehicles costs money. Even intact vehicles need preventative maintenance. Typically you'd need to turn the engine over and move the vehicle once a month. There are signs that for many of Russia's combat vehicles even that simple bit of care has not been performed for at least a year. The tires of their wheeled vehicles have been decaying in the sun for a long time. Due to poor maintenance, the wheels, axles, and drive shafts of many Russian combat vehicles will not survive the rigors of Ukrainian mud. So they have no choice but to stick to the roads. They are trapped into moving single or double file down predictable routes towards the enemy. Ordered not to abandon their vehicles. This might also be why we see so few Russian aircraft. Most of their aircraft I suspect have become unflyable decorations due to neglect.
All of this seems to have been a surprise to the Russian high command. Putin has fostered a culture in his government similar to the soviet union where failure is not something you ever report or admit to. I imagine the corruption that was utterly hollowing out the military was not reported or vastly underestimated. They thought they had a capable military and when they realized they didn't most of it was already in Ukraine. Which was when Putin started begging his allies for troops.
There's also the fact that currently in Ukraine this time of year the snow thaws. That means there is a whole bunch of mud around that vehicles can very easily get stuck in. So they have to stick to paved roads.
@@bobtank6318 Ukraine is very heavily urbanized anyway so even if they want to get out of roads, they will still get funneled in by buildings.
Adding to Mr Bob's comment above me, the Russian media stated "Russian tanks don't fear mud" (I'm paraphrasing a bit), and then proceeded to get stuck in mud all over the place. Plus, another reason I believe they are sticking to the roads are the rumors that the Russian forces don't have any GPS capability, and driving down a main road is easier than trying to decipher a map.
@@MuffinMammoth As far as I know the Russians don't have GPS. All their GPS tech relied on the US and French GPS system. A system which they've now been locked out of. They have GPS systems in their tanks, in their long range guided missiles, in their aircraft and in their ships. And all of it is just useless paperweights now. Their long range missiles need the exact coordinates of the target and launch point to be inputed by hand. If anything blows it off course even by a little it's going to miss because it can't correct itself. That's assuming the barely trained soldier putting in the numbers even knows what he is doing. Their ground troops just have paper maps (if even) and if rumors are to be believed they haven't been taught how to read them. Their aircraft have resorted to using slow, inaccurate civilian GPS systems, the kind you'd find on the dashboard of a F**KING car. There is no way those things update fast enough for a fighter jet.
Their expensive encrypted comns systems only works if they have 4g so they lost secure comns once they took out the cell towers. Their GPS systems which guide their missiles are entirely reliant on systems and technology controlled by rival nations. It's pretty clear the Russian designers were either massively underfunded and/or just didn't care. They delivered tech that could be demonstrated and little else.
Edit: Don't ask me why they aren't using GLONASS. The fact that they have an alternative just makes their decision to use GPS so much all the more bewildering.
I’ve already read a story which claims that, pre-invasion, Russian officers were selling fuel in Belarus, because they weren’t told that the invasion was really going to happen. They assumed it wouldn’t go off, and saw an opportunity to make a little cash. I think the Russian Army slogan must be, “but everyone else is doing it”.
"Things can't get worse for the Russian army"
*Laughs in 1 year later*
19:00 - this cuts both ways. A few Ukrainian positions have been reported to be compromised by their soldiers or civilian witnesses accidentally revealing a little too much information on their facebook and twitter accounts. The concept of everyone just live-streaming the war is something neither side has properly reckoned with.
At least ukranians are giving the stealth treatment with their paramilitars
Every single power should have learned with the US. Unless you are a superpower who spends more money more money than the rest of rhe other powers in defense you can't get even toe to toe with milicias in the 21th century, much less win.
The biggest weapon you have is information and the entire civilian world became an omnicient hivemind. Traditional conflict just doesnt work anymore after the 2000s
@@dinamosflams yeah just blowing up the entire cities and replacing the population works. Guess the Austrian failed Artist was 80 years too early lmfao
Milsec is… hard in the age of social media
@@thenoisyninja that’s probably one of the funniest concepts that could come out of this war; the addition of an internet etiquette component to boot camp training that teaches troops how to use social media without giving themselves away.
This humours me
I spent like, the first week thinking hard about the bigger picture, trying to come up with the explanation of such performance, wondering about the 4D chess Putin is trying to play right here, but at this point it's time to just take what I see as what it is. For the first time in a long, long time Russia seems that weak. If it was only not for the nukes, I bet most of central and eastern Europe would love to visit Moscow. Especially Poland, seeing as Russia for them seems like the embodiment of the term nemesis, for as long as Poles remember. What a time to be alive. Hopefully in a few months memes will be the only thing left of this war.
@@hook86 You call the guy delusional and manage to shove in worthless american political discourse into this lol. Come on, man. Wake up
@@hook86 Joe’s pretty great, Putin’s course of cards is collapsing. I just saw video of a Russian train loaded up with dozens and dozens and dozens of mismatched, old looking civilian trucks with that stupid “Z” painted on them… like, what??? What army starts resorting to soft, non-armored crappy civilian trucks a week and a half into a war??? I’ve never seen that in my life… things can’t be going well if they’re that desperate… what about all those 40 miles of trucks???? The ones parked outside Kiev for like a week??? What ?? Explain this if you can
@@hook86 Joe has rallied the world against the vile and bloated Putin the Pathetic. NATO is stronger than ever and more United! The USA just had a quarter of record-breaking job growth… Ukraine is giving Putin’s thugs a bloody nose with help from the Javelins and Nlaw and Stingers we have absolutely flooded Ukraine with. Joe’s doing great, he’s actually leading instead of just writing mean tweets from the toilet at 3am
@@hook86 hey- if Turmp can’t even run a Twitter clone er I mean a “social media platform”… how can anyone expect him to run a country? Truth Social is such crap that even Donald the founder has only used it ONCE… Donald is over
@@haruruben I mean… he did it for 4 years.. and the world didn’t end. Bidens admin pulled out of Afghanistan in the worst way. But that’s neither here nor there. The reason why we can only sanction is because of nukes you dumb fucks. Any kind of open aggression from the United States, be it by deploying troops, or establishing a no fly zone, Russia WILL take that as an act of war, and then we literally have WW3.
The fact is, NONE OF US KNOW ENOUGH OF THIS SHIT TO TALK ABOUT IT.
So let the war unfold and shove Biden up your ass.
I knew you were something special when you took an aside about gushing over old tanks to talk about how awful the casualties of WW1 were in a serious heartfelt tone. Thank you for your insightful, informative, and entertaining work.
LaserPig is actually a champ
oh yeah i bet casualities of this war will be 1-10 million if every man really put there all or to be generous with more modern scale like idk syrian civil war 400k-700k. actually i heard from commenter that say he thinks there be 10k casualities of russians. i actually think that is pretty reasonable estimate, if conflict stays as it is. so 10k-40k if currently like the current state of the war.
6 months later and russia is still doing the exact same thing they were doing at the start of the war
As the lowest form of human intelligence I can agree that pointing a giant arrow at kyiv is not the greatest idea
You can tell that something's wrong when I, a complete amateur, who has literally never even played a wargame, nor studied general strategy or tactics, or even so much as touched a single battle report of a single war, ever, looks at almost every facet of the russian strategy so far and says "that seems like a bad idea."
My fucking Warrior Cats fan fiction story has better military tactics than the Russians are using right now.
This what happens whan you take out all of the competent people in government and switch them whit yes man. This what also happened in WW2. You wouldn't believe how many officers and war heros where just taken out from the gulags to the battlefield
+Court_of_the Crimson_Kingfish Except you have no fucking idea what's going on on the terrain, and almost as if the data you've been served is nothing related to the truth. Ukrainains are losing way too much of everything, they don't have air-force, but they keep "winning" every day, destroying thousands of Russians further into their lands. All of their largest cities are surrounded, they have no air-force, they keep falling back, they're mobilizing everyone, but aparently all of the Russians are dead.
@@guestimator121 And everything you said is wrong.
The only genuinely surrounded Ukrainian city rn is Mariopol, although admittedly, only because Kherson surrendered... however, the same Russian assault that took Kherson was then destroyed at Mykolaiv, a dozen kilometers down the highway.
A Ukrainian Su-24 was identified in the air this morning so Ukraine still has an operational Air Force.
The Ukrainiens retook Bucha and seem to have made a breakthrough towards Sumy and Chernihiv.
Most sources I could find about encirclement are Russian media... the same guys that have been claiming Russian air supremacy for the last week, every single day, with the energy of "for real guys we're not lying this time!!!!!!!"
@@11Survivor the entire western media is pumping out Ukrainian propaganda
Good to see the generals from the first months of World War 1 are still alive and well commanding this invasion !
At least those generals mad grains.
it did make sense tho.
It just hit me…the reason why they are not destroying critical infrastructure is because they intend to capture it, because they DO NOT have the technological capacity to repair the high tech infrastructure. So they leave them functional.
OHH CRAP THATS IT,I ACTUALLY DIDNT THINK OF THAT THATS GOOD
Late reply, but you are correct. Months ago, I remember watching YT videos speculating about Putin’s power base, and much of Putin’s support comes from the oligarchs, of which he is actually one of them (despite throwing out some through various windows). Russia has attacked Ukraine’s energy infrastructure (and wheat silos) but I haven’t heard too much more lately.