Thanks for supporting Ukraine, we're not perfect, we're just a regular people with regular problems like corruption, polarization etc. But we have a right to exist and live on our land and peacefully raise our children. This war shows who our true friends and foes are.
God damned right you do. Warts and all, it is your land, your country, your history, your people, and you have the right to determine what path that takes. I will happily pay my taxes to help with that.
Little clarification Ukraine didn't have "Soviet-era army" before February 24, in fact Russia does now. The chains of command there remain the same, while in Ukraine army evolved and became more efficient and less centralized. This happened after Russia''s first invasion in 2014 when it was clear that army needs deep reforms and reforms it had.
@@no_name4796 Every Democracy had their ups and downs, including the US. It takes time to build an effective Democracy, besides still better than Russia/Belarus.i
@@no_name4796 no democracy is perfect, but the better ones try to sort out the bad parts. Russia, on the other is so corrupt it reaches down to the core of it's army's values. That's why their 10,000 tanks in cold storage are literally scrap metal.
Petite rectification, l'Ukraine avait une armée sous l'ère soviétique. Ce qui s'est passé en 2014, c'est qu'une grande partie de cette armée à rejoint les séparatistes du Donbass et de Crimée en réaction aux exactions commises par les bataillons de représailles nationalistes. L'armée d'aujourd'hui est un pur produit de l'OTAN qui l'entraîne et l'équipe depuis 2014. Elle est principalement encadrée par les cadres nationalistes de Maïdan qui sont des criminels abrutis et dangereux. Bonne continuation.
The British and Americans, and Canadians, have been training the Ukrainians at every command level, since 2014. Totally transforming that army. It hasn't been a Soviet style army for almost a decade
This has been a secret game changer that doesn't get mentioned enough. but it has played a big role, no one has been more surprised and dismayed than the tyrannical aggressor Putin's Army., Putin's war.. This is what this is.
It's far worse, I mean training from an American? Can you imagine how bad that would make them? It's no wonder we see Russia trashing them with such ease. It's what we always see from the US, permanently getting their arses spanked all over the world, and not even against military capable countries, but manly countries once considered the Third World. Is there something wrong with you, maybe? Or do you just have no idea about the USA's real history in wars? Transforming them into radicalized Nazis for sure, we all know that, but as a fighting force? HILARIOUS! Who are you trying to kid?
Americans only ever talk like they have a military history like Great Britain or something as hilariously stupid and bizarre! I mean, that's so wrong, It's only hilarious hearing them. The United States has one of the very worst, and easily the most cowardly military record of any country on earth. Yet read the Americans? You can be forgiven for thinking they're awesome after reading them, LOL, It's most bizarre! The United States was founded in 1776, (even that's a lie, LOL). She's been at war for 226 out of her 246 calendar years of existence. In other words, there were only 20 calendar years, in which the U.S. did not wage any wars. The Wars waged were never against a militarily capable country, but only countries considered the Third World. And any resistance from those countries, always saw the USA lose! Pick any year since 1776, and there's a 91% chance that America was involved in some war during that calendar year, and a 73% chance they lost it. No U.S. president truly qualifies as a peacetime president. Instead, all U.S. presidents can technically be considered “war presidents.” The U.S. has never gone a decade without war. The only time the U.S. went five years without war (1937-42) was during the isolationist period (cowardly period) of the Great Depression. Since the 2nd World War, the USA has started 201 armed conflicts, with around 40-50 million (mostly civilian casualties). And usually based on false premises/lies. (And failed in most). This is more than 2 conflicts, started based on nothing more than lies and propaganda, per year. Just Awesome! LMAO! So, how many wars have the English and British fought and Won?... England 53 Wars: 44 Victories: 4 drawn: 5 Lost: from 939 to 1707 British Empire & Great Britain 84 wars: 75 victories: 2 drawn: 7 Lost: from 1707 to 2016 Total: = 137 Wars: 119 Victories: 6 Draws: 12 Lost (most to France): In Wars over 1077 years = a war on average every 12 years. (One of the greatest modern day military records on Earth). Britain is the only country in the world that's always fought for the people's freedom against every attempt at tyranny in our world's modern history. Whether tyranny over Europe, or over the world, Britain has always fought against it, and is unbeaten doing so. So many times Great Britain saved Europe throughout history, not only in WW2, but many times before. With the defeat of Napoleon, being just one. Great Britain, with Prussian support, defeated Napoleon, he defeated everyone else. Spain, the world's superpower of the days, thought she'd send her Armada to teach us English a lesson for plundering all of their stolen gold, and they only ended up sunk, destroyed and just old wrecks on the British coast. Annihilated, in other words. Russia has defeated all armies that have tried to defeat her on her own soil, apart from the Mongol Empire & Great Britain (Ironically with French support, well sort of). We are the only countries/empires on earth to have beaten Russia on her own soil. Who stood up, alone, to the Nazi might? Not anyone else, no, only Britain. The rest folded like playing cards. Hitler steam rolled over Europe, until he got to Great Britain. Afghanistan is known as the graveyard for Empires, as all but one, have failed in Afghanistan! The British (who else) did win in Afghanistan (though few knows this today). Britain went through a period of over 250 years undefeated. (about the same amount of time that the USA has existed), LOL. Britain fought France the most, with France beating Britain one time more than Britain, but Britain won all the Important ones, though at that time they'd not of known that. France was a force to be reckoned with in those times, no matter what people say today, their history is tremendous. Great Britain's history is also tremendous, and is actually unsurpassed today, or likely to be. Sort of explains why no invading boot has touched British mainland soil in nearly a thousand years (over four times as long as the USA has existed). LMAO
Oh, no! Wait!! What am I saying? Silly me! We all know the USA is the most powerful military country in the whole wide world today! Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious. Reminder... Beaten and loses in Vietnam. After using chemical weapons, Napalm, and Agent Orange, burning down entire towns and villages, killing hundreds of thousands of women and children, while losing the war against a bunch of tunnel kids, they tried to burn alive! Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious. When a million Chinese ran over the hill in Korea?, they fled and got chased back behind the 38th parallel, then gets out of the War, with a ''face-saving'' armistice. Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious. Thought they'd force China to purchase their opium in the 2nd opium war, yet is the only one defeated by China, as both the British and French had won convincing victories, while the USA, humiliated, and well defeated, had to limp home, all alone. LOL, Such a powerful force they all claim. Hilarious. Fought for a mere 28 months in WW2, and hilariously, for years, claimed it was because of the USA we won the War LOL. When we all know the facts say the exact opposite. It's not even up for debate. If Britain had not fought WW2?, the USA would no longer exist. Yet unbelievably they still try to say the same today?, with their propaganda history, they've all been spoon-fed from birth, as if a real part of their history. Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious. Claimed they forced the USSR to remove its Cuban missiles, or they had threatened War? While the truth is, that it was the USA that was forced to remove their missiles and close down their military base in Turkey, before the USSR would agree to remove their Cuban missiles. The complete opposite of what they all got taught. LOL. Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious. Claimed Japan surrendered after the second nuclear bomb?, when we now know today, that was, guess what? You got it, just another American lie. Japan had ignored the first Nuclear attack, they also ignored the second Nuclear attack and Japan only surrendered after Stalin had kept his promise to Invade East Asia, and the Soviets crushed the Japanese. That alone removed any hope the Japs had of getting Stalin to act as a mediator for a conditional surrender, and it was only then the Japanese surrendered (as we now can read from the people of the time). The timing of the surrender proves It, It was indeed just another American lie, and is still to this day, by far, the most cowardly act ever committed by anyone on earth. Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious. Thought they bossed Syria, with their bought and paid for terrorism, only to then have to sit back and watch Russia kick their terrorist's to pieces over and over again, while the USA were helpless to even resist it, and so instead they resorted to, once again, more lies, more criminal attacks on a legitimate leadership of a sovereign country. Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious. Thought they'd show Russia, (as they supplied Georgia with their military assistance). LMAO, more like hindrance! Then had to watch Russia annihilate and destroy all the military equipment they'd just given away, every piece, exactly like we see them doing in Ukraine today! PMSL. Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious. They've destroyed and ruined the lives of an entire country (again), Ukraine this time, with once again, more of their? Yep, you've guessed it, more lies, more supplying weapons to criminals, terrorists and Nazis, and are only working against all the interests of the Ukrainian people, and still are, while pathetically trying to blame it on Russia, such a powerful force they all claim. Hilarious. They claimed they'd kick the Taliban's ass (inside 3 months). The USA = A trillion dollars worth of military hardware. The Taliban = A dollars worth of military hardware. 20 years (after), the USA were going to kick their asses inside three months, the Taliban hold more ground today than they ever have, and the Yankee boys, as always, got sent home! LMAO!! Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious. The USA struggles against the Taliban and many other non-militarily capable countries!, they've never met a fully militarily capable country. And you want to take on Russia? LOL... Go on then!!.... Personally, I give the USA precisely zero chance against Russia, or China, or Iran, or even N. Korea, let alone both Russia and China as allies? LOL, who are these yanks fooling apart from themselves? Your military is only as good as your MEN! LOL @ the Yanks! The American 2022 = We're stronger today than we've ever been!!... Like that would be difficult? LOL.
You want to take on Russia? Hahahaha really? Idiocy on a scale of idiocy, I really don't believe any of us have ever seen before. Russia has the ability to bring down all USA ICBM's, while we all know the USA has no defence against even the older Soviet ICBM's, let alone the modern lethal ones like Sarmat, carrying up to 24 MERVS, over speeds of Mach 20.7; 4.3 miles per second; 15,480 miles per hour. And because we saw the USA pull out of the nuclear arms treaty, (that prohibited the creation of any short-mid range nuclear weapons) now sees even the old defensive threat of "MAD", as an obsolete defensive threat today. As Russia has already created those missiles. And done so creating, hypersonic mid-range missiles, able to carry nuclear tipped warheads, or full nuclear warheads, travelling at speeds not seen before. The US is just lucky that Russian doesn't threaten any pre-emptive strike, but is only defensive, otherwise they'd be able to strike and hit all US defensive stations and platforms, along with all US nuclear silos, and destroy them all within minutes, long before the US could even begin to think about any sort of retaliatory launch. They're now thinking to change that policy of only a defensive nation, and who could blame them? Today Russia has the S-500 anti-ballistic missile defence systems, able to operate alongside Russia's new A-235 anti-ballistic missile system, with the ability to shoot down hypersonic attack weapons, hypersonic orbital platforms, ballistic missiles, and their combat units, as well as satellites in near space. ICBM's of the USA can be tracked and shot down quite easily by Russia today. Any Nuclear effort from the USA today?, would see them lose, and lose big time. Any conventional War against Russia? They quite simply lose, that's not even up for debate, they could try to land 250,000 troops, and they'd all simply be chewed up and spat out, so where the American see Russia losing? Only God knows, as everything says otherwise. The USA has never met a fully militarily capable country! Russia is the biggest test of them all. You know, Russia is about 960 times bigger than Kuwait?. When the USA invaded Kuwait against Iraq, the USA deployed 750,000 troops. How many troops do you think they'd need to attack and invade Russia? LOLOLOLOL
IMO the absolutely MOST critical contribution of the West to Ukraine... intelligence. But while the value of realtime intelligence is hard to overstate... Ukraine still deserves huge credit for having a Military able to take advantage of it.
Well, if the Americans and others can lead them to victory - which seems to be as great of an asset from the beginning of the war as you say ... - than the American plan of bleeding Russia slowly dry seems to be working very well 😁 The Ukranians really did heroic work!
Ukraine had to stand tall under immense firepower thrown at Kyiev. In the early going they were looking goliath from his heels but stood tall, took the heat and turned back the accepted second largest military in the world. Their creativity and resolve has set an example that will change they way wars are fought long into the future. Slava Ukraine
We were mocked, as Americans, for our fixation on military strength and prowess. And for that I’ll say, you’re welcome for our generous freedom missiles.
You forgot to mention how Ukraine decimated Russian battlefield command by giving more Russian flag officers (colonel and up) more early 'retirements' than since WW2. With how top heavy the Russian armed forces, this was just as catastrophic as the destruction of the supply depots.
Nato guns? Real NATO strength is in air power - and none of it was given. NATO main battle tanks are pretty formidable too and none arrived to Ukraine yet - seeing how russians can't even resist against light armor vehicles NATO tanks would go through russian front lines like a knife through butter. It would be like aimbot joined a game of two noobs.
@@sk-sm9sh C'est aussi ce que disaient les allemands. Je pense qu'il serait raisonnable que vous commenciez à réfléchir plutôt que d'ânonner les bêtises de la propagande ukrainienne et occidentale. Savez vous que les russes ont le système anti aérien le plus performant? Savez vous que les armes russes de dernière génération ne sont pas utilisée sur le théâtre d'opération? Savez vous que l'armée russe + les milices séparatistes sont en infériorité numériques depuis le début de l'opération? Avez vous conscience que l'arrivée des renforts va inverser la tendance et que l'aviation n'a pas encore été utilisée pleinement? Avez vous conscience que l'Ukraine est très mal barrée, d'autant que, si je ne me trompe, les états unis ne devraient pas tarder à vous lâcher. Il faut dire que le clown mendiant devient insupportable. Allez, encore un mois ou deux et c'en sera fini de l'Ukraine.
I am from SE Asia and I agree with u. When the war first started, I thought Ukraine will be taken over by Russia within a week or so. But my God, Ukrainians have constantly surprised me with their will and guts to stand their ground.
They stepped up and pushed back I think they seen 2014 as a massive failing and learned from it did they took up western offer for training and made national weapons work for them
What the Ukrainians have accomplished against all possible odds is just unprecedented and simply legendary. This war of brutal, disgusting, plain evil yet absolutely ineffective and unsuccessful russian aggression will be remembered, studied and looked up to for centuries to come. Ukraine - the land of the people of unbreakable spirit, the land of living legends! Absolute and total respect and support for the Ukrainians! 💌
Watch the Docs. on TH-cam about Kievan Rus, and ann the way through the Mongol invasions. It's sad, but thers also many people with family ties for over a thousand years. it's ineresting.
@@ben6591 so whats that has to do? For how many decades have NATO and US specifically were feeding their weapons and forming militia in different countries across the globe? All of those attemps failed completely except ukrainian case where they had the guts to fight more succesfully than actual nato members and the US itself Second fact that proves you wrong is that the invasion was stopped with 99% soviet weapons and an outstanding plan of ukrainian commandment that they actually hide from NATO to prevent leaks in the first weeks of the war.
There's one important thing that you miss here - there would be no western weapons if there would be no fierce ukrainian resistance during the first 3-4 months of the full scale invasion. Thus, the massive western help is the result of the ukrainian resistance, but not vice versa. However, we are very thankful for your help. We would be still fighting anyway, because the loss means full annihilation of Ukraine, but it would definitely be much more harder for us without your help. Thus, thanks a lot! And BTW, if it's now obvious to everyone that the strength of russian army was a fake, then why should we think that nukes are different? Has anyone seen any nukes tests since the soviet era? And what is the expiration date for a nuke warhead? Those are the questions that russian propaganda prefers to conceal. Don't fear russians, have guts as we have!
We're proud to stand behind our friends in Ukraine. I wish we had responded faster, but it is a wonder to see what good hardware can accomplish with the best men and women at the front lines. Meanwhile, we will do what we can to support your wives and children that have fled the war.
A nuclear detonation requires a very carefully engineered arrangement of just the right amount fissile material. Because the material is fissile it is constantly destroying itself, you have to remelt, purify and recast a warhead every decade or so. The US spends about $50 billion a year maintaining it's nuclear weapons and the Russia on paper has more to maintain. If you look at the reliability of Russian missiles that have been used in Ukraine, most either don't launch, fail in flight or miss their target. There is no reason to believe that the nuclear forces are the only people in Russia who aren't corrupt and incompetent, after all nuclear weapons are the least likely to ever be used and all that money could be much better spent on my yacht fund...
What fierce Ukrainian Resitence ? you mean 120.000 Polish Soldiers that had already been stationed in the Ukraine prepeard to assist Ukraine in donbass and luhansk ? Western Forces already had been building up and backing up the army in the Ukraine prewar Educate yourself, Vlture and propagandist.
As to the expiration date of the nukes, according to the latest data around 85 years. So they are still good. The US and Russia stopped testing nukes in the 90's by treaty. Never underestimate a crazy person when backed against the wall.
It's a pitch that Ukraine as well as much of the allied world has greatly seen success I bet the entire Ukrainian government is just drooling at the mouth saying give me give me please for the love of God give me Lend lease to me in a World War II style, I'll pay for it 70 years later That last bit is because the United Kingdom finally paid back the United States for the Lend-Lease WWII material in 2002
It's ironic when Russia is actually the nation that promised to "safeguard" Ukraine after the 1994 Budapest memorandum, and the 2014 Maidan in Ukraine was never about joining NATO. But Putin still invaded Ukraine. This reminds me as a Vietnamese Czech about Russia signing a similar treaty to "protect" Vietnam in case of an invasion, but when China launched two invasions against Vietnam (1979 and 1988), the Russians did not act, granting Deng Xiaoping a major propaganda triumph (Deng invaded Vietnam to test if Russia dared to support Vietnam). So yes, I am cheering for Russia's self-destruction. Go Ukraine, you are welcome in my Czechia!
@@lukebruce5234 Ukraine is annihilating Russia right now. They have them on the run in the east are pushing them back in the west. It's actually amazing just how much land they have taken back. 6000 square KM that took russia 4 months. They took it back in two weeks. At this rate Russia's army won't survive the winter, the supply situation looks grim. intercepted Russian phone calls are honestly horrifying. If they had just listened to the west they could have avoided sending their children to die. Lets just hope they cut their losses before too many Russians die.
As a ukrainian, I can admit it, if there weren’t western weapons and ammunition, ukrainian resistance wouldn’t last for two weeks. Now our armed forces has captured the initiative and can now fight fiercely with accuracy and far higher motivation to liberate our land from Russia. Thank you for the marvelous video.
Your country is being used by the military industrial complex to profit from american tax payer dollars. Know that you are not only fighting Russia, you are also aiding the US oligarchs in establishing more geopolitical control. Ps. Ukraine is not winning, Russia just hasnt blasted your country to the ground, USA would have bombed from the start if Ukraine was at war with them, your lucky it is Russia and not Nato you are up against
No thank you for doing the hard fighting and dying, so that the rest of us don't have to. Some countries aren't sending nearly enough and it's a shame that you didn't get what you needed a lot sooner. Slava Ukraini!
You look like a bot )) You are saying that Ukraine "wouldn’t last for two weeks", let me remember you that first HIMARS was delivered after 3 months of war at least. (*First video of HIMARS use was published on Jun 24 2022)
Since Ukraine first used Bayraktar, the Ukrainians have proven to be effective soldiers capable to fight and shocked the autocratic regime of Russia. Turkish here, I can't help but enjoy seeing Russia's defeat, most Turks like me will agree (except for the government).
I think that Ukraine began preparing for this conflict since Russia invasion started in 2014. They were ready, their resolve inspired the world and the world gave arms.
@@TommyTCGT if the 'then strike Rus' is blatantly wrong , as it should be obvious that it is , would you then question the information source that gave you the preceding numbers assuming it's the same ?
@@TommyTCGT What did the UN investigations uncover? We learnt that Russia was behind the conflict in the East. Don't be listening to a criminal state like a chump when everything they say is debunked on a daily basis.
This war has made it clear that western military obsession with precision weaponry is incredibly well-founded, and it makes sense when you think about it. It's true that munitions costing between 5-100 times (or even more) the price of conventional unguided counterparts is hard for many governments to stomach and it makes sense for many to prefer making up for it with numbers and ferocity, but it's obvious now that if you can afford to equip your army with precision variants, you should. The sheer ludicrous amount of ammo quantity you'll otherwise have to expend for the same damage to military targets may well exceed that 5-100 times, but even if it doesn't, the added time, unit scale, manpower commitment, and logistics makes you much more vulnerable to suffer heavy losses in a counterattack AND much less capable of responding to enemy attacks. Basic American M777 batteries have proven themselves quite capable of suppressing and inflicting real pain on russian frontline troops simply because they're vastly more accurate than russian counterparts. They can deal good damage fast since it takes far fewer shots for the same effect, and can then scoot before counterattack. On the contrary, russian artillery is more beholden to their supply lines to gather large amounts of ammo for them before they can gather and begin a barrage, and because their reconnaissance and supply lines are inferior they group together more and fire longer, making them vulnerable. Sure, maybe GPS-guided artillery rounds that cost several tens of thousands of dollars per round are expensive, but if that shell can be used to quickly dispatch a russian artillery piece or tank that cost a lot more as well as the men on it, or worse hit a supply depot full of a ridiculous amount of ammo in it, it's still an insanely cost-effective weapon. Throwing a bunch of dumb rounds in the right general direction which are more predictable and vulnerable to counterattack, supply disruption, etc is not very cost-effective at all since the enemy's more advanced weaponry can inflict heavy attrition of your equipment, supplies, and men in the meantime costing you far more than the enemy ever had to spend on the ammo he used on you. This applies to conventional and rocket/missile artillery, man-portable anti-tank and anti-air weapons, and aerial weaponry at the very least. Russia can't afford to replace their losses in equipment and ammunition indefinitely while ukraine's western aid and lower logistical requirements for using smaller quantities of advanced weapons mean they can endure longer.
@@mightza3781 lol true. The one key factor behind all of this for the russian military is the upholding of the old russian tradition of powerful russian oligarchs sending underequipped starving peasant hordes (preferably of nonrussian ethnic origin) into battle to die for their benefit and profit. It was true hundreds of years ago and still is now. They've sometimes been able to catch up a little bit at certain points in history but they fall behind again just as fast. This deeply ingrained cultural approach to governance and war has shown itself to be woefully inept for the purposes of modern warfare both in terms of strategy and doctrine as well as in the performance of the weapons created for that doctrine themselves. Muskets vs rifles is a pretty good analogy.
Logistics Logistics Logistics... we get dazzled by the shock and awe of the pointy end of the spear - but it's logistics that wins any campaign lasting more than a few days.
The most recent HIMARS ammunition types destined for Ukraine include thousands of anti-personnel submunitions in each rocket to sterilize exactly the sort of large gatherings of Russian artillery forces needed to have any kind of success using the dumb shells and rockets which the Russians have in such abundance they don't mind abandoning stockpiles to advancing Ukrainian forces.
This is true even when they got the HIMARS system a lot of capabilities were restricted or removed from the ukrainians accessing them for both security reasons should the equipment ever get captured by the Russians as well as for practical reasons because NATO doesn't exactly want to share _all_ of their capabilities and capacities with a non-NATO Ally
@@Sasha-mh2ic They really don't. There is an entire interconnected network warfare suite built within the last 10-20 years that makes Ukraine's systems look humble and simple. Russia and China have both advertised they have comparable technologies, but if they did, they would be destroying Ukraine with them.
A Russian soldier ran up to a nun. Out of breath, he asked, “Please, may I hide under your skirt, I'll explain later.” The nun agreed. A moment later two military police ran up and asked: “Sister, have you seen a soldier?” The nun replied, “He went that way.” After the military police ran off, the soldier crawled out from under her skirt and said, “I can't thank you enough, Sister. You see, I don't want to go to Ukraine.” The nun said, “I understand completely.” The soldier added, “I hope I'm not rude, but you have a great pair of legs!” The nun replied, “If you had looked a little higher, you would've seen a great pair of balls too. I don't want to go to Ukraine either."
Glory to Ukraine. I think HIMARS really change the game. I am Irish, so I definitely have a strong affinity toward Ukraine because of Putin's barbarity reminded us of how we struggled to win independence a century ago. 🇮🇪🇮🇳🤝🇺🇦
@@JohnSmith-un9jm no they are not Russia moved to a strategy of bombarding Ukraine before advancing further. The himars were responsible for annihilating the ammunition before they could be fired. Himars are a big factor of rendering the Russian strategy mute.
I'm still counting it as a massive failure for Russia. It should have been a slam dunk for Russia and now I'm expecting Ukraine to start invading Russia.
you call success losing more than 80% of your entire army while Russia still has over 2 million reservists and over 25 million conscripts? Ukraine is done they have no more troops that is why the USA and NATO have called in ISIS and Al Qaida to fight for them as merc just like they did in Syria.
Everybody agrees that Western Weapons have had a major beneficial effect on the success of Ukrainian army.However we must also realise that Ukraine has inflicted big losses on Russia using Ukrainian and Russian weapons as well! To me Russian command incompetance - in using their assets their dreadful logistics - failure to maintain upgrade or even correctly deploy has been paramount .
That might be true, but that was only possible because of western weapons. Javelins, NLAWS, Panzerfaust 3, AT4s etc. are all man portable, and sometimes single use rockets, that have allowed Ukraini soldiers the ability to take out armour. The javelin is cool, but the cost is a little over the top, this is where the UK NLAW shines so much.
@@PBMS123 Nothing matters without Ukrainian morale and will to fight, Afghanistan makes that perfectly clear they had far superior weapons then Ukraine had access to and couldn’t even fend off a tiny little militia… So don’t overstate weapons at the cost of understanding the mindset of the people holding them
Also very important is the motivation 💪 of your soldiers, Ukrainians are defending their country and families, on the other side the Russian soldiers know they are risking their lives for the megalomaniac empire dreams of a dictator that lives in luxury and doesn't care about their lives. Let's hope 🙏 the Russian soldiers realise they should point their guns on the opposite side, towards putin and his cronies. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 ♥️.
All of that tech wouldn't matter if not for the fighting spirit of the men and women of Ukraine. Thanks for putting our equipment to good use. Slava Ukraini!
it s not being put to good use. it is a war in which the poor get killed and the rich profit. only peace is acceptable read orwell's books where fiction is reality and war is peace
Your supply of men and women of fight spirit is running dry. Enjoy getting conscripted into the war you've been rooting for from the beginning war monger.
I agree with a below comment that a decentralized command structure in the Ukrainian Army helped. It also helped that the Ukrainians were trained extensively to use modern warfare techniques and had been under intense fire during the 2014 war. Many of the Russian troops have not experienced intense enemy fire and tend to panic or become demoralized when placed under enemy fire. Most Russian troops and even their air force lack training. The average Russian Army member has only gone through a two year enlistment before returning to civilian life. Thus they don't have the depth of training and the concept of proper modern warfare tactics that the Ukrain troops possess. Troops have to accompany tank columns in to prevent the opposing troops from taking out the tank columns with shoulder mounted weapons or quickly laid mines. In the Russian thrust to Kiev it quickly became apparent that troops did not accompany their tanks. Adding to that a poor supply chain lead to their tanks becoming either sitting ducks ripe for destruction or tanks without fuel or shells. In short, the Russian Army is not a professional army but an army made up of young men they pull off the streets.
@@Homer-OJ-Simpson Ukrainians in 2014 where fighting Dombass Region Separatists along with Orcs little green men and directed by Russian Federation Commanders without Uniform Insigna. Ukrainians didn't have much of an Army and their Militiary doctorine would've mimicked the Orcs. Hence during the 2014 Dombass Region Conflict (Civil War), Ukrainian Army went through a modernisation program as they knew Putin had more in store for Ukraine so Ukrainians prepared likewise. With NATO strategy planners working alongside AFU to make best the advantages of Ukraine versus a Military with superior numbers in personnel and equipment. Unfortunately for Putler the OrcZ, he didn't envisage the Ukrainians will be sporting modern advanced weapons and a Military utilising flexible techniques, doctorine based on real-time intelligence and reconnaissance.
@@angelcabeza6464 But when was it a super power though? All their leaders either forcefully removed or died with no accomplishment, country was never conquered, but managed to destroy itself while day dreaming about being powerful ONLY BECAUSE they are a big country, how dumb can one be?
Nukes, they have nukes. They were never about having the strongest economy or the strongest military. All their projected strength on the world stage today was given to them by the Soviet era in the form of a nuclear arsenal. A while back just the mention of them was enough of a deterrent. Understandable we extended this capability to their military as well, given how the internet works memes and popular ideas of the Russian military were far more easily consumed but when you look at the truth behind it all is that Russia never fought a modern conventional war with a near-peer adversary. They fought Georgians and Chechens in a round about way you wouldn't consider it fair. Ukraine is different, and it gave us a new perspective of what state the Russian military is actually in. And so we can now hear Putin ranting and raving about using Nukes again, like an admission that his military will not be enough in this conflict.
perhaps Russia is a "superpower" because of propaganda (to convince people that it is a superpower), nuclear weapons, and money from the west's thirst for low oil prices and perhaps other raw materials
It's frequently overlooked that, along with 16 wheeled single-pod HIMARS (soon to be 20), Ukraine also has 10 M270 MLRS / MARS II tracked twin-pod vehicles, which is why they seem to be everywhere. The constraint seems to be rockets rather than launchers, although I suspect that Ukraine would usefully consume almost any quantity of rockets they could get their hands on.
Fret not. They didn't even mention the British AAMRAM missles, either. And I've heard of Krab. Besides, Poland's impact on the war has been significant: (a) They're *greatly* increased their readiness and weapons stockpiles, making a clear "don't you even think about it!" statement to Russia [& this, IMO, gives Germany the freedom to lend its assistance w/o worries]; (b) Polish enlistments jumped by 700% after the Russan invasion began [same effect as (a)]; (c) Polish transportation infrastructure has served as an invaluable corridor of weapons transport to Ukraine, as well as a vital evacuation corridor for displaced Ukranian refugees. So, thanks to Poland [& Finland, too], Russia is in absolutely no position to widen the war: basically it can only lose: even if Russia won all remaining battles, the rest of the world now hates Russia - pretty much permanently.
@@jimwinchester339 Poland knows it's next on Russia's hit lst. It's pretty much always been that way. As with Ukraine, Russia has had only Pyrrhic victories over Poland. Third are the Baltics, led by Lithuania. I'm less familiar with Latvia & Estonia but Lithuania has always punched above its weight in resisting Russian aggression.
Russia's incompetence in this war has been stunning. I knew the army was corrupt and the condition's in the Russian army were brutal but man has it been shocking how bad it truly was. Good for Ukraine (obviously) and my home country Moldova. No doubt had Russia succeeded in the 1st couple of months Chisinau would have fallen and we'd be a Russian puppet state again
The Army of the Russian Federation have failed spectacularly for several reasons. One of the least obvious is the lack of a professional Non-Commissioned Officer corps. Sergeants are the backbone of most Armies. A professional NCO program could have routed out some of the worst instances of corruption from vendors, readiness of equipment and training weakness. The mid level officers have to directly supervise recruit training, basic procurement and such. With the number of casualties to their officers corps, they now have limited options to mobilize and train replacements.. I would not want to be a Russian soldier in Ukraine.
Agreed. I just realized how profoundly overrated Russia's military is. Kudos to Ukraine for efficiently managing the weapons and equipment it received from the US and other supporters. Considering Russia doesn't use Nukes of course.
What’s even more shocking than that is how clueless the endless talking heads and “military experts” were. They must’ve been eating up russian propaganda for decades thinking they were som high tech military monster. I remember when they first invaded they were all on TV saying kyiv would be gone in 3 days. They overestimated the Russian military to an insane degree and basically discounted entirely the will of the ukranian people to fight to keep their country.
Hi interesting video, however you have missed the most important fact, the tenacity, the determination, devotion, the heroism of the Ukraine Soldiers! God them God bless Ukraine!!
What an understatement. Not just damage to military. Social - 50k+ work able men dead with more dieing every day. Cultural - who's going to be interested in russian culture any time soon? Economic - total collapse of production industries due to limited access to components and the most importantly russian oil & gas will not be able to recover to their heights, ever, when Europe closes their pipes to Europe. If they had good leadership they potentially could restore a lot of damage by simply agreeing to give away all occupied territories including Crimea in exchange of quick dismissal of sanction. But we all know this won't happen and Russia will continue wasting personnel and material until total collapse. What will follow afterwards is totally unpredictable. It could result further territorial collapse and disintegration. Japan taking back Kuril islands and Dagestan and Chechens anouncing independence potentially first ones to slip away. But east oil rich territories can easily fall under Chinese control - even if not militarily - through debt trap diplomacy that China recently got so good at. Technically there is nothing there that would prevent Finland to just come in and take back some lost territories (russian defense on Finish borders already been reduced in capacity by 90%) during the winter war too - though I believe Fins rather would not have these degraded russian territories than have them.
Putin has promised that he will not mobilise the Russian people on TV, when he eat his words everyone with a brain in russia know their army isn’t as strong as they claim to be.
To sum it all up, Russia has performed so poorly against the most modest western weaponry that if there were no nuclear weapons involved Russia would have already lost this war.
At the start of the war Ukraine had 54 Javelin launchers & 2,000 NLAWS - in the first 10 days of the war around Kyiv it was the NLAWS that proved most effective possibly as they easier to use and had 30 UK trainers in the lead up
There are so many great channels (better than history channel) on TH-cam, but yours is one of the very best. Hope to check you out some more. Keep them coming.
If the enemy is making a mistake its better to encourage it subtly than to stand in a loud coloured shirt telling everybody where they are going wrong. Wars are LOST that way.
I think all this cheerleading and early celebrations are gonna come back to bite Ukraine and its supporters in the ass BIG TIME. Remember, the way Russia fights historically is they start out slow, lose lots of men and equipment, then get their shit together and OBLITERATE the enemy. I honestly think Russia hasn't even started yet.
17:32 funnily just at the start of October the US announced in its newest monthly aid package they were sending Ukraine 18 more HIMARS, a little over double what they have in service right now. Along with M30A1 anti-personnel missiles which act basically as a giant shotgun on the end of a normal HIMARS rocket. So expect even more damage behind Russian lines.
@@patmccall1818 No, some were delivered a week ago. The anti-personnel airburst warheads are going to make the Russians run home to mommy. They are brutal.
@@TommyTCGT Yep keep telling yourself that. Remember Russian Defense Ministry would never lie to you. They have 44 confirmed kills on the HMLRS. Of course that is almost double the amount given to Ukraine, but you Tommaso Turek are so smart and wise you can come up with a justification for this. Ignorance is bliss. no brains, no headaches.
You fail to mention the British/Norwegian and German tracked MRLS systems that fire the same missiles as HIMARS but have twice the launch tubes per vehicle. So 16 HIMARS x 6 launch tubes = 96. Plus 12 (I believe) MRLS x 12 launch tubes = 144.
I had a friend who drove an M270 MLRS system in the gulf in 93-94. the capability of that was awestriking then, but newer precision systems make them insane. He always said the US had way more capability than anyone knew, so who knows what the secret systems can do. That insane budget has to be accomplishing more than what we've even seen so far.
this huge military budget only flows as long as the US-Dollar is the leading currency , because it compensates the giant debt mountain & prevents the USD from instantly crashing (like the Russian Rouble in 1980s to 1990s)
@@kilianortmann9979 also interesting was that in the 1st gulf war there were 69 MLRS systems attached to VII Corp so if some resistance was seen it was obliterated with the 'shotgun' but the major AirLand Battle doctrine had artillery covering 50 miles deep in front of the M1A1 Abrams / Bradley platoons, then Apaches covering the first 100 miles in front of the line of contact & aircraft including stand off missiles covering 100-300 miles deep. Plus complete air superiority made this a devastating combined arms approach.
You're not wrong. Aside from maintenance, a particular vital task for a nuclear armed nation, there are newer systems coming down the line from EW (Electronic Warfare) to jets. I often joke about the military budget being so big, but when you look at it more closely, you start to realize the budget is that way for a good reason.
@@Killerspieler0815 your comment is so far out of left field is baffling. But the U.S dollar is the world currency standard and will continue to be for the for seeable future.
There are two other reasons that allow Ukraine to be so successful, outside how its army has reformed. First, Ukraine has been largely helped by many of their friends of Eastern Europe. The majority (Greece, Sweden, Albania, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Moldova, Finland, Georgia, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Turkey) sided with Ukraine, even most Israelis, Azerbaijanis, Chechens, Ingush, Circassians, Dagestanis, Syrians and Iranians side with Ukraine (not the governments), blurring the religious differences (Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, North Caucasians, Albania, Bosnia and Kosovo are Muslims), since many of them were either former Tsarist or Soviet colonies. This one caught by surprise for most of pro-Russian supporters (especially Black Africans and Indians) since most pro-Russian fans only assumed the "West" as UK, France, Germany, USA, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Canada, but very few about these East European countries. Second, Vladimir Putin assumed he is Napoleon Bonaparte and his army fought like Japanese WW2 soldiers. He has no military experience, only a former low-level KGB man. But he believed he is the naturally born commander, so he meddled and interfered in military affairs, replacing competent Generals with yes-men. About the army, Putin ironically admired WW2 Japan, a lot, so he sought to Japanise the Russian military, but did nothing to rout corruption. That's why Russian Army is a mess. And now, in his desperation, he moves on using his large weapon arsenal to throw missiles on Ukraine by all cost, yet only reinvigorate more Ukrainians to fight against Russia.
@@acediadekay3793 Denmark and Norway are definitely close to Finland and Sweden, but they never fought a war against Tsarist or Soviet Army to begin with.
@@huwenkai440 That's true enough. I was thinking more of the modern aid then the warring history. (Hurricane missiles, APV's, Howitzer's, Training of UA soldiers..) There have been some historical tensions: - Bornholm island (NATO Radar station) - the Norwegian border - the Arctic claims - submarine's ... But that's cherry-picking and doesn't scale.
As a Black African, please leave us out of this situation. Literally, it's not our business. There are more pro-Russian fans in Europe and the United States than anywhere in Africa. Major politicians and politcal party's in the U.S. (former Presidents) were siding with Russia at the beginning of this war. Europe is worried about what the French and Italian Right might do in the future to abandon Ukraine. All Africa has for you are thoughts and prayers.
@@justiron2999 - you need o clean it up constantly, specially when you on operation and m-4/16 is very fragile when it is related to dirt and sand.. I don’t know surely about ak-47, heard it is better in reliability , but never used it. In my mil service we are constantly required to clean m-16 to avoid jamming and it was annoying…
The US has barely scratched the surface of what it could send. The US has staggering military power. On one site Binkov staged a hypothetical war between the United States and the combined military force of the rest of the world where no nuclear weapons would be used. The net result was that the US came out victorious. This should not be surprising since when all of its military expenditures are added up it spends at least a trillion dollars a year on its defense industry. It has by far the most powerful economy and the most advanced technology. We really don't know what the US has because some of its most advanced projects are so secret only a relative handful of people are aware of them. In war between NATO and Russia barring the use of nuclear weapons NATO would wipe out Russia within a week.
@Mr Darren Vietnam like every war America has fought since World War II was fought stupidity. Winning should have been easy. Just firing artillery from our big guns on battleships and missiles at Hanoi and Haiphong around the clock with explosions going off every few seconds would have paralyzed the entire country with shell shock, we didn't even have to hit anything. After a few weeks of that we could have just walked in. What terrified the North Vietnamese most were the B52s. The blasts were so powerful they literally shook the ground.
@@markfischer3626 but the fact remains you haven't won a war without help from Britain. That's simply a fact. And fighting stupid or smart is all a part of war.
Couple of things. Most of the Russian tanks were killed by artillery not Javelin. West still supplied the drones and shells but still. Also it wasnt the Stinger that was most effective but rather a Polish AA missile that was newer and given pretty much as soon as this started. People always forget about the Poles. The HARM missile has 2 modes active seeker and pilot controlled. Active seeker is where you fire the thing and it hunts down its own target. Pilot control is where the aircraft guides the missile towards the target and the missile takes over for terminal guidance. Its thought that the HARMS that are rigged to the MIGs only have the missile guidance capability which makes them rather limited. Important addition yes. Game changer probably not because the active seeker mode has a shorter range making it much more dangerous for the pilots.
Artillery wouldn’t have hit more then a couple random targets if it wasn’t for US surveillance and Intel. People aren’t ignoring the Polish support. They just recognize their is much much more coming from the states. Maybe not in compared to GDP or land mass but it is not even close if you are just looking at supplies given. P.S. the US was doing weapons deals with Ukraine years before the war. Warned the world of their plan and troop movements prior to the invasion allowing Ukraine to prepare. What the Polish people really should be praised for is all the refugees they are taking in. That is no small challenge and will effect the country for decades.
I have seen a 3 gun volley 155mm shells from a m777 battery literally liquify a platoon size enemy force caught in the open. It looked like they had all gone thru a meat grinder, what was left was barley identifiable as human. It's hard to understand how dangerous artillery is until you have seen it's capabilities
Well.... They weren't kidding when they said "Russia is about to find out why Americans don't have universal healthcare." As much as I want universal healthcare like a civilized nation, I'm glad to see my taxes going to something useful for once.
As demonstrated by all the other 1st world countries, universal healthcare is logistically doable. Politicians are simply unwilling to lose the financial support of insurance companies
@@DannyBurakov Well said, these people are so brainwashed, they truly believe the BS their government has fed them, that somehow the two are mutually exclusive 🙄🤦🏼♂️
Honestly, I am Nepalese and I can't help but admiring Ukrainian resistance. But our neighbours India and Pakistan have different (if not say uneducated) ethics.
Lol. Morality depends on strategy. They supported dictatorships when it suits them. They talk about democracy when it suits them. Don't fall for Western morality. It is sham.
@@DeepakKumar-uj6br Afghanistan surrendering in 2 weeks to a bunch of cavemen talibans driving rusty old trucks, after being trained and equipped by the west for 20 years, deserves no admiration 😂... apart from admiring how fast shit hit the fan when the americans left. Ukranian determination and resilience is to another level, like it or not.
Yeah and all India ever does is complain about the British empire... which was literally years and years ago. and yet they are guilty of the same themselves only they do it in our modern age. Big hypocrits.
Giving Ukraine more of these modern weapons helps them push the enemy back and allows us to see their effectiveness in real combat situations thus exposing any downfalls which can then help us to make any improvements.
Col McGovern, USA, has more truthful summaries, but you don't want to search those, as he says war in Ukie is pretty well over, bar the clean up by Russ. Chechens of a few Nazi strays!
The war is certainly a commercial for the west's precision weaponry, but if some of the stories I've seen recently are accurate, there is an Achilles heel in that they cannot be apparently be replenished as quickly as they are used. If true, that would be a big issue in a broader theatre.
The factories are set up for peacetime production levels. If there is enough demand, these factories could be redesigned to produce at a wartime level.
Nato has given Ukraine more then the entire Russian military budget and they still can't win. What do you think is going to happen when Ukraine's offensive runs out of strength? Ukraine will probably be forced to give up the part of the DPR they still have in the armistice agreement. Ukraine has lost over 250,000 soldiers and spend over $200 Billion dollars to fight Russia. What has Ukraine achieved? Pretty much nothing
What has been given to Ukraine is far from the best available. But even this little has shown the difference in capabilities between the west and east is enormous. Can't even imagine if the Navy or Airforce would be included from the west. The war would have been already over a long time ago. This dragging on the conflict serves certain interests hence it will be prolonged till other, hidden goals are met as well.
From a cosmic point of view people have to wake up to their responsibilities and in Russia, to not give power away to someone who will misuse it badly...the old school will eventually see the consequences of their predatory nature ...note how much .ore cooperative nato has become
There was a Nato paper on how Nato can't give Ukraine the cutting edge because it would increase the risk of Russia using nukes because they see themselves threatened. Instead, Nato tries to walk the edge, always keeping Ukraine afloat, but just by so much that they couldn't steamroll Russia.
One thing is true though about what Ukraine did receive - it was maintained and stored properly even when not in use. I haven't heard of any of the weapon systems being sent failing very often.
@@brianh9358 The Javelins and Stingers have had some reliability problems, because quartermaster sergeants did what quartermaster sergeants always do, and dumped their old, questionable stock on the other poor schmuck, and some of the individual rounds had been sitting on a shelf for a long time, and were beyond their "best before" date. Both are from (roughly) the 1980's, and while they have had updates for capability, and ongoing production for export, it was also inevitable that Ukraine was going to end up getting some duds. Also, the Strela-2s' that Germany donated were a bit dodgy (I've seen ~700 of 2,700 being quoted as the failure rate, but have no way to verify it), but they were inherited from E Germany - if anything Ukraine was lucky that they hadn't all been scrapped already
I've watched interesting videos about tactics employed by Ukraine in particular the Thunder runs which some other commentator likened to being a natural fit for Ukrainians with their Cossack heritage. Using lightly armed vehicles, initially civilian 4x4 trucks but increasingly buggies, Humvees and captured TIGRs. Searching for, then exploiting weak-spots in Ruzzian lines, able to probe deeply either for recon or lightning attacks upon poorly defended rear positions, which add to one of the aspects in the military arsenal which is sometimes forgotten, i.e. morale. Thunder runs destroy Ruzzian morale and hugely boost that of the Ukrainians. Never underestimate the power of a people fighting to defend their homeland from a vicious and violent invader, particularly when he has been forced to bolster his ranks with murderers and rapists culled from Ruzzian prisons. These people do not endear themselves to a besieged people.
yeap usa should give more Swich blade drones ...and multi launchers for them ...to give russia taste how look NEW ERA WAR . when thousands suacide drones smash with high accuracy at the same time ..
Hope you don't include UK among Europe. The UK has provided the 2nd most amount of weapons to ukrain and also a lot of training. If the rest of Europe and notably the eu countries helped out as much this would probably be all over by now.
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All Russian friends, please stop spending money and stop paying taxes as much as possible.. Even that monster can't put millions of people into prison. Please start a campaign like this🙏
This hasn't aged well. Russian SMO engaged original Ukrainian forces which had 3:1 advantage in manpower with parity with weapons (Russia has committed only fraction of its forces) in February and had started engaging in peace negotiation in March/April which was terminated under pressure from UK/US. By June, original UAF trained/armed by US/NATO since 2014 were essentially destroyed.
This is the country we feared so much during the Cold War. Boy did we overestimate their capabilities. Never mind archaic equipment, who trains these soldiers? This begs the question, Have we overestimated China too? These countries spend a fraction of what we do on arms, and their best tech is stolen from us.
The Soviet military was very different, and much of western doctrine (which feeds into equipment, training, technology) was designed around countering that Soviet army. But the Soviets actually spent the money on building that power, not on building yachts for the elite. And it bankrupted them. Russia is still trying to copy that former power, without spending the money, while NATO has moved far beyond it.
@@don63 The Cold War is over. The most shocking thing about the Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine is the revelation that the west's public perception of geopolitics is still stuck in the last century. China's GDP is 10 times that of Russia's, and so is their population. No one who has been paying attention would even think that China is comparable to Russia.
Depends what the real objectives were at the beginning. Iraq and Afghanistan the US achieved its stated objectives but they were each bad for their own reasons.
@@tengkualiff If you can agree that the Iraq War was won, then why do you say that invaders cannot win? That is the most recent US war if going by when wars are started. If you look at the last war Russia fought, they invaded and won against Georgia.
I think the weaponry we are currently sending is doing well. If possible, ramping up the production of such weaponry would probably do Ukraine more good than sending in new and more advanced weaponry. It would take time for Ukraine to integrate it into their current strategy and forces. Now I do think that sending _some_ more advanced weaponry to the Ukrainian rear would be good. It gives them time to integrate and, even if limited in quantity, could backup the less advanced weaponry. Think of how more advanced aircraft like F-35Cs can, reportedly, go into airspace that less capable but far more numerous aircraft like F/A-18E/Fs could never hope to enter. And the F-35Cs can take out the systems that prevent the F/A-18E/Fs from moving in. Thus, letting the workhorses do the heavy lifting.
" ramping up the production of such weaponry" - read defense news sites. The West can't just ramp up the production. NATO was not prepared for a large scale war. We were caught with our pants down as far as production goes. Of course, NATO can take out anyone by using combined arms warfare , but we can't produce in large scale any modern equipment. It's just too complicated, and it depends on dozens of suppliers from several countries to make even something like an NLAW.
Putin is lashing out like Hitler in ww2! V2 rocket style. 💯 Can we just skip to the part where he Kills Himself in a Bunker⁉ #PutinWarCriminal 💛💙 Victory for Ukraine! 🔱
You should also mention that, contrary to most weapons delivered to Ukraine, Tanks require much more logistics, know-how and repair expertise. So it turns out that 2/3 of the "new" ones are actually captured russian tanks. Deep repair factories and expertise for those are in Poland, Bulgaria and other former soviet satellites.
Bulgaria is not involved in the reparations at all, it's highly corrupt and ineffective country with a pro-russian government.. The most of those repairs happen in the Czech republic, Slovakia and Poland.. Plus the huge amount of weapons we have sent them (tanks, MLRS, attack helicopters, grenade launchers and so on..)
is this an American Weapon advertise? because it gives only credit to the US weapons and ignoring everything else. in the video it says the US gave Ukraine 16 Himars, but germany alone gave Ukraine 6 Mars 2 (German version of Himars). so the complete part from the video is wrong "what damage only 16 Himars can do" because they have more then 16 but not from the US. and all the other weapons from Polish Krab to French Caesar the German PHZ2000/IRIS-T seems pretty worthless against US made weapons or at least this is what this video want to tell us
I think it says a lot that Ukraine is beating Russia back with our free weapons that were willing to hand out think about the things we have that nobody knows about make good choices
There are many more dangerous things than assuming incorrectly you are winning. But yes it can be dangerous. Not sure exactly which side is currently making this error.
@@singed8853 ok. Allow me to adjust my comment slightly.. my view is the war is a nothing more than any other war in the last 2/300 years.. A money making schema/business opportunity for the upcoming or already wealthy.. This is without taking into account those directly involved. Such as troops and "leadership". The media is also making an absolute fortune too. In the context of the commentary in this thread.. I should say., We(individuals within the world wide general masses) should not assume there is a winner.. let alone the point of the war in the first place. This was made clear with the media response to Putin's "special operation". They gave out the reports as to Putin is "losing".. Putin to this day has not given out the information as to his objective. Also giving the impression that 100,000 conscripts performance on the battlefield is the general view of how the reserve and regular army will perform in battle. If we are to say that Putin's objective was to create a chaotic environment on the entire Russian border with NATO members.. then waiting to see what the response would be.. then he is winning. We can not know exactly what his plans are. Without taking into account., What his (and those that are profiting from the war) objective(s) really is. Cui prodest??
Very arrogant and missleading video, like himmars system is all that changed the situation instead of reality, where hundreds of systems provided from Europe did that combined with USA together. Not to mention of hundreds of post soviet tanks, artillery pieces, rocket launchers, ifv's, anti air and armor launchers, drones and so on were used in that counter offensive...
@@spiceyfrenchtoast9421 200 battle Tanks from Poland as an example. They have a massive impact. Not to mention the array of artillery provided. HIMARS is good, but it did not change the outcome of the war. The combined effort of all Nations did.
@@spiceyfrenchtoast9421 What's with you pepole these days, did humanity lost the ability to analyse simple text? If you don't understand what you read there is nothing i can do to help you dude, seek some specialist aid or something.
it feels odd and a little annoying at times to see USA get all the credit for everything new and flashy sendt to Ukraine. God bless America for sending the new gamechanging Norwegian Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System.
Not only should the Western European Union help more but I think they should give fighter aircraft and tanks and infantry combat vehicles as well as cruise missiles and unmanned combat aircraft to Ukraine
i will not tire to push for every influencial person that can sell this idea: compagnies producing air defence systems to "adopt an Ukrainian city" and provide the sytems to defend its skies. At the end of the war nobody would be against showcasing the system in order to promote it towards future sales. It should not involve charging Ukraine and not be part of a gouvernemental package, these compagnies have the deep pockets no problem. Hear hear..
5 more HiMARS delivered and on the front lines announced today. if they get a longer-range missile, taking Crimea will become much easier. A few weeks of targeted attacks, then a big push they could take it in a month. Also, the orders for HiMARS is likely in the thousands. Poland wants 500, Tiawan wants them, the US says they will at least double their inventory. For sure it will be used in conflicts for decades to come.
Ukraine needs more than that but if they had more 300 range missiles. Wouldn't need as many HiMARS but more is better. They need more tanks,and planes to give the ground troops more support,and planes in the air. To give Ukraine a more lethal balanced attack to have complete victory sooner.
Iskander-M - Range : 400-500km, Accuracy :5-7m, Speed : Mach 6-7(7408-8643 km/h) , Cost: $3 mil. Himars - Range : 125-300km, Accuracy : 7m , Speed : 85km/h for M142 and mach 2.5 for M30/31 , Cost: $3.5 mil. So who don't you compare these two ? Not to mention they used the Kinzhal that is capable of Mach 12. So what is the equivalent US missile for that ?
Yes the rest of the EU countries (the UK, Poland, Baltic states, and Norway are notable exceptions) need to step it up. Particularly Germany and France.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_aid_to_Ukraine_during_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War I think Germany is doing a lot more than it is recognised. All while risking getting into an economical recession (kind of self-made tbh, caused by dependence on russia).
Germany is thrid behind the US (27,8 billion) and UK (3,7 billion) with 1,2 billion. To be fair, both countries were much better equipped before the conflcit whereas the Bundeswehr already had shortage of equipment. You can't provide something you don't have and not all equipment is made equal. After giving a sizeable chunk of our most modern artillery (the Panzerhaubitze 2000 which is sadly not mentioned in the video but shows up in multiple clips) the only thing we have left would be main battle tanks, i.e. the Leopard 2. Even Ukrainians don't want that equipment because it just too much of headache to establish the supply lines necessary and train not only the crews but also the mechanics and logistical backbone to support their proper use. France on the other hand has sent 0,2 billion of I don't know what, even less than Norway. Edit: Germany also provided 30 Gepard armored anti-air tanks, 51 M113 armored troup transporters and 16 BIBER bridge building tanks (these things are expensive and rare as f*) along with ammunition and medical supplies (including 2 fully equipped field hospitals) the German government provides a full list: www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/news/military-support-ukraine-2054992
@@pauleblub You have to know in addition, that the EU doesn't have any money on it's own. Nearly a third of all the money given from this entity is actually German money. Many people don't recognise that fact.
Thanks for supporting Ukraine, we're not perfect, we're just a regular people with regular problems like corruption, polarization etc. But we have a right to exist and live on our land and peacefully raise our children. This war shows who our true friends and foes are.
God damned right you do. Warts and all, it is your land, your country, your history, your people, and you have the right to determine what path that takes. I will happily pay my taxes to help with that.
Brilliant comment.
Yes, you have the absolute right to live, be free, and improve your own country in your own way, in your own time.
Slava Ukraini
@@JohnA891 but not to Palestine. Those damn non Europeans don't deserve a single dollar. In fact, help the other side in destroying them.
All the best from Australia! You are an inspiration to the world!
There is not a country in the world that's perfect, but you should have the right to self determination. Love from the UK.
Little clarification Ukraine didn't have "Soviet-era army" before February 24, in fact Russia does now. The chains of command there remain the same, while in Ukraine army evolved and became more efficient and less centralized. This happened after Russia''s first invasion in 2014 when it was clear that army needs deep reforms and reforms it had.
While ukraine military got its reform, ukraine democracy "nah bro we're (not) good!"
@@no_name4796 what are you on abut Ukraine has mire of a democracy then failing russia
@@no_name4796 Every Democracy had their ups and downs, including the US. It takes time to build an effective Democracy, besides still better than Russia/Belarus.i
@@no_name4796 no democracy is perfect, but the better ones try to sort out the bad parts. Russia, on the other is so corrupt it reaches down to the core of it's army's values. That's why their 10,000 tanks in cold storage are literally scrap metal.
Petite rectification, l'Ukraine avait une armée sous l'ère soviétique.
Ce qui s'est passé en 2014, c'est qu'une grande partie de cette armée à rejoint les séparatistes du Donbass et de Crimée en réaction aux exactions commises par les bataillons de représailles nationalistes.
L'armée d'aujourd'hui est un pur produit de l'OTAN qui l'entraîne et l'équipe depuis 2014.
Elle est principalement encadrée par les cadres nationalistes de Maïdan qui sont des criminels abrutis et dangereux.
Bonne continuation.
The British and Americans, and Canadians, have been training the Ukrainians at every command level, since 2014. Totally transforming that army. It hasn't been a Soviet style army for almost a decade
This has been a secret game changer that doesn't get mentioned enough. but it has played a big role, no one has been more surprised and dismayed than the tyrannical aggressor Putin's Army., Putin's war.. This is what this is.
It's far worse, I mean training from an American? Can you imagine how bad that would make them? It's no wonder we see Russia trashing them with such ease. It's what we always see from the US, permanently getting their arses spanked all over the world, and not even against military capable countries, but manly countries once considered the Third World. Is there something wrong with you, maybe? Or do you just have no idea about the USA's real history in wars?
Transforming them into radicalized Nazis for sure, we all know that, but as a fighting force? HILARIOUS! Who are you trying to kid?
Americans only ever talk like they have a military history like Great Britain or something as hilariously stupid and bizarre! I mean, that's so wrong, It's only hilarious hearing them.
The United States has one of the very worst, and easily the most cowardly military record of any country on earth. Yet read the Americans? You can be forgiven for thinking they're awesome after reading them, LOL, It's most bizarre!
The United States was founded in 1776, (even that's a lie, LOL). She's been at war for 226 out of her 246 calendar years of existence. In other words, there were only 20 calendar years, in which the U.S. did not wage any wars.
The Wars waged were never against a militarily capable country, but only countries considered the Third World. And any resistance from those countries, always saw the USA lose!
Pick any year since 1776, and there's a 91% chance that America was involved in some war during that calendar year, and a 73% chance they lost it.
No U.S. president truly qualifies as a peacetime president. Instead, all U.S. presidents can technically be considered “war presidents.” The U.S. has never gone a decade without war. The only time the U.S. went five years without war (1937-42) was during the isolationist period (cowardly period) of the Great Depression.
Since the 2nd World War, the USA has started 201 armed conflicts, with around 40-50 million (mostly civilian casualties). And usually based on false premises/lies. (And failed in most). This is more than 2 conflicts, started based on nothing more than lies and propaganda, per year. Just Awesome! LMAO!
So, how many wars have the English and British fought and Won?...
England 53 Wars: 44 Victories: 4 drawn: 5 Lost: from 939 to 1707
British Empire & Great Britain 84 wars: 75 victories: 2 drawn: 7 Lost: from 1707 to 2016
Total: = 137 Wars: 119 Victories: 6 Draws: 12 Lost (most to France): In Wars over 1077 years = a war on average every 12 years. (One of the greatest modern day military records on Earth).
Britain is the only country in the world that's always fought for the people's freedom against every attempt at tyranny in our world's modern history. Whether tyranny over Europe, or over the world, Britain has always fought against it, and is unbeaten doing so.
So many times Great Britain saved Europe throughout history, not only in WW2, but many times before. With the defeat of Napoleon, being just one. Great Britain, with Prussian support, defeated Napoleon, he defeated everyone else.
Spain, the world's superpower of the days, thought she'd send her Armada to teach us English a lesson for plundering all of their stolen gold, and they only ended up sunk, destroyed and just old wrecks on the British coast. Annihilated, in other words.
Russia has defeated all armies that have tried to defeat her on her own soil, apart from the Mongol Empire & Great Britain (Ironically with French support, well sort of). We are the only countries/empires on earth to have beaten Russia on her own soil. Who stood up, alone, to the Nazi might? Not anyone else, no, only Britain. The rest folded like playing cards.
Hitler steam rolled over Europe, until he got to Great Britain.
Afghanistan is known as the graveyard for Empires, as all but one, have failed in Afghanistan! The British (who else) did win in Afghanistan (though few knows this today).
Britain went through a period of over 250 years undefeated. (about the same amount of time that the USA has existed), LOL.
Britain fought France the most, with France beating Britain one time more than Britain, but Britain won all the Important ones, though at that time they'd not of known that. France was a force to be reckoned with in those times, no matter what people say today, their history is tremendous.
Great Britain's history is also tremendous, and is actually unsurpassed today, or likely to be.
Sort of explains why no invading boot has touched British mainland soil in nearly a thousand years (over four times as long as the USA has existed). LMAO
Oh, no! Wait!! What am I saying? Silly me! We all know the USA is the most powerful military country in the whole wide world today! Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious. Reminder...
Beaten and loses in Vietnam. After using chemical weapons, Napalm, and Agent Orange, burning down entire towns and villages, killing hundreds of thousands of women and children, while losing the war against a bunch of tunnel kids, they tried to burn alive! Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious.
When a million Chinese ran over the hill in Korea?, they fled and got chased back behind the 38th parallel, then gets out of the War, with a ''face-saving'' armistice. Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious.
Thought they'd force China to purchase their opium in the 2nd opium war, yet is the only one defeated by China, as both the British and French had won convincing victories, while the USA, humiliated, and well defeated, had to limp home, all alone. LOL, Such a powerful force they all claim. Hilarious.
Fought for a mere 28 months in WW2, and hilariously, for years, claimed it was because of the USA we won the War LOL. When we all know the facts say the exact opposite. It's not even up for debate. If Britain had not fought WW2?, the USA would no longer exist. Yet unbelievably they still try to say the same today?, with their propaganda history, they've all been spoon-fed from birth, as if a real part of their history. Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious.
Claimed they forced the USSR to remove its Cuban missiles, or they had threatened War? While the truth is, that it was the USA that was forced to remove their missiles and close down their military base in Turkey, before the USSR would agree to remove their Cuban missiles. The complete opposite of what they all got taught. LOL. Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious.
Claimed Japan surrendered after the second nuclear bomb?, when we now know today, that was, guess what? You got it, just another American lie. Japan had ignored the first Nuclear attack, they also ignored the second Nuclear attack and Japan only surrendered after Stalin had kept his promise to Invade East Asia, and the Soviets crushed the Japanese.
That alone removed any hope the Japs had of getting Stalin to act as a mediator for a conditional surrender, and it was only then the Japanese surrendered (as we now can read from the people of the time). The timing of the surrender proves It, It was indeed just another American lie, and is still to this day, by far, the most cowardly act ever committed by anyone on earth. Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious.
Thought they bossed Syria, with their bought and paid for terrorism, only to then have to sit back and watch Russia kick their terrorist's to pieces over and over again, while the USA were helpless to even resist it, and so instead they resorted to, once again, more lies, more criminal attacks on a legitimate leadership of a sovereign country. Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious.
Thought they'd show Russia, (as they supplied Georgia with their military assistance). LMAO, more like hindrance! Then had to watch Russia annihilate and destroy all the military equipment they'd just given away, every piece, exactly like we see them doing in Ukraine today! PMSL. Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious.
They've destroyed and ruined the lives of an entire country (again), Ukraine this time, with once again, more of their? Yep, you've guessed it, more lies, more supplying weapons to criminals, terrorists and Nazis, and are only working against all the interests of the Ukrainian people, and still are, while pathetically trying to blame it on Russia, such a powerful force they all claim. Hilarious.
They claimed they'd kick the Taliban's ass (inside 3 months). The USA = A trillion dollars worth of military hardware. The Taliban = A dollars worth of military hardware. 20 years (after), the USA were going to kick their asses inside three months, the Taliban hold more ground today than they ever have, and the Yankee boys, as always, got sent home! LMAO!! Such a powerful force, they all claim. Hilarious.
The USA struggles against the Taliban and many other non-militarily capable countries!, they've never met a fully militarily capable country. And you want to take on Russia? LOL... Go on then!!....
Personally, I give the USA precisely zero chance against Russia, or China, or Iran, or even N. Korea, let alone both Russia and China as allies? LOL, who are these yanks fooling apart from themselves? Your military is only as good as your MEN! LOL @ the Yanks!
The American 2022 = We're stronger today than we've ever been!!... Like that would be difficult? LOL.
You want to take on Russia? Hahahaha really? Idiocy on a scale of idiocy, I really don't believe any of us have ever seen before.
Russia has the ability to bring down all USA ICBM's, while we all know the USA has no defence against even the older Soviet ICBM's, let alone the modern lethal ones like Sarmat, carrying up to 24 MERVS, over speeds of Mach 20.7; 4.3 miles per second; 15,480 miles per hour.
And because we saw the USA pull out of the nuclear arms treaty, (that prohibited the creation of any short-mid range nuclear weapons) now sees even the old defensive threat of "MAD", as an obsolete defensive threat today. As Russia has already created those missiles.
And done so creating, hypersonic mid-range missiles, able to carry nuclear tipped warheads, or full nuclear warheads, travelling at speeds not seen before. The US is just lucky that Russian doesn't threaten any pre-emptive strike, but is only defensive, otherwise they'd be able to strike and hit all US defensive stations and platforms, along with all US nuclear silos, and destroy them all within minutes, long before the US could even begin to think about any sort of retaliatory launch. They're now thinking to change that policy of only a defensive nation, and who could blame them?
Today Russia has the S-500 anti-ballistic missile defence systems, able to operate alongside Russia's new A-235 anti-ballistic missile system, with the ability to shoot down hypersonic attack weapons, hypersonic orbital platforms, ballistic missiles, and their combat units, as well as satellites in near space.
ICBM's of the USA can be tracked and shot down quite easily by Russia today. Any Nuclear effort from the USA today?, would see them lose, and lose big time.
Any conventional War against Russia? They quite simply lose, that's not even up for debate, they could try to land 250,000 troops, and they'd all simply be chewed up and spat out, so where the American see Russia losing?
Only God knows, as everything says otherwise. The USA has never met a fully militarily capable country! Russia is the biggest test of them all.
You know, Russia is about 960 times bigger than Kuwait?. When the USA invaded Kuwait against Iraq, the USA deployed 750,000 troops. How many troops do you think they'd need to attack and invade Russia? LOLOLOLOL
IMO the absolutely MOST critical contribution of the West to Ukraine... intelligence. But while the value of realtime intelligence is hard to overstate... Ukraine still deserves huge credit for having a Military able to take advantage of it.
Afghanistan as an example.
Well, if the Americans and others can lead them to victory - which seems to be as great of an asset from the beginning of the war as you say ... - than the American plan of bleeding Russia slowly dry seems to be working very well 😁
The Ukranians really did heroic work!
Ukraine had to stand tall under immense firepower thrown at Kyiev. In the early going they were looking goliath from his heels but stood tall, took the heat and turned back the accepted second largest military in the world. Their creativity and resolve has set an example that will change they way wars are fought long into the future. Slava Ukraine
@@CKPill What does Afghanistan have to do with what he said?
Awe
Go Ukraine! Defeat the wicked Russian regime!
We were mocked, as Americans, for our fixation on military strength and prowess. And for that I’ll say, you’re welcome for our generous freedom missiles.
It’s called Pax Americana
Europe thanks you, good sir.
I am certain more help is on the way
I thought they were called Liberty Darts ? 🤣
U still getting mocked , what changed you think a video giving you what you wanna hear will change anything.
You forgot to mention how Ukraine decimated Russian battlefield command by giving more Russian flag officers (colonel and up) more early 'retirements' than since WW2. With how top heavy the Russian armed forces, this was just as catastrophic as the destruction of the supply depots.
If he cannot handle 1 country using Nato Weapons then imagine WW3
IT would be a speedrun
Can’t have much of a world war if one side has no fighting allies.
Nato guns? Real NATO strength is in air power - and none of it was given. NATO main battle tanks are pretty formidable too and none arrived to Ukraine yet - seeing how russians can't even resist against light armor vehicles NATO tanks would go through russian front lines like a knife through butter. It would be like aimbot joined a game of two noobs.
@@sk-sm9sh C'est aussi ce que disaient les allemands.
Je pense qu'il serait raisonnable que vous commenciez à réfléchir plutôt que d'ânonner les bêtises de la propagande ukrainienne et occidentale.
Savez vous que les russes ont le système anti aérien le plus performant?
Savez vous que les armes russes de dernière génération ne sont pas utilisée sur le théâtre d'opération?
Savez vous que l'armée russe + les milices séparatistes sont en infériorité numériques depuis le début de l'opération?
Avez vous conscience que l'arrivée des renforts va inverser la tendance et que l'aviation n'a pas encore été utilisée pleinement?
Avez vous conscience que l'Ukraine est très mal barrée, d'autant que, si je ne me trompe, les états unis ne devraient pas tarder à vous lâcher. Il faut dire que le clown mendiant devient insupportable.
Allez, encore un mois ou deux et c'en sera fini de l'Ukraine.
eh no, a lot of countries would be nuked. it's not a video game
I am from SE Asia and I agree with u. When the war first started, I thought Ukraine will be taken over by Russia within a week or so. But my God, Ukrainians have constantly surprised me with their will and guts to stand their ground.
I'm in Siam, and I note Ukies/nato are getting massacred.
They stepped up and pushed back I think they seen 2014 as a massive failing and learned from it did they took up western offer for training and made national weapons work for them
In case we (Ukraine) lose, the ruzzians will kill all of us, so we have no choice but to fight!
Ukraine is losing badly!
@@5rings16 You misspelled Russia
What the Ukrainians have accomplished against all possible odds is just unprecedented and simply legendary.
This war of brutal, disgusting, plain evil yet absolutely ineffective and unsuccessful russian aggression will be remembered, studied and looked up to for centuries to come.
Ukraine - the land of the people of unbreakable spirit, the land of living legends! Absolute and total respect and support for the Ukrainians! 💌
Watch the Docs. on TH-cam about Kievan Rus, and ann the way through the Mongol invasions. It's sad, but thers also many people with family ties for over a thousand years. it's ineresting.
That an 30 billion Nato weapons and supplies
@@ben6591 so whats that has to do? For how many decades have NATO and US specifically were feeding their weapons and forming militia in different countries across the globe? All of those attemps failed completely except ukrainian case where they had the guts to fight more succesfully than actual nato members and the US itself
Second fact that proves you wrong is that the invasion was stopped with 99% soviet weapons and an outstanding plan of ukrainian commandment that they actually hide from NATO to prevent leaks in the first weeks of the war.
There's one important thing that you miss here - there would be no western weapons if there would be no fierce ukrainian resistance during the first 3-4 months of the full scale invasion. Thus, the massive western help is the result of the ukrainian resistance, but not vice versa. However, we are very thankful for your help. We would be still fighting anyway, because the loss means full annihilation of Ukraine, but it would definitely be much more harder for us without your help. Thus, thanks a lot!
And BTW, if it's now obvious to everyone that the strength of russian army was a fake, then why should we think that nukes are different? Has anyone seen any nukes tests since the soviet era? And what is the expiration date for a nuke warhead? Those are the questions that russian propaganda prefers to conceal.
Don't fear russians, have guts as we have!
We're proud to stand behind our friends in Ukraine. I wish we had responded faster, but it is a wonder to see what good hardware can accomplish with the best men and women at the front lines. Meanwhile, we will do what we can to support your wives and children that have fled the war.
A nuclear detonation requires a very carefully engineered arrangement of just the right amount fissile material. Because the material is fissile it is constantly destroying itself, you have to remelt, purify and recast a warhead every decade or so.
The US spends about $50 billion a year maintaining it's nuclear weapons and the Russia on paper has more to maintain.
If you look at the reliability of Russian missiles that have been used in Ukraine, most either don't launch, fail in flight or miss their target.
There is no reason to believe that the nuclear forces are the only people in Russia who aren't corrupt and incompetent, after all nuclear weapons are the least likely to ever be used and all that money could be much better spent on my yacht fund...
What fierce Ukrainian Resitence ? you mean 120.000 Polish Soldiers that had already been stationed in the Ukraine prepeard to assist Ukraine in donbass and luhansk ? Western Forces already had been building up and backing up the army in the Ukraine prewar Educate yourself, Vlture and propagandist.
china should weaponize mexico
As to the expiration date of the nukes, according to the latest data around 85 years. So they are still good. The US and Russia stopped testing nukes in the 90's by treaty. Never underestimate a crazy person when backed against the wall.
This entire conflict has been one huge sales pitch for western weapons.
Hey the faster the world is standardized the faster we can all focus on bigger things like spaceships
And money..
It's a pitch that Ukraine as well as much of the allied world has greatly seen success
I bet the entire Ukrainian government is just drooling at the mouth saying give me give me please for the love of God give me Lend lease to me in a World War II style, I'll pay for it 70 years later
That last bit is because the United Kingdom finally paid back the United States for the Lend-Lease WWII material in 2002
And a successful one.
well, since they work so well, no wonder other countries want to buy them
It's ironic when Russia is actually the nation that promised to "safeguard" Ukraine after the 1994 Budapest memorandum, and the 2014 Maidan in Ukraine was never about joining NATO. But Putin still invaded Ukraine. This reminds me as a Vietnamese Czech about Russia signing a similar treaty to "protect" Vietnam in case of an invasion, but when China launched two invasions against Vietnam (1979 and 1988), the Russians did not act, granting Deng Xiaoping a major propaganda triumph (Deng invaded Vietnam to test if Russia dared to support Vietnam). So yes, I am cheering for Russia's self-destruction. Go Ukraine, you are welcome in my Czechia!
Ukraine has no chance though 🤣🤣🤣🤣
No chance of losing! Slava Ukraine!
@@lukebruce5234 Ukraine is annihilating Russia right now. They have them on the run in the east are pushing them back in the west. It's actually amazing just how much land they have taken back. 6000 square KM that took russia 4 months. They took it back in two weeks.
At this rate Russia's army won't survive the winter, the supply situation looks grim. intercepted Russian phone calls are honestly horrifying.
If they had just listened to the west they could have avoided sending their children to die.
Lets just hope they cut their losses before too many Russians die.
Out of curiosity, were you born in Czechia or moved there? If latter, what made you chose central Europe?
@@NocKme Born there, but my family isn't Czech. We moved there after the downfall of USSR.
As a ukrainian, I can admit it, if there weren’t western weapons and ammunition, ukrainian resistance wouldn’t last for two weeks. Now our armed forces has captured the initiative and can now fight fiercely with accuracy and far higher motivation to liberate our land from Russia. Thank you for the marvelous video.
We love Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. I hope you and your family are safe
Your country is being used by the military industrial complex to profit from american tax payer dollars. Know that you are not only fighting Russia, you are also aiding the US oligarchs in establishing more geopolitical control. Ps. Ukraine is not winning, Russia just hasnt blasted your country to the ground, USA would have bombed from the start if Ukraine was at war with them, your lucky it is Russia and not Nato you are up against
No thank you for doing the hard fighting and dying, so that the rest of us don't have to. Some countries aren't sending nearly enough and it's a shame that you didn't get what you needed a lot sooner. Slava Ukraini!
You look like a bot )) You are saying that Ukraine "wouldn’t last for two weeks", let me remember you that first HIMARS was delivered after 3 months of war at least. (*First video of HIMARS use was published on Jun 24 2022)
Glory to Ukraine, love from the US 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦
Since Ukraine first used Bayraktar, the Ukrainians have proven to be effective soldiers capable to fight and shocked the autocratic regime of Russia. Turkish here, I can't help but enjoy seeing Russia's defeat, most Turks like me will agree (except for the government).
Thats great to hear! And thank you guys for controlling Russia's access via the strsights.
Yes, but specially the Javelin 🥴
If Turkish currency continues to inflate, you may have a new govt sometime soon.
As a Pole THANK YOU for Bayraktar 😎 It's truly game changer
Thank you from Ukraine:)
I think that Ukraine began preparing for this conflict since Russia invasion started in 2014. They were ready, their resolve inspired the world and the world gave arms.
Do you mean while bombarding Donbas, murdering 16K civvies, while training and arming to overrun Donbas and Crimea then strike Rus?
@@TommyTCGT if the 'then strike Rus' is blatantly wrong , as it should be obvious that it is , would you then question the information source that gave you the preceding numbers assuming it's the same ?
@@TommyTCGT jus making up numbers huh
@@TommyTCGT What did the UN investigations uncover? We learnt that Russia was behind the conflict in the East.
Don't be listening to a criminal state like a chump when everything they say is debunked on a daily basis.
@@TommyTCGT bravo here a ruble for you 😂
This war has made it clear that western military obsession with precision weaponry is incredibly well-founded, and it makes sense when you think about it. It's true that munitions costing between 5-100 times (or even more) the price of conventional unguided counterparts is hard for many governments to stomach and it makes sense for many to prefer making up for it with numbers and ferocity, but it's obvious now that if you can afford to equip your army with precision variants, you should. The sheer ludicrous amount of ammo quantity you'll otherwise have to expend for the same damage to military targets may well exceed that 5-100 times, but even if it doesn't, the added time, unit scale, manpower commitment, and logistics makes you much more vulnerable to suffer heavy losses in a counterattack AND much less capable of responding to enemy attacks. Basic American M777 batteries have proven themselves quite capable of suppressing and inflicting real pain on russian frontline troops simply because they're vastly more accurate than russian counterparts. They can deal good damage fast since it takes far fewer shots for the same effect, and can then scoot before counterattack. On the contrary, russian artillery is more beholden to their supply lines to gather large amounts of ammo for them before they can gather and begin a barrage, and because their reconnaissance and supply lines are inferior they group together more and fire longer, making them vulnerable. Sure, maybe GPS-guided artillery rounds that cost several tens of thousands of dollars per round are expensive, but if that shell can be used to quickly dispatch a russian artillery piece or tank that cost a lot more as well as the men on it, or worse hit a supply depot full of a ridiculous amount of ammo in it, it's still an insanely cost-effective weapon. Throwing a bunch of dumb rounds in the right general direction which are more predictable and vulnerable to counterattack, supply disruption, etc is not very cost-effective at all since the enemy's more advanced weaponry can inflict heavy attrition of your equipment, supplies, and men in the meantime costing you far more than the enemy ever had to spend on the ammo he used on you. This applies to conventional and rocket/missile artillery, man-portable anti-tank and anti-air weapons, and aerial weaponry at the very least. Russia can't afford to replace their losses in equipment and ammunition indefinitely while ukraine's western aid and lower logistical requirements for using smaller quantities of advanced weapons mean they can endure longer.
It's like a callback to the days when Russians faced rifles with only smoothbore muskets.
@@mightza3781 lol true. The one key factor behind all of this for the russian military is the upholding of the old russian tradition of powerful russian oligarchs sending underequipped starving peasant hordes (preferably of nonrussian ethnic origin) into battle to die for their benefit and profit. It was true hundreds of years ago and still is now. They've sometimes been able to catch up a little bit at certain points in history but they fall behind again just as fast. This deeply ingrained cultural approach to governance and war has shown itself to be woefully inept for the purposes of modern warfare both in terms of strategy and doctrine as well as in the performance of the weapons created for that doctrine themselves. Muskets vs rifles is a pretty good analogy.
@@trevorthompson6825 you make a lot of good points
Logistics Logistics Logistics... we get dazzled by the shock and awe of the pointy end of the spear - but it's logistics that wins any campaign lasting more than a few days.
The most recent HIMARS ammunition types destined for Ukraine include thousands of anti-personnel submunitions in each rocket to sterilize exactly the sort of large gatherings of Russian artillery forces needed to have any kind of success using the dumb shells and rockets which the Russians have in such abundance they don't mind abandoning stockpiles to advancing Ukrainian forces.
I am kind of addicted to this channel. Your analysis is apt and to the point. Worth watching always.
Love from India 🇮🇳
Let it be known, that Ukraine has got NATO’s 80s kit, with some 90s stuff mixed in. They haven’t been given NATOs most cutting edge equipment.
And still Russia's tech was inferior. All those corruptions must have eroded away their prestige
This is true even when they got the HIMARS system a lot of capabilities were restricted or removed from the ukrainians accessing them
for both security reasons should the equipment ever get captured by the Russians as well as for practical reasons
because NATO doesn't exactly want to share _all_ of their capabilities and capacities with a non-NATO Ally
That's Not exactly true. They got lot of more modern Weapons.
@@Sasha-mh2ic They really don't. There is an entire interconnected network warfare suite built within the last 10-20 years that makes Ukraine's systems look humble and simple. Russia and China have both advertised they have comparable technologies, but if they did, they would be destroying Ukraine with them.
@@entropy8634 so why Ukrainians became refugees in Europe?
A Russian soldier ran up to a nun.
Out of breath, he asked, “Please, may I hide under your skirt, I'll explain later.”
The nun agreed.
A moment later two military police ran up and asked:
“Sister, have you seen a soldier?”
The nun replied, “He went that way.”
After the military police ran off, the soldier crawled out from under her
skirt and said, “I can't thank you enough, Sister. You see, I don't want to
go to Ukraine.”
The nun said, “I understand completely.”
The soldier added, “I hope I'm not rude, but you have a great pair of legs!”
The nun replied, “If you had looked a little higher, you would've seen a
great pair of balls too. I don't want to go to Ukraine either."
🤣
It's very funny
Funny. Thanks.
🤣
😂🔥
Glory to Ukraine. I think HIMARS really change the game. I am Irish, so I definitely have a strong affinity toward Ukraine because of Putin's barbarity reminded us of how we struggled to win independence a century ago. 🇮🇪🇮🇳🤝🇺🇦
Himars is overrated in its effectiveness.
"Glory to Ukraine" is the equivalent of "Sieg He*l"
@@Killerspieler0815 Nah, Russian Army made a name for evil.
@@JohnSmith-un9jm no they are not
Russia moved to a strategy of bombarding Ukraine before advancing further. The himars were responsible for annihilating the ammunition before they could be fired. Himars are a big factor of rendering the Russian strategy mute.
@@Killerspieler0815 light expels darkness
The first phase of the war was not an epic disaster - it was an epic success for Ukraine!
Someone success is onether one failing
I'm still counting it as a massive failure for Russia. It should have been a slam dunk for Russia and now I'm expecting Ukraine to start invading Russia.
you call success losing more than 80% of your entire army while Russia still has over 2 million reservists and over 25 million conscripts? Ukraine is done they have no more troops that is why the USA and NATO have called in ISIS and Al Qaida to fight for them as merc just like they did in Syria.
I would agree up to the point where it is pronounced "epic succ".
@Kasper depends if someone else is competing for the same goal.
Everybody agrees that Western Weapons have had a major beneficial effect on the success of Ukrainian army.However we must also realise that Ukraine has inflicted big losses on Russia using Ukrainian and Russian weapons as well!
To me Russian command incompetance - in using their assets their dreadful logistics - failure to maintain upgrade or even correctly deploy has been paramount .
That might be true, but that was only possible because of western weapons. Javelins, NLAWS, Panzerfaust 3, AT4s etc. are all man portable, and sometimes single use rockets, that have allowed Ukraini soldiers the ability to take out armour. The javelin is cool, but the cost is a little over the top, this is where the UK NLAW shines so much.
@@PBMS123 Nothing matters without Ukrainian morale and will to fight, Afghanistan makes that perfectly clear they had far superior weapons then Ukraine had access to and couldn’t even fend off a tiny little militia… So don’t overstate weapons at the cost of understanding the mindset of the people holding them
Not only weapons but funds from nato, intel and satellite data, military trainings. Ukraine is technically a bankrupt country without nato fund
@@Fee.1 I'm not, but guerilla tactics will always beat standard military tactics particualrly in urban environments.
Also very important is the motivation 💪 of your soldiers, Ukrainians are defending their country and families, on the other side the Russian soldiers know they are risking their lives for the megalomaniac empire dreams of a dictator that lives in luxury and doesn't care about their lives. Let's hope 🙏 the Russian soldiers realise they should point their guns on the opposite side, towards putin and his cronies. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 ♥️.
All of that tech wouldn't matter if not for the fighting spirit of the men and women of Ukraine. Thanks for putting our equipment to good use. Slava Ukraini!
That is also true, thank you!
Exactly. All these modern weapons are worth nothing if you don't use them! Give Ukraine out best stuff!
it s not being put to good use. it is a war in which the poor get killed and the rich profit. only peace is acceptable
read orwell's books where fiction is reality and war is peace
Your supply of men and women of fight spirit is running dry. Enjoy getting conscripted into the war you've been rooting for from the beginning war monger.
PUTLER bots incoming
They are here ready to defend Pootin and terruZZia. 😂😆
but putin is good because liz truss said so and the brits have fake teeth so you have to believe the french
You mean vlad's dogs?
Another piece not mentioned is Bushmasters from Australia. It’s helped dramatically in terms of getting soldiers to the field.
And the mounted kangaroo legions
Excellent newscast. Very informative, well edited, concise, and without embellishments. Good work. I've subscribed.
I agree with a below comment that a decentralized command structure in the Ukrainian Army helped. It also helped that the Ukrainians were trained extensively to use modern warfare techniques and had been under intense fire during the 2014 war. Many of the Russian troops have not experienced intense enemy fire and tend to panic or become demoralized when placed under enemy fire. Most Russian troops and even their air force lack training. The average Russian Army member has only gone through a two year enlistment before returning to civilian life. Thus they don't have the depth of training and the concept of proper modern warfare tactics that the Ukrain troops possess. Troops have to accompany tank columns in to prevent the opposing troops from taking out the tank columns with shoulder mounted weapons or quickly laid mines. In the Russian thrust to Kiev it quickly became apparent that troops did not accompany their tanks. Adding to that a poor supply chain lead to their tanks becoming either sitting ducks ripe for destruction or tanks without fuel or shells. In short, the Russian Army is not a professional army but an army made up of young men they pull off the streets.
Small correction, Russian conscripts serve for only one year (not two). Really not long enough to learn anything but basic soldiering.
If Ukraine gained experience fighting since 2014, who where they fighting and why didn’t they get experience?
Russia and its Wanka Group are a bad joke!
@@Rob_F8F If they survive that long!
@@Homer-OJ-Simpson Ukrainians in 2014 where fighting Dombass Region Separatists along with Orcs little green men and directed by Russian Federation Commanders without Uniform Insigna.
Ukrainians didn't have much of an Army and their Militiary doctorine would've mimicked the Orcs.
Hence during the 2014 Dombass Region Conflict (Civil War), Ukrainian Army went through a modernisation program as they knew Putin had more in store for Ukraine so Ukrainians prepared likewise.
With NATO strategy planners working alongside AFU to make best the advantages of Ukraine versus a Military with superior numbers in personnel and equipment.
Unfortunately for Putler the OrcZ, he didn't envisage the Ukrainians will be sporting modern advanced weapons and a Military utilising flexible techniques, doctorine based on real-time intelligence and reconnaissance.
Russia just proved that being the biggest does not mean anything in a fight....How Russia is a superpower is beyond me.
its not anymore
Biggest? Their army in Ukraine is smaller
@@angelcabeza6464 But when was it a super power though? All their leaders either forcefully removed or died with no accomplishment, country was never conquered, but managed to destroy itself while day dreaming about being powerful ONLY BECAUSE they are a big country, how dumb can one be?
Nukes, they have nukes. They were never about having the strongest economy or the strongest military. All their projected strength on the world stage today was given to them by the Soviet era in the form of a nuclear arsenal. A while back just the mention of them was enough of a deterrent. Understandable we extended this capability to their military as well, given how the internet works memes and popular ideas of the Russian military were far more easily consumed but when you look at the truth behind it all is that Russia never fought a modern conventional war with a near-peer adversary. They fought Georgians and Chechens in a round about way you wouldn't consider it fair. Ukraine is different, and it gave us a new perspective of what state the Russian military is actually in. And so we can now hear Putin ranting and raving about using Nukes again, like an admission that his military will not be enough in this conflict.
perhaps Russia is a "superpower" because of propaganda (to convince people that it is a superpower), nuclear weapons, and money from the west's thirst for low oil prices and perhaps other raw materials
Massive thank you NATO and other west citizens!
Love you Ukraine 🇺🇦🥰🇬🇧 here to protect you with our best friends 🇺🇸
Te amo tambíen 🇪🇸
(We love you too) 😘
Happy to help! Slava Ukraini!
Thanks for keeping the orcs away from the rest of us!
The Ukranians knew thats after euromaidan they couldnt go back. Was the excuse of Putin to intervention in ukraine military.
It's frequently overlooked that, along with 16 wheeled single-pod HIMARS (soon to be 20), Ukraine also has 10 M270 MLRS / MARS II tracked twin-pod vehicles, which is why they seem to be everywhere. The constraint seems to be rockets rather than launchers, although I suspect that Ukraine would usefully consume almost any quantity of rockets they could get their hands on.
As a Polish guy, I'm sad our Krab artillery systems or Piorun manpads didn't get a mention...
Yeah, I expected a breakdown of every category, not only the media favorites.
Fret not. They didn't even mention the British AAMRAM missles, either. And I've heard of Krab.
Besides, Poland's impact on the war has been significant: (a) They're *greatly* increased their readiness and weapons stockpiles, making a clear "don't you even think about it!" statement to Russia [& this, IMO, gives Germany the freedom to lend its assistance w/o worries]; (b) Polish enlistments jumped by 700% after the Russan invasion began [same effect as (a)]; (c) Polish transportation infrastructure has served as an invaluable corridor of weapons transport to Ukraine, as well as a vital evacuation corridor for displaced Ukranian refugees. So, thanks to Poland [& Finland, too], Russia is in absolutely no position to widen the war: basically it can only lose: even if Russia won all remaining battles, the rest of the world now hates Russia - pretty much permanently.
They didn't mention the roll that the Poles play in keeping Ukraine supplied. Without Poland we cannot get our weapons through.
and also all the tanks ( 200 or 300?) that you sent
@@jimwinchester339 Poland knows it's next on Russia's hit lst. It's pretty much always been that way. As with Ukraine, Russia has had only Pyrrhic victories over Poland. Third are the Baltics, led by Lithuania. I'm less familiar with Latvia & Estonia but Lithuania has always punched above its weight in resisting Russian aggression.
Russia's incompetence in this war has been stunning. I knew the army was corrupt and the condition's in the Russian army were brutal but man has it been shocking how bad it truly was. Good for Ukraine (obviously) and my home country Moldova. No doubt had Russia succeeded in the 1st couple of months Chisinau would have fallen and we'd be a Russian puppet state again
The Army of the Russian Federation have failed spectacularly for several reasons. One of the least obvious is the lack of a professional Non-Commissioned Officer corps. Sergeants are the backbone of most Armies. A professional NCO program could have routed out some of the worst instances of corruption from vendors, readiness of equipment and training weakness. The mid level officers have to directly supervise recruit training, basic procurement and such. With the number of casualties to their officers corps, they now have limited options to mobilize and train replacements.. I would not want to be a Russian soldier in Ukraine.
Agreed. I just realized how profoundly overrated Russia's military is. Kudos to Ukraine for efficiently managing the weapons and equipment it received from the US and other supporters. Considering Russia doesn't use Nukes of course.
@@jrobertsbrewer in Rassian army everybody wants to be specialist cause them can live from payment ( its triple then)
What’s even more shocking than that is how clueless the endless talking heads and “military experts” were. They must’ve been eating up russian propaganda for decades thinking they were som high tech military monster.
I remember when they first invaded they were all on TV saying kyiv would be gone in 3 days. They overestimated the Russian military to an insane degree and basically discounted entirely the will of the ukranian people to fight to keep their country.
@@cnacma An "expert" nowadays just means someone who knows the right people and has a platform but really knows nothing
Hi interesting video, however you have missed the most important fact, the tenacity, the determination, devotion, the heroism of the Ukraine Soldiers! God them God bless Ukraine!!
I suspect there will be no immediate end to the conflict but the damage has already been done to Russia's future confidence in their military...
Russia is fine you fool. Millions of Russians trust Putin.
Loved your Obama Pivot to Asia video bro!
Russia is losing the economy to support its military. It will only get worse.
What an understatement. Not just damage to military. Social - 50k+ work able men dead with more dieing every day. Cultural - who's going to be interested in russian culture any time soon? Economic - total collapse of production industries due to limited access to components and the most importantly russian oil & gas will not be able to recover to their heights, ever, when Europe closes their pipes to Europe. If they had good leadership they potentially could restore a lot of damage by simply agreeing to give away all occupied territories including Crimea in exchange of quick dismissal of sanction. But we all know this won't happen and Russia will continue wasting personnel and material until total collapse. What will follow afterwards is totally unpredictable. It could result further territorial collapse and disintegration. Japan taking back Kuril islands and Dagestan and Chechens anouncing independence potentially first ones to slip away. But east oil rich territories can easily fall under Chinese control - even if not militarily - through debt trap diplomacy that China recently got so good at. Technically there is nothing there that would prevent Finland to just come in and take back some lost territories (russian defense on Finish borders already been reduced in capacity by 90%) during the winter war too - though I believe Fins rather would not have these degraded russian territories than have them.
Putin has promised that he will not mobilise the Russian people on TV, when he eat his words everyone with a brain in russia know their army isn’t as strong as they claim to be.
We can never underestimate the will of the Ukrainian people...Without that no amount of weaponry could result in the success we've seen!
Like those 2000 in Azovstel, hiding behind 600 old men and.. women and kids, till surrendering?
@@TommyTCGT Who's men fled their country when called upon? And who's came back from abroad to defend theirs?
@@TommyTCGT too much RT baby
@@TommyTCGT Another Russian coward oh so many lol!
@@sababugs1125 You just denied any truth about nazis in Ukraine. Pure western zombie and victim of propaganda.
Everybody’s gangster until Uncle Putin presses the big button
To sum it all up, Russia has performed so poorly against the most modest western weaponry that if there were no nuclear weapons involved Russia would have already lost this war.
There wouldnt be any Russia without Nukes and honestly i think they are bluffing about their nuke capabilities too
LOL... are you blind, they win both combat and economic warfare... you are watching deep state feeded media, west only win in info warfare
Garbage.. R does not need to use any nooks. Ukies and nutto getting whopped.
@@TommyTCGT Take this 1 useless rouble for your comment.
soon:
Russia finally launches tactical nuclear weapons.........
........ with miminal effect
At the start of the war Ukraine had 54 Javelin launchers & 2,000 NLAWS - in the first 10 days of the war around Kyiv it was the NLAWS that proved most effective possibly as they easier to use and had 30 UK trainers in the lead up
Betcha most those UK trainers are now fertilizer for the next crop!
@@TommyTCGT LOL They returned back to UK the week before the invasion - Job done!
There are so many great channels (better than history channel) on TH-cam, but yours is one of the very best. Hope to check you out some more. Keep them coming.
If the enemy is making a mistake its better to encourage it subtly than to stand in a loud coloured shirt telling everybody where they are going wrong. Wars are LOST that way.
yeah well putin doesn't seem listen lol
Yes...a Napoleonic maxim: "Never interupt your enemy when he is making a mistake".
Even if they paid attention and made changes......it would take decades to be fruitful.
These are not secrets here. Putin’s advisors don’t get their intel from TH-cam
I think all this cheerleading and early celebrations are gonna come back to bite Ukraine and its supporters in the ass BIG TIME. Remember, the way Russia fights historically is they start out slow, lose lots of men and equipment, then get their shit together and OBLITERATE the enemy. I honestly think Russia hasn't even started yet.
17:32 funnily just at the start of October the US announced in its newest monthly aid package they were sending Ukraine 18 more HIMARS, a little over double what they have in service right now. Along with M30A1 anti-personnel missiles which act basically as a giant shotgun on the end of a normal HIMARS rocket. So expect even more damage behind Russian lines.
Those were ordered from the manufacturer not US stockpiles.
@@patmccall1818 No, some were delivered a week ago.
The anti-personnel airburst warheads are going to make the Russians run home to mommy. They are brutal.
Will soon be taken out with R Kamikazis, as have already most of the rest.
@@TommyTCGT Yep keep telling yourself that. Remember Russian Defense Ministry would never lie to you. They have 44 confirmed kills on the HMLRS. Of course that is almost double the amount given to Ukraine, but you Tommaso Turek are so smart and wise you can come up with a justification for this. Ignorance is bliss. no brains, no headaches.
Unfortunately, those 18 units are new orders so won't be delivered for some time.
You fail to mention the British/Norwegian and German tracked MRLS systems that fire the same missiles as HIMARS but have twice the launch tubes per vehicle.
So 16 HIMARS x 6 launch tubes = 96. Plus 12 (I believe) MRLS x 12 launch tubes = 144.
This proves the accuracy of one of America's oldest mottos. "If you want peace, you must be prepared for war."
I had a friend who drove an M270 MLRS system in the gulf in 93-94. the capability of that was awestriking then, but newer precision systems make them insane. He always said the US had way more capability than anyone knew, so who knows what the secret systems can do. That insane budget has to be accomplishing more than what we've even seen so far.
Back then they were referred to as the "the commander's personal shotgun", now GPS guided munitions have turned them into a 70 kilometer sniper rifle.
this huge military budget only flows as long as the US-Dollar is the leading currency , because it compensates the giant debt mountain & prevents the USD from instantly crashing (like the Russian Rouble in 1980s to 1990s)
@@kilianortmann9979 also interesting was that in the 1st gulf war there were 69 MLRS systems attached to VII Corp so if some resistance was seen it was obliterated with the 'shotgun' but the major AirLand Battle doctrine had artillery covering 50 miles deep in front of the M1A1 Abrams / Bradley platoons, then Apaches covering the first 100 miles in front of the line of contact & aircraft including stand off missiles covering 100-300 miles deep. Plus complete air superiority made this a devastating combined arms approach.
You're not wrong. Aside from maintenance, a particular vital task for a nuclear armed nation, there are newer systems coming down the line from EW (Electronic Warfare) to jets. I often joke about the military budget being so big, but when you look at it more closely, you start to realize the budget is that way for a good reason.
@@Killerspieler0815 your comment is so far out of left field is baffling. But the U.S dollar is the world currency standard and will continue to be for the for seeable future.
There are two other reasons that allow Ukraine to be so successful, outside how its army has reformed.
First, Ukraine has been largely helped by many of their friends of Eastern Europe. The majority (Greece, Sweden, Albania, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Moldova, Finland, Georgia, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Turkey) sided with Ukraine, even most Israelis, Azerbaijanis, Chechens, Ingush, Circassians, Dagestanis, Syrians and Iranians side with Ukraine (not the governments), blurring the religious differences (Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, North Caucasians, Albania, Bosnia and Kosovo are Muslims), since many of them were either former Tsarist or Soviet colonies. This one caught by surprise for most of pro-Russian supporters (especially Black Africans and Indians) since most pro-Russian fans only assumed the "West" as UK, France, Germany, USA, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Canada, but very few about these East European countries.
Second, Vladimir Putin assumed he is Napoleon Bonaparte and his army fought like Japanese WW2 soldiers. He has no military experience, only a former low-level KGB man. But he believed he is the naturally born commander, so he meddled and interfered in military affairs, replacing competent Generals with yes-men. About the army, Putin ironically admired WW2 Japan, a lot, so he sought to Japanise the Russian military, but did nothing to rout corruption. That's why Russian Army is a mess. And now, in his desperation, he moves on using his large weapon arsenal to throw missiles on Ukraine by all cost, yet only reinvigorate more Ukrainians to fight against Russia.
Putin was not low level KGB he was the head of the East German secret police or Stassi. He was and remains an evil and violent person.
Sad that you left out Denmark and Norway 😢
But I guess it just proves your point
@@acediadekay3793 Denmark and Norway are definitely close to Finland and Sweden, but they never fought a war against Tsarist or Soviet Army to begin with.
@@huwenkai440 That's true enough. I was thinking more of the modern aid then the warring history. (Hurricane missiles, APV's, Howitzer's, Training of UA soldiers..)
There have been some historical tensions:
- Bornholm island (NATO Radar station)
- the Norwegian border
- the Arctic claims
- submarine's ...
But that's cherry-picking and doesn't scale.
As a Black African, please leave us out of this situation. Literally, it's not our business. There are more pro-Russian fans in Europe and the United States than anywhere in Africa. Major politicians and politcal party's in the U.S. (former Presidents) were siding with Russia at the beginning of this war. Europe is worried about what the French and Italian Right might do in the future to abandon Ukraine. All Africa has for you are thoughts and prayers.
Everyone wants to talk about how great the AK-47 is but no one realizes the power and dependability of the US's M-4 Carbine platform
The AK is like Che Guevara. A great socialist legend but little else. But that false glamour of freedom fighting totem gets all the PR.
Not so reliable though
@@AlexanderAtlas it is more reliable than AK in mud, AK is better in snow. Both rifles about equal for sand.
@@AlexanderAtlas They're both reliable as long as you take care of them. But they were designed for different things.
@@justiron2999 - you need o clean it up constantly, specially when you on operation and m-4/16 is very fragile when it is related to dirt and sand.. I don’t know surely about ak-47, heard it is better in reliability , but never used it. In my mil service we are constantly required to clean m-16 to avoid jamming and it was annoying…
So javelin blunted the spear, now HIMARS is breaking it
This pretty much also shows that, to put it bluntly, you don't f*** with the U.S. militarily - ever.
The US has barely scratched the surface of what it could send. The US has staggering military power. On one site Binkov staged a hypothetical war between the United States and the combined military force of the rest of the world where no nuclear weapons would be used. The net result was that the US came out victorious. This should not be surprising since when all of its military expenditures are added up it spends at least a trillion dollars a year on its defense industry. It has by far the most powerful economy and the most advanced technology. We really don't know what the US has because some of its most advanced projects are so secret only a relative handful of people are aware of them. In war between NATO and Russia barring the use of nuclear weapons NATO would wipe out Russia within a week.
Nice war games. But in reality i have one word for you.. you ready, OK... Vietnam.
@Mr Darren Vietnam like every war America has fought since World War II was fought stupidity. Winning should have been easy. Just firing artillery from our big guns on battleships and missiles at Hanoi and Haiphong around the clock with explosions going off every few seconds would have paralyzed the entire country with shell shock, we didn't even have to hit anything. After a few weeks of that we could have just walked in. What terrified the North Vietnamese most were the B52s. The blasts were so powerful they literally shook the ground.
@@markfischer3626 but the fact remains you haven't won a war without help from Britain. That's simply a fact. And fighting stupid or smart is all a part of war.
Couple of things. Most of the Russian tanks were killed by artillery not Javelin. West still supplied the drones and shells but still. Also it wasnt the Stinger that was most effective but rather a Polish AA missile that was newer and given pretty much as soon as this started. People always forget about the Poles. The HARM missile has 2 modes active seeker and pilot controlled. Active seeker is where you fire the thing and it hunts down its own target. Pilot control is where the aircraft guides the missile towards the target and the missile takes over for terminal guidance. Its thought that the HARMS that are rigged to the MIGs only have the missile guidance capability which makes them rather limited. Important addition yes. Game changer probably not because the active seeker mode has a shorter range making it much more dangerous for the pilots.
@SamUSA I was thinking the same thing. I would love to read it.
The polish people are the real mvps and bros.
@@justiron2999 Really? Ask the Ukrainians whose support they would rather have.
@@joboring8397 I don't care about the Ukrainians but the poles are cool in my book.
Artillery wouldn’t have hit more then a couple random targets if it wasn’t for US surveillance and Intel.
People aren’t ignoring the Polish support. They just recognize their is much much more coming from the states. Maybe not in compared to GDP or land mass but it is not even close if you are just looking at supplies given.
P.S. the US was doing weapons deals with Ukraine years before the war. Warned the world of their plan and troop movements prior to the invasion allowing Ukraine to prepare.
What the Polish people really should be praised for is all the refugees they are taking in. That is no small challenge and will effect the country for decades.
I have seen a 3 gun volley 155mm shells from a m777 battery literally liquify a platoon size enemy force caught in the open. It looked like they had all gone thru a meat grinder, what was left was barley identifiable as human. It's hard to understand how dangerous artillery is until you have seen it's capabilities
Well.... They weren't kidding when they said "Russia is about to find out why Americans don't have universal healthcare." As much as I want universal healthcare like a civilized nation, I'm glad to see my taxes going to something useful for once.
The US military industrial complex is a bit like your version of a welfare state. Join up, get free health care and some money lol
Let me tell you a little secret: you could've had both. The US military is not the reason they don't have universal healthcare in the US.
USA is the biggest spender on healthcare. And it's a fucking joke lol
As demonstrated by all the other 1st world countries, universal healthcare is logistically doable. Politicians are simply unwilling to lose the financial support of insurance companies
@@DannyBurakov Well said, these people are so brainwashed, they truly believe the BS their government has fed them, that somehow the two are mutually exclusive 🙄🤦🏼♂️
The US has given over 19 Alex Jones financial penalties to Ukraine. :P
Good one lol
19 Alex Jones = 1 western aided Ukrainian military. Quite a math's equation.
another one .
Honestly, I am Nepalese and I can't help but admiring Ukrainian resistance. But our neighbours India and Pakistan have different (if not say uneducated) ethics.
Yeah yeah.. 😂 keep some admiration for Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and Iraq... They need it
Lol. Morality depends on strategy.
They supported dictatorships when it suits them. They talk about democracy when it suits them.
Don't fall for Western morality. It is sham.
@@DeepakKumar-uj6br Afghanistan surrendering in 2 weeks to a bunch of cavemen talibans driving rusty old trucks, after being trained and equipped by the west for 20 years, deserves no admiration 😂... apart from admiring how fast shit hit the fan when the americans left. Ukranian determination and resilience is to another level, like it or not.
Don't worry my friend.After russia lose this war,both china and india will shut the fak up,And they will behave like educated guys.
Yeah and all India ever does is complain about the British empire... which was literally years and years ago. and yet they are guilty of the same themselves only they do it in our modern age. Big hypocrits.
When a HARM missile disables a radar, it tends to be rather permanent.
This is only a small part of NATO’s toys. Russia totally pales in comparison.
Like a donkey's meaningless braying, eh?
Giving Ukraine more of these modern weapons helps them push the enemy back and allows us to see their effectiveness in real combat situations thus exposing any downfalls which can then help us to make any improvements.
Thanks, VP. Your analysis is the most thorough I've heard to date.
Col McGovern, USA, has more truthful summaries, but you don't want to search those, as he says war in Ukie is pretty well over, bar the clean up by Russ. Chechens of a few Nazi strays!
The war is certainly a commercial for the west's precision weaponry, but if some of the stories I've seen recently are accurate, there is an Achilles heel in that they cannot be apparently be replenished as quickly as they are used. If true, that would be a big issue in a broader theatre.
The factories are set up for peacetime production levels. If there is enough demand, these factories could be redesigned to produce at a wartime level.
@@Rob_F8F Could they? How quickly? It's not 1940 anymore.
Your 60 fps stabilized videos are the chef's kiss.
When Joe Biden said, 'Go get him!', he wasn't kidding.
So glad that my country (Romania) allrdy have 56 himars sistems :)
Donate 10 to the Ukrainians!!
Nato has given Ukraine more then the entire Russian military budget and they still can't win. What do you think is going to happen when Ukraine's offensive runs out of strength? Ukraine will probably be forced to give up the part of the DPR they still have in the armistice agreement.
Ukraine has lost over 250,000 soldiers and spend over $200 Billion dollars to fight Russia.
What has Ukraine achieved? Pretty much nothing
What has been given to Ukraine is far from the best available. But even this little has shown the difference in capabilities between the west and east is enormous. Can't even imagine if the Navy or Airforce would be included from the west. The war would have been already over a long time ago. This dragging on the conflict serves certain interests hence it will be prolonged till other, hidden goals are met as well.
i agree totally
From a cosmic point of view people have to wake up to their responsibilities and in Russia, to not give power away to someone who will misuse it badly...the old school will eventually see the consequences of their predatory nature ...note how much .ore cooperative nato has become
There was a Nato paper on how Nato can't give Ukraine the cutting edge because it would increase the risk of Russia using nukes because they see themselves threatened. Instead, Nato tries to walk the edge, always keeping Ukraine afloat, but just by so much that they couldn't steamroll Russia.
One thing is true though about what Ukraine did receive - it was maintained and stored properly even when not in use. I haven't heard of any of the weapon systems being sent failing very often.
@@brianh9358 The Javelins and Stingers have had some reliability problems, because quartermaster sergeants did what quartermaster sergeants always do, and dumped their old, questionable stock on the other poor schmuck, and some of the individual rounds had been sitting on a shelf for a long time, and were beyond their "best before" date. Both are from (roughly) the 1980's, and while they have had updates for capability, and ongoing production for export, it was also inevitable that Ukraine was going to end up getting some duds. Also, the Strela-2s' that Germany donated were a bit dodgy (I've seen ~700 of 2,700 being quoted as the failure rate, but have no way to verify it), but they were inherited from E Germany - if anything Ukraine was lucky that they hadn't all been scrapped already
I've watched interesting videos about tactics employed by Ukraine in particular the Thunder runs which some other commentator likened to being a natural fit for Ukrainians with their Cossack heritage. Using lightly armed vehicles, initially civilian 4x4 trucks but increasingly buggies, Humvees and captured TIGRs. Searching for, then exploiting weak-spots in Ruzzian lines, able to probe deeply either for recon or lightning attacks upon poorly defended rear positions, which add to one of the aspects in the military arsenal which is sometimes forgotten, i.e. morale. Thunder runs destroy Ruzzian morale and hugely boost that of the Ukrainians. Never underestimate the power of a people fighting to defend their homeland from a vicious and violent invader, particularly when he has been forced to bolster his ranks with murderers and rapists culled from Ruzzian prisons. These people do not endear themselves to a besieged people.
And just in case anyone would like to see the video about the Thunder Runs, that I was mentioning th-cam.com/video/h2-5It_PJv0/w-d-xo.html
Yep amazing to see Ukraine plow right through those weak Russians as they run away scared to death!
Loved JAVELIN dancers also !!! it was so bizarre and low quality that it was awesome !! hope those guys are still alive
yeap usa should give more Swich blade drones ...and multi launchers for them ...to give russia taste how look NEW ERA WAR . when thousands suacide drones smash with high accuracy at the same time ..
It's unbearable how little military support Europe is providing.
As it's always been, there's only so far we can go without provoking...too much y'know...
This is absolute bs, please go educate yourself before baseless accusations
Hope you don't include UK among Europe. The UK has provided the 2nd most amount of weapons to ukrain and also a lot of training. If the rest of Europe and notably the eu countries helped out as much this would probably be all over by now.
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Once again, Americans are doing the job that Western Europe (especially Germany) should be doing. Don’t worry, Ukraine, we won’t let you down.
To be fair, america created the russian problem in the first place.
All Russian friends, please stop spending money and stop paying taxes as much as possible.. Even that monster can't put millions of people into prison. Please start a campaign like this🙏
If you turn whole country into prison you can make millions of people imprisoned
Same goes TO USA that invade countless country
Try hard NATO Jihadists BOT
This hasn't aged well. Russian SMO engaged original Ukrainian forces which had 3:1 advantage in manpower with parity with weapons (Russia has committed only fraction of its forces) in February and had started engaging in peace negotiation in March/April which was terminated under pressure from UK/US.
By June, original UAF trained/armed by US/NATO since 2014 were essentially destroyed.
this was very informative and insightful, thanks
This is the country we feared so much during the Cold War. Boy did we overestimate their capabilities. Never mind archaic equipment, who trains these soldiers?
This begs the question, Have we overestimated China too? These countries spend a fraction of what we do on arms, and their best tech is stolen from us.
200 missiles just whopping Ukie Infrastrucure, military HQs, etc didn't happen. Hooray for Brit Intel
The cold war was with the Soviet Union and not just Russia, so bigger, more people, more resources.
The Soviet military was very different, and much of western doctrine (which feeds into equipment, training, technology) was designed around countering that Soviet army. But the Soviets actually spent the money on building that power, not on building yachts for the elite. And it bankrupted them. Russia is still trying to copy that former power, without spending the money, while NATO has moved far beyond it.
@@markdoldon8852 Very true
@@don63 The Cold War is over. The most shocking thing about the Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine is the revelation that the west's public perception of geopolitics is still stuck in the last century. China's GDP is 10 times that of Russia's, and so is their population. No one who has been paying attention would even think that China is comparable to Russia.
Ukraine war has proven to be a rich advertising for U. S. military war weapons.
hows the counter offensive ?!
Give them more & more advanced weapons? Absolutely. And stop dragging your feet about it!!
and then booom no more ukraine what do you think will happen
Any country that invades nowadays never wins. When was the last war won btw?
Moroccos invasion of Western Sahara eventually.
Depends what the real objectives were at the beginning. Iraq and Afghanistan the US achieved its stated objectives but they were each bad for their own reasons.
@@singed8853 i can agree that Iraq was decisively won by the US. But i highly doubt Afghanistan is considered won at all.
@@tengkualiff If you can agree that the Iraq War was won, then why do you say that invaders cannot win? That is the most recent US war if going by when wars are started. If you look at the last war Russia fought, they invaded and won against Georgia.
Here is how they're really winning. By changing the definition of winning.
Most significant ones? Proceeds to completly ignore any weapon systems sent by Poland, Germany and the Netherlands...
I think the weaponry we are currently sending is doing well. If possible, ramping up the production of such weaponry would probably do Ukraine more good than sending in new and more advanced weaponry. It would take time for Ukraine to integrate it into their current strategy and forces.
Now I do think that sending _some_ more advanced weaponry to the Ukrainian rear would be good. It gives them time to integrate and, even if limited in quantity, could backup the less advanced weaponry.
Think of how more advanced aircraft like F-35Cs can, reportedly, go into airspace that less capable but far more numerous aircraft like F/A-18E/Fs could never hope to enter. And the F-35Cs can take out the systems that prevent the F/A-18E/Fs from moving in. Thus, letting the workhorses do the heavy lifting.
" ramping up the production of such weaponry" - read defense news sites. The West can't just ramp up the production.
NATO was not prepared for a large scale war. We were caught with our pants down as far as production goes.
Of course, NATO can take out anyone by using combined arms warfare , but we can't produce in large scale any modern equipment. It's just too complicated, and it depends on dozens of suppliers from several countries to make even something like an NLAW.
Putin is lashing out like Hitler in ww2! V2 rocket style. 💯 Can we just skip to the part where he Kills Himself in a Bunker⁉
#PutinWarCriminal
💛💙 Victory for Ukraine! 🔱
Glory to Ukraine
"Glory to Ukraine " is the ukrainian version of "sieg H*il" of Nazi-Germany
Brilliant presentation. Bravo Ukraine!
Should mention general Zaluzhny, tbe apex weapon of Ukraine
Do so, when and if you learn to spell and pronounce names
@@ddoppster mate, it's hard to tell you, but if you don't actually know stuff don't play grammar nazi
Wow!!. Beautiful Analysis. Loved it. More Power to you bruh
You should also mention that, contrary to most weapons delivered to Ukraine, Tanks require much more logistics, know-how and repair expertise. So it turns out that 2/3 of the "new" ones are actually captured russian tanks.
Deep repair factories and expertise for those are in Poland, Bulgaria and other former soviet satellites.
The former Soviet slaves are just showing their love for their former master.
Bulgaria is not involved in the reparations at all, it's highly corrupt and ineffective country with a pro-russian government.. The most of those repairs happen in the Czech republic, Slovakia and Poland.. Plus the huge amount of weapons we have sent them (tanks, MLRS, attack helicopters, grenade launchers and so on..)
is this an American Weapon advertise? because it gives only credit to the US weapons and ignoring everything else.
in the video it says the US gave Ukraine 16 Himars, but germany alone gave Ukraine 6 Mars 2 (German version of Himars).
so the complete part from the video is wrong "what damage only 16 Himars can do" because they have more then 16 but not from the US.
and all the other weapons from Polish Krab to French Caesar the German PHZ2000/IRIS-T seems pretty worthless against US made weapons or at least this is what this video want to tell us
A solid breakdown on the situation. Thanks.
Humanity will win. Ukraine will win.
Ukraine is backed by the demonic neo-cons. Russia is the good guy. Don't be brainwashed.
EU needs to grow some balls, SLAVA UKRAINE
I think it says a lot that Ukraine is beating Russia back with our free weapons that were willing to hand out think about the things we have that nobody knows about make good choices
The most dangerous thing is to assume you're winning.
yeah look what happen to the russians
Yeah. I still don’t see why Russia thinks it is winning.
There are many more dangerous things than assuming incorrectly you are winning. But yes it can be dangerous. Not sure exactly which side is currently making this error.
Right? The Russians are a perfect example of this
@@singed8853 ok. Allow me to adjust my comment slightly.. my view is the war is a nothing more than any other war in the last 2/300 years.. A money making schema/business opportunity for the upcoming or already wealthy.. This is without taking into account those directly involved. Such as troops and "leadership". The media is also making an absolute fortune too.
In the context of the commentary in this thread..
I should say., We(individuals within the world wide general masses) should not assume there is a winner.. let alone the point of the war in the first place. This was made clear with the media response to Putin's "special operation". They gave out the reports as to Putin is "losing".. Putin to this day has not given out the information as to his objective. Also giving the impression that 100,000 conscripts performance on the battlefield is the general view of how the reserve and regular army will perform in battle.
If we are to say that Putin's objective was to create a chaotic environment on the entire Russian border with NATO members.. then waiting to see what the response would be.. then he is winning.
We can not know exactly what his plans are. Without taking into account., What his (and those that are profiting from the war) objective(s) really is. Cui prodest??
Very arrogant and missleading video, like himmars system is all that changed the situation instead of reality, where hundreds of systems provided from Europe did that combined with USA together.
Not to mention of hundreds of post soviet tanks, artillery pieces, rocket launchers, ifv's, anti air and armor launchers, drones and so on were used in that counter offensive...
Please explain
@@spiceyfrenchtoast9421 200 battle Tanks from Poland as an example. They have a massive impact. Not to mention the array of artillery provided.
HIMARS is good, but it did not change the outcome of the war. The combined effort of all Nations did.
@@spiceyfrenchtoast9421 What's with you pepole these days, did humanity lost the ability to analyse simple text? If you don't understand what you read there is nothing i can do to help you dude, seek some specialist aid or something.
it feels odd and a little annoying at times to see USA get all the credit for everything new and flashy sendt to Ukraine.
God bless America for sending the new gamechanging Norwegian Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System.
Not only should the Western European Union help more but I think they should give fighter aircraft and tanks and infantry combat vehicles as well as cruise missiles and unmanned combat aircraft to Ukraine
i will not tire to push for every influencial person that can sell this idea: compagnies producing air defence systems to "adopt an Ukrainian city" and provide the sytems to defend its skies. At the end of the war nobody would be against showcasing the system in order to promote it towards future sales. It should not involve charging Ukraine and not be part of a gouvernemental package, these compagnies have the deep pockets no problem. Hear hear..
5 more HiMARS delivered and on the front lines announced today. if they get a longer-range missile, taking Crimea will become much easier. A few weeks of targeted attacks, then a big push they could take it in a month.
Also, the orders for HiMARS is likely in the thousands. Poland wants 500, Tiawan wants them, the US says they will at least double their inventory. For sure it will be used in conflicts for decades to come.
Ukraine needs more than that but if they had more 300 range missiles. Wouldn't need as many HiMARS but more is better. They need more tanks,and planes to give the ground troops more support,and planes in the air. To give Ukraine a more lethal balanced attack to have complete victory sooner.
You want Ukie flattened by Himar-ring R territory. Sad.
Iskander-M - Range : 400-500km, Accuracy :5-7m, Speed : Mach 6-7(7408-8643 km/h) , Cost: $3 mil.
Himars - Range : 125-300km, Accuracy : 7m , Speed : 85km/h for M142 and mach 2.5 for M30/31 , Cost: $3.5 mil.
So who don't you compare these two ?
Not to mention they used the Kinzhal that is capable of Mach 12. So what is the equivalent US missile for that ?
Ukraine is DEFINITELY not winning the war😂😂😂😂propaganda 😂😂😂😂
Yes the rest of the EU countries (the UK, Poland, Baltic states, and Norway are notable exceptions) need to step it up. Particularly Germany and France.
Germany is already the second biggest sponsor of Ukraine in financial means after the US.
Don't know, why it is getting such amount of harassment.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_aid_to_Ukraine_during_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War
I think Germany is doing a lot more than it is recognised. All while risking getting into an economical recession (kind of self-made tbh, caused by dependence on russia).
Germany is thrid behind the US (27,8 billion) and UK (3,7 billion) with 1,2 billion. To be fair, both countries were much better equipped before the conflcit whereas the Bundeswehr already had shortage of equipment. You can't provide something you don't have and not all equipment is made equal. After giving a sizeable chunk of our most modern artillery (the Panzerhaubitze 2000 which is sadly not mentioned in the video but shows up in multiple clips) the only thing we have left would be main battle tanks, i.e. the Leopard 2. Even Ukrainians don't want that equipment because it just too much of headache to establish the supply lines necessary and train not only the crews but also the mechanics and logistical backbone to support their proper use.
France on the other hand has sent 0,2 billion of I don't know what, even less than Norway.
Edit: Germany also provided 30 Gepard armored anti-air tanks, 51 M113 armored troup transporters and 16 BIBER bridge building tanks (these things are expensive and rare as f*) along with ammunition and medical supplies (including 2 fully equipped field hospitals)
the German government provides a full list: www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/news/military-support-ukraine-2054992
@@pauleblub
You have to know in addition, that the EU doesn't have any money on it's own.
Nearly a third of all the money given from this entity is actually German money.
Many people don't recognise that fact.
@@G4r0s and Iris T SLM, the First modern Western AA delivered to Ukraine.