It's different, the Russians are fighting blood. Ukraine is basically Russia's little brother. Russians are hesitant to fight simply based on the fact that they would be killing their own, and it shows.| Putin is forcing a war that not even Russians want to be apart of. This will be an end of an Era in terms of Putin's power. Russians are waking up against Putin.
Tanks broken down because the fuel trucks broke down because the Russians don't maintain their shit and spend money on making a few scary vehicles like the t-14 and SU-57
@Termitreter a cursory Google search revealed that the T-14 will enter mass production sometime this year. Given the current events and the tanking of the Russian economy, I'd say it's doubtful that will happen. The modernized T-90s number only a few thousand strong and still fewer are the M model with advanced hard kill systems. The T-80s are borderline useless as well since they use old night vision scopes that rely on infrared illumination, which lights them up like Christmas tree. It seems to me that everything the Russians have brought to bear has major, easily exploitable weaknesses.
In the first world war, two Russian armies attacked Prussia. The Germans counterattacked with one, and got slaughtered. Encouraged by the success, the Russians advanced quickly, but reinforcements cut them off and chopped them up. One army almost completely destroyed, it's general committing suicide because he took responsibility for his actions, the other one mauled badly and beating a hasty retreat.... The conclusion in the book: Russia had managed to field huge armies with modern weapons, but had failed to provide them with adequate means of communication, leading to their downfall. That was 108 years ago.....
Nah mate. That requires said Russian general to be able to read. Russian soldiers raping children and committing vile disgusting war crimes. They need jailing/executing. And Putin, Trump (and his treasonous gang) and Boris Johnson (and his treasonous gang too) need jailing/executing.
I remember when this video originally came out and the thumbnail spelled: „pretty darn well“ to the question of how well the Russian army is trained. Now the thumbnail says: „depends“ 👌
So after 2 weeks of war in Ukraine I'd say the answer to both of the questions in the title is not well and no. Russia seems to be having trouble projecting power 50 miles beyond its borders never mind 1000 miles.
Ukrainian army's logistics and training aren't better than Russian, while Ukrainian economy is much worser than Russian in terms of life standarts and effectivity of labor, so Ukraine have much lower economical resources per every soldier than Russia. So, if you think that Russia would be exhausted, so, Ukraine would be exhausted 3 times to the time while this would happen. The war in Ukraine doesn't shows to us the real fighting capability of Russian army. Russian failure in Ukraine have two reasons: Russian soldiers aren't motivated to fight against brother people, and Russian command didn't prepared for a war - they were probably thinking, that they would take all of Ukraine without a fight in 3 days. And Russians didn't prepared for a war. Russians invaded Ukraine without numerical superiority and without preparing the logistics. Probably, Putin believed in his own propaganda about "n-zis in Ukraine that are supressing their own people" , and probably Putin was thinking, that Ukrainian people would meet Russian soldiers with flowers. This war in Ukraine isn't showing to us the real fighting capability and real quality of Russian army. In reality, Russian army isn't lesser trained than Ukrainian and isn't lesser equipped. At now Russia is supplying frontline by reinforcements, and with numerical superiority on the Russian side Ukraine wouldn't stand a chance.
@@arty5876 Ukraine's forces have been trained by the West to NATO standards. They are FAR better trained than Russian soldiers, as videos from the conflict are constantly showing. They are also better equipped now that they are receiving equipment from the West, while Russian soldiers are stuck with tanks that were built before the USSR fell. All of the money that Russia was putting towards modernizing and training its military was embezzled away due to corruption, because none of the people in charge ever thought Putin would be stupid enough to start a war.
@@arty5876 Also, if Russian soldiers truly were concerned about killing their brothers in Ukraine they wouldn't be absolutely slaughtering civilians. Mariupol is mostly rubble now due to constant bombardments, and every single day Russian soldiers are gunning down entire families who are just trying to escape a war zone. The good Russian soldiers all surrendered or fled near the start of the war. The soldiers who are left all have blood on their hands that will never wash off.
Watching the total failure of C2 and logistics play out in real-time, plus the complete capitulation of Russian troops who have either surrendered or walked away shows just how low morale is as well. Truly a shocking display of how poorly planned and executed this plan has been since the start and I couldn't be happier. Glory to Ukraine!
Still early days and many of those may be the conscripts Binkov talks about. However, I do hope the morale and logistics issues continue. Slava Ukraini!
The west is not giving out much information on ukrainian losses. It is obvious that Russia is being repelled far more than expected but even zalensky has admitted that Ukraine is facing higher loses to the south. Anouther thing to note is that Russia seems to be targeting Ukraines infrastructure and stationary defenses. Such as cutting gas pipes, targeting energy and oil plants. While at the very start taking out air defenses and air bases.
You are ridiculously optimistic, this war was bound to be a slugfest, everyone acts like Putin didn’t see heavy losses coming but I’m pretty sure he doesn’t care and expected it.
I'm shocked at the complete ineptness of the Russian military. Growing up in the US in the 80s we were also told of how dangerous the Rissian military is. I understand this isn't the USSR any more but still expected a much higher level of ability from Russia.
@Atlantis This is my position as well. The corruption in the Russian state includes its armed forces. Apparently even Putin was ignorant of this or simply thought it sufficient to deal with Ukraine. Which doesn't speak highly of him.
Also mate totally shocked at how badly they have performed, without nukes i think theres alot of countrys out there that before the invasion of Ukraine would be scared of Russia but now completely different ball game, America would literally wipe the fucking floor with Russia.
It's interesting that most of the faults you pointed to have played out in their invasion of Ukraine. The relative weakness of logistics, use of conscripts as the primary fighting force, limits of funding, etc. Coupled with a low morale of the Russian soldiers and united opposition from the Ukrainians. But it is still very early in a conflict that could go on for weeks/months/years. #slavaukraini
I'd bet fair bit of money this can't go on for months even. Home front is a thing so putin is more likely to go in with more force and brutality as they don't progress as expected
@@tapio83 Lets bet and we come back when we know more. I say it takes over 1 year for Russia to take Ukraine. If they even take it. Also with taking I also mean eliminating all insurgency as long as any armes pro ukranians are still active, they have not fully taken Ukraine.
@@vatravlahilor492 can I join the bet? I bet within 3 month Russia takes the eastern half of Ukraine but then stops due to cost or insurgent fighting. I think taking all of Ukraine will be to costly
"Some months later we know: The Russian army has a lot of stuff, but it sucks in about every aspect but the amount of brutality." so , business as usual.
I would say that the question you posed has been answered. Their logistics are abysmal. Training for the common soldier is minimal. The level of corruption in their military support structure is staggering. They have Korean era communications from a military perspective. The Russians are a second rate military that happens to be huge from a numbers perspective.
Isn't the number of Russian troops deployed in Ukraine pretty equal to the number of troops from Ukraine? And Ukraine has full NATO support. And Ukraine is defending. In cities and fortifications like in Donbass. Which is a lot easier than storming those cities. And common folk hate Russian soldiers. Why is Ukraine losing?
@@Lex-qt1cc Ukraine isn't in the NATO. Russia invaded Ukraine so of course there is resistent fighters fighting for their OWN HOME. You have to read much more about the topic and inform you.
@@Singurarity88 true, saying "full" NATO support was stupid as it is wrong. But please don't overestimate human desire to follow ideals. It's nice thinking about those things sitting on our couch sipping tea, but whenever you are getting shelled 24/7 and you realize that storming of the city can begin at any moment thoughts about heroically dying are usually being replace with the desire to, you know, survive and see your grandchildren
It feels like their military has been sorta coasting tactics and logistics wise off that Stalingrad victory and the early success in the Afghanistan invasion while the rest of the NATO countries have been constantly improving on their tech, tactics, logistics
The real reason is because MI6, CIA. And the US army were supporting the Free Syrian Army to fight agains the Syrian Troops, until the ISIS was growing in the region. Some British mercenary’s payed by the MI6 were fighting the Syrian Army and US Spc Forces come from Irak and conduct incursion in Syria agains Syrian government, not again ISIS. That’s way in last years of Syrian war The ISIS in ate IRAK, because Americans were to busy fighting someone… And Rusia come to finish it in just a few month. And yes, they also prove a lot of equipament, like Americans did in all his wars.
Are both… but which was more important… I told you…. The influence in the region, the new harbor and the new airfield that they have now… and the Syrian national debt… did you know that in Syria is now the same government? ( in Afganistán happen something similar, and son or late, will happen the same In Irak)
@@gorkarullan You do know that the US forces in Syria were working along side the Kurds to fight ISIS right? The only strikes made against the Syrian government that I am aware of were made after they bombed civilian areas or threatened to use biological weapons. The US took no direct action against infantry units of the Syrian government. At least that is what I have found on the fighting. If you can provide sources that I am wrong, please do as I would love to read more on the conflict. I know once Russia got involved, they provided arms, training, and air strikes against the Syrian rebels and the conflict was quickly silenced compared to what it was. They were also accused of killing over 5700 civilians, so there is that as well. At the same time, the US nearly screwed over the Kurds before keeping a small force in the area to make sure that Turkey and Russia didn't aim directly at them for fear of killing American soldiers.
@@shawnkennedy855 Vietnam is a honey badger of nations. It won wars against France, US and China. Plus when China established a genocidal puppet state in Cambodia they went there and destroyed it in very short war. Just leave Vietnam alone if you don’t want to get your ass kicked.
@@shawnkennedy855 North Vietnam lost nearly a million soldiers in the conflict compared to 58k for the US. US heart was not in it either. And that was fighting on the other side of the planet compared to a few km the Russians are.
@@jiminy82 Inductive fallacy,Ukraine isn't losing they've lost.Don't forget outside of NATO almost no one is sanctioning Russia,we will suffer more than they will.Time will tell,we could both be wrong.
It would appear the first weeks are mostly older reserve equipment and conscripts. This is evident in the vehicles being sent. It has also only been 4 days. The Russian advance has been reasonably fast albeit visibly limited by logistic capabilities. The initial conscript wave is likely so they can secure positions to encircle Kyiv and connect Crimea with the Separatists at Mauripol. The main siege of Kyiv might start at the end of this week, they are waiting for the Eastern flank to reach their position. And it will likely be with their volunteer force.
@@FranseD Big guns are no good if the logistics are so poor tanks run out of fuel less than 100 km away from belarusian borders and soldiers resort to looting shops for food
7:58 "Allegedly one Russian General said: 'It's cheaper for the Russian Army to fight in Syria than to organize training exercises in Russia.' Indeed from 2015 onward, Russia has been rotating contingents of their military in Syria, keeping them 3 to 4 months in theater to gain experience. Before that, Russian troops were gaining experience in eastern Ukraine." Let that sink in. Russia is incentivized to fight actual wars rather than just train their army *without* fighting a war.
Well the fact is in Syria they don't really have tens of thousands of troops fighting against other tens of thousands (even if its training) and everything payed by Russia it does make sense. Considering in most of the war they mainly used specops and their airforce and missile forces and some MP units alongside the Syrians
To put that in perspective the west went in and destabilized the middle east by destroying Iraq. Not defending either side here, but they train their troops and in process support an ally of theirs. We went to Iraq for oil not to free the Iraqis. In fact we supported Iraq in the 80s while he attacked Iran and gassed their population on the boarder.
@@alexanderirving7577 Donald Rumsfeld: "We know Saddam has chemical weapons, we have the receipts" Before selling chemical weapons to the Iraqis, the US sold F-14 jets to the Iranians. In effect arming both sides so that both would exhaust each other in grinding, bloody combat. The goal was never to have one proxy win over the other. The goal was to have both Iran and Iraq decimate each other so that Standard Oil and BP could go back in and get their oil concessions back.
@@Hubbaser Russia is self sufficient,China has their back and we are the ones paying for it.Good luck launching satellites without Russian rockets.But if Don Lemon tells you Russian man bad just do as you're told
My old coworker served as a conscript a few years ago in Russia. He said that on paper there were 200 soldiers or so in his company. In reality though he said during his entire 1 year conscription, he saw no more than 50 other men. The books were all fraudulent and higher ranking officials were pocketing the salaries of the other 150 conscripts that weren't there. Additionally he said that that he spent more time doing labor for the commanders private residence than any actual military training.
@@Galenus1234 as is right and proper to do. How else would you say for example, "Nuclear Vessels"? There is no other way for such phrases. We do what we must.
I literally just watched a video of a Ukrainian guy pulling up to a tank squad that ran out of fuel. The guys asked Russian tank squad if they want him to tow them back to Russia. The Russians laughed like they legitimately thought it was funny and were so over the whole thing. Putin has significantly overplayed his hand
That was just an example of Slavic humor... (and it is always giving a hard time to no Slavic people->yes it was a good joke so it was funny, the fact that Russian soldiers were in the fubar situations change nothing). The important part in that video is complete lack logistic, lack of understanding what is the mission goal or the whole campaign goal...).
That particular video has proven prophetic. The entire Russian army has now stalled due to lack of supplies and lack of morale to attack the Ukrainians. That one video encapsulated it all in a nut-shell.
Served about five years ago. I can tell with near certainty that conscripts are meant to stay away from frontline-ready units. For one, as they (usually) have no positive incentive to serve, they are not trusted to operate expensive equipment. For two, as they are generally less rigorously trained, they are kept out of harm's way. That last policy can be and is broken in secret, but from what I've seen, it takes an eager conscript with a skillset that is not easily obtainable otherwise for commanding officers to take that risk. Those guys are usually prime candidates to be offered not even a regular 2-year contract, but a 5-year one with a junior officer rank to boot. Although neither of the two guys I knew who broke the rules like that accepted. Civilian life just pays too well if you're that good.
Whe have the same problem in Portugal, the civilian jobs in some cases pay way better, the goverment jobs,excluding the army, pay better and give more stability for you make long therme plans to your family life. Like whe some contrys will have to find better ways to captivate lower grade personal to serve in the army and the highest grade personal to, they are the ones that leave in the first place, in Portugal this problem it's bigger in the air force, because they live to go working in the air companies that give a bigger life stability and offers most times great conditions, monetary and in other bonus ,like helt and discounts in many things.
@Terry Flynn What in the seven hells are you babbling about? Who in their right mind would attack a nation that has nuclear weapons and willing to use it to defend itself? The moment British Empire dissolved and became a little island it has lost the means to "defend" itself from a large military force (hence the need for nuclear weapons). That is the only option, but it is a good one. The united European army would actually help britain security. Brits left the EU and now serve as a nice example of what happens when you think you are stronger alone that in a group. Enjoy your "independence", and with that attitude you had last few years.....good riddance. Folks on the mainland laugh at you in disbelief.
5:10 - One nuance to flush out about the US "8-year service obligation" system: every US service member (in all armed forces branches) has an "8-year service obligation", starting the day they signed enlistment papers. Parts of the 8 years (anywhere between 2-8) can be served in active duty, and/or reserves/national guard of any branch. The remaining length of the 8-year obligation, if any, are "served" in a system called "individual ready reserves" (IRR). Servicemembers in IRR status aren't required to do any training or meet skills/physical proficiencies. Logically, IRRs don't get any military pay/benefits. The US military just has the right to call them back in dire circumstances. While IRR servicemembers are a potential pool of military-worthy civilians, they have zero combat readiness & shouldn't be confused with the various reserves or national guard organizations in the US armed forces.
During my time at Benning my unit was tasked with receiving IRR soldiers and getting them combat ready. I've seen IRR soldiers who were way out of height and weight get sent over but they also have had previous combat experience prior to entering into IRR. So, go figure of course this was at the height of the surge when DOD would take anyone who can shoot as long as they had a pulse.
@@alexismywife I was just joking,. I understand your position, I wanted to join the army when i was young but then the iraq war happened and i couldn't get behind it
when I was in right before we deployed to Iraq in the end of 05 we had about 15 guys in my company who got called back few months after they got out, and 3rd of my platoon was stop lossed.
Less overhead is a positive Thing. The Russian Army doesnt have a global network of basements, its tasks are fewer. Defending its territorry. Therfore, focusing on Infantry and ground-to-air missiles makes total sense.
There is definitely a lot of positives. From what I understand they get a lot more for the money they spend since they aren't operating a lot of foreign bases. There is down side to that as well and that is you don't have as much influence or power projection. And Russia isn't in any shape for operating like that for many reasons. So their current setup makes sense.
Russian military is not the Soviet Military, hell it's not even 1/10 of that because unlike then... Russia can't send Uzbekis to the front followed by the Tatars whilst the ethnic russians make up the rear guard. This war shows that Russian military machine has only had practice against civilians and been taught only the doctrine of indiscriminate murder for thirty years.
One huge factor that hurt the Russian Land forces early in WW2 was the lack of maintenance units. It crippled the tank forces and resulted in huge material losses. Excellent video, Thank You !
True, the huge losses of tanks on operation Barbarossa by the soviets weren't because German fire, but because soviet tanks lacked fuel and spare parts for their tanks.
It should be noted that the Soviet used to concentrate logistical assets at the army level, rather than divisional one. Tactical units were more lean and mean with little rear-area support. This increased operational flexibility at the expense of tactical one.
Completely wrong, some tank brigades in the Red Army consisted mostly of salvaged and patched up tanks. There was even grim joke about the smell of previous owners (dead) .
It'll be interesting to see what the future holds for the Russian army after all of its losses in Ukraine and after the economy has completed its nosedive because of sanctions.
@@shawnkennedy855 The sanctions will, and are, destroying Russia's economy and putting it back to the dysfunction of the Soviet era. And good luck to Russia if it has China as an ally. It's like one gang of ruthless liars pledging ot help another gang of ruthless liars. It's not going to end well for Russia.
I don't think the criticism "this video didn't age well" is particularly valid, because you presented a reasonably balanced assessment of strengths and weaknesses with publicly available information at the time. I didn't hear about the role of "ghost soldiers" (personnel that have already rotated out but remain on the books so someone can collect a that salary line). Many personnel rosters and unit strength estimates were likely inaccurate because of a continuing culture of corruption and underfunding. It is stunning that a large number of captured conscripts are reporting that they were told this was a major military exercise as opposed to offensive combat operations into hostile territory. It is also very interesting to see how the capabilities gap was exacerbated by the self-imposed isolation of Putin and a probable reluctance of senior military leaders to sharing a more realistic assessment of strategic & tactical limitations for fear of reprisals. The strategic picture today is also much different than the conditions encountered in Georgia in 2008 and the Crimea in 2014, both campaigns that played to the Russian army's strengths. Ukraine presents very different challenges. The outcome remains unclear, although it is probable that given enough time or unrestricted destruction of civilian infrastructure, that the Russian military will prevail- and equally likely that a prolonged insurgency would be mounted by a determined opponent receiving public and covert support from NATO and other Western nations. Russia has surprisingly failed (thus far) to attain air, logistical and information supremacy. Any victory achieved by the Russian military is already tainted by a shifting global opinion and professional military reassessment of their obvious capability gaps. Putin's empire ambitions have backfired, bringing about conditions to revitalize a previously rudderless NATO, encourage Germany to rearm itself for defense and isolate his country from broad swaths of global, commercial enterprise.
I agree. Additionally, I worry about the expansion of the Chinese/Russian alliance. Regardless if Russia wins or not (it will probably winthe ground war but never the moral war), I don't see the West normalizing relations with Russia, which means they're going to depend more heavily on China, which means deeper economic integration. Further, if Russians do take any territory (or "liberate" those russian-backed "republics"), it would make sense for China to recognize those gains considering they have their eyes on Taiwan. This could be the opening stage to World War 3.
@@Spectre11B "watching the same war" First, the fact you're framing this the same way someone would watch a football/soccer match tells me you think all of this is a game. It's not. Second, if you genuinely think the Russian government has unleashed the totality of its lethal force, then you genuinely don't understand war, let alone the brutality of the Russian government. Russian proverb: "just when you think you've hit rock bottom, someone knocks below". This is going to get worse before it gets better.
The gravest threat to Russian forces was bullying among conscripts. Dedovshchina. Pure and simple criminality. I assume some progress has been made on the issue...
Unfortunately there is almost zero strategic context in this video. The US has over 700 military bases in 80 countries all across the globe. With the exception of Syria the Russian military has about a dozen bases in her immediate abroad and former Soviet republics. Around half are supporting peace keepers and observers in various frozen conflicts. What possible reason would the Russians have or need to have a logistics profile like the US military - absolutely none. The US and Russian military are performing very different roles, one power projection across the globe and the other defence of the largest country in the world. This means the profile of their armed forces and their logistics will be different and the detailed like for like comparison presented in the video is actually not very insightful.
On the other hand, Russia is a lot bigger than the US with territories spanning across two continents, bordering with far more countries than the US. The logistics to support Russian forces over such a vast country is no less arduous than the US has to face. The Germans could testify how difficult it was to maintain good logistics in Russia.
@@tvgerbil1984 There is no other hand. Transport, resupply, deployment all present a challenge for every army and Russia is indeed a huge country and the army divisions have been created and designed with this in mind. But at the risk of stating the blindingly obvious here the vast majority of the Russian army is inside Russia. That makes things less challenging for the Russian army for a plethora of reasons which really should be self evident compared to the US which has around 200,000 troops based overseas in some 80 bases. The logistical challenges that both armies face are very, very different. Like I said previously the video has zero strategic context and the direct comparison being made given the different requirements of the two armies being compared is pretty mediocre, amateur analysis.
@@tvgerbil1984 Not wishing to get side tracked but this isn't 1905 and we weren't discussing naval matters. The US navy is unmatched and it rules the seas. Behind that dominance, sustaining that dominance is a gigantic logistics and maintenance effort. Apart from its nuclear subs the Russian navy quite frankly has almost zero force projection. It's sole delapated carrier is more often being tugged from port to port than travelling under its own billowing, black clouds of almost desperate volition. That's not to say that the Russian fleets can't perform the tasks they are designed to perform - defence of the Black Sea, Kalingrad/Baltic theatre and Pacific coastline where they are crucially integrated into the overarching defensive doctrine supported by an integrated missile defence system sharing information from over the horizon systems all the way to MIG31's on intercept, never leaving Russian airspace with hypersonic missiles. This encompasses all aspects of a combined military defence response from standoff, medium range and short range missiles to fixed wing interventions with air and anti ship capabilities - again this is not 1905 indeed it's not even comparable to 1995. Apologies for my digression and I mean this in a respectful but I think there may be some fundamental concepts that you may not be familiar with. The size of Russia is of course a logistical challenge but Russian military doctrine is defensive and their logistical needs while demanding are dwarfed by the US military - this isn't controversial and is quite self evident.
@@maddog2437 Well if Russia is going into conflict with Japan over the Kuril Islands, it will have a big logistical challenge of reinforcing its pacific fleet with warships from its fleets in Europe, really not too different from its position in 1905.
@@tvgerbil1984 It's an interesting "conventional" kinetic warfare discussion in abstraction given the excellence of the Japanese navy and subs. The tactical reality is however we have entered the dawn of substantive hypersonic anti ship capabilities from the Russians who already had significant ASM capabilities in that area of the world and an army division deployed there and Air force groups to implement the long thought out plans to defend a Japanese attack on the disputed insels. Modern warfare and standoff simply can't be compared to events from the beginning of the 20th century. The Japanese navy would be under attack from coastal and mobile ASM batteries and MIG31's all firing hypersonic and conventional ASMs from within Russia while having to compete with a peer fleet as they try to take the insels - presumebly with an amphibious landing. This war is almost certainly never going to happen and if it did it would be over in a day or two in my opinion, weeks before the Admiral Kuznetsov gets unceremoniously tugged into the theatre. It's hard to see how Japan strategically has any escalation headroom in such a conflict - they would have to be all in. It would be existential. From the outset Russia would have obvious escalation paths and retaliatory strikes against the Japanese navy and military bases at home would in my view simply end the war regardless of what was taking place in the insels. I'm curious to see how you think this plays out. Again you seem to be making the point that the logistical burden of supporting and supplanting the Russian Pacific fleet from presumably other parts of the Russian navy is a burden that impact this theoretical conflict. I'm sure you can never have to many boats in the battle but thIs really isn't an issue - this war lasts as long as this battle and ends very quickly.
Russian Logistics Complicated by corruption Russian troops are being given rations that expired 7 years ago while Russian rations with the code expiration dates are available on eBay
Trollkov has been a professional Armchair Historian, his audience is full of children who think they are 5 star generals. Ive been telling this for years now.
@@midnightvibes5485 You knew the truth all along! The People ignored your warnings! And now the world is suffering because your warnings fell silent on our ears!
Always interested in the military video from substanstial, technical view and in-depth recent data. Not just exagerating the powers, numbers, advanced tech, even the politician opinion. Keep up the good work, thanks for educate the 'common' folks like me Binkov.
Russia apparently needs to add "how to fill up the fuel tanks" to their training exercises from now on. How does one of largest producer of gas and oil on the planet with massive military resources keep running out of fuel a few hundred clicks from home?
Reports of Russian soldiers dumping their own fuel to not have to fight and/or selling it. Not sure how credible those reports are but considering Russian law is supposed to prohibit sending conscripts into aggressive wars, it makes sense.
"One of largest producer of gas and oil on the planet " You said it yourself. You really think they run out of fuel or forgot to fill up tanks? That would make 0 sense. Again western propaganda to boost morale. Also, I'd like to point out I'm definitely not pro-war, fuck that, it's just stupid how optimistic the news is sometimes but also funny how nearly everyone believes it.
@@treyox whelp the invasion keeps stalling due to fuel because no one thought to bring extra trucks or to deploy the pipe line units to build fuel depots in country to support the invasion. The fuels there they just aren't moving it into Ukraine efficiently.
The US Army Reserve, as well as the Army National Guard, mobilized reserve units on a regular basis to deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq. There are a lot of reservists with combat deployments under their belts. There's no real comparison, when it comes to performance, between the Russian reserves and their American counterparts. The training shown in the above video would be considered basic level field training in the US, both active and reserve, where realism that brings the training scenario as close as possible to how it would be in combat culminates a gradual ramping up of the training. I've seen videos of how the Russians reacted to contact or did other combat actions in Ukraine, below standards even by Infantry OSUT and reservist standards in the US.
I trained in the cold War Germany 2 years and we did nothing but training and very very physical training we were ready at a moments notice even my state side unit 14th engineers same thing we trained are asses off .
@@BGC903 3 weeks to take Ukraine? Embarrassing lol. They’re fighting against untrained civilians and making hardly any progress. Their soldiers are surrendering, they’re apparently punching holes in their vehicles to stop their convoys. This is supposed to be big red Russia, what a complete and utter shambolic laughing stock of a military. No wonder Japan beat them in ww2.
@@jamesblyth4966 "3 weeks to take Ukraine? Embarassing" Lmao, It took the US and Coalition forces 1 month to invade and capitulate Iraq. Ba'athist Iraq, with a dated and poorly trained army and far smaller than Ukraine. Meanwhile the Russians captured more territory than we did in Iraq within the same time frame and they already began sieging Kiev. And it's only been 6 days. No wonder Japan beat them? Wtf are you talking about? The Soviets won Khalkin Gol in 1939, and then they invaded Manchuria and destroyed the Kwantung Army in 1945. You have idea of what you're talking about lmfao
Not to sound like an idiot, but all U.S. reserves are trained for combat. They were the bulk of the troops that were in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, the US has a huge population of veterans that have been trained in the last twenty years.
Yep the US has battle hardened troops now and not only that they have been in some fucking deadly locales and seen major shit like use of suicide bombers and IEDS.
U.S. reserve SOLDIERS are all trained for combat. US Army reserve UNITS are mostly combat service and support -- combat engineers, transportation, logistics, aviation maintenance, etc. And since many of them are veterans and most of their military specialties mirror their civilian trades they are very, very good at their primary missions, be it digging ditches or wrenching on helicopters and can mostly take care of themselves in combat.
This video aged like milk on a hot day. The Russian military proves itself an absolute paper tiger. They wouldn't last a month against the US military.
Amateurs study strategy while masters study logistics. The US has been (mostly) successful due to its mastery of logistics. Perhaps the best example of this is the first Gulf war, and the man in charge of that logistical success, Gus Pagonis. General Schwarzkopf certainly picked the right man for the job in that case.
Most important thing is Motivation. If your troops are not motivated enough for the reason of war, no amount of training or advanced weapons can secure win, take for example Vietnam.
Yes and no. The reason Vietnam resisted (most people dont realise) is because it was supplied through China with all they needed from boots to SAMs. Yes, resistance alone doesnt help. But resistance + industrial backing from abroad wears down stronger opponents
@@dukenukem8381 In reality it was not, or how many Russian soldiers did you fought in the jungle of Vietnam? Many Russian bombers sweeping down over South China Sea?
@@wilhelmu Well you can't blame, even CIA overestimated the capability of the Russian military, no one would have thought how really pathetic the Russian is.
@@wilhelmu all of these types of channels are just paper army strategists. They read something, add their own spin onto it, and that's it. They don't really have any idea what they're talking about at the end of the day. No generals making these vids
To be fair, trying to predict the future is like trying to land a bullseye on a target with a dart, except the target is 100 meters away and it is foggy outside and you're simultaneously choking on some water.
"we may talk about theoretical wras, but only peace brings us all together" many around the world feel this way as well. HOWEVER military equipment and tactics are cool
"Aged like Milk" 1. Conscript-Based army = not good/ weekend warriors 2. It's cheaper to send people to soldiers to Syria than train them. IE: Tossed in the meat grinder with 0 experience 3. VDV/ Airborne Corp is headed by the Commander in Chief/ Delegate Ops Commander = Hence why they were told to literally drop at the same airfield 3 times and still die. I dunno I feel like I am the only one that actually watched the video after 5 months and even goes into how horrible the old soviet stockpile is and we're exactly seeing all that happen in Ukraine as we speak. Tanks breaking down, Tires being absolutely horrible, horrific Russian invasion and to top it off, they sent in bottom of the barrel rookies.
Russian propaganda used to claim "we'll take Warsaw in 2 days, Berlin in 4 and Paris in a week". I thought it sounds scary... but now just can't stop laughing.
@@Jay121 Russian army is a shadow of what is was during the USSR, back when their military tech was state of the art and before all the SSRs (including Ukraine) split off and oligarchs stole/sold off everything of value.
@@issadraco532 lol I definitely wouldn't saw Russia has a better military. USSR/Warsaw Pact used to credibly threaten Europe with invasion even though US was significantly more powerful, but now Russia's major struggle which has wrecked its economy and thrown its military in disarray is a fight with a former Soviet Republic. USSR was definitely corrupt, but post-USSR Russian corruption is truly something else in scale and we can see that with disrepair of invading military equipment and mass fuel/food shortages a week into an invasion of a bordering country. Wagner group is a mercenary group which is not really indicative of Russian military performance but it was funny hearing those neo-nazis getting absolutely destroyed in Syria.
It's different, the Russians are fighting blood. Ukraine is basically Russia's little brother. Russians are hesitant to fight simply based on the fact that they would be killing their own, and it shows.| Putin is forcing a war that not even Russians want to be apart of. This will be an end of an Era in terms of Putin's power. Russians are waking up against Putin.
People need to stop assuming that “Spetsnaz” are the equivalent in training, moral, equipment, effectiveness, and professionalism of special forces in modern industrial democracies. It is flat false. Russian spetznaz is a umbrella term for a wide variety of forces.., most of which are light infantry and motorized with sizable percentages of conscripts…even their air assault has 20% or more conscripts. None of these units are even as capable as conventional NATO light infantry, mechanized, and air assault units…and are no where close the the training and effectiveness as NATO special operations forces. The airborne spetznaz elements are still essentially airborne light infantry.., and not special operators. Among the entire Russian army they only have a few thousand troops that are roughly equivalent to NATO special operators. And even then they are more akin to Army Rangers. The number of troops Russia has in its entire military that are the equivalent of tier 1 special operators is a few hundred to one thousand. That is it. Most of their spetnaz are merely more effective infantry than standard Russian units and have fewer conscripts and not even as effective as equivalent NATO light infantry.
Russian military is perfectly capable of performing, the problem in Ukraine is that they were not given any time to plan and only had enough logistics for 48 hours (they expected Ukraine to collapse immediately). This is why we saw Russian POWs saying they were on military exercises. In an effort to keep the invasion a secret, Putin literally called up unprepared units to suddenly invade with no intel or preparation.
@@potatopotato8360 absolutely nothing about what you just said falls under the category of "perfectly capable" . It's a shit show from top to bottom, but at least you earned your ruble for the day.
@@potatopotato8360 Russia has been building up it's invasion force for an entire year (not to mention the prepositioned forced within Ukrainian Crimea and Donbass since 2014) What you described is a shitshow that a capable, modern professional army will never attempt. Oh wait...
Served in the Army 10 years ago. During a year and a half of service we went to the shooting range just twice. The first time we were given AK-47 and 20 rounds, the second time it was Makarov pistol and 8 rounds. Well, I'm definitly sure that's more than enough for shooting practice :)
10 лет назад. Я служил в прошлом году. За 1 год, на стрельбище были 6 раз. Первый раз стреляли с пистолета Макарова, ещё четыре раза с АК-74М, выдавали полный магазин 30 патрон. Стреляли как одиночными так и очередями. И один раз ездили вели огонь из РПГ-7 и РПГ-26.
@@paulwilson8061 well, it seems like he portrayed the majority of the Russia army. They are pretty good at shooting civilians but don't aces against other soldiers.
@@Gabrong u r a joke. Ukraine will collapse soon. Already prisoners were released to fight the Russians. The southern front has been destroyed. Donbass area will be encircled. All ukr forces are in Kyiv and Kharkiv, hide their infantry fighting vehicles and howitzers in residential yards. And there are no conscripts in this operation, what's the point of being substituted by conscripts like that? Actually there are more contract servicemen than conscripts in army. Where specifically Russians kill civilians? They even let people protest. The only things that can delay the operation and even prevent the Ukrainians from being surrounded in the Donbass are the limited number of Russian forces and not wanting to wage a real war. For now. The usa just squeals to the whole world, imposes sanctions and making fakes, since soon they will lose their satellite.
„Afghanistan influenced russias modern army“ XaXaXa driving unprotected with tank in town getting totally rect in the process. XaXaXa flying low with old helicopter crying treason when it kisses a stinger. Oh yes they learned 😂😂😂
We shouldn’t have been surprised really. The UK has the worlds fifth largest economy but their effective armed forces are a fraction of those of Russia, which isn’t even a top eight economy. Something didn’t add up, and now know what was missing.
@@jamesgreen8573 75% of Russia's active army is in Ukraine and is far from 'leveling' it. Only way Russia could 'level' Ukraine is with nukes. Do that and even China will turn their backs on THEIR bitch.
This video aged like milk: Russians have few examples of nice equipment. The majority is 90's tech or older and never underwent a refit as we can clearly see with captured Russian equipment in Ukraine.
go to "Task and purpose" channel here on YT... it really does seems that they had tons of old equipment... but it also looks like that Russian just sent old units in front to test defenses and set up preliminary frontlines.... now you have tons of videos of highly trained and well equiped soldier in combat zones...
@Zoltan1251 that's starting at the wrong end of the ice cream cone. If that's the battle plan, Putin made life difficult for his small amount of experienced troops. The inexperienced troops with bad equipment jammed up the roads with destroyed equipment and caused tons of civilian casualties with their indiscriminate shelling which prompted the Ukranians to rig many of their bridges to blow. If that was his play, it was a bad one. They're bogged down, roads are being destroyed by their own armor and Ukrainian sabotage.
@@Bigweave74 all of what you said are good victories but its not that hard to clear the roads (like that dude who stole russian tank with tractor), bridges are bigger problem though... i dont think shelling is done by inexperienced troops now... perimeter was already set up or being set up around major cities... shelling intesifies because infantry got repelled a ton of times... again, you cannot look it as big victory when russians get repelled, since its mostly tactical retreat and position is bombed right after up until recently they didnt bomb civilian structures.... for the reference Iraq war caused 7000 civilian deaths and it was 4 weeks campaign... UN says there are 350 civilian deaths in Ukraine now, Ukraine says 2000, lets meet in the middle and say 1000 for week and a half.... that means its still pretty mild considering US boasted about how precise their bombing campaing in Iraq was.... im affraid it will get much worse... its inspiring that civilians are taking up arms but that will get russians absolutely paranoid about the situation... just like expected, looks like new Afghanistan
@Zoltan1251 I'm not defending my country's henious warcrimes in Iraq, but it does beg a question. Why is Putin terror bombing civilians if he's seeking to "liberate" Ukraine from nazis? Fearing western exclusion of Russia by admitting Ukraine to NATO is a bad excuse since his blood oil is bring sold to many western nations. So little of this makes little sense. The conscripts, the jacked up equipment, the propaganda, all of it makes putin look unhinged.
@@Bigweave74 oh yeah, he went insane... there is nothing to gain and everything to lose.... there is not only no justification, there is little reason to do this at all from political perspective... Putin is straight up just evil for this... its so sensless its mindblowing... i just provided example of what to expect in the coming days... its wild that just saying how military operations will probably look like is seen as being pro-Putin...
You should really look at Military spending with purchasing power adjustments, Russia's military and MIC basically entirely runs on the Ruble, so the USD value is basically irrelevant
@@almond5560 Russia basically produces every raw material they need, so I hardly doubt any large amount of raw resources are imported. The Only real USD things would be like thermal imagers from France (I think they build their own now too)... There'd be a few things like the Israeli Drones but I doubt it's anything seriously meaningful.
@@jackozbloke5079 yes but the question is not about national material supply, it's about acquisition cost. If hypothetically the global market price of iron is $120/ton, unless the Russian military is purchasing it cheaper from national mines, the USD comparison of military budgets for iron is valid.
@@almond5560 The cost of producing that same quality of iron is most likely also cheaper in Russia than it is in the US, so the same 1 ton of iron mined and purified, say cast into a cube may cost USD 120 in the US but only 30 USD in Russia as the cost of production is cheaper.
Given what's been shown in Ukraine, the Russian army would be decimated by NATO in short order. Their lack of an NCO cadre, over reliance on un-supported vehicle battalion formations with few actual troops, low morale and training of conscripts, woefully inadequate logistics and the myth of the strength of modern Russian armour against modern anti-tank weapons to name but a few failings.
You may of changed the thumbnail/title but in this video you did specifically state: 1.) Their logistics were questionable. 2.) They had a large number of conscripts which lacked training. 3.) Their military mostly excelled on defense. 4.) Russia's military lacked mid level command. 5.) You mentioned Russia's known for their brutality in war. So as far as I'm concerned you're pretty accurate with your videos.
Last year you had me convinced the Russian army had drastically improved itself. Now I question everything you say. This is why puppets are considered unemployable.
Outdated vehicles, weapons, tactics and lack of experience in modern warfare has been made fairly evident thus far in Ukraine. They are starting to realize that they can’t bomb their way to victory and when it comes to ground troops they are extremely lacking in tactics and are getting decimated. I think the US and NATO needs to just take Putin out ASAP since he has basically shown how unprepared they are to face a real professional army with decades of experience in modern warfare such as America and all it’s allies. I think we could take Moscow in under a week if we didn’t have their nukes to worry about. It appears the Russians are a shell pf their former selves, but still think they are one of the biggest dogs in the yard.
Didn't this video thumbnail used to not say "Depends" and instead said something like "Pretty darn well"? I love Binkov, but I'm hoping he didn't edit like this without admitting his mistake. It's much more admirable to admit you are wrong than to try and cover it up. Just my two cents...
It turns out that Russian logistics is in fact not up to it.
It's different, the Russians are fighting blood. Ukraine is basically Russia's little brother.
Russians are hesitant to fight simply based on the fact that they would be killing their own, and it shows.|
Putin is forcing a war that not even Russians want to be apart of. This will be an end of an Era in terms of Putin's power. Russians are waking up against Putin.
@@Gradymeister Ukraine is not Russia's little brother, they are the original
@@Gradymeister Yeah . Russia was born out of Ukraine Region, it was originally the Kievan Rus in the 13th century .
@@michaelarenas9185 gotcha. I didn't know that.
Battles are won by soldiers but wars are won by logistics
"In terms of logistics.... We have no logistics"
Tanks broken down because the fuel trucks broke down because the Russians don't maintain their shit and spend money on making a few scary vehicles like the t-14 and SU-57
@@Bigweave74 The scary vehicles are also probably rusting somewhere because theyre way too expensive to be actually used..
@@termitreter6545 or only made few units
@@gamerxplanetx8637 Or that. Probably just enough to be a deterrent and then right into the mothballs!
@Termitreter a cursory Google search revealed that the T-14 will enter mass production sometime this year. Given the current events and the tanking of the Russian economy, I'd say it's doubtful that will happen. The modernized T-90s number only a few thousand strong and still fewer are the M model with advanced hard kill systems. The T-80s are borderline useless as well since they use old night vision scopes that rely on infrared illumination, which lights them up like Christmas tree.
It seems to me that everything the Russians have brought to bear has major, easily exploitable weaknesses.
"Logistics, what's that ? We need more tanks ! More artillery ! More BMPs !" - a Russian general, probably
A few minutes before they get shot, of course.
In the first world war, two Russian armies attacked Prussia. The Germans counterattacked with one, and got slaughtered. Encouraged by the success, the Russians advanced quickly, but reinforcements cut them off and chopped them up. One army almost completely destroyed, it's general committing suicide because he took responsibility for his actions, the other one mauled badly and beating a hasty retreat....
The conclusion in the book: Russia had managed to field huge armies with modern weapons, but had failed to provide them with adequate means of communication, leading to their downfall. That was 108 years ago.....
@@sjonnieplayfull5859 history repeats itself I guess
Right before he was welcomed to Ukraine by a sniper's bullet. It's a rough job being a Russian commander these days, even Admirals are dying.
Nah mate. That requires said Russian general to be able to read.
Russian soldiers raping children and committing vile disgusting war crimes. They need jailing/executing. And Putin, Trump (and his treasonous gang) and Boris Johnson (and his treasonous gang too) need jailing/executing.
I remember when this video originally came out and the thumbnail spelled: „pretty darn well“ to the question of how well the Russian army is trained. Now the thumbnail says: „depends“ 👌
Dude you a legend
Lmao. In another month the thumbnail could change again.
You are right, i remember it also
So after 2 weeks of war in Ukraine I'd say the answer to both of the questions in the title is not well and no. Russia seems to be having trouble projecting power 50 miles beyond its borders never mind 1000 miles.
The rotten core of a corrupt military shown bare.
Aged like milk this vid.
Ukrainian army's logistics and training aren't better than Russian, while Ukrainian economy is much worser than Russian in terms of life standarts and effectivity of labor, so Ukraine have much lower economical resources per every soldier than Russia. So, if you think that Russia would be exhausted, so, Ukraine would be exhausted 3 times to the time while this would happen.
The war in Ukraine doesn't shows to us the real fighting capability of Russian army. Russian failure in Ukraine have two reasons: Russian soldiers aren't motivated to fight against brother people, and Russian command didn't prepared for a war - they were probably thinking, that they would take all of Ukraine without a fight in 3 days. And Russians didn't prepared for a war. Russians invaded Ukraine without numerical superiority and without preparing the logistics. Probably, Putin believed in his own propaganda about "n-zis in Ukraine that are supressing their own people" , and probably Putin was thinking, that Ukrainian people would meet Russian soldiers with flowers.
This war in Ukraine isn't showing to us the real fighting capability and real quality of Russian army. In reality, Russian army isn't lesser trained than Ukrainian and isn't lesser equipped.
At now Russia is supplying frontline by reinforcements, and with numerical superiority on the Russian side Ukraine wouldn't stand a chance.
@@arty5876 Ukraine's forces have been trained by the West to NATO standards. They are FAR better trained than Russian soldiers, as videos from the conflict are constantly showing. They are also better equipped now that they are receiving equipment from the West, while Russian soldiers are stuck with tanks that were built before the USSR fell.
All of the money that Russia was putting towards modernizing and training its military was embezzled away due to corruption, because none of the people in charge ever thought Putin would be stupid enough to start a war.
@@arty5876 Also, if Russian soldiers truly were concerned about killing their brothers in Ukraine they wouldn't be absolutely slaughtering civilians. Mariupol is mostly rubble now due to constant bombardments, and every single day Russian soldiers are gunning down entire families who are just trying to escape a war zone.
The good Russian soldiers all surrendered or fled near the start of the war. The soldiers who are left all have blood on their hands that will never wash off.
Watching the total failure of C2 and logistics play out in real-time, plus the complete capitulation of Russian troops who have either surrendered or walked away shows just how low morale is as well. Truly a shocking display of how poorly planned and executed this plan has been since the start and I couldn't be happier. Glory to Ukraine!
Still early days and many of those may be the conscripts Binkov talks about. However, I do hope the morale and logistics issues continue. Slava Ukraini!
I agree it's too early, but the ukranians are putting up a good fight
The west is not giving out much information on ukrainian losses. It is obvious that Russia is being repelled far more than expected but even zalensky has admitted that Ukraine is facing higher loses to the south. Anouther thing to note is that Russia seems to be targeting Ukraines infrastructure and stationary defenses. Such as cutting gas pipes, targeting energy and oil plants. While at the very start taking out air defenses and air bases.
You are ridiculously optimistic, this war was bound to be a slugfest, everyone acts like Putin didn’t see heavy losses coming but I’m pretty sure he doesn’t care and expected it.
@@erikjohnson1684 Well if anyone even cared enough to read goddamn news, even the US said that Putin is using only 1/3 of the amassed soldiers
"If there ever comes to such a war" well, that didn't age well.
Well he described a war in which ruissa is attaced, he specifically excluded a war in which ruissa fights away from its borders.
Reportedly there are already problems with support units actually supporting ruissan troops but thats all speculation at this point
Now you see why they were building up their numbers so rapidly.
@@mcrist139 Not speculation anymore. Russian tanks are stuck without diesel at the side of the road.
@@mcrist139 “away” so a few miles? It’s a border war, there’s no excuse to have logistical problems
I'm shocked at the complete ineptness of the Russian military. Growing up in the US in the 80s we were also told of how dangerous the Rissian military is. I understand this isn't the USSR any more but still expected a much higher level of ability from Russia.
I'm starting to understand why Stalin had all his generals shot...
@Atlantis This is my position as well.
The corruption in the Russian state includes its armed forces.
Apparently even Putin was ignorant of this or simply thought it sufficient to deal with Ukraine.
Which doesn't speak highly of him.
@@yfna1 considering Putin is rumoured to be one of the richest people in the world from corruption he is part of the problem.
Also mate totally shocked at how badly they have performed, without nukes i think theres alot of countrys out there that before the invasion of Ukraine would be scared of Russia but now completely different ball game, America would literally wipe the fucking floor with Russia.
@@arty5876 America would rip them a new arsehole though in a conventional war lets be honest 😂😂😂
I'm a cultured man, I take my knowledge from a Muppet in a generals outfit.
Commissar actually.
😂
More like armchair general.
I too am a man of culture.
I for one welcome our Muppet overlords.
It's interesting that most of the faults you pointed to have played out in their invasion of Ukraine. The relative weakness of logistics, use of conscripts as the primary fighting force, limits of funding, etc. Coupled with a low morale of the Russian soldiers and united opposition from the Ukrainians.
But it is still very early in a conflict that could go on for weeks/months/years.
#slavaukraini
I'd bet fair bit of money this can't go on for months even. Home front is a thing so putin is more likely to go in with more force and brutality as they don't progress as expected
@@tapio83 Lets bet and we come back when we know more. I say it takes over 1 year for Russia to take Ukraine. If they even take it. Also with taking I also mean eliminating all insurgency as long as any armes pro ukranians are still active, they have not fully taken Ukraine.
@@vatravlahilor492 can I join the bet? I bet within 3 month Russia takes the eastern half of Ukraine but then stops due to cost or insurgent fighting. I think taking all of Ukraine will be to costly
The decapitation is going to fail massively
@@tapio83 it will go on for years as a partisan war and it will cost many lives if Putin does not stop.
Some months later we know: The Russian army has a lot of stuff, but it sucks in about every aspect but the amount of brutality.
Yea its a worthy successor of the red army
So they’re a bunch of bullies who are savage brutes
They are really good at breaking things.
@@explosivereactionstv7414 now I get it why Putin calls Russia ,,Heir of USSR"...
"Some months later we know: The Russian army has a lot of stuff, but it sucks in about every aspect but the amount of brutality." so , business as usual.
I would say that the question you posed has been answered. Their logistics are abysmal. Training for the common soldier is minimal. The level of corruption in their military support structure is staggering. They have Korean era communications from a military perspective. The Russians are a second rate military that happens to be huge from a numbers perspective.
All true.....but add one little thing you forgot and it's nightmare fuel....."with nukes"
Isn't the number of Russian troops deployed in Ukraine pretty equal to the number of troops from Ukraine? And Ukraine has full NATO support. And Ukraine is defending. In cities and fortifications like in Donbass. Which is a lot easier than storming those cities. And common folk hate Russian soldiers. Why is Ukraine losing?
@@Lex-qt1cc Ukraine isn't in the NATO. Russia invaded Ukraine so of course there is resistent fighters fighting for their OWN HOME. You have to read much more about the topic and inform you.
@@Singurarity88 true, saying "full" NATO support was stupid as it is wrong. But please don't overestimate human desire to follow ideals. It's nice thinking about those things sitting on our couch sipping tea, but whenever you are getting shelled 24/7 and you realize that storming of the city can begin at any moment thoughts about heroically dying are usually being replace with the desire to, you know, survive and see your grandchildren
It feels like their military has been sorta coasting tactics and logistics wise off that Stalingrad victory and the early success in the Afghanistan invasion while the rest of the NATO countries have been constantly improving on their tech, tactics, logistics
“Amateurs talk about strategy and tactics. Professionals talk about logistics and sustainability in warfare” -General Robert Hilliard Burrow
"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.” Patton
-Napoleon Bonaparte
@@MrWoodchuckVT Any plan, good, bad, excellent, that you can’t sustain isn’t a plan. It’s just a wish list that’ll get you a beating.
“By overriding the value of quantity with poor management you only ruin everything”
Soviet sarcasm
Funny how the Amateurs are leading Russia's army and Professionals are doing the TH-cam content.
i always thought one of the reasons for the Syrian campaign was to get to understand new equipment and get troops trained on urban warefare ect.
The real reason is because MI6, CIA. And the US army were supporting the Free Syrian Army to fight agains the Syrian Troops, until the ISIS was growing in the region. Some British mercenary’s payed by the MI6 were fighting the Syrian Army and US Spc Forces come from Irak and conduct incursion in Syria agains Syrian government, not again ISIS. That’s way in last years of Syrian war The ISIS in ate IRAK, because Americans were to busy fighting someone… And Rusia come to finish it in just a few month. And yes, they also prove a lot of equipament, like Americans did in all his wars.
I think its both
It's both
Are both… but which was more important… I told you….
The influence in the region, the new harbor and the new airfield that they have now… and the Syrian national debt… did you know that in Syria is now the same government? ( in Afganistán happen something similar, and son or late, will happen the same
In Irak)
@@gorkarullan You do know that the US forces in Syria were working along side the Kurds to fight ISIS right? The only strikes made against the Syrian government that I am aware of were made after they bombed civilian areas or threatened to use biological weapons. The US took no direct action against infantry units of the Syrian government. At least that is what I have found on the fighting. If you can provide sources that I am wrong, please do as I would love to read more on the conflict.
I know once Russia got involved, they provided arms, training, and air strikes against the Syrian rebels and the conflict was quickly silenced compared to what it was. They were also accused of killing over 5700 civilians, so there is that as well. At the same time, the US nearly screwed over the Kurds before keeping a small force in the area to make sure that Turkey and Russia didn't aim directly at them for fear of killing American soldiers.
Should have added that they are very lethal to civilians that can't fight back. In the face of actual enemy they get their shit kicked in.
Haha
Exactly
Lethtal to Syrian ,Georgia, Khazastan
Trashed by Finland and Japan
Vietnam
@@shawnkennedy855 Vietnam is a honey badger of nations. It won wars against France, US and China. Plus when China established a genocidal puppet state in Cambodia they went there and destroyed it in very short war. Just leave Vietnam alone if you don’t want to get your ass kicked.
@@shawnkennedy855 North Vietnam lost nearly a million soldiers in the conflict compared to 58k for the US. US heart was not in it either. And that was fighting on the other side of the planet compared to a few km the Russians are.
@@jiminy82 Inductive fallacy,Ukraine isn't losing they've lost.Don't forget outside of NATO almost no one is sanctioning Russia,we will suffer more than they will.Time will tell,we could both be wrong.
Bilkov you changed the thumbnail! It use say that the Russian army was trained pretty damn well.
I've always said Russia was a paper dragon and people thought I was crazy. Feels good to be vindicated.
Yay!!
I said the same then before anything 3 weeks later the invasion happened and I don't want war but watching Russia get utterly destroyed is nice
Paper bear
yeah same. ive been saying forever
yea i didnt realized how poor the country is and the soldiers are so unprofessional.
They are very well trained
for parades
lmao
Just don't have mud in the parade route.
They were used just to suppress their citizen, just like the other stooges China and DPRK.
They are well equipped to suppress their population
And have the tractors waiting by the corner :D
"The russian army might be very lethal to its neighbors, if it ever comes to such a war"
Yeah, about that...
lol
It would appear the first weeks are mostly older reserve equipment and conscripts. This is evident in the vehicles being sent. It has also only been 4 days. The Russian advance has been reasonably fast albeit visibly limited by logistic capabilities.
The initial conscript wave is likely so they can secure positions to encircle Kyiv and connect Crimea with the Separatists at Mauripol. The main siege of Kyiv might start at the end of this week, they are waiting for the Eastern flank to reach their position. And it will likely be with their volunteer force.
It's coming. They are finally bringing the big guns. Huge convoy is heading to Kiev looks like a motorized rifle brigade
@@FranseD Big guns are no good if the logistics are so poor tanks run out of fuel less than 100 km away from belarusian borders and soldiers resort to looting shops for food
@@jacopoabbruscato9271 you missed the big convoy part, would make sense if they are carrying supplies too
He changed the thumbnail from "pretty darn well" to "depends" 🤣
In a few weeks it will be "not at all."
At least hes being honest 😂
7:58 "Allegedly one Russian General said: 'It's cheaper for the Russian Army to fight in Syria than to organize training exercises in Russia.' Indeed from 2015 onward, Russia has been rotating contingents of their military in Syria, keeping them 3 to 4 months in theater to gain experience. Before that, Russian troops were gaining experience in eastern Ukraine."
Let that sink in. Russia is incentivized to fight actual wars rather than just train their army *without* fighting a war.
Well the fact is in Syria they don't really have tens of thousands of troops fighting against other tens of thousands (even if its training) and everything payed by Russia it does make sense. Considering in most of the war they mainly used specops and their airforce and missile forces and some MP units alongside the Syrians
Basically you border and proxy wars to a duel purpose of booster nationalism and training personal in real world examples
To put that in perspective the west went in and destabilized the middle east by destroying Iraq. Not defending either side here, but they train their troops and in process support an ally of theirs. We went to Iraq for oil not to free the Iraqis. In fact we supported Iraq in the 80s while he attacked Iran and gassed their population on the boarder.
Fake news
@@alexanderirving7577 Donald Rumsfeld: "We know Saddam has chemical weapons, we have the receipts"
Before selling chemical weapons to the Iraqis, the US sold F-14 jets to the Iranians. In effect arming both sides so that both would exhaust each other in grinding, bloody combat. The goal was never to have one proxy win over the other. The goal was to have both Iran and Iraq decimate each other so that Standard Oil and BP could go back in and get their oil concessions back.
This didn’t age well.
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
Neither will Ukraine
@@shawnkennedy855 maybe. But Russia's economy won't recover for the next 20+ years for sure if they continue their invasion :D
@@Hubbaser Russia is self sufficient,China has their back and we are the ones paying for it.Good luck launching satellites without Russian rockets.But if Don Lemon tells you Russian man bad just do as you're told
@@shawnkennedy855 I bet you’re wrong about that boyo.
@@fiacmar Possibly, although I think eastern Ukraine and certainly the Donbas are lost.I guess we'll know soon enough.
My old coworker served as a conscript a few years ago in Russia. He said that on paper there were 200 soldiers or so in his company. In reality though he said during his entire 1 year conscription, he saw no more than 50 other men. The books were all fraudulent and higher ranking officials were pocketing the salaries of the other 150 conscripts that weren't there. Additionally he said that that he spent more time doing labor for the commanders private residence than any actual military training.
same is true in several Arab and Middle Eastern armies.
This was one of the reasons the Afghan National Army failed.
"Conscripts are relegated to support teams"
This one didn't age too well
@@hermes6910 and russia fell for that propaganda
In mother Russia, invading army defeats itself.
In mother Russia, Putin is gay
LOL that made me laugh right now. Very good one my friend. Love that stand up comic forgot what his name was.
though to be fair since at least the start of the 1900s, every developed nation that has tried to invade came to grief.
I read that in Pavel Chekov's voice. ;-)
🖖
@@Galenus1234 as is right and proper to do. How else would you say for example, "Nuclear Vessels"? There is no other way for such phrases. We do what we must.
Binkov the biggest armchair general on TH-cam
At least he talks in logic unlike people who be like
“Napoleon could’ve swam across the channel and beaten Britain!”
* Armchair Marhall
🤦♂️😂😂😂😂😂
But we love him. 😏
More like a hypothetical military strategist teaching on youtube.
I literally just watched a video of a Ukrainian guy pulling up to a tank squad that ran out of fuel. The guys asked Russian tank squad if they want him to tow them back to Russia. The Russians laughed like they legitimately thought it was funny and were so over the whole thing. Putin has significantly overplayed his hand
That was just an example of Slavic humor... (and it is always giving a hard time to no Slavic people->yes it was a good joke so it was funny, the fact that Russian soldiers were in the fubar situations change nothing).
The important part in that video is complete lack logistic, lack of understanding what is the mission goal or the whole campaign goal...).
That particular video has proven prophetic.
The entire Russian army has now stalled due to lack of supplies and lack of morale to attack the Ukrainians.
That one video encapsulated it all in a nut-shell.
2021: Russian logistics "are probably trash."
2022: Watch in real time as they get rekt'd trying to invade next door.
Slava Ukrani! 🇺🇦
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Served about five years ago. I can tell with near certainty that conscripts are meant to stay away from frontline-ready units. For one, as they (usually) have no positive incentive to serve, they are not trusted to operate expensive equipment. For two, as they are generally less rigorously trained, they are kept out of harm's way. That last policy can be and is broken in secret, but from what I've seen, it takes an eager conscript with a skillset that is not easily obtainable otherwise for commanding officers to take that risk. Those guys are usually prime candidates to be offered not even a regular 2-year contract, but a 5-year one with a junior officer rank to boot. Although neither of the two guys I knew who broke the rules like that accepted. Civilian life just pays too well if you're that good.
Whe have the same problem in Portugal, the civilian jobs in some cases pay way better, the goverment jobs,excluding the army, pay better and give more stability for you make long therme plans to your family life. Like whe some contrys will have to find better ways to captivate lower grade personal to serve in the army and the highest grade personal to, they are the ones that leave in the first place, in Portugal this problem it's bigger in the air force, because they live to go working in the air companies that give a bigger life stability and offers most times great conditions, monetary and in other bonus ,like helt and discounts in many things.
@@marcoamaral2606 back in the old days they used to pay soldiers with loot and plunder. Now that's some incentive.
ЖДВ?
@@firefighter9207 Не, "связь".
@Terry Flynn What in the seven hells are you babbling about?
Who in their right mind would attack a nation that has nuclear weapons and willing to use it to defend itself?
The moment British Empire dissolved and became a little island it has lost the means to "defend" itself from a large military force (hence the need for nuclear weapons).
That is the only option, but it is a good one.
The united European army would actually help britain security.
Brits left the EU and now serve as a nice example of what happens when you think you are stronger alone that in a group.
Enjoy your "independence", and with that attitude you had last few years.....good riddance. Folks on the mainland laugh at you in disbelief.
5:10 - One nuance to flush out about the US "8-year service obligation" system: every US service member (in all armed forces branches) has an "8-year service obligation", starting the day they signed enlistment papers. Parts of the 8 years (anywhere between 2-8) can be served in active duty, and/or reserves/national guard of any branch. The remaining length of the 8-year obligation, if any, are "served" in a system called "individual ready reserves" (IRR). Servicemembers in IRR status aren't required to do any training or meet skills/physical proficiencies. Logically, IRRs don't get any military pay/benefits. The US military just has the right to call them back in dire circumstances. While IRR servicemembers are a potential pool of military-worthy civilians, they have zero combat readiness & shouldn't be confused with the various reserves or national guard organizations in the US armed forces.
During my time at Benning my unit was tasked with receiving IRR soldiers and getting them combat ready. I've seen IRR soldiers who were way out of height and weight get sent over but they also have had previous combat experience prior to entering into IRR. So, go figure of course this was at the height of the surge when DOD would take anyone who can shoot as long as they had a pulse.
@@alexismywife Won’t have to doesn’t mean you can’t murder someone 🙃
@@alexismywife I was just joking,. I understand your position, I wanted to join the army when i was young but then the iraq war happened and i couldn't get behind it
when I was in right before we deployed to Iraq in the end of 05 we had about 15 guys in my company who got called back few months after they got out, and 3rd of my platoon was stop lossed.
I did ten plus years that was good few years ago
Less overhead is a positive Thing. The Russian Army doesnt have a global network of basements, its tasks are fewer. Defending its territorry. Therfore, focusing on Infantry and ground-to-air missiles makes total sense.
There is definitely a lot of positives. From what I understand they get a lot more for the money they spend since they aren't operating a lot of foreign bases.
There is down side to that as well and that is you don't have as much influence or power projection. And Russia isn't in any shape for operating like that for many reasons. So their current setup makes sense.
"Defending it's territory"
More like ANNEXING neighboring nations.
@@Cynthia_Blackraven_666 Ukraine is not a nation. It's a territory.
@@CirKhan Ok Russian bot.
@@Cynthia_Blackraven_666 OMG I'm busted now!
From what I've seen of Russian military capability the past couple of weeks, they'd have a tough time beating our Coast Guard.
They would have a rough time matching your Girl Scouts
Russian military is not the Soviet Military, hell it's not even 1/10 of that because unlike then... Russia can't send Uzbekis to the front followed by the Tatars whilst the ethnic russians make up the rear guard. This war shows that Russian military machine has only had practice against civilians and been taught only the doctrine of indiscriminate murder for thirty years.
@@Mark-Haddow Russians love cookies too.
I think even the Papua's would trash them.
They won't even come close to the coast.
One huge factor that hurt the Russian Land forces early in WW2 was the lack of maintenance units. It crippled the tank forces and resulted in huge material losses. Excellent video, Thank You !
True, the huge losses of tanks on operation Barbarossa by the soviets weren't because German fire, but because soviet tanks lacked fuel and spare parts for their tanks.
Debatable
It should be noted that the Soviet used to concentrate logistical assets at the army level, rather than divisional one. Tactical units were more lean and mean with little rear-area support. This increased operational flexibility at the expense of tactical one.
@DSW22 if the ussr didn’t help the Germans in the beginning we would’ve easily take out Germany
Completely wrong, some tank brigades in the Red Army consisted mostly of salvaged and patched up tanks. There was even grim joke about the smell of previous owners (dead) .
It'll be interesting to see what the future holds for the Russian army after all of its losses in Ukraine and after the economy has completed its nosedive because of sanctions.
Death. Lots and lots of death is in the Russian army's future. And I couldn't be happier.
Have sanctions ever worked,anywhere.Russia is self sufficient in almost everything and China has their back
@@shawnkennedy855 The sanctions will, and are, destroying Russia's economy and putting it back to the dysfunction of the Soviet era. And good luck to Russia if it has China as an ally. It's like one gang of ruthless liars pledging ot help another gang of ruthless liars. It's not going to end well for Russia.
@@shawnkennedy855 China is more interested in turning Russia into a vassal state than an equal ally
@@eduwino151 I think that's the Chinese view on everyone .
I don't think the criticism "this video didn't age well" is particularly valid, because you presented a reasonably balanced assessment of strengths and weaknesses with publicly available information at the time.
I didn't hear about the role of "ghost soldiers" (personnel that have already rotated out but remain on the books so someone can collect a that salary line). Many personnel rosters and unit strength estimates were likely inaccurate because of a continuing culture of corruption and underfunding. It is stunning that a large number of captured conscripts are reporting that they were told this was a major military exercise as opposed to offensive combat operations into hostile territory.
It is also very interesting to see how the capabilities gap was exacerbated by the self-imposed isolation of Putin and a probable reluctance of senior military leaders to sharing a more realistic assessment of strategic & tactical limitations for fear of reprisals. The strategic picture today is also much different than the conditions encountered in Georgia in 2008 and the Crimea in 2014, both campaigns that played to the Russian army's strengths. Ukraine presents very different challenges.
The outcome remains unclear, although it is probable that given enough time or unrestricted destruction of civilian infrastructure, that the Russian military will prevail- and equally likely that a prolonged insurgency would be mounted by a determined opponent receiving public and covert support from NATO and other Western nations.
Russia has surprisingly failed (thus far) to attain air, logistical and information supremacy. Any victory achieved by the Russian military is already tainted by a shifting global opinion and professional military reassessment of their obvious capability gaps.
Putin's empire ambitions have backfired, bringing about conditions to revitalize a previously rudderless NATO, encourage Germany to rearm itself for defense and isolate his country from broad swaths of global, commercial enterprise.
I agree. Additionally, I worry about the expansion of the Chinese/Russian alliance. Regardless if Russia wins or not (it will probably winthe ground war but never the moral war), I don't see the West normalizing relations with Russia, which means they're going to depend more heavily on China, which means deeper economic integration. Further, if Russians do take any territory (or "liberate" those russian-backed "republics"), it would make sense for China to recognize those gains considering they have their eyes on Taiwan. This could be the opening stage to World War 3.
@@headoverheels88 Win the war?? How? Are you watching the same war?
@@Spectre11B "watching the same war" First, the fact you're framing this the same way someone would watch a football/soccer match tells me you think all of this is a game. It's not. Second, if you genuinely think the Russian government has unleashed the totality of its lethal force, then you genuinely don't understand war, let alone the brutality of the Russian government. Russian proverb: "just when you think you've hit rock bottom, someone knocks below". This is going to get worse before it gets better.
@@headoverheels88 it seems you don't understand war.
@@Spectre11B *eye roll* You're done.
‘Pretty darn well’
*War begins*
‘Depends’
Next year, he will change the caption to "Just a bunch of drunks"
The gravest threat to Russian forces was bullying among conscripts. Dedovshchina. Pure and simple criminality. I assume some progress has been made on the issue...
Just yesterday there was another case of conscript commiting suicide because of that
@@ВикторФирсов-е9ф ne khorosho.
Not likely, there are yearly occurences of Russian conscripts going on shooting sprees against their superiors because of the dedivschina
@@phunkracy I can understand them. Soldier Fatball from Full Metal Jacket is always with us.
@@stefanodadamo6809 fatball got off easy. Dedovschina can include beatings and rape
Unfortunately there is almost zero strategic context in this video. The US has over 700 military bases in 80 countries all across the globe. With the exception of Syria the Russian military has about a dozen bases in her immediate abroad and former Soviet republics. Around half are supporting peace keepers and observers in various frozen conflicts. What possible reason would the Russians have or need to have a logistics profile like the US military - absolutely none. The US and Russian military are performing very different roles, one power projection across the globe and the other defence of the largest country in the world. This means the profile of their armed forces and their logistics will be different and the detailed like for like comparison presented in the video is actually not very insightful.
On the other hand, Russia is a lot bigger than the US with territories spanning across two continents, bordering with far more countries than the US. The logistics to support Russian forces over such a vast country is no less arduous than the US has to face. The Germans could testify how difficult it was to maintain good logistics in Russia.
@@tvgerbil1984 There is no other hand. Transport, resupply, deployment all present a challenge for every army and Russia is indeed a huge country and the army divisions have been created and designed with this in mind. But at the risk of stating the blindingly obvious here the vast majority of the Russian army is inside Russia. That makes things less challenging for the Russian army for a plethora of reasons which really should be self evident compared to the US which has around 200,000 troops based overseas in some 80 bases. The logistical challenges that both armies face are very, very different. Like I said previously the video has zero strategic context and the direct comparison being made given the different requirements of the two armies being compared is pretty mediocre, amateur analysis.
@@tvgerbil1984 Not wishing to get side tracked but this isn't 1905 and we weren't discussing naval matters. The US navy is unmatched and it rules the seas. Behind that dominance, sustaining that dominance is a gigantic logistics and maintenance effort. Apart from its nuclear subs the Russian navy quite frankly has almost zero force projection. It's sole delapated carrier is more often being tugged from port to port than travelling under its own billowing, black clouds of almost desperate volition. That's not to say that the Russian fleets can't perform the tasks they are designed to perform - defence of the Black Sea, Kalingrad/Baltic theatre and Pacific coastline where they are crucially integrated into the overarching defensive doctrine supported by an integrated missile defence system sharing information from over the horizon systems all the way to MIG31's on intercept, never leaving Russian airspace with hypersonic missiles. This encompasses all aspects of a combined military defence response from standoff, medium range and short range missiles to fixed wing interventions with air and anti ship capabilities - again this is not 1905 indeed it's not even comparable to 1995. Apologies for my digression and I mean this in a respectful but I think there may be some fundamental concepts that you may not be familiar with. The size of Russia is of course a logistical challenge but Russian military doctrine is defensive and their logistical needs while demanding are dwarfed by the US military - this isn't controversial and is quite self evident.
@@maddog2437 Well if Russia is going into conflict with Japan over the Kuril Islands, it will have a big logistical challenge of reinforcing its pacific fleet with warships from its fleets in Europe, really not too different from its position in 1905.
@@tvgerbil1984 It's an interesting "conventional" kinetic warfare discussion in abstraction given the excellence of the Japanese navy and subs. The tactical reality is however we have entered the dawn of substantive hypersonic anti ship capabilities from the Russians who already had significant ASM capabilities in that area of the world and an army division deployed there and Air force groups to implement the long thought out plans to defend a Japanese attack on the disputed insels. Modern warfare and standoff simply can't be compared to events from the beginning of the 20th century. The Japanese navy would be under attack from coastal and mobile ASM batteries and MIG31's all firing hypersonic and conventional ASMs from within Russia while having to compete with a peer fleet as they try to take the insels - presumebly with an amphibious landing. This war is almost certainly never going to happen and if it did it would be over in a day or two in my opinion, weeks before the Admiral Kuznetsov gets unceremoniously tugged into the theatre. It's hard to see how Japan strategically has any escalation headroom in such a conflict - they would have to be all in. It would be existential. From the outset Russia would have obvious escalation paths and retaliatory strikes against the Japanese navy and military bases at home would in my view simply end the war regardless of what was taking place in the insels. I'm curious to see how you think this plays out. Again you seem to be making the point that the logistical burden of supporting and supplanting the Russian Pacific fleet from presumably other parts of the Russian navy is a burden that impact this theoretical conflict. I'm sure you can never have to many boats in the battle but thIs really isn't an issue - this war lasts as long as this battle and ends very quickly.
Wow you nailed the topic about logistics support. That seems to be there current biggest issue in Ukraine.
@Nob Gobbler Logistics are behind the lines, they shouldn’t be having this issues
Russian Logistics Complicated by corruption
Russian troops are being given rations that expired 7 years ago while Russian rations with the code expiration dates are available on eBay
Yup, the Russians are very well trained against unarmed civilians........as always!
How well informed is Binkov, and is his assesment up to the task?
Trollkov has been a professional Armchair Historian, his audience is full of children who think they are 5 star generals. Ive been telling this for years now.
@@midnightvibes5485 You knew the truth all along! The People ignored your warnings! And now the world is suffering because your warnings fell silent on our ears!
@@midnightvibes5485 armchair historian, as opposed to the people who travel back in time and see things with their own eyes?
Always interested in the military video from substanstial, technical view and in-depth recent data. Not just exagerating the powers, numbers, advanced tech, even the politician opinion. Keep up the good work, thanks for educate the 'common' folks like me Binkov.
Russia apparently needs to add "how to fill up the fuel tanks" to their training exercises from now on. How does one of largest producer of gas and oil on the planet with massive military resources keep running out of fuel a few hundred clicks from home?
Too few fuel trucks. Also successful targeting of those vehicles by Ukrainians.
Heard Russian troops who don’t want to war with Ukraine cut their fuel so they don’t get far. Along with obvious logistical issues.
Reports of Russian soldiers dumping their own fuel to not have to fight and/or selling it. Not sure how credible those reports are but considering Russian law is supposed to prohibit sending conscripts into aggressive wars, it makes sense.
"One of largest producer of gas and oil on the planet " You said it yourself. You really think they run out of fuel or forgot to fill up tanks? That would make 0 sense. Again western propaganda to boost morale.
Also, I'd like to point out I'm definitely not pro-war, fuck that, it's just stupid how optimistic the news is sometimes but also funny how nearly everyone believes it.
@@treyox whelp the invasion keeps stalling due to fuel because no one thought to bring extra trucks or to deploy the pipe line units to build fuel depots in country to support the invasion. The fuels there they just aren't moving it into Ukraine efficiently.
The US Army Reserve, as well as the Army National Guard, mobilized reserve units on a regular basis to deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq. There are a lot of reservists with combat deployments under their belts. There's no real comparison, when it comes to performance, between the Russian reserves and their American counterparts.
The training shown in the above video would be considered basic level field training in the US, both active and reserve, where realism that brings the training scenario as close as possible to how it would be in combat culminates a gradual ramping up of the training. I've seen videos of how the Russians reacted to contact or did other combat actions in Ukraine, below standards even by Infantry OSUT and reservist standards in the US.
I trained in the cold War Germany 2 years and we did nothing but training and very very physical training we were ready at a moments notice even my state side unit 14th engineers same thing we trained are asses off .
Well we can see that the Russian army is incredibly under trained and under supplies now.
"Are it's logistics up to the task" no, no they aren't
Remember this comment a couple of weeks from now, Mister West Point Professor.
@@BGC903 3 weeks to take Ukraine? Embarrassing lol. They’re fighting against untrained civilians and making hardly any progress. Their soldiers are surrendering, they’re apparently punching holes in their vehicles to stop their convoys. This is supposed to be big red Russia, what a complete and utter shambolic laughing stock of a military. No wonder Japan beat them in ww2.
@@BGC903 3 weeks to decapitate a government which capital is 70kms away from your borders? That’s pathetic
@@jamesblyth4966 "3 weeks to take Ukraine? Embarassing"
Lmao, It took the US and Coalition forces 1 month to invade and capitulate Iraq. Ba'athist Iraq, with a dated and poorly trained army and far smaller than Ukraine.
Meanwhile the Russians captured more territory than we did in Iraq within the same time frame and they already began sieging Kiev. And it's only been 6 days.
No wonder Japan beat them? Wtf are you talking about? The Soviets won Khalkin Gol in 1939, and then they invaded Manchuria and destroyed the Kwantung Army in 1945. You have idea of what you're talking about lmfao
Not to sound like an idiot, but all U.S. reserves are trained for combat. They were the bulk of the troops that were in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, the US has a huge population of veterans that have been trained in the last twenty years.
Yep the US has battle hardened troops now and not only that they have been in some fucking deadly locales and seen major shit like use of suicide bombers and IEDS.
@@nunyabiznazz2883 mediocre fighting but nonetheless useful, russian troops would aim better though
@@bigtuna4010 looooooooool
@@bigtuna4010 Russians would aim better? Aim at what? You are not talking about a gun, cannon or missile according to the Ukraine War
U.S. reserve SOLDIERS are all trained for combat. US Army reserve UNITS are mostly combat service and support -- combat engineers, transportation, logistics, aviation maintenance, etc. And since many of them are veterans and most of their military specialties mirror their civilian trades they are very, very good at their primary missions, be it digging ditches or wrenching on helicopters and can mostly take care of themselves in combat.
This video aged like milk on a hot day. The Russian military proves itself an absolute paper tiger. They wouldn't last a month against the US military.
The only thing they have to make us pause is nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, world-ending doomsday weapons is enough.
An old dying super power hiding behind a bunch ton of nukes, that’s the absolute state of the red army
@@d.olivergutierrez8690 Once those Russians face our lgbt troops it's over
@@shawnkennedy855 shut up botski
How’s ya mother?
Amateurs study strategy while masters study logistics. The US has been (mostly) successful due to its mastery of logistics. Perhaps the best example of this is the first Gulf war, and the man in charge of that logistical success, Gus Pagonis. General Schwarzkopf certainly picked the right man for the job in that case.
Most important thing is Motivation. If your troops are not motivated enough for the reason of war, no amount of training or advanced weapons can secure win, take for example Vietnam.
Troops in Vietnam were plenty motivated. That war was lost on the home front.
Yes and no. The reason Vietnam resisted (most people dont realise) is because it was supplied through China with all they needed from boots to SAMs.
Yes, resistance alone doesnt help. But resistance + industrial backing from abroad wears down stronger opponents
Motivation is nothing if you don't have everything else, the Imperial Japanese Army is a case study
In reality it was war with China and Soviet union not vietnam
@@dukenukem8381 In reality it was not, or how many Russian soldiers did you fought in the jungle of Vietnam?
Many Russian bombers sweeping down over South China Sea?
Well, now you know how accurate Binkov videos are.
yeah, I won't listen to a word of his analysis anymore
@@wilhelmu Well you can't blame, even CIA overestimated the capability of the Russian military, no one would have thought how really pathetic the Russian is.
True
@@wilhelmu all of these types of channels are just paper army strategists. They read something, add their own spin onto it, and that's it. They don't really have any idea what they're talking about at the end of the day. No generals making these vids
To be fair, trying to predict the future is like trying to land a bullseye on a target with a dart, except the target is 100 meters away and it is foggy outside and you're simultaneously choking on some water.
This didn't age well
I like how the words in the thumbnail just straight up change to from Pretty Darn Well to just Depends.
"Conscripts relegated to support duties"
Russia in Ukraine: Meatshields line up! You're first!
IRL Russian forces
training: 💩
equipment: 💩
logistics: 💩
war crimes: 👍 A+ war criminals
it turns out, Russian Logistics is almost nonexistent
This did not age well.
In real time we are seeing how Russia is nothing but a big talker with poor training and awful morale.
"we may talk about theoretical wras, but only peace brings us all together" many around the world feel this way as well. HOWEVER military equipment and tactics are cool
"Aged like Milk"
1. Conscript-Based army = not good/ weekend warriors
2. It's cheaper to send people to soldiers to Syria than train them. IE: Tossed in the meat grinder with 0 experience
3. VDV/ Airborne Corp is headed by the Commander in Chief/ Delegate Ops Commander = Hence why they were told to literally drop at the same airfield 3 times and still die.
I dunno I feel like I am the only one that actually watched the video after 5 months and even goes into how horrible the old soviet stockpile is and we're exactly seeing all that happen in Ukraine as we speak. Tanks breaking down, Tires being absolutely horrible, horrific Russian invasion and to top it off, they sent in bottom of the barrel rookies.
As an American. Knowing my nations sworn enemy is piss poor in waging warfare is superbly heartwarming
Russian propaganda used to claim "we'll take Warsaw in 2 days, Berlin in 4 and Paris in a week". I thought it sounds scary... but now just can't stop laughing.
@@beegxxc9832 Russia is a paper Tiger. Scary from a distance but fragile and weak in a real situation that matters.
Kinds makes you wonder about Wsrsaw Pact. We're they as bad as this?
@@Jay121 Russian army is a shadow of what is was during the USSR, back when their military tech was state of the art and before all the SSRs (including Ukraine) split off and oligarchs stole/sold off everything of value.
@@issadraco532 lol I definitely wouldn't saw Russia has a better military. USSR/Warsaw Pact used to credibly threaten Europe with invasion even though US was significantly more powerful, but now Russia's major struggle which has wrecked its economy and thrown its military in disarray is a fight with a former Soviet Republic. USSR was definitely corrupt, but post-USSR Russian corruption is truly something else in scale and we can see that with disrepair of invading military equipment and mass fuel/food shortages a week into an invasion of a bordering country.
Wagner group is a mercenary group which is not really indicative of Russian military performance but it was funny hearing those neo-nazis getting absolutely destroyed in Syria.
Did you just change the thumbnail from "Pretty darn well" to "depends" ? cuz I dig it
It can't even manage to project its power more then 30-40 miles apparently
Hey bud you might wanna re-evaluate this one.
It's different, the Russians are fighting blood. Ukraine is basically Russia's little brother.
Russians are hesitant to fight simply based on the fact that they would be killing their own, and it shows.|
Putin is forcing a war that not even Russians want to be apart of. This will be an end of an Era in terms of Putin's power. Russians are waking up against Putin.
@@Gradymeister Ukrainians are fighting blood and they feel no pity for Russian soldiers
People need to stop assuming that “Spetsnaz” are the equivalent in training, moral, equipment, effectiveness, and professionalism of special forces in modern industrial democracies. It is flat false. Russian spetznaz is a umbrella term for a wide variety of forces.., most of which are light infantry and motorized with sizable percentages of conscripts…even their air assault has 20% or more conscripts. None of these units are even as capable as conventional NATO light infantry, mechanized, and air assault units…and are no where close the the training and effectiveness as NATO special operations forces. The airborne spetznaz elements are still essentially airborne light infantry.., and not special operators. Among the entire Russian army they only have a few thousand troops that are roughly equivalent to NATO special operators. And even then they are more akin to Army Rangers. The number of troops Russia has in its entire military that are the equivalent of tier 1 special operators is a few hundred to one thousand. That is it. Most of their spetnaz are merely more effective infantry than standard Russian units and have fewer conscripts and not even as effective as equivalent NATO light infantry.
I love how you changed the message on the thumbnail from “pretty damn well” to “depends”
Russian army’s credit card was declined at Ukrainian pump.
It was because VISA and MasterCard doesn’t accept Russia.
"Pretty darn well." That didn't age well, lol.
Russian military is perfectly capable of performing, the problem in Ukraine is that they were not given any time to plan and only had enough logistics for 48 hours (they expected Ukraine to collapse immediately). This is why we saw Russian POWs saying they were on military exercises. In an effort to keep the invasion a secret, Putin literally called up unprepared units to suddenly invade with no intel or preparation.
@@potatopotato8360 absolutely nothing about what you just said falls under the category of "perfectly capable" . It's a shit show from top to bottom, but at least you earned your ruble for the day.
@@culley8841 "Everyone with views different than mine is a Russian bot" you are a joke. Probably Canadian too. yuck.
Lol he changed the thumbnail to "it depends"
@@potatopotato8360 Russia has been building up it's invasion force for an entire year (not to mention the prepositioned forced within Ukrainian Crimea and Donbass since 2014) What you described is a shitshow that a capable, modern professional army will never attempt.
Oh wait...
turns out: No, logistics are fucking NOT up to the task
Hmmmmm woulda sworn the thumbnail used to say “pretty darn well”
Your correct, it did say that lol
Well now we know. Pretty shit actually.
*runs out of fuel*
>civilians laugh as they drive past.
Served in the Army 10 years ago. During a year and a half of service we went to the shooting range just twice. The first time we were given AK-47 and 20 rounds, the second time it was Makarov pistol and 8 rounds. Well, I'm definitly sure that's more than enough for shooting practice :)
10 лет назад. Я служил в прошлом году. За 1 год, на стрельбище были 6 раз. Первый раз стреляли с пистолета Макарова, ещё четыре раза с АК-74М, выдавали полный магазин 30 патрон. Стреляли как одиночными так и очередями. И один раз ездили вели огонь из РПГ-7 и РПГ-26.
lol a lot of US civilians shoot more than that in 1 day at the range. In the US Army we lived on the range and the field
@@Chris13FIST he was a conscript, not a contractor
@@paulwilson8061 well, it seems like he portrayed the majority of the Russia army. They are pretty good at shooting civilians but don't aces against other soldiers.
@@Gabrong u r a joke. Ukraine will collapse soon. Already prisoners were released to fight the Russians. The southern front has been destroyed. Donbass area will be encircled. All ukr forces are in Kyiv and Kharkiv, hide their infantry fighting vehicles and howitzers in residential yards.
And there are no conscripts in this operation, what's the point of being substituted by conscripts like that?
Actually there are more contract servicemen than conscripts in army.
Where specifically Russians kill civilians? They even let people protest.
The only things that can delay the operation and even prevent the Ukrainians from being surrounded in the Donbass are the limited number of Russian forces and not wanting to wage a real war. For now.
The usa just squeals to the whole world, imposes sanctions and making fakes, since soon they will lose their satellite.
„Afghanistan influenced russias modern army“
XaXaXa driving unprotected with tank in town getting totally rect in the process.
XaXaXa flying low with old helicopter crying treason when it kisses a stinger.
Oh yes they learned 😂😂😂
Preaty sure it was Polish Piorun but other than that spot on... ;)
We shouldn’t have been surprised really. The UK has the worlds fifth largest economy but their effective armed forces are a fraction of those of Russia, which isn’t even a top eight economy. Something didn’t add up, and now know what was missing.
Six weeks into the war, Russian troops have withdrawn from the Kyiv region. Safe to say this video did not age well.
I love how this aged with Russian training and logistics being basically non existent in Ukraine
It would seem the entire world far over estimated Russia's real capability.
Yes- no wonder they use the nuke threat so often as they are not what everyone cracked them up to be
They could level that country in days if they used there full capability, dont take this crap video literally
@@jamesgreen8573 75% of Russia's active army is in Ukraine and is far from 'leveling' it. Only way Russia could 'level' Ukraine is with nukes. Do that and even China will turn their backs on THEIR bitch.
@@drawingdead9025 your wrong
@@jamesgreen8573 Ok, 'James'.
We need version 2 of this
This video aged like milk: Russians have few examples of nice equipment. The majority is 90's tech or older and never underwent a refit as we can clearly see with captured Russian equipment in Ukraine.
go to "Task and purpose" channel here on YT... it really does seems that they had tons of old equipment... but it also looks like that Russian just sent old units in front to test defenses and set up preliminary frontlines.... now you have tons of videos of highly trained and well equiped soldier in combat zones...
@Zoltan1251 that's starting at the wrong end of the ice cream cone. If that's the battle plan, Putin made life difficult for his small amount of experienced troops. The inexperienced troops with bad equipment jammed up the roads with destroyed equipment and caused tons of civilian casualties with their indiscriminate shelling which prompted the Ukranians to rig many of their bridges to blow. If that was his play, it was a bad one. They're bogged down, roads are being destroyed by their own armor and Ukrainian sabotage.
@@Bigweave74 all of what you said are good victories but its not that hard to clear the roads (like that dude who stole russian tank with tractor), bridges are bigger problem though... i dont think shelling is done by inexperienced troops now... perimeter was already set up or being set up around major cities... shelling intesifies because infantry got repelled a ton of times... again, you cannot look it as big victory when russians get repelled, since its mostly tactical retreat and position is bombed right after
up until recently they didnt bomb civilian structures.... for the reference Iraq war caused 7000 civilian deaths and it was 4 weeks campaign... UN says there are 350 civilian deaths in Ukraine now, Ukraine says 2000, lets meet in the middle and say 1000 for week and a half.... that means its still pretty mild considering US boasted about how precise their bombing campaing in Iraq was....
im affraid it will get much worse... its inspiring that civilians are taking up arms but that will get russians absolutely paranoid about the situation... just like expected, looks like new Afghanistan
@Zoltan1251 I'm not defending my country's henious warcrimes in Iraq, but it does beg a question.
Why is Putin terror bombing civilians if he's seeking to "liberate" Ukraine from nazis? Fearing western exclusion of Russia by admitting Ukraine to NATO is a bad excuse since his blood oil is bring sold to many western nations. So little of this makes little sense. The conscripts, the jacked up equipment, the propaganda, all of it makes putin look unhinged.
@@Bigweave74 oh yeah, he went insane... there is nothing to gain and everything to lose.... there is not only no justification, there is little reason to do this at all from political perspective... Putin is straight up just evil for this... its so sensless its mindblowing...
i just provided example of what to expect in the coming days... its wild that just saying how military operations will probably look like is seen as being pro-Putin...
You should really look at Military spending with purchasing power adjustments, Russia's military and MIC basically entirely runs on the Ruble, so the USD value is basically irrelevant
As it should be for any army of a sovereign nation
I mostly agree, but the material costs and in some cases technology acquisition costs are handled in USD, no?
@@almond5560 Russia basically produces every raw material they need, so I hardly doubt any large amount of raw resources are imported. The Only real USD things would be like thermal imagers from France (I think they build their own now too)... There'd be a few things like the Israeli Drones but I doubt it's anything seriously meaningful.
@@jackozbloke5079 yes but the question is not about national material supply, it's about acquisition cost. If hypothetically the global market price of iron is $120/ton, unless the Russian military is purchasing it cheaper from national mines, the USD comparison of military budgets for iron is valid.
@@almond5560 The cost of producing that same quality of iron is most likely also cheaper in Russia than it is in the US, so the same 1 ton of iron mined and purified, say cast into a cube may cost USD 120 in the US but only 30 USD in Russia as the cost of production is cheaper.
Given what's been shown in Ukraine, the Russian army would be decimated by NATO in short order. Their lack of an NCO cadre, over reliance on un-supported vehicle battalion formations with few actual troops, low morale and training of conscripts, woefully inadequate logistics and the myth of the strength of modern Russian armour against modern anti-tank weapons to name but a few failings.
You may of changed the thumbnail/title but in this video you did specifically state:
1.) Their logistics were questionable.
2.) They had a large number of conscripts which lacked training.
3.) Their military mostly excelled on defense.
4.) Russia's military lacked mid level command.
5.) You mentioned Russia's known for their brutality in war.
So as far as I'm concerned you're pretty accurate with your videos.
Lol you changed the thumbnail, before it said "pretty damn well".
Last time I was this early, Crimea was still under Ukrainian control.
hell yea comrade
Last time I was this early(1954) Crimea was still in Russia.
😂😂😂
last time i was this early Crimea was called Taurida (Ταυρίδα) and was a Greek state
@@TheGranicd there was no Russia in 1954
We finally got the logistics question answered lol
I love how the thumbnail changed from 'pretty darn well.' to 'depends' XD
Russia just lost the war, but Hitl..Putin hasn't realised yet.
Last year you had me convinced the Russian army had drastically improved itself. Now I question everything you say. This is why puppets are considered unemployable.
Russian airborne corps: score as high as their US coutnerparts in the video
Reality: VDV go sploosh in cold sea and die
I came back to this video just to read the latest comments 5 months later lol
Keep up the good work brave Ukrainians soldiers and civilians.
They’re all gonna get bombed 😂
6:27 and 6:42 - that is actually not Russia, but Ukraine (former 115th tank repair plant in Kharkov).
It may be Ukrainian now, but in the Spring Offensive it will be Russian.
What Kind of Tank ist that at the 6:05 Mark? It looks Kinda odd.
BMD-2 airborne fighting vehicle.
@@johnw5584 It will cost Russia pretty much, in money and cassualties
"In RUSSIA, everything can be bigger!"
Except for the economy and bank balance of the average Russian.
Even the bears? Please tell me!
Their casualties are sure getting bigger and bigger by the hour ;)
That change from "pretty damn well" to "it depends" XXDDDDD
I think the answer to this video has turned out to be "Not Very," and "No"
'Created to protect Russia's borders'
Hm, you sure about that chief?
Cheers Binkov. Great vid as usual.
I could've sworn this video had a different thumbnail before that said "pretty darn well" in regards to it's video title, lol
As of right now this video isn't aging very well
Outdated vehicles, weapons, tactics and lack of experience in modern warfare has been made fairly evident thus far in Ukraine. They are starting to realize that they can’t bomb their way to victory and when it comes to ground troops they are extremely lacking in tactics and are getting decimated. I think the US and NATO needs to just take Putin out ASAP since he has basically shown how unprepared they are to face a real professional army with decades of experience in modern warfare such as America and all it’s allies. I think we could take Moscow in under a week if we didn’t have their nukes to worry about. It appears the Russians are a shell pf their former selves, but still think they are one of the biggest dogs in the yard.
That’s why they have nuclear forces. We can’t just go in & take Putin out unless we want most major cities to become burnt parking lots.
I highly doubt many of the nukes work either.
"As long as it's not 1000 miles from it's borders.." -I'm inside of 1000 miles from Russia's border :(
Lucky guy.
@@anti_western_eugenicists xaxaxaxaxaxaxaxa
@@whyshouldishowmyname848 and you think that's my real name 😂🤣
So you have no problems. But... Don't forget about neutron bombs.
@@anti_western_eugenicists Why would anyone want to be around that belligerent hellhole.
Didn't this video thumbnail used to not say "Depends" and instead said something like "Pretty darn well"? I love Binkov, but I'm hoping he didn't edit like this without admitting his mistake. It's much more admirable to admit you are wrong than to try and cover it up. Just my two cents...