Russian Navy Day is a PR exercise | Edward Lucas
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- “There will be some scepticism in naval circles about whether these orders will actually materialise into working ships.”
Edward Lucas says that Russian Navy Day is a “PR exercise” for Putin on #TimesRadio.
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The new Black Sea Fleet will all have glass bottoms so that they can look at the old Black Sea Fleet.
Great comment.
Better prepare all glass hull you never know in what position they land on the floor.
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LOL. just like the Japanese sent them to the bottom
Lavrov said that the Royal Navy was an “ international terrorist organisation “ and he had irrefutable proof , which he wouldn’t show until the time was right , we’re still waiting and I’m eager to find out whether I’m a terrorist pensioner😅
Is a state involved in slavery, drug trafficking and wars of aggression on every continent a terrorist state?
@@Withnail1969 You mean the USA?
@@Withnail1969 P.S. The British abolished slavery in the early 19th century and it wasn't just talk; they set the Royal Navy on the job, setting up the West Africa squadron to do it. It cost so much the British government had to take out a loan to fund it. That was around 1830. The loan was finally paid off in 2015.
Name me another country that did anything similar.
Name me a country that hasn't carried out wars of aggression and I'll show you a country that never had the capability to do it.
Drug trafficking? Seriously? I doubt there's an espionage agency in the world - of any size or note - that hasn't been involved in the drugs game. The CIA is famous for it.
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Is the Moskva taking part this year?
Yes! As a submarine 😅
No it's too busy trying to find the Titanic. Maybe Russia should take advice from the guy that built the Titan on how to build a submarine
And how, exactly, is Russia going to pay for these 30 ships? Their economy is crashing and they are already spending 10 billion dollars a month on a war they are losing. Personally I hope they do put in orders for another 30 ships as that will drain their coffers for this war even quicker.
the russian economy is booming.
@@frankrenda2519 When you say booming is that because it is being blown up by the Ukranians.
4% decline in GDP since the war started.
Over 90 billion dollar deficit.
60% in inflation.
60,000 dead with 250,000 injured.
50% of its army destroyed.
Booming as in being blown up.
@@frankrenda2519 definitely is going BOOM
If Russia is losing this war against Ukraine, is Ukraine winning?
@@frankrenda2519Booming as in it’s a blown up wreck like the Moskva.
Russia’s economy is a faded shadow of what it was in 2021, which was already bad. The ruble is being devalued between 3-6.8% every month, down 35% this year alone. Current account balance is down 93% meaning the state has absolutely no surplus which comes from imports meaning trade is completely shot. GDP is massively down because no energy exports, no car exports and there’s been a massive brain drain. On that point, you also have to address the elephant in the room as well which is that there’s a huge number of men not being productive and dying like dogs in a trench. Nobody wants to buy anything from Russia and they don’t have much to sell except energy where 50% of their market went in a day with Europe diversifying. Even BRICS is distancing itself from Russia. Hate to break it to you but this war is Russia’s death throe.
I can see the heavily invested in extremely big hats at least.. :)
Those are lifehats
Those are "comic opera", aren't they?
Think of it as a public service announcement- a disaster is about to happen to the wearer, don't be near them
Its a drone landing pad 😂🇬🇧🇺🇦
The millinery phenom of tall & oversized headwear harkens back to the early days of Genghis Kahn. Hair was worn tall; adding to the overall fearsome look of warriors on horseback. A little out of place in the the year 2023? 🤔
I'm glad your guest managed to get himself off the floor and control his laughter before commenting. Very well done. Unfortunately I was still rolling about and had to watch it again lol.
St. Petersburg and its harbor is as far as Russian naval power extends into the Gulf of Finland.
Id be surprised if Russia can even produce 30 rowing boats these days.
What kind of reality do you live in? They literally just produced 30
@@adikodocumentaries: says the guy proclaiming wagner as the most powerful PMC in the world... Which means little in reality. Go back to school kid, you're not cut out for trolling.
@@WHS_reviews Alright Isaac Newton. Which is the most powerful PMC?
@@WHS_reviewsWagner is security for central African state gold mines and diamond mines. This wealth flowers into Russia for Putin and the oligarchs.
@@adikodocumentariesthe American citizens. Anytime Wagner wants to play tell him to row his boat over to America. We have more guns in citizens hands than any military in the world. We have been waiting for moving targets for years.
Putin blows a lot of hot air, kind of like a TV wrestler.
Lol. Great analogy, only Putin is a wee little man.
He was a paper pusher. Wrote things down. Not a spy at all. Apparatchik is the word.
@@deker0954that's right he was a KGB bureaucrat, most people think he was an assassin or killer. The only thing he killed was a bottle of white out.
@@TheDystopianDevil Whacko does not swing his right arm so he can go for his pen quicker, pen pusher wannabe agent
I remember when a small Russian fleet came through the English Channel. Rusty hulks.
Is the submarine "Moskwa" taking part in this naval presentation ? And how about the "Admiral Kusnezow" ? 🤔
The titan was better designed then russia subs
There's a reason the U.S. doesn't hold military parades.
No need, eveyone already knows
USA are to busy at pride parades
@@bazzo4569ok here is what we do then. Once a year we put aside rational civilisation and parade our captured enemies and their weapons so the crowds can spit on them and small children can throw rocks. No implied threats, actual threats.
Trump wanted one badly after being Macron's guest at Bastille day.
He wanted a missile parade just like Comrade Kim's.
Well they do wear red hats in the red party
With all due respect, has the Russian navy ever achieved anything significant?
Yes: Battleship Potemkin is widely considered one of the greatest films of all time.
@@petroleumalley Perhaps the Soviets should have made Eisenstein into an admiral.
@@petroleumalleythey managed to sink their own ships once. I find that a very positive significant thing.
The yasen is pretty advanced
The Russkie Navy is literally just trolling...
1:25 …. Yes I expect the landlocked Central African Republic to be a big customer for the naval kit being shown off here.
It's very nice of Russia to keep producing these future artificial reefs.
Central African Republic😂…..650 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.
Main guest apparently. 😂
Within missile range. CAR may consider deploying an Iron Dome and a solid air defense.
The corrupt sod came to pick up his suitcase of dollars
Russia's navy needs to ask permission to go anywhere
Where is their aircraft carrier? 😂
It's being turned back into a floating casino.
It's being upgraded to Space Battleship Yamato which will be so powerful that it can launch aircraft in the vacuum of space.
Where is the Moskva?
They have enough hot air to inflate those new ships.
30 new Ships this very Year! 😂😂😂 5 Inches long...each!😂😂😂
Some looks nice on the outside, all filled with nothing but vodkaheads & rats on the inside.
They paint over the rust without removing it.
The kerch bridge is coming down
Where are they going to get the parts and how are they going to pay for it?
St Petersburg harbour is indeed a nice place to visit. I doubt many of us will be unable to travel there in the foreseeable future.
The Russian tourist industry must be another casualty of the country's crumbling economy. 🤨
The Russian navy is not a blue water fleet. A coast or inland sea fleet only. No aircraft strike carrier force. Old soviet cruisers. Submarine fleet not particular advanced
Nobody went on board the Moskva this navy day.
A russian naval review in a NATO lake…how ironic!
30 more to join the Moskva?
Perhaps they will build more textbook examples of aircraft carriers like the Admiral Kuznetsov as its been such a success. 😂🤣
They don't really need aircraft carriers. Russia has always been primarily a land power.
@@Withnail1969 😂🤣 Yes Comrade... they're going to massively expand their navy because they're primarily a land power. 😂🤣 So why have they spent nearly 30 years towing the Kuznetsov around and putting out it's many fires if "they don't really need aircraft carriers"?
@@Abbo888 We'll see how many they build. As i said, they are a land power.
@@Withnail1969: give us a break Ivan, you've put out so many hilarious comments that we need a rest from laughing, ok?
Hope they use them on every pilar of the long bridge
Technology is a huge part of producing ships.Will Russia be able to source this and are there technical staff to install it?
I would get on the Titan before I got on a Russian ship. Maybe all the Russians want to go visit the Titanic also😂
Where is the Moskva? 😅
She sleeps with the fishes.
putlin is such small man to the Hague with him 👿
Russians are deluding themselves. Nothing new. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 Glory to the heroes of Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦
Thank you 💛 Times Radio
What do you care about the Russians?
The sunset times more like
@@clio5138: go home Ivan.
@@clio5138we love watching the Russians. It is our nightly enjoyment watching them explode while we eat our popcorn😂
@@stevenstuchell1541 By the way! I will send your funny post to all Russian NHL players and other ethnic Russian athletes playing for the USA. Let them know who their audience is. Here will be fun! 🤣
Why do you think they went to North Korea? Why do you think the Chinese were there too? WAKE UP.
tell us please, you must know everything.
North Korea also supplies ballistic missiles to Ukraine. Did you know? What other things have you missed?
Something is definitely wrong with one of Putler's arms. He barely moves it. I imagine the state of the Russian Navy is that their ships are going to start their own goodwill gestures and sink. Their submarines were never that reliable - and who's going to man them?
Russian Navy Day.... LoL 😂😅😂
He is sweating big time, 😂😂 his problem, he started it
Yes , Wooden Mock ups , Painted , Back lit, like "X-Files tv show !! Agree..!!
We didn't see their "high tech" coal powered aircraft carrier. 🤣😂🤣😂
Considering these vessels represent a warmongering regime if found outside Russian waters must be treated as hostile and sunk!!
"Going out of business, everything discounted"
30 high quality ships like the Admiral Kuznetsov. What could go wrong?
A Naval parade 🤔 Putin wouldn't be very good a poker would he🙄
From what I here he'll poke anything.😮
Why is that Russian sub tied to 4 different bouys? Wait, I know, it's so they can find this one when it blows itself up and sinks.
Pity the Gremlin in the Kremlin hasnt got the Moskva navy vessel to show off 😅😅😅
An eye 👁 for and eye 👁
I thought the main reason was to head off another Potemkin rebellion. If one were to think of stepping out of line, they can appreciate the numbers arrayed to keep them in line.
Whatever happened to the HMS Prince of Wales
Repaired since 21 July 2023
@@petroleumalley Anchors aweigh then
PR exercise ohhh how did Moskova sink --- ohhh you Like special military operation
Russia has the finest soon to be submarine ships in the world!
So did ocean world adventure. Ask the owner how well the titan worked. We will wait 😂
The russians can't even afford to produce their latest tank and jet fighter.
Where’s the new stuff?!
Why are we watching antiquated vessels prone to sinking by drones?
I'll try to be objective. Russia ranks 11 in the index of the world's largest economies, yet it has the 3rd largest navy in the world. That in itself is no small accomplishment. Russia's fleet can't compete with the US Navy, but it is superior to any European navy, including the Royal Navy, whose only edge are its 2 aircraft carriers.
Most of the ships in Russia's inventory date back to Soviet times, like the large frigate Neustrashimy, which was anchored in St. Petersburg during the parade, along with two diesel electric submarines.
Most of the modern ships are rather small in size, which makes it easier to build them in large numbers. This includes the Buyan-M corvettes (1000 tons), which are capable of carrying 8 Kalibr missiles; the Stereguschy-class corvettes (2200 tons), which can engage ships and submarines; the Admiral Grigorovich-class (4000 tons), which are larger and can carry cruise or hypersonic missiles; and the Admiral Gorshkov-class (5400 tons), which are the largest of the new frigates, and can carry from 16 to 32 cruise, anti-ship or hypersonic missiles, plus 32 surface-to-air-missiles.
The last two classes are the most powerful and present a serious challenge to any potential enemy. It is worth pointing out that Russia's greatest weakness as a naval power is its large geography, which prevents her from concentrating its naval units for any decisive action (as the navy itself is divided into the Northern Fleet, the Baltic Fleet, the Black Sea Fleet, the Pacific Fleet, and the Caspian Flotilla) and its greatest strength are its ballistic missiles submarines, which are a powerful component of its nuclear triad.
In a naval engagement with the British the Russians would lose everything they have. Janes does not take into account command ability either by the way. Russians are incompetent.
Its about time the Moskva was getting some new company.
Russia is showing off their WW2 equipment. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
In your country, the gay parade is the only reason for pride. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
And Russia don't fly no more.
@@deker0954 Cast iron doesn't fly very well. 😏
30 new ships this year!? That’s funny. Not even. Without a war it’d be impossible! Unless you consider shore patrol boats…. Ships!
The studied condescension is amazing. Andrei Martynov gives a much more realistic assessment of the current Russian Navy and it's capabilities.
We are not interested in your fairy tales Ivan.
@@WHS_reviewsit's the cry baby inferiority complex of the Russian psyche.
Ok Times😂
The little man in Moscow will keep fighting until he has run out of soldiers....even then, he will challenge you to a boxing match.
How about a mechanized corpse from the White House, Washington?
He not a boxer
He likes grappling on a mat with young men
@@tonupharryI've heard he will grapple with anybody.
There was one tank in his parade, lol
If only Ukraine had long range missiles they could take out their Navy.
Ukraine already won a naval battle against Russia without even having a navy.
A random discarded cigarette could destroy most russian boats....
@@peoplesrepublicofninj3418I don't blame him really. It's always a suicide mission.
You should not have any sympathy for those people.
Americans don't need parades. Americans love flexing military muscle in combat and not parades. 😂😂😂😂
That's the real putin he is very old
30 ships to transport grain for free, to Africa? So a good men😇🤬
Are Times Radio presenters taught to interrupt and babble over guests? Is it too much to ask to let the experts talk without interrupting?
it's just a bad display of his power, it's a pantomime. They have not done anything at sea and are dedicated to attacking civilian buildings, infrastructure in Odesa and the capital.
PR Exercises dont build ships
Panic putin 😂😂
Как там британский флот поживает?
Авианосец свой полу-дохлый уже разобрали на запчасти?
Bring those fantastic shiny ships on the Black Sea. Ukrainian naval drones are waiting...
The Black Sea port fuel reserves were destroyed months ago by Ukraine.
Russia has full independence and sovereignty.
President Putin did it all in 23 years.
Amazing feat.
Putin seems a bit lost ATM
Putin continues to lose on both the battlefield and diplomatic fronts.
What would be an even better PR exercise would be a massive drone strike on St. Petersburg on this Navy day!
The wanted war criminal prommised more ships , and yet his biggest problem lies with the fact that his Army has just been outed as all smoke and mirrors , a relic , and seriously inadequate in all areas , especially the low standard of training and a total lack of tactical know how when it comes to combined arms operations , as for his war canoes , sheer folly to float them far from his nearest land airbases when in waters occupied by numerous US coalition carrier strike groups , who these days are all state of the art sensor networked allowing them to see well beyond the range of their own radars and operating under a bubble of sensors and shooters from well over the horizon !
So we can expect Ukraine to win the war any day now, you are saying?
Whole world is with with USsR not with Ukraine where forcely imposed war by NaTO and US. This war is organized by US in his favour, Comedian Zelenisky cann't understand.
Commentary repeated itself! Poor show.
1:13 p💩💩tin
Russia's the facade? NATO got beat by the Taliban, meanwhile NATO equipment can't cope with Ukrainian grass, or Russian shovels!😂😂
Navy day parade in Russia was incredibly beautiful
Slaves of the US
The Titanic was beautiful too. Maybe the new Russian ships want to go visit
Harland & Wolff, Belfast.
You're welcome
Слава Україні! Слава Навіки!
Hope a few Ukrainian boat drones are invited to the Navy Day Parade 😊🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Meanwhile we have pride parades 🙄
You have pride parades in russia, comrade Olga? Things have changed.
Those Pride parades bring better equipment than Russia lol
@@NZobservatory Uh I don’t think so lgbtq is banned in Russia like it should be here
@@marcopalazzo9349 They're certainly more interesting.
I thought Pride parades were banned in Russia.
more pootin BS🥱
Putin wasting more money
Showcasing his future Submarines
Saying the same twice, waste of my time
LoL says the British who can't even get their air craft carrier out of port. Russian navy is streets ahead of the British.
It's all such a waste.
Another short dictator.
The land of Orcs will be able to accomplish this great task when : the war is over , the reparations have been paid , professional labor force returns from abroad .Up to now---Orcs use not Russian phones, TV s , players, microwave ovens , petrol station equipment, subtle machine tools , batteries , computers etc.......etc cubed :))
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lol
The complete active military of the UK can´t fill Wembley stadium, while Russia hasn´t even started mobilising.
The fires in the mobilisation offices have barely started
Naval reviue or navel review?
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