Economy of Russia - Data vs Reality 

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@@EconLessons This is the USSR heritage.

​@Vlad_a450 and USSR is russian empire/golden horde heritage. Nothing is changing in Russia for centuries

Russia buys weapons from Iran,a fundamentalist religious nation.

The North Koreans are making their artillery now. lol.

@@joanofarc6402 I have never seen one intelligent comment that ends with lol.

@@castlerock58 : But he/she is right. Buy 100 shells 50% don’t work.

Unfortunately, that's all Russia is known for. Such a militaristic society.

A fair answer. I had a bottle of Pepsi last week, but it's gone. But feel free to expand the question. What do you own that was invented in Russia or is made *anywhere in the world* on behalf of a Russian company or under a Russian licence?

@@olmostgudinaf8100 Yes, precisely: Invented, created, originated, or produced anywhere in the world on behalf of a Russian company or under a Russian license. I watch a lot of interview videos -- Europeans being asked things like which country they hate or would never visit. The USA tops that list (not North Korea, not Iran, not Russia, but USA). It is a great irony how many of these people are wearing jeans, baseball caps, and such. Then think about how dependent those people have become on the internet and related technologies! I realise only too well that there are a lot of very, very stupid Americans. But the world is dependent upon products and technology that comes out of the USA. You cannot say the same for Russia!!! I don't drink Coca Cola, but I know that it is the most recognized brand in the world. I can think of several American brands that would be readily recognised in most countries of the world. I know no Russian brands.

@@Adi-bo5do : I wasn’t suggesting that the US didn’t make anything, I just said I’m not aware of anything made there that I own and I’m still not. I often want to buy stuff on eBay from the US but the postage costs makes that impossible.

Google made in USA, RU-vid, made in USA.

​@@EconLessonsby cia to spy on us

He is cherry picking. I have old pocket watch from Soviet Union which lasted longer than new from Switzerland. Conclusion? Swiss makes bad watches.

@@BojanPeric-kq9et In reality, modern capitalist societies make crap meant to fall apart.

@@BojanPeric-kq9et Yup I am in Ireland and my dad who is 75 has tools his dad used they are used to this day for projects he does (he is a retired plumber and loves hunting) those tools are better than the same ones you get today, things chip or bend.

Cant believe they still needed sickles. And some still do?

That shape of sickle still occurs today. It's not a good shape and curvature. Thus it likely got stored away and never used which I suggest is the reason it's survived till today.

My wife had ten long, sharp fingernails. Wouldn't argue with her either.

RFLMAO.

You are right, our formerly great 4th Estate is now a government echo chamber, our aviation is starting to resemble Russian aviation, and we're even trying to run our elections like Russia, eliminating candidates before they get on the ballot.

To this day Russia produces more Engineers each yr than any other country. They produce the most Physics graduates and produce more STEM grads than the EU.

They were top notch since they were a product of Socialist School System

@@disco1974ever 2 million russians fled over the last 2 years. There's a huge braindrain in russia. There's no denying that obvious fact.

How stupid can you get, they have 140 million consumers in Russia to buy their consumer goods.

Russian car and truck industry was destroyed by china.

I'm in! I bought pumkin seeds yesterday in EU with origin stated as: China, Europe or S. Am. .. Really annoying.

@@majvorandersson4641 The most important is that you tell people and set demands. Agriculture in general has in general been a problem. I just posted in here about stolen Ukrainian grain sold as Barilla pasta noodles at ICA in Sweden. Seeing as this was stored in a Russian military base for months, there is a very real national security issue about this being used as a vector to spread biological warfare agents

Good idea as I don't buy american or german made stuff.

Everything in the EU now has microscopic fonts given all the assorted languages they need to cover, you need a magnifying glass to read what should be prominent. This suits the manufacturers as they can hide their shennanigans easier from public awareness.

​@@rodpanhard That's just capitalism. It's cheaper to print a single label with 6 languages than 6 different labels for your different markets.

He mentioned Russia exploiting their natural resources.

Right, there is one big lake of oil in Siberia and Russians picking it with USSR made buckets. They use buckets from USSR because they don't know how to produce modern bucket like Americans.

they make shitty ladas.. dont say they do nothing! Also some grain, fertilizers and weapons. (most collapsed, but they do something, i guess)

They are at hunter gatherer level.

Since 2 years ago one type of a Lada had only one a Airbag inside the car.@@Nitroat-xo4tj

Lol yup this guy is coping hard for some reason. Its not like Russia is the number one exporter of food, its not like they make massive amounts of raw and refined materials from metals, woods, gas, oil, weapons, food.

@danielhalachev4714 he was being sarcastic.

Yet you trolls feel the need to type 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Whenever we see washing machines, shovels and coping in comments. We know what Russia is producing. Gulag propaganda like Baghdad Bob did for Saddam.

They did run out .... missile attacks got really weak for a long time....

@smk4902 yes, I noticed this too. I guess, Boeing no longer exports to Russia and they resumed their tried and true Tu (Tupolev), IL (Ilyushin), and Yak (Yakovlev). I remember hearing on NPR decades ago that Russian civilian planes had a much steeper accent because they were, essentially, modified military planes.

Meanwhile, they fall out off the sky because they are running out of parts. Get real

@@zulubeatz1 How would they run out of parts if they make every part for these aeroplanes. The Soviet planes had pretty good record. The Russians know how to make planes of all kind.

I used an American sickle just last week. It looks about a hundred years old. Got it from someone in Pennsylvania.

Most won't ever get your joke. Those days are over, sorry, try X😂😂❤

@@creativecatalyst777 I’ll try not to hammer the point.

Yeah that cold war mindset is really digging us out of a hole 🙄

They make pretty fucking good missiles and rockets and space stations 🤡

I'm in the UK and I know that the USA still make excellent machine tools.

@@dave20thmay Do you mean industrial lathes and milling machines? There are plenty of older US made lathes and milling machines around. Many of the lathe and milling bits come from overseas, though, and the newest mills I've worked on in a factory come from Korea. Edit: incidentally, all the steel I used when I worked a lathe in a factory about two and a half years ago came from China.

@@midlander8186 The Hardinge I used at work till I retired and the Bridgeport Mill I can still get to use were American. I hope that it is not true that US stuff has gone. Best Dave

China actually promotes and deregulates its private sector, allowing market forces to dictate prices. The U.S. has been going down the road of creeping socialism for some time. State-sponsored workers unions, welfare, and the Military Industrial complex is bankrupting society and destroying the real economy. It's living off echos of greatness.

Don't forget Estwing, Channellock, Klein and Vaughn for world class USA made tools. And Council for axes and sledge hammers.

what exports? NO ONE is buying.. Even India stopped buying Russian arms...

Their military equipment is nothing but scrap metal easily obliterated by Ukrainian farmers lol

Garbage. The US is the second largest manufacturer in the world, behind China. The US has 16.6% of the world's manufacturing output. China has 28.4%. There has been a huge amount of investment in US manufacturing due to the Inflation Reduction Act and reshoring because of global tensions. US manufacturing output is expected to grow 1.5% in 2024 and 3% in 2025

It's a myth that china builds everything there not producing semi conductor's to western standards there only new to construction of cars they don't produce pharmaceutical products the west still leads in alot of industries

Samsung use Russia chips in their phone, for gps or something, many car parts are made in russia, nuclear fuel is made in russia, plenty or weapons, some technology but it's operate through central/eastern europe because in north america the market is already taken or is getting taken before russian could reach the country

Good for Russia isn't? It be worse if the West has smart "experts"

Not anymore russia scraped it's space program it was funded the the west anyway

Few days ago Roscosmos send on orbit modern rocket Angara-a5 from new cosmodrome built from scratch in the last ten years. I think Russia is one of few countries whith capability to build new cosmodrome and new rocket

Explain in detail based on Stats what your counter argument is.

@@EconLessons He can't. Unless you want to talk about mining nickel

@@EconLessonsHe provided as much stats as you did in this video. Relax.

​@@EconLessons Western stats are made up. But the artillery shells raining down on the Ukrainians speak volumes. Stop embarrassing yourself.

Russia needs all the help it can get, shame pride and stupidity stands in the way.

Sarmat.

@@marioceva7163 haven't seen this sarmat, have no idea how reliable it is, and in general complete useless thing in ordinary life

I still have grandpa's pocket watch. I don't know when he bought it, but he died in car crash over 50 years ago.

@BojanPeric-kq9et I guess you're talking about "Vostok".Yea, not too bad wristwatch.

@@RZakelis give security .

Market forces are fixing a problem. Unfortunately, the problem was the factories wanted more cash flow.

That is an old wive's tales. 99.9% of companies did not do this for precisely one reason - people buy quality goods. I am a cook and spend extra for quality utensils and appliances. Same with my computer... could have gotten a super-cheap desktop that lasted a couple of years or a cheap tablet but instead I made an investment in a 2016 MAC and the latest IPAD/ You really do get what you pay for and I'd hazard, most of those that buy cheap products then bitch because they don't last didn't read that sentence before buying. Put another way, I worked with material scientists for a good 8 years (material development) and the focus was on longevity and quality - not planned failure.

@@smb-zf9bdNot an old wives tale. Companies have "Planned Obsolescence." Here is the definition: "a policy of producing consumer goods that rapidly become obsolete and so require replacing, achieved by frequent changes in design, termination of the supply of spare parts, and the use of nondurable materials." Look up the Phoebus Cartel. They ensured incandescent light bulbs had limited life. If you read about cars in the 1960s prior to market share being swallowed by the Japanese (and others), you will see that the big 3 automakers at that time designed vehicles for a 3 year life. Be careful buying appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines these days. Just go to an appliance parts store and ask them. I make it sound bad, however, I guess Capitalism certainly did a better job of producing consumer products than the boys of the USSR.

> companies deliberately started making things to break or having a shorter life cycle commie propaganda! Competitors will make better quality.

Mr Larsen I have to break it to you He's right. Planned obsolescence is a fact esp. look at cars. Also it's money ruling the world and consolidating. You will eat bugs soon they're Fixing the whole world now. If they don't have nuclear war first if that happens food will only be one of Many issues. We don't have long don't be programmed cover your backside.

Excellent I love this.

I do have a clue as I collect such thing. The metal based on the blade is poor in the Russian made one.

He is an economist, he has no clue about such things. Just look at his writing about "chemicals in agriculture".

@@EconLessons you think there is no poor quality built in US? That is called cherry picking.

He is US "scientist", you know what I mean, right?

There's good scythes and maybe there are bad sythes too . I've only encountered top quality ones , they definitely shouldn't chip or require frequent sharpening.. I tried slightly altering the shape at pointy end of one and it was as difficult as trying to pound stainless steel to shape . There's also another type of scythe that requires more of a golf type swing for the more bendy fresher long growth. The stiffer older long growth like for harvest time is tackled by the scythe he displayed equipped with those two branch out handles mentioned.

They will be out of money soon.

Reserves are not limitless 😅

I don’t know where your economics degree you got from. It seems you wasted the Swedish government money and your time. You are a big Joke 😂

@@TheDog_ChefYou are crying coz your time is UP. The new Global powers are CHINA Russia and India

It is an artificial bubble. About 70% of the workforce is on the govt payroll and many had their salarias rised due to shortages of workforce. Also some were lucky to get a payout for their men on the front. Poor folks suddenly got their hands on more money and they spend, spend, spend. But it is just the country's financial black hole. Nothing much to show for it with a vacuum building inside. Banks were throwing money on the nation in unsecured loans and they have nothing to pay it back. And Kremlin won't have enough resources to bail banks. They either will go down or Kremlin will have to start printing money, which comes with other issues. And now the previously allies are pulling out under the threat of the secondary sanctions, China and Turkey alike, also Kazachstan. Tha recent attack in the concert hall sent further waves to the surrounding countries and the level of racism spiked, going after the immigrants on which the RuSSian economy stood.

They produce crap for the domestic market as nobody outside Russia want to buy crap!

He's indoctrinated with traditional polish propaganda ) i think it's good western economists thing the same way where they design "sunctions from hell" (c) Today i buy a box of fresh strawberries from Krasnodar and some very good cherry tomatoes from Tiumen. I live in Novosibirsk and ten years ago it was absolutely impossible. Since then government gove huge amount of money to agricultural firms and it works perfectly

umm...no..Russia made sickles before the USA was even founded, one is a hand sickle and the other is a scythe and he compares them with each other as if its the same.

Did your parents drop your during birth?

And i bet it was Ikea that made sure that it happened. It was not Russia itself that made that deal

So had I. And did not last for long, cracked spontaneously....

Same here.

I had a very nice Zenith SR camera, heavy but nicely made, in USSR.

I buy ammunition made in Russia, works good in American made rifles.

Do they really work

space ships?) lmao. Do you mean those RD engines that were designed/built and FUNDED by NASA (USA)? Or you're about the Progress ship which uses tech from 1970x? They're literally using old soviet tech. Even their new "hyper-sonic" rocket "Kinjal" (Кинжал) - is a slight modification of Iskander and the concept was created in 1980x. And fertilizer. These are made from nature gas... guess from where they got it so much?

😂 buy from China… why don’t you think?

Google "german export to kyrgyzstan" and check image section.

​@@chhoukdyingand pay by what exactly?

so why do they need a 16% interest rate?

Typical clueless academic

What exactly is the central valley then?

@@markb3786 that’s where the socialists will set their water restriction sights next

California feeds the USA and a lot of the rest of the world. I can drive for 40 minutes down a backroad and the vineyards never end all the way to the horizon. And california has like 4X the economy of russia.

@@markb3786Apparently it's not real, haha.

Yandex, you mean the russian version of Google. Never heard of it. I am European. I had to Google it. I have never Yandexed anything. I would never use the russian version of anything. The only thing russia does better than any other country in alcoholism.

Спасибо за правду! Но этот человек говорит не для реалии, а для хайпа Сплошная ложь и снос мозга🤷

@@clancywiggam The whole point is that Russia has its own version of Google whereas all other European countries do not. You could make the case that the rest of Europe is technologically behind on Russia whereas Russia is only behind on the US. My point though is that these are silly discussions. The author of the video is not objective, is lead by his emotions and doesn't think rationally/objectively. He is therefore not a reliable economist you should listen too. But I'm afraid you are lead by your emotions too.

@@samdl1436 I am not. I have numerous accounts from people working in russia, all talked about alcoholism, a poor work ethic and a total lack of initiative amongst russian people. I don't need an Irish version of Google, or a French version of Yahoo, or a Greek version of Bing, and I am sure any tech savvy russian would be using the established search engines rather than some digital version of a Lada.

@@samdl1436 Point is, that Google is US, that would be western, other stuff, like BMW is German, therefore European, still west. But we can find thngs in our ordinary lifes that come from Europe, US, China and other bigger powers.. what is that you can find in your everyday life that comes from russia.. if it is Yandex, i have bad news, almost no one uses it.

And how does that help the russian people, just the govts ego.

Yep Russian built with stolen western technology 😮

Of the well over 50 main modules, 5 were contributed by Roskosmos. Do you still want to know about the level of technology of these modules compared to the Japanese, European and American modules? I'll say this: Back then, Russia wasn't even able to build the pipelines for oil and gas transport and export itself, let alone the mechanical infrastructure.

What about first man in space?

@@redneckster6639 Soviet Union

For Europeans and Americans: expensive. For poorer countries word "painful" is severe understatement. But looking at Gaza, starving Muslims, including children, is no problem for "noble and virtuous liberal democracies" so I guess that 50-100 times more people wouldn't be the problem either.

Global economics is evolving to function without Russian products. Period. Any smart nation is searching for a substitute since the situation is not sustainable. It may take a few months or a couple of years to find a replacement (like the EU and fossil fuel) but believe me, many nations are quite willing manufacture products in need. They simply need a commitment, like Ukraine using old steel plants for neon.

Yep. mobsters selling commodities

yes I read they used superglue on their submarines and the nuke they testfired was a dud.....oh wait that was not Russia

probably designed with the help of Germans, and ultimately contribute nothing to current war, end up as Kursk )

Don't you love other nationalities?

Come back and say why it's a misconception because the Russian-manufactured products I have seen in Russia are both sad and hilarious

What's your monthly salary, how has it changed in the last 2 years?

sergey_a 👍😉

@@supaman6713 "What's your monthly salary, how has it changed in the last 2 years?" - How many years does it take the average American to pay off their mortgage?

washing machine chips )

These are Soviet rockets manufactured using Soviet machines. Just like the guy in the video said.

@@darkslaerdark A missile with a chip from a washing machine is capable of hitting an object less than 5 meters in diameter, a tomahawk missile (not just one, a whole salvo) somehow missed the airfield...

​@@darkslaerdark Boom... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5cHLzRQCyR8.html

The fuel for rokets come from China. Chips from west.

Russia barely has 150 million, China has ten times more people. Economy of scale.

​@@harleyquinn8202and it was very different by social status. Russia was very urbanized and have many advantanced technology like nuclear power plamts and China was absolutely opposite - not so urbanized etc

Oil agree

That was rude

Unrefined extraction of resources, in a non-regenerative way, disrespecting the environment.

​@@EconLessonsthe problem that whole world except the west don't respect environment.

@@dainagrn7030 Human influence on the planet is greatly exaggerated; on such a scale we are nothing more than cockroaches.

Best way to disqualify yourself from any argument is Whataboutism.

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You serious outside of Moscow and St petbourgh russia has staggering poverty electricity is on and off no Internet some towns have no santation horse and carts are still used russian economy is in dire straights

@@_alienbloodYes, people eat nothing but vodka and have to dodge bears while walking to work.

@@_alienblood Are you on steroids?

Yes, as mentionend by exploiting the incredible big lands that have been conquered during centuries.

I would have to test them. What did you grow? I grow mostly potatoes.

US imports 1/3 or oil despite "we have our own oil and we are the largest producer" mantra.

In response, Ukraine will soon begin importing electricity in batteries.

​@@BojanPeric-kq9etUS exports oil at this time.

@@nicolasolton imports around 1/3 of oil too. Not all crude oils are created equal.

Not tired of making the same bad predictions since the start of all this huh

I love Grammarly and grateful for their unwavering support of Ukraine. Thank you.

The reason Soviet factories were given quotas was because after the devastating war when everything was made over to the war effort the demand for goods was so high. Of course you obviously don’t know anything about what Russia faced while America was making a fortune out of the war Russia faced 14 Panza divisions while America plus allies faced just two. They lost 27 million people mostly men which had a profound effect on the economy where the work was left to the women. You people with your glib answers to everything

No the quotas are inherent in socialism and communism. Has nothing to do with war and so on.

@@johnm7267 The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact thing kind of leaves one to believe that they brought some of these problems to themselves. When your leaders lack honor, don't expect good things.

Quotas are not coordinated by markets w/buyers. There is no way govts can know what people want to buy. Even w/good quality.

Putin's "Pride."

Russian's survival depended on heavy investments from the West after the Soviet Union collapsed. I do remember seeing on TV the bread lines in Moscow because they were not capable to fee themselves. The West literally rebuild their dilapidated agro and energy sectors throughout the 90s while they were waging two wars against Chechnya and overthrowing Gorbachev and Yeltsin at the same time. Putin turned the privatized economy back into a pseudo state-owned economy owned by him, but managed by his oligarchs who are just one step away from a window.

@@rambleon2838 That pretty much nails it.

In the early 90's my dad brought a lada car a Russian fridge and a Russian camera. No we have nothing

When Putin left Dresden Germany in 1989, his East German comrades gifted him a washing machine and a TV. The first images of the invasion was Russian solders stealing electronics, washing machines, air conditioners, toilets, and in one instance a small heating boiler.

It's the same thing with data coming from China. What's frustrating is that often the same people who tell us that Chinese GDP figures are completely made up at other times cite official Chinese growth numbers to explain what's going on there. We see plants closing, idle ports overflowing with empty containers, people unable to find work and are asked to believe that the GDP will just be growing 6% as a result. The fact that only fake data is available is not an acceptable reason to cite it as if it were real.

@ralph3728 I only owned a US-made cars when I was young and poor. Now I buy Japanese cars and European appliances.

You can thank the bean counters for most of that.

Comparative advantage, no country can make every thing a a consumer wants.

if EU was organic, there would be no trouble about rise of fertilizers' price. Organic farming is shortcut to famine.

Yes but extremely low Quality and that is why nobody want to buy them.

@@floriangyer5857 Russia was about to start selling one of their UAZ budget cars in U.S. but it was banned because of the "invasion" in 2022. Along with all the other products they were already selling all around the world.

The fact is: they will never sell it to the West.

@@floriangyer5857 Low quality? You make me laugh as you don't have a clue.

​@@floriangyer5857 how did you come to the conclusion that Russian made products are "low quality" ??? I have many online Russian friends they are all doing well and living comfortably. They are worried more about Ukrainian terrorists. Stop blindly believing the crap from Western media.

Only because russia used it's ICBM rockets, and was therefore the lowest cost producer. Those rockets are all gone. Unless russia plans on decommissioning it's strategic nuclear reserve, it's space program is defunct.

They buy drones and grenades from Iran and N-Korea, so their production levels are still equal to Italy's,like they've been for years.

All anecdotal talk with no facts or figures. Yeah, great job teaching the next generation of uncritical Americans.

Fertilizers are a form of mining, not really production, taking NPK from the earth and it is very destructive. I am sorry Brazil is destroying its lands with Russian chemicals.

@@EconLessons Good that only USA chemicals are Eco friendly :) I will tell you just 1 thing - BlackRock (BASF, Monsanto, Cargill) In USA all are Gen.modified raised food product In Russia all is natural grown (read un-modify )

​@@EconLessonsin modern world fertilisers are high tech products with an advanced chemistry technology

Nothing from most other Western countries too. Have you ever bought German tooling machines? Of course not, they are not consumer goods.

​@@BojanPeric-kq9etI bought a lot of german consumer products including several german made cars, a lot of powertools (Festool), Miele washing machine, dryer, vacuum cleaner, etc. The idea is that it just doesn't happen to be very good in an area which is not adressing consumers (for example tanks) and absolutelly zero in consumer area (for example cars), there is certain permeability between the 2, if you have good engineers designing tanks some would eventually resign and work designing cars and the other way around.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus remembered, but for some reason the Nginx web server did not, although this is a standard for highly loaded resources.

@@BojanPeric-kq9et

How about NGINX that runs 70% of internet webservers???

Russia is rather doing well for themselves despite being under sanctions.

Russia is not doing well. It is a bad player in the world and 50% of the people in the countryside have outdoor plumbing.

you prove his point, all of this is primitive resource extraction

@@MrKakibuy Who makes rocket engines for the US? Russia is fighting with its own arms against the combined arms of 21 major countries in the present war. They lack in consumer goods because Russia has always been geared towards war, as it is never given time and space and peace to breathe by the West, starting from 1854 Crimean war, Napoloen before that, Hitler after that, Cold war after that, and Ukraine in 2014.

@@donjoaoresort8565 no you are not. The US have no sent an aid package for 6 months. Ukraine is actually fighting now the combined arms of Russia, Iran, North korea and china. And they are doing very well despite not even having an air force. What makes you think russia creates rocket engines for the US lol? The US would never make itself dependent on another country in weapons.

@@MrKakibuy Mr. Educate yourself of some facts - Russia has been supplying rocket engines to US for 3 decades, and also NASA, even Musk said Russian engines are great! Iran supplied only drones - but for a year now the most effective drone is the Russian made 'Lancet' - heard of it? N Korea only old artillery shells. China is not supplying any arms. All this help is limited. The US gave cluster ammo (banned in 120 countries) the UK provided Uranium shells, (bad for environment) the Germans leopard tanks, Poland Jets and the Danes, Czecks - they all thrown the kitchen sink against Russia. US black Hawk patrols the black sea before attack on Crimea, UK personnel have a hand in Crimea attacks, and the US servicemen man the Patriot missiles! The French the Scalp and the UK the storm shadow; NATO officers present on the ground, as Estonia said, and Germany given everything ..............Yet....The Russians learn and adapt quickly and they made great strides in this one year. The Russians work quietly unlike the talk talk talking Ukies forever blabbering and lying lying lying. Ukraine had airforce in 1991 - Russia Ukraine the arms were divided 60:40. The Ukies did nothing, despite having a big advantage, while the Russians updated their weapons systems. After the war, no one will be able to touch Russia, and if the war continues till 2025, then Ukraine will no longer be a viable nation - as it has not been for 450 years! Sorry, you understand nothing! Better keep quiet and don't let others know your surface understanding.

Nuclear fuel is primitive resources? Really? 😂 ​@@MrKakibuy

"What about new sickles from Pennsylvania?" - they stop producing them 100 years ago

it isn't. also their weapons are crap, India and other countries cancelled many deals

@@MrKakibuy Crap? Seems to be holding up just fine against the much more expensive NATO hardware in Ukraine. Mil equipment is made to be destroyed so keeping it cheap is a good idea.

@@TaiganTundra what hardware? The west is using the aid to massively rearm while only sending Ukraine expried equipment from the 70's. Most of the 'amazing' russian weapons get destroyed by cheap fpv drones, and if their production is so good, where are the T14 armatas? I only see old soviet tanks.

​@@MrKakibuy Patriot, Abrams, Challenger, Bradley, Leopard, Bushmaster, M777, M113, NASAMS, Bofors L70, M109, RHIB, Stryker, International M1224 MaxxPro, Cougars, Oshkosh M-ATVs, Humvee, 18 155mm "Paladin" M109A6s, MIM-23 Hawk, AN/TWQ-1 Avengers, FV107 Scimitar Mk II, FV103 Spartan, FV104 Samaritan, CVR(T), Husky, just a small list, there's a gigantic wikipedia article on this. Furthermore Russia is also destroying western equipment with cheap drones, so what? What works works so both sides do it. Ukraine couldn't regain more than a few small cabbage patch fields with the epic counter-offensive despite even having a cool movie trailer.

@@TaiganTundra Yes and? all of these are cold war technology and not wunderwaffen by any measure. You can keep coping about the counteroffensive but the war is not over and Russia couldn't capture more than a few hundred square kilometers in 2 years now, and how many people did they lose? even the avdiivka "victory" did not achieve anything noteworthy. russia is about as close to win in Ukraine as the US was in vietnam. But hey, atleast you produce supersonic missles (Ukraine destroys oil refineries thousands of kilometers in russia with orders of magnitude less costs)

If a zircon comes your way, I think you will change your opinion.

@@arnoldsaunders6073 even their military equipment is crap. All Russia has are threats and propaganda.

@@arnoldsaunders6073 Almost all components are sourced from the West. Russian navy ships used to be built in Ukraine and Poland. The Shaheed drones are Iranian technology. Let's see how fast they can bring those refineries back on line with NLA spare parts from the West.

Yeah what can they line up with russia made brands against: Adidas Nike Mercedes Apple Samsung Sony BMW Ferrari Versace Siemens Bosch Miele … and the list goes on and on Its zero… like Z

It looks like they produce a lot of weapons.

Not just that, but US can't produce one type of fuel so it must be imported for Russia. Nobody wants to venture to project to build such facility because there are no guarantees that in few years US will not resume import from Russia.

@@BojanPeric-kq9et Odd isn't it. I would have thought self sufficiency in nuclear fuel would have been a mandatory requirement. Russia is apparently the dominant player globally in enriched uranium and continues to supply many countries with nuclear fuel . . . and no one talks about sanctioning that. Not much of a market for scythes these days, I guess. ;-)

@@cheztaylor8 I don't know technical details, but it is specific type of fuel. I know that nuclear fuel is not like coal or gasoline, there are many types for different types of reactors. Not directly related to Russia, but US didn't sanction China for gallium, but China effectively sanction US for it. And nobody in US administration ever thought about importance of gallium, unlike lithium which is very popular in media. Scythes are essential for next Children of the Corn movie!