Fall of Avdiivka - Russian Invasion of Ukraine DOCUMENTARY 

You're working on the albigensian crusades? I know that the cathars were a much bigger deal at the time but It would really be appreciated if you touched on the Waldenses who were killed at the same time. As a protestant I find them fascinating especially since they survived (albeit much reduced) to the present day. I've heard that some of them traced their movement to Claudius of Turin in the 800s although it's more commonly believed that Peter Waldo began the movement with his bible translation contemporary with the cathars.

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Can u do a video on the taliban? And thier conquest in 2021

It will be interesting to see the video of what happened in Georgia in Abkhazia and Samachablo in 1992 and 2008.

@@keithbrackett1665 And what, pray tell, is it?

Sadly :/

Its very bad when your country is absolutely nothing, just a mountain of free meat. In the end, such a toy will break or they will simply lose interest in it.

The problem at least in the us isn’t interest. It’s the fact that Trumps political faction have turned it into a political football against the rest of the government as they seem to be more and more pro Putin

What are you talking about? Only the imbeciles from Murica lost interest. Here in Europe we are talking about possible NATO troops in Ukraine, which we weren't talking a year ago... If anything European interest is increasing! Don't forget the Czech Republic's initiative for the 800K artillery shells, which we didn't have a year ago also. Slowly Europe is waking up, with the exception of Germany ofcourse... They will wake up soon, though.

Well it's not about losing interest It's about losing business War is a very good business The longer it lasts more profit u get So all this country trying to help Ukraine for freedom and independence and democracy . and u people really think that's the case. U are clearly brainwashed.

Considering that Russia was not integrated into NATO war machine... Of course Russian military complex has to produce everything itself, from shovels to guided missiles.

@@yamatohime2035 No shit. She has allies but at the end of the day she still has resources to produce the weapons her self. I have no idea why Nato thinks sanctioning countries still works. Especially Russia they clearly don't care.

It's more about optics for NATO members to remind them of it's authority to internal stakeholders, so it knows most of what it's doing is only for show but needs to keep doing so as to not lose it's ability to bring together the united power of it's members. Another key reason is the simple fact the NATO does not want to be the ones blamed for WW3, if it was not clear for one nation to block trade of another nation against it's will is very much an act of war. So for NATO to block for instance North Korea from supplying weapons or from China from it's own support would be deemed an act of war and this would be used as grounds by the dictators of the three nation as grounds for a global conflict. SO I know it can be frustrating when the solution to blocking Russia's trade seems simple, but the reality is far from simple and it will take much more hardship and a more clear global threat before any group like NATO is willing to act directly against this current Axis of aggression. @@mrbeep8096

@@mrbeep8096 because Nato after the collapse of USSR never dealt directly with an other equal super power, this tactic worked on Iraq and Syria and many other less poorer countries who do need access to international market. its about time some one who is equally powerful stepped in.

@@yamatohime2035 I would be surprising if a military dictatorship (Russia) is not able to produce weapons.

Ukraine lost 18 Command posts by the way, i cant catch numbers

Because the separatist had observed the area and informed the Russians about their secret escape roots like the big tunnel. Which a spetnaz group used to sneak in. Plus the Ukrainian soldiers 5hat defended it were demoralised from the failed counter offensive. So many surrendered instead of fighting.

@@shayaldwarka7907 won't matter if the supply route get mined

@@shayaldwarka7907that’s what terrible HR does. Ukrainian military is extremely corrupt and full of despotism and old heads. Imagine fighting under that constantly and failing

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@shayaldwarka7907dpr forces discovered the pipe shortly before using it themselves. Spetnaz weren’t involved in the pipe attack that was all dpr. I think the Ukrainians were more demoralised by the fact they were getting 20-30 fabs dropped on them daily than the counteroffensive. The large majority of Ukrainians that surrendered were immobilised (apparently quite a few were executed), those who could ran away even before the retreat order was given and many of those soldiers died from drones and artillery deployed mines

sounds like red alert 3

Bro that HistoryLegends joke is 2 years old now. Prigozjin wants his joke back. Yes, he did in fact push the shovel meme. Just look at him using the meme when standing with two russian soldiers. If I recall correctly he calls one of them "bieber". He himself made fun of the Russian army's equipment

You remember when the West said Russia was going to lose the war in a matter of months because of all the old equipment they had for war and how they were loosing too many soldiers.😂...there's videos of americans fighting for the russians

We shall never forget the real heroes of this war.... The bears. T_T

@@ninja.saywhatRed Alert 3 is probably why us millennials used to think Russia was formidable. Tesla Coils + Mammoth Tanks FTW! Now, after the failed invasion of Kiev, we’ve seen them in action, and Putin has inadvertently revealed his army to be a paper tiger to NATO. But also that he doesn’t care how many Russians die to get what he wants.

@@utewbd 2 months ago you said you “unsubscribed” and yet you’re still here.

ppl can watch videos without being subscribed :P@@LuisBrito-ly1ko

@@LuisBrito-ly1kolmaoooo

@@LuisBrito-ly1ko He is so done this time

@@LuisBrito-ly1komore shame goes to the one who checks other’s comment history.

No, these are bigger drones, think Orions and Bayraktars

@@KingsandGenerals Ahh, I see. Thankyou for clearing that one up.

Shaheeds are technically funny-looking missiles masquerading as drones.

I think a successful strike with a drone isn't a lost drone. Mostly because you wouldn't put a successful missile strike as a loss of a missile.

@@gunterthekaiser6190 True, but ALL missiles are designed to strike targets. I was trying to make the distinction between drones that were essentially missiles and ones that were reconnaissance assets.

That stat was reported by CNN, if I am not mistaken. Thing is Russian number is for all calibers and the western number is for 155mm only. Still not pretty, but this context matters.

@@KingsandGenerals We've scaled down production of almost everything military related here in the US. All of that money reportedly going to defense most certainly isn't. The criminals in the government are pocketing the money for themselves. Over half of our Congress are millionaires. We're being robbed blind, but everyone is too worried about whether or not someone has a "R" or "D" in front of their names.

​@@rodafowa1279Congress isn't directly siphoning money from the defense budget you would see them to be billionaires by now how congressman and woman makes their money is mostly through stock options as they get insider knowledge

​​@@rodafowa1279The reason is we have a lot of waste in our system with generally the US investing more into Air Force than Russia investing into artillery it's very simple Russia's has maintained their production for artillery rounds and US has gone for air superiority it's all the way back into the Cold war. in maintaining a modern Air Force like the US takes a lot of money if you notice that we are again upgrading the f-15 to EX because it's a lot of money to maintain modern stealthcraft operationally

​@@rodafowa1279You're just saying they're corrupt you providing no receipts no actual argument definitely there's corruption in the US system but the f****** hell everyone just yells corruption!!!!!!!! that's it nothing else

😂😂😂😂 something fishy going on there.

@@boxingsense3459 modern day ussr. Lets not forget its all Putin dreams about when he goes to bed.

SUS

I guess he was walking by a large window, the window suddenly opened up and he fell out of it

@@thementor664 Either that or large doses of plutonium.

Germany in WW2 (Operation BarboRossa)

@@jamesemis7376 Schlieffen Plan in the west front in WW1 too.

Plenty. Some of them since 19th century: 1. Napoleonic Peninsular war (7 years, winner: Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese coalition) 2. Second Boer War + follow up operations (4 years, winner: British Empire) 3. Mahdist war (8 years, winner: British Empire & Egypt) 4. First Italo-Ethiopian war (2 years, winner: Ethiopia) 5. WW1 Western Front (4 years, winner: Entente) 6. Second Sino-Japanese war (8 years, winner: China) 7. WW2 Eastern Front (4 years, winner: USSR) 8. US intervention in Vietnam (~6 years, winner: North Vietnam) 9. USSR intervention in Afghanistan (10 years, winner: Taliban) 10. US War in Afghanistan (20 years, winner: Taliban) 11. ISIS invasion of Iraq and Kurdistan (4 years, winner: Iraq & Kurdistan) 12. Saudi intervention in Yemeni civil war (9 years, ongoing) 13. 2022 Russo-Ukrainian war (2 years, ongoing)

"We'll be home by Christmas."

Yep...

a defender is mobilized by the offender ORC!... expect the cats and dogs to turn against your kind...!

Zelensky is afraid to announce an official mobilization because then his ratings will drop. But in fact, there are no men left in the small country villages - they have all been taken away.

Avg age of the Ukrainian soldier is Around mid-40's. The younger generation isn't interested in fighting

@@drunknklr3071According to Ukrainian law the minimal age for forced mobilization is 25. So those who are below 25 are only accepted as volunteers. Moreover, students do not have to fight according to the same law. In Ukraine you are a student from 16 to 23 years in general. That is one of the main reason of the average age mid-40. The other reason is the population pyramid of Ukraine. The number of people aged 40-60 is MUCH bugger than the number of people aged 20-40 (1990s was a very hard time in Ukraine due to hard transition from communism to capitalism - the fertility level seriously declined).

@@Anton_Danylchenkoeven in the capitalist west birthrates are dog shit. Just to point that out. Communism and capitalism kinda both have that in common.

The night is darkest before the dawn, it could very well be that this turn of events will push NATO towards bigger involvement from fear of Russia gaining further legitimacy from it's allied nations and how this unity among dictators would spell the end to global peace as we know it. Currently a possibly outcome would be for Putin to be assassinated by a local Russian leader as part of a internal political upheaval (of course it would be likely with support of foreign nations looking to end the conflict without a direct engagement). The litmus test for this outcome would boil down to Russian public opinion, the west lives in hope that Russia is wanting to be free of Putin but the reverse could be proven to be true should Putin be taken out of the picture and it be shown the the average Russian is as fanatical as the media portrays them to be (uniting behind an even worse dictator and pushing towards WW3). A key reason the average Russian dislikes the west is around the global energy revolution, Russia is still very much a traditional energy producer and faces economic destruction should it not be able to remain viable in a renewable's led energy future (it's massive troll campaign is very much also directed at attaching renewable's at any given chance). In fact the invasion of Ukraine was very much to buy time (along with other reasons) for it's energy sector to buy time while the world moves away from it's products. Ukraine's electric grid and it's nuclear/renewable growth meant it could undercut the nord pipelines or any attempt at Russian electric offerings to Europe (the massive amount of land between would make Russia's product more expensive then any offering by Ukraine). So it was no surprise when Russia invaded and systematically destroyed the energy infrastructure whenever it had the chance.

This ignores a multitude of factors

Could you go into more detail? I think the commenter's thought that Putin's position is more solid than it has been since the start of the war is accurate. As for the war of attrition, I wish I had a better idea of materiel production from both sides. Absolutely fascinating how modern war (excluding the US' barbaric invasions of Middle Eastern states) has become highly dependent on drones and anti-aircraft capabilities. I wonder what is going to be the next great military technology borne out of this war.

Correct. The West ( especially the U.S ) are only interested in quick easy victories. Once it’s clear that not the case they quickly loose interest. Their populations are tired of war after all the pointless conflicts their “leaders” have dragged them into the last few decades.

​@@KingsandGeneralslike what?

@@jooseppielleese7156 like the fact that 80% of the Russian National Wealth Fund has been spent over the last 2 years. Or that most Soviet tank/ifv/artillery storages have been ransacked and there is a limit to how many tanks/ifvs/cannons they can field. Russia has the initiative, but this is hardly over.

​@TheBigExclusive actually WW2 lasted almost 6 years

Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014.

because it lasts since 2014, when russian shitheads invaded Ukraine for the first time and annexed Crimea

It is 3 day operation, maybe the Jupiter days

​@@JamesBrown-rt3tq Given that Japan signed the unconditional surrender on September 2nd, the duration is 6 years and 1 day.

correct. The extended use of russian FAB bombs with the new gliding kit hammered down the ukrainian lines. These bombs can glide over 60-70km and the jets are out of reach from UA air defence.

So...why do you think they haven't been cycled? Because one simple explanation is there were no experienced, trained units to replace them.

Nah it's very clear that ever since the west lost interest in the war, ukraine stopped having any momentum. Before, ukraine was gaining ground.. Slowly, but they had victories. Now it's the other way around. I suspect the war to end in a complete russian victory as soon as trump is elected.

@@akhsdenlew1861 "Before, ukraine was gaining ground.. Slowly, but they had victories." Not gonna deny that in 2022 Ukraine made serious ground and the Russians were forced to retreat. However, while in 2023 they did gain ground they were minor and the Ukrainians wasted too much of their potential at that time. And if you actually look at the gains in 2023, at the actual land and the tactical significance of it compared to the general state of the war effort on both sides, at least in my opinion the Ukrainian offensive was disastrous for Ukraine. The only goal Ukraine achieved in 2023 was in PR and that was only true in the first part of the year. After that its all downhill. And the downhill part was so predictable because Ukraines offensive at least to me seemed like a guy who really pumped himself up, told all his friends how he was gonna fuck this guy up, made a trailer about how this guy who previously ran away was gonna get his ass handed to him, swallowed his own koolaid then ran straight into a brick fucking wall without a helmet. And well now hes brain damaged, lost a lot of his competency and decided it might be time to start building up a wall. Then when all his friends saw the state of the guy they kinda went...well you know...maybe we should rethink this.

@@Butmunch666 ok first you need to understand 1 thing. That even if west is giving ammunition and equipment, it is STILL a war between Ukraine and Russia. The fact that this war is still going and russia hasn't won already, is enough of an upset. EVERYONE around the globe were 100% of a quick russian victory. NOONE would believe that this war would end up in a 2year+ struggle. The ONLY reason that ukraine was, is and will be for a little bit longer in the game is becouse of the western support. Without the western support ukraine will just be part of russia. As i said... the west has already gained what they wanted to gain from this war. it is very clear that the west has no more interest in ukraine. Trump's election will be the final nail in the coffin. THE ONLY reason ukraine was making progress in 2022 and 2023 was becouse of some limited western equipment... 16 HIMARS vehicles did more damage to russia than russia's last 3 wars.

Yes

Yes and no, at the airbase south of advivka there was a panic. Majority of high rank officers abandoned the airbase and leaving a few hundred to fight on there own. But In the city they had a better chance of a tactical withdraw

@@matcha_546 fair assessment

@@myowngenesisThere was footage of roads leading out of Avdiivka absolutely covered in bodies of retreating defenders.

@@ByZHellas footage from whom! Putin pundits?

They lose them pretty quickly by drifting into minefields, so no need for long term logistics

@@SerialPatrik no they dont lmao

“Haha this war is like StarCraft” while hundreds of thousands of human beings are dead in the mud what the fuck is wrong with you what a place for a happy emoji

Nice joke (a bad one tho) but it is not so much as Moves per second as it is about managing momentum (of both sides) in accordance to the supply situation.

@@Darkcamera45 Surely the footage of the big offensive is all fake then

You mean just like every other war ever fought?

@@scottkrater2131 they are called proxy wars, but this one is modern and Russia and US are actually fighting each other be it directly or not so directly, unlike Syria

@@someguy4512 That's opinion, Russia didn't invade Ukraine to fight the US. And the Ukrainians resisting Russian aggression is not being a proxy of the US. Might as well say the Allies fighting Germany were just proxies of the US to fight the Germans before December 7th.

@@someguy4512 Your not a proxy defending your country against an invasion.

@@scottkrater2131 research what a proxy war is before commenting. the vietnamese where fighting U.S soldiers and it was a proxy war, Syrian and or Libyan civil war was a proxy war. have you forgotten Donetsk and Luhansk?

7-1 advantage in Avdiivka. Because not enough ammunition. Which forced Ukrainians to fight in a more dispersed formation and allowed the Russians to build up forces without worrying about the artillery barrages.

@@KingsandGenerals Oh wow thanks for replying to clarify, I appreciate it. I must have mistaken something.

Would it not be quite interessting to compare different sources of the losses from both sides? I think russia would have more accurate numbers related to ukraine and ukraine would have more accurate numbers related to russia. What do you think?@@KingsandGenerals I think the numbers of losses from ukraine from western sources are underestimated. Same story for russia

Россия не врёт!если будет лож с стороны России,вы и обвинения выдвинет!Информационную войну мы проигрываем,с этим не кто не спорит.

Потери Британии США Польши уже примерно 70 000

because all of this are mainly promises until 2027, what ukraine gets this year might be like a 25%, probably less of all of that so basically thats why. That in the grand picture is very little. than what a big country like russia can produce or buy. since these same countries keep buying russian gas , oil, grain...

@@horoshkoaleksandr273ad hominem

Well russia do receive a ridiculous amount of shells from north korea and another factor is they are not outproducing the rate of losses they are pulling out a bunch of equipment the soviet already make. The west isnt as committed to that degree as russia is.

They are buying shells from North Korea which has been stockpiling since the 50s and more than likely buying ammo from Iran and China

For one, Ukraine has only received a small portion of pledged equipment. For another, countries are not giving all they can produce to Ukraine. They are giving what they fee they can spare

Because people like to compare all of Russia vs all of Ukraine. When in reality, it's around equal. If Russia went full YOLO then yes. But people are really bad at analyzing stuff. No one on youtube is an expert. And the "experts" are incredibly biased. Russia needs these pitched battles because they can't push against the whole line. They have to concentrate around a single battle.

@@nicholasgutierrez9940 well of course, but that is a local superiority. If both sides are equal it means that if 1 side concentrates force in one area, the other side can do the same or concentrate it's forces and push in another. But if the numbers discrepancy is 7 to 1 over all, the battlefield would look like the Ukraine 2022 offensive. they would just rush B.

Maybe it could reach 7 to 1 theoretically in certain places where the manpower was concentrated but it it’s unrealistic if we mean total numbers probably like 500K Russians in the war zone vs. 700-800K Ukrainians.

In the case of Avdiivka, where Russians did have a total air and artillery advantage, defending with fewer numbers was prudent.

Russia keeps adding people to the ranks while Ukraine struggles to do so, that's one difference anyway

He openly supports Ukraine. As many many countries do. But that doesn’t mean the information is wrong in any way. This is the most reliable channel for in depth view of the battlefield. Accuracy here is leagues ahead of what you get from the Russian. Even ukranians which tend to be less delusional in reporting the battlefield. But still exaggerate. Another good channel is Perun. He also supports Ukraine. But is extremely unbiased in his reporting.

@@IrrationalCharm Do you so ardently defend propaganda channels because you lack a brain or is it easier for you to live?

@@dupapek So if it doesn't support your side it's propaganda then

@@gundissalinus not according to UN General Assembly. The vote overwhelmingly condemned the invasion of Ukraine with 141 votes in favor. 35 abstained (including “best of friends” China, Iran, South Africa). And 5 against. Russia, North Korea, Eritrea, Syria and Belorussia. Now what do these countries have in common? lol

@@gundissalinus I live in the said “west” I haven’t met a single person, not one, who is openly on Russias side. Everybody knows Russia is a shithole, dictatorship, heavy censorship. Proof? Russians flee to the “west” nobody goes to Russia.

Fewer than Russians, that's certain.

"Estimating the start at such an early stage, even before the end of the operation, is very difficult and carries the risk of quite large errors. After the above warning and coming to the point: The minimum personnel losses of the RUS can be estimated from October 2023 in the battle for Avdiivka at: 15-18 thousand dead 38-45 thousand injured total loss of people: 53 - 63 thousand I emphasize that these are estimated and minimum values. Realistically, they may be higher, but in my opinion, writing about 50,000 deaths and 100,000 deaths. this is wishful thinking with no support from anything other than AU propaganda. Ukrainian losses are estimated by pro-Russian sources at 5,000-7,000 dead, but in my opinion they are greatly overestimated. Based on my sources, I estimate very uncertainly at up to 3,000-4,000 dead and about 15,000 wounded. But this value will certainly be revised. I estimate the irretrievable personal losses at approximately 5:1 minimum in favor of the Ukrainians. Return personal losses, however, are less favorable and amount to a minimum of 3-4 to 1. Again, I emphasize that these are the first estimates" J.Wolski 19.02.2024

avdiivka not avdeevka

@@technologystrong5190 avdeevka is russian spelling, avdiivka is Ukrainian spelling.

@ns987 Авдіївка is Ukrainian spelling, it also did not change since its settlement in 1778. the Russian spelling however is Авдеевка and because it's now controlled by Russia you can argue that but it still is disputed territory therefore should be named Авдіївка (avdiivka)

yes they are!... also Poland is losing face world wide with this development... keep that in mind!

is there a difference between prime minister and president? are they two separate things?

In Europe presidents usually are just figureheads, going to meetings with the heads of other states, saying some fancy stuff at new years eve and so on... They have no real power, except in France. The prime minister controls the government. Btw go go Poland.

@@user-McGiver Poland is losing face in the minds of 50 year old RU-vid commenters World WIDE!

@@melvinbrotherofthejoker436 for sure... but we're not the only ones... the thing is that WE 50-60 yr old rule the world... you 12 yr olds have to survive OUR RULE and a couple more to get your chance,,, so suck it up just as your Big Brother ''The JOCKER'' DID!

same difference.

This channel is another propaganda of the globalists of the Democratic Party. There's no truth here

7-1 advantage in Avdiivka. Because not enough ammunition. Which forced Ukrainians to fight in a more dispersed formation and allowed the Russians to build up forces without worrying about the artillery barrages.

@@KingsandGeneralsthat should have been better explained. It sounded like it was talking about the entire front

@@LEFT4BASS Entire front is around 1 to 1 in manpower. However, Russia artillery has significant advantage in numbers across, which allows Russia to concentrate forces by stripping other fronts.

All this is based on speculation. Ukraine says something they believe them instantly because of heavy bias. EU and US frogs. I don't believe none of them and I am from Russia. Their numbers always screwed in their favor either to claim an advantage or a victim status (women right, gay rights, LGBT you know, used to it).

do you always need help crossing the street? your a adult now?

The world is not throwing even 1% of its GDP.

​@@randomaccount0023except its a fact unlike you bots who are just here to inject a narrative. Tell your overlord to not scare the west with nukes then west vs russia will become true.. russia will get to see what west really has. You only see surplus of weaponry in ukrain..

​@@graham5716He just replied with a logical answer to Russian propaganda

"the world is really throwing everything at russia" huh pardon??? the USA and the rest of NATO have barely sent anything to ukraine, when NATO start's sending thousands of abrams, leopards and F-35's ill start thinking they're throwing everything at them

West is most of the worlds GDP, but even West doesn't throw 1% of its GDP@@timtam53191

Swampland with occasional rivers.

they just can't, cuz russia is not USSR. diffrent economy, population, resources

Stalin was using 300 tanks as a decoy per week...

theres no way its that low. russia loses that much in a month. if they only made that many tanks, they be out of tanks which isnt the case

they would not be out of tanks because they had over 10,000 in storage. You mix new production and restoration of older tanks together like they have been doing, and they would still be fine. This is what is happening@@Theaverageazn247

@@Theaverageazn247The 300 is specifically newly produced. They're also refurbishing outdated tanks from the rather large Soviet era stockpiles. It's estimated to be roughly breaking even now.

I need ammunition, not a prayer. - Zelensky, probably

Then let zelensky go to the front lines.

@@Ghaztoir Doubt that will help without ammo.

@@liantuanghawlhang What is your source for that statement lol

This is a complete delusion, in all countries in which grain is imported there are mandatory checks that the grain must pass. If they did not pass any inspection, then it would not be imported. The reason for the cheapness of grain is that the prices on the international grain exchange are lower than usual, and Russia is to blame for this, which stole Ukrainian grain and sells it at reduced prices.

@@nicholasognev8716It's imported without the inspection though, hence the protests.

@@skun406 it is checked in all EU member states. What evidence do you have? Where does this information come from?

In this case I would suspect it's a bit more convoluted then a case of farmers being undercut by foreign growers (yes this may the the end conclusion but to get here there is an elephant in the room needing to be discussed). That elephant in the room just happens to be international big business, with it's combined power to influence regulation (leveraging things like quality of crop to it's advantage) the end result is the farmers who are forced to work under these rules lose the ability to self produce things like seeds or the ability to self manage fertilisation and pest control over their fields. As time marches on the companies extend their influence over farmland via intellectual property and in many ways can be seen as joint owners in every farm that uses their products despite being paid by the farmers for the product and the business not actually buying the farmland itself (if it does it is with the money paid to it by the farmers in the first place). There is much debate about how this process of corporate control will take shape in the next stages of it's push to control global food production. One outlook could see mega farms appear and the average farmer pushed out of business (forced to sit on fertile soil and unable to produce commercial offerings due to the seeds and everything else needed being owned by the big companies and the regulations making any attempt at growing food illegal). The other option would see farmers taking on debt to the companies they get their products from and this debt being leveraged as growing ownership over their farmland until they are run out of business, from here automation would pick up and the farmlands would be run into the ground with only a few major centralised farmlands remaining in each nation (again the big finish would be the mega farms but in this case there would be a few more steps involved). The European Union like much of the rest of the world needs to contend with the growing power of a few to control the means of food production on a global setting before the world itself if brought to it's knees in a way not yet seen before (Russia would likely be laughing the entire way as it needs global anarchy for it to continue it's goal of toppling the world order in its favour)

ukraine is NOT an EU member and perhaps that is the reason why it is not being checked@@nicholasognev8716

your so smartttt

Rafal Mekler, leader of the Confederation Party, is pro Russian and is a leading figure in the protests, despite not being a farmer. Also, why arent the protesters objecting to Russian grain? 12 million tonnes of Russian grain are imported each year into the EU compared to 4.3 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain.

@@mango2005 He is only a minor leader (of a minor party) in the voivodeship bordering Ukraine, imo he tries to make his own local politics on that matter. But yeah I agree, and as I said in my first comment, there are some black sheep in every society, nevertheless, in Poland there is far less of the pro-russian ones compared to some other EU countries. And about the russian grain import: the difference is that we did import russian grain before the war, and we still unfortunately do (though there is a plan to stop this). We also did import some of the ukrainian grain, but now as the war is ongoing, Poland became a literall dumpster for ukrainian farmers to sell their produce easily, without transporting it very far. That is the issue: the massive influx in import of low-grade, cheap ukrainian grain, that replaces the polish one.

thank blackrock

Not only Poland; the Agricultural sectors of other European countries (including France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Bulgaria and Romania) also feel the unfair competition with the much cheaper grain imports from Ukraine.

You're saying this despite slogans like "Putin please come and clean up this mess!" used by protestors? And atleast one person being charged with prison because of it?

It's not Western, it's Ukrainian

There's no such thing as "Western propaganda", cope. Propaganda implies governmental control over the media which is non-existent in the freedom of media democracies. Western media just reports naked truth as it is with either left-wing or right-wing bias. While kremlin has an all-out war propaganda machine full of lies and post-modern "you'll never know the truth" paradigm, typical for the dictatorships. Get the facts right

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@@skun406 Western

Western propaganda is everything that makes me emotional because I don't believe in it

Plus, assuming 4,000 pounds/shell, that’s only about 60k shells, which is what Russia uses every week.

You mean the AZOV Neo-Nazis that got smoked?

Some of them were smoked with Skander missile before reaching the city when they were grouping up

@@profinneupane6883 That was proved to be a lie. Russia claimed to hit a training ground that was for some reason only 20km away from the front, you do not put a training ground that close to the front and you don't send one of your most battle hardened units to training they do that everyday in the field, it's nothing but propaganda from a regime known for lying daily. Also it's spelled Iskander.

The 3rd assault brigade azov i find them quite unsympathetic with their Hindu symbols

@ambroisep.p8706 good thing they cleaned up the unit of those elements, now try an argument that isn't an outdated russian talking point

That is most likely a Ukrainian exaggeration. We are not seeing even 200 new T-90Ms annually.

@@KingsandGenerals I see !

at some point

please do include namibia in it 🙌, it doesnt have to be of considerable length even just a mention would do, please@@KingsandGenerals 🙌

@@KingsandGenerals Sure that would be an interesting war to follow, but at the moment, just stick to the current productions.

The US has the stockpile but not the political will to use them in this fight. Which honestly feels even worse then just not having them in general. This is the best chance to knock out Russia as a geopolitical rival for the rest of the century, but congress is just sitting in their thumbs because it's an election year so everyone insists on acting more absurd than normal.

​@FallingPicturesProductions regardless of what the US decides, it will be shit on by the global community. If we didn't get involved at all, if we put troops on the ground, or if we met in the middle and ramped production. Someone would cry "well the US Should've done this instead". We have a ton of issues ourselves, although the vast majority of Americans favor Ukraine, we can't ignore our own problems either. Its important to not that a lot of US media is incredibly left leaning, like the New York times, so the world only sees 1 perspective. Europe is just as much to blame, they were all incredibly relaxed on defense spending, until Russia scared them into action.

It would leave the pacific front vulnerable as well. US values Taiwan more than Ukraine, not that they care about the Taiwanese people though, they’re just a puppet interest for US influence in the pacific.

If Russia was half as mighty as the world thought it was, Ukraine wouldn’t have survived the first year of the war. I’m not too worried about the west being able to beat Russia.

US don't need to go full total war, if they need no other country can match USA war industry.

Don't you know? The only reliable sources are western media and the government. Don't question or research this stuff. If you do, you're a "Russian agent". 😅

@@RicArmstrong Our truth and reliable sources vs their propaganda and lies!

Consider this - the Kremlin has made it illegal to question anything they say about the war in Russia. Not even a pro-Putin blogger could save himself when he committed "suicide" after revealing the true scope of Russian losses in Avdiivka.

Michael Kaufman for one. RUSI.

Obviously not the case. You don't hoard ammunition. Ukraine needs 5-10k shells daily and they are not getting it.

@@KingsandGenerals dang didn't know it was that much daily

​@@SaucyAlfredoand russians use, 2-3x more if I remember correctly. I don't know if you can even imagine that, it's hard for me to comprehend this magnitude of artilery barrage

Clearly Russia is doing well, given the fact they're able to hand out all these free flying lessons to their biggest detractors

I have to wonder what Russians think of these lines. Do they really think it was suicide or is it more of a tounge in cheek thing?

Well is bad weather all the time in rusia 😂😂😂

​@@Lili_Chen2005я например даже не знал о существовании этого блогера. С другой стороны я как и многие русские прекрасно понимаем, что на самом деле случается когда кто то внезапно исчезает или заканчивает жизнь самоубийством.

He actually committed suicide. Before this, he wrote a suicide post on his Telegram channel

First you need to understand that wars are not linear. "If we invest X amount of money, we will win" is not how wars are fought. Second is the limited information we have on the opposing forces. For instance, unlike the first months of the war when Russia used mostly BMP-3s, now BMP-1s and MTLBs are used to desant the infantry. What does that mean? Does that mean that Russia lost too many 3s and can't replace them or that 1s are more numerous? We don't know. Same with the tanks - older, less modernized tanks are now in use more than before. Again, we don't know why. What about the will to fight? How can you quantify it? In short, no one can give you a number.

They're not going to, I doubt anyone is expecting them too. I don't think there is any chance of status quo ante bellum, and little chance Russia will give anything up without some major event shifting the tide entirely. What is being played for is exhausting Russia to the point they are unable to launch more special operations, but not to the point where the state collapses.

@@KingsandGenerals i mean that 200 billion aid is not bring ukraine to a good position in this war....now they give them less...you can conclude that yourself. ukraine backed by Nato+ country strugle to provide ukraine with 1 million shell....that saying something.....trump is going to be president....it still unclear to me how ukraine gonna win this war

Because you are thinking linearly. Wars are not won or lost on paper. And they are rarely rational.

They will lose the sooner they negotiate a peace deal with Russia the better they will get a better deal now than in 6 months time the question isn’t weather Ukraine will lose but when

Depends on your definition of a victory. Will Russia get pushed back to pre-war borders? Most likely not. Will Russia win this war without a massively bleeding nose? I've seen videos from people living in Russia and the economy there is in an even worse spot it had been before. Not to mention civil unrest everywhere but Moscow. I have no doubt that this war will eventually end in a treaty that will see Russia going home wit ha hefty chunk of Ukraine. But whether or not they'll be able to keep things stable in their own borders is another matter entirely. The main thing that keeps Putin in power is money, and a lot of powerful people are very salty about how deep he's starting to dig in their collective purses. Putin is far more replaceable than he makes himself out to be. Time will tell, but I wouldn't be surprised if NATO as a whole comes out of this stronger, while Russia will have a limp and internationsal shame/isolation to deal with for years to come. Whatever the case, none of this was worth the cost in human life...

People said the same thing to me two years ago lol. Take a look at the facts and how war machines run and it was obvious how the war was going to go so far for the most part. Reading about wars past and how the soviets conducted themselves you can point to all the similarities. I don’t think it will be clean but I think Russia may eventually have to back down, as long as goods flow in from the west and grain and other exports flow out, Ukraine will more than likely hold for at least three more years

继续坚持挺好的，欧洲国家会有越来越穷，国内越来越多游行，动荡不安

@@michaelsanchez7848 I actually don't think you're right. I think that the decline from here on out is going to accelerate dramatically. And the bigger problem with that is that the worse things get for Ukraine the worse all of their issues will get as the western partners slowly back out. I'll gladly eat my words if I'm wrong but in my opinion whatever remains of Ukraine will be a shitty rump state that potentially even loses Odessa. But we'll see. If NATO sends troops directly then we're all gonna probably die and this won't have any relevance anyway.

@@Butmunch666 that's the golden question, is support directly proportional to success. I feel in the United States it's more of a case of domestic neglect from our politicians fueling a resistance to give foreign support. average citizens feel their tax money is just being wasted and many are going hungry. roads aren't getting fixed, many cities are just falling apart.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wKU3-lynxH0.html Or search 'kings and generals music; will lead to a big old playlist of all the music they use. I'd narrow it down for you, but it is like 400+ videos.

Ammo is expended, not hoarded.

The problem is with framing. There were never billions of dollars, it was equipment. And among the equipment pledged and delivered, the artillery ammunition is lacking.

What is your point? Artillery ammunition has to be ordered and the west is lacking capacity at the moment. The most money was in other aid like TANKS or armored vehicles etc

Most of the money went to American companies that made stuff to send to Ukraine. As for what happened to the ammunition, it was shot in the direction of the invading/occupying forces.

​@@KingsandGeneralsno need to answer russian bots.

It is done by Time-Ghost, not K&G. The channel is called World War Two. It is an excellent series

​@@rantymcrant-pants9536 ?? kings and generals has a 132 episode week by week i finally went and looked and its members only unfortunately witch makes me super sad because its the best series on yt its been members only for the past 7 months but i would highly recommend checking it out atleast now i found out that its still ongoing and i can become a member in the future and catch up on all the missed episodes

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@@KingsandGenerals Cheers thank you!

But veryblow quality informations

Russia is a democracy even more LOL, found the vatnik

@@deadlock_problem never claimed that russia is the democracy. it's a very-well running dictatorship, which i don't mind and even support, when comparing to "democracy" in the west, which is not democracy at all. btw have you already transitioned? what's your pronounce?

@@ilyazugumov3763 "well running dictatorship" a country next to europe with 150 million people, a rich history of innovation and lots of land and resources should be running ALOT better. Educated people should not be leaving that country en-mass, the country in question should be contributing to science/technology and culturally a lot more than it is doing. It is not running well. >transitioned? what's your pronounce? ESL

@@deadlock_problem Ukraine is so democratic they just stopped having elections.

@@Theaverageazn247 I wonder why a country would stop having elections. Oh yeah it's at war with it's aggressive neighbor that is a dictatorship.

NATO isn't fighting and ukraine isn't in NATO, are you the product of Russian education? No wonder you country hasn't done anything for the last century.

And somehow still winning? What is this? How is russia still winning despite almost a million losses, weak economy, weak weapons, thousands of sanctions and against 1st world countries from america, south korea, japan to european superpowers. I've lost hope in this war tbh 😢

Nice bots

People do vote freely and fair and in secret as democracy should. Not suddenly fly off some apartments 😅

@@eddyr1041 Interesting where they vote since elections are no more in Ukraine

​@@eddyr1041didn't Ukraine ban their opposition party while simultaneous ban the russian language before the invasion

Ha Ha Ha

@@bunnitomoe3866 Complete Rubbish. I feel like its the same 20 people ferociously going around liking every dumb comment they find

Since the start of the war 2764 of which 86 were added in the latest update.

@@barabaralennin9653 thank you❤

@@Esta_Chan it's only confirmed with video or photo. In reality many tanks are damaged miles from the frontline and evacuated for repair or parts. Russian losses are much much higher.

@@MercurialStaticI wanna know too actually. Lol

@@gaz4553lol

The video, I'm commenting on@@MercurialStatic

If you're asking about specific points in the video I'm thankful for, these are: - the author's position throughout the war - the war is unprovoked, and Russia is the aggressor - maps on which it is indicated that Crimea and other occupied territories are Ukraine, but occupied - the author notes that Ukraine is a democratic country, despite Russian propaganda - other mentions by the author about a lot of Russian propaganda, which is still propaganda, not truth @@MercurialStatic

Didn't your country suspend elections?