Russia doing 'terribly badly' in Ukraine as war economy causes problems for the Kremlin | Robert Fox 

Russia is not civilized.

I don't understand the purpose

Russia is not a civilised nation. It is one small step up from serfdom.

ruzzia is not a 'civilised country', it is a medieval dictatorship.

NATO calls this sort of thing 'collateral damage'. It was a phrase cin constant use during the wars in the M.E. especially with Obama's drone program that would hit weddings and funnerals.

I am Russian. And if people only knew what inflation we have and what it has done to pensioners😢

That's why Russia was doomed to failure before it started.

@@dpelpal Really???You are the victim? Nobody cares anymore until your CRIMELIN burns!!

@@dpelpal - shame - grow a spine

It will collapse. I know it sounds like wishful thinking and all that, but Russia really will collapse. It is the biggest country on Earth spanning from Poland to Japan, containing countless of different nations and all of this is running on oldschool 19th century imperialism mixed with pure mafia kleptocracy and constant looking for an external enemy to cover up critical domestic failures. There is simply no power in the universe to hold Russia together long term.

Possibly, although from what I've seen, just a commitment of 12 months would probably be enough for Ukraine to grind Russia to a defeat, because as Russias economy is cracking and it's stockpiles grow empty, it'll lose a lot of it's pushing power on the frontlines, esspecially as Ukraine seems to keep chipping away at Russias fleet of glide bomb carrying aircraft (F16s will expedite that massively). After that, Ukraine seems to be on rather solid ground in terms of it's domestic production of stuff like drones, which are effective enough to enable them to hold territory quite well. Combined, if the prediction is accurate (and 18 months is actually on the long end for Russias economy breaking, although it's about on track for running it's stockpiles dry) then Ukraine could probably hold on the remaining 8 months and keep hitting Russias economic stuff during that time. But don't worry, from what I've seen, a lot of Eastern European countries are committed to supplying Ukraine artillery shells for at least 2 years, with production ramping up significantly, which is definitely long enough to grind Russia into giving up all the territory they've stollen.

Waste of money

​@CountDuckEgg You would rather let Russia conquer Ukraine so that then Russian imperialist forces continue further west and invade a NATO country so that NATO countries are at full scale war with Russia which will cost a heck of a lot more money and will mean casualties of NATO soldiers? That's a really strange, illogical attitude. Why would you want to spend even more money later on and have NATO casualties and sacrifice Ukraine in the process instead of saving money and lives by stopping Russian forces now in Ukraine? You sound like someone who would refuse to pay to fix a hole in your house even though it's going to cost you much more money later to repair the damage caused when rain and animals go through the hole into your house.

@@CountDuckEgg You mean, just like the war against the Nazis!

@@geofflepper3207 I don't care at all about Ukraine. Ukraine is supposed to be a 'sovereign, independent' country. It can defend itself.

Absolument vrai !

@@mickelodiansurname9578 agree totally

There's no more reason to take Western promises seriously than there is to take Russia's. So only material guarantees of security are viable.

@@raymondg7565 Not to mention the world laughing at the Rushin' army🤭

​@@dpelpal😅

I feel horrible for civilians 😢

@Bootsa1727 He _did_ say "Kyiv three days". There are tons of clips

For a minute there you almost lost me.

@@govinda102000 You too are laughing at Rushin' army? 🤭

@@govinda102000are you lost? Follow Russian ship Moskva

@@alhambrabiker1476 Or the 27 other Rushin' ships Ukraine has now sunk😅

Russia will have to pay for putin's crimes. Poland will take Kaliningrad Krolowiec and Finland will take back Carelia and china will take half sibir ...putin was catastrophic for russia. A free democratic russia will be after the fall of criminal dictator putin.

😭😭😭😭😭

How did they manage to do it with a Ukrainian SAM missile? Thats like double evil, making Ukraine hit their own hospital. So there were no military targets around then?

What state today doesn't target civilizations, hospitals and schools during war? It has been total since WWI.

With US SUPPORT! Russian have US approval, and they confirm their actions. Russian celebrate and laught at the naive... european NATO members ...

I stopped listening after he uttered that sentence.

@@andyb6866 he lost all credibility at that point, from “pessimist” to Russian shill in a phrase.

Yep, it's a regime without democratic legitimacy because the Cokehead of Kiev refuses to hold elections.

Regime doesn't really have any connotations in proper usage, he is probably just posh.

@@bevgroves8062 he means the "current" Kyiv regime, it's like saying the Washington regime. Referring to the current administration.

They won't cos they are all cowards full of talk and f#$k all else

How I agree.

Unfortunately the UN was set up with this idea that important nations of the day like the UK and US and France etc... and the USSR would remain forever as important countries. That was short sighted, very short sighted, it worries me so many diplomats and politicians worldwide can be so wrong despite their knowledge... So Russia as a permanent member of the security council can't be removed.

Ditto .

Hysterical.

@@walterbenja7052 😂 COPE dude ...the bridge is fine

@@JohnCSmith-lp1qrI wonder what it must be like to wake up each day as a Russian bot, knowing you have no soul.

​@@JohnCSmith-lp1qri am sure your real name is Ivan Putinov Russian Bot

@@realitycheck4156 That's old and boring dude lol...I'm Greek. Ivan is not a Greek name! sorry to disappoint you

And the US has a choice of Chamberlain or Mussolini.

😢

Agreed. The world is sleep walking into another world war.

They don't need our permission and we can't do anything about it anyway.

​@@xD3MONxIxSOULx😂😂😂😂😂

I feel so sad for the innocent ppl n babies

Everyone does this, nothing new. US and Israel have done the same.

This war started in 2014 Initiated by azov brigade (Ukraine)

Putinowsky has never been serious ... he was lying from the beginning as learned at the secret service ... liying deceiving denying ... nothing more to say😎

Serious politician that ruined his own country with fertility rate near 0.78 pear woman, millions migrants with low chance to return and hungeds thousents of dead and wounded. Very serious politician

@@xuzisnwn talking about Russia?

​@@xuzisnwnputin this that to them

Such as in Kherson and Kharkiv, and Kyiv. Now Russia lose Vovchansk. Imagine, Russia 20 times larger than Ukraine, has lost 550,000 men, cannot even take 10% of second poorest country in Europe😂

​@@dpelpaltheir incompetence is legendary

@@tomw.6757 Russian army is now laughed at the world over lol.

Not as much as TR

@@stu281 I am Russian live Samara. Do you know what it's like living in a country with people laughing at your army? Russian army is mixture of old alcoholics and loser without job. This is why Russia has now lost half the land they had in Ukraine since 2022.

Ukraine does not belong to you though you think it does. When people wave a flag you know what that means? This flag belongs to me. If Russians waved the Ukrainian flag it would mean the same. But you don't see it that way because you've been brainwashed to believe that nations are a construct and all human beings are citizens of the world. America - of which you are a mere minion - tried to take Ukraine. What do you think military bases mean? What do you think a coup is? What do you think billions of dollars is for? A free picnic? Just delusional. You'll be woken up at some point, lets hope it's not after a nuclear bomb. In answer to the question, Putin has never evinced any desire to spread out. Russia is a massive territory and he has enough pressure keeping it together. There have been only two times his tanks have rolled across the borders and guess what? They are both nations that the Military Empire you reside under tried to take.

False. Russia is crushing the Ukrainian military. Ukraine has lost 500,000 dead, Russia less that 80,000. Putin gave them one last chance to negotiate, and it was refused. Now Ukraine will be destroyed and it’s their fault for refusing multiple offers of a peaceful solution by Russia. The next move will be Russia forcing the complete surrender by Ukraine. Russia just passed Japan as the 4th biggest economy in the world and getting stronger. Their military has tripled in size. Russia has always been winning, and now they have won.

And that didn work either. So yet another $1 billion missile barrage with a little dramatic and sensationalist effect.

not just occupied territory; the "offer" was for Ukraine to give up even more than what is occupied.

He's waiting till after the election.

@@nicocrestmere9688 i hope so really do

Amen to that !

Героям сала

No not really, NATO does. It have a mandate to get involved directly. Ukrainians though are indeed magnificent 👍

Toilet bowl looted from Ukraine.

trump is the toilet, the sewer

US would, creating their superior ubermench... collonial identity.

i really hope you are right

they also are not giving them enough to win

@ganrimmonim Not much is at stake for NATO for Russia however it is, we have one side having nothing to lose and the other that have everything to loose, you high expectations of NATO would only be true if Russia actully went on invading more countries, Ukraine alone is not that much of power grab

Russia had its first 1917 revolution less than three years into WW1. Maybe the Russian people are not willing to put up with this amount of suffering due to a pointless war for a full three years without revolting. Of course it's true that Russia stayed in WW1 after the first revolution but still the second 1917 revolution indicated that the Russian people really start getting upset when a pointless war goes past three years. Maybe that suggests the possibility of a Russian revolution by late next spring if the war is still going on at that point. Another winter of Russians freezing in the dark in their apartments is not going to make them happy.

​I feel bad for innocent victims esp children 😢

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🇨🇦 lol

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Actually, Putin can’t afford for the war to continue. He desperately wants a ceasefire without offering anything.

"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit." Oscar Wilde.

“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.¨ Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn

@@boink800 so clearly you're against MAGA idiocy and the coming Trump kleptocracy? Wise man....

It would take to long to learn them to fly.

@@MathyBoonen Same time as learning to fly an F-16, and they were ready a year before any F-16s were confirmed for Ukraine.

@@seanlander9321 we have ukr. Pilots for 2years now in training now. They didn´t know anything about flying this kind off plane. Shows how advanced they are compared to any su fighter they flew before. And those planes f16 or f18 need a big maintenace crew.

@@MathyBoonen Yep, the maintenance training and training equipment were all part of the Australian package, same with spares. The point is though that Australia hasn’t put any restrictions on donated weapons, whereas the F-16’s won’t be allowed over the Ukrainian border to tackle the Russian planes dropping glide bombs. So wouldn’t it have been smarter for Ukraine to have FA-18s without restrictions too, particularly since they have asked Washington for older versions for ground attack?

@@seanlander9321 i didn´t know australia donated crews also. My bad. Maybe the f16 is easyer than the f18? Don´t really know. All i know is that belgium and the netherlands are renewing their air force. So we have a lot off f16 that can be donated.

I suggest you bust out a calculator. At the current rate, Russia can keep going for hundreds of years... well... if we entirely ignore economic needs for a labor force etc. Anyway, the point is they aren't running out of men anytime soon. They will run out of money long before they run out of people.

​You are correct they won't run out of men, however most of the deaths on the russian side consist of actual military personnel and maybe some reserve soldiers. It will at some point result to more drafted working men who are less capable and experienced in war, it is starting to near that point as there have been quite a few mobilisations in Russia over the past year r​@@a5cent

@@a5cent Russia has a male population crisis and this is why Putin is trying to bring in a law for women to have children. 500K soldiers either dead or badly wounded. They will not be having kids, paying tax. This is Russias problem as their reserves are running out. They may not run out of men soon however their economy will be in ruins. When the war is over they will have to pay massive amounts of money to compensate Ukraine. Let’s also not forget that winter is coming and at the rate Russia is loosing refining capacity they are going to suffer somewhat.

Not when compared to Biden and Trump - he's 57. I think to be an old man you need to be in your 70s and there are plenty of 70 year olds fitter and sharper than people in their 30s.

Mark Rutte is easy to underestimate is what he is trying to say.

Trump whistler

Two and a half. The chairwoman of the central bank confirmed it. High interest rates/inflation. Low foreign investment/ Severe labor shortages. It's always the economy which lets down your ambitions.

@@stephenhill545 Really? Because I'm seeing the complete opposite. I'm also looking at nonbiased sources.

Oh I believe it will last at least another two years.

How many times have we heard that now? I've lost count.

6 months from now this war ends from inside Russia when it’s house of cards collapse, it will happen when winter comes

yes it will

It will go until November when trump hands Putin the win

Perhaps but his information about Trump is outdated. The US media is making Trump look like a winner but he's more of a whiner and losing quickly. Biden has appeared in public 18 times in the last few weeks. Trump has held "rallies" to sparse crowds who tend to leave after a few minutes because all he does is talk about himself and how badly he was treated. I have yet to hear one good thing he intends to do for the American people.

@@acreguy3156 Thanks for the update!

@@robinstevenson6690 Glad to help, Robin 👍.

Ukrainians can't do much as they are under brutal martial law.

Same.

Lol

Russia was going to win in just three days ... remember? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

@@boink800я помню другое, ну даже допустим кто то из новостей говорил про три дня, не победим за три дня, а за три года, что это изменит? Победа, все равно победа.

Look at a map. You are spectacularly wrong.

@@primum_parare Can we not speak English? No? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

Yeah, he is speaking from someone that has live a life of privilege and safety. The Ukrainian people don't have the luxury of just giving up. They know what awaits them if they allow Russians to take control of their country.

Chamberlain is still hovering in the UK

Everyone with a bit of brains knows that if Europe shows its muscles again and in unity nontheless, the world bleeds. Very few people in the Old World are truly into that.

f16s don't fly themselves you know, what do you want NATO to do?

Russia wants to be "warlike" but mostly their army is a joke😂

China is gaining influence across the globe the old fashioned way. By having a rich culture and awesome food.

I wouldn't count on that.

@@slawomirozdoba4605 Russia has lost half a million men in cant even take 10% of Ukraine. Not to mention the entire planet is laughing at Russia now🤭

Am sure if they feel they can win they will equally open to war, especially if it drives nationalism.

Occupancy is not free. Each time a cost is paid, the governed become either less willing to support or more hostile toward the current regime. Despite two years, Russia has yet to demonstrate a capability to conduct a coherent plan of action able to gain significant territory. Ultimately these cost have already relegated Russia from a first tier power (though they really were not initially). It has destroyed the future of its arms export industry - removed the ability to obtain full market price for resources and decimated an already extremely small demographic cohort. From a pure "power play" perspective, this move was a decade too early, but some leaders want to see results in their lifetime, so here we are. And even if successful, the gain of territory does not materially improve their future, just ensures the seeds of a future civil war because if there was not an Ukrainian identity in the past (which is a false assertion), there is one now as a result of the war. And future occupancy will always come with a fight for a solid decade to come. When a country starts a war it cannot finish - it is indeed going terribly badly.

@opieg7333 It will be extremely terribly bad to believe war casualties are only one-sided. Those pushing and feeding Ukraine to extinction sleep very soundly in their bed 1000s of miles away. Do not forget Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the whole of Central America. These, too, were made to believe they were being driven to better way of life instead of total apocalypse.

This war will be won and lost by economic factors. As the cold war was.

It's the recent comments of the chairwoman of the Russian central bank which are making waves. She said; high inflation/interest rates, low foreign investment, severe labor shortages are causing economic harm.

I too feel it I the air. I believe that Russia will suddenly start to collapse spectacularly. They are running very low on reserves and although sanctions take time to work they can be catastrophic. Just ask the average Iranian citizen. Russia is bleeding and Ukraine is not and will not.

@@stephenhill545 : She tried to resign as soon as the invasion began. Putin wouldn’t let her. She doesn’t want to be the goat when the impending disaster hits. The tragedy for us is that she’s pretty damned good at her job, from a Russian perspective, and she’s kept the ship afloat longer than it should have been. But now she’s bailing from below the water line and probably knows she’ll have to go down with the ship . . . especially if there’s any high portholes to defenestrate her from.

@@merlin7766 : They certainly have a history of going up suddenly, without any warning from a western perspective. They’ve done that twice in the last 100 years and about five times if you count the near misses. If we don’t see it this summer, I’ll be closely watching how the Russian government copes with almost no oil reserves in one of those brutal winters. When that money tap is not just turned off, but the cash flows in the opposite direction when activated, that will mean everyone, from freezing peasants to Ruble-haemorrhaging oligarchs will have an important reason to change their leadership. Possibly backed by a disillusioned army that would rather face the uncertainties of an armed revolt over the certainties of a Ukrainian battlefield?

The bridge is not the target it used to be. Russia has massively cut down what it sends across there and uses the landbridge it has instead to move its weapons and military