Russia: How This Geopolitical Event Ends 

fun fact: russia lost more soldiers this war than all US wars combined since WW2. russia is about as close to victory as the USA in vietnam

They way you link history and current events is amazing. I appreciate your perspectives.

Thoroughly enjoyed your perspective. Please keep up.

I always enjoy learning from you. Best regards

Yes, it will end in Moscow but first the west has to be sure Ukraine has all the help it needs to hold the line. Maybe taking Crimea might move things along a bit quicker.

It is still an evil empire.

Really like this guy !!

A tall hollow tree stands proudly in the forest. Then one day a strong wind whips into the valley…answering the question how did all those decaying trees end up littering the forest floor.

Love the content. And the location

You should do this parts. There’s so much we Americans have no clue about.

Congrats on 10K subscribers!

10.000 and growing man. Greetings from Stockholm.

Balkans, Baltics... there's a difference.

Another great assessment and I think it will all come to pass. I just hope it comes sooner.

I was born and grew up in the Soviet Russia, and I agree with every word Mark has said in this video. His analysis of Russia is dry and amazingly factual for an American. He appears to know Russian language well enough to clearly see trees of truth behind the giant taiga forest of the habitual and intrinsic russian lies. When Putin assumed the helm I saw immediately that clear and present danger this man represented not just to Russia itself, not just to America, but to the very fabric of our fragile Western Civilization. Putin is an absolute cancer. And among his victims were Hillary and Bill Clinton, George W Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. I hope he will be the Last Tsar of that Evil Empire.

Thank you very much for this video

Great report. Enjoy listening to you and appreciate your perspective and analysis.

Good stuff Mark.

Great content! Thanks.

Congratulations on 10K subscribers Mark 👏.

The present Russian bluff is that they can endure enormous losses in soldiers and materials and endure enormous economic suffering. Wanting us to believe that their resources are infinite and us to lose hope. Their capacity in this regard during World War II was impressive but they had to fight against real Nazis who wanted to enslave and kill them as inferior race. That is a formidable reason to fight. Today we do not have this motivation, I would be surprised if there are Russians who really believe the tales about Nazis in Kiev. Today‘s motivation for the Russian troops is probably more to escape poverty or prison. It is not comparable. So I doubt that they can endure strains like during World War II. Last year‘s Prigozhin / Wagner group run towards Moscow gave us already a taste of how weak their dictatorship is.

As a russian I totally agree. Many ppl forgot that the USSR dictatorship ended in Moscow, by russian ppl. All it takes is an economic collapse. And a bit of hope, that new generation will change. Just don't send "Bush chicken legs" this time, let ppl suffer for their sins.

Thanks Mark. It's important the world knows the truth. Keep up the great work. 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 Heroyam Slava 🇺🇦

Thanks Mark, not got the knowledge or background in Russia that you have but I'm hopeful that it will end this way. Can't see the battle ground moving much for some time yet. As viewers we need to bump up this channel for more people to have a more insightful view of what's really going on.

Thanks

I value your view high on this. Thx for keep posting interesting snippets

Excellent, and relevant info. Thank you Mark Pertaining to after the economy is hollowed out, and the new reality of price parody in oil being replaced with battery. Must be a head scratcher to strategize how to come back economically

100 points for "Potato Water"

They never melted the statue - it still stands inside a park in Moscow which contains all the former dismantled soviet statues and other stuff from around the city.

goes perfectly with the yield curve inversion timing and 18.6 year real estate cycle ending around 2026 (reset in 2008)

Like your analysis Mark

Thanks for yet another excellent video,and particularly your passion and insight. MOST appreciated

Interesting listening to you and appreciate the analysis you do. Great video!

Are those “Florida Coonties” Zamia integrifolias in the beautiful background? Great place to shoot the video.

Mark, you are one hundred per cent right. All of it. Thank you. 🇺🇦

It would be disingenous to look at the future of this war without taking into account the elections in November. It's the elephant in the room that people rarely mention, and makes many very nervous.

Ruzzia will not be a sovjet 2.0, it will be ruzzia 0,8, smaller weaker and very poor, from inside the soccer arena on the field to be outside the arena at the parkingplace… hearing the roar from the crowd and wonder whats happening. Thanks Mark

He knows how this ends! We'll see if his prediction is correct.

I had to stop the video to catch a breath when this crazy person started talking about Yeltsin shaking hands with Obama. Haven't laughed like this in a while, these comedy sketches are the best.😄

The statement that economists often repeat is that "...if you have free trade and good relations economically..." ignores the political aspect of international relations. The evidence was always there, but the issue was political and geostrategic, so economists downplayed it. Look at the 20th century. The reason this worked for western Europe was that there was a US security umbrella and an active enemy on the border. The EU did not bring peace through trade between countries that had been enemies for centuries. It was 500K American troops and nukes. Something similar happened in Japan and Korea. Their democracies were imposed by the US. Heck, the Japanese and Koreans only admitted they were on the same side in the last month or two. What is the common thread? Trade? As President Joe likes to say: Come on man! It was the threat of immanent nuclear annihilation. You have to get the order right. It is the security landscape first and the economy and trade later. When the Soviet Union disintegrated the leaders of the west did, as you say, assume that this was different. The thought was, in the case of Russia, that the death of the communist ideology would bring change. Well, they forgot the Czarist, Imperial Russia that came before. In the case of China, the ideology didn't even disappear. My point is that the US and other western leaders are what I would charitably call rank amateurs. The last US president with any real foreign policy experience and knowledge was George H. W. Bush. He even wanted to have a conversation about how we move forward and evolve the system in light of events such as the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He was voted out of office and left in 1993. Who took over after him? The governor of a small southern state, Bush's son, the governor of a larger state, a junior senator, a businessman (he at least had foreign business experience) and a long-time senator from one of our smallest states. The American people don't care about this stuff. That is the history of the US, by the way.

Thank you for clarifying your intentions with the Belarus girl at the gym. I almost thought that you were hitting on her.

You must have watched the 3 series movie released recently by Pevchikh... Good movie. Brings back a lot of memories.

This will end: as iron curtain ver.: 2.0

I don't like it, but you are right.

Thanks for the additional information concerning Putin. As I recall our media portrayed Putin as something of a nationalist, but neglected to ever say that he was the head of the KGB. While the economic condition of most of Russia is pretty bleak, I'm not sure that the same is true for either Moscow or St. Petersburg.

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The Navalnyj team has released a three episode series педратели on RU-vid. It is in Russian but autogenerated English subtitles are available. It details how the oligarchs used their money and different schemes to help Yeltsin win elections and how they later replaced him with Putin. The series is very well made and seems thorougly researched. A must watch for anyone trying to understand what's going on.

Love me some Dostoevsky.

Yes to a point I agree …however I believe the true goal was greater control of the Middle East and all oil rich nations around the globe

Hey Mark It's time for some more information ,Please

Thanks for sharing about the girl that you were courting who predicted the disaster that Putin would be for Russia. I think she has the sight, If you know what I mean

Thank you so.well.exsplaned

Hi Mark, you're a political economist. Can you talk to us about the world's balance of payments system, what country is the world's greatest debtor, and how it influences geopolitics?

Guy below said RF isn't USSR 2.0 but rather USSR 0.2

Not all people in the world want a transparent democracy. Many don´t know what that even means. Just look at Afghanistan. Billions invested, 20 years of work and all this went to hell just in mere days. Nobody has risen to defend their own freedom. They just reverted back like nothing happened. This is a fault in the American thinking. Not everyone thinks like you. Different social structures, different religions, different moral compasses...

Peter Zheian shouls learn from you

-don’t forget after schroder (german chancellor) got the pipeline, and left office he went to work for the russian pipeline company

Cool. Do you speak Russian?

When?

Great, 2026 you say. Now we know. Is that before- or after the USA will end?

This is the second time we got fooled. Never again.

I know all about having a 6th sense in regards to women- served my well over the years😂😂

We had the exact same conversation with a woman from Crimea when Putin got in. She was very worried. We were a lot less alert; we thought stability was important. How wrong we all were. We realised our mistake by 2007; she is now a rabid Putin supporter with a Russian passport - but she got Canadian citizenship and lives in the Far East. We haven't spoken to her since she called us up a couple of days before the 2022 invasion with a line of propaganda straight from Russia Today; "Call all your friends in the West and tell them we are only hitting military targets!"

An important notion in international relations is that intensive trade relations greatly reduce the risk of military confrontation. This explains in part why the EU, especially Germany, didn't feel unhappy with their dependency on Russian energy the last decades. As an association of 27 countries the EU has developed a culture of negotiation and consensus building. A completely different mindset of course than that of an obsessed autocrat like Putin.

Worst was when they killed patriarch Alexei 2 and installed a KGB officer Michalchov from Switzerland

YOU ALWAYS SAY IT THE BEST WAY. YOU GIVE A STORY, THEN EXPLAIN IT IN AN EASY FORMAT FOR US REGULAR FOLKS TO UNDERSTAND, THANK YOU MARK, SO THERE IS HOPE FOR RUSSIA AFTER PUTIN & HIS CRONIES ARE ENDED. GREAT STUFF.

Another story full of wisdom.

They say there is a fine line between genius and insanity, I err on the side of genius. I can see a huge cult following here in the months ahead.

My father said to Putin, be aware, rhe KGB is back.

4:02 errec-ellection :DDDDDDDD

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My wife,Russian, said the same thing. She knew he was trouble just looking at him

My comments disapear???

Who is Larov? Is it Sergei Lavrov?

Baltics you meant. Not Balkans. Great video otherwise.

Puddin pops won the war

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Succinctly said, Mark. Your words alone give me such tremedous hope for the future. I'm so eager to hear the news regarding the collapse of Moscow and the Putin regime

It is all part of the plan.

Mendeyev? You mean Dmitry Medvedev?

Don't knock "potato water". It'll knock you on your ass. Fentenal is the choice many Americans.

The term "popularism" is different from "populism". Which did you really mean?

The United States freed Russian banks from sanctions that limited their services when trading energy resources. What do you think about it ?

7:13 His goal is to take the Balkans? This guy smokes way too much weed.

The balkans ... Or the baltics?

Economists are terrible in predicting the future, so riddle me this, who destroyed the pipeline?

This video is all over the place. How do you go from women feeling that Putin becoming President was a very bad thing to explaining how women's hemlines predicting economic condiitons. I listented to your video and had not heard one statement of fact or substantiated allegation..

Really nice summary. Thanks. It's got to end with at least a partial defederation as internal contradictions force new synthesis of the federation structures. Like the USSR chapter did. Declining birth rates. Collapsing air travel due to maintenance issues from sanctions and no real road network plus increasingly deferred infrastructure spending makes it hard to visualze next chapter of empire being as large. Plus trying to maintain a 4 branch military on budget of Italy but with worse corruption just can't work long term in petro state that doesn't care about its people enough to build them up. Apparently age of engineers rising as education spending drops. Guys like Konstantin aren't going to and haven't stayed Inside Russia. Plus internal social effects of the war casualties. And the massive brain drain they've suffered. And the contempt Putin showed towards those fleeing draft when he said good riddance. Those were the tech and high skill sectors whi could afford to get out. My suspicion is Putin himself will turn iut to be worst thing to have happened to empire. Sad thing was USA had aopparently worked out agreement with Lenin to break up the empire but Woodrow Wislon wouldn't go for it for some weird reason. I guess Lenin was the last Marxist to take the anti-imperialist part of Marxes writings seriously in USSR.

if you look up the most rich resource country in the world Russia comes up. If you look up the biggest country in the world Russia pops up and 50% larger than the second most largest country in the world. Some experts claim this is the reason why sanctions have not worked. i want to know are these experts wrong or does this reason have any truth to it. please respond to this.

Hairs a little strange but this guy speaks the truth

It’s gonna end with Putin drinking tea or having an encounter with a window. Or pew pew.

Pretty sure you nearly said "erection" there rather than election. Luckily it wasn't the most interesting part of the video, thanks!

Why would Russia surrender, and to who?

Half truths, your leaving alot out on purpose to make your position legitimate!

not sure I agree with your assumption/assertion at footage 1000 that 'the people of Russian WANT transparency and Freedom (from their Government)'. They have shown time and again their willingness to be 'uninvolved' in their governing processes, so long as they are left alone. Would take a huge learning curve to get Russians involved in the RESPONSIBILITY for their own government and freedoms. They don't seem willing to do the work to be involved. Greg

Thank you for your perspective. *So what happens to the money?* Currently both Chinese and Russian wealth escaping those two countries has been flooding into Thailand, most noticeably into Thailand's condo market. Arguably these are two currencies that have devaluation in their future, but how devalued will they become, not in an investment sense, "but will their devaluation turn a self sustaining xpat community, into a bunch of destitute and stranded Russians?" We have thus far seen Russian tourists become residence in many escape route countries due to these events, will they become destitute? So far, there have been a few appearing here in Thailand, out of money and desperate not to return to Russia. I'm certain that this is not just happening in Thailand and is a emerging issue in many other escape route countries.

Stop introducing yourself as a monetary economist.

In 40 years give or take, the Oil will become too expensive to power the life as we know it today. There will be no more farming based on abundance of power, no more fishing based on abundance of diesel fuel, no more forestry based on abundance of diesel fuel, no more flying around the world to take a selfie, no more life style enriched by abundance of cheap fuel. Then the whole world will become what Russia is today. Everyone will start to feel the pressure. My bet - it is going to get so much worse, the current situation will be remembered as happy days. Even for Ukraine that is constantly bombarded. I'm sorry, I wish I had a better prognosis for everyone, but, unfortunately, we all are just like ants who have recently found a jar of sugar. We have forgotten what the life without it really like. We will be reminded of that as the sugar in the jar is running out. It is time to say "good bye" to the lifestyle we all got used to and saw as "normal". It wasn't. It has been sponsored by something that is almost over. What happened in Russia is just a preview of what is coming next.

...In Moscow, in a sewer pipe.

Hey bud, be careful - *WE* didn't take Razi oil, and we *WARNED* those who did to their strategic dependence they were creating, and were roundly ignored. You look likely to be of Eastern Euro descent - you and I are the same age - and I wonder if you immigrated here and didn't see the warnings, because I clearly remember warning the Euros in the 1980s - single-digit years for me, mind you - of the consequences of their insistence on embracing Soviet energy