Russian Myth of Invincibility 

Great. So Russia has no access to the Baltic Sea now? They do? What happened?

In 1598, the last tsar of the Rurikids (Fedor I) died, civil war and famine began in Russia, as a result of which Russia lost 30% of the population and in some areas up to 50%. And at such a difficult moment for the country, the Poles-Lithuanians decided to invade Russia in 1609 and the Swedes in 1610. It was a completely unnecessary act of aggression. Russians remembered it and the Swedish Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian union were eventually collapsed in the wars with Russia.

Then in 1648 Ukrainians rebelled and started demise of Poland and rise of Russian empire. Russian empire held Baltic from Swedish border to Kenigsberg. Then Ukrainians rebelled and Sobiets lost Baltics and Finland. Then Lenin was smart to add Soviet Ukrainebto the Union and Soviets won ww2 amd captured Baltics. Then Ukrainians decided to break free and Baltics joined NATO. Then Ukrainians kicked Russians turning 3 day special operation into 3+ year war and Finland join NATO. So now Russia controls tiny strip near Peterburg that NATO can spit over. And Kenigsberg where Russians are surrounded. Russian empire cannot exist without Ukraine.

There was even a battle of Klushino over WHO will rule russia. Poles have beaten 7x bigger swedish-russian forces in less than few hours. Swedes at least tried to defend their positions. Whole situation ended with Żółkiewski occupying moscow for 2 years

What is the point of all this? Are you trying to console yourself by saying Russia will be defeated? Practically every country in Europe has been defeated if you go back far enough.

What rubbish. Do you think similar things don’t happen elsewhere. A fatuous comment

​@@johnm7267 Its in the Russian news and they arrested the people who torched the helicoptor now. And no it doesn't happen here, I'm in NZ.

I understand that a helicopter just fell out of the sky here in the States the other day as well... It was definitely disconcerting to the people here..

@@johnm7267 Pay them no mind. What has NZ brought to the world other than kiwi, wine and a obtuse "knowitalls"...

@@jarcadipane2849 The one in Russia was set on fire by pro Ukraine activists.

Russia cannot do anything without Kyiv’s permission.

even Napoleon don't wanted russia. nobody want russia. but russians Like to live in the west

Rubbish

@@johnm7267 Care to elaborate? Give me one reason to go to Russia instead of any developed European country?

@@MrDosonhai100% u have never visited Russia… Russia is far well off than many European states

You fascist p_g. Russia liberated Europe from the Nazis and won WW2

Oh, trust me, Ukrainians been trying to do this for a while with no results. Since 2014 we had popular historical bloggers that were trying to educate average Russians via video chatting. Russians believe all foreign history is a lie, they don’t even read their own adequate historians and one of the reasons Russian invasion happened is because Russians are taught an illusionary history from school to universities, which is used as a tool of Russian imperialistic propaganda. Not to mention that anti-scientific schizophrenia is coming from Putin himself, a tzar of 140-millions of Putins. Unfortunately, Russia is incapable of changes while being an ignorant danger to the whole world.

Currently, they seem to be holding a few aces...

That is an excellent idea! 👍❤️

That would be wonderful, thank you.

Wow--it should be the Volga Riverboat Song. Ee-ee-yuk, nyem. Ee-ee-yuk, nyem. Yee-ee sho, rrasazik, ee-ee-yuk, nyem. Blue and white--sky. Blue and white--sky. See the flag, waving high, blue and white--sky!

@@Defeat-Ruzzia--Delete-Putin Maybe there should be words to several different songs and see what takes off. The only problem with that song is the cadence and tempo are designed to indicate the drudgery and exhaustion the Volga riverboat men feel. The white and blue flag is a great idea. It is the Russian flag with the red removed. Get rid of the Soviet leftover components, the red, and things will be fine.

@@lewisdoherty7621 Interesting point. The Red Army Choir has an interesting performance of it. As a Finnish American, I can feel a little bit of the intimidation that a great powerful culture like Russia is able to project as superior over us little Finns. Except I am nearly 200 cm tall. Well, my point is that the song has an intimidating feel to it and could be repurposed to exert the powerful draw of democracy while showing that real freedom requires very hard work and is laborious, disappointing at times, but a sublime blessing. But you make a good point.

Russia is a sub zero outside toilet run by alcoholic men, who die young.

Себе не хотите поменять?

Хотят, но кокаиновый диктатор запретил@@russvet

Why? It is winning against Ukraine and NATO. You obviously have never been to Russia.

SLAVA UKRAINI! 🇺🇦 🍻 🇩🇪

not your business at all, don't you think?

There are other countries that are armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons. Among them is a country that has invented nuclear weapons and occasionally acts as the world's policeman.

EDIT FOR YOU : Muscovites

We didn't and did in some way. Our elites sold out USSR. Yeltsin called G. Bush after signing the disband of USSR. We didn't loose the war, but lost the battle...

Why are you capitalizing every word?

@@meziahdanieljolley8842 You Do Get Core of What My Statement Is About Right???

@@meziahdanieljolley8842I find it odd that he didn’t simply capitalize every word. Some words are and some are not, as if he’s following some obscure rule in the English language

@@saeed7099 yes i would write it such :- Even today They will "NOT Believe" that They "LOST the Cold War"

Prigozin?

No. They are the same. Peter Zeihan just knows how to make more money.

To me it seems like Peter often changes his views 180 degrees. Sometimes in just a week

It is not difficult to be better than Zeihan.

Agreed. I'm pretty tired of Peter Zeihan's super confident and yet super vague pronouncements. I'm even more tired of lazy people who have him as a guest as a instant expert on every imaginable topic.

Well this guy just slams Russia all day lol

​@@peterselo7707Kievan Rus is a period described by the Russian historian Maksimovich in 1837 to designate the time when the capital of Rus' was in Kyiv. nothing more, Kyiv was not an independent state at that time.

You believe anything you are told and obviously don’t do any research

Attic wasteland or whatever lol 😂 made me chuckle.

The fires in Moscow started after Napolen got installed in Moscow!

а в Ваших городах есть подобные музеи? а Ваши власти что-то делают для того,чтобы подрастающее поколение гордились своей страной и своим народом? а у Вашего народа есть патриотические праздники, ежегодные и массовые?

@@Zanna_pr Мне такого не нужно, у меня есть свои собственные достижения и оцениваю достижения других, независимо от паспорта или места рождения. Также предпочитаю точную, правдивую историю. Это гораздо полезнее.

@@clockworker в Вас говорит эгоизм, Вы думаете только о себе: "я, мне".

Why not? It's only slightly less reliable than the horoscope.

Indeed. History can rhyme, but does not usually repeat itself exactly unless there are extreme conditions..

I can not predict the future; I can only be hopeful. No person in the world can predict the future, as there are too many currents in time. However, I think in the next two years, there will be a radical change in Moscow, as the economy can not sustain itself. I might do a more detailed video on this.

@@EconLessons Yes please, do so and thanks 😀

one of the most favorite moments in propaganda - the enemy is weak, but the enemy is strong😂

Until now Russia has lived in peace with the West since the collapse of the Soviet Union. No-one in their right mind is going to try and invade a country with thousands of nuclear weapons. The West sought peace by investing in Russia and helping it rebuild its energy infrastructure. Russia has attacked Ukraine and keeps saying it's a war on the West. It's clear they are the aggressor. Invading multiple neighbours over the past 20 is a strange way to claim Russia is a peaceful country. You are supporting attempted genocide and war crimes. Give it up already.

Maybe it will be the White Blue White Russian flag.

@@EconLessons Thanks

Nope. RU-vid blocks comments. I cannot even post "hateful comments" on my own channel without youtube deleting them for me without my permission. And russian trolls have a defealt setting to delete my comments when I respond to them.

@@nattygsbord I didn't say deleting, I said blocking, as you can still comment, but noone else will see it. And it's not YT, it's the channel owner.

Ah, those nukes that Russia was going to use if Ukraine striked "new Russian regions"? Or those which nad to repel Ukrainian attacks on the internationally recognized territory of Russia? Well, in case of occupation it would be no less than the third boom that didn't happen.

​@@eteiei1456 Russia fighting a winning war and Russia losing a war and getting invaded are two very different scenarios.

@@zoranbeader6441 Russians saying they'll use nukes if A happens (and not doing it), use nukes if B happens (and not doing it), use nukes if C happens (and not doing it) is the same scenario as them saying they'll use nukes if D happens.

Ww2 I don't agree, the Soviets were the ones who contributed the most

@@A.B376 BBC: "What was your rank, soldier?" Average putin´s conscript: "I think the judge called it First Degree Murder, Armed Robbery and Sexual Assault ...and the medic told me that I am HIV and TBC positive. That's why I got this job: I passed all the tests."

Russia concurred DJT

@hybridarmyoffreeworld Russia can be described by what a famous football coach once said, "you are what your record says you are"

Nobody wants to invade russia, it's a craphole. If they would stay in their own country there would be no problem. You don't need a buffer when you have nukes. And you don't deserve a buffer either, no country does. It's sickening that they think they're entitled to this, filthy imperialists.

Yeah that is the Zeihan Argument. But it is flawed. Putin did not wage War because the little toad feels insecure. He does it for regime security, because he fears democracy and liberty. That is the Vlad Vexler Counter Argument. Sprinkled with a little imperial russian Agenda, Putin wants not to secure his borders but to topple the west, because he fears rule of law and accountability. And he should. Putin does not want to a democratic Ukraine near his borders, cause he fears the Democracy virus.

I love Russians, they are children of God as we all are and all equal. I do not like their despotism and aggression. The Darkness that rules them is making the geopolitical and economic landscape something that is not to be respected or loved.

@@EconLessons And then what about the USA? Or is it something else? Don't you see a log in your eye? How many countries have you plunged into chaos and poverty? How many people have been killed? Get away from our borders and stop destabilizing countries near our borders. We turned out to be too much for you, the path is to admit it. And how we live in our country, we will decide for ourselves. We are not you, we are others and we will decide our own fate.

@@EconLessons You literally have a resentment or envy toward Russians.

@@DIA1020-o8k "how we live in our country, we will decide for ourselves" You have no mandate at all for such an assertion. Neither do Putin nor Peskov etc. *Who exactly* among all those inside Russia's borders do you include within your *"we"* ? And how can these of your "we" decide anything at all while under such extensive and increasing restrictions on speech, and subject to such increasingly draconian punishments for violating them? -- All imposed by a minuscule minority, visiting armed force upon an unarmed population; and with said minority clearly terrified of both debate, and credibly audited elections?

@@davidwright5094 I have the right to say that - I am a citizen of Russia. And 80 percent of the country's population came to the presidential elections and voted for Putin. But no one in NATO has such a right - you are not citizens of Russia. And it's up to us to decide how we live. Putin said it right: teach your wife how to cook cabbage soup. Putin is the president legitimately elected by the CITIZENS of RUSSIA. And I don't care that the US and the EU didn't recognize the election results. It's none of your business, take care of the elections in the United States, the election campaign there is "super-democratic." Are civilians dying? Are you talking about the population of Donbass? Which has been dying since 2014. Where were you when the Ukrainian Nazis burned 40 people alive in the House of Trade Unions in Odessa? And your whole democratic world is silent! And what do you know about the Gorlovka Madonna? And about the Alley of Angels? Probably nothing, your democratic press doesn't write about it.

Putin reminds me of his own favorite Tsar Nicholas who started the Crimean war despite Russias backwardness and despite England and France was the richest high technological industrial superpowers of their age. And the reason why Tsar Nicholas and Tsar Putin believed in victory was the same. The west was decadent, materialistic, lazy, too comfortable, individualistic, unwilling to sacrifice blood and sweat, and unmanly. While Russia was manly, stubborn, brave, they were used to hardships, they were patriotic and understood the meaning of self-sacrifice for the greater good. It was believed that those virtues would compensate for russias technological, economical and manpower disadvantage. But Putin despite his love for history have failed to see that he is not the first one to have this faulty belief that wars could be won only by superior morality. Tsar Nicholas lost the Crimean war for Russia. Hundreds of thousands of people died for nothing for this childish man that had some silly fantasies about being a succesful conqueror King. Russia lost that war. Japan in World war 2 thought that the superior Japanese soldier would beat the industrial might of the decadent, comfortable, westerners that were unwilling to die for their country or for anything. But Japan had their asses kicked and lost the war anyways. And this was despite the Japanese undoubtably were fanatical and literarly fought til the last man and never surrendered, and japanese soldiers continued to fight for the emperor even decades after the war had ended on some remote pacific islands. So if not even fanatical Japanese bushido warriors could defeat the industrial might of the west, or German military professionalism. Then do I hold no doubt that russia will lose its future wars against the west. The russian soldier is less willing to fight than his western counterparts and more willing to surrender. And the lack of industrial might is even worse than that Germany had against USA. And nor do russia hold any manpower advantage like it had in previous world wars. Russias hopes and dreams are unrealistic. Putin just do the same mistake as previous Tsars. And russia will pay a high price for this for many decades to come.

Yet Canada is more successful economically and in pretty much every other way that matters to its citizens, as is Norway, Finland, and Sweden. Ruzzia is a corrupt poverty stricken dump.

Canada has a far higher life expectancy than Russia.

complete nonsense, canada is great country full of resources and friendly amazing people, just incompetent goverment. same as russia.

Canada is wonderful, because the people are free and peaceful.

That waste Land is rich in resources big time

I think russian propaganda is just full of contradictions. First it says that west is weak and that russia easily outproduce the west in artillery ammunition, and that the west have no military stockpiles and is laughably weak. And then all of a sudden Russia turns around 180 degrees and says that the west is a great aggressive threat towards russia that wants to steal their resources. Even if the western armies are so weak that even Germany have less artillery ammunition than for a 2 week fighting with russia. So I say this: Get your own story straight for F*** sake.

Biernat

Since it is Florida even in the woods sun comes through. I have things growing everywhere. Thanks fellow gardener Mike.

You can already visit Moscow, Idaho, home of the University of Idaho.

It's in Idaho.

Which one? There're seven cities called "Moscow" in the USA: in ID, MO, TX, PA, TN, IA, KS, OH. Plus, there are Moscow Mills in MO and Moscow Township in MI.

@@sashole1 Don't sleep on Moscow ME.

@@johnpasquale7095 Sorry, I've indeed missed this one.

Lend lease saved Russia

Germany did defeat russia in 1917

Right...Pootie is defending itself just as Saddam was when he defensively invaded Kuwait or when the Austrian painter launched at Poland 🤣