The Limits of Russia's War Machine || Peter Zeihan 

Too bad all the ignorant and Politicians and* civillians do not understand this and are litteraly throwing the war.

In a theatre with drones seeing everything and drones dropping AT muntions from above I think I would prefer to walk anyway...

Bingo! They're scraping the bottom of the barrel just so they can try to maintain any pressure they can on the front. Once they run out of the old rust buckets to throw at the front, we're likely going to see some interesting things.

Former MBT (yes, NATO) TECHNICIAN here. Oryx lies constantly then walks back his information. Russians haven't lost anywhere near what western nonsense is reporting. I love Zeihan's overall geopolitical analysis, but he's been wrong over and over and over with this Uk/Ru conflict. The Russians are slowly moving forward virtually unopposed right now. The only person online making any damned sense is Col. MacGregor. Well, the guy that runs "history legends" is pretty good at impartial takes. Russian casualties are around 50k now, Ukraine KIA (not just casuality) is nearing 500k. All the west has done is destroyed Ukraine, for no reason. We've butchered our own economies, our own militaries, any sense of good faith we had anywhere in the world, destroyed our own cultures, and allowed a certain HEAVILY overrepresented demographic to influence us into near oblivion. AGAIN.

In some ways that's already almost to optimistic for them, Covertcabal has been buying up sat pics of their storage areas about once every 6 months. And those are now about half empty, though last count was awhile ago. Also in practise you can't always get good pics that are recent due to cloud cover, so even at the count dates some pics are months old. So based on that their stocks are already rather reduced as well and you'd give them at most 2 years at current expenditures of equipment. And as you say, you can wonder about the worst quarter of equipment. Though it's worth noting Russia has been scrapping some equipment over the years, and one would presume they scrapped the worst ones first. Admittedly they probably also sold the best to other places like India, so there is that as well. Still whatever the exact details, those stores are depleting at a pretty appreciable rate and will start giving problems maintaining the fronts current expenditures some time in the next year or two. And at that point it would be as you say, a lot more walking. Though I kind of figure that as their flow of new stuff gets tight they might finally see some sanity in not throwing away their equipment for minimal gains like that.... Maybe? Still if they do see such sanity, getting them completely on foot might be more difficult then. Though their offensive potential would obviously be mostly used up in such a case and Ukraine would presumably if reequipped enough get its next chance to try and break through.

But they also dont force only 20s ppl, its common to push 30 and 40s years old there

Young people who weren't serving early on have good access to worldwide news sources and likely at the very least know that it's a pointless meant grinder that's waiting for them. I can't imagine much of anything that can be described as a soldier coming out anymore.

what can of worms @FredrikHaugen?

@@Samji3877 Far more educated and worldly people a good part of whom oppose the war and Putin. Giving them guns is a risky thing which is why it's been avoided.

People that don't accept get 10 years in prison... in a Russian prison!! Yesterday I read a story about a guy from Crimea that refused to fight so they actually even accused him of treason. So yeah, it's not about accepting, there is no alternative to fighting...

@@ryanconard87 Haha! We've managed quite well so far. And the longer this war takes the more difficulty Russia will have.

thank you for your service. Slava Ukraini!

I’m American. Thank you. We should be standing next to you. Fight hard

😂

Nice scam.

In the UK they are called Ghurkas

@@user-rl9tg8mz2r The UK still has Ghurka forces because of their long history with the British armed forces. The Ghurka have a great reputation in the UK, which they justly earned. The UK provides a good deal for service and cares about the lives of Ghurkas. Russia provides a crap deal for service and cares nothing for even their own soldier's lives. Any foreigner who signs up for Russia's armed forces is crazy. Not worth it.

Is that BS fake news or genuine fact????

What does one steal off a modem tank?

@@danreed7889 modern in russia means tanks built in the 80s there were entire fleets of T72s with their engines and optics stolen and sold by corrupt generals to the black market

​@@danreed7889a wide variety of components can be sold as scrap metal - think copper wiring, aluminium etc. There is also a black market for things like the explosives in the reactive armour, as well as expensive components like the gun sights, night vision optics and radios.

@@Earaldur Do have any proof of that? Do you know how physically large tank sights are? They are not easily removed components. I call BS.

I betting that the T-72s in reserve got robbed for parts to repair tanks in active service even before the war got started.

The former President has been working for Putin since 2015.

the gop pounded their chests about russia for 70 years... Till trump showed up. Then they went completely silent.

Putin's this week asked Uzbekistan for 500,000 tons of petrol (gasoline) that's 400 mil. gal.s! Apparently Ukrainians refinery sanctions (✈️💥) are working?

It's a pretty good wake up call to all of EU. Just like covid showed how disorganized everything is during a pandemic, MJ is now showing what it means to rely on US military aid. These things just come at terrible cost and my heart breaks every time I see a terrorist attack by Russia where normal oridanary folk get the worst of it. It is so awful it cannot be put into words. I really hope UA prevails and this will be viewed as overall positive in history books, as an event that tightens all of EUs security, but I can't see it that way right now. The losses are just terrible. And I can't imagine the people who live in UA will ever forgive this or forget this. It's saddening we still have to struggle with people like Putin in our society today.

Putin's this week asked Uzbekistan for 500,000 tons of petrol (gasoline) that's 400 mil. gal.s! Apparently Ukrainians refinery sanctions (✈️💥) are working? 💙🇺🇦🩵🇹🇼

Say if you actually listened to the video instead of making irrelevant comments.

the T-72B3M is for all intents and purposes a fairly modern tank

@Shinshocks555 it smoked an abrams

@Shinshocks555 one side is moving forward and 1 is not

@@willl7780 What's your point? The Abrams isn't invulnerable.

I'd love to see Perun do an "executive summary" version of his videos. Gimmie something 15-20 min. I lack the time and attention span to watch a power point presentation for an hour. Great content, but a smaller meal, please...

Agreed. If u want depth, consult sources like Perun!

​@@dustinyoung3069theyre well worth watching

Russia’s already raided the museum weeks (months?) ago for ancient tanks, so…

Why is no one considering that russia are building multiple new tanks per week?

Most recent publicly available images show their reserve/mothball storages to be even more depleted, mose have lost 70-90% of their pre-war stocks. The appearance of the T-54/55 also is a sign as we didn’t see those for the first two years of the war. They are likely running low on all of their more modern tanks if their elite units are now even getting the oldest, least capable models.

I agree that Peter is giving the Russians too much credit here. Perun pointed out over a year ago that a good number of them were bound to be suitable only for parts or just completely useless. They've been tapping that reserve for a while now, so you can count on a lot of those T-55s and T-72s being brewed up. The number left that can be pressed back into service is not close to 10k.

You are right, most of soviet equipments were dumped more than half of the assets. So some of military channel verified visible tanks through Google Maps and estimated Russia could have had little more than 6000 reserves.

24000 tanks get your facts correct

@@frankrenda2519That's outdated info, over the years Russia sold or scrapped many of those. Before the war started their official total number of tanks by their own figures was under 10k, I think it was something like 7k-8k, somewhere around there.

Putin's this week asked Uzbekistan for 500,000 tons of petrol (gasoline) that's 400 mil. gal.s! Apparently Ukrainians refinery sanctions (✈️💥) are working?

True, but a simple Chevy V8 has a massive aftermarket to support its overhaul due to decades of hobbyists creating a demand for parts (and even then, the last couple of years we've seen crappy solid and hydraulic cams and lifters hitting the market and immediately self-destructing due to market shifts towards roller cams). Machinists are familiar with the 350; harnesses and brake parts and seat covers and carburetors and transmission adapters and fenders and fuel injection retrofit kits are all available online; there's been 70 years or more of experimentation and upgrades for it at virtually all levels of the industry. Nothing like that is true for the T-55. A better analogy would be like trying to bring a city bus back from the scrapyard and put it back into service in a hurry, or worse yet, a ship that's been in mothballs for 70 years.

the only t-55s they've been using are as ied drones. Zeihan is exaggerating here.

@@michaeldavis3819 Even if your analogy is accurate, it can still be done. If a vehicle requires a computer based part to run such as a fuel injection controller and you don't have it you are at a hard stop. If it's mechanical there is at least a path forward.

Soon the Russians will only have shovels left!

Imagine believing that Zeihan is telling you "all there is to know".... let alone that he's doing it in 5 minutes. This kind of naive, gullible malleability is why the West is able to do what it does. A soft population of easily-manipulated lemmings.

@@lachlanbell8390 Zulu never said that Zeihan said "all there is to know". They said he summarized well. In case you don't know, there is a big difference. But let's compare Western media with state controlled Russian media. What do you thing about that comparison?

@@christophermurphy4511 Are... are you... are you... serious? Those words were literally verbatim from their comment: _"I appreciate that in 5 minutes you manage to say so much that is valuable and _*_summaries[sic] all there is to know"_* As for your intended "gotcha" - when was the last time _you_ watched any Russian media? Can you put a date on it? Have you _ever_ watched _any_ Russian media?

@@lachlanbell8390 I'll be, you are correct Lachlan.

Horses come pre-equiped with 2 bio-technological optical sensors! No need for retro-fitting digital thingamabobs! Unfortunately they identify EVERYTHING as dangerous...

They can bite AND kick

The golden horde returning to its roots.

Putin's this week asked Uzbekistan for 500,000 tons of petrol (gasoline) that's 400 mil. gal.s! Apparently Ukrainians refinery sanctions (✈️💥) are working?

The horse is a walking meat locker so no need for food supplies to be shipped to the front

Shortening by 1 or 2 or even by 4 years probably wont be enough. All the issues that Russia is having - the Ukrainians are having similar level issues.

@@yt.damian Ukraine is running out of people.

If Ukraine can step up the hits on critical infrastructure, on active military bases in Russia and on weapon stockpiles they stand a good chance of winning or, at the least, forcing a stalemate on the Russians. Of course, the equation would change drastically if Russia's client states decided to rebel.

Sounds like he's advocating for continued Western funding until they're beating each other with sticks and rocks. Thanks Pete, always get a little Military Industrial Complex slant in there...

@@teekay_1 Thats very true but the nature of the conflict is different for them, The war is one of survival foisted upon them, they have no choice but to fight. Ukraine cannot end the war, Russia can end it tomorrow.

My prediction day one of the war (when every expert including PZ said Ukraine did not stand a chance) was that if they having Western supplies Russia cannot ever control Ukraine, due to their willingness to fight.

Russia doesn't want or care about Ukraine. They want the mountain ranges beyond and Ukraine is an obstacle in their way.

The east of the country is heavily pro Russian. My family is. All neighbours are. It won't be a problem to hold on to it. The west of Ukraine is simply not in Russian plans as a part of Russia.

There will be no country 😂

The thing is - Russians plan to hold only to the territories with heavily pro Russian population. They will leave other territories as soon as they get nuetrality guarantees

Peter thinks you can analyze a war by only looking at one side. His unwillingness to provide a similar breakdown of Ukrainian forces and losses does not inspire confidence.

Peter the Shyster,most uninformed you tuber on any subject,period.Russia is fighting 54 countries of nazi West alone and kicking their ass?

Your problem - youstill fall for the same lies after 2 years. Such a lack of IQ is so american.

@@user-fe5lr9zt3y No, most western countries are not supporting the war to their fullest capability. If the NATO armies marched into Russia... it'd be game over for Russia

​@@user-fe5lr9zt3yAh, yes, the "Nazi" west, when your own Wagner group is full of proud and open Nazis. How is it out there on the front lines? Come on, are you scared to serve the "mighty" Russian army?

After Manchuria events.

That's why so many men are drafted from there so they won't have any ability to revolt.

Peter the Shyster,most uninformed you tuber on any subject,period.Russia is fighting 54 countries of nazi West alone and kicking their ass?

​@@user-fe5lr9zt3ywell said. Pater is high on meth and his viewers are clearly delusional.

Why? 😂

@@user-fe5lr9zt3y LOL I do agree that Peter does have a great imagination but you need to go back to rubbing Putin's feet.

@@BillWoodillustrator for blatant lies?

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​@@HerpetileI do and the initial commenter does

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@@joshjames2611 gang gang

@@Herpetile NATO

The 16-17 years old olready working at producing drones in russia - you can look some videos about it, they are proud of it

6% is not war economy. Soviet and USA used 80% in ww2. Another lol comment

@@AndrePepink Ukraine is far from being total war.... 6% is not at all war economy, these people should honestly do some research.

@@AndrePepink Russia’s public spending is at unprecedented levels, and around 40% of the government budget is spent on the war. Total military spending is expected to reach more than 10% of GDP for the year 2023. This comes at the expense of spending on health and social welfare. Military pay, ammunition, tanks, planes, and compensation for dead and wounded soldiers, all contribute to the GDP figures. Put simply, the war against Ukraine is now the main driver of Russia’s economic growth. And it is a war that Russia cannot afford to win. The cost of rebuilding and maintaining security in a conquered Ukraine would be too great, and an isolated Russia could at best hope to become a junior partner entirely dependent on China.

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how come you didn't bring bubblegum?

Peter the Shyster,most uninformed you tuber on any subject,period.Russia is fighting 54 countries of nazi West alone and kicking their ass?

​@@user-fe5lr9zt3yhello boris. How's life in nazi ruZzia?

@@user-fe5lr9zt3y Russia is heavily aided by Iran North Korea and China with India footing the bill paying for oil. Western chips worth Billions are being smuggled by Central Asian countries for Russia. Ukraine is AIDED by less than 0,50% GDP of each of 54 countries helping Ukraine. Ukraine is a much smaller country with less resources and people. And with this minuscule help which is often late and less than promised Ukraine holds the line against Russia Iran NK and western chips. Which all things considered is pretty tough and brave.

@@user-fe5lr9zt3y Russia stronk!

Putin's this week asked Uzbekistan for 500,000 tons of petrol (gasoline) that's 400 mil. gal.s! Apparently Ukrainians refinery sanctions (✈️💥) are working? 💙🇺🇦

Peter the Shyster,most uninformed you tuber on any subject,period.Russia is fighting 54 countries of nazi West alone and kicking their ass?

@@user-fe5lr9zt3y If you are the best the Russian bot farms can come up with, it's a sad indictment to be sure. Keep sending China your gold for black market chips, uniforms, and ATV's. You have less than a decade to fade away into the annals of history.

Allow me. The Philippines seem to revert back to be a US colony after successfully kicking out the US military at Clark Airbase 2 decades ago. So I guess, the CIA infiltrated your elections made sure that you got a new President who is the son of the most corrupt Philippines President ever, Ferdinand Marcos. Remember when the late F. Marcos fled the Philippines with all the country’s money to Hawaii in the late 80s, they didn’t do anything to help you get your money back. There was a time in the 70’s when the Philippines was 2nd only to Japan in Asia and the Peso was 3-1 to the US dollar. After that the Philippines had collapsed from being a top country into nearly a failed state until today. So the summit with Japan and the US is just to affirm that both the Philippines and Japan (both loyal US lapdogs) remain obedient to the US and are both are ready to become the next Ukraine when the US stirs up war in the South China Sea.

@@user-fe5lr9zt3y He's kicking his own behind. He's fighting only Ukraine. Sure, with some mostly cold war weapons and ammo from west. North Korea has sent much more shells to Russia, and Iran has sent huge amounts of brand new drones, which have had major impact. China is keeping economical lifeline tethered to fund Russian war. Package that is being sent to Ukraine in the first wave as a whole, most of it already waiting in Poland, is actually huge. In terms of firepower, amounts, and a new level of technological sophistication. It packs a wallop. In one to four weeks, Russians are going to have a bad weather on the front line, it's going to rain fire and steel in a storm of a whole new level. Especially when the F-16's (and later Gripens) come to clean the skies along with European 1,5 million artillery shells. It's gonna be a hard knock life soon for Russian soldiers, and Russian losses in both men and material will grow by the order of magnitude when this party gets started. Not long now.

The image of using large trucks with overhead "cope cages" seems to be pretty hard data to at least how one regiment is in lack of vehicles. There are also many images of 20+ soldiers jumping down from tanks and assault vehicles after hitting minds etc. Also many of the new Chinese "golf carts" which are being attacked, although I assume these are not being used in assaults it still points to mobility issues.

It's a laughable notion to begin with, trotted out by politicians trying to compel people with fear instead of with logic.

I've heard not one person say they have designs on all of Europe. Where do you guys get this nonsense? Ukraine, Moldova, Uzbekistan, the Baltics, part of Poland, maybe Romania, yes. They already have Belarus and part of Georgia. The more they take, the stronger they will become, and the stronger they become, the more they will twist your arm and mine. Russia is one nation who we want to be weak, out of necessity.

​@hootowl6354 there's no evidence besides fear mongering of any threat to NATO

@@hootowl6354 Man, that is all I have been hearing from people who support sending money and arms to Ukraine - "if we don't stop Russia in Ukraine, they will invade some other country next" OR "democracy is at stake if we don't stop Russia in Ukraine". They tell everyone that Russia is an existential threat to Europe - that means Europe would cease to exist.

@@richarddean3154 Did you read what hootowl said? He listed those countries (some of them) that Russia wants to 'reclaim' as part of its former Empire. So yes, Russia will continue beyond Ukraine, with Moldova almost certainly next. And a bigger Russia, with a bigger population under its control, will be a threat to the rest of Europe and the free world - perhaps not militarily, but certainly in other ways. Perhaps you're not old enough to remember the Cold War, and all the disruptive antics that the USSR got up to.

The Chinese, North Koreans, and Iranians have been helping out.

It's funny, Russia never mentions that is what helped them win WW2. 🇺🇲❤🇺🇦

@@calc1657Dint forget India

lend lease didnt help Russia win. They had much more equipment left than lend lease after end of the war.

Lend lease only made up 8% of USSR's war effort and USSR repaid Lend lease.

I was thinking along the same lines - before you run out of all 8 million men of service age, people might revolt. Maybe another 2-3 years at most.

Don't you realise the average age of the Ukrainian army is several years older than the Russians in Ukraine?

​@@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311Don't you realise why that is? The Ukrainians have millions of men available under age 27 that have deliberately not been called up. At least they have options going forward.

@@HR_8035_YEA Well, yes and no. At the outbreak of the war, most of the rich people in the Ukraine move into Romania taking their sons and daughters with them.

@@teekay_1 How many is that compared to those that stayed? My point still stands. Only recently Ukraine announced it was dropping the conscription age to 25 from 27. It gives the options to lower it again as they need to.

Please look up videos with satellite imagery. When 70% of the tank depots are empty, it hints to supply issues

Whatever Russian units were before the war, even one year ago, has all been completely changed. Yes, airborne units have become infantry assault units. As have marines, national guard, and even Spetznaz.

@@kjj26k The only ones not participting are the kadyrovites, the precious tiktok army.?

the VDV from Pskov (Pleskau), the murderers of Butcha if memory serves (and it does!)

@@kjj26k ...and therefore are not the "elite" troops as designated in this video. Like I said. Squirrelly. Therefore I don't necessarily buy that their "elite" units are driving castoffs. That doesn't make sense on any level even for Russians.

This whole video is BS.

Covert Cabal did that assessment about a year ago...

Hear hear

12000 tanks is a pretty solid base

@@TheBKnight3 I didn't see that previous one (though I know the latest one he did was about a week or two ago). His satellite analysis is fairly compelling if you haven't seen the latest one.

Yes just yesterday they had a Ural truck with cages welded on it driving into an assault. You dont do that if your not really running out of APCs or tanks. Although one cant help but wonder were the cages to keep the drones out or the poor soldiers doomed to die, inside the cage?

They confuse ukranian and russian material.

@@AndrePepink Who is really confused though?

@@AndrePepink Intentionally. Or showing the same tank over and over again.

Ridicoulous that ukraine have "destroyed" that many tanks, seems completly unrealistic. They have not. And just because a tank is damaged is not the same as it is burned out and destroyed. In a war between Egypt and Israel an israeli tank took something like 16 hits, It still kept running after the changed the driver. And russian can repair its tanks.

@@x7zy-xx you sound angry.

Why would he review a disaster that contradicts everything else he says ??

Why TB?

Peter the Shyster,most uninformed you tuber on any subject,period.Russia is fighting 54 countries of nazi West alone and kicking their ass?

@@user-fe5lr9zt3y don't forget to take your pills please. it's very important to supress delusions

Never cites sources, just rambles.

@@andrewcall8961 there are lot of these "dime a dozen "bullshit channels.Once Peter ask ed me(last year) for debate and I said sure.But first you have to learn basic facts about everything ,otherwise you waste my time?

@@user-fe5lr9zt3y Sure thing, pal.

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The Russians have been ramping up manufacturing as they convert to a wartime economy.

@@calc1657 doesn't matter. Even with Russia ramping up production, the amount of NEW equipment produced every YEAR is about what Russia loses every MONTH. They're staying in the fight right now because of refurbishing their old reserves, but these are starting to run low. Back in October 2023, Russia had about 3500 serviceable tanks left in storage, and they've lost like 2400-ish in the last 6 months on the battlefield. When those stockpiles are empty, Russian output will massively reduce, and we'll start seeing fewer and fewer tanks, armoured vehicles, and artillery.

​​@@jehandesains8674there's also over 60 f-16 coming to fight... If air defense starts arriving around the same time, EU is looking to provide more patriots, Russia will be in for a hard time. They'll take out all their arty first and it's all downhill for the Russians from there...

@@jehandesains8674 Depends how effectively they ramp up production

@@calc1657 Russia doesn't have the capabilities to seriously ramp up. Such a thing takes many years and high end equipment, which Russia does not have. Europe could, theoretically, ramp up to become by far the biggest military in the world, surpassing the US. Russia...not so much.

If you ignore the insane cost like there's no tomorrow, you might think it's all going fine.

It’s inefficient gains

Do you watch the videos? The shovel joke falls flat when the advacing troops put the muzzle on their own head or shove a live grenade into their vest. Turns out people can get gibbed like in Quake multiplayer in real life.

Somehow, Ukraine still isn't conquered.

ratio 4 to1 with evry1000 steps 1 inch

But, but, Peter knows best! I mean, he uses the undisputable data of the Dutch Russia-haters oryx and, even better, the latest and very thrustworthy data of the Ukrainian military!

@@GTfour01 Shocking to see you being a Russia support, when you've got Hitler speeches on your channel. GTFO troll.

Gutted by alcoholism, early death, and abortions that historically have outnumbered live births. Birthrate in Russia is 1.2 and dropping fast. --Rising Muslim radical population. 20% of all heroin used in world is used by Russians. 1% of russians are hiv positive. 40% of Russians are planning to live Russia in the next 5 years.

What other sources? The ones saying Russia is taking settlements, but omitting how small and how little the distances are?

The Ukrainian general staff reports 451730 casualties for Russia, but that's just what they've been able to observe. Not strange if the's 30% extra that Ukraine hasn't been able to see and report.

@@jesan733 Ukrainian general staff? Very credible source!

Yeah even Ukraine has it at some 400k+ which is already a high estimate if say. Russia will run out of material and money before they run out of men...

There's a vast difference between the optics of the 1950s and the optics of today. For example, a rifle scope made in 1950 can produce a nice image -- but today's interlaced optics and guidance control systems are lightyears away... and that's what he was talking about.

They got cocky and entitled. They started demanding supplies as if someone owed them unlimited ammo. That's where things fell apart.

Think about your own words. Do you seriously believe the USA is involved to help Ukraine? Lol. They’re buying up all Ukraine farmland and thus resources also. The Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries ever. Good luck lol

No Ukraine is running low on manpower not just support, money and weapons. Vote them another hundred billion it will just delay the Russians, it won't change the result.

Lol

@@Aerrow62 No, it’s politics because people want to poke and prod at literally a drop in the bucket in terms of spending that went to Ukraine. Zelensky is doing the right thing, his country is being invaded and he needs weapons to fight it. While yes the U.S. for example should secure its border it can easily walk and chew gum at the same time, Russia is fighting against less than 1% of NATO’s overall GDP. We aren’t even in a wartime economy, so yeah Russia produces more shells ect but that’s because their economy accommodates it by shifting priority, Germany alone is double the GDP of Russia, if they expanded it’s military spending in capacity they could alone in theory out do the Russians. It’s just politics holding back the aid and honestly poor internal policies that make Ukraine not a priority for NATO citizens.

Recently there was footage of the "Blyatmobile". A T55 with a Cope shed leading the charge in an assault.

Both sides are mainly using tanks as SP artillery now. And both sides are using T55s.

All tanks have been used like that in Ukraine. Doesn't matter the age, indirect fire is important. However, tanks have less range than artillery and the barrels last less than an artillery barrel. So you don't pull T-55 tanks out of storage when you lack artillery. You do that when you're lacking tanks.

​@@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311Have not seen Ukraine use T55 in any action. Do you have sources?

@@ernst624 Just google it. They're from Slovenia.

We computer scientists use the term too. What context do accountants apply it in? I thought money was fungible, so you didn't need to track which individual dollar was being spent.

​@@billberg1264 if the accountant is matching dollars to goods they are aware of inventory.

​@@billberg1264AFAIK Its being used to determine the value of your goods in storage. Because the price of those does fluctuate.

@@billberg1264 The FIFO method assumes that the oldest unit of inventory is sold or used in production first. The LIFO method assumes that the newest stock or last unit to arrive in inventory is sold or used in production first. The FIFO method is allowed by both US GAAP and IFRS. Keep in mind, LIFO is rarely used

​@billberg1264 In accounting is applied to the Inventory. If the cost of goods varies (ex. Increases rapidly), a FIFO method means that the good sold is the first that arrived (therefore in this case) the cheapest, while a LIFO (last in first out method) means it's the newest and most expensive one

Peter the Shyster,most uninformed you tuber on any subject,period.Russia is fighting 54 countries of nazi West alone and kicking their ass?Proud to be so uninformed and ignorant?

The younger ones are drafted from the eastern republics.

There is no war draft for the war. Youbguys are fompletly out of reality is like look at a comedy show.

@@AndrePepink Bro we can see people being served their draft papers when they post them on social media. Drink less, your brain damage is already severe.

​@@GolemRising Yes, but the mobilization affects everyone between 18 and 60. One can also easily dodge it, if smart enough.

Zeihan is lying again. most of the Russian soldiers in ukraine are older looking. there's some young guys but always there's old guys around. TBH that's good. more experience and better suited for a slow war. this war is not going to be a blitz for the capital.

troll

@@pierrerochon7271 Nice to meet you.

Ukrainian count of Russian casualties is 450k, but they've probably not been able to see 30% (some of which is Russians wounding and killing each other). And then it's 600k.

It is difficult to get accurate numbers on either side. But likely estimates put the number of dead Russians at 50-200 thousand and long term disabled wouded are usually 3-4x those. Ulraine has military losses about 1/3rd of the Russians but also a lot of civilian losses. Peters numbers on tanks are way off. Visually confirmed lost tanks are already at 2920 according to Oryx

In all truth, I am not convinced they are THAT high, but I suspect they are high. With adequate help Ukraine could win this war just with the attrition of the Russian forces. It would take some years, off course. By adequate help I mean: Air defense systems, air force, enough 155mm artillery shells, Taurus and other long range weapon systems,...whatever they need. The way it stands, Ukrainians are taking absolutely unnecessary losses and all thanks to Duck a l'orange Donald and the Maga muppet faction.

It's an invented number. According to Ukrainians more than 400k Russians and 31k Ukraninans. However only a 3 yo child would believe that. Since the same Ukrainians say Russians have 10x more artillery. So an army that has 10X more artillery and basically air supremacy is losing 10X more people? Peter here is also inventing numbers he actually ofc doesn't have a clue.

russia 46000 dead 280 000 wounded ukraine 31000 dead 700 000 missing wounded over 1 million.

@@rogerwilco2 Everyone agrees that Russia has the aviation, armour, artillery and ammunition advantage. But Ukrainian losses are a third of Russian losses? This is extreme wishful thinking. Anyone who has been following this war with an open mind realises Ukrainian losses are higher - vastly higher. As or 200k Russian dead who are they all? Mediazona identifiers fewer than 50k Russian dead. As for Oryx - samples have been audited and it was found Russian losses were invented and exaggerated, Ukrainian losses were classified as Russian losses and one of the guys behind Oryx came up with the excuse we're volunteers, we don't have time to avoid mistakes. Maybe fair but the point is the Oryx numbers are meaningless.

You are incorrectly reading Mike Johnson. There are 12 very conservative Congressmen that are putting pressure on Johnson to keep aid to Ukraine tied to Biden closing the southern border with Mexico. Biden can do this with an order to the Border Patrol. Biden (or his handlers) choose not to do this, so the aid to Ukraine is held hostage. All that dribble about Trump or Johnson supporting Russia over Ukraine is nonsense. But, you western Europeans should learn that if you wish to protect yourselves, you should do it for yourself. You can never know when another country's internal politics can/will interfer with your country's safety and security.

Mike Johnson, so far, has been actually upholding the interests of the Republican base - NO AMNESTY for Illegal aliens and no welfare for them either. The Senate bill which gives aid to Ukraine also gives amnesty to illegal aliens and welfare to them as well. If the choice is no amnesty and letting Russia win or support Ukraine and mass illegal alien amnesty and welfare then I choose the former. Forcing Biden to do his job in securing the border AND supporting Ukraine is not an option at this time.

You don't even need to ask. :(

@@richardthomas5362 dont give amnesty is not lncluded welfare is up to states not federal

@@richardthomas5362 They also was against the bill that included the strongest border security ever, but the republikans decided they rather want weak borders to help Trump win the election.

Like Putin falling out of a window or a tactical nuke…etc. 😮

they have been seen on the 0 line too

You can’t hold land with corpses.

@@stevencramsie9172 The Zulus found that out.

Great question. They are both building new tanks (slowly) and refurbishing old tanks (quickly).

LoL totally. He talks a good game but mostly just BS speculation

He just said 5 - 8 yrs of supplies. So he's never actually said that...

@@TheJimbles 😂 what a insightful forecast from crystal ball Pete

dont forget china is to become bankrupt any second now

Government paid influencer right there

Impossible to know if Russian or Ukranian. Manipulated a lot.

@@AndrePepink It's clear to anyone with good eyes that Russia is loosing a lot of tanks. Well reported by Oryx and A. Perpetua's team.

@@AndrePepink This is not true. Most of the Russian equipment can be easy attributed, because it is modernized.

If tanks "don't work", then why are you seeing a lot of them in use and care about them so much? Care to explain that?

@@hyhhy To be fair: after losing 3,000 of them without much to show for it it seems to have dawned on the Russians that tanks don't really work anymore on the modern battlefield and now they use them as APCs, piling infantry on top. Quite useful as it is running out of real APCs.

Slave

you won the war and defeated Russia with that comment.

Intelligence.

Form his stupid imagination

@@forcegfgf3123 found Putin’s burner account

I remember when the Russian economy was going to collapse in two months under sanctions. That was two years ago.

@@istvanglock7445 I remember when patriotic Americans didn't trust communist dictators.

I remember reading, Russian Petrochemical natural gas industry would be irreparably hurt by the shutdown of the pipelines feeding Europe. Ya, sourced from 'experts' in the industry. With examples like Libya, Venezuela, excetera. And frankly this dude Pete, spills loader-loads of B.S. into the cesspool regularly. Amazingly brazen.

I remember when the Russians were going to take Kiev in three days!? That was two years ago!

@@gnk53 who reported that