Why Did the U.S. Send Only 3000 Troops to Counter Russia in Ukraine? A Game Theory 101 Investigation 

lol i wrote the exact same comment before reading yours

I think the red line is pretty much in the suburbs of Moscow these days. The blue line is now yellow and blue and kicking the shit out of the red line!

This video make one bad assessment. Polish military has 120 thousand man personel (actually trained one, not shitty conscripts) and they main job is to delay Russia, before reinforcements arrive. Most of US personel in Poland operate on advanced weapons like Patriots and Abrams. Despite what Trump babbling, Europe doesn't need defense. Those are systematic defense operations. Though tripwire argument is also true, they aren't expected to die.

I come away from this that NATO is willing to sell out Ukraine and a sizeable portion of eastern Europe for peace and cheap energy, am I wrong ?

@@fearlessfruge6445 NATO is not just Germany and France (or even US). Putin facepalmed forgetting that smaller nations actually hold collectively proportionally sizable power on West.

I always come back to these videos to chuckle at the prediction vs reality.

Machines and air superiority, seems nowadays more important, as we can see.

@@cultugarvealgarve7380 Air superiority is king as of right now, but you must maintain it. We have seen in recent conflicts that Russia isn't able to keep air superiority to the crushing capability it is supposed to have but NATO seems to. A single man with a MANPAD has become the fear of the russian plan. From war reports, it seems artillery is still the main player in battle and strategic deployment.

@@ClemDiamond yes indeed, mafia was never known for organizing armies, sciene or univerrsities etc.

Never forget, people (including Russia) thought their military was actually properly armed. They weren't.

Technically you are right. But those other NATO countries are only in their because the US is, and it calls the shot.

because USA defend budget is bigger then all other countries together, thats why

@@olkredesign2410 that isn't to mention that it is an American led alliance.

@@jsharps1000 BULLIED NOT LED

@@paullakowski2509 no I think i described it correctly. sorry we aren't Russian here bud.

I’m laughing at it now. 3000 could hold off all the Russians

@@rogerbrownreacts8528 3000 Multi-Ethnic soldiers of Biden.

@@koboldparty4708 Biden Who ?

@@koboldparty4708 Degenerate

Bruh was just about to say the same thing especially when he said those soldiers “don’t stand a chance”. Russian propaganda was that good. Had us believing they could take over Poland and Romania at the same time lol.

That's reality fact.

That's funny

They already know that that’s what they are. They aren’t ignorant to that reality.

I think they know what's up

a friend of mine is there right now in romania

No, you are wrong. It is important that you realize this. All Western countries have spent 30 years demilitarizing themselves. NATO has no ability at all to resist a Russian invasion. We are only lucky that Putin has no such intentions at all.

@@bjorntorlarsson Of course, considering how strong Russia is, such an economic powerhouse that would certainly resist without exports not starving. It happened in the past.

@@bjorntorlarsson NATO has US, UK, CAN, FRA. USA alone could resist Russian invasion against NATO members.

@@bjorntorlarsson You are so far from correct, it’s hilarious. Russia is a shadow of its former military might. The EU nations alone would tear Putin a new one, even before American forces arrive (late as always) to mop up.

​@@Bob10009 1,000 French officers the other year wrote an open letter to Emanuelle macron (you know, he who is married with his 25 years older school teacher and who has a stepson who is older than himself), calling him a traitor for having abolished the last of the French army. Haven't you heard that the French army got totally beaten up by a gang of unarmed nomads in Mali last week, and fled in panic? Mali government has hired "The Wagner Group", Russian privateers, to fight for them instead. You shall see, and the jihadists are soon no more in Mali. Germany has no military at all. One of the two US soldiers there called their boy scouts "parasiting back packers". If you meet him, one of the two US soldiers that serve in Germany, ask him yourself what he thinks about the ability of the pretend-to-be German army. They have no navy and no air force either. How many armored divisions can the US air lift to Europe within the week they have until the Russians hit the Atlantic coast? And would they even try after they have detonated a nuke in the middle of the Atlantic? "Come on now", like the demented president says (while Putin plays ice hockey with his defense minister). Get real and accept the facts. The 1990s is over. Russia is the only great power in Europe. ALL European want to have it that way, else they wouldn't have deliberately created this situation during the last 30 years.

America has almost 100K military in Europe

@AG TaNGrA *winning :)

@AG TaNGrA also their active army is 300k strong + territorial defense

@AG TaNGrA your comment aged quite badly didn't it

@@randomcat9314 hehe.... 👍🏻🙂

Common Russians have nothing to do with escalation. You'll find more Putin fans in Hungary or Africa than in Russia.

@@DerDop yeah I believe that to a point. No doubt. Just like the US. We all have people that we feed the negative waves. Let's just all come together and live life to the fullest. War surly isn't the answer for anyone anywhere. Hope all th.kids I played football w are doing well at least.

Well united states can put 100 thousand troop fast if needed and Russia will have most of its equipment in the west china can move on russia land next on the east coast

"Why don't princes fight the wars? Why do they always send the poor?" - System of a Down.

War is just a distraction from things like inflation, money laundering, depopulation, slavery, resource exploitation etc...

I wouldnt bark so loud. Russia is rich and has allies. They know their military equipment is subpar. There will be an upgrade. And the idea of forming an eastern NATO on the table. However, its not a westlike. NATO has no conquering state, US is more meddling than conquering. But Russia as China want to expand. Even when allied, at a certain point, they will fight.

And forgetting that the 3000 are additional, the US has 100 000 in europe, and all the other nato countries have soldiers to match Russia several times over.

Россия не делает как Американцы...Американцы просто закидывали бомбами, Афганистан ,Ливию, Ирак, Иран,Сирию и тд....Америка сбросила Атомную Бомбу на Японию, или все забыли сразу....А-? Теперь, мы вам точно устроим КУЗЬКИНУ МАТЬ...ЕСЛИ ДАЖЕ ПУТИН ОСТАНОВИТЬСЯ, МЫ НЕ ОСТАНОВИМСЯ-DAS IST FAKT!✊

@@hallarious506 i want what he's smoking cause china has other plans then to work with russia anymore lmao

@@legolus3334 China and Russia are frienemies at best. Russia is desperately looking for support, and China is looking to challenge the US, but the two aren't looking to be allies.

They don’t advertise our comparison to “Sparta’s 300” being anywhere.

Meanwhile, clueless Russian conscripts breaking down the Ukrainian military and essentially reordering the world order.

Americans are not compareable to spartans haha

3000 could have held them all back if the has the weapons

@@kierano8390 Meet me I’ll make you a believer. I’m the reason a population should have guns.

Now it's all started.

Tbh you never thought that because you're in your 20s but in reality about 20 years ago similar discussions were being had over Iraq. About 10 years ago the same discussions were being had over Georgia. Or Syria. You've gotten numb to war but it's been here literally the entire time.

Watching this after the invasion. Jesus Christ

Well when you think about it, people our age have been living in fear of war our entire lives. I’m 21 and ever since I was 12 I’ve always wondered when wwiii would start

Some how Bucegi mountain portal is involved. USA wants it. under no circumstances will it be allowed russia take over as they did the tunnels under Ukraine..

He does but he talks about war zones between NATO and Russia. And these lands would be on the middle of it.

I came to comment section for this.

All those countries are walk-through's or shall I say run-through's. No problem for Russia. History backs it up

@@lukaslt9094 LoL yeah they'll be fighting with nuclear weapons. If that's the case then why even mention the number of soldiers. And BTW these days all European countries are capable of developing nukes, the reason they don't is because of NATO.

@@lukaslt9094 You are out of your mind if you that nukes will be used in this potential conflict.

Lol

I hope you didn't lose too many family in the ensuing, obviously implied, war.

It’s easy to look weak when you have 65% of the world against you. It’s not that Russia is weak, really.. it’s more that they just don’t have the spirit to fight this war. If the USA or Ukraine where the ones who invaded Russia I bet you they would be looking a lot stronger. No one wants to fight a old politicians fight. These Russians are too westernized now. I doubt Russia will survive this conflict. As this will be the first domino falling. Once it reaches the end and they are all knocked down, Russia will be surrounded by nato and will have no choice. Which is actually sad as I do not support nato at all.

Its not because Russia is weak, its because Ukraine is strong

The way things are going Ukraine might chase them all the way back to Moscow!

Russia is kinda untouchable considering their nuclear weapons that legally they are allowed to use in the case of defending russian lands. (These are tactical nukes btw, not cataclysmic.)

@@ianhinrichsendrummer2113 Ukraine isn't even winning in a defense of their own country my guy.

Yes, barring the actual existence of actual magic Russia lacks the logistical capacity to wage war that far West. It's actually iffy if Russia could even reach say Kiev with sufficient troops what with their lack of transport. I suspect that Russia's intent would be to secure the Donbas and Luhansk regions and perhaps try to sieze Odessa.

@@rekke41 thats why they have troops in Belarus.. from border, its 2hour drive to Kiev...

ronpaul_2008 - fact is Russia does not have any best case wins - if it takes east bank of the Dniper it cannot afford a long and protracted war of attrition and cost that will be needed to maintain occupancy and 120,000 troops is not enough for that - game theory, my ass

@@JaM-R2TR4 - Putin has troops in Belarus mainly to quell the dissent against Russia and its puppet Lukashenko that has surfaced there before as well his latest antics are to show the Russians he is still a strong leader and gain some popularity points although all his attempts to divide and conquer Europe are kind of back firing - he's going to lose this game badly is my opinion

@@JaM-R2TR4 2 hours by road, the north of Ukraine is forest and Pripyat seamps, so frankly south and east would cost less than north.

It is entirely about the US versus Russia. This is why Putin keeps trying to talk to the US. The US replies by saying don't talk to us, talk to NATO, knowing that NATO is only an expression of its members policies and so cannot make any policy without the USA. It is just a way of fobbing them off. What Russia wants is to keep the US military off Russia's border. If the US ever decided to deploy its full conventional military strength inside Ukraine, Russia would be completely unable to defend itself in a confrontation with the US, except by going nuclear. This is suicidal, so the US would have a decisive stranglehold on Russia. Putin knows that once Ukraine joins NATO he will be unable to forestall any US military deployments inside Ukraine, so it will be 'game over' for Russia. The neo-cons in Washington, notably Nuland who is obsessed with cutting Russia down to size, deeply resent Russia being able to constrain their actions around the world and seek to neutralise Russia. This has been sharply illustrated in Syria where the US would have overthrown Assad by now if it wasn't for Russian intervention. Neo-cons regard this as intolerable and push the idea that US global dominance is in some way essential for the maintenance of the 'liberal democratic' order in the world (if you can find it). To this end the idea of either compromise with Russia, or peaceful co-existence with Russia is an intolerable violation of their values, and the only acceptable policy is to get a decisive strategic advantage which can be used to eliminate Russia as a force in the world. If this can be achieved by economic warfare, or political destabilisation, fine, but a decisive military advantage is a parallel strategy. They have been working actively on all of these almost since the USSR collapsed.

@@bhangrafan4480 well said, if only all my fellow Europeans were open to what you just point out. We need balance in the World, with a World power in every Continent so things like Lybia and Siria could be avoided, Lybia was destroyed and Syria was fortunately saved by Russia otherwise we would had Terrorists running that country now

@@bhangrafan4480 Even as NATO has expanded to Russia borders we have not seen significant deployments of NATO or US Military personnel to those nations. In truth this appears more canard than actual motivation. IMO the real problem is thus, back before the latest color revolution more and more Ukrainians began looking west and started asking questions like why does Poland with the same population have 3 times the GDP with the same population? Why do nations like Hungary Czechia and Romania with much smaller populations have significantly larger economies? In large part because Russia, and by extension its satellite states, is ruled by an almost feudal kleptocratic elite which inherently stifles economic development. What keeps Putin and his political allies up at night, that enough Russians will start asking the same question. The answer of Putin's government is to try and sow distrust hostility and internal division into Russia's neighbors. So instead of acquiring one's own cow, kill the neighbors instead.

@@rekke41 Yes of course the US has not made force deployments into those eastern regions, for a number of reasons. Some are short-term, other are more long-term. Some are simply saving money. In military affairs you have to be aware of the difference between developing military capability and developing military capacity. Capability includes things like new technology, infrastructure (roads, railways, airfields, harbours etc.), training of allied troops and interoperability. These things take many years to achieve and much investment. Capacity can be built-up quickly. Troops can be moved in days, weeks and months. Aircraft can be moved in hours and days. The US is quietly building capability by the expansion of NATO, the upgrading of allies' militaries and infrastructure, and developing interoperability. Current NATO exercises in Ukraine, such as "Cossack Mace 2021" aim at developing interoperability. It is clear from US actions in Ukraine, that Ukraine will be joining NATO when the political situation allows it. In 2008 the US/UK wanted Ukraine to join but it was blocked by France/Germany. The US is waiting for a political situation where it will be begged to send its forces, also Ukraine will be allowed to join. Much of the ramping up of tensions between the west and Russia aims to get this. I've seen it all before. I knew by 1983 that the US intended to invade the Middle East. They spent billions around the region, the North Africa and the Indian Ocean developing harbour facilities, air bases and prepositioned stocks of ammo and spares. They had 330,000 troops allocated to CENTCOM and training for war in the Middle East. The public who pay for all this knew nothing. The US had to wait till 1990 when Saddam invaded Kuwait to activate plans which had been developed years earlier. They not only scrupulously avoided deterring Saddam from invading, but US ambassador Glaspie had actually given him a green light. Something similar is happening now. As usual the public are the only ones who know nothing. Since the end of the Cold War the US has been following a number of policies to gain a decisive strategic advantage over Russia. ABM systems combined with PGS technology are intended one day to give the US the nuclear monopoly it dreams of. The US has interfered in the internal politics of countries like Ukraine and Georgia to support Russophobic elements to isolate Russia from its neighbours and reduce its influence. I remember when Shakashvilli overthrew the elected government of Georgia by mobs, then held an unmonitored election to 'democratise' himself, the BBC correspondent saying "That he won 98% of the vote shows how much the people love him". Yeah, right, spreading democracy or western power and influence?

This is what happens when you don’t spend enough on your military and need the US to cover your ass.

That’s amazing. Do you know a source for it?

@@Gametheory101 oh yes, I was there. When a frenchmen said it.

You really believe its 3000. The US Cannot disclose the actual number or real location of deployment. Its a secret.

@@Gametheory101 Just trust him

@@maydate86 yes. I don't believe that number too. It's classified. Good reason why Russia mobilize their army and encircled the border, she feels threatened. If it's for exercise you don't need to bring every arsenals but Russia did bring all of it.

remember when one Finnish sniper in the snow killed 500 soviets with out a scope

That was before the Soviet juggernaut that crushed Nazi Germany. But yea the Finns were badass

@walter matter remember the motto keep throwing more people at them until they run out of bullet

@@horacecunningham7832 it was more like the zombie hordes from world war z. I played my fair share of call of duty, gimme rpg's and I'm takin out T72s for breakfast lunch and dinner, gonna go kiss my cats goodbye.

@@tokumo2190 that’s a lie

If enough of those guys die it will force our hand. However it also might incentive other countries to supply troops as well.

not to brag or anything but we are talking about Europe not Asia

Is this true? Wow i didnt know

@@Medussa357 yes its true lmao

@@emed07- whats so funny

@@Medussa357 nothing just to make my comment not sounding like a angry guy or smthin

@my my Putin really :) this is all planned by the west to increase arms sales :) the military industrial complex is making hundreds of billions on this and they hope to make even more and their puppet politicians will be will rewarded for it :) and who will pay the cost for it all, fools like you :)

Very true.

You got that right.

The United States airforce alone has more planes then all the other nato countries combined and the United States Navy has the second largest airforce in the world. America is 70% or natos strength.

@@patrickbateman2869 Another good point. There exists overwhelming numbers of technologically and operationally superior NATO units. Russia is measured in their attack. They know the hands of NATO are mostly tied, but we can expect tens of thousands of Ukrainian freedom fighters to conduct guerrilla operations against occupation force. Attrite the Russian occupying force, destroy materiel. These brave Ukrainians who will fight and die in their homeland will be equipped with a lot of excellent infantry anti-tank weapons. They can fly small drones to attack grounded Russian military aircraft or other airforce assets such as vehicles, fuel dumps, ammo dumps, etc. So much is possible with the resources NATO countries have at their disposal. Putin thinks he will be written about in history books. Who will be left to write those books? We must draw on our strength as free countries and open our doors to Ukrainians who will need the full support of the West. If we are going to be the force for morality, we must do this for them in their hour of need. Keep families together, shelter them and provide employment. It's the Free World vs. The Authoritarians

@@Chironex_Fleckeri I think the UK and France together have enough nuclear weapons to end the world on their own - toss in a few hundred more from Russia and there pretty much wouldn't be a livable planet left anyway

@@fiverareblanks no not really all the first world would be destroyed but humanity would by no means be extinct.

@@patrickbateman2869 Is USA going to bring all of them across the ocean? No? Then stfu.

Glad you are still with us!

You forget we have an idiot running the USA and his democrati government, we're screwed!

@@spi9177 Trump maybe better

Exactly.

we in Poland think the same - once again weak and disarmed west Europe pushes us to fight land hungry tyrans ... change will be that we would this time fight as second and not on two fronts ;) so there is hope

Jokes aside, Poland is way stronger these days from what it used to be before ww2.

Poland frigging hates Russia. Too much history of war between the two and hate for being under a Russian regime during the cold war. I believe Poland would fight like hell.

@@BiancaTallarico 100% true

@@Byrzzaa Poland is the weakest militarily in its history. It is so weak that in this video no one even considered our army. Polska to pierdolony zdechlak pod respiratorem, teraz wojna toczy się na wschodzie naszego prawdziwego kraju. Ukraina to jedna z prowincji upadłej Rzeczypospolitej.

History

🤣if your say so, Russia only know how to smash and anyone in there way get smashed

@@ct0903 Afghanistan??? Also Russia got obliterated in WW2. Ten times the losses of any nation. That had nothing to do with military power and everything to do with using civilians as cannon fodder. It was a victory of circumstance.

@@sychoboy12345 (with Russian accent) No brother Russia smash o.k

@@BirdsR so you think 🤣 lmfao what is America going to do with 3000 troops ? Nothing that's right nothing !!!! America are a spent force fighting here there everywhere your military are done. Russia smash you.

Exactly. This game theory guy is pulling facts out of his opinion hole

difference between "looking dangerous" and "being dangerous".Russia describes military doctrine as defensive military doctrine. With regard to nuclear weapons specifically, Russia reserves the right to use nuclear weapons: in response to the use of nuclear and other types of weapons of mass destruction against it or its allies,in case of aggression against Russia with the use of conventional weapons when the very existence of the state is threatened. oops google russia deadhand The 'Perimeter' system, dubbed in the United States and Europe the 'Dead Hand', is an automatic control system for a retaliation nuclear strike. To put it simply, if Russia's territory is devastated after a nuclear attack, the Perimeter system automatically strikes the enemy's territory with its own nuclear missiles.

I think your opinion and William spaniel's opinion is in one direction. Sending small troops to avoid tension increase whilst baiting the opposition to strike first.

The reason they send 3000 troops is to fool the idiots who votes for demented politicians like Biden and Johnson domestically. There exists no kind of geostrategic sense to it at all. I KNOW that NATO would not react in the slightest whatever Russia does. They have 5000 bureaucrats in their HQ in Brussels. That proves that NATO has no ability to ever make any kind of decision. And that is good, because NATO has always been humiliatingly defeated in every conflict they ever have involved themselves in! No matter how weak their opponent has been.

Great thinking. And Putin is getting a bit unbalanced, provoked as he is by England and the U.S. War is unthinkable, and Putin never said that he would invade. The narrative was fabricated by the Anglos. The U.S. and U.S. corporate news are desperate to trigger war. The danger is: once a narrative for the invasion is created - making it as if the invasion is already a Reality - it will almost certainly become Reality! U.S. dreams of exhausting Russia to then strike at it. Stay out of it, U.S. criminal empire. No one wants war; Russia wants some security, nothing else. As you see below, Ukraine has a different narrative. "French President Emmanuel Macron is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow today in hopes of de-escalating tensions over Ukraine. Macron will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Tuesday. This comes as the Biden administration continues to warn of a possible attack on Ukraine by Russian forces and as U.S. officials reportedly said over the weekend Russia now has 70% of the necessary combat forces in place to invade. Following the comments from Washington, Ukraine’s foreign minister told Ukrainian citizens, “Do not believe the apocalyptic predictions.” The U.S. has also ramped up its arms transfer to Ukraine and sent troops to NATO allies in Eastern Europe and Germany in recent days."

Evergreen comment on all of my videos. 😆

U clown

This video is an absolut joke

Exactly. Also these 3,000 troops aren't just some dudes that are going to sit in trenches with rifles they are F-35 pilots, M1 Abrams tank crews, Javelin anti tank units, special forces, mortar squads, artillery crews, drone operators, engineers. But being honest US has conventional forces there simply so the non nuclear countries don't feel scared of Russia and leave NATO because everyone knows a couple days or weeks of fighting and someone will use nuclear weapons.

It would be like Germany in half east Ukraine and west Ukraine

Well the lines are kinda arbitrarily drawn to prove a point about game theory.

Ukraine is going to have to move the bulk there army west of Kyiv .

The Bug and the Dniepr are the geographical border between Eastern and Central Europe. The Don is the border between Russia and the Ukraine. Putin is striving to stay popular.

@@haylocktransport6695 Or sacrifice it east of the Dnieper.

Yea this didn’t age well or like you said in hindsight should be a lesson learn for future situations

With the amount and quality of technology in today’s military equipment, terrain is no longer an issue. Look at OEF in Afghanistan, we would have a small platoon get surrounded by hundreds of enemy fighters holding the advantageous high ground, and that platoon would win. With AC-130 gunships, predator drones, and A-10 Warthogs all providing close air support, any advantage they could possibly have was utterly meaningless. In fact, the US military is already working toward completely removing humans from combat roles in the next 50 years. Realistically, terrain has been a nonissue in the outcome of any battle since Desert Storm.

@@byewhobayou8868 Ok, there are a bunch of issues here. For one, this deals only with Game Theory. Game Theory is not the best predictor of outcomes because it assumes outcome maximizing behavior to the exclusion of all else. However, its unfair to hold the OP's Game Theory analysis to factors not considered by Game Theory itself such as tactics, terrain, and culture. Second, the OP wasn't saying that these lines were actually the expected gains by the two sides. (It's hard to see NATO giving up 4/5ths of a member state's territories.) This was an example for the purposes of explaining Game Theory, not as an actual prediction of behavior. The other issue is that Terrain is still supremely important in warfare. Afghanistan is a false example because the technological differences were far more massive than they would be in a European War. Regardless, the impenetrable mountainous terrain meant that the strongest military in the world was unable to find and eradicate the Taliban in 20 years of conflict. Compare with Iraq where the insurgency was defeated far more quickly. Terrain does still matter.

@@braxon I’m not sure what you’re referring to. I didn’t take this theory as a true indication of a potential outcome to a potential scenario. However, on the subject of terrain, it really isn’t that important anymore. Afghanistan is a great indicator of overcoming terrain, regardless of military disparities, because it proves that the challenges of terrain in past wars like crossing muddy rivers in WW2 are no longer a fight stopper. The only difference, is that this potential enemy has been able to overcome those challenges as well. Terrain, troop numbers, and even strategies are meaningless. Yes, I included strategy. It’s been proven in every battle throughout history, that no plan survives contact with the enemy. Sure,

All of the things that I mentioned could be helpful in certain scenarios, but overall, it’s not as important as what you bring to the fight and your resolve to win it.

@@byewhobayou8868 I was referring to both you and the OP bayou. If the statement clearly wasn't referring to his post an not yours, you don't need to feign confusion. Second the Taliban didn't overcome the mountainous terrain, they used it to avoid American attacks as the Americans had substantial difficulty seeking out Taliban forces in the mountainous caves throughout the country. Accordingly, the terrain afforded the defending side an advantage over the attackers. Terrain mattered. Regardless, with much even technology, terrain would still matter far more as air superiority and mobility differences won't be a given.

Atricle 5 could be tested, not many NATO countries would engage, therefore it would failed the test, and NATO would collapse.

@UTubeFekUrself Bloody lies are being propagated and gas lighting. The treaty is Ukraine will never join NATO and NaTO forces near Ukraine are barred and that is current day demand of Putin simple ..

@UTubeFekUrself If American troops die in Ukraine they die in vain. So they don't go there. Also if war breaks out I find it amusing American hipocracy and arrogance, the evil, they funded and created like Taliban or Al Qaeida made us run away and you want to face Russian hypersonic missiles and nuclear Missiles ..I know Dems election is near but stop kidding both leaders and Military are NOT fools till today they actually protected each other ..

@@granand , what are you talking about, there's no treaty in existence about limiting NATO expansion or Ukraine joining NATO. The Budapest Memorandum signed on 1994 on Security Assurances refers to three identical political agreements signed at the OSCE conference in Budapest, Hungary on 5 December 1994 to provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of nuclear weapons. The memorandum was originally signed by three nuclear powers: Russian, the United Kingdom, and the United States. China and France gave somewhat weaker individual assurances in separate documents... According to the memorandum, Russia, the US and the UK confirmed their recognition of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine becoming parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of nuclear weapons and effectively abandoning their nuclear arsenal to Russia and that they would: 1. Respect Belarusian, Kazakh and Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders. 2. Refrain from the threat or the use of force against Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. 3. Refrain from using economic pressure on Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to influence their politics. 4. Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used". 5. Refrain from the use of nuclear arms against Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. 6. Consult with one another if questions arise regarding those commitments. Russia signed this on 1994 and it has broken the agreement. Russia should follow these rules as they signed and agreed...

@@granand no they are sent to die. It is theirs purpose. Thats why they sent 3000 solders only. Enough, if they die, US will have to escalate, too few to intimate the enemy.

😂

Nobody will survive when bombs start dropping... innocent lives will be lost

@@Adam-gf3jg You know it costs money to fight a war. Russia is broke man. Appreciate the help from the US of course, but the rest of NATO alone would put up a hell of a fight IMO. Peace.

I am a brit and would stand shoulder to shoulder with the Poles and Lithuanians, they have a historic and deep hatred of Russian aggression, this hatred will give them the phycological advantage. Lets hope peace will prevail but if Putin kicks off I think he will be shocked at the hatred levelled towards his troops.

@@jrsleao Laughing emojis is disrespectful, WWll was a long time ago. If I had the choice I would choose to fight alongside a Polish soldier rather than a Portuguese one!

Thanks! This one is extremely popular, so I might do a follow up like it next week.

Nato sucks

@@Gametheory101You are on the right track. Just look up the UN Ten region map and you will find who gets what part of the "U" nation. Looks like the U to the bear and the other nations to the west of U nation goes to Joe's land. This is all preplanned and these puppets are actors playing out the script. Yes there will be sacrifices of ppl,buildings ect..but that is also part of the plan. Satan and his world puppets playing out their insidious theater for the masses. The new world order marches on. Ppl keep falling for their productions and even volunteer to fight for these devils. Sick "whirled"😊

​@@Gametheory101 Honestly the amount of comments for this video is pretty impressive considering it's only got 150, 000 views. Although considering the nature of the topic and the somewhat ... heated discussions, I guess it makes sense. I also get the impression that there are many IR experts dwelling in comment sections nowadays.

If some people are brainless then ill explain why... first USA was given 13 days by the Taliban to run from Afghanistan and they did run and leave 21-century tech... and 2nd USA+nato will never going to fight Russia or China not even North Korea because they will easily make cowgirls and their puppets extinct... western cowgirls only fight 3rd world countries throughout history and only because of the oil resources reality fact...😂😃😆thats why west for decades only verbally whine like a swine none stop up on western fake news and propaganda about Russia-China-NK)))

Your English is *****.

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And this (expert) forgot one huge thing. Poland Ukraine and others DO NOT want to live under Russian rule again. And Russia's population and Russia itself is not what it is used to be. They could not win a conventional War stay NATO. Only using Nukes. And then everyone loses. Vladimir is not that stupid. Stand up to him.He likes a fight.

Definitely

NATO vs Russia ... this guy has no idea what he is talking about

@@sangbeom6245 ,He totally forgot about the "will" of the people. They don't want a Soviet lifestyle anymore. NEITHER DO WE !!!!

@@earljohnson2113 But you forgat to mention almost 40 percent Ukraine population will support Russia.And that is by west statistic,if we look at Russian,number is higher. Now is different story why in CNN you never gonna hear about people in Ukraine who support Russia. You know when Russia come to Crimea there was 20 000 Ukraine soldier,they give them two options,first to leave Crimea or to stay ger citizenship and serve in Russia army,just google it how much choose first options.Only 6 000,rest of them stay.People on West side of country hate Russia but people on East are support them.

"If NATO amend this act , it will destroy all the deals made in nuclear proliferation." Well that would be terrible... cos Russia would just drop their non-proliferation agreements too... ohh wait!

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Russia still have 900000 aktive personer in background. And 2 million who have to come. China is ally now. Also come to help russia if you gays go stupid

Not all forces are direct combatants. 80% are support capacity. This guy is dumb

EUCOM (United States European Command) has about 70,000 personnel prior to current Ukraine's security issue. 8500 has been allocated for Europe from the mainland US.

Approximately 74,000 personnel are permanently assigned to EUCOM. These include 34,000 Army personnel, 27,000 Air Force personnel, 3,000 Marine personnel, and 10,000 Navy personnel. Most of the US military strength is allocated towards the Pacific side. The US has 1,346,400 active-duty personnel. 165,000 deployed personnel. Polish Armed Forces consist of 114,050 active-duty personnel. From US's POV, the European front is on lower prority compared to "Pivot to Asia".

He draws just a bit of Moldova in the Russian sphere. Thats: Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR),[b] is an unrecognised breakaway state located in the narrow strip of land between the river Dniester and the Moldovan-Ukrainian border that is internationally recognised as part of Moldova. Its capital and largest city is Tiraspol. ... The present history of the region dates to 1990, amidst the disintegration of the Soviet Union, when the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic was established in hopes that it would remain within the Soviet Union should Moldova seek unification with Romania or independence, the latter occurring in August 1991. Shortly afterwards, a military conflict between the two parties started in March 1992 and was concluded by a ceasefire in July of the same year.

Moldova can't unify with Romania as Russia has troops in Transnistria, that would bring Russian troops on NATO territory.

Same with the Poland. They don't likes Russian due to theirs own history. Like Sex slavery, rapist. murderer crimes increased in Poland long time ago by them cultures. They don't care about the world. It the greed's and controls they wants

WW3 is upon us. Last time appeasement worked was never. We tried it with Germany and they took more and more and more and we kept giving hoping to avoid war. That is what might happen here.

@@MrDICKHEAD28 NATO is not political and does not occupy.

Ukraine is in NATO ,USA is in NATO, but NATO is a joke ! - is every country for themselves :)

@@alexxenaosas2416 what???

NATO doesn't have Ukraine. NATO was started by the US. 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

What are you even saying alexandru?¿? Do your research and due diligence, buddy. Ukraine is not apart of NATO in fact they aren’t even apart of the European Union, they were deemed independent from back in 2014 when the bs with Crimea went down. They are currently attempting to get a membership with the EU because the failed attempts with NATO…

And the failed attempts with joining nato is one of the security risks that Russia is fighting for… I do believe Putin is making it worst by using force, but that is why China agrees with Putin granted Russia isn’t in a war with Ukraine Putin is… until everyone agrees this world would be a better place with all nuclear weapons being holsterd it will be world war 3 with Putin not russia once the threat is eliminated then the threat is still a threat… so who is the threat? Russia? Ukraine? Putin? China? Well everyone is a threat to someone and that’s what will drag this out… I will say this isn’t ww3 this is just one bit of a distraction… ww3 will be when China and russia attack and everyone submits or dies.

There bringing There military to Rusias border. USA didn't like that when Rusia try to set some weapons in Cuba. Why are they being so hypocritical, imagine military bases from Rusia down in México, that would start a fucking war, and everyone would say of course that's to be expected. Then don't fucking do to other's ............. to you. USA should stop looking to make war on every fucking country. Rusia is not Irak or Afghanistan, where you can bomb the hell out of there country with no consequences. One day the dog is going to bite back and it's going to hurt alot.

Any1 with a brain can easily see that Russia simply don't want NATO surrounding them. How would you feel if you wake up tomorrow and see that your neighbors are not buddies of your enemies and having to live know that your enemies are always right next door to you? That will never sit well with any1.

US has over a dozen major military installations and over 60k force in Europe (considering probably 85% are non-combatants). Europe has their own too. Ukraine is covered under the EU Defense Clause and is unofficially supported by NATO already indirectly. This guys logic is off.

Как независимость там бандыревцы и фашисты

Людей используют как живой щит

Ты не понимаешь просто нечего европейц

Донбасс 8 лет был под огнем всу и фашистов

Независимость какая говори мне в чем мы просто бьем фашистов и всу и только их, а не мирных граждан . Независимость украины не было им управляет НАТО с америкой откуда подумай наемников много и ракетниц

3000 armies.

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Biden will send them weapons when he feels like it, hmmmm

😁😁😁 funny.

Biden is busy getting his but wiped before he gets his ass kicked.

Why would they threaten nuclear? If they want the land why would they use nuclear weapons. You realize that would be stupid because of the nuclear fallout and the land would be useless. So it makes no sense to do that

@@chrisoreilly3481 I don't know why Putin threatened to use the nuclear option. My best guess is he's a closet psychopath. To even suggest such a thing in his position is so beyond irresponsible it's hard to assume otherwise.

@@lii1Il psychopath....well it's not impossible

@@loyaltytothearkadianate lol. Yes politics that makes sense. I'm wondering how strong China Russian relations are along their boarder? I never hear of any drama there?

@@lii1Il I believe they had some small banter nothing much. They've had good relations for years as far as I know

Agreed. This video is tripe.

I agree he treats it like a video game.

What poland would do? Join part in ukraine vs russia conflict? Thats a que for bigger war.

Ok.. And what Russia - China ? 🙋‍♂️🤌😎

@@indrakurniawan6359 They would do nothing. But a big, strong, modern Polish army with a show of support from British and American allies is enough to deter further escalation.

@@simonpersonaltrainer5624 we should see that in real time event. Just wait the worst to come.

@@indrakurniawan6359 I predict nothing will happen. Lots of saber rattling. But rest assured that if something did happen they wouldn't be even given a crumb of Polish Soil.

This video is from before the war started

no its different time those days the 101st and 82nd airborne division were bunch of tough guys with lack of equipment and supply could held the nazi. but nowadays those division its filled with LGBT people who more concern about pride month rather than training with hard condition like E company with CPT Sobel. it will be very unbalance if LGBT Paratroops have to fight with Russian more over if the Russian its From Siberia

@@ruselladler425 You personally know the people in these divisions or are you just making assumptions.

@@notxarbsenoj9231 not assumptions just look at their official Publication account

@@ruselladler425 Again making assumptions their are thousands hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Why do you care anyway?

@@notxarbsenoj9231 Not Really care actually just funny to see how come the most legendary division in US Army Become Division with political issues such as LGBT. and umm i love to follow Such a Military social media not just those i Mention but also several Division and Regiment just for fun and bit a Research. I dont really hope those Division have to fight with Russian since if that happend would be end of the world.