@Grayble's Gringus I think its more the CAF doesnt get the funding to do more than 1 project at a time (such as trying to get 15 air craft for probably the next 2 years.) Theres a reason why most of our kit is still from the coldwar.
@Grayble's Gringus it's poor tactics tanks need to be screened with infantry the Russians have relied too heavily on having more and better toys. They're lacking in infantry, trucks, and radios. All of which are bad for mobile warfare. They can't fight well anywhere they have too slow down most important for this war urban warfare which requires even more infantry but you need far more infantry too tanks then the Russians have for any war. They can't resupply far from railways which is pretty bad for breakthroughs. Worst lets say you break through but because of poor communication you can't tell command so you get cut off and destroyed. Don't blame the tool for being poorly used.
@Grayble's Gringus I mean i'd argue you're pretty wrong. Russia grossly misused them in the early part of the war, but Tanks along with artillery has been extremely important since then. And Ukraine's recent counter offensive would not be possible without tanks.
1:20 the thing is, Vienna was split like Berlin in 4 occupational zones during the Cold War (France, UK, USA, USSR) and the winners agreed on making Austria a neutral country between communism and capitalism. It remains like this to this day (though it might change soon)
I did not know about this. I feel like Austria's history just gets ignored post ww1. Like another country that got split like Germany? How do we not talk about that?
Austria will have to find its path to Nato eventually. It's that or Vladdy. Although they never shied away from him ie the wedding of our then forgein minister where they invited him and he danced with her.
@@DavisSystems austria being neutral is good for europe. It took and is taking a quite important negotiating role. We need neutral states and austria being rather small and unimportant but also the border country between east and west europe makes it perfect for a neutral negotiater
To put some of this into perspective, Britian, despite Brexit, can field 3 combat divisions tomorrow whilst maintaining a global fleet and nuclear armaments. It is long past time Germany shouldered its fair share of responsibility, After all, the German economy is larger than Britain's, and yet we're expanding our military budget to 3% by 2030. But i'll be honest, even the suggested increases to German military spending is not enough, case and point 25 F35's..... I live in East Anglia and see F35's of the Royal Airforce training daily now with plans to have 74 in active service by 2025..... Sort your shit out Germany!
Generally speaking, I agree that Germany needs to pull its weight more militarily. But let's put things into perspective, shall we... the Bundeswehr is currently active in 13 missions around the world and they get frequently praised by their fellow armies when they're deployed so it's not like our military isn't capable of doing its job. The thing is that its job didn't include the immediate territorial defense of Germany since Germany doesn't have a border with a non-Schengen country and is a member of both the EU and NATO. Also, I'd like to see Eastern European countries like Poland or Greece try to reach 2% of their GDP without European subsidies (of which Germany pays the lion's share btw). Obviously the British military has completely different expectations as the corpse of your empire still remains in places like the Falklands where Argentina is still eager to push their claim. Could you elaborate what exactly you feel our responsibility is? Do you think that Putin would have thought "Mmh, Germany pays 2% of their GDP for military spending, I'll better not invade Ukraine then." Come on, thinking like that would be naive... Yes, we're all a bit disappointed that our government hasn't sent more heavy equipment but it's weird to see that Germany nevertheless sent a lot of necessary equipment, even if we're not talking about heavy tanks, as well as billions in aid and yet other countries that are contributing far less are ignored and aren't called irresponsible or whatever. Lastly, the British as well as the US-Americans have enough dirt in front of their own houses both recently and from the past, issues that were never properly addressed and reconciliated. So it's a bit ironic that you or the Americans like Trump would scream about Germany's responsibility. Don't worry, we try our best to learn from our history and to solve issues from the past, do you think you can say that about your own country as well or do you think that the UK might be responsible for a lot of unresolved shit in the world today as well? Germany has played a varied role in this whole Ukraine conflict. On one side our dependence on Russian oil and gas has given Russia a lot of money (something which I've always been against, since it was already clear back then that renewables are better in the long run), on the other hand Germany played a key role in 2014 and the subsequent years in brokering ceasefires like Minsk I and II, which gave Ukraine enough time to build up their country militarily and administratively. A lot of people forget that Ukraine in 2014 would have been crushed by Russia if Putin had decided not to wait for Ukraine to get stronger and eventually join NATO, which was a real concern back then even though people like to look at things with their wisdom of hindsight nowadays.
Appeasement and demilitarization is always "You're emboldening Russia", Rearmament and remilitarization is also always "You're emboldening Russia", there's no other way around it, but to actually appear capable in a fight to scare off bullies but hopefully not actually have to fight a bloody conflict.
that's the reality of the world throwing your weapons down and saying "I'm not a threat" Makes you a prime target. Especially with a country like Russia as your neighbor
in my opinion the collapse of Russia would be very very problematic, especially considering their nuclear arsenal, a part of which would deffinitly go missing in an event of Russian collapse
Depends on the circumstance. The Soviet Union also collapsed without nukes going missing. But if there is a full blown civil war in Russia (and not just local fighters) it could become very dangerous.
@@mhlatki Truth is their wont be a collapse if anything a name change. Revolution in Russia are not like western wants to believe it lead to the rise of things you are against like the soviet Union actually started with revolutionary moment. Perhaps it is USA that is brainwashed to believe every country has and want to be like them
@@gsuhz41 so ? Germany has 20 functional tank do you really think their pathetic army is going to protect anyone ? Only France and Britain have a good army among European NATO member states
Personally, looking at the start of the video. Germany has had a history of military glory. From Prussia to ww2 germany with their innovative tactics. Sure descaling is alright, But i believe just even having a bigger force than that measly number of tanks and aircraft, 1000 of each not only keeps you in a semi-war ready state if something ever happens, but also shows that you're ready to defend what is right, these restrictions are decades old and should atleast be lightened. Shouldn't keep the past from chaining us, Learn and Adapt. Although i must say Im open to criticism about this opinion. Updating, Maintaining and always making sure that the equipment is supplied is a must have, That alone of not having a single combat ready division is shameful as he says.
Like the fighting spirit of Germany from those times still exists... The people of Germany are not currently willing to fight in a new world war. The Russians, and Chinese, ARE. This is not the way I want things to be, but let us be realistic.
Wehraboos take. War has changed, very rapidly at that. Prussian glory and panzers are not going to stop Berlin from being drone striked, or, you know, nuked. Modern multi-arms warfare has been near perfected in the modern age, and I doubt any napoleonic generals are going to be coming out with some new shit that revolutionizes warfare. Germany is not only behind in numbers but in experience. I think you're picturing Angela Merkel in a Super-duper hi tech Panther tank riding into Moscow with erika playing in the background and a pointy hat, but in reality no amount of past military glory is going to change Europes growing military insignificance, let alone Germanys which has been crippled for nearly 100 years.
@@clipsarocks4680 Sure when JFK visited Ireland back in the 60s he said "Ireland you may be a Neutral country but you do not stand idlely by when it comes to Tyranny standing in the way of others Freedom and Liberty of others" and sure enough look what we have already done for Ukraine and promise to when the War is over. That's also not including the lack of knowledge and education on Irish defence and security in Ireland being under threat constantly from Cyber attacks, Illegal air incursions by Russia and various Paramilitary groups still operating in Ireland on both sides of the border today. We need a proper debate on what neutrality actually is in international law not we are militaryly neutral but politically not (That ain't neutral) and what it means to achieve neutrality but a lot of people in Ireland will not be happy with the reality.
@@clipsarocks4680 That's not how neutrality works my guy. we need to fix that though cause if you are "militarily neutral" but not "Politically neutral" then you are not neutral.
It's sad to see that some people are still uneducated concerning the cyber security side of warfare. You really have to understand that if the authenticity or integrity of communications gets disrupted, this heavily impacts the military and especially the supply chains it depends upon.
As the man who is living in Russia for entire life, i would say that we are not suffering from any crisis, there absolutely nothing changed since 2018.
@@5Secondsriddles The level of foreign investment has fallen sharply since 2020, for example: The level of investment in Russian real estate for 2021 alone is just little over 3 percent
In Russia we have national republics (32 of them), but only in two of all republics Russians are a minority (about 40% of Russians), in all the rest Russians are the majority (more than 60%).And yes, in all 32 republics, more than 80 percent of the population knows only Russian (although minorities are not prohibited from learning their native language)
83% of Russia are ethnically Russian. Followed by 4% of Tatars, 1% each of Armenians, Bashkirs, Chuvashs, Chechens and Ukrainians. Execpt for Chechens and, to the lesser extent, Tatars, all of those minorities are massively assimilated (e.g. ethnically quarter-to-half Russians, native language is Russian, etc.). Russia is de-facto a monoethnic state that tries to construct a political nation due to historical reasons (following The New Soviet Man ideology basically, that considered ANY form of nationalism, starting with the Russian nationalism, to be exttremely harmmful).
They don't have to break, its sufficient for them to lose any capacity to take more territory, and i'd say they are pretty close.. the map has not changed much the last 5 months.
Austria isn't in NATO due to cold War shenanigans. Soviets ruled the east, western bloc, the west. Not wanting another Germany to occur, it was agreed Austria would reunify, but would remain neutral. Not joining NATO or the Warsaw Pact.
I was actually in Germany not too long ago with my dad and when we were taking the ferry from Kiel back to my country you could clearly see 2 frigates and one destroyer being built so the effects of Germanys increased spending are starting to show themselves pretty quickly.
Warships take many years to design and build, the decision to build them was probably taken years ago. The real fruits of this massive boost will start to show over the next 5 to 10 years.
28:00 Cool fun fact! Tanks are completely legal in the USA! And if the gun isn't too high a caliber, you can keep it completely unmoddified, along with machine guns (if made before 1988) and flamethrowers!
Trump also called out Germany specifically for their over dependence on Russian OIL. Funny. Isn't it. Because they literally laughed in his face at that summit.
@@RRRRR15 Mf had the best presidency in decades. Good economy, no wars, put us back on top of the world stage, made peace with north Korea. The list goes on.
@@CRsquared64 österreich has no obligation to the west and they have a great relationship with Russia, cry about it, österreich is not changing anything soon
(relating to the first video.) I was talking to my mother and I said I may go on vacation to germany and she said "Isn't that country communist thought?" and looked horrified like i said i was going to china or russia....like....damn
@@TommyKay Basically everything on Russia-1 (Россия-1) or RTR (Всероссийская государственная телевизионная и радиовещательная компания) the pundits regularly mention taking the fight to Berlin again, or reinstituting denazification in Germany as it 'didn't work'. Whenever they talk about Germany or the West it gets pretty wild. I think his reaction or thoughts would be some pretty good content. For the record I think they are all nuts but I believe it is important for Westerners to see what Russian media is saying about the West.
I would recomend watching Perun that focuses on the procurement and processes we don't think about in the military "Defence economics" or Russia's relation with NATO countries.
History is cyclical. "Russia is a dwarf, I will bring her to her knees." Charles 12th, 18th century. Sweden lost its status as a great power forever. "I will conquer backward Russia." Friedrich, mid 18th century. In 1759 the Russian army entered Berlin. "Russia is a colossus with feet of clay." Napoleon, 19th century. In 1814 the Russian army took Paris. "I will conquer the USSR by the end of the year." Hitler, 20th century. In 1945, he committed suicide when the Soviet army entered.
The hilarious thing about Charles the 12th, is that Peter was willing to surrender territory all the way down to Ukraine. But the madlad wanted ALL of Russia, which gave Russia the opportunity to envelop the small but way stronger army of Sweden. Doesn't matter how strong or great you are at fighting if you run out of food.
All epochs when Russia was not nearly as cut off technologically as it is today. In each of these wars (expet the war against sweden) they had allies who were more powerfull than themselves (. Today China will not lift a finger for Russia. In each of these wars they had manpower. Today, they're knocked off there too. During the Second World War, every Russian family had 6 sons, today it is statistically 0.75.
Rest of NATO: doesn’t spend nearly as much as they should Sweden and Finland: spends as much as they should, extradites Turkish oppositionals and are still not being let in.
You're entirely right about hindsight. There's plenty of smart people who (could have seen this coming and) didn't anticipate properly. If we were less optimistic, we could have prevented the last world war too. But taking on a pessimistic stance is what got us in all the wars before that.
politicians hate spending money and love kicking the can down the road. imagine all nato countries spent trillions on a bunch of weapons and no invasion happened. you are left in a situation like russia was in before the war where they have a million tanks and no one to use them on. i heard the real reason the second gulf war happened is because u.s.a and britain had so much weapons lying around that were basically obselete and they either had to be used or its wasted money. imagine how poorly russia would have performed if they waited another 20 years to use old soviet equipment. politics is mad complicated.
The logic was that tanks are useless in the modern war. Expectations were, there would be no large fronts (due to the nukes), and the focus was on hyper-localised air superiority w/ quality over quanitity. Hence the $80mil planes with $1.3 tril research & industry programme. That would probably be useless again any semi-modern - and numerous - dispersed and sticking to the cities infantry-mostly army with decent ground-to-air weaponry. Next to zero damage unless you go low - and if you do, - very high risks to get hit.
It's kind of mind-boggling with just 6+ months of war eroded 60+ years of Russian perceived military strength. Top to bottom there's lots of problems with the Russian military, it's structure, and leadership.
@@Putput-se5ew I think at this rate, they're just gunning to take what land they can to "liberate" as a new country and they'll just spend their time defending it. At this point there's no way they can take the whole country at all.
Man, there was literally no military strengh after USSR collapse. During Chechen wars goverment where literally assembling small army from thousands of different regiments, police, even ministeries's special forces (like Ministery of Judicary lol). The only part of the army, which was able to fuction adequately where strategic nuclear arms. So all the millitary strengh during this war is like from late 2000-s or something.
I am always amazed that many people forget the fact that Russia (according to various estimates) involved 200 thousand people (given that Russia has a regular army close to 1.5 million soldiers) against 600 thousand Ukrainians and is still slowly advancing, or at least defending the captured lands
I don't think the German citizens are willing to make sacrifices at any category, especially for the Army. They been having it all rainbows and heaven and now when the belt tightens it might deadlock their politics indefinitely cause of their reactions. Best thing for Germany is to just give its equipment to far more capable European armies than just starting to rebuild its own.
Exactly. Industry, technical sophistication, and more equipment does not avail a nation that is not even willing to fight. A man with a sharp stick beats a man with a gun if he is too terrified to ever USE it.
Europe should just form its own military alliance, without the US. Putin only attacked because he knew exactly that we wouldn't do shit without a response from Washington, but it was the bravery and sacrifice of the Ukrainian people, military as well as civilians, and the volunteer fighters, who stopped the Russian advance in the first days. Also what people don't know is that the military-industrial-complex is using the German state as a way to cut cost. Private mercenaries like to buy our officers, special unit soldiers, police elite forces etc, trained by the Bundeswehr, but hired by private firms (who happen to not fall under international law because human rights etc are mostly concerned with armies maintained by a state and private armies weren't a thing back then). So they let tax payers finance the training and get all the profit for private mission for themselves. Another reason are export profits. Germany is the 3rd largest arms dealer in the world (by money, Chinese are 3rd if you go by sheer volume, but German weapons are more expensive). Foreign countries like to pay some nice money for it, I don't see a reason why we should waste so much money on competing with sheiks and other rich criminals, during peacetime at least. And then there's the fact that it's Olaf Scholz. Non-Germans will likely think that we're weak and that we're now finally getting a bigger army, but I'm 1000% sure there's some corruption involved. Scholz has been known for his corruption, he's one of many many key figures in THE biggest scandal of tax theft in the history of Germany, ever, and I mean every forms of a German state. There has never been such a waste of tax payer money like the Cum Ex Scandal (look it up!), hundreds of billions just "disappeared" into the pockets of mostly private banks, and Scholz was one of many key figures in political key positions, he literally says that he "can't remember what he did" that all he says, this dude is such a scam, the only reason he won is because the conservatives are just as corrupt and we can't bear them anymore. I'm sure they had this plan for decades, and now's the opportunity to get that fine tax payer money in exchange for expensive shit that noone needs. Europe should have one, large but also cost- efficient army instead of each country doing there own corrupt shit, this is such a joke. We don't have the money for proper education, our elderly have to pickup bottles other people threw away because they're pension pays so little, we don't have the money for proper public transport or environmental issues, but another 100 billion for the military industry? EZ! No, I'm definetly not buying this, people have always consented to give up all they have in exchange for the feeling of security, this is just the same old scam over and over.
@@koalakoala2344 I agree with that since we already did that with France (Greco-French Defense Agreement), yet I think if it reaches a much bigger scale then the question is " what's the point of NATO? "
@@koalakoala2344 i don't think we would have done anything even with a strong united military, war wouldn't have been very popular after lockdowns and restrictions
@@koalakoala2344 yeah have fun with a EU based defense. Can't even keep members of the economic pact together. US always has to bear the weight. Bunch of lefty pacifists will focus on wind farms while Russian tanks roll over Eastern Europe.
This video is very wrong, it has shown that every move only harms Russia, but it is not so, Europe is also forcing itself, it is not clear who will break first, the only winner is the USA
Nah the EU is actually more united than it has been in decades. Same with NATO. Seems like we finally have purpose to be united again. Internal disagreements suddenly mean a lot less when your way of living is at stake and when you are threatend by a state that has brainwashed it's citizens to hate everything Western, including ordinary citizens of Western countries.
@David Alvarez That's the real reason why the west wants not only to confront Russia now- But to destroy it. Spring Thucydides Trap on a Russia/China alliance by knocking out Russia before it can formally do so.
Haha, I don't watch you a lot (not really all that into HOI4 anymore), but I find myself overwhelmingly agreeing with you on a lot of reactions you had during this video. Always knew you were a no-bullshit kind of person. But for most people that doesn't automatically mean they actually understand how the world works, so I never made that assumptions. But you really got things figured out.
This guy is clearly well educated in political science. He uses correct terminology, balanced if slightly eurocentric points, and chat kekw's him implying they know more.
Love how the video says Germany has become reliant on others for defense. As a American and a veteran I laugh cause all of Europe relies on American taxpayers for defense.
Ireland isn’t in nato because when we gained independence after several years on internal conflict and hundreds of years of occupation, we were tired of it so decided to become a neutral country and it is in the constitution
What you lads on we just wanted to stop being killed why would we try piss off people and start conflict again, we are sick of it, there’s been too much violence on this island
India and China stopped all gas and oil imports from every nation but Russia and have now increased imports and Russias economy has returned to growth.
The amount of gas/oil that can be sent to China is 2% of their capacity to produce. They used to sell like 87% to Europe before sanctions. And 60+% of Russian budget is energy revenues. It won't help them much.
@@TheSkyGuy77 Russias economy has returned to growth? I believe it’s working. Also a new larger underground gas line is being built to deliver more to China as we speak.
The US helped Russia protect its nuclear forces during the collapse of the USSR. His fear of nuclear weapons being lost/taken...it's rational....but there's absolutely no way the world will allow just anyone and everyone to go in after the weapons.
It's not nato navy. It's the american navy. The entirety of nato's navy without america wouldnt last a month versus china alone. The differrerence between the american navy and the chinese navy is big but thats #1 vs #2. #2 vs everyone else is as big of a gap as #1 vs #2.
Yea, people don't seem to understand, or be willing to admit, that Modern Europe is largely a product of American military policy and economic dominance. The only reason Europe is so peaceful is because the US pays the military bills and keeps global trade flowing. The second the US goes home, Europe will go right back to killing eachother. And slowly they are. US deployments are nearly non-existent. And when Russia is dealt with the US won't care about continental Europe anymore.
Uh no, france and the UKs navy combined still outnumber chinas alone in tonnage. And China's navy is shittier tech and infinitely less experienced than theirs too. Out of all the WW3 "insights" this video and comments section has provided this one is easily the most wrong
@@uckbritley1305 that's just blatantly false. Even a quick google search can disprove that. Us operates over 70destroyers and 20cruisers. China operates over 30destroyers and 8cruisers. US has over 10super carriers. China has 2 heavy carriers and 1 supercarriers. What kind of mental gymnastic did you go through to add in the 6 british multirole destroyers plus the 9 french destroyers to be more than the chinese navy. People really tend to forget that china and america are the only countries with the economic output to sustain such a ridiculous amount of ships.
@Duplizapper 🤦♂️. Germany recognized the oder-neisse line/border in 1947 (Democratic Republic of Germany) and 1990 with the German-Polish border treaty (Federal Republic of Germany) which came into force in 1992.
Dude, is this really a thing? After all these years I still can't believe it. One just sits there and watches a video some other guy produced and people watch the people who watch the video. Incredibly stupendous trend
@@arjandosanj6131 Napoleon did not have a second front when he invaded Russia and he had a bunch of allies such as the Kingdom of Naples, Spain and a bunch of German principalities that helped the French during the invasion
@@Кацап0 french allies ranged from incompetent to irrelevant. France was fighting britian and prussia. The Russian army is a weak joke, they have no soldiers, only old untrained conscripts with no equipment. Even their best is rare and 20 years out of date.
This whole video was massive salty cope suger coated with bias. How ? Well it disregards many things. 1 historical example arent realy accurate as the downfall for each nation and empire was due to unique reason or spesific conditions. 2 the whole segment about the regions and their relation to the russian governmemt is just wrong for veariaty or reasons. Lack of knowladge on the matter and plain bias. The regions of russia arent like the states in the us nkr like in any other nation, they have special authority designations lemitatiins and so on. Lets not forger the ethnic russians who live in them. Also what if ? What if i dont know ? The indigenous people want to be part of russia. There is no separatism in any of the repulics and many consider that russia is like an outer extension of their home, not only that but each an every region is dependent more or less for something on the other. Russia isnt china as well they arent suppressing them so you cant say ,,ohh there isnt separatusm because they are suppressing them" 3 the author of the video think countering the russians is so easy well guess what its not not all. If you try to get the uppwr hand they will equal the odds immidiatly. Missiles in turkey ans the missiles in cuba is an exelent example. This isnt just highly unlikely, i would call it impossible. Anybody using the same arguments used in that video can make a simular piece of propaganda about how baveria can just pop and germany can collpase or how texas can pop and the us can collapse.
How exactly do you envision beating Russia on the field, pal? A quick 1000km dash for Moscow? An occupation force covering 1/7 of the World's landmass? Static defence line over 3000km Russia/Ukraine border slowly grinding Russia's military stockpile? Syria lasted for ten years, I guess how long Russia will be able to cope - a century?
You've seen how powerful defense is in the modern war in Ukraine. Even if NATO gathers all of its strength Russia can just mobilize all its reserve and dig in inside the cities & turn it into a meat grinder.
@@sergeya6319 Nobody needs to invade Russia, gopnik. Russia will simply stop functioning after this war, the same way they did after a much less bloody adventure in Afghanistan.
@@MrKakibuy Ah, the refreshing, polite, intellectually stimulating discussion with an Eastern European! Wow, you guys are such a natural part of the Western civilization - just put a Romanian, a Pole, an Estonian - and a Brit, a French, a Spaniard next to each other - could anyone really tell a difference? All the cultural contribution of Mitzckevich, Eminescu, Žemaitė - what Europe will be without them? (It will be absolutely the same.) And can you imagine European culinary tradition without Czernina, salo or drop? (Yes, it actually would be much much better). Is there ANYTHING at all you could culturally contribute to the world for the last thousand years of your existance except for your hatred of Russians?
@@lsuperior "Annual producer inflation in Germany rose to a new record high of 37.2% in July of 2022 from 32.7% a month earlier and above market forecasts of 32%." VS "Producer prices in Russia increased 11.3 percent year-on-year in June of 2022, easing from a 19.3 percent gain in the previous month." Inflation is raging everywhere. Inflation in Russia is in imported consumer goods, because of sanctions & FX controls. Inflation in EU is the energy costs, that drive EVERYTHING up (even for cheap imports, it's transportation). Wide sanctions on a country that mines from 1/7 of the landmass in a globalised economy is suicide (and losing the market size 1/4 of EU to Chinese).
The rouble increase doesn't mean anything except that Russia makes less money from exports and that imports collapsed, so ironically all the people who brag about the rouble being the "best performing currency" actually don't understand that a high-valued currency harms Russia.
Ireland is not in NATO because Ireland joining NATO would mean Northern Ireland has a right to exist. Memebers are to respect each other's borders, but lelt's see Turkey vs Greece first.
Can't believe some people in the chat think Turks shoot and oppress Kurds like it was early 1900's. Western propaganda is truly magical. They are citizens like everyone else and have rights as everyone else. 20 Million Kurds live in Turkey, if they truly wanted to separate there would be huge incidents. I'm sick of Western prejudice and hidden racism towards Turks while they are the only capable Nato member next to Russia.
It’s crazy, less than 100 years ago Germany was kicking people around Europe like it was nothing, and now it doesn’t even have a functioning military. I understand that the time where Germany was so strong was a bad time because of hitler, but man imagine that German military in modern times, Russia would be hardly able to do anything
i thought the Bundeswehr had to be reduced to about 300k active personnel like negotiated in the 2+4-Treaty to allow the reunification with East-Germany. Correct me if i am wrong pls.
@@xhellslegionerx The west told Germany they weren't allowed to build a large army, but now Germany builds a large army and the west lets them do it because Germany's army will be used FOR the west and not AGAINST it.
Maybe Germany should focus less on forcing its citizens to take Pharma drugs in pain of a fine and unemployment... Glad they backtracked on that. Very scummy. Same with Austria
I enjoy how Tommy actually kind of understands Geopolitics when he is playing HOI4 RP, but when he is confronted by a real-life issue he goes full normie NPC German, kek
@@YBM2007 He has a lot of that same pacificity and naivety as most Germany politicians. WWII largely scarred Europe so badly that culturally Europeans over-corrected have been dead-set on slowly strangling themselves ever since. They went from being the most important place on the planet to one of the least important. They have been mentally spoiled by the US-military umbrella and the Bretton Wood's system that they cannot handle going it alone. Concepts like nationalism and military defense are unthinkable. Countries like Germany naively become dependent on Russia. Others dump money into green energy despite being geographically unfeasible for most of Europe. They produce very little themselves and depend more heavily on globalization that any other continent. They are terrified of overpopulation so they stop having kids to the point where most European countries are facing demographic collapse. Tommy has that same classic European mentality. Very naïve and detatched from cold hard reality. Unable to take pride in their own cultures and defend them. They care more about appearing benevolent, just, and altruistic instead of protecting their own. That's why Tommy is a Greenie. It's all about intentions over reality with them. Little pragmatism.
@@LaFonteCheVi That is mostly a myth. Although peaceful, liberal democracies can put up a fight if needed (re WW2). He is 100% correct that in a 'perfect world' there would only be peace and no need for military, also 100% correct that in reality you have to be prepared and have a functioning army
@@YBM2007 It isn't a myth in the slightest? It is literally the history of Europe since WWII. "hough peaceful, liberal democracies can put up a fight if needed (re WW2)." Not Europe. They don't have the military industry or demography for it. They don't even have enough young people to fight. Besides the UK navy and *maybe* France, Europe is largely toothless. NATO is largely just the US. Germany doesn't even have the energy supplies to support their own industry. They are starting to partially de-industrialize due to shortages.
@@LaFonteCheVi Putin had that same mindset - "Europe is scared, weak and won't do anything" - didn't turn out that way now did it? With all due respect, WW2 is soon 100 years ago - decades of peace and stability have arguably had a far worse negative impact on western military spending (US aside)
The RU-vidr that Tommy watches is very western bias, his content always ends in the total defeat and unconditional surrender of China Russia North Korea or any enemy against the west in general. Binkovs Battlefield give a more balanced midrange and realistic approach to overall military campaign discussion
His content is so much more than this and would also make sense for his view to be that from the west point of view since most of his viewers are from the west. He also covered the West times before too.
You mean listening to that sock puppet speak about hypotheticals? Yeah I think you need a brain checkup Russian misinformation bot. Caspean Report is by far more reliable than sock puppet binkov and his hypothetical battleground
Well, according to expectations from these youtubers from even a year prior, the Russian army was supposed to be the second best in the world. We all saw how that turned out. It's actually not that simple to know for sure where we stand right now. Let's hope that we'll never have to find out.
@@lukasbudis5108 As much as war is terrible and all that it would be pretty nice to finally see all these people who have said that Russia is the strongest and USA is terrible to be shut up. Probably would be the only positive of a war
@@lukasbudis5108 Maybe Russian army IS the second best in the world, and maybe it isn't. But the Western media is def. number one with no number two by a mile, so you see and hear what you supposed to. "Ruble to rubble!", "they'll get out of rockets in two weeks", "their economy will cease to exist the moment we turn off the gas pipe", "nobody in the World will deal with Russians", "the regular Russian citizens will revolt any day now", "Turky is a NATO member, they'll push on Russia hard", "China will be scared to help them because sanctions" etc, etc. Meanwhile EU military stockpiles are empty, Ukraine started drafting women, and Russia wages war with a peace time army. Try to ignore what people tell you they think Russians are planning, and try to recall what prediction they've made just a month ago. The picture might start looking diifferent.
To be honest I don't think there is a way out at this point. Welp time to just sit back and hope we finally get material for a cod game other the ww2/modern war themed. Was getting board
Hold on a minute you’re telling me the Germans are able to give the Polish half 1000 leopard tanks and Germany does not have at least over 1000 of its own leopard twos wtf
[...]*for the sovereignity of a country and the safety and freedom of its citizens your violant country is attacking, while facing major adverse sanctions* [...]
@@sergeya6319 Don't make me laugh. That comparison is so poor. You're comparing a protest that can get you sentenced to 12 years in jail to what a fine for not obeying the lockdown? Oh you poor, poor man. You better play the victim card now and feel offended by my criticism
