it started, war starts when it's declared.

@@NotShowingOff Yes, that began in 2014.

@@NotShowingOff no, in your logic then England and Ireland have been at war all this time, Germany and Poland, Hungary and Romania, Turkey Greece, etc... NO one thinks like you because you are wrong, if War was just hostile actions then the entire World is at war.

​@@Real_SkyRipper Russia Invaded Crimea and eastern Ukraine in 2014. That's when the war began. Obviously you knew that. Is it really a war though or a special military operation?

​@@RussiasSufferingInUkraineI don't remember there being a war in 2018 between Ukraine and Russia. *edit (does not mean that i am denying the fact that it has been happening since then)

Crimea had a referendum in 1991, it wanted to become an independent member of the New Union Treaty. I.e. separate from the Ukrainian SSR. 94.30% of the people voted yes. You literally can't have Crimea not be pro-Russian without somehow dealing with its population first.

Yes under Russia who wants the land to stop Ukraine from having a huge natural gas reserve

Agreed. Really good video, but weak choices for a conclusion. There will be no other ending than sending 1 million Russians to Russia. Gather them in a line and make them walk. If you refuse, you're 💀

@@thoughtsofapeer >there are no Nazis in Ukraine >posts this

I do find many peoples opinions on Russia kind of hilarious. For example in the US the Democrats have been retroactively criticizing Trump for the positive statements he's made about Russia and Putin in the wake of the 2014 and 2022 invasions but ignore how Obama and Clinton weren't any better, and with the wars Russia's waged in places like Chechnya and Georgia it's not like nobody knew what kind of man Putin is or how Russia operates. Large parts of Europe werent much better with their blind optimism in the 90s and 2000s as they got blinded by cheap mineral and energy prices. They dont want to admit it but many politicians are eager to end the war at least somewhat in Russia's favor as that makes things easier for them to normalize relations and open trade back up to keep that cheap oil and gas coming.

🤣🤣🤣 victims of their wishful thinking

Ukraine just surrendered boi.

Ukraine never got crimea back.

​@@kap1526its a stalemate

@@Adonis362 nope , not at all.

@@projectedone what do you mean no not at all no country has made gains

@@Adonis362 have you been watching the maps? Russia is pushing Ukraine on all fronts and they haven’t even started their spring offensive in earnest yet. Compare that with what Ukraine managed in their counter offensive. The deep strikes behind the lines of troop concentrations and ammo depos. The destruction of the energy systems and the reduction of Ukraines remaining air defence systems. Targets that directly affect Ukraine ability to do war. It’s over and the end result is going to be the same. For humanitarian reasons alone this war should be stopped. Ukraine losses are not the 30 000 odd that Zelenskyy is trying to sell to the dimmer of the gullible. Washington post itself are saying that 700 000 are missing. Their hospitals and grave yards over flowing. Stop the madness.

Putin is a coward. We know that he’d never use them first as it’d be game over for him.

Imagine relying on $100b+ aid

@@Lilhajxjk274 imaging not relying on it when ur defending against 15x larger and 5x stronger country

@@Lilhajxjk274 lol the same for russia and britain in WW2 LOL dont forget george washington the founder of the united states of america also asked for aid from europe and got it

@@Lilhajxjk274 lol stfu ruski troll 💩

Without putin russia could be destroyed

It seems overmanipulative in order to make people believe that Ukraine must not liberate it territory

Russia needs broken apart otherwise they will just threaten the world again and again. They are basically the 21st century Germany. They wont get the message to stop going on military adventures for the purpose of expansion until it is forced apart for several decades and only allowed to reunify once they understand how to function in the world.

With the now widely known fact that Russia was nothing more than a paper tiger, many peoples of the Russian federation will be looking to gain their independence from the imperialists in Moscow - so it would indeed be highly likely that Russia as we know it will fall as a continuation of the 1991 fall of communist Russia.

@@FuriousImp all russians are slaves of local lords, these lords must have private army to do something, but even then, it'll be complicated cause russia has more internal forces than their professional army before the full-scale invasion

😂😂😂

I guess fighting a super power was a little harder then everyone imagined 🤷🏻‍♂️

I would love to see the Syvash one day. Can you swim there?

A quick search indicates the water level does vary because of the Azov sea's current pattern and the spring in flow from the rivers.

@@antonyapostolov8252 you can. But why, if the Black See is like 100m away? :)

@@TheErazar to try something different, simple as that. I already know the Black Sea because I'm Bulgarian.

Still a substantial choke point

Correct. They only very recently brought in the replacement rail section, made in russia and barged in. Might not even be tested and running with full capacity trains again. And IF there are ATACMS in Ukraine - we will see the use of them and then the US will admit to having sent them. And I think a huge coordinated attack of all the drones and tech they have on the way - focused on Kerch - will drop that span for good.

@@bc-guy852 I agree it will be hit again. And possibly before any major ground offensive in southern Ukraine. I have no idea what will be used though. I have a feeling ATACMS really won't be provided as the cost and limited stock make the cost-benefit ratio too unfavourable. The use of JDAMs and GLSDBs is indirect evidence of that.

@@ktgs6723 re: ATACMs. The missiles aren't that much more expensive than a full pod of the smaller MLRS/HIMARS rockets. So cost isn't an issue. And availability/depletion of stocks ... that's an issue for every piece of equipment & munition getting sent. And while there are hundreds, if not thousands of targets that could be hit with ATACMs, there are only a handful that can only be hit by those missiles. A couple dozen for those really, really important strikes would probably be all that are needed. For most other things, JDAMs or other weapons would work just fine.

Correct. But both have already been fixed.

@@ktgs6723 Speaking of that sizing back Mariupol, would cut land bridge and allow fire to transport ships. As much knocking down Kerch Bridge entirely. I think the Ukrainian plan is rather to siege Crimea then directly assault it. Russia already could not effectively sustain area prior to war. As it has really poor agriculture.

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Surrounding lands is the Bassein of Don river. So at spring all melted snow and ice from the area size of France pass by there.

Crimea river

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To elaborate, in the russian domain, a much larger percentage of "casualties" become dead. Their inept logistics mean a lot of wounded don't get back to medical care in time. Battlefield first aid non-existent (Sorry Yevgeny, no tourniquet, have my box of tampons). Also MOD does not need 100k+, coming home to tell/show what's happening in the S.M.O.WAR and straining domestic resources (most of russia's wooden legs were lost with the Moscow-va (sic). MOD has been executing/incinerating their wounded to avoid the above. They then deem them missing, then don't pay their survivors. Those clever ruskies have probably figured out that when dead and cremated, they are far less likely to testify to the uncountable crimes committed during their infestation.

yea but if ur vegetable from the war u might as well be dead anyways

Its even more blanket than that. It means literally EVERYONE who was on your lines at the start but isn't now. It includes dead, wounded, missing, captured, deserted, etc. Everything.

@@cIoudbankhow many people will have that happen though?

​@@lethalslaughterband5498 Ukrainian farmers wouldn't let the Russians get a single grain

Beautiful animations, disastrous analysis. This is why you shouldn't always trust blindly a well produced video. This one for instance is purely done with obvious purposes of creating a misinformation and pro-Ukrainian Propaganda content. The reality was radically different, Ukrainians were thrown to their deaths wave after wave, with no positive results The actual decisive result from that and remember it: Ukrainians have lost definitely the initiative, they will not be able to launch any other offensive in the future, they will not gain any territories, they do not have the means anymore ... Thank you Biden, thanks NATO, thank you uncle Sam

@@samirius6730 , you don't accuse someone of _"obvious purposes of creating misinformation"_ before going into actually obvious propaganda rant yourself 🤭

It's called lack of empathy.

“need of money”

​@@RockBrentwoodWhat does your comment have to do with OP's?

​@@RockBrentwood Ukraine can easily take over Crimea by just destroying the Kerch Bridge, then strategically bombing military targets with artillery and drones. Given enough time, they may cause an army rout without taking a single step over the peninsula bridge simply by pressuring them to surrender the area. Orders or not, soldiers are people and would not be willing to give their lives defending a hopeless situation.

@@silveriver9 but cannot compare to what Russia does, right? Lol why don't live in Russia hypocrite

Rather, the Russian navy in Crimea was the reason why Russia went to confrontation with Ukraine in 2014, when a color revolution took place there. Then Russia got a chance to lose its fleet forever because of the pro-Western anti-Russian government of Ukraine. The authorities did not need Donbass.

Yep. At the end of the day, the only outcome i see for Crimea is Ukraine just kicking Russian military completely out, and telling the citizens to either stay and deal with it, or leave for Russia.

@@Fillipok 1. Russian state awards (medals) for seizing Crimea were coined in 2013. The invasion and partition of Ukraine was in Russia's plans since 2005 when Yushchenko became president anyway, despite a failed KGB assassination attempt. 2. The fleet was to leave anyway because the lease would run out and its prolongation was extremely unpopular.

@@johng6080 'telling the citizens to either stay and deal with it, or leave for Russia.' Ah, the glory of ethnic cleansing.

@@Pandamasque "a failed KGB assassination attempt" ahahahahah. Its just acute pancreatitis.

It won’t as it can’t afford a rebellion their as that would stop them from getting funding to get access to the most resources rich area in the country 2 trillion worth of natural gas so I think your fine

I was under the impression that this conflict started because of the illegal and unpopular 2014 coup d'etat in Ukraine?

Эхъ, что же бы сделала Украина с этим Крымом? Также разворовала и распродала, как и сделала после СССР со всей страной. Украина за 20 лет владения Крымом даже дорог нормальных не построила, не то что бы аэропорт построить. Конечно у всех разное мнение и будет так как будет, я не собирался спорить, но то, в каком сейчас положении Украина, это очень печально. Но я считаю, что обмануть всю страну на предвыборной компании - самая большая ошибка Зеленского, ведь выбрали его только по обещанию о конце этой гражданской войны, но он оказался тем, кем оказался.

"hundreds-years lasted friendship" was never existed, russians always genocided all nationalities, especially ukrainians

Thank you for posting this. Living in Canada information is slim sometimes. I’m so sorry your country is suffering so very much. 🇨🇦

Overall useless creation since they did not even try attacking through Maginot line

@@tmdwu5360 It's kind of crazy how many countries have tried the "insanely huge long range artillery piece" idea when with very few, very limited examples (giant cannon assembled to take out a wall at relatively close range) they've proven useless. Either they're so powerful they can only manage a few shots before something breaks in the gun, it's so long range it can barely even hit a city much less a specific target, or it's so huge it's rate of fire makes it useless which means people usually go back to the "as powerful as possible" idea and we go back to it breaking down every few shots and needing to be repaired which makes the rate of fire even slower. With the amount of resources they consume building, moving, assembling, sighting in, and actually firing it's often cheaper to just spend that fortune on outfitting a whole armored division and use that to punch a whole in the defenses.

Where the got materials to build that thing. Didn't Germany layed in ruins. Thanks for one man who believed in his nation

Schwerer Gustav was a useless weapon for anything. The same steel could make dozens of regular guns which would always be far more effective

A consistent problem with Hitler and his obsession with "my dick is bigger than yours" weapons.

second this. Burmese civil war was really asymmetrical with the freedom fighter fighting with limited weaponry and even 3d printed gun

i wonder if the anti-junta forces are being logistically supported internationally since the junta likely posses a large percentage of the countries preexisting military supplies

It’s also be nice to get a video on Ethiopia. I imagine he’s probably not too familiar with those conflicts in comparison.

Right as I helped my classmates at my University build a student organization for Burmese students, the coup happened in the middle of the semester. A lot of their bank accounts got frozen. The stress they were going through was immense. And the stuff the Junta does to their people and ethnic minorities is unforgivable

Western backed foreign entities attempted to take over the country with influence operations, the Military said NOPE. Similar to a certain large European country I can think of circa 2013/14....

Да, а потом вы говорите что это не геноцид. Браво. Что вы хотели сказать этим? Что надо убивать всех мирных в Крыму? Надо оставить их без еды и воды? Что за херь ты несёшь? О чем нахер идёт речь? А потом задайтесь вопросами, зачем Путину это война?, против кого он ее ведёт? и для кого он ее ведёт? (Ответы: за безопасность страны, против таких как вы, для своего народа)

@@savik175 Speak English, since you understand it

​@@MIchaelSybi Don't be rude. Reading what Google translated hes kind of delusional. saying that Putin is at war with Ukraine because of people like him who wants genocide or whatever. Just trying to weigh in Well why should the civilians have to suffer to take back land. say that they're going to kill all all the civilians and that's genocide and that's bad

They've had since 2014 to try that

​@@MIchaelSybi It is human, you're just too ignorant too understand anything but English.

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авг американцы заходят сюда посмеяться с того, что россия все еще не победила украину и с того, какой уровень ввп она имеет, будучи самой большой страной в мире

lol

There was one famous attempt of the starve-out siege of Leningrad and it, unfortunately, didn't end well so I don't think so it is the best option.

@@Xmanpl1 Comparing city with vast land area to approach from all sides in times when tech wasn't enough to detect and destroy all resupply attempts by air for example to single city on almost island on west side of Crimea (so even far from Russian mainland) in times of weapons being able to pretty easily destroy any aircraft or ship trying to get near isn't good idea. Remember the context I gave - the Ukraine already controlling rest of Crimea, having constant weapons influx from west and not needing to take the city fast.

Lol ukraine doesn’t stand a chance of getting crimea back, its russian sovereign soil since like 2014? Or something like that. If anything Putin will evacuate crimea and nuke it before giving it to ukraine. They done said they will use nukes if their sovereignty is under attack. Good luck with your beliefs

@@Eshelion The puppet Junta is on life support. It will not be doing anything significant other than retreat.

@@Xmanpl1 very different. New technology, different geography and weaker Russia

This channel clearly hates russia

I do not get it. Would you mind explaining what the joke is?

It's just kids thinking that saying l instead of loss is some kind of comedic gold

​@@ernesto-dev we wouldn't get it

@@tosehoed123 "comedic gold" in this situation is not how the guy said "l" instead of loss, but the fact that we were simply not expecting this to be used on such a professional channel like this.

Its not about the speed, but the punch being so strong that "artillery save" bunkers got destroyed by it

It was used to create fear more than anything.

its 1.45 shots per hour, still slow tho :)

Tell that to the maxim gorky 1 emplacement….

It was used to destroy deep storages. Bunkers. Important command centers that were either deep inside the earth, or behind meters of concrete. It did hit a Russian ammo storage in the beginning of Barbarossa, where it took out a castle. So it was quite precise.

Mud is THE enemy of tracked vehicles. They have a ground pressure of 55 - 65 kg. per sq. meter. Russia lost many tanks as well as trucks that tried to go cross country on the way to Kiev. Amphibious Tractors work ship to sandy shore, but not mud.

​@@everettputerbaugh3996 : Mud is less of a problem while underwater than while fully above water (because of buoyancy reducing down pressure), though I admittedly wouldn't play around with such an attempt myself. Any assault on Crimea seems likely to start with an extended air & artillery campaign, and only involve a land invasion after a wide area has had all troop concentrations squashed. There won't be a singular battle to begin any such invasion.

One of those leopards is already captured

@@paulmitchell6485no lol

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Rotating the map is confusing and pointless. It doesn’t give any insight into a country’s “geographical perspectives.

@@weewillywonga Me tink it pwetty (but then again, I like to think of things spatially and I like turning objects around in my mind)

@@weewillywonga If you are equipped with the gift of spatial imagination (eg ur good at narrow parking), it is a joy to watch. If u don't have that ability, I can imagine how confusing this must be!

@@ChefGoreb I'm good at narrow parking this had me thrown off a bit.

You understand now better that Ukraine will never see Crimea again ?

I guess the scenario for the explanation is that Ukraine and russia remain hostile. In this case, Ukraine controlling Crimea would effectively block Russian access anywhere outside of the Black Sea by literally sinking the ships. If there is a peace, returning to pre-2014, Russia is still capable to use Black Sea unobstructed, albeit without the access to the Sevastopol, which is still a big hit. The main reason why Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 was that Ukraine allowed the functioning of the Russian naval base in Sevastopol, making the invasion happen from within the county, not from the outside.

Turkey is warm to russian interests, at least under the current leadership - as such I wouldn't put any faith in turkey blocking russia presently.

As they have been doing for most of this war. Perhaps they Ukraine who has taken down 18 ships in the R U Black Sea fleet will finish the rest off once they get in their F16's

@@Caderynwolf lmao what , Turkey shot down a russian jet in syria in 2015 and the west didnt give us 1 bit of support so we bought s-400 s to ease up relations , its kitteraly the wests fault for the seemingly warm relations , btw turkey is almost the only nation in nato fighting against russia proxies , Libya , assad and armenia.

One big thing he brought up in another video is the value of the exclusive economic zone in the area. Essentially, if Ukraine can get it back then they have access to natural gas deposits that would supply Europe for decades and ensure financial prosperity while also undercutting Russia's market share. That's the big strategic issue at play as well as economic issue instead of the purely military aspect

Strike south with what? 10 million Ukrainians fled the country, 250k were killed and another 250k were wounded. Their population is fucked permanently win or lose.

Do you even live on this planet!? We have the ongoing Ukrainian collapse in Bakhmut and Kremina, and you post this shit!

@@Swaggaccino strike south with the same thing that won them Kherson and Kharkiv durak.

@@AM-rb4ps They didn’t win Kherson or Kharkiv, khlopchyk. Russia withdraw voluntarily because they don’t have enough men to garrison entire cities with over 1 million population. Russia entered the war with only 200k soldiers. Ukraine mobilized over a million men and the only thing that’s accomplished is 20% loss in its territory. It took Ukraine 6 years to even raise an army against Donbas and they couldn’t even reclaim it from rebels. Cope.

@@Swaggaccino Moskva “voluntarily withdraws” into the sea.

should ask you

Would you deport Russians? Honest question.

You are pretty much a long lost brother. Which side are you on

Well, the one important factor which was entirely missed by this actor with the mimics of a flight attendant, the factor which had been reported again and again by all Ukrainian sources, that when the “land bridge to Crimea” is sealed by ЗСУ, all the military installations in the peninsula will be ceaselessly bombarded to hell.

@@CGplay186 does being so delusional physically hurt?

@@CGplay186 Ukraine should never forgive russia for the red famine

Me too! 💙💛

Crimea is not state of USA (sure zelen ready to sell for couple of lines to Washington DC) but hopefully it won’t happen 👍🏽❤️

I would be careful about calling these videos anything like a lesson. 80% of the video is opinion, 20% is carefully decontextualized historical points, woven together into an invented narrative which, without ever telling the viewer what to think, paints one side as evil, and the other as good. Now which would you support, evil or good? Most people pat themselves on the back for being against evil, and pro good. This is a 3 year old child's worldview. A well integrated adult who understands that all human beings are capable of evil, and understands what morality is...Will question all spoonfed narratives, and what motivations might be behind them.

@@SubvertTheState You are 100% right my friend. I always make my panoramic view based on facts, not opinions and always taking an ambiguous position since like you said good and bad guys are for children. Everybody is after their own interest and masking their true intent with convenient morals and so called common good. But when I said lessons I wasn't even speaking about this video. I was comparing it to other channels and since the most I visit in frequency are history channels ( not political ) I spoke of lessons with them on mind. But I concur in every single word you said. If people would take some time to study history, they wouldn't be manipulated so easily... But they just won't.

@@SubvertTheStateRussia is the attacker which means they are the bad guys it’s pretty simply there’s no justification for starting a war things can always be put in good and bad if you know enough about them and don’t believe the propaganda of a dictatorship

@@andreablack822 3 months for Robotine happened

What Western ammo? Reference what General Stoltenberg said last month. Deindustrialization is a bitch!

@@Mortablunt Stoltenberg said that we are using more than we are making, that's not the same as "we are out of ammo" It will take years to recover from this war, but the West has a very very deep ammo pool to draw on.

@@Mortablunt Ground launched small diameter bombs for now

China?

Well said.

Logistics Rules must be respected. You can't fight war without supplies.

Did we invent teleporters in the 21st century or something?

More likely invasion against ukraine can cause so many issues...

@@retsaminnavoig18 The Ukraine war is being fought like World War 1 for the most part because we're dealing with troop numbers that are way higher than modern western tactics are appropriate for, not to mention the outdated C&C structure of the Ukranian army. It's why the Ukranians are suffering extreme casualty numbers and still haven't accomplished much despite all the western tech they've been given - they don't know how to manage it, how to use it and their war isn't appropriate for its intended application.

Physics still work the same in 2000

😂

How did this make me laugh out loud?

What does plethora mean?

Plethora literally means a lot

​@@rehany3401It means "a lot".

Bridge has been fixed for a while now

They didn't tell you, but Russian strikes on power plants were strikes of revenge for damaging the bridge. Not at all a "sign of despair". And Ukraine won't that happening again. But even if Ukraine destroys bridge, Crimea will stay relatively stable and happy, just like it was from 2014 and till the bridge was finished.

@@player1GR from 2014 until the bridge was finished they didn't have to try to supply a military actively fighting. They didn't have their supply ships being targeted by missiles and drones. They also have increased the population of the peninsula by upwards of a million people. Trying to supply Crimea without a land connection or the kerch bridge would be extremely hard.

@@player1GR crimea will definitely NOT be happy and stable if Ukraine fully destroys that bridge. Will be a massive sign to Russian citizens occupying crimea that things are getting even worse. After the first bridge strike there was a massive flood of people leaving Crimea.

@@player1GR lol everything from Russia is a sign of despair. What an unimaginably weak, unintelligent adversary.

According to the NAFO bots, the Ukrainian NATO backed army is at the doorstep of Moscow.

Both events have an improbability factor of a comparabe magnitude, on par with an allien invasion in Japan :)

Absolutely. Fortunately/Unfortunately this "war" is turning into a game for the big brothers/elites. A game fought with the blood-tears-sweat of the little people; kind of like a version of "Hunger games". As Sun Tzu says: 將聽吾計，用之必勝，留之；將不聽吾計，用之必敗，去之。 May there be mercy for the criminals 🙏

He covered it like NATO thoughts, scientific and unrealistic with the current situation.

this channel is Western propaganda bs, the Russians completed their objectives and secured the territories where majority Russians live so they pulled back they didn't got pushed back like he is claiming and they did that with 150k troops vs their 700k troops . And no Ukraine will never see any of these territories back, that's a pipe drream

@@dariomladenovski7047 lmao

@@BasicEnglish1o1 depends on which side of propaganda u believe in then ..

bleeding it out would still mean a hit on the population by the ukranian side. which would mean even if they would get back a not so happy region with lots of problems. because while donetsk and lugansk where in literal shit, crimea was somehow being used and developed. Only if russia crumbles to differents states then may be crimea will go without any kind of problem.

The Germans in ww2 took sevastopol and crimea in a little less than a month. So it's not as hard as he makes it seem

the bridge was repaired with brand new machines supplied by John Deere. you are being played like a fiddle.

​@@UFCMania155 here you are really misleading - Sevastopol stand 8 months before was taken by Nazi. I lived in Sevastopol one year ago, I saw a lot of Russian troops. 50% of the city is military. This city will stay or be completely destroyed but Russia will do everything to keep control in Crimea. This is the real reason why Russia - from the side of the government will win and Russian civilians will lose this war. Crimea will be Russian at least a few decades if the ww3 won't start.

@@elegoz Germany also invaded first

I don't think it is the war that trivializes death, Putin does. But get your point and agree the staggering numbers dying so quickly numbs us.

Ukrainians,russians,american,europeans NO ONE WANTS WAR Politicians want war

@@istantinoplebullconsta642 putin is just one guy

@@istantinoplebullconsta642 No, war trivializes death in general. How many do you think died in Iraq during the Gulf War? Any clue? Probably not. Just a number. You might have an idea how many _Americans_ were lost during the 20 years in Afghanistan (especially since its currently being compared to Russian losses in Ukraine all over the place) but do you have any idea about how many Afghanis died? What it really comes down to is information overload. If one person gets murdered, its easy to write a story and describe them and find people to tell you how kind they were and all of the other platitudes we see when tragedy happens. But when its 10,000 people? You can maybe try to humanize a couple of them but there's just no way you can get through that many, and nobody would read your story if you tried. At the end of the day, we humans can't really comprehend "thousands" or "millions" never mind "billions". We can use those terms in relation to each other to get a rough sense of scale, but we can't really comprehend them in the same way we can comprehend small numbers like 3 or 5. And that lack of comprehension applies to war and other tragedy as much as it does to counting jellybeans in a jar at the local fair. Add to that the fact that it doesn't really impact the vast, vast majority of us in any tangible way and we're not so much "numb" to the statistics as we are just.. unaware. Not to the number, but to the meaning behind the number. That specific aspect isn't really anyone's fault. Humans just aren't good with big numbers, no matter the context.

​@@altrag I can't fathom losing a close friend or family member, let alone being in a situation where you and everyone around you can die at a moments notice.

The bridge will go at some point. Then the question is will Russia retreat across the land bridge or try to hold on. I think they will try to hold on. Well really.. Putin will decide to hold on. And the land bridge might go before the bridge does. I think Russia's allies will push for "peace" where Russia keeps crimea. Personally, that's Ukraine's decision. It's their land.

Cutting off the canal is what triggered the current invasion. Cutting it again will lead to cutting off of road and rail links to Europe which Russia hasnt touched yet.

@Prabuddha Ghosh no it did not. That is straight up misinformation

@@prabuddhaghosh7022 Putin has been drooling over Crimea for YEARS before that even happened.

Of course there will be resistance, but honestly I think you got it. You have to create a situation that would make it stupid to stay, giving civilians ample time to flee to Russia. So really you can't take the bridge before refugee evacuations, otherwise their only option would be fleeing through a war-zone. Anyone who remains would be considered guerrillas, and unofficially absorbed by the RGF, unfortunately becoming fair game. _That's_ when you bomb the bridges and cut their supply lines. As for the offensive, if an attack can be planned during low-tide, then you would have a HUGE front line (in addition to using coastal landings and air strikes to break their defenses and scatter their focus). Also Putin would then have to fracture his mainland offensive even further in order to protect the peninsula, making Ukraine's resistance _there_ even easier. It's sad none of us can help them with numbers, but the _actual_ state of the Russian Armed Forces is even more pathetic!💙💛

Wow you must not have a clue about Crimea then . Most of the "Pro Russians" in Crimea were people who lived there under Soviet occupation their whole life up until the collapse of the Soviet Union

First comes the Russian language and Russian "culture", then comes Russian business, tanks come last

Replace Russia with china and you have exactly what’s happening to the Americas, though, that’s the least of our worries.

Without having a Wade-Davis Bill you mean. Granted, those were entirely domestic enemies.

​@@m_migunova Sadly, it really is very dangerous for any country bordering Russia to have a significant Russian population in any of its regions. Putin has shown that he considers it his right to unite any such regions regions of these countries with the motherland, even if Russians are a minority there. The sovereignty of his neighbours means nothing to him. This will persist for his successors while Russia remains a despotic state, which is likely for at least a generation.

80% of this video is wishful thinking at its best. if anything its basically said that this war was won in 2014.

@@connorf3517 yeah and other 20% could be russian propaganda, or simply wrong understanding of a conflict. Here it seems author actually talked with ukrainians about the war

@@Reallifelore01 sorry, I don't have a telegram anymore. I can go over to my grandpas house and grab his.

@@realcanadian96 it is a scambot. Notice the 01 at the end of accoutn, which you do not find on the actual account.

@@Trombi01 I was playing around with the bot, I like to do that.

The colonists are your Nazi friends.

When Ukraine gets justa little closer to shore they will be able to turn off crimea's drinking water.

@@VirrealWorld Crimea didn't use water from Ukraine for 7 years. So this is not a problem.

Yeah, like Russia will let them...

@@kristjanpeil yeah, remember how Russia occupied Kiev and Kherson? Oh... Wait...

True enough. But that seems to be all that's needed. And it's on the way to happening

Could be both as the two are often very much linked. A collapsed economy is part of why Russia imploded in WW1. And the same thing would later happen to Germany on the Western Front.

@@saintjames1995 don't get deceived by msm

I don't think with Putin's iron fist on Russia that's gonna happen anytime soon with him in power

This channel is not a "real life lore", now it's more like a "wannabe world lore" Video is titled "Destroy Russia", in actual video: even in the best scenario Crimea stays Russian or independent.

I believe the depth of the strait was the issue. Essentially, the same reason there's no way to run a water pipeline from Los Angeles out to Catalina.

@@VisibilityFoggy Ahh right. Could still build one into the underside of the bridge, but that would be subject to the same vulnerability issues as the rest of the bridge.

"Ukraine sieging us, LMAO! We can take Kiev in 3 days if we want" -Russia in mid February 2022

"Also, this is Russia we're talking about. Making sound strategic decisions to deal with the possibility of an enemy fighting back more successfully than expected in advance of the war is not really what Russians are known for." Well, they're still holding on to the actually important territory of their Ukrainian conquests for over a year now. And in some way, most of it this has been de facto under their control for 8 years now. So in terms of strategic warfare decisions and logistics, they must be doing something right, especially considering that they're not just fighting Ukraine here. This line of thought is of course only valid if you're not one of those who claims that Russia's ultimate goal initially was a full and prolonged conquest of the entirety of Ukraine. In reality, this seems unlikely for so many reasons. I believe, after analysing the entire conflict up and down for a long time, that the end goal of this conquest (more or less since 2014) has been to establish Crimea, a landline to Crimea, and a landline to Moldova/Transnistria, as Russian territory. So a negotiated surrender (which is how modern wars end) where Russia annexed territory anywhere between (a line north of Kharkiv, Poltava, Krementsjuk, Kropyvnytskyj and westwards connecting to Moldova) AND (a line north of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizjzja/Dnipro and westward connecting to Moldova) would all be acceptable ends to this conflict for the big bear. If this presumption is correct, then Russia's objective has not been a total failure at this point. And going further, or negotiating a surrender which align more with the larger goal, might be hard, or even unlikely, but it's certainly not impossible. At this point though, I think they would be perfectly happy with a negotiated surrender somewhere along the lines of the currently conquered territory. At least for the foreseeable future. Landlocking Ukraine and geographical connection to Transnistria might be a too enticing dream to fully give up on, but there's too many unknowns down the line. Although, the "white peace"-scenario would be the best outcome for all parties (UKR, RUS and the rest of the world), it's unfortunately very unlikely. But it's more likely than Ukraine retaking Crimea without triggering M.A.D. But I agree that it's weird that they haven't laid a pipeline along the Kerch strait, but I've always presumed it's due to a reason like the one Foggy pointed out. Building a pipe along the underside of the bridge is something I never thought about though, and despite the vulnerability issue you bring up, it's a really interesting idea. Is this something that has been done previously? I've heard of pipeline bridges, but not bridges combining traffic and pipelines.

@@official_alphabet_inc It's pretty common in germany to combine bridges and piplines but ususally only over rivers not whole stretches of sea...

which would matter more if the Russians spent as much on their navy as they did on super yachts.

That's not a viable option. There's always a possibility the current Assadist regime falls at some point. You want a military base of that importance in a) a stable area where you're absolutely certain the political environment of the foreign country around it will always be ok with its presence or has absolutely no way of getting rid of it (Ramstein, Cyprus, various US bases in the Indo-Pacific region, etc*) or b) your own territory (Pearl Harbour, Murmanks, etc) * Yes I'm aware Gitmo is a bit of an exception there. That's also why the Russians felt compelled to act on Crimea, since their longterm lease with UA was about to run out and there being a fear of it not being renewed was, in my opinion, likely part of it. And I'm in no way looking for excuses for Russia's behaviour. If they'd just play nice, nobody would have given a fuck about their base there.

@@ryanjones2297 They are way too corrupt for that to ever happen!

​@@Karlthegreat84 Russia was not about to lose the base, the lease had just been extended for another decade. They just wanted to be sure it would be theirs forever, no lease. As you said, had they not been greedy, Ukraine certainly would have continued to lease the base, even if they did join the EU. Hell, their biggest trading partner by far prior to 2014 was Russia!

Babe, Ukraine was gunning to join NATO asap. Do you really think Sevastopol would have remained Russian after that?

There are significant flaws in this video. There are close to ZERO tides in the whole Black Sea region. This video is misleading.

@AltaMirage So, tidal swell affecting the draft of the vessel types described doesn't result porting ability of said vessels in those points mentioned?

@@dalekallio4619 Swell and tide are two different things. The tidal range in the Black sea is measured in cms. The real tidal range is around 6cms. So no.

@@AltaMirage Pretty sure they won't be able to get vehicles across this type of terrain either.

So essentially just a 21st century take on old-school siege warfare, cut off the supply lines, starve em out, force the opponent to the negotiating table. Smart option honestly

They'd have to take the land corridor to do that, and Russia will fight hard there since they know the risk of losing it. US doesn't have enough ATACMS systems to share with Ukraine.

Plus longer Ukraine takes to launch offensive, the more time Russia will spend fortifying the land corridor, but Ukraine has to wait because they don't have the weapons to make the attempt. So time is favoring the Russians as the defenders.

The US*, every battle strategy, piece of intel and military technology is being supplied by the USA. Don’t be stupid, it’s a proxy war, it always has been and will continue to be so.

looking at the map, I think Maritpol is the most likely target for the Ukrainian forces- Pull force to the north , keep a reduced force near Kherson Oblast, have the north force sweep down, breaking the material chain then acting as a pincer.

Lol, Crimea "has no water supply" for 8 years already.

@@lolnoobus Why has Russia not put in a Desalination plant, if there is no water, how can 1 million plus people live there??

@@lolnoobus There's a difference between natural water sources vs imported water sources.

> Its physically impossible to hold Crimea without land bridge. Objectively, its very possible to hold Crimea without the land bridge. To re-take Crimea, Ukraine will have to have an offensive capability it has currently isnt close to having (and the West will be extremely reluctant to provide/subsidize). If Ukraine really gets to a point where the remaining objective for offense is Crimea, their problem will be that Russia's only remaining objective for defense is Crimea. Barring a regime change in Russia (or even with one), it seems highly unlikely Ukraine will be able to sustain an invasion that will require months of time, hundreds of thousands of troops, tens of billions of dollars. (And, given that Putin is a monster, it must also be considered that if there were a massive Ukrainian invasion force clustered together just north of Perekop, would that not be ideal time for Putin to utilize one or more tactical nuclear missiles?)

@@larryreddecliff2284 why you are asking me? It wasnt I, who claim that Crimea gets all their water from Ukraine.

The demand for oil is going to collapse in the not too distant future. If we keep burning this stuff we are going to be screwed, especially our children. Oil deposits will become stranded assets.

Nailed it. Natural Gas as well.

They are not explaining anything, they are just repeating US propaganda. This conflict started 2008, and not in 2020, as these propagandizers claim

@andrespinto Since this video first appeared, so much has changed, unpredictedly. Sit back and watch: Time will tell. 🇺🇦

it really didn't age well though lol 5 months on and Ukraine has basically captured nothing. They'll never get to Crimea, the video might as well be "why Ukraine taking Moscow will destroy Russia" for how likely it is to happen.

​@@basedstreamingatcozy-dot-t7126 stormshadow and taurus time😂 russias defense will melt away

@@GayTruckDriver dude, that's massive cope. How many times have we heard "this new piece of equipment will be a game changer!" and then nothing happens and Ukraine still fails?

While you're not wrong, keep in mind that satellites are for searching, but they do not make good for tracking.

К этому времени начнется 3 мировая(((

@@savik175 Don't worry - nothing of the sort will happen. This video is based on fiction and is not rooted in reality. How the utterly depleted UAF could beat Russia's Deep Battle Doctrine is beyond anyones guess. This summer NATO will run out of ammunition and the war will be basically over in autumn.

What if we dropped missiles from space onto crimea

@@CharChar2121 that's right, satellite aren't a warranty Usage should be coordinated with sophisticated internet/mobile tracking like in Makiivka's platoon strike

Yes, Soviets used this route when they captured Crimea (notably it was not Soviets, but Makhno).

I absolutely agree. Actually studies put it closer to 6cms. It is completely negligible. Why did they include this nonsense?

Just do a land reclamation, filling with dirt and rocks from nearby mountains

@@ssanonswu2010 how exactly are they gonna do that in the middle of an active war zone while being bombed?

@@ssanonswu2010 WHAT nearby mountains? The only mountains in Ukraine are in the far west along the borders with Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, and in southern Crimea. That's why it's so easy for Russia to invade.

Ну надо же им как-то оправдывать миллиардные вложения в коррумпированную страну), кстати, где эти миллиарды?

@@crimson90177they played a huge role. Russia was supposed to succeed in 7 days. Now nearly 2 years later they have no answer, despite attacking like hitler on Soviet Union.

@@kap1526 я немного не понял кто на кого напал, что ты имеешь ввиду. Россия на Украину или запад на Россию? Распиши подробнее

Not for the cost, for which will be far too high

I read that at "turning Crimea into a DMV". Needless to say I was very confused for a minute.

@@dr4d1s The only fate that would be worse for Crimea than being under siege and starved of water would be getting turned into a giant DMV.

no one intends to ask russia. russia should be destroyed as a state, tens of deportations should happen to divide russia into ethnically homogenous states of all nationalities living in russia. Muscovy should not have access to Black Sea, and Kuban, the historically Ukrainian region should be givern to Ukraine, and Sochi to Georgia. This way, it will be ensured that russia never commits yet another genocide. Ingrians, Circassians, Chechens, Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians remember. So do Siberian indigenous peoples.

I don’t know much about DMZs, the only one I know about is in Korea.( i know, im stupid 😩) But isn’t the point of them is to have neural ground? Neither side goes across? Crimea is populated, how would you go about governing them. Unless the UN sends in a force to keep watch, which ik is extremely unlikely to happen?

"corruptocrats" is my new favorite term.

2 giant gas deposits worth $00T’s were discovered around 2010 and were sold to both Shell (Donetsk/Kharkiv) and Chevron (Lviv) in 2013. They both pulled the plug in 2017 as the Donbas War was still going on. In that scenario Ukraine would be swapping Russian gas with for their own gas but the profits go to the US/UK. I doubt they’d want to be dealing with Russia at all anymore now but they’re likely going to have even less control and autonomy over their resources after the war whether Russia achieve their territorial goals (imo is basically what they have now plus as more of Dontesk as they can get). I don’t think Putin is some lunatic who wants to recreate the Russian Empire but is a pretty typical geopolitical realist and capitalist imperialist. Secure Crimea and get its water back running; win some land rich with resources, mines and industry; stop Ukraine/US/EU disrupting their monopoly on Euro energy; stop/delay Ukr joining EU/NATO until they’ve done everything else. The US’s and basically the UK’s goal is basically turn and keep European energy away from Russia and towards importing LNG from the US instead; increase defence spending and get other NATO members to do so; trap Ukraine in an unpayable debt so they can have a big asset & resource grab when its all over. I hope Ukraine will defeat the invaders, but I find the idea that the US & UK (& Russia) have any moral high ground or are fighting for a just cause completely laughable.

this is also the reason that ukraine has already lost...

@@haplon33 that's quite a controversial opinion, given how absolutely pathetic Russia's performance has been.

@@benthomason3307 lol ya they only have all the natural gas and are securing new territories. thank goodness they were only fighting ukraine, huh? tho i guess if ukraine loses 100% of their cities they'll be in an even more perfect counterattack position, according to many brilliant youtube military minds

ahah, niiice one!

Lol interesting fantasy.

This video also misses some common sense - its the war it self that will destroy russia, not the loss of Crimea.

That don't work due to russian jamming of GPS.

How is a couple of gmlrs ammo going to soften up defenses?have u seen battle of bakhmut and how much artillery is used on a single trench?there has to be hundreds of not a thousand blackened pockmarks in a single field.

First they need to cut to the azov sea. That will cut the real resupply. Then destroy the rail bridge, then half the road bridge and damage the last half. At that point, the Russians can't resupply. The ukrainians can spend months killing Russians in static positions before piercing the line and flanking... as they did in kharkiv.

Over the past year this channel has become almost entirely focused on current events. Looking back at videos from 1+ year ago, you see a lot more videos on subjects not related to current events such as "Why Most Humans Live inside this small circle" or "Why Anchorage is Americas most OP city" etc.

It's too bad he's lying about this stuff, right?

@@heftyhugh9086 🙄

​@@heftyhugh9086 why don't you provide a source then?

@@nooneimportant2591 open your eyes and look. It's not that complicated.

Да, самое важное, военный переворот организованный западом руками ультраправыми, пришедшие к власти нелегитимным правительством развязанную войну на востоке для подавления восстания, постоянными посылами принятия Украины в НАТО, возможность овладения Украиной грязной ядерной бомбой, в итоге создания у границ России крайне враждебного государства. P.s. я не гражданин России, я не смотрю телевизор, удачи)

@@pavelizyumnikov2446 How many rubbles do you make an hour vomiting up that ruZZian bile, Pavel? Word for word off of ruZZia today. I'll pay you a dollar to go on vacation. Isn't that like a million rubbles to you, Boris? I mean Pavlov?