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  1. Two more key points that support your thesis: 1. The plutonium in all those bomb cores most likely... isn't. a. The minimum bomb core, to reach critical mass, must contain 5.4 kg or more of Plutonium-239. b. The market price of 239Pu today is $6,490,000/kg. c. So, the plutonium alone in the smallest possible bomb has a market value of $35 million. d. It would be easy as pie to replace that 5.4 kg of plutonium with lead, perhaps even at the mine where the ore was supposedly mined. Bill the government for $35 million, spend a million or two greasing palms so others get rich while looking the other way, and pocket the difference. In a country as corrupt as Russia, what are the chances that even ONE bomb core actually contains any plutonium at all? 2. According to Konstantin Samoilov of "Inside Russia," in Russia, it takes 8 people to agree to deploy a single nuclear weapon. That means all 8 of those guys in the chain of command has to go totally insane all at the same time. Rumor has it that during Putin's reign, he has repeatedly been blocked, 7 to 1, every time the subject has come up.
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  2. Man that was brilliant of Ukraine letting Russian prisoners call home. Phone calls home I would guess better food and medical care than provided by the Russian army. How many Russians join with the plan of surrendering. As long as Ukraine treats the prisoners according to international laws and norms it will be a huge boost for joining international organizations later.
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  3. Excellent video, very informative and really displays how pointless battles can occur. Bakhmut was the Pyrrhic Victory to end all Pyrrhic Victories. At least they can go to some shop, buy a little trophy, and engrave "Bakhmut 2023 - What Was The Bloody Point?" on it. There's a historic reason for the potholes and incomplete road network (get 20km out of Moscow or Saint Petersburg and you're on what resembles a farm track - only it's full of insane lorry drivers and drunks all playing the world's largest game of Chicken). In the Soviet days, there were few cars. What mattered was the railway. Want to go anywhere in the USSR? You take the train. When you reach your desired town or city, you hail a cab, and get to your block of flats. There were no roads. At least, there were no town-town-city-town type roads that we in the West are used to. One, nobody had a car. Only officials, important workers, and taxis, had cars. Even if you were lucky enough to own one, you would never go outside your town or city. Because... Two, population control. You needed an "internal passport" to travel from one area of the USSR to another. And if you did have one, you went by train. Or sometimes, Aeroflot. You were important. Three, soooo why build any roads outside of a town or city? You're not allowed to go anywhere! Then capitalism happened and cars appeared. People bought them, and wanted to go places. Because now they could. The road network in the new Ruzzia is quite a new concept, at least, out of towns or cities, which is why you get "Russian Crash Compilations" on YouTube. After a few km in any direction, the roads get baaaaaad. This is why tyres explode, cars explode, and lorries end up in fields. In the West, roads already linked places, even if they were just tracks, and as vehicles improved, the tracks became roads became motorways, autobahns, freeways. Russia just doesn't work roadwise. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. PS: Oh I really hate to say this, and please don't think I'm being picky, but it's not pronounced "Wag-ner", it's "Varg-ner", after the composer. All the posters in Ruzzia say "Вагнер" - the "B" is a V, the "г" is a G, and "нер" is ner. I'm sorry for being "that guy", but you're a great channel and I just want to help. Слава Україні! Слава Героям! Слава Захисникам! Слава Народу! 🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💙💛💙💛
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  4. Last time i was this early Russia was the strongest army in Russia
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  5. A crown of stars for his sacrifice.
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  6. Interesting analysis. There's an old military maxim that goes like this: "Amateurs talk tactics. Professionals talk logistics." Notwithstanding the geographic obstacles mentioned in the video, a land invasion of Sweden would be a huge and probably unmanageable logistical undertaking. The Russians have already demonstrated in Ukraine that they can barely resupply their troops with anything, let alone fresh conscripts or replacements for their armoured vehicles and tanks, which they have lost in large numbers. To even begin to mount an invasion, the Russians would be forced to forward deploy their logistics systems to avoid creating a long logistical tail - which is exactly what killed the Germans when they tried to invade and take Stalingrad. Those forward-deployed logistical systems and bases would be highly vulnerable to air attack by NATO forces, thus probably rendering them completely useless. One of the other interesting aspects about the difficulties involved in attacking Sweden by land, is that the part of northern Sweden that borders Finland and Norway would act as a natural choke point where both Swedish and NATO forces could come from the north and the south to cut off any Russian advance. It seems to me highly unlikely that that Russia could successfully prosecute a two-front war anyway. One front in Ukraine, and another in the Baltics.
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  7. we have seen what happened with ceased fire in 2014
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  8. lmaoo the tucker carlson $100 comparison to the middle class salary was funny. Love from Georgia 🇬🇪❤ you have great videos.
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  9. Many thanks! You've helped to se see why getting Finland and Sweden to join NATO, Putin has weakened rather than strengthened Russia's military situation.
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  10. Fantastic report! Darn, Putin bit by his own snake.......cool.
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  11. Looks like Putin's house of cards might finally be coming down.
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  12. Excellent summary 😎 . I will be sharing this a lot . Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦💪🇮🇪 ♥
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  13. That Russian missile boomerang back is as comical as Wile E Coyote cartoon 😂
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  14. its not only the massive influx of western weapons that helped Ukraine, but its the ukrainian will to fight which is much higher than that of Russia who's soldiers have low morale and motivation. the influx of massive western aid just amplified that Ukrainian will to fight. Also add in poor russian leadership training , corruptiton , incompetent. the only thing going for Russia is their manpower and firepower, they massively stocked up on weapons dating back to the cold war. even now these weapons are being rapidly depleted. and RUssian industry cannot cope with the war. Russian logistics also suck. if the Russians were more competent and motivated to fight then the Ukrs will be in trouble.
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  15. As a part-time ESL instructor who works with Slavic learners (Russians & Ukrainians mostly), look for these three issues written English presents to them: 1) verb/tense + 'to be', 2) articles, 3) prepositions. Another thing to look for is word order: English is SVO, while Russian is flexible. Unfortunately in the internet comment space, the most common give aways for Russians, their pronunciation, rarely comes into play.
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  16. Commented to support this channel.
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  17. Russia has set a new red line each week.......
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  18. There was a lot presented here that I suspected but never truly knew, so hearing the actual facts is both eye-opening and a little vindicating. I also cannot help but notice just how much it parallels the US and Europe when it comes to immigrants and even their own native populations: so much animosity against them yet undoubtedly largely, if not entirely, dependent on them for literally all functions. Is it wrong of me to hope that this particularly ugly and large chicken of a practice is finally coming home to roost, ideally in all cases?
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  19. Hello from Ukraine. Thank you for supporting our struggle
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  20. less than half is overly optismistic, Russia took 30 percent of Ukraine from Feb to april of 2022, now May 2023, Russia controls like 15 percent of Ukraine. most like Russia acomplshed 15 percent of its goals so far and Ukraine is far from surrendering, in fact they are readying for another offensive while Russia is faltering badly and having problems trying to recruit 400K men . if Russia tries to recruit about more men after the 400K there is a real risk of unrest.
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  21. I'm always happy to see your uploads man
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  22. You cannot fight a war with one hand tied behind your back. To do so costs far more blood and treasure, when winning quickly minimizes damage and death to both sides. Someone in Washington needs to read On War by Carl von Clausewitz again. His work is on par with The Art of War by Sun Tzu and more relevant in this conflict I believe.
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  23. Well there is an increasing movement of "Lying Flat" & "Let It Rot" among chinese youth regarding their attitudes to life & Work. Similar to Quiet quitting in the west. Good quality vid man, hope you're channel experiences exponential growth!
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  24. A movie should be made about this, it's incredible 😅
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  25. 1am and I have never been happier for an upload
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  26. You said "Could cause difficulties for Russia to be a global leader in the decades to come "? I'd say those difficulties have already arisen
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  27. Hang on Hang on, Russia has the best Tank in the universe the Armarta. They have partnered with the Romulans so the Armarta has a cloaking device making it invisible on the battlefield. Glory to Ukraine
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  28. great video lol the last part about ships transforming into submarines tanks into aircraft made me crack i cant stop laughing thank you for the video its nice to get info and a good laugh. =)
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  29. Your analytical depth and refined sarcasm are highly appreciated.
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  30. I'm Australian and I approve this message.
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  31. I very much look forward to your videos. You guys need to post more frequently. Keep up the great work.
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  32. Russia is going down on so many levels thanks to Putin 😃😃
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  33. I am Brazilian and I am ashemed about how my liders and my country is doing things that predujice the ukrainians , I will awalys suport ukraine, every victory is a comemoration for me 🇺🇦💙
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  34. This channel have actually their information that India being first, not 4th in the moon's south pole, and what the price cap and sanction actually means. Most channels merely take it from secondary sources, but you have it nailed. Kudos to your information sources. Also as an Indian, I'm glad that the government did it because the oil prices have been going through the roof few years before war because of removed fuel subsidies. India wasn't trying to replace Russia though, it is merely trying to counter the China as soon as it can, awakened after the border clashes.
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  35. This gets a little more Mad Max every day.
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  36.  @icarusproject  Fair enough - but war games look at different scenarios. And NATO doctrine has always been to achieve air dominance before committing ground forces. I recently saw a retired NATO air commander claim that they have had the ability to wipe out Russian air defences for decades now. As we've seen, Russian air defences are very leaky even against Ukraine's limited resources. With no air support, Russian armour and artillery in the Gap would surely be eviscerated within days.
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  37. This video should be mandatory in all schools of the free world. And beyond. Very well done. Subbed and belled.
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  38. Your channel is growing so fast! Keep up the great work!
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  39. Thanks to videos like this I'm easily reducing my alcohol intake! Thank you very much, from the bottom of my heart (like fr, healthwise).
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  40. Oh my.. it's you cousin.. I read an article about him a week ago in nuggetnews. A true hero. Such a loss for all who still have a heart inside. Please accept my deepest condolences.
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  41. As someone who was born in Russia, (and thankfully moved), I would like to give a thousand upvotes at minimum
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  42. This episode should be aired on Russian national tv.
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  43. This is only the second video I've seen on this subject that I've long wondered about, after the Jonny Harris video. I have to say, you gave a much more complete and thorough explanation of the political motivations for this eastward expansion and the way it was carried out. I also appreciated the historical context you provided and your demonstration of how these events and the things Russia learned from them continue link to current events and still to inform and influence current geopolitics. I feel that I now have a much more complete understanding of this piece of history and why it matters. I really appreciate the video. Great job!
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  44. This was a solid report, presentation, analysis. Good to hear the pro-RU-bias propaganda machine countered with reality. UA has stopped a surprise attack by superior force, gained back territory, held against energy infrastructure attacks (RU freeze campaign), established a shipping grain corridor (without a navy), and starting to make Crimea untenable. While still holding to human respect to preserve their citizens lives. Even with the slow trickle weapon systems from Western allies... UA shows a wisdom cohesive to every citizen... respecting Life and protecting life.
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  45. Amazing work, very professional analysis!!!! 👍
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  46. Thank you for a positive outlook in the midst of world impatience! It really makes sense what you say and it helped me personally 👍
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  47. Great video, much more informative than all the clickbait/AI garbage showing up on YouTube lately.
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  48. The Icarus Project is back!
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  49. Amazing video as always. Keep up the great work!
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  50. @12:40 I almost choked on a peanut laughing when you said "they have ships that are instantly capable of transforming in to submarines" xD. My like to this video is well deserved.
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