Comments by "Sam Miller" (@sammiller6631) on "Russia's war economy is unsustainable" video.

@e33d90 But is Russia pushing forward fast enough? It's been two months since Ukraine pushed into Kursk. If Russia doesn't push them out before the muddy season, Ukraine will have months of autumn and winter to fortify their position. Look what the Surovikin Line did to the previous counter-offensive. If Ukraine has six months to build a Syrskyi Line, that could strain any Russian push next year.
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@LancesArmorStriking People have genuine reasons for supporting Ukraine. Your refusal to even acknowledge that simple reality doesn't show an deep understanding of the issue. And because it's not based on a strong understanding, your conclusions are just as weak. How do you know when your opinions are grounded in emotion? Because no one is completely rational all of the time. Even ChatGPT "hallucinates".
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@SparinHere I can point to where Ukraine and Russia are on a map. They're the two largest countries in Europe. How can you miss that?
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@LancesArmorStriking Are you willfully ignoring the Holodomor? Dekulakization? GKO Order No. 5859ss? Polish Operation of the NKVD? Katyn Massacre? Russian history has been brutal to their neighbors since the Mongols invaded Moscow. Even today, Russians talk about "the Tatar Yoke" choosing to be as vicious to others as the Mongols were to them.
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@simonpriest4345 Russia & Ukraine are in a stalemate and have been for a while. How do you miss that?
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@e33d90 Russia moves forward and Ukraine pushes them back. That's called a stalemate.
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@LancesArmorStriking "genuine reasons for not wanting to support Ukraine" boils down to simping for Russia. Genuinely not wanting to support Ukraine genuinely means not posting about it. Those I know personally who don't support Ukraine just go on with their lives. They don't feel a need to support Russia.
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@SparinHere America is the third largest country (in both land and people) in the world. There will be a wide range of people and opinions, so why assume they're all the same because of "some YT videos"?
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@LancesArmorStriking If Russia wanted peace, they would withdraw. Instead, they talk about Novorossiya and the Russkiy Mir. Listen to Vladimir Solovyov or Dmitry Medvedev, chair of the Security Council of Russia. Or Putin's own essay On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians
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@milanmarinkovic3016 European Union is still a major manufacturer. Germany is the third largest economy in the world and still has the largest manufacturing sector in Europe.
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@johnadam2885 If westerners are cowards, why is there an International Legion fighting in Ukraine? If Russians aren't cowards, why do they need blocking troops? Soviets had Order No. 227 and that culture continues with Russians in Ukraine. The Afghanis under Karzai were afraid to die, so Karzai was a poor choice. The US could have backed Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was a proven leader that kept both the Soviets and the Taliban out of the Panjshir, earning him the name of "Lion of Panjshir". bin Laden was so afraid of Massoud that 9/11 would be called off if they couldn't assassinate Massoud before 9/11. But Bush was too easily flattered by career politician Karzai. Massoud had an engineering degree, so he was more of a hard facts talker, which is how he managed to defeat the Soviets in the Panjshir.
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@milanmarinkovic3016 Why are you throwing out random memes about "Wolfowitz Doctrine" like they're bingo numbers? Have you also read Aleksandr Dugin's The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia from 1997? The ultra-nationalist and authoritarian ideology based on his idea of neo-Eurasianism which requires confronting the West, even if the West does not want war.
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@BratBugarin If Russians are patriotic, why did so many leave during partial mobilisation?
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@r.s.4174 Germany is not deindustrialised. They're the third largest exporter in the world. China's ghost cities and tofu dreg construction is failing.
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@johnadam2885 The US is only spending 5% of their defence budget, so they can afford Ukraine. You should look at the actual numbers, not just your feelings.
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@jesan733 The Mountain Pass Mine in California supplied most of the worldwide rare-earth metals from 1965 to 1995. It turns on and off depending on whether investors get an immediate return on investment. The reason why China is providing the rare earth minerals now is because the Chinese government pays to keep their mines running. It's also cheaper when Chinese companies don't have to pay to clean up the highly toxic mining processes.
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@johnhildenbrand2642 Those "gargantuan sums" amount to less than 5% of the US Defense budget. Sending 30 year old tanks to Ukraine saves money because it's cheaper to ship old tanks and missles than it costs to decommission them. Nearly all that money "spent on Ukraine" is actually money spent in the US in American factories to refill American stockpiles with newer 21st Century equipment to replace 30 year old stuff sent to Ukraine. New tanks creates new jobs for Americans.
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@MaximumEfficiency No, they work for the Heritage Foundation. Their Project 2025 is the new BlackRock.
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@ericp1139 Ukraine's allies are not broke. The US is only spending 5% of its defense budget on Ukraine aid. Germany is the 3rd largest economy in the world. The EU without the US is still 16 times large economy than Russia. Ukraine has been inside Russia in Kursk region for two months now. If Russia can't even control its own land inside its country, maybe it's Russia that is slowing down and losing momentum?
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@antebratincevic6764 So if I disagree with you, then I'm the one who's a bot? Not very nice.
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@antebratincevic6764 "Ukranians drive expensive cars, and at the same time here we have thousands of homeless people without any income." is the same rhetoric I've heard about local welfare recipients for over 30 years. If you want to tear people down, you should expect others will do the same to you.
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@youuuuuuuuuuutube Italy is third-most populous and third-largest economy in the eurozone, so that's not saying much for Russia's economy
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@sel7245 If it's won in a very short time, it's not a war. That's just a battle.
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@astromikael Because Bush chose Karzai, a slimy career politician, over Ahmad Shah Massoud, a proven fighter who kept both the Soviets and the Taliban out of the Panjshir Valley, earning the name "Lion of Panjshir". Massoud had an engineering degree and was educated in Europe. bin Laden was so scared of Massoud that he would call off 9/11 if they couldn't assassinate Massoud before 9/11. Karzai's control fell apart when his money fountain dried up.
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@BarryGee-pm6rv You may not have noticed but Ukraine has been in Kursk for two months and the muddy season is coming soon. If Russia can't push them out by the muddy season, Ukraine will have the rest of autumn and winter to reinforce their position in Kursk.
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@forbaldo1 Why did Stalin kill 10 Million of his own people?
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@mutantgenepool If the US has chosen to back Ahmad Shah Massoud (known as "Lion of Panjshir" for keeping the Soviets and the Taliban out of the Panjshir) instead of Karzai, then the US would have left a stable Afghanistan years earlier.
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@philipdupont2308 New York state has more people than many entire countries in Europe. NY is bigger than Netherlands, Belgium or any Nordic country.
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@ThomasTomiczek But can Putin win? Wouldn't a "win" in Ukraine just become an insurgency like The Troubles in Northern Ireland? The Ukrainians have been fighting on and off for over a century now, from the Ukrainian–Soviet War from 1917 to 1921 where they fought both the Red Army and the White Russian Army in the Ukrainian Death Triangle to the Orange Revolution in 2004 and Euromaidan in 2014.
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@MarcosElMalo2 I always see Perun's Sunday video. It wouldn't be a proper Sunday without it.
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@LowenKM Minsk Protocol and Minsk II were signed by the current Russian Federation, which broke both of them. So it's not just "the former and now non-existent Soviet Union" but the current Russia. It's a pattern going back centuries to Imperial Russia signing the 1774 Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca (like the 1994 Budapest Memorandum) and deciding to invade Crimea in 1783. The Crimean War followed later.
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@truthseekerodinson5094 If there's still 2.7% unemployment, there's still more workers that can fill jobs.
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@truthseekerodinson5094 Ukraine signed the first Minsk Protocol in August 2014 with the current Russian Federation, which broke it. So French president François Hollande and German chancellor Angela Merkel tried again with Minsk II in 2015. Trying to handwave away the Budapest Memorandum is ignoring how the same thing happened with Minsk I & II (and Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca if you want to go back to 1774 Imperial Russia). Russia's aggressive behaviour continues to be the same over the centuries.
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@Gilder-von-Schattenkreuz Russia's attempts at pacifying a conquered Ukraine would be no better than England's attempts to pacify Ireland during the time of Troubles.
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@milanmarinkovic3016 Russia has no right to terrorize Ukrainian speakers in Kursk Oblast, so Ukraine went into Kursk. Budapest Memorandum was not based on Ukrainian neutrality. Read the document. If Russia wanted that, they should have written it into the document before Russia signed it. Or Russia could have included it into Minsk Protocol or Minsk II, but Russia did not.
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@milanmarinkovic3016 Those citizens don't need to risk life and limb fighting if they're willing to build millions of artillery shells for Ukraine like the EU promised last year. Defence factories are better paying jobs than Walmart greeter, Amazon warehouse or having people scream and curse you all day at a call center.
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@ericp1139 Russia didn't last in the 1853-1856 Crimean War. It ran out of money. Even the 1917 Ukrainian–Soviet War took four years as the Ukrainians fought both the Red Army and the White Russian Army in the Ukrainian Death Triangle with no help from the US.
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@AlexKarasev "Minsk I & II signed in bad faith" is a meme that Russia repeats. If you ask for actual quotes or other proof, all you'll get is deflection and distraction. Russia breached the clause by interfering in 2004. Look at the Kuchmagate Cassette scandal. Yanukovych lost his election and called in Russia troops in response.
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@StepDub I'd say at least three years, not eighteen months. Eighteen months is way too short. It's "three days to Kyiv" thinking.
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@koja69 Russia does not respect agreements. "I am not even sure I can consider you a human being" isn't a civilised way to act towards others.
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@AlexKarasev Eighteen months after the war, but wars drag on for years. This war can easily go for another two years. Let's wait until 2027 before we see how this video held up.
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@black_triton9264 The Kiel Institute Ukraine Support Tracker paints a different picture. More than 3 NATO members can make the 2% commitment.
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@silafaupaulmeredith7251 Mexico does not want to "join a Security Alliance" with overseas powers. Have you forgotten the Zimmermann telegram? Or were you never educated on that? Not every country acts like Russia. Minsk 2 only exists because Russia violated Minsk I. Mexico has the right to choose and they chose Free Trade Agreements with the US and Canada. Show me where this "...but according to Merkel" quote was printed in a newspaper or recorded in a video. You can't just put words in Merkel's mouth. If you can't show where she said that, you've shown us lies. Why should we trust a proven liar?
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@texazwhyte2791 US inflation is down. US unemployment is down. Producing new tanks for the US to replace the 30 year old tanks sent to Ukraine is creating new well paying jobs for Americans. Infrastructure reconstruction is creating more jobs for Americans. Crime in US is down, consumer spending is up.
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@texazwhyte2791 "cutting interest rates" does not mean printing more money. cutting interest lowers mortgage rates, which increases home sales and saves current homeowners more in their pocket. increased home sales leads to more construction jobs created. Did you get "printing more money" bit from social media gossip? People will say anything there.
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