Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "Eastory" channel.

  1. 2:55 "In Russia the military and the security services are effectively responsible for running the country." I've seen at least Kamil Galeev argue on Twitter that it's only the security services that run Russia. Military is low in the dominance hierarchy and deliberately kept weak so it can't challenge the security services' domination. I don't myself know enough to say whether he's right or wrong.
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  2.  @Pilvenuga  "Professional army [...] vs conscript army" Germany's army was also a conscript army.
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  3. The Yemeni and Ethiopian civil wars were already ongoing when this war started.
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  4. No, you're not that great.
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  5.  @Nepriemlem0  Thanks for the info.
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  6.  @edusc6893  Give me a break. Next you'll be telling us that you're Estonian as well.
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  7.  @antennastoheaven  Do you think he's right or wrong about this particular issue (i.e. security services having the power, not military)?
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  8.  @Astro_Guy_1  My impression was that he does the narration and the unnamed friend does the research and the script but it's unclear to me which one of them does the animations and drawings.
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  9. "~80% of all casualties" Note, I'm pretty sure that number is either for all losses or personnel losses. This video only deals with equipment losses, not personnel losses.
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  10.  @Tokeraki  At least Kamil Galeev's profile page on the Woodrow Wilson Center webpage says that he resides in Moscow. Of course, the page could be out of date but seemingly he has at least lived there at some point.
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  11. "1.1991-1995 Yogoslavian civil war [...] So you see how many conflicts happened in east Europe these decades." I don't think you can count Yugoslavia as eastern Europe.
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  12. Quite often "Eastern Europe" is used with the meaning "the former Eastern Bloc".
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  13. "Russia has been invaded >50 times in last 200 years" Surely that number cannot be correct.
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  14. Should've lasted one and a half months like France.
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  15. "I think Ukraine was invaded because Russia was about to lose their port at Sevastopol." That might explain the events of 2014 but not the present invasion.
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  16. "Russia has large interest is making sure N.A.T.O is kept away from the Russian border" Ukraine would have been unlikely to join NATO for the foreseeable future anyway. However, now because of this invasion Russia is likely to get a different new NATO member as a neighbor. Thus it seems that Putin's invasion works against this particular goal.
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  17. "In total, over eight years of shelling in the Luhansk and Donetsk republics, many houses were destroyed and about fourteen thousand people - women, children and the elderly - were killed." Note that 14,000 includes both civilian and military casualties on both sides. Civilian casualties given by the UN is 3,393 and this both those killed by Ukrainian forces and those killed by the separatist/Russian forces. Most of those also happened during the first two years.
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  18. If they're identical twins, then they share parents who are common ancestors for both of their descendants. Therefore that possibility should only make the result on common patrilinear or matrilinear ancestor off by one generation at most.
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  19.  @Роман-е7к7з  I was referring to the invasion that started this year. That's what this video was about and I also assume that's what OP (Hamza Mahmood) was referring to when he talked about live tracking a modern battle. The events in 2014 didn't result in nearly as much Instagram pictures etc. and for the most of the time since until early this year the hostilities consisted of sparse skirmishing and shelling rather than intense battles.
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  20. Mind you, the word is spelled "corps".
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  21. X = brigade XX = division XXX = corps
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  22. I watched this a second time at quarter speed to better see what was happening.
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  23. "NATO aspirations to put offensive ICBMs near Moscow" I don't think there were such aspirations. Ukraine would have been unlikely to join NATO for the foreseeable future.
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  24. It wouldn't have been a simple matter to continue much beyond that. Germany had the protection of the Siegfried Line and it would take quite some time for France to prepare an offensive that could seriously threaten it.
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  25. "10k civilian deaths in separatist Donbas region." UN gives the number of civilian deaths as 3,393. You're giving a 3x overestimate.
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  26. Casualties are hard to estimate. Both sides lie about them.
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  27.  @doloressverko9887  Are you referring to my original comment or some other comment in this thread? It's a bit unclear to me what you're referring to.
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  28.  @NikolaAvramov  The truth of the matter isn't actually obvious. It could be either security services or the military or both running the country. Note that the option of Russia being genuinely democratic wasn't considered here.
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  29. At least before the invasion Russia's real (PPP) GDP per capita was about 60% higher than that of China. Granted, Russia has more natural resources and China was growing faster.
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  30.  @azanudniy  There is no evidence that the problems of Boris Johnson are in any way related to Ukraine. If anything, the Ukraine war helped him politically and allowed him to stay in power longer than he otherwise would have.
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  31. Of course he meant "survive long enough to get major assistance".
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  32. Well, it (probably) isn't since he's apparently Estonian not Russian.
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  33.  @Levon_RnD : Really? How can you tell?
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  34.  @Levon_RnD : OK. I was just curious about what specifically in his pronunciation makes it sound Russian, because phonetics is interesting.
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  35.  @Levon_RnD : Hmm, I checked the Wikipedia page on Estonian phonology and it says that Estonian also has palatalized version of all alveolar consonants in the language (except the trill) though it doesn't have the [vʲ] in "soviet". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_phonology#Consonants
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  36. "The Russian army is mostly mechanized, with few purely infantry units. This meant they had to stick to paved roads to carry out their offensive." I think even large infantry units plodding through mud would be quite problematic (even if they can't get as badly stuck as heavy vehicles).
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  37. What do you mean? France lasted a bit longer (though not much).
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  38.  @carlgustafemilmannerheim9360  "the threat of bioweaponlabs in the border regions who where supported by the usa" They are not weapon labs. "and that zelensky wanted nukes" It's pretty unlikely that they would get nukes.
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  39.  @deadlyknights1119  The German army might have been better but I was specifically reacting to the "professional army vs conscript army" claim which seems simply false.
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  40. He does have a video titled "Germany's plans to win WWI".
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  41.  @Weirdcontent_348  I'm guessing he means Adobe After Effects, a video editing software.
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  42. "2014 Milan coup orchestrated by the west ousted president Yanukovych, all the succeeding presidents are western friendly presidents" You should say "both" rather than "all" since there has been only two. But in any case, the reason for that is simple. Putin successfully cleaved away the most pro-Russia parts of Ukraine. That almost inevitably changes the electoral arithmetic in favor of pro-Western candidates. Putin can't eat his cake and have it too.
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  43. I don't think he said 4X.
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  44. Estonia was annexed into the Soviet Union. It wasn't merely occupied. The Soviets deposed the Estonian government and installed a new government which then requested, and was granted, entry into the Soviet Union.
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