Comments by "GorillaGuerilla🇺🇦" (@gorillaguerillaDK) on "How the war can destabilize Russia" video.

Great work as always Anders. I watch a few Russian YouTubers and follow some on other Social Media. Also some who are older and not in risk of mobilization. It’s always interesting to see their takes on the political climate inside Russia! Another issue I would absolutely love hearing your take on, is the request for more modern weapon platforms, such as Multirole/Fighter Jets, (Gripen, F16, etc.), Multirole/CAS like attack helicopters, more air defence units, and of course, more Leopard 2. Is it even realistic for Ukraine to retake Crimea within a foreseeable future unless we supply these platforms??? The Russians are heavily entrenched by now, preparing for Ukraine going on the offense! My personal opinion is we might as well start making sure Ukraine can receive and utilize such platforms - I’ve learned a long time ago a saying I try to implement in my own life, “having the right tools is half the job" - and I think it’s about time we start focusing on giving Ukraine the right tools….. As always, thank you for your insight - as always, your perspective is very much appreciated! Tusind tak for at du bruger tid på at dele dine tanker om krigen med os Anders!
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@Sonmi-451 Never attribute to malice what can be done by incompetence…
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@normanstevens4924 Do you remember what happened after the USSR left Afghanistan? The losses in Afghanistan was NOTHING compared to the losses Russia is facing in Ukraine! There’s a very high chance that this could result in the end of the Federation, or at least regions attempting to go for independence!
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@NTraveller Aaawww, did the bad Dane hurt your fee-fees? Did he say bad things about your wannabe Tzar? Is it really that surprising to you that the Royal Danish Navy educate people like Anders to have a high insight and awarenesses of internal political climate in Russia, as well as having strategic and tactical understanding of the ins and outs of the battlefield in Ukraine? Apparently it is....
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@ChrisGurin Well, as long as equipment is made according to STANAG EU follow STANAG as most EU countries are NATO as well. There can be some national variations in some equipment, but that's mostly about when it was last updated and what environment it's meant for. So a Norwegian Leopard 2 has needs a Spanish Leopard 2 doesn't really have due to climate in the respective countries... But your points are still great - it would in some ways be better if the focus could be on as few as possible variants of platforms - but unfortunately this isn't possible.
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You do understand that you’re talking about the a guy who literally study Russia as part of his day job? From a country that has the doubtful honor of being a relatively close neighbor to Russia, controlling the single access point of the International shipping lane into and out from the Baltic Sea…. Studying Russia/USSR closely has been one of the most important tasks of our navy for a long time!!!
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Russian internal Politics and military strategy is basically parts of his education! (And special interest)
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@NTraveller Being Ukrainian doesn’t make you more right…. There is no such thing as being "non-partisan"! And it doesn’t mean your insight, or education is better!
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Yes, and there was Russian Navy activity in the area short time before it happened!
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@randallsmith4685 Except for the fact that it would have resulted in huge fines...
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Political Analysis is actually part of his field of expertise! You can’t remove Politics from Military analysing!
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I’m also quite sure Estonian Jews, Socialists, Resistance Movement, etc. disagreed about the "less evil" part! That being said, having had relatives who both fought against the Russians as volunteers in Finland, and against the Nazis as part of the Danish Resistance Movement, it’s luckily possible to despise both equally much! We almost lost Bornholm to the USSR after the Nazi occupation of my country! Bornholm was occupied by the USSR for nearly 11 months…..
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@aaronbaker2186 Don't bad mouth Russia, they're currently the second strongest army - in Ukraine....
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You're spot on. I would love hearing his perspectives on the upcoming counter offensive. Especially his estimates on what Ukraine will need to be able to make significant gains. I suspect the war might very well be ongoing a year from now, so it's about time to make sure Ukraine gets access to better aircrafts, more air defense systems, and more Leopard 2.
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@volkerr. Sadly being a conspiracy nut job isn’t something we can diagnose - and treatment of it doesn’t help unless the inflicted has a wish to get help - which they rarely do! Conspiracy assumptions makes them feel special/superior - and leaving such a mindset behind, can be extremely hard!
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I read an article written by a Russian trying to explain the mindset of the average Russian. He mentioned a rally Navalnyj held back when he was running. A very excited guy came up to Navalnyj after his speech and told him, "if you become President, then I will definitely vote for you" - and no, it wasn’t poor translation of what had been said! I’ve heard an old Russian saying that goes something like this: "Never wish death upon the Tzar", and while it to most sound as support of the Tzar/regime, the implicit meaning/unspoken part, is that the replacement might easily be even worse!
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Then you didn’t drink enough while here…. 😜
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@paulneilson4106 It’s always very nice to hear people enjoyed visiting my neck of the wood - and hope you will find the time and resources to come back…
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Estonia should have remained Danish! We allowed the Estonians to become nobles, the Germans didn’t, but with the aid of the Teutonic Order the Germans wrestled control out of the hands of the Danish Crown!
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@Lorenz1973 Spot on! And I think you might be right - in most countries that were occupied, there was still a high number of people who just continued life, and collaborated with the occupiers. And few of them faced any consequences after. Those who did face consequences were mostly poor people, and especially young women who had affairs with young soldiers.
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@ChrisGurin So back in the early 80's? (Unless we count the organisation that became the EU, then you would be a WW2 Vet...) 😜 Any deployments overseas?
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@peterlangan1181 LMAO Guess what, in France it doesn't cost ten years prison to protest against pension reforms. Protest is a French National Sport ...
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@Lorenz1973 I really hope it will!
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@tordsteiro9838 It's not Anders's job to care about what Ukraine thinks about Western Experts!
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Are you saying a bag of potatoes and the slim chances of the kid coming home with a washing machine won’t be sufficient?
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@andrzejbarcelonafrlk6416 Carsten made a joke, it was a very Scandinavian type of humor. Anders's real life job also occasionally involves answering questions from the press. It’s just that, in his own YouTube project, he can make it more detailed. What make Anders's videos so great is that he’s a huge nerd, who really loves his work, and have fun educating people… It’s like when a math teacher makes math videos!
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@andrzejbarcelonafrlk6416 You're very welcome. I guess our Danish sense of humor, especially the heavy use of irony and friendly banter can be a bit hard to put in writing. Have a great day....
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@randallsmith4685 Why were Russian Navy ships observed in the area with AIS turned off four days before the explosions?
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@randallsmith4685 No, it doesn't - as this was a great way to get out of that contract, at a time where they hoped withholding gas could put pressure on Germany to not support Ukraine. American ships haven't been spotted in the exact areas of the explosions - and not just days before it happened. Also, the US had nothing to gain, and a lot to lose if it had do e this...
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You’re absolutely right, and in many ways, that’s quite close to what he achieved….
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@NTraveller Again, as I explained to you earlier, and you apparently have a hard time understanding, Anders is an individual who qua his education and work actually do have an informed insight into issues revolving Russian domestic politics The fact that your "non-partisan", (what a freakin' JOKE)), ass doesn’t like the perspective that he brings, doesn’t make it less correct or less valid! And all the BS about what an average individual would or wouldn’t know about another country is so laughable and naive, because you completely ignore that this isn’t an "average Joe" but a highly educated Officer in the Royal Danish Navy who as part of his job, like so many Royal Danish Navy Officers before him, is specialized in Russia and Ukraine, both Militarily and Politically! The fact that Anders is also a nerd, who like to make YouTube videos, and share some insight with the rest of us is just pretty neat, but since you clearly don’t appreciate hearing his perspective, you’re absolutely free to plug your small fat fingers into your ear holes while loudly and repeatedly proclaiming how "non-partisan" you are, to yourself and to anyone dumb enough to believe you!….
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@pliashmuldba No no, you’re special - very special! And that’s what being a conspiracy assuming nutter who can’t tell the difference from milk toast Danish politicians and the likes of Putin, is all about!
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@sillysad3198 No, imperialism has very often been baked in to ultra nationalist ideology!
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@sillysad3198 Often as in most ultranationalist ideologies has been imperialist.
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@sillysad3198 There’s no "mislabeling"! Nationalism and Imperialism isn’t antonyms no matter how much you want it to be! Do we have a few examples of "Nationalist" being anti-imperialist, sure - but that is far more rare than the opposite! Most nationalist movement, and all ultra-nationalist movements has involved imperialism! Empire building is in its very core essence nationalistic!
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Or when a President let it slip that he loves the uneducated….
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Well, it’s a good thing for everyone that we have individuals who make an effort to be well informed and share their insight with everyone else….
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@scratchy996 Well, it hasn't worked effectively when Russia used it against Ukrainian soldiers, Ukraine even captured one a year ago and turned it against the Russians! It's mostly been used by the Russians against Ukrainian civilians as it's primarily a weapon if terror...
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@imyarek No, Crimea isn't "de-facto considered a part of Russia now" - Crimea is considered a occupied territory! The thing is, no matter how many fake referendums Russia chose to have, it's still a clear cut violation of International Law to attempt annexation of an occupied territory! Now if Russia wasn't ruled by a dumb bunch of Criminals, they could have tried a different approach and have Crimea declare independence. Then it would have been much more murky, but no, the wannabe Tzar and his "Oligarch Bratva" in Kremlin decided to go full blown old school imperialist and take a huge dumb on international law! This is why it's primarily authoritarian regimes, and wannabe authoritarians who support Russia. But the modern civilized part of the world is fed up with criminal regimes who haven't figured out how to live or act in the 21st century - FFS, even the Americans and the British has figured out that the era where empire-building by conquest was anywhere near acceptable, is long gone. It's just a bunch of Criminals in Kremlin and a failed caricature of Winnie the Pooh, who continue to have these feverish wet dreams of a time long gone where an emperor could gain clout by conquering other countries!
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@sf4137 "Nobody wants to give them Aircrafts" So what so you call the aircrafts they just received from Poland? The thing is, like it's the case with a lot of other military equipment, it's not enough that there's a donor country. Quite often there's at least one other country that has to accept it get donated due to trade clauses on military equipment. So for Poland to donate the Mig's they just delivered to Ukraine, they had to clear it with Germany! For anyone aside of Germany to donate Leopard 2, they have to clear it with Germany. For anyone to donate a F16 they have to clear it with the US. Also, another interesting fact. Ukrainian pilots has just recently been through an F16 evaluation program in the US where they showed such high skills that it was determined they could get fast-tracked through a re-training program. Of course there's also a need for training the necessary maintenance crew, but it's not like they're starting from scratch.
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Vatnik going full blown vatnik! Haven’t I warned you? Never go full vatnik! It’s super unhealthy!
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Oh, you can go further back than that….
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@prw56 Some people clearly did for a while yes, when they finally reached the breaking point, but the time it took before anything happened - and a large portion of people didn't really care, they were miserable anyway. There's an old Russian saying that goes something alike "Never wish death upon the Tzar", where it's implicit that the meaning is because the next one might be even worse. I think that saying is basically how a lot of Russians think. There's also a more recent episode I read about and often remind myself about when it come to trying to understand the mindset of the average Russian - but this is a more contemporary one. It happened at a political rally for Navalnyj and after he had given his talk a man came up to him, and told him he was very excited about the things Navalnyj had said, and; "if you become president, I will definitely vote for you" - and no, this isn't poorly translated, the IF part was there. It's about siding with the one who has power - if the policies then excites you, it's just considered a bonus...
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Trump admires Putin, Putin is everything Trump wanna be!
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@volkerr. Putin is top, Trump is bottom!
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LMAO Believe me, it would be divided anyways! What Russia is doing is just utilizing the division - it didn’t create it!
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Well, just look at the US where being LGBTQ+ is considered a political statement by a lot of conservatives!
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