Comments by "" (@tomk3732) on "Russia Is Preparing For A Long War. Assault Operations Have Resumed. Military Summary For 2023.11.29" video.

You do know Russian economy is the strongest in Europe. With growth 3x that of Germany. And biggest. With biggest growth cumulative over last 15 years. And that is despite sanctions!!!
3
@wacsonlawand7567 Russia is behind China, US, India and Japan. Germany is behind Russia. As per world Bank. So Russia is world's 5th largest economy. Economies listed by size.
2
@KSmithwick1989 PPP is economic size. They are behind China, US, India and Japan. So they are 5th largest economy. In few years should be 4th as they are catching up to Japan. We are NOT looking at pre war but 2022. Russian economy is posting best growth in Europe - so we want latest data.
2
@KSmithwick1989 They are ahead of Germany World Bank (US) Russia is at 5.33 (2022) while Germany is 5.31 (2022) This will be more in 2023 as Russia has predicted growth of around 3%... while Germany is well under 1%. We will see this continue. In the next few years - maybe up to 10, we will see Russia pass Japan while India will try to pass US. Germany will be passed by Indonesia. Essentially Asia is passing everyone in the west & Russia more and more is classified as "Asia".
2
@KSmithwick1989 The 2023 data will be much better as Russian economy posts healthy growth while Germany stagnates. We are not talking about per capita - just absolute economy size - or one would start saying that China is also spread around as it has over 1.4B people. One could point out Ireland is like record holder with PPP 2x that of US per capita. We are talking total size - Russia is growing fast and as per my source is already bigger. Other sources that count "shadow economy" have Russia ahead by 10% - like 0.5B. Of note is also somewhat healthy growth of Russian economy vs. German total stagnation. Heck, looking at last 15 years Russia is the fastest growing economy of Europe! And that is with sanctions. Imagine no sanctions... Russia would be close to US in growth.
2
They sure build a lot of ammo capacity starting in 2014 for a war that you claim was to last just 3 days 😅
1
@KSmithwick1989 They were hoping for a quicker operation - and their hopes were confirmed with Ukraine placement at the table in March 2022. Then UK sent their PM and convinced Ukraine that economic sanctions and western help will enable Ukraine to take back Crimea. Ukraine leadership made a mistake and ended negotiations with Russia. Russia was prepared for such turn of events - and switched to "long war" plan. Traffic jams were part of psych op - nothing related to logistics. After all they had no traffic jams for weeks to move out - and managed to do so multiple times in under 24h. Which also points out to low number of troops involved. BTGs failed mostly b/c it is too small unit to have proper support all over the place. In Ukraine even brigade structure failed - and Russia went all they way to division.
1
Where is Ukraine going to get more money from? 😊 US is unwilling and EU is broke.
1