Comments by "foil hat" (@foilhat1138) on "Russia Is on a Risky Offensive. Will It Backfire?" video.

@brandonlance3601 The Russian Empire also collapsed after WW1.
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@sebastianforbes1 It was Wagner that took Bakhmut, not the Russian army. Remember Wagner? They took such terrible losses in Bakhmut that it broke them and they mutinied. When they drove on Moscow all the Kremlin could do was bomb their own oil refinery and dig up the highway. Luckily for them Lukashenko saved them by cutting a deal. After that Putin proved to Progozhin how much a deal with him is worth.
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@briansale5619 Russia has multiple failed offensives this war, including their current disastrous one.
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@FufuFufy-df8pk How about the words of Stalin, Khrushchev and Zhukov? Let me guess you think you know better than them. You guys sure do love revisionist history. Zhukov said "People say that the allies didn't help us. But it cannot be denied that the Americans sent us materiel without which we could not have formed our reserves or continued the war. The Americans provided vital explosives and gunpowder. And how much steel! Could we really have set up the production of our tanks without American steel? And now they are saying that we had plenty of everything on our own." "I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war." Nikita Khrushchev offered the same opinion. "If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," he wrote in his memoirs. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war."
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@brandonlance3601 Oh god spare me the trailer park economics. Do you think there are IMF secret agents that infiltrate government's to check on their economies? Russia self reports their own cooked numbers and the IMF takes them at face value. Any Russian 'growth' you see is because they raised the VAT tax on Russians and imports. All the revenue generated by that gets dumped right into the war, not spent on something that generates wealth. Russian hydrocarbon revenue is down around 70% since the start of the wrar. They had to ban refined product exports because of price hikes and shortages inside Russia. Moreover any product they do manage to sell they've been forced to accept Rupees and Yuan, which is only useful for investing in China and India. The Ruble is in the toilet and would have fallen off the chart completely if not for strict monetary controls. Russian corporations were forced to sell their foreign reserve to buy Rubles to prop it up, this is unsustainable. Furthermore interest rates have been set at a punishing 15% to try to combat inflation, it isn't working. And for the first time since the 90's there are food lines in Russia. Russia is one of the only countries on Earth where you can buy individual eggs. But sure, their economy is booming. Just ask them. There's already been one attempted coup this war, maybe you've forgotten. Not exactly something you would expect from a country as 'stable' as you seem to think Russia is. And don't get me stated on Russia's military 'industrial base' that's reliant on smuggled western components and refurbishing old Soviet stockpiles.
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@brandonlance3601 Oh my, I just reread your post and realized you called Russia one of the most efficient and least corrupt governments on earth. That is actually hilarious. Luckily we don't have to guess. Russia was ranked 137/180 countries. that was in 2022 though and they've been trending downwards. Its time to rejoin reality.
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