Comments by "John Walsh" (@johnwalsh4857) on "Privatization of Russia's war fighting" video.

  1. the war may not stop but the more the war goes, the more it will be worse for Russia in the end, Russia may win this war, by keeping its current winnings, however it will be a pyrrhic victory with the Russian economy kaput, lots of Private armies, unpaid regular soldiers and a depressed Russian economy that still has very bad sanctions put on it, this is a recipe for a civil war. after the war is over.
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  2. oh and You have a Russian army acting like a bunch of private armies who are poorly coordinated , have a poor coordinated logistics. which are fought over by them, assets and resources are very much politicized , many a time they have to buy their own equipment recruit their own troops. an d these PMCs are usually poor leadreship, morale and training vs. a well coordinated, led, equipped and trained Ukrainian army who have an excellent logistics system, with massive support from the west. with high morale. fighting a war to kick out the Russian invaders. with local manpower superiority. This is just disaster for the Russian army, question is how long can Russia keep up and tolerate this ongoing disaster of a war for them .
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  3. they are not only recruiting from Russian prisons but also planning to recruit from African prisons, heck Iim not surprised they start recruiting from Iranian, Syrian, Arab, and Latin American prisons.
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  4.  @andrzejbarcelonafrlk6416  well they will communicate with english get interpreters. also there is no language barrier with a gun pointed at you and beatings if you dont understand.
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  5.  @andrzejbarcelonafrlk6416  yes that is why you need interpreters.
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  6. and the west is looking at all this with glee. hey the Russians are fucking themselves up by themselves, yep lets pour in more money to Ukraine so Russia digs a hole so deep it cant get out of , and Russia will not become a military threat for decades. A break up of the Russian fed is in the cards after this war is over.
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  7. having a lot of PMCs in Russia will be Putin's undoing, it will be harder to get rid of these leaders who have PMCs when the time comes, and after putin is gone, these guys will fight eacah other with their PMCs and result in a civil war.
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  8. and if there are no wars, lets say the Ukr war ends, the warlords will continue the war in Russia. Too bad for Russia.
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  9. PMCs can be effective when you are fighting a civil war , since local commanders would be given wide leeway in commanding their local forces like private armies to fight local insurgencies, when the central gov. is incompetent with a poor command structure. where it takes a long time to approve a command. However when fighting a major war between nations like vs. Ukraine. having a broken up decentralized command and your are attacking is very very bad. since this means no to poor coordination between commanders, logistics is very much bad since commanders will be fighitng over it. A historical example would be the Taiping rebellion and the Second Sino Japanese war. In the Taiping rebellion, the Qing dynasty was forced to give independence to local commanders and governors to form their own private armies to fight the Taipings locally since the Qing dynasty imperial army was corrupt ineffecient incompetent with a very poor command structure where it can take weeks for orders to arrive from the capital say to armies in the field. where a local commander can respond very quick to rebel forces. Now in the 2nd Sino Japanese war, the KMT Chinese armies were very much decentalized, about 50 to 75 percent of the CHinese KMT armies fighting the Japanese were made up of Chinese warlord private armies who very much resented the leader of the KMT Chiang Kai Shek, and they viewed their private armies equated to political power within the KMT , so Chiang Kai Shek had to negotiate with Chinese warlords in order to fight the Japanese and many a time, these guys would just retreat when they took substantial losses. In the case of the current Ukraine war. this decentralization of the Russian army is very bad, this was already very bad at the start of hte war where you had Russian armies each with their own independent com,mand and did not really coordinate with each other failing badly in the war, yes they conquered 40 percent of Ukraine in the first months of the war but this was vs. a surprised un mobilized poorly coordinated Ukrainian military, but once the Ukr gov got the blows and got to its senses mobilized, then struck back in well coordinated fashion along with fierce local resistance , which I should say was much decentralized , it bogged down the Russians badly, stopped the Russians in their tracks and turned them back in the North. and as the Ukrainian army got better equipped trained, better coordinated and led, the Russians got into trouble. While yes politically this may be good for Putin to keep his underlings from outshining him it will be bad for proseucuting this war vs. a well coordinated, well armed, well led Ukrainian military.
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