Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "Military History not Visualized" channel.

Counter-point, without this extensive packaging these items would likely not have lasted in Russian level of storage and thus ease of use as reserves would be a moot point as these would have seen use in the diet of rats decades ago. Likewise the Russians like storing guns in disgusting oil, but it means that if needed a soldier can be issued a weapon from the 19th century, though if he actually finds one I'm sure he could trade it in for something better as the resale value would be pretty high considering the history those would have had to have gone through to be available for deep storage, I'm sure it's better than being issued a homemade gun from North Korea at the very least.
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No they don't, they throw them away like paper, they showed the nature of democratic war in WW1. Politicians have not responsibilities to the population, they have a mild concern towards being re-elected and a major one towards retaining power (which is almost completely to do with internal politics).
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As has been proven in many countries you can't just neglect to maintain your railways, trains have a habit of derailing when you do, also trains break and need to be fixed or replaced like any other vehicle.
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The tighter running of the economy between state and private is actually a weakness, in the west the price reflects the viability of the project, in Russia you can have the main gun of tanks being produced in St Petersburg, the engine in Chechnya, the tracks in Siberia and the chassis in Karlingrad, and then have it being assembled in Sakhalin, it's not actually cost effective at all its just that the costs are hidden in the government subsidy, and it'sall because entrenched interests want to spread the wealth and jobs to their regions. The real advantage the Russians have is that they haven't offshored or intentionally eroded vital industry (which in their case is everything they have) and that they mostly struggle with direct corruption which unlike the more subtle forms rampant in the west tend to make itself scarce once once the stakes increase (e.g. once people start being killed for it), though the problem that then brings up is that people start playing pass the parcel with blame and there is a risk of actually skilled people rising through the system and displacing the crooks (which both in Russia and the West is the last thing the political class want).
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@ Teddy Roosevelt was an exceptional man and an utter aberration to the character of politicians. A leader.
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I wonder what the ethnic makeup of Russians on a genetic level even is, I've looked at thousands of pictures from Tsarist Russians, the vast majority look notably different to modern Russians. Usually much more Northern European though not quite fully in line with germanics, just similar. Modern Russians have a different build, darker features and are much softer faced. Considering the amount of sexual violence and the destruction of so many internal groups I would not be surprised if there has been quite the shift. Just as many Prussians have some Russian in them thanks to the Soviets, I suspect that rather than Mongolian there is some semetic ancestry in many of these distinct looking chaps, as that's what others who look like them usually in that region of the world usually are.
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Armies which do not commit war crimes on an institutional level or with institutional facilitation a very rare in history, the Germans are not unique at all. The idea of discipline and military law being at an extremely high level is most notable among the British army post-wellington, but there were exceptions and a lot of them. The Americans have the concept but they tend to only implement it in regards to actions without higher approval, and even that selectively. Germans like other Europeans in pre-modern times had rules of war based on Aristocratic and Christian norms of mercy and decency, when fighting schismatics or peasant rebels the rules were much more loose and when fighting non-Christians they didn't exist beyond personal inclination at all, and things could and did become extremely unpleasant.
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@Lancasterlaw1175 Here in Britain we don't store them at all. This war round we wouldn't even be able to raid the museums as their examples have been deactivated by having large holes drilled in them. That said it's nice to hear that some places are more sensible.
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There are a lot of different factors, notably command, tactical doctrine and the specifics of the situation. It doesn't matter on the tank, if one side is inept in using them the other side is likely at an advantage. Such was the case in many of the conflicts in which Russian armour has suffered, the current war in far more representative of capabilities even with drones and other unplanned for factors for the design than the many wars in the middle east in which they just get blown up by planes or drive into a kill zone. Such brilliant tactics, even with the most advanced and sophisticated designs, will see heavy attrition.
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Yeah, that's because their whole economy went to hell after the collapse of the Soviet Union (not that it was exactly healthy at any point past the first world war), I did say intentionally. Western nations particularly sponsored deindustrialisation, the Russias could serve to clean up their whole act (and then some) but at least they are in a position where a disruption to supply chains or the change in allegiance of some third party won't be fatal to the war and possibly meeting the basic needs of the population. Though perhaps I'm looking at it wrong, the current order chains nations into US interests and policy (if you're in a house of cards it's in your interest to good with the general sway and not have the whole thing collapse on top of you) and thus from the perspective of the hegemon it is brilliantly constructed, though bankrolling the economic miracle in China was probably a tad bit worse than misjudged, and a good part of the western elite don't seem to have any genuine loyalties so will probably jump ship at the first viable alternative (though that compares favourably to the Russian elite who seem to be a liability to operating a functioning system, and the Chinese elite haven't killed Xi yet so they likely have the clock ticking on how long their system can continue).
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My point is that both the Russians and the west have very serious issues, the west is lucky that Russia has proven itself so incompetent, in terms of things like electronics you can't really blame Russian leadership, the country is a shadow of its former self and it's former self very often managed to be a shadow of a country that from the 19th century, wealth probably could have been allocated a lot better but hindsight is 20:20 and even with it the priority would be internal corruption and fixing the state of the military. The West has also been fortunate that the Chinese have taken the advantage given to them and decided to squander it on trying to institute Maoism again (literally the worse political ideology to ever exist), it is a matter of time before that backfires and the ccp gets toppled by the nationalists (and I'm not meaning Chinese civil war type republican nationalists, mainlander nationalists literally want an emperor and Confucianism, a return to the imperial system). The west has many internal issues, but it has proven better at pretending they don't exist and it's enemies are self-sabotaging to a greater extent, I would remain wary, those things won't remain static and there is every possibility that alternative powers who drink battery acid for breakfast will arise out of the oncoming economic collapse, or maybe someone in a middle eastern country will work out how to run a functioning state, Alexander the Great, Muhammad and Napoleon all came out of left field historically and we're currently leaving a lot of room open to elites who don't literally eat crayons and think that rehashing the most geocidial ideologies of the 20th century is in any way a worthwhile alternative to the current system (looking at you western academia). At least in my country things are incredibly unjust and tyrannical, with the people alienated from apparatus of power, it doesn't look it on the surface but things are incredibly volatile.
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Great a neo-lib simp, so Germany should stop pursuing independent interests and become America's bulldog in Europe (largely because France has made their opposition to taking on such a role more than apparent), policing American protectorates is in truth not a promotion as the US would very likely not be able to manage such vassals without raising up one prisoner to guard the others, Germany would imprison others though it's chains. And no I'm not pro Russia or China, Russia is a basket case and the ccp is evil and historically responsible for the worst crimes in the history of man. One shouldn't submit themselves to a master simply because there are others who are worse, and as far as I can see all countries are headed off on a trajectory with a steep fall and rocks at the bottom no matter what their excuses for why we shouldn't reevaluate the path may be.
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@ That's quite something, the only equivalent I can think of is the Gough family over here, who seemed to be in the business of collecting Victoria Crosses and Field Marshal's batons.
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They weren't much meaner for the most part indeed they were a lot less than many invading party's when dealing people's subjects to them throughout history, the British were the most notable in this as it meant they could use indigenous support at many levels and decent reliability and than resistance to occupation wasn't a given especially in places where things were bad and the Europeans actions were being held to a different standard (so extortionate tax rates might not get the same reaction if you already had those plus the new guys actually root out bandits and their armies don't act like bandits themselves). In Britain at least there way a far older history of colonialism with England being founded by Norman colonizers and being deeply influenced by them and most other major European states had a history of internal European colonialism, indeed plenty of today homogenous European states still were made up of pretty distinct cultural, regional and linguistic identities being held (willing or not) in union. They were mostly destroyed through education in the 19th century but only China and Russia managed that on a large scale outside of Europe (with China doing it over millennia and in Russia a good part happening under the Soviets *cough Stalin genociding them cough*).
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It is bad for th state as drunk people don't have many demands besides alcohol while sober people have the clarity of mind to be unhappy about things, also Russian soldiers have long relied on Dutch courage, it could have a direct effect on the war effort.
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@ribery7593 Yeah, I'll grant that, but if I had said that the comment would have been pretty easy to misinterpret. Also it does have a certain level of restriction to absurdity unless the deal is merely a fact of corruption (which often the case). That said I'm probably a lot more sceptical of the western system now than when I wrote the original comment.
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In pure numbers no one have ever killed as many as they did, the Americans could have killed the entire population of Vietnam or indeed every native Indian that has ever lived and they still would have paled in comparison to Mao. Genghis Khan killed less people (though he did kill a greater proportion of the world population at the time).
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Command economies are not renowned for efficiency of resource consumption. If they were saving costs as part of the design such a pursuit would have been abstract as for all they knew the actual production could be a logistical nightmare due to odd decisions in other areas of planning.
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It's a war, economic impacts are largely irrelevant, they will just print magic money and take on debt, the collapse will either be after the war or in response to a political power vacuum. Either way the average Russian will likely pull through as ever, the West will pretend that problems in Russia cancel out problems at home and China will stand to be the only winner.
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