Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "Ukraine turning into a ‘Forever War’" video.

  1. The Russian army in WW1 only mutined after the capital and the central government fell (and were replaced by a deeply incompetent duma), the new government also introduced a democratic military hierarchy which proved not very good in war but and excellent organisation for resisting orders. The Soviets brought tsarist officers back (then murdered most of them and their families after the civil war) as well as military discipline (though their treatment of civilians would become and continue to be appalling). There were troops who mutinyed in the capital but most of them were conscripts in training who did not want to go to the front, if they had kept reliable reserves or acted quickly and brought troops down from the front them the revolution would have been strangled in its crib, as the civil war proved there were plenty of officers and men who were loyal to the regime even in hopeless circumstances, even after everything was over the Soviets spent decades rounding up and murdering millions of such people and despite that even today in Russia there is a big group of people who want the Tsar back. Russians are not westerners, their history is suffering and they know it, incompetent and corrupt commanders are not a new thing, they have won many wars that were a series of lost battles and the minorities have a similar history of hardship and suffering, even if a Russian is not a good soldier he has the pride to die one. The real issue with Russia is not willpower, it is demographics, they don't have enough kids, this makes it good for the Kremlin to get rid of minorities who do. Historically speaking however every Russian mother would be having 7 children to plaster over incompetent usage of manpower, now it's in a natural decline and the Soviets destroyed much of society and whole generations of Russians, the would likely have been 500 million Russians without them as dead people don't have children and the living were made to have less. This war is still in the wests favour but not necessarily Ukraine's.
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  2. To be frank the US can't afford what it spends at the moment and is only propped up by being the global reserve currency and thus better able to make use of debasing the currency than other countries. It also helps that most developed countries are in the house of cards and thus it isn't in their interest to topple America as the top one or really move out of line with everyone else at all, things as kept together by them all swaying together in the wind not by individual strength.
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