Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "UATV English" channel.

It's always been like that though. Strong man backed by a peasant class with boyars under the Tsar.
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 @meso8848 You know Russia is not a major trade partner with the US and West because of poor geography and limited infrastructure, right?
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Russians see all former territories as belonging to Russia, regardless of what the borders currently are. That includes Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Eastern Poland, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Dagestan, Chechnya, Georgia, etc. They are entitled to those lands under their logic. There has been a resurgence of pro-Stalinist teaching in Russian schools since Putin became the president 22 years ago. They are always afraid of someone attacking them across the historic invasion routes, so by “defending the motherland”, that includes Ukraine. This is the Russian perspective that the West does not understand. My family has lost many to Russia during the Winter War in Finland due to this way of thinking.
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@bsastarfire250 Senior KGB officers seized Russia's main industries, namely oil/NG, heavy industries, and minerals. They didn't like the chaos under Yeltsin, so they placed the new leadership under him as 3 Deputy Prime Ministers, one of them Vladimir Putin. Yeltsin was told to resign and he would suffer no retribution, which he did on Dec 31, 1999, announcing "no need for elections, we already know who we love". Putin took the Presidency per the plan of the KGB oligarchs, then told them they can't stay in Russia if they plan to be involved in any politics. He took their businesses and gave them to the 2nd Generation of oligarchs, who all owe allegiance to Putin. Putin was groomed as a strong man, Czar-like figure with the 2nd Chechen War to send the message to Russians and their neighbors that Russia was no longer weak, the days of the 1990s were over.
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@captaincanada5139 There have been 3 major periods in Russian history where they had weak leadership and it causes the society to panic and go into chaos, usually associated with invasion. The worst time was when the Mongols invaded and regulated that area for 250 years. That kind of thing is a deep fear within the Russian psyche. They are always thinking that somebody is getting ready to invade them because they have been invaded about 50 different times over the past several centuries. In their minds it's only a matter of time and their strategic posturing and taking of satellite states manifests their own fears. Everything becomes self-fulfilling. This Russian curse is shared by her and her neighbors.
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The decision to launch a multi-front invasion reminds me of another dictator in European history who did the same thing, refused to listen to his generals, then blamed them for all of his stupid strategies.
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Russia isn't anywhere near 3rd even with manipulated PPP calculations. This is fantasy. Russia is a very poor country because she wastes her resources on weapons instead of roads, seaports, and rail.
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I lived all over Russia. It’s a very cold, sub-arctic and arctic, extreme weather conditions land mass separated from the warm coastlines of Europe. It has always been like this. Services are extremely limited and infrastructure is astonishingly antiquated. And yet they survive somehow.
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"If you take a step back, it will be worse than being gay in prison."
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There are 2 generations of Russian Oligarchs since the 1990s. The 1st Generation put Putin into power, as they were former KGB senior leadership who took over Russian oil, Natural Gas, and Mineral industries. As soon as Putin was put into power, he quickly told them they could stay in Russia, provided they never get involved with politics again. If they couldn’t follow this rule, they would be arrested, sent to Sibersk, or executed. He then took their businesses and awarded them to his appointees, who owe total allegiance to him now. It was a very effective way of establishing full political, military, and economic power (as much as one man can) over Russia.
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@brianellison3525 They despise this fact. Russia is weakest in its far eastern region, so it doesn’t matter anyway. They bit off more territory than they can protect, which is one of the many reasons why they can’t ever have a strong economy. Being isolated so far up north away from any main oceanic trade routes is another huge block for them and nothing can be done about it.
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@apveening The artillery corporal whose understanding of military strategy was next to nothing.
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Norway and Sweden already had IR/Thermal Camouflage Ghillie suits 17 years ago. We did testing against them using Drone-based FLIR back then.
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Tens of thousands of Russians have immigrated to Finland since 1992. Russians are taught that Finland belongs to them because it was under the Czars from 1809-1917.
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@numbersix8919 Russia took territories from every single one of the regions it was later invaded by, taking their territory back. US didn't even exist. England and France weren't anywhere near the Rurik, Novgorod, or Kievan Rus expansion points. When those regions unified, they got attacked and occupied by Mongols, then started expanding farther and taking various ethnic people's land around them until they grew into the monster known as Russia. When Russia pushed into Polish-Lithuania and Prussian territories, it triggered a response from Napoleon. Russia has brought every evil upon themselves due to aggressive expansion/contraction/expansion throughout history. Most of that has been in Asia. I would never make a connection between Anglo-Saxons and Russia as some kind of agitative group to be blamed, given Russia's history.
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@j.dunlop8295 Ukraine just built their own instead, which is what we saw strike the huge munitions depots this past week.
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@Booz2020In the US, population 328 million with median household income at $73,000 per year, we see many products in our stores that say, "MADE IN INDONESIA". Do you not want us to buy those anymore?
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@philelliott5327 I lived in Russia in several different cities. It's one of the poorest of the 30 nations I have lived in or visited. The people make due with what they have somehow, but it isn't much.
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@eenigheid3186 The truck came from the Russian side, according to Russian security cameras.
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Russia will never join the civilized world because their geography just doesn't support it. Their best chance was from the 1880s-1914. After that, it's hopeless. They have suffered 8 brain drains and substantial losses of prime age males since 1914. Russia will devolve even further into a regional horde, who will ally with other contracting fragments of the empires of old.
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Finland already has an amazing bunker trench complex already built in the 1940s, better than any US bunker trench complex I've ever seen at US bases around the world, and I've been stationed at or forward-deployed to many in West Germany, South Korea, Panama, and the Middle East. I spent a week-long hiking/camping trip with my dad and 2nd oldest son going from bunker to bunker in Finland near the Russian border. The trench lines and bunkers are made from granite, with brutal interlocking fields of fire for machineguns, and fake rocks that are observation turrets in subterranean towers that you rotate guard duty through. The communications system is simple and effective, requiring nothing electronic. I was surprised at how well-designed and executed those complexes are. Finnish defense strategy doesn't even rely on that defensive line anymore.
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@Pikkabuu Yes, as I said built in the 1940s, not part of Finland's defense strategy, and yet still superior to any bunker trench complex I've ever seen. Problem is Finland doesn't start taking delivery of F-35A Block 4s until 2026, which won't be operational until 2028, and won't fully replace Hornets until 2030...if the current schedule holds. Putin still has a window between now and 2028 to act, though RuAF performance in Ukraine has taken away his freedom of attack in Finland every day. From the Russian perspective, they don't take Finland seriously. They see Finland as a tiny little dog, barking at their ankle. They don't know about Talvisota and Jätkosota other than "Finnish fascists invaded poor Russia with the Germans". I saw their historical maps in the Central Red Army Museum in Moscow showing a big arrow from Finland invading Russia. This is Putin and old guard KGB perspective of Finland.
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Ordinary Russians have always been extremely poor. Working Russians are dirt-poor by lower class Europeans. High-earners in Europe are relatively poor compared to lower income earners in the US.
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@musikmedravnen There's nothing to collapse in the Russian economy really since it has been poor for centuries, and the USSR collapse began and never ended with its creation. Russian Civil War Kulak repression Holodomor Great Patriotic War Krushchev urbanization KGB oligarchs in 70s-80s Gorbachev weakness Yeltsin free-fall Rise of Putin
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@Lassemalten The Finnish rye bread, German breads, Swedish and Danish breads, etc. are all excellent. Finnish rye bread is awesome for my digestion as it's very rugged. In the US, the flours are bleached, then enriched, which is stupid. We also have ridiculous amounts of preservatives, chemically-processed vegetable oils, seed oils, and toxins put into the food. I don't eat bread in the US unless my wife makes it from scratch. We have our own sourdough starters she uses.
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@louisecorchevolle9241 The entire Russian economy is a joke compared to that of Texas, because Texas has so much more infrastructure, production capacity, quality of life, and diversity of industries. Look at military aerospace, for example. In the State of Texas over the last 18 years, they have assembled over 900 F-35s. There are 4.15 million head of cattle, 635 thousand dairy cows, 12 million calves, 708.6 million chicken, 1.17 million hogs, 786k goats, 655k lambs, 4.74 million harvested acres of hay, 2.1 million acres of harvested corn, 2.1 million harvested acres of wheat, 4.2 million acres of cotton, etc. etc. BRICS was a joke proposed on Wall Street. Anyone who buys into it doesn’t understand basic geography and regional instability between the enemies on the BRICS list. For example, imagine Russia and China with a currency, or China and India. You have to be fundamentally-illiterate about the rivalries between these nations to think BRICS is even a viable concept.
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@louisecorchevolle9241 No criminality in Moscow? The structure of services in Moscow is run by criminals in government. The police and Duma and Presidency are all criminals. They murdered 9 journalists when I was there. Ukraine was artificially depressed under Putin’s puppet, Yanukovych and moles planted throughout the government and military in Kiev, and many ethnic Russians brought in from Donbas region when Yanukovych was President. That included Zlochevsky, who was ecology minister, then appointed CEO of Burisma. Burisma was used a money-laundering vehicle for Putin for years.
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@louisecorchevolle9241 My family is from Finland, but we’re non-drinkers. We’re not Russophobic, just preparing for the next round of Russian invasion attempts.
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@louisecorchevolle9241 My contact in the Russian foreign ministry already said in the early 2000s that Putin was planning on taking back all former Russian territories. I figured he was an old soviet blowhard, but I paid attention and when they invaded Georgia in 2008, I remembered him saying Georgia would be taken, then Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland. Zelensky set Putin's plans back many years by refusing to get on Biden's plane.
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@louisecorchevolle9241 So when I went shopping regularly in stores in Russia, my brain manipulated the numbers? What I saw was rough equivalent food items were maybe 50% of the cost of food in the US. Russia deflates the cost of gas for the peasants, so that was much cheaper. It doesn't equate to superior PPP though when people only get such low pay. 20,000-42,000 rubles/month is extreme poverty. The higher earners are only getting $469/month. In the US, you're looking at $5000-$6000 per month for median household incomes. It's not even close no matter how you manipulate the numbers. I've lived all over both Nations and can tell you firsthand the differences are striking.
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Russia's economy always sucks, so they're used to suffering. The misery index barely registers when external sanctions are applied. Russians take pride in their ability to suffer. They don't respond to economic forces the way Europeans do. 2 different worlds...
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@thegoat11111 The US invented drone warfare and has so many layers of UAS that most military personnel in the US aren’t aware of 75% of them. Marylin Monroe worked in a drone factory during WWII, just to give you an idea of how long we’ve been at this game.
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You have to realize that information flow in Russia is like another planet compared to the West. Most Russians don't listen to, nor have they ever heard a perspective outside of what's told to them, and they don't care because to them, they're the biggest country in the world, better than the rest. First in space, best scientists, best military machines, best soldiers, best Kalashnikov, best fighters, best everything. Outside information is unreliable, propaganda, can't be correct for it only rolls of the devil's tongue. They see the world much differently.
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All I've seen are worse men in Russia who would follow Putin.
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@PandemoniumMeltDown Weird, because I've actually lived all over Russia. A thing about Russians is they are not political, because anyone speaking off-script than the Tsar...disappears. They killed 9 journalists that year I was there. Westerners don't understand much about Russia at all, other than they don't get along with any of their neighbors that well, and are a cruel people.
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 @HamptonGuitars You've seen media talking heads in the US rabidly calling for bombing other nation capitols and putting drones down their throats?
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 @ttexastt Makes you wonder why Putin paid $363 million into Clinton Global Initiative to gain access to Uranium in the US & Canada. Remember Uranium One?
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@michaelbee2165 Russia never really could integrate with the West though because of geography, climate, and infrastructure. They never had the infrastructure to support mass distribution of materials to Western markets, and still don't because literally none of their sea ports will allow heavy displacement freight ships. That means not only do shipping companies have to travel farther to Primorsk and ports within the Black Sea, but they aren't able to realize much profit due to the logistics associated with having to offload freight from mid-sized ships to heavy displacement vessels. When it comes to rail lines, their rail width is larger/wider than Western European rails, so they're not compatible. This would require more effort to offload rail freight at hubs, which substantially increases costs. Finland is one of the only nations with Russian rail standard, since the Russian Governor of Finland in the 1860s oversaw the construction of Russian railroads there when Finland was a Grand Duchy of Russia. One thing you'll learn about Russia is that any time their national leadership tried to adopt Western reforms, it got dicey. Peter the Great was the only one who really successfully adopted Western technology and ideas to improve Russia without being seen as weak, but he also relocated the capital into Finnic areas on the Baltic. Katherine the Great started out open to Western European reforms, which backfired on her, so she reversed course and cracked down to the latter half of her long rule, resulting in one of the most stable times in Russian history. Gorbachev was a reformer, which triggered a 2nd time of troubles in Russian history where everything fell apart during the Yeltsin years. So from the Russian perspective, they are extremely averse to Western reforms for very valid reasons. The only worse leadership experiences they have had than the 1990s were the abdication of the throne by Nicholas II during The Great War, and the Time of Troubles from 1598-1613, with the death of Fyodr I, the invasion of Polish-Lithuanians, a famine that killed 1/3 of Russia, anarchy, regional eruptions of rebellions, and an end to the Rurik dynasty. From the Russian perspective, Putin was a godsend who pulled them out of the disaster of the 1990s. From the Western perspective, Putin looks like an adventurous dictator needlessly seeking power to stroke his ego. It's far more complex than that, but people aren't even familiar with the geography or basic history of the region, so they will believe whatever they are told by the dominant media in their sphere of influence. Russians are rallying behind their strong leader. Europe is rallying behind Ukraine because they see a people who want independence from an aggressive and bullying authoritarian regime.
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@michaelbee2165 It's very simple why they didn't demand elections, and then formally elected Putin later in 2000. Russians feel secure under a strong leader who represents Russia's interests. They feel very insecure with reformers, who historically have sent Russia into chaos. Chaos meant famine, multi-front defensive wars, imposter heirs claiming the throne, and millions of people dying. The 1990s was mainly an economic and intellectual loss for them, along with collapsing as losers of the Cold War and all their peripheral buffer nations bailing on them. It was extremely depressing for them. Along comes a Deputy PM who went scorched earth on the Chechens, and a spark of hope lit up among the Russian people. When Yeltsin announced his abrupt retirement and succession of Vladimir Putin, it was exhilarating for Russians, who historically have been used to strong Czars or Soviet Premiers running the show, not weak reformers. The change in Russian outlook for the future was better than any time since the 1970s. They suffered through the Soviet-Afghan War in the 1980s, the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, the economic troubles and shortages, then dissolution of the Soviet Union with SSR after SSR formally leaving from 1989-1991. These were devastating blows culturally, militarily, economically, and politically. This is why Putin is seen as a Czarist-like savior figure, bringing back a new era of Russian greatness (regardless of the fact the Soviet collapse is still in-motion).
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@michaelbee2165 1st Gen oligarchs were senior KGB who knew Russia's industries. They put Putin into power to save Russia from chaos, but underestimated how well they chose as he arrested, exiled, or executed them. Then he installed new Oligarchs over the major industries, who all owe their allegiance to him. This put him firmly in control as an authoritarian with the power to get Russia back on-track. Unfortunately, that means re-taking Ukraine, Romania Bulgaria, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland. Zelensky delayed or possibly prevented those latter invasions by 3-7 years, and now with unforseen attrition of Russian soldiers, it reduces his ability to execute the invasion of Poland, the Baltics, and Finland.
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@oldtobyleaf They don't typically go into chaos from a strongman leader. It has only followed weak leaders like Fyodr I, abdication of Nicholas II, Lenin, and Gorbachev. Weak leaders are followed with other weak leaders, then a strongman comes back and whips them back into shape (Romanovs, Stalin, Putin).
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@PandemoniumMeltDown You know that buddhisma was a shell company for Putin's money laundering and it was run by Russian separatist Zlochevsky. Hunter was being paid $87,000/month on the board of Burisma.
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@PD-yd3fr The last person who wants to find out whether or not Russia's nukes work is Putin. His generals told them they would have killed him in 72 hours. These are the same experts who tell him that the nukes are working fine.
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Sadly, many brains are damaged in utero in Russia, causing fetal alcohol syndrome for life. Lots of smooth-textured brains that can't process much info beyond what Russia One barks at them.
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 @Mosz EU has been a failed experiment. I'm surprised it lasted this long.
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@Allah_the_molester Trump's energy policy was helping the US and Canada and pushed the value of oil/NG way down, which undercut Putin's ability to shore up his military for all his planned invasions. Biden has been on Russian payroll since 1972. First thing Biden did was kill the US-Canadian Keystone Pipeline and pull drilling permits from dozens of US drillers in Alaska and Gulf of Mexico, sending the price of oil to over $100/bbl to support Putin's military build-up and the Russian economy.
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@Lassemalten Almost all my money in Russia was spent on food. I like their black bread, borshch, pelmeni, and ice cream. We make borshch every now and then. I just wish there was a source for that black bread.
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@kasperiization Russia started with strategic encirclement of Ukraine and now they're on their heels in Donbas and Crimea, with multiple oil refineries deep inside of Russia on fire. Putin was promised Kiev by the Generals in 3 days. These are the same generals that tell him the nukes are all working fine.
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