Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "Russia’s David vs Ukraine’s Goliath? Manpower woes explained." video.

The "Russian army" and "skill" doesn't mix that well togheter. Its like oil and water.
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@VashtheStampede007 It is. Read the Lissabon treaty
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I think that the south will be better terrain for Russia since there are a railroad there and less muddy terrain - which will benefit tank warfare. However. Tanks are worthless without supplies. And with Rangers and special forces behind enemy lines attacking supply trucks will all Russian tank offensives get destroyed. The mud will last for some time - which is not good for the attacking Russians. And to make matters worse will spring mean more green forests and bushes for Rangers to hide in and more positions are available for making ambushes, and it will become easier to get closer to the Russian forces without being discovered. And replacement tanks will also have lower quality than the lost Russian tanks. And the Ukrainians have probably now gotten more experienced with their anti-tank weapons and could now employ them more deadly and with less losses for themselves. And against outdated Russian armor will their effect be devestating. However Ukraines forces have not had a rest for a while - maybe they will in the coming two, three weeks. But if the war lasts longer they will become a bit exhausted. That might be true for Russia as well. But Russia got large manpower reserves in their conscripts, mercenaries and Belarussians.
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@Din0za "You may believe that WW2 was won by a mass assault and extreme casualties from Soviet Union, but that's just fake news." Maybe according to the science fiction books you read in Russia. Other people read books based on collected hard data such as "The battle at Kursk in 1943" by Zetterling, where on can read how increadibly incompetent the Red army and suffering from gigantic losses for themselves while inflicting minimal losses to the Germans. So yes the red army was worthless. The Red army also humiliated themselves against the finns as well.
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@Din0za "Do not confuse incompetence of the commanding officers with the skills of the soldiers actually following orders." The Russian soldiers are unskilled as you see from this video from the war in Ukraine https://youtu.be/4Lpf_KsFYg8 Russian troops lacks the ability to take own iniativies. It lacks dicipline - as the mass rapes in Germany in 1945 shows. And Russian soldiers are also generally lacking motivation to fight - and data shows that Soviet WW2 soldiers were the ones most likely to surrender compared to German, British and American troops
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@Mexicanj0ker2 "try fighting over 6 million German troops then talk, the US and UK encountered bare minimum of the Wehrmacht in France, Italy and Africa, 96% of German casualties came from the Eastern front. Talk when you don't have only 7-10 German garrisons stationed in France when Russia destroyed over 230-300 German divisions." We all know that Russia only won the war because of help from USA - just the same way as Russia is losing the war in Ukraine because of the help USA have sent 😂😝 According to Russian propaganda it is impossible to win when you get backing from USA. The loss in Ukraine got nothing to do with Russian incompetence and skillful defence of Ukrainians or anything 🤣😂🤣
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@Mexicanj0ker2 "the only thing USA sent the most was blankets" You really need to look up lend lease. You clearly got no clue what you are talking about. 😂 Try to read an American or west European books instead of the Sci-fic books you got in your Russian library.
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@pasindupereraSL This worthless plan of yours did not stop the Russians from invading Ukraine. Germanys strong economic ties with Russia did not prevent this war. How many more proofs do you need that trade does not prevent wars? Thousands of civil wars have been fought between people who use the same currency. Take those liberal garbage ideas and throw them into the dustbin of history and stop waste other peoples time with this idiotic nonsense.
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Russia got a strange worldview on everything. I don't know why. Maybe too much vodka have killed braincells... They call everyone else fascists but are the biggest fascists themselves. They say they are winning despite they are losing terrain, losing disproportionally heavy losses, and got the international community against themselves. And the only way to pretend they have global support are Putin trolls pretending to be Americans, or Indians saying they support Putinland.
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War is, and never has been about cost effiecency. It is about winning.
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It was Putins plan all along to have 7 Generals killed in a month and leaving hundreds of vehicles in the mud so that our enemies could take them. Then the Ukrainians would be fooled to underestimate us 😂 Truth is that Russia come closer to victory for each day. Putin is playing 5D chess and have outsmarted the entire western world. 😂
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@lightenergyfractoid5675 Here are some Generals claimed to be dead https://youtu.be/qs0UPsI3WuU Now where are the public appearances?
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Russia started this war with a numerical advantage and with help from Belarus. However losses have been significant and the mobilization is putting more Ukrainians in the field. Logistical issues and mud have prevented Russia from capitalize on its advantage of professional troops and material superiority. Ukraines surprisingly determined defence and its skillful professionalism in ambushes and Ranger warfare behind enemy lines attacking supply trucks have also been significant. Western anti-tank missiles and the failed Russian air superioty are also significant game changers. Russian numerical superiority or not will I say that a long war will be a tough campaign for Russia. 100-200k extra conscripts will not replace the loss of professional soldiers. Crappy unupgraded Russian tanks cannot replace the 370 or 600 or so tanks lost which were upgraded and the best Russia had. Conquered equipment have further contributed so change of balance of power here. I think Russia can accept more losses, and Putin wants to save face and his own career. So losing the war is unacceptable to him. The problem however is that more Russian tanks and men thrown into battle will likely not solve anything. Its one thing to mobilize a new army, and its another thing to equip it. And if logistics and maintance was terrible in the army he sent into Ukraine in the end of february - then wait until you see the underequipped demotivated conscript junk army he have called in to replace it. And if logistics was a problem for the old army, then adding the problems with an additional new army and even crappier equipment will only make bad things worse. Ukrainians are more determined to fight than ever. Emboldened by their success and their hatred of Russian warcrimes will make surrender unthinkable to them. And as I said earlier, green forests will create more hideouts for Ukrainian Rangers and special forces to cause devestation behind enemy lines. And the further back behind enemy lines - the less counter fire from the Russians will there be. And if Ukrainian propaganda is true that much long range SAMs have been stolen from the Russians then I think odds have become even more even in the material sense. Sanctions on Russia have made reparing damaged vehicles impossible and harm Russias economic ability to fight a long war as well as creating problems at maintaining public support for the war. In itself this is perhaps much of a problem, but if Russia continues to humiliate itself, suffer heavy losses and got no major successes to show for it - then Putin will have reason to fear the survival of his regime. It remains to be seen how far the west is willing to go to defend Ukraine. Sending MLRS from Britain is probably the furthest step I know of so far. However cutting off trade with oil and gas completly is not a step EU or Russia seems likely to wanna take as it would likely mean mutually assured destruction of each others economy. Think of the oil price shock of 1973 hitting Europe again. With massive inflation, unemployment, falling GDP and global economic economic crash that will follow. Inflation goes up and so does interest rates and unemployment. Overindebted households cannot pay their debts and lose their homes. Higher interest rates also means less money over for consumption, which means less sales for companies, lower profits and companies are forced to fire workers. Stupid Germany have painted itself into a corner, and it will take at least 10-15 years before Germany and Italy get rid of their energy independence on Russia.
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lee bolton Everything that isn't Russian propaganda lies, are propaganda according to you. That is what happens when one listen too much Kreml nonsense - you can get permanent brain damages.
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Those helicopters destroyed a fuel storage in Russia! Help we need to defend our homeland! Ukraine is about our homeland, The warmongering Ukraine tries to attack the 3 times larger Russia because the leader is a crazy nazi who wants to take world domination!
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About 20-25% of the invasion force was conscripts. On twitter one can see that a new secret mobilization order have gone out. The plan is that conscripts will fill out the gaps of all the men which had been lost so far, and on april 11th those conscripts will reach the frontline. Putin is probably making a 2nd attempt by late april to start a major offensive to try to turn the tide of the war. Personally I think its doomed to fail. Badly trained, badly motivated conscripts with weapons that has no maintance will not work well.
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