Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "True state of Ukraine's military today" video.
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I don't know any other country in history that war after war lose its way towards victory. Russia became a great power during the Great Northern war - a war in which they lost battle after battle despite outnumbering their enemy 3 to 1, and suffered disprortionally heavy losses, and yet they came out winning.
Russia a few years later also lost hundreds of thousands of men fighting Ottomans and Persians and won.
For most other 18th century powers would such losses be unbareable.. Prussia or Sweden could not afford to lose that many men in a single campaign.
The Napoleonic wars meant scorched earth policies and more lands were sacrificed to the enemy than any other country could afford doing. No other country would be willing to burn down so many of its own villages as Russia.
But victory came, but at a high cost.
So the Russians can win wars despite being ineffective and incompetent in combat.
The crimean war was the result of the usual Russian aggression we see throughout history, and the countrys leader throw Russia into a war with troops with outdated equipment and took heavy losses as a result and the war gave Russia nothing aside from lots of death and suffering.
The Russo-japanese war showed that Russia was not so brilliant at war - a great power lost against a developing country in Asia. The first world war was mostly caused by the Russian Tsar. And despite having gigantic manpower reserves (26 million) compared to other countries, where the country with the 2nd largest was Germany with 6 million... so was Russia unable to perform well in this war.
Russias industrial base was once again too weak - just like in the Crimean war - and many soldiers did not even have rifles so they had to attack German lines without weapons and take up the rifle of a dead comrade if they wanted to fight - just like in the movie enemy at the gates. Russian troops came from such a backward and barbaric country that they thought that evil spirits killed men after Germany had bombared their lines with poison gas.
And the Russian artillery lacked artillery shells and German artillery got a larger ration of shells in half a week than Russian artillery got in an entire month... so after 1915 would Russian guns almost fall silent because they lacked ammunition. So now could those Russian soldiers with few rifles not even get any help from cannons.
But Russias leaders did still not give up. Instead were millions of men sacrificed and the war was later on lost for Russia.
The next fiasco was the Russian invasion of Poland. Russia and Japan fought a war which it for once managed to win, but only thanks to superior numbers and fighting against a 3rd world country with a very limited supply of heavy weapons.
Russia would then go on with invading Finland in 1939 a suffering humiliating heavy losses despite fighting against the poorest country in Europe with an enormous numerical superiority and massive numbers of tanks and planes. While the Finns started the war with no real tanks at all.
The war against Germany led to the most catastrophic losses any country in history has ever suffered in war. Russia lost millions of men. The worlds largest airforce was wiped out in the first 2 weeks of the war. Russia lost more tanks in 1941 than most countries in the world had combined.
The Russian army was ineffective and incompetent. And it won only thanks to its numerical superiority. Germany had no oil, no lend lease, no war at only 1 front but instead it had a 5 front war (in Africa, in the west, in the east, in the skies, and in the seas). Once again could Russia win a war despite suffering gigantic losses compared to its enemy.
Russia would later on once again show its military ineffectivness in Afghanistan and Chechenya - wars which it lost.
So Russia is one of the shittiest countries when it comes military competence. And its logistical system is just a mess.. and when you see tankers going out on the countryside and begging for fuel you begin to wonder if Russian logistics exist at all.
If any other country would try the Russian way of war it would quickly bleed to death and lose the conflict.
I consider the Russian military to be the most overly hyped force in the world. Especially after the end of the cold war. Russia is a country with a GDP the size of Spain and its technologically backwards compared to the west.
If it didn't have nukes I don't think that other countries would be afraid of going to war with it and giving it a bloody nose. And as the barbaric evil bully throughout history, it really deserves some hard spanking.
Russia is in a decline. Populationwise and otherwise.
And without manpower is the Russian way of war doomed. And without its military power is Russia nothing.
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