Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "Soviet Economist Leads the New u0026 Future Russia" video.

  1. It will not matter what he do. The russian economy could not bring a victory against such a big and powerful alliance. Taxes transfers resources from the private sector to the government. And even if russia taxed the civilian sector at 100% would it still not be enough resources. And this transfer of resources will of course create inblances with growing productivity in the military sector and lower productivity and higher prices and inflation in the civilian sector. Add to that all dead young men this war creates. Productivity levels and population levels will fall, which will result in a GDP drop. Shortages and bottle necks of stuffs will cause rising inflation. Lack of semiconductors, lack of foreign currency will cause problems. And russia no longer have the know-how how to make many advanced weapons systems like it had back in soviet days like AWACS planes
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  2. Its not just that they are old, Putin lives in the past... being angry about the fall of the Soviet union and wants revenge for that. He romanticise Peter the Great and wanna be the new Peter for Russia. Indeed, Tuckers interview even suggest that he dreams back to the age of Kievan-Rus 1200 years ago. Or rather his own distorted view of russian history that makes no sense at all. He told so many lies that it would surprise me if he hadn't begun believing in his own BS.
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  3. Russia will never become an east-asian miracle economy, and especially not in times of war. And all ridiculous talk about BRICS being their ally (which they are not) are they still a minority of the world economy while west still controls 60% of it. And some countries that are not western or BRICS do also control some portions of the world economy as well. Regardless I think the russian government is not dumb enough to believe its own silly propaganda that is created to appeal to simpletons. Their goal is wage a succesful war economy. And I do not think that will succeed as they run low on good microchips and foreign currency reserves that will allow them to buy stuff from other countries. They are already rather bring back old garbage tanks like T-62 to life rather than building modern T-90 tanks. And I think that says a lot about russias lack of manufacturing capabilities. And when russia lose as much manpower in the last 5 days as they lost in 10 years of war in Afghanistan, then I think they are burning through Soviet stockpiles at such a fast rate that manufacturing cannot keep up and replace all losses of equipment. There are of course stuff the west needs to do to harm russia even more. We should put pressure on Turkey so they stop providing 70% of russias nitrocellulose they need for explosives. Before the war did Turkey only make up 1% of that export to Russia. And China should be aware of that any aid to russia will be punished very hard with sanctions from Europe. If things continue on the current path do things not look good for russia. By 2025 will west outproduce russia in artillery shells. And in better quality of artillery. From that moment onwards will Ukraine be able compensate a lack of manpower with superior fire power. And that advantage will only grew more and more. And that will mean lower Ukrainian losses and higher russian losses. And Ukraine could start trading artillery shells for land and take back its territory.
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