Comments by "Mitch Young" (@mitchyoung93) on "Paul Warburg" channel.

The first Russian railroad across Siberian was built in Imperial times, no Stalin involved. You might have heard of it, the Trans-Siberian railroad. And just like our transcontinental railroad, is simply a straight shot across the continent. The last one, the BAM (Baikal--Amur mainline or magistral) was built by Kosomol recruits, sort of.a giant Civilian Conservation Core type project. Again, no Stalin or forced labor involved. If anything Gulag labor was used to build the Soviet/Russian canal system.
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@artemidealmeriabaraldi Went pro-Western in 2018 and lost one of their traditional heartlands.
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Your cousin should have minded his own business. It's bad enough that he had to participate in two US invasions of sovereign countries that didn't want us there...but at least he was 'following orders'. But he decided to inject himself into what is at least part, and definitely started as, a civil war. RIP but there are consequences for actions.
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The amount this guy doesn't know about the Russian federation, if turned into drops of water, would fill Lake Baikal. Let's for example compare one of the people that Russians 'brutally' conquered, the Sakha or Yakut...with say, the Navaho. The Sakha have their own republic, their language is thriving and is co-official with Russian, they have their own film industry, they have high wages due to mining of silver and diamonds and other things. It would be as if Arizona was co-extensive with the Navaho reservation, Navaho was co-official with English as the state language, there were several Navaho language short and full length films coming out every year. As a side a Sakha/Yakut soldier recently went viral because he was in a brutal hand-to-hand combat with a Ukrainian soldier which ended sadly but also with a bit of Russian language camaraderie. The Sakha, or Yakut, soldier served his contract and is now safely back home. The Ukrainian is in Valhalla. Anyone really interested in these things can follow Maria from Yakutia or Kiun B right here. Anyone more interested in the ethnic Russians in Siberia as a whole (the vast majority of the Siberian population), can take a look at Matt and Julia, a channel again right here on YT. I don't expect anyone to, though.
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Dude, you did the same video four months ago...how long is 'immanent'?
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@GloriaHoulihan Russia expanded its thermo-electric plant in Kaliningrad in 2020, and built an LNG terminal there in the same year. It has in fact been preparing for being separated from the Russia power grid for five years (the Baltics, despite their rhetoric, took their sweet time). Meanwhile, Euronews reports that in Estonia "From €126 per MWh last week, the new average electricity price will be €191 per MWh, a high for 2025 so far." David O'Sullivan "Electricity Prices rise in Estonia after cut from Russian power grid". 12-02-2025 (euro style date format). Georgian Dream is firmly entrenched, they rode out the NGO-inspired riots, and the country is more Russia inclined than anytime since 2008. Transnistria could indeed be a problem, but I think Azerbaijan will get over the airplane incident. Chechens are active, for the Federation, in the Kursk sector.
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Millions of Russians have returned, plus at least two million people from the Ukraine sought refuge in Russia.
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@lg2058 Finally someone who knows history.
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@phild3936 Most of what the USSR grabbed under Stalin* was given to the Ukraine, with a bit to Belorus and Moldava. *Stalin wasn't Russian.
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The best thing about this video is that it inadvertently shows the total hypocrisy of the Baltics...almost three years into this war and them yipping their little Pomeranian heads off and they were still getting electricity from Russia. It also shows that the Soviets, and indeed even the Russian empire, developed these 'states'. As for any fantasy about independence, it pays to look at what Kaliningrad is...basically a northern Crimea. A large military base. It is full of Russians who are proud and firmly Russians. I have seen several videos on the right wing/imperial nostalgist militias in the territory. Add to that the, uh, restructuring of our (US of A) color revolution agency that's been in the news of late, and I think that Kaliningrad will be firmly Russian for a while.
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@AndrewTimir The Sakha Republic (Yakutia) doesn't share a border with South Korea. And most Sakha refer to themselves as Sakha, not Yakut. I think you are full being very imaginative. And even if that is not the case, there are other Sakha that seem fine with taking the money and fighting, like the guy that got into the knife fight with the Ukrainian in the video that surfaced recently.
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@proudtitanicdenier4300 Reagan negotiated with Gorbachev while the Soviet Union was in Afghanistan. In fact visited Moscow and had the Gorbachevs to the White House. He always sought peace as well as preparing for war. Since 1995 or so we have forgotten the first part.
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Dude, there are plenty of old Ukrainian men on the front lines. Particularly members of the territorial defense units which tend to be used to plug holes in the line. And no, Russia doesn't send thousands upon thousands of soldiers to take an objective. They send squad size units. Sometimes two or three of four of even five sequentially. Eventually an intact squad gets thru. Thus they inch their way forward until they get within artillery, and particularly TOS thermobaric weapon, range. And then it's game over for the Ukrainian position.
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@wbytb Very few Russians want to be Polish, even if only in citizenship.
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Putin is a moderate.
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@agripparapax3865 Zelensky is first and foremost an actor and show biz tycoon. He probably believes his own scripts.
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@lenakarlova7664 Much of what you say is true. But the Ukraine had fully recovered from the so called Golodomor by the end of the Soviet era. In fact there were never as many people in the Ukraine as at the end of that era. And it isn't because Russians settled there .. although some did, as perhaps reflected in your name.
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Things aren't looking too good for the "Ukrainians" right now. They are losing part of their alleged territory every day. They are especially having problems with manpower as many of the really enthusiastic nationalists, to say it gently, out of commission. Perhaps dear Mr. Warburg (love the name) you should volunteer for the front.
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@Digmen1 Latvia and Lithuania are hemorrhaging people as is. Their governments may not like the Russians (actually many are Belarusian and even 'Ukrainian' in origin), but they still do jobs and pay taxes.
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@andriidubinin955 There is another "Please Tsar Peter, save us from the Poles!"
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In December the Russian Rubble was bouncing around between 105-100 to 1 USD. It went as low as 113 to a USD. Since the beginning of January is about 100 to a USD.
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@ekbold-k4j Nope. The trouble started with the failed (counter)offensive of 2023.
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@JayDeeChannel We are at near full employment. Better to me making wind turbines or high speed rail tracks than 155 shells that are spent in a losing cause anyway.
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You Brits are the worst...you think you still have an empire while ethnic Englishmen and women are a minority in your own capital.
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@paulmakinson1965 Russia literally created Finland. They should get it back!
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@petergaffney4915 You realize that the Ukrainian state is holding men from 18-60 prisoner within its borders, right? You realize that daily there are fights with between young(ish) Ukrainian men and the TCKniky ... the Ukrainian government's press gangs that send guys to the front. You realize that nightly in the Ukraine there are TCK vehicles and/or offices torched. Many people in the Ukraine want no part of defending this Kievan state.
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@wbytb Very few Russians want to be Polish, even if only in citizenship.
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 @michaelpettersson4919 The Ukrainians could have had peace in 2016 or April 2022 with some very reasonable concessions
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I saw a young Russian woman get a food delivery via a robot, not in Moscow or St. Petersburg, but in Krasnodar.
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 @joannebooth640 The irony of a Brit saying the Russians are ignorant of economics is too delicious
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For the US military it is more like 9.
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@chipsatterly4902 No, not before this phase of the war and definitely not now. Realistic estimate of the Ukrainian population put it at about 26 million from about 40 million in the mid 2010s. Of course it's hard to tell because the Ukrainian state hasn't been able to take a census since 2001 (and thats not due to the Russians...they were supposed to have one in 2011 long before relations really went south).
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How is Yuzhmash (or Pivdenmash, LOL) doing? BTW In mid December 2024 the ruble was hovering between 105-110 to 1 USD. Today, 11 Feb 2025 it is at 96.5 , despite the Russian Central Bank resuming the purchase of foreign currencies.
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@Bareego The only thing Yeltsin realized was when he was out of vodka.
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Somehow the US lasted from 1776 until 1991 without an independent Ukraine. In fact, the eastern part of what is now called "Ukraine" joined Russia before Georgia (ours) was even a colony.
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