How NATO & Russia are Preparing to Fight Total War
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Ain’t reading allat bro
@@tombo416lazy?
American money should stay in America!!! Foreign aid is taxation without representation!!!
American money should stay in America!!! Foreign aid is taxation without representation!!!
What are you doing in an hour long video if you cant read@@tombo416
as a Pole I would very much like to stop living through historically significant events in my lifetime, thanks
same
i am 70 percent worried but 160 percent more trilled to see where all this goes
Try to ask ur goverment to unblock borders so war does not come to your country
*Article five NATO meme intensifies.*
Facts, get over it
I think I like major historical events more when they are in a history book, not in my lifetime
This reality is the direct result of decades of neocon foreign policy disrespecting and using other nations as pawns. It didn't have to be this way, this would have never happened if Trump was elected. Love him or hate him, a strong American leader is the best determent. A demented American leader is an invitation for chaos. How this is so difficult to understand to the majority of America shows how low information our voters are.
Same
History is being made everyday my guy. Thats how its always been.
@@chargedbowl fine in that case I think this can also be understand as major historical events, threatening major escalation in conflict. That would do just fine I think.
@@chargedbowldude its a joke go home
as a lithuanian - it’s hard not to think about the war. even at a school concert for mother’s day you hear songs about peace and wishing to grow up without war
i hope putin stopped and never touch lithuania estonia and latvia
We stand with the baltics, Its more likely if war was to break out putin would delegate Belarus to do it, in which case nato would have your back
You want peace, yet your government is fueling the war and provoking? Sorry, you have to pick one.
Whelp, i dont think baning russian cars, tv chanels and even forcing russians to leave you country really helps you a lot with this idea, imo. Like what kind of relationship you expect to achieve with those kind of actions
@@sgthope3810 We do not plan to maintain relations with terrorist Russia. Fortunately, Finland and Sweden are NATO and Königsberg is a direct target of our NATO. Europe's biggest problem is liberals, left-wing people and politicians and countries in Southern Europe, which always treat Russia like street girls. Fortunately, Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic States opened their eyes to Europe. For 30 years, we have been talking about what is Europe's biggest threat. The awakening is painful, but the killer is not to be bargained with. Today, some in Europe behave like they did in the late 1930s. Trading with the two tyrants Stalin and Hitler. This time we will not be a lamb on the altar of your comfort and peace.
Quality of life is dropping, the economy is in a constant recession, birthrates are plummeting, resource scarcity is here and colossal conventional war/s incoming. I don't want to live in interesting times.
You have no choice
@@havetodosmth Succinctly stated.
all connected when you think about it. when european/usa zionist puppets push poverty on you, you will be forced to risk your life.
It's all planned. We are the carbon they want to reduce. I never would have thought the primary opposition to a global Communist government would be Russia.
If this war continues, I might have to step in and tell Putin to stop
Do it !!
NATO shitting their pants when Jeyakaran steps in 💯🔥
What will you do?
Oh no 😟 not Jeyakaran-ir9nb 😱😱
What should russia feel about this statement?
Watching from Poland thinking “ah yes I’ve seen this movie before”
This time Poland is well prepered and in alliance with a serious ally (USA), unlike Britain and France who just watched as the Germans and Soviets invade in 1939. Greetings from Slovenia.
@@Kintabl😂 sure
@@mickpeterson3722 I mean.. all jokes aside. It's a very difficult task to be more prepared for war than to have 31 military alies, including some of the most advanced economies in the world... if sh*t happens... then sh*t happens... but objectively how can a country prepare more than what we have in 2024? The only thing left is to be a better neighbour than we were for our NATO allies. Our previous government wasn't really nice towards Germany. We need to fix that and be thankful for the the modern day cooperation. Many polish people don't want any reparations.
It's true that nazi appeasment and phony war was the worst decision of France and Britain (not the USA since they just didn't care at the time). We must not, and will not make the same mistake again. Thinking that the USA is the reliable partner right now totally eludes me. Like, did you watch the video? The USA might not respond when we need them, or be occupied in the Pacific. Europe must be ready to face the crisis alone. In the USA join in, it's better of course, but we cannot expect them.
@@kacperzimowski4626 już jesteśmy pod okupacji. co mi obchodzi czy to globusi z zachodu czy Putin z Rosji. pozatym wiadomo kto w tej wojnie jest prowokatorem
“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.” - Faramir.
Faramir, from LOTR's? You found a wonderful quote.
- Tolkien
@@makaveli_DK technically right haha
Respect for Poland deciding they ain't gonna get fucked again.
im polish and we're getting ourselves fucked by trying to fight a war that's not ours and making everyone believing in a lie that ukraine is supposedly stopping poland from being attacked, gotta be a clown to come up with it and one to believe it too. russia isn't our enemy. if our government drags us into it (Sikorski is making good progress if that name even rings a bell for you) i will buy my family a house in another country and never come back to this shithole again. With idiots like this taunting a world's largest country it can only end up badly. I'm on vacation past the arctic circle, might be a good idea to start browsing offers already lol
@htspencer9084, wrong. Poland has been doing everything possible for a very long time to ensure that it does get fucked again. As a Pole, it gives me no pleasure to write this, but you have to be special kind of stupid to provoke your neighbor in order to suck up to a guy from around the world.
They won't. They are part of NATO. Plus the Russians don't want Poland. It was a disaster the last time. That's why they ris themselves from Poland a long time ago. The Russians don't want to conquer Europe. They just don't want Nato at their doorstep. Unfortunately that's just the reality. Ukraine will be destroyed before it's allowed to enter NATO. And NATO membership would lead to WW3. Is that what you want? You got to give a little to have lasting peace.
To be fair. Last time Russia try to invade Poland, it was Russians that got fucked. (I don´t count the 1945 invasion, because poland didn´t exist in that timeframe)
They will. It is inevitable
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Dayyyyyyum. Perfect placement
Oi Oi Oi who let you cook😂
This hits different.
Fits well.
I find this Gandalf quote oddly comforting
Damn, it does feel rather uncanny to sit in a city, 30km away from Belarusian Border, casually watching a video of how your entire country would be invaded
Dont worry, no one will invade you
@@trickyr903 That was the message that everyone told Ukrainians in December 2021,and 2 years later here we are..
@@jaemate21 Yes, not two years. The invasion started within weeks. 😂 The war been going on for over two years.
Ok, don't warry, you'll still be fine@@jaemate21
@@jaemate21 no, the united states was telling Ukraine that Russians build up on its borders was for an invasion. Russia was saying it was just for a military exercise and that there would be no invasion. Ukraine believed the Russians and did not prepare. they got invaded and the rest is history.
‘at a time when he said it there were very few people who actually believed that he would ever do anything about it’ - meanwhile people from baltic states (three fucking countries) have raised this concern 20 years ago.
Even we 🇬🇧 were trying to get central Europe to listen to the Baltic States. But they - especially Germany - thought that hugs and kisses would secure European freedom forever. 🤦🏻
@@Naptosis ты не свободен сейчас? Если будешь продолжать быть фашистом-станешь не свободным.
@@Naptosis AND a hefty dose of bribes deposited in numbered accounts.
Concern that we should not try to destroy Russia, otherwise it will respond?
@@Naptosis Wasn't it like Lech Kaczyński in 2008 saying that Russia now (in 2008) Invades Georgia, next they will Invade Ukraine, next Baltic states and after that Poland itself? He was called russophobic by Western countries. Poland never forgot what Russia really is....
Thank you for covering the baltics in depth
Watching Real Life Lore videos normally: Dang, world is a crazy and complicated place. I sure love learning about it! Seeing a Real Life Lore video with my country in the thumbnail: Well fuck
Real...
Family find of mine is a nuclear strategist for nato got deployed to Latvia about 4 years ago I think this isn't far from what might happen unfortunately
exactly this is why there is war on ukrain, because people like you think they can learn something about the world on youtube, then drink cola eat hamburger... if you want learn go to school you can study all of your life if you want.
@kajelvobot Someone's grumpy and vocal about it XD what is your problem, dude?
@@kajelvobot2634i think u need to Inform urself first before spewing such garbage.
“War. War never changes.”
It does though
"War - and its consumption of life - has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed."
See you at Vault 118
War is a politic.
Was that the Vault where everyone is Robobrains ?@@Icenfyre
Lithuania is now rising initiative to give 4% of GDP to defenses
Just to make sure we will be invaded :D
Which is gonna make it to the astonishing 5 rifles produced per year
@@rokasjankevicius931 wed be invaded in ukraine loses. Russias defeat guarantees they wont do anything for the next few decades.
How the fk does it help?
@@ajantasit’s double what’s required, it’s going to help
shit went down hill after we killed harambe.
shit went downhill when we stopped sacrificing virgins to the sun gods
Apes strong together ✊
shit went down after gravity was discovered
Shit went downhill after homework was invented
Mind Begs the Question: - When Governed by Politicians - Who justify Starvation,Death Camps,Gassing/White Phosphorus,Ethnic Cleansing,etc - Governed by Righteous or Satanic?
Earlier today: Ah, yes! A new RealLifeLofe. At last, some clarity… 30 minutes later: I’m sad now.
Help Ukraine now to prevent war from spreading further into Europe
Russia being the villian of history like always.
Yep!! And that is your own fault...for taking liars and propagandists like these here serious!! It is all unfounded Russia-fobia!! They are insane!!
@@martinkoitmae6655Damn you are not very bright, little man!!😅😅😅
I mean at least there's the new congress aid pact now
Voiceover sounds like South Park version of Al Gore
General Breedlove has said that NATO's Article 5 does not require ALL the Allies. All the Allies have a bilateral agreement to defend a member that is under attack even without a majority consensus.
The people living between 1919-1939 didn't know they were living in the interwar period
At first, it was just news from far away places, riots in Spain, Japan continued to plunder land in East Asia, the French claimed that the Maginot Line was impregnable, until... no one could escape the fate of being involved.
>September 1st 1939 Hitler invades Poland >France and Britain embargo Germany and begin sending Poland tanks and artillery >By November 1941 the Bismarck was sunk by Polish coastal artillery, the German army advanced to near Warsaw before withdrawing, calling it a feint, the frontlines have remained almost static for the past year, Germany has run out of Panzer IV and IIIs and is running low on Panzer IIs, while Poland has just received new American M3 Lees
Yes they absolutely did. At least the ones who were paying attention did. Countless contemporary quotes saying the end of the Great War was more like a temporary truce than an actual ending. And it became increasingly obvious another war was coming when the National Socialists came into power considering Adolf openly outlined his plans to go east into Russia within his book. And even before then the Allies were increasingly concerned about instability in Germany.
@@hawawah8671 yes and in an alliance that surprise everyone the USSR crossed the borders and invade Poland subjugate half the country and funding Germany to their war with UK and France. Damn if I was living their I would surely realized that hell is coming.
Then again, every peace is an interwar period.
Dead men tell no tales; we are witnessing a rise in the number of wars around the world as the survivors of world wars are gone, leaving us to grasp the horrors.
Not really, lets look at 1980-1990, we have Soviet-Afghan War Iran-Iraq War Salvadoran Civil War Eritrean Civil War Falklands War Israeli Invasion of Lebanon First Intifada Sri Lankan Civil War US Invasion of Grenada US Invasion of Panama Yemeni Civil War The Iran-Iraq War dwarfs any of the ongoing wars in terms of scale and casualties, with 1-2 million casualties, and it isn't like anyone learned lessons or anything since within a year of it ending we had the First Gulf War, not to mention that in the late 90s and early 2000s the Congolese Civil War killed over 5 million people.
You are only noticing it now because it’s on your doorstep, enjoy. We the global south has been suffering all these times alone, welcome to the club 😊
Good guy Russia trying to prevent that by creating countless victims of war that can tell their sad tales. Its an all misunderstood invasion of world peace. Putin is basically Jesus hahaha
Lol
Who deleted my sarcastic comment? shameful display
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2040">34:00</a> some of the reason for not spending so much is to play down potential escalation and conflict. In hindsight you could always say it was a bad idea. I have to say overall this video is very well made with a lot of good research done! It also highlights a lot of "good things". Great job!
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2287">38:07</a> Poland out here getting PTSD 💀
I'm on the other side of the world. I feel you E.U. nation. I live in the Philippines and we face china's aggression at the sea everyday, inch by inch they are slowly encroaching our sovereignty. 🇵🇭🇪🇺
I wish you best of luck phillipines, don't let china bully you out of your own water!
Hello from Europe, a few days ago I was thinking about places to go in case a war erupts. Thought about Asia and realized there are lots of countries in the same situation, like your country or Taiwan or South Korea. I don't get it, almost all people on this planet just want to live a peaceful life and have a BBQ with their friends in the evening. But there are some individuals that call themselves "leaders" and make people fight and die for their interests.
what the fk is EU nation? EU is not a nation, it is a dictatorship conglamerate built on top of 20 small countries, that steals money and freedom
This whole thing affects everyone globally direct or indirectly, even from an Asian perspective.
@@diecksl Sadly bruh ur logic doesn't fit here... U can't amass 30K troops for years if they don't want...They know they will eventually die there or atleast many of them... Then why don't they raise their voice against those leaders... So it's not about leaders it's about people... Leaders are born from people... U have to win the narrative battle in todays world.. And u can't win that when u will give platforms to core Hamas and khomeinei sympathizers in ur country..
Nuclear weapons meant in 1962: Mutual assured destruction 2024: Mutual assured deny of mutual assured destruction. Back to conventional warfare. Fuck.
It's ironic at it's finest, war is happening because people don't want to have a nuke war. Funny how a few years ago nukes prevented wars
Better than the alternative. But not by much.
I don’t normally thumbs up profanity…. But I have to agree. But then I read how destructive war were in the past with just swards, slings, and spears……. Yea. How has humanity avoided extinction?
@@equargwho gives a fuck what you thumbs up bro. If you are offended by reading profanity and feel the need to comment on it you must have not lived in the real world yet. Good lord grow up.
Nato Just attacked Iran
I’m guessing this dude made the whole video from a few articles he read.
Articles of doubtful quality too.
Apparently only 21 of us agree lol a little light
true, just a clickbait video...
Just 1 possible reality based on somewhat easily available information.
He needs to feed himself and his family I guess and making funny titles for the videos works
As a Pole I would like to not to be on the frontier of ww3, but I'm ready.
Have fun defending a country (that probably never did anything for you, but maybe I'm projecting) that is in bed with the biggest crooks that have been making bigger and bigger wealth transfers every year for the past few. Czyli ogólnie szczęścia i pomyślności życzę
Worry, but not too much. At least this time you won't have to fight on two sides.
Are you, aye.
@@davidcampbell3642well I mean they don’t have a choice so they may as well be ready
you may end up on the front but while you you'd expect to march east you may be marching west
I miss when you used to talk about walking long distances.
Yes finally someone else 😭
@@hihellohi5714 Trueeee, now it's all politics
@@liternixsorry there's not enough distracting entertainment for you in the middle of two impending catalysts of world wars 😢
@@tupactheory3739 calm down
@@liternix look at buddy liking his own comments :)
a foreign state being taken over really hits different when ur just 3 or 4 countries away..
I'm in the US and a big history nerd, it's still shocking for me here. Insane to think of a major war in Europe
America is the destroyer of the world
I also live in the US and enjoy learning about history which isn't that surprising considering this is an English speaking history channel. While europe is very far away in distance, society, people, and culture are very similar for the most part. Many of us in the us support europe. My fear is that the west no longer has the balls to stand up to russia. We've gotten comfortable which led to us getting soft.
@PiousFem6 really? Russia has made it pretty obvious for more than 10 years now. Wars don't start suddenly, they build up. Their "mini" invasions like taking over Georgia, majorly alarmed me at the time, and then when I saw no response, it was clear that things would only escalate. The idea that this video only talks about using 3% of these countries budgets, when they should be closer to 10% to deter or prepare for war says it all. The EU was at stake the second Russian troops stepped out of Russia. History makes that very very obvious.
on behalf of the entire middle east and africa, you learn to get used to it , have fun
What an amazing analysis. Well done
super interesting, thank you for this !!!
Unlike many other countries, right now, Poland looks to be the most reliable NATO country to stand up to Russia that has a large enough military to put up a good fight.
a nation with little population wow you are an idiout
Absolutely. And if Russia attacks Poland, it's on... US, Germany, UK, France (maybe) and now Sweden and Norway will come to aid Poland. Possibly even India. Only thing is you know China, North Korea, Belarus, and more Russian allies will back Russia. It would be the biggest and truest World War that we've ever seen.
Thanks from Germany. My country said it will spend more money, but I dont think they are serious enough about it. Time will tell. Nato will gear up. Putin will never fight on Nato Ground. He wouldnt stand any chance in a conventional war. But, we dont know what his last resort is. So NATO states better wake up
youre safe dude. there is 0% chance of russia attacking poland.
Poland finland and sweden pose a significant challenge however this point Russians are battle harden while others are amateurs
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="988">16:28</a> Bro on the right saw the opportunity and took it lol. Sincerely hope he got away 😂😭
I respect the gambit
this is when having practiced parkour will pay off!
I mean its stock footage so there was probably gonna be something like that which would show up
Nato just attacked Iran
He is fucked ngl
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2012">33:32</a> : the countries in green is all close to Russia and they ain't taking any chances 💀💀💀💀💀
as a 18 year old lithuanian im already getting ads about going to the army i was already planning to go (im dumb asf this is my only option) but shiiiii
Meanwhile.... Military Industries laughs and plots for more tension 😞
Thankfully yes 🙏🙏🙏
which hooknosed tribe owns military industries?
The only one creating tension is putin
as a lithuanian, i would very much like history happening in books, not in my lifetime
Not a single human in human history missed humand history. Stupid idea.
did still in Lituania cant buy bread if spoke RUSSIAN ?? or that is ''lie'' putin propaganda''
@@bartsimpson8616 they lie, people freely can speak russian or any language they like. Its The support of russian invasion is what is frowned upon. Lithuania is a free country.
As a ukrainian who currently in Saint Petersburg, I heavily agree with you
прибалтика уже выписала себе приговор
Hits different when you see your country in a RealLifeLore thumbnail
Bro imagine us who live in Ukraine and Russia right now. We are almost in every rll video :(
@@max_me_isbro that's so truuuee
@@max_me_isso true
I want a RealLifeLore video about my country ! But probably wont happen with little boring Denmark 😔
@@Rune__ oh bro, I dont think you'll want. Trust me, I'm Ukrainian
Im Lithuanian, cant wait to have a sabaton song about us ❤
fr, the new songs will bi lit
How the fuck do a handful of individuals potentially change a billion lives because they want to play war
It’s not about war it’s about money and power and survival, I am sure that at some point the man in power have the need to act like this just to survive,it’s the economic and society that needs to change but it won’t because people seek the power instead of the change
@qrco163 there are different ways to survive - namely "coexist". When there is a will there is a way.
Russia has a long history of degrading its society and people. With USSR, they taught their people that going against the government means long life sentence or death. Live quiet, do not raise your voice, ignore a black car that came to pick your neighbor at night. Putin regime however, went with a different approach. He convinced the people that they can live their life, do business, travel, and just enjoy their lives BUT only as long as they do not attempt to take even a percentage of government power. All who did are long dead. I recall there was a very influential general loved by civilians and soldiers. He died in a plane crash, just like Prigozhyn. There were many more with the last one being Navalny. That agreement unfortunately changed in 2022. Russians no longer are free to live as they wish if they do not protest against the government. Their money, freedom and lives belong to the nation. over 400k lives have been "laid for the motherland" in the last 2 years already (well deserved though). My point being is you can train people to behave as you please. To do that, all the brave, all the truly free by nature must leave or die. And they did. The amount of scientists and otherwise smart Russians who left the country since 1990 is astounding. They started to leave faster when they saw that KGB man became the president. Mass exodus happened again in 2022 when they realized they will be forced to become soldiers. And the ones that stayed, well, they are jus ta little more than obedient slaves. They are trained to do what they are told.
Welcome to human history
"Old men declare wars that young men must fight and die in"
As a ethnic russian from Latvia. I want honesty say that i love this country, culture, calm people. Turamies, kungi!
I was going to tell you they treat you ethnic russians as second class citizens, but thet don't even consider you citizens.
*an
putins ir gejs
LYING Dawgs
@@chillithid8888 let this one slide lol. English isn't his first language :)
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2059">34:19</a> He does not think with such depth.
It hits you differently when RealLifeLore isn't talking about some political conflict at the other side of the globe, but instead talking about the potential future of the places where you live, your grandparents live, where your friends live.
Lol! Lmao, even! 😂😂😂
them white privilege perks... aint even your fault the whole system is rigged. brainwashing since birth . good luck you can break the cycle.
Dont poke the bear
If you decide not to believe the false narratives, Putin is less likely to harm you than your own Government controlled by foreigners.
I really hope they can stop Russia, but it's really sad how most europeans and americans can just ignore the genocide happening right now in Palestine and their governments are sending arms to Israel to support the genocide...
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1592">26:32</a> Courland: am I a joke to you?
As a Swede the fact that this war could advance into the baltics is very alarming.
The possibility, not the fact. I hope
That's western propaganda to make Russia look more evil so to convince society about that sending aid to Ukraine does have sense. Russia is not going to invade NATO country
A Finn: ”First time?”
@@user-rv6re1zr1fno need for propaganda. Russia did this itself when invaded Ukraine
Not happening, stop whining
Some days I wished that I was dreaming about all this in 2019
😂😂you were. Look what you've done.
Who would have thought that 2019 would be the good Ole days?
@@Scaliadya what changed? Oh, Donald trump was president and there were no new wars in the world
This war has been going on for much longer than 2019.
@theredsalmon612 yeah Trump did side with Putin over US intelligence when he was president.
dude really showing b-roll of airsofters lol
If you adjust for purchasing power it is much much more extreme than you make it seem.
You cannot straight up ignore the thousands of British and European milltary personnel that are currently stationed in the baltics at the moment. If article 5 is invoked, most of western europe are more or less obliged to engage in an appropriate way.
Fkn hope not. I pray we leave NATO, just like we left the EU.
Those people could be pulled out or at least taken away from any fighting. Or just straight up left to be captured with negotiations for return(like lifting sanctions or something).
Why are western leaders so intent on starting WW3? Ukraine does not belong in NATO.
@@wildeyshere_paulkersey853 all that does is let russia win lol, dumbass
@@maynardburgerthey are what is called a “tripwire force” they stand and die in order to delay the enemy and provide distant allies a reason to fight close to home
Why can’t we just go back to listening to our iPod nano’s with internet that took minutes to boot up. This world we live in now sucks
You'll never escape wars, as back then my country had boots on the ground in an active zone..
The chance of any country going to war in any year is 0.03 percent
There were wars/civil unrest in the 2000s and early 2010s. Arab Spring, Benghazi, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Mexican drug war (still ongoing!), Syrian Civil War to name a few.
isn't a weird coincidence that joe biden showed up as it started to really suck?
Take off your rose tinted Elton John glasses. The 90s had huge wars and economic recession. Dont get me started on 2000s
Awesome to see how humanity is still somehow spending so much of its resources killing itself. Kudos.
1989 Berlin Wall come down not 91 Great scenarios to consider though thanks 🙏
Russia does not produce 1.500 tanks per year. They produce and refurbish 1.500 tanks per year. They produce around 200-300 tanks per year- Thats quite a huge difference @<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="244">4:04</a>
They are still ramping up and they can build much more complex missile systems and also planes which cost more money and time. They will reach that number in 2-3 years at the very least fully. I also dont belive that Russia is building 1500 tanks per year however what are your sources on that 200-300 number. We all know the news about Russians not being able to build either missiles or artillary shells or air defence systems or planes or shovels or toilets etc.
You don't know
He doesn't care about the truth
The 3 Baltic Countries all together produce 0 tanks per millenium
@@muratbayraktar5035 They are not going to reach considerably higher numbers in the next couple of years, Production increases so far have mainly been achieved by extending shifts and 24/6 work weeks. For an additional increase, they would need new machinery and so forth. I doubt Russia would even need 1.500 new tanks per year. You shouldnt underestimate Russias MIC. But you also shouldnt overestimate it. The war is relatively close. Both sides can win as of right now, both sides can loose. There is the KZheadr Covert Cabal who counts tanks with satelite imagery. I forgot the exact number, but his numbers indicate about 1.000 old soviet tanks leaving the storage facilities per year. You can count along if you would like. I can also highly recomend Perun on that topic. He does hour long videos on defense economic every sunday. In his Ukraine Update videos he also goes quite deeply into the loss and production data. Also a quick google search brought up an article from cnn, where it reads: "It is churning out about 125 tanks a month, but the vast majority are older models that have been refurbished. About 86% of the main battle tanks Russia produced in 2023 were refurbished, the NATO official said. And although Russia has about 5,000 tanks in storage, “probably a large percentage of those can’t be refurbished and are only good for cannibalizing parts,” the official said."
Ahh yes appeasement, that worked so well for the world in 1935. This is why we need leaders that actually understand history. Knowing and understanding are very different things.
This is why its important that the populace pays fucking attention in class. Anyone who says that school is pointless and history is worthless facts should also not be able to have a single goddamn opinion on anything involving the need for historical context. So sick of having to debate morons with zero understanding of history.
This is another reason why Trump must lose 2024, the man thought we had airports in 1776. His isolationist policy also puts all of the united west at risk as he erodes our ties with crucial allies
Not every situation is WWII and not every other nation is ran by the Nazi party. There are far more examples throughout history where appeasement worked and created a lasting peace than the opposite. I'm not advocating for Russia taking these territories, but we need to think long and hard before we decide where to draw the line. Are we really willing to sacrifice millions of lives, both our own and Russian, to protect the territorial sovereignty of, say, Estonia? This question is very near to me. I have been a soldier my entire adult life. I have seen the cost of war, and at a comparatively tiny scale compared to what a war with Russia would bring. I've watched women and children be blown into greasy smears of meat and gore on the side of the road. I've had many of my closest friends killed or Wounded, some physically some mentally. When we think about war, we often think retrospectively. War X happened and Y many people died, but that's not the proper way to view it. Walk out into your neighborhood and look at the kids playing in the street with their parents looking on. Look at those people and choose, physically point your finger at them, and decide how many of them you would be willing to let them scream in angony with their guts blown across some foreign field to stop Russia. Realistically, the answer isn't zero and shouldn't be zero. You do have to stop bullies around the world, but when people say "we must do this" or "we must do that" just remember that that word "must" is written in the blood of your friends, family, and neighbors.
@@jackpeters2884Thats incredibly deep and dark bud. Where are you from by chance?
@@weqe2278 A “Nuclear superpower”, What does that even mean? Yes Russia is a nuclear power, no they are not a military superpower. But what does “nuclear superpower” mean
graphics are awesome
The key issue with Hiiuma Island isn't capturing it, it's holding it. The Russians could set anti-ship and anti-air batteries, but the Finnish would do the same to cover their long-range artillery. With that in mind, it means they'd still be a sitting duck unless they could take out the artillery, which, considering the geography of Finland, is not gonna be easy.
With NATO having such a huge deterrant in air power,these kind of scenario-nibblings are only war nerds jerking off..
Finland will waste huge money to make the bang stirs happy.
@@spudwesth Bro it's not that expensive to fire some artillery and send drones onto an island. I'm sure it will also be paid by NATO.
Slava 🇹🇼 Heroyam TAIWANese 🦾
@@emil3458the NATO defense budget is effectively bottomless
In Poland we know what total war means, our ancestors suvived it between 1939 and 1945 but 6 millions of them were killed.
this is a situation where there should be a FB-like sad vote instead of just thumbs up/down
И какой урок вы, поляки, вынесли из той войны?
Poland also owned EVERYTHING between Moscow/Berlin, Black and Baltic Seas, So they also know invading neighboring lands.
Your ancestors also did everything possible to instigate it but boohoo I guess.
@@antonina-fk7lq Oh yes the wonderful Russia, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, The Katyn massacre, 44 years of the communism and Putin saying the collapse of USSR was a tragedy. How many Putin's political rivals got killed ? It seems like majority of Russians are happy with access to cheap bottle of vodka and a bin next to their toilets for used dirty tissues. I personally want nothing with Russians and Ukrainians.
The EU may be less militarily capable than NATO, bu it includes important NATO partners. If the EU forced France and Germany to assist the Baltic states, that will encourage the US to intervene as well because we certainly want to protect France and Germany
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1320">22:00</a> Narva was considered one of the most beautiful cities in the north, compared to Venice, but exactly 2 houses survived the russan invasion
I don't understand how any european can be against NATO intervention in case of a baltic invasion. Is the Munich Agreement not being taught in history class anymore?
What is the Munich agreement? From Lithuania
@@windowslogo3577Basically, when Nazi Germany asked for the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia, and the western Allies agreed, because they didn't want a repeat of WW1. Same is basically happening now.
@@windowslogo3577something that is almost always taught wrong in the west. We are taught that Germany used a few Germans in Czechoslovakia as an excuse for an invasion. It wasn’t a few, it was several millions. And they were being treated bad and they should never have been included in Czechoslovakia. The Sudetenland should instead have been made part of Austria after the dissolution of the Austria-Hungarian Empire. There was no respect for the “self-determination of Nations”. It was all about weakening Germany/A-H. Even the creation of Czechoslovakia seems to have been a bad idea. The Czechs and the Slovaks had never been administered together before and the Czechs ended up lording it over the rural and less educated Slovaks. That is important to understand why the Slovaks made a dumb deal with Hitler (that Hitler immediately broke). It is also usually not taught that the British Empire wasn’t ready for a war. It had disarmed, had a low arms production, and it’s population was strongly opposed to anything that sounded even slightly militaristic after the horrors of WW1. Chamberlain agreed to Germany’s (quite reasonable!) demands - while kicking up arms production fiercely. It is thanks to Chamberlain that Churchill could do what he did a few years later.
Taught is a strong word. Meaning everyone understands the consequences. I am from Slovakia and can thell you that most of our history teachers do not understand it themselves. So they mention it, and go for a next topic. WW2 was taught during like 3-4 classes, while after WW2 politics in europe are not taught AT ALL.
NATO is going to break up in the next year or so. And Europe will cut military ties with the US.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1683">28:03</a> Citing a _2016_ study on NATO readiness levels to the Baltics? From 10 years ago? That wouldn't be valid even if the Russians hadn't invaded Ukraine.
yeah, thats a pretty big miss without birning that up and talking about the limitations and then doing a "lets see if this and newer info can tell us about now" sort of thing.
Also using the phrase "The Ukraine" and not "Ukraine" is a bad look at 13:20
Not rly he was just citing from the report how much time it takes for a tank corp to reach those cities ? It had nothing to do with military power or NATO reponses?
Not much have changed really. Of course, we could last a couple more hours, but without NATO support, we are doomed either way
@@Nestor_Makhno Yeah I think he just said "that", as in "In the event that Ukraine collapses"
A crazy dictator trying to unite all land with a lot of their ethnic people? This seems a bit familiar...
What?
@@augusto1126 *cough cough* 1939-1945 *cough cough*
Zero IQ bozo, who wont graduated even school, tries commenting political videos, how adorable *-*
Stalin's invasion was also under the pretext of protecting the ethnic Russians from Baltic and Polish oppression. There was also Winter War against Finland. Both regimes wouldn't ever openly admit, but they were very similar to each other. Maybe that's why they couldn't coexist, after all there can be only one to win the prize. Obviously it didn't stop their early cooperation, but that's because they were alienated on international scene and both had much to gain from each other. Ribbentrop-Molotov pact was "a gentleman's agreement" to postpone hostilities for later time, while each dealt with their own issues - Hitler went after Denmark, Norway, France, while Stalin dealt with aftermath of his Great Purge, modernized his military and waged Winter War.
Putin Is Not Yet A Dictator.
Since baltic countries joined nato, everyone started talking that nato won't protect them and that after a few years russia will occupy baltic countries and etc... And now, decades later, baltic countries are still more or less independent and no russia in sight...
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="240">4:00</a> They won't produce 1500 tanks, they will refurbish 1500 tanks, less than 300 of those are new production.
Which is a VERY important distinction, as russia has only around 3500 tanks that are refurbishable left. So around another 2 years with the same kind of losses
Russia didn't gut their manufacturing sector - they could certainly produce vehicles to cover their losses
@@seb_5969you realize Russia didn't outsource their manufacturing sector ? Meaning , they can make what they want for as long as they want
Yep, just checked. You're right. I'll give you a gold star lol
@@m.hughmungus121 Hello, it is the 1990's calling to tell you you're completely oblivious to reality.
Thanks for increasing my anxiety this Monday morning while at my barista job.
For some reason RLL appears to be posting Kewmlin propaganda. HIs claims aren't true. Things havent changed for Muscovy. They've got trapped in a quagmire they cant win and they cant sustain even the effective holding position their are doing.
Ooooòooo Vinte with nothing but creamer ooooooooooo
Lol.. Get to work.. That video was an hour long..
dude stop watching youtube at work
you don't have anxiety, you just consume too much caffeine.
Sht we got three years to do excersice, keep on aorking, educate your self on how to fight, drive any vehicle, learn new languages, make your self discipline. The money you earn would be for war bonds while you are away. Prepare your family, educate them, help your comunity. Learn how to handle a drone, because wars would be fought first with drones. If nothing happens, keep on preparing your self your family and community.
This a wish of the arms industry and the government officials that want to have a golden retirement, not the population. We want peace not war.
Say it to neo russian fascists
@@TheIDK91say that to neonazzis from Russia
as a Latvian I would very much like to stop living through historically significant events in my lifetime, thanks
Ditch NATO and you are safe.
Tas kas notiek pašlaik ir briesmīgi, es mīlu savu valsti un tās kultūru. Ir grūti iedomāties, ka pēc 5 gadiem te vairs nebūs latvieši, visi aizbēguši uz citām valstīm kuras uzskata par drošākām un ka latvijā būs tikai tie kas vēlas sadarboties ar kremli un VISPAR nerespektē šo valsti. Ļoti bēdīgi.
hold my beer. greetings from Ukraine ;)
@@ralphkoyomi2254 no joke, ja Trampu ievēlēs atkal, es esmu diezgan parliecināta, ka es piesakos Zemessardzē. vai eju māsu kursos. kaut ko. mana mamma, kura piedalījās kā studente barikādēs, netaisād nekur mukt, bet paliks un palīdzēs kā varēs. man nav attaisnojumu nedarīt tāpat
@@ugumol Slava Ukraini!! 🇱🇻❤️🇺🇦
...the world will never let us live down sending those helmets, won't it? Probably fair.
You'd think losing half their country would make them more committed to fighting Russia
@@frostyalaska6371 "them", you mean somebody else besides you ?
@@johnteets2921 damn Germans, can’t ever count on em when it matters most😒 and ppl wonder why we like the English/French more
The minister who did that was let go, and germany gives more than GB or France while being way closer to russia@@abel_underwater
@@bombelz while have a larger economy and 20 million more people
And the buffer of 100km till nort of filand
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="325">5:25</a> - casually including airsoft content
The more things change, the more they remain the same. History will repeat itself.
A big aspect of history repeating itself is most don't care about history. And how to learn from it. The ultimate downfall is that we're so preoccupied with our TikTok videos and daily struggles we outsource knowledge of history and some other important aspects to other people. And others do similar thing. So what we're left is that few can subjectively predict the folly. And the rest are just sheep running for the cliff again. Low average emotional intelligence doesn't help.
@@HHalcyonid say the biggest part of history repeating itself is actually some people care too much about a specific parts of history…
History doesn't repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes 🤷🏻♀️
@@thepax2621 Fair enough. I can't argue with that.
I like your wording. Changes that are technically.....changes.....but it's all really the same in the end.....fascinating and terrifying. We got the shit part of the loop.
As a Lithuanian, this definitely hits different
Lithuanian here and yea… I also dread the future.
Latvian here as well. How lovely
I am a Lithuanian who just got his nationality. This video hit hard
Why wouldn't you Lithuanians just accept living under Russian rule. It could be great as well, I might be even better than the life you currently have. Think about this, you are already under the rule of your own Lithuanian government, while a new Russian government would try to please you.
Russia has literal zero desire to hold any land not already inhabited by ethnic Russians this channel is US state department propaganda
No baltic fleet can approach Estonia by sea. Aswell Finnish bay between Finlad and Estonia are completley blocked for russian warships. Why? Underwater mines and anti ship batteries on coastal line. Only approach is by land.
Did I really just watch a bloke pull out an airsoft speed loader and start loading a mid capa stanag mag
As Latvian this is my biggest fear .
Nemīz
@@eizens1000 nogalini sevi
As an estonian I am scared to
do you think russia would attack nato? why in the world would they do that? do you even know why this war started? this channel really misses the mark sometimes because it only sources information from one side, common flaw in western media
@@redblood_bof what? dont tell me you are scared about the one country that historically mostly defends, instead of like america, france, germany, lol, do people these days learn 0 history
As a german here, i wish my government would take this more seriously (except for pistorius. he does a good job)
Yeah... In terms of geopolitics Germany is irresponsibly inept. China and Russia have infiltrated the AfD, SPD and the CDU...
shut up ghoul
Just like how your Nazi government supports genocide in Gaza?
not a good mix is it, gemany in a war has meant world wars
Why didn’t we just help them the first/second time ?
This will be known as the "Red Scare Pt. 3"
Who are the reds in this case?
lol remember how Russia ran out of weapons 2 years ago
bro just let me live i wont even be able to enjoy my early adult hood outside the front lines
Service guarantees citizenship, comrade!
It is what it is
It isn't fair, is it
How NATO, so terrified of Russia to intervene in Ukraine on a limited scale, which would have put a quick end to Russian aggression, could be preparing for war with Russia on a large scale? Any such move by NATO against Russia would make all NATO countries easy targets for Russian cruise and ballistic missiles, and if matters escalate, then nuclear strike would remain the only option to counter NATO. An impossible scenario, neither NATO nor Russia could contemplate. *You can rest assured, wimp*
Putin doesn't care. He wants glory, not peace.
I appreciate you @RealLifeLore
I'm still convinced that this won't be more than another cold war, but I also didn't believe we'd ever be where we are now, so what do I know?
Ukraine is dead. 18 million+ people already left. Why would they return?
@@gooddogtalks Where'd you get that 18 million number from?
@@gooddogtalks who told you that 18+ million people left? twitter?
The cold war stayed cold because it was fought with proxies not geographically connected to any of the major players. In this case, we see russian troops marching towards NATO territory after watching them mass and invade ONE of the countries that russia has been talking up. So we might see a case like the Korean war where someone gets too close to the border and the other side gets involved directly.
@@RiddleMaster_ROBLOX he didn't say DIED. he said they LEFT. I do not know any facts, so don't reply to me questioning for sources. But please learn to read before you reply.
You can't win wars by being always on the defensive.
Your name and that statement goes together like oil and water 😂
Vietnam diid
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujanthis is a nation war not a civil war.
We must Never ever ever use Nukes!
I'm so happy with Poland as a nato partner. While western europe has been cutting their defense spending in the last 25 years, Poland kept investing and now has by far the most modern and largest army. They truly are our best bet in the east against Russia.
I mean if Poland stepped in, I don't think Russia could muster the strength to fight both wars. They've got men but they've lost so much of their best equipment and men already in Ukraine that fighting a single prepared and well equiped military would probably push Putin to the bargaining table if not threaten outright capitulation. Kind of sucks that it'll never happen because it would cool to see (absolutely tragic from a loss of life perspective, but to be a historian in 25 years it would be fascinating)
100% agree
Be humble, Poland is in east Europe…not part of the west geographically ..just on papers…
@@YY-dv3yk Poland is central Europe, Belarius, Ukraine, Russia etc.. are eastern europe. This is by most definitions including goverment ones.
Why would Russia want a conflict with Poland?
Well, time to prepare for my wasteland raider king story arc
I keep watching this, waiting for the deeply depressing part to end...
Winnie the Pooh is younger than Putin? That's a shocker.
If politicians were forced to send their children into the front lines we’d have a different story.
Throwback to when Stalin wouldn't trade a German general for his son who had been captured, saying "I will not trade a Marshal for a Lieutenant"
I feel like they should have to do that
Nop, does not work. Their kid gets called a hero post mortem and that is all.
WWI had insane amounts of high class and noble families sons dying in the war, and it still happened the way it did, it depends much more on the underlying conditions of the society.
Only the citizens can hold their politicians accountable. They live in your neighborhoods and eat in your local restaurants. They can not hide.
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
The West is the evil one..That is why we are losing!!!
Yeah you're right, but there's not really a sound way of opposing the US government.
Putin thinks he is the good guy…
@@JohnRNewAccountNumber3could try actually asking what the people want. People are suspicious of Europe’s reliance, use some funny math to show the Europeans are paying for the local bases as a gift and what not.
But what is a man, though? What is a woman?
This video fails to mention nato exercises and how involved all countries play.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="358">5:58</a> Nice badge.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1520">25:20</a> *sarcastically* Nice, my city of Narva is finally remembered by someone. What a time to be alive
How is the vibe arround the people? Are they urning for a russian occupation or are they cool with living in Estonia?
I love the Narva map in Squad!
@@links-gut-versifftergrunme1809 I'm no psychic or Eurostat but I feel like most people just want to live peacefully, especially after being bombarded by images of wartorn regions of Ukraine (duh) for close to 10 years. In private "kitchen talks" some (mostly from older generations) wouldn't be opposed to join RF but again, this is 100% just nostalgia coupled with pan-Russian sentiment speaking. Putin's regarded in general as capable and strong leader, which - let's be honest - we severely lack in the West nowadays but no one smart enough wants to live through Donbass scenario since it'll require some kind of Russia/NATO confrontation. We russians are raised to remember the unfathomable toll it took to win WW2 and this whole shebang goes against it. So yeah, reasonable folks wanna stay in EU as it is, few radically minded nutjobs are clamoring either for joining Russia or destroying it altogether. As always. If - IF! - russian army comes here, the reception would be far more lukewarm than in Donbass. From populace, that is. Estonian army is a joke and I served in it)
@@TheLastCustomer Wtf is Squad?🤣
@@user-dv1mf4tt6h its a game
The NATO Article 5 interpretation presented in the video is not how the alliance functions, only a member state operating either subversively or in extremely bad faith could cause this to happen. The working interpretation is that the collective will decide on a response, then the individual states will comply and take the responsibilities determined for them by the collective. The idea that NATO countries can individually opt out of Article 5 and send limited humanitarian aid is simply not true, and if it was to become true the alliance would cease to exist at that time. Remember that each individual state must treat any aggression on a member state as they would treat an attack on their own soil. The notion that they could send a few helmets and medkits in response is absurd. It is possible that the entire collective may together decide not to respond, but that would require the US military to admit that they are afraid to face the Russian military, which would essentially end the current world order.
We saw what the EU is like with their solidarity during the coronavirus pandemic. When every EU country pulled the blanket over itself. You will find 100 reasons not to get involved in a direct conflict against Russia.
The us cant afford a war with russia even if by god we win there will be hundreds of thousands of dead westerners this will lead to china and iran basicly destroy our global influence
@@user-cc4lk3tj1k Lmao what does coronavirus have to do with NATO? There is no organization or legislation that mandates a collective response to a health issue, that is entirely managed at the local level by each EU country. That is the most disingenuous comparison
@@MihaiRUdeRO "By applying Article 5, NATO countries may provide assistance in any form they deem necessary to respond to the situation at hand. This is an individual commitment for each NATO member state, and each member state is responsible for determining what it considers necessary in its particular circumstances. Assistance is provided jointly with other NATO member states. It is not necessarily military in nature and depends on the material resources of each country. Therefore, each Member State independently decides how to contribute. Each country consults with other member states, taking into account that the ultimate goal is “to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic region.” As a lawyer, I can explain the following to you: based on the meaning of this law, each of the NATO member countries, if it deems it necessary, may not engage in direct military confrontation at all, but limit itself to only formal actions, such as sending humanitarian aid or weapons. Exactly the same thing that you are doing to Ukraine now. As for whether the EU has obligations to protect and improve people’s health, read it in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union - Article 5
@@user-cc4lk3tj1k 1. The limits of Union competences are governed by the principle of conferral. The use of Union competences is governed by the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality. Is this what you're citing? Because it confirms what I already stated
Please make captions on different languages. I'm from Ukraine and wanted to share this video with my friends who does not speak English. Hope this comment will be seen . Thank you.
It's like Finland again, oh dear
It's so sad that something as big as war is fought over something as small as the greed and egos of a few people.
Russian people are brainwashed by delusions of grandeur by Putin. It isn't just him and the oligarchs.
It's for geopolitics and US hegemony.
The Duran for geopolitics.
@@marko8059 The USA hasn't been involved in Europe since the end of the cold war.
@@Sigma_Male_Anti_Female How many military bases USA has in Europe or world? Every NATO country is control of America empire. You aren't even human. Garland Nixon, Emil Cosman or Jimmy Dore for try. The New Atlas or The Duran too. Military Summary and Weeb Union for maps.
Finland would be the first one to defend Estonia. Those two are like family countries.
I don't think anybody need Estonia. It had negative balance during the USSR. Since, it got independent external debts grown exponentially. Estonia turned into de- populated shithole, and now draining money out of the EU, together with others Baltic States.. Even thought EU will want secretly pass Estonia to Russia, Russia won't take such a "gift".
Yeah, how else will the Fins get their cheap booze 😄
Not cheap anymore. Estonia sucks ass
You are living in Fantasy world sir
Estonia is not in the Nordic treaty. Sweden and Finland is more "Family" and look how that went during WW2
Hardly fully wartime economy.
I think you have the lines reversed on the thumbnail.