I Spent 14 Years as RUSSIA in the Russo-Ukraine War | Across The Dnieper

[@CaiVanDoorn]

Story writing was a nice addition this time around. Really adds to the imersion, which is fun and is sometimes missed with other youtubers

[@Paddy-kp8pw]

Yes

[@user-Erimej]

Your little "addition" at the beginning of Your video is... Pretty good. You nailed the immersion when it comes to the whole "should I go to war with NATO, or not?" Thing

[@aqep]

Why do old people like you add"..."

[@user-Erimej]

@@aqep firstly, I'm 19 years old. Secondly, I just trying to make a interesting, human dialogue

[@aqep]

@@user-Erimej Nerd

[@user-Erimej]

@@aqep hey! I need to EXPLAIN myself, ok?

[@adamelghalmi9771]

@@aqep d1 hater lol

[@Boothinator247]

Two years on and the disclaimers for playing Russia in modern day HOI4 are getting shorter and less authentic haha

[@hugobernard9874]

As they should, you don't see anyone making appologies when they play countries who did war crimes in WW2 when playing Vanilla

[@christianbroadbent7489]

@@hugobernard9874 I don't mind not having a disclaimer but you gotta admit that a nation that did war crimes half a century ago is different than one doing warcrimes like, today and prolly yesterday too.

[@JeanFares6970]

​​@@christianbroadbent7489i would remain careful with the idea of accusing of war crime when there are no concrete proof.

[@hugobernard9874]

@@christianbroadbent7489 That's the issue of playing modern conflicts, but in this case and for other cases too all nations who participate in a war are doing crimes, there is no such a thing as a clean war.

[@christianbroadbent7489]

@@JeanFares6970 Are you trying to claim Russia has done no war crimes or am I reading your comment wrong? Because Im pretty sure we got hours of footage of Russian missiles hitting and killing Civilians, or the UN investigated and confirmed Bucha massacre.

[@esto-bx1me]

9:50 live russian oligarch reaction

[@theduderox]

That little girl and speech and the end was a campaign ad for LBJ back in the 60s

[@AlvorReal]

I like how you had an option to remove the bloated welfare system, chose not to, and then wondered why your consumer goods were vanishing XD

[@PLKID9075]

Across the dnieper, so poetic

[@robertdragon2838]

Your civs were getting eaten up by consumer goods, when you hover over the consumer goods factory number it should say where its coming from

[@joj9750]

He did hover over them, I don’t know what specifically caused them tho. I think it might’ve been his mobilization and low stability? Or maybe the other economic system they have in the game?

[@robertdragon2838]

@@joj9750 prettty sure it is mod related, happened in my play through too

[@joj9750]

@@robertdragon2838 that would make sense, cause I’ve never seen that much consumer goods before without major debuffs lol

[@LeetleToady7]

28:57 I kinda laughed when the actual countdown happened For those who don't know, that was a very controversial American political ad called "Peace little girl" ran by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. I first watched it in civics class, and the video is just so frickin funny to me.

[@hydra7427]

Really rather than the the nuclear weapon button being a "You Lose", there should be a Crisis Escalation mechanic that is determined by multiple factors - including WMDs but also the fall of various cities (specifically near the Polish border). Ukraine could have escalation as well, like bombing Russian soil or inviting NATO aligned troops. Tactical nukes would be on a medium level, and global nuclear war would be the end of the escalation ladder. Both sides would have to watch the escalation mechanic, as it getting too high for Ukraine means the Russians nuke you and if it gets too high for Russia then NATO deploys troops or creates no fly zones.

[@Popmanpraise]

The biggest problem is that nukes in hoi4 are just so hard to balance and it’s almost impossible to have them not be near useless (like base game) or a game over (like TNO)

[@barrett206]

@@PopmanpraiseTWR has a good system where it destroys the province

[@hopedream11]

Yeah can confirm it'd be better that way.

[@RealCharlesCalvin]

Colonel Cam. The Siloviki side of the focus tree expands after you coup Vladimir Putin, which got a focus where you can declare war with NATO after defeating Ukraine.

[@deadpan284]

im a staff and a previous developer of the mod, glad you played our mod and hope you enjoyed!

[@Silver_Prussian]

The economic situatuon in criemea did get a lot better after 2014.

[@theboysclips2094]

No shit ukraine is the POOREST in Europe yet life in Crimea is terrible

[@Silver_Prussian]

@@theboysclips2094 even though crimea was a major region in terms of generating revenue they let it fall in astate of disrepair

[@YossefMan-hg9cz]

​@@theboysclips2094 this is coming from someone who know nothing about crimea

[@sababugs1125]

35% drop in turism No water supply for agriculture Drop of 200k in population RT syndrome live in action

[@Silver_Prussian]

@@sababugs1125 the drop in tourism was not a long lasting issue the next years it got more tourists than it did under ukriane. The water issue is entirely ukriane fault btw they almost created an environmental disaster, nobody said a word though. Russia had to bring in water by constructing a pipe system however since 2022 crimeans once more have water because russia took control ove the crimean canal. There is no recorded drop in the population and none of the pro ukrianians articles which make the claim provide any source .

[@Hideyoshi3241]

Fun fact, modern guerrilla warfare like in vietnam and afghanistan only worked because of the Geneva Convention. Historically guerrilla groups would be destroyed through genociding the local populace, very good example of that being the Romans in Judea, Illyria and in Gaul with the deaths ranging from 500k in judea to 1 million dead and another 1 million sold to slavery in Gaul.

[@ryujin9568]

Another example is the Harrying of the North in the winter of 1069-1070, where the bastard of Normandy subjugated Northumberland by killing 75% of the population, according to the Domesday Book written in 1086. There was also reports of people engaging in cannibalism, eating normally taboo animals like cats and dogs, and even people selling themselves into slavery in a desperate attempt to avoid the conquerors wrath. 50 years later the chronicler Orderic Vitalis wrote: "The King stopped at nothing to hunt his enemies. He cut down many people and destroyed homes and land. Nowhere else had he shown such cruelty. This made a real change. To his shame, William made no effort to control his fury, punishing the innocent with the guilty. He ordered that crops and herds, tools and food be burned to ashes. More than 100,000 people perished of starvation. I have often praised William in this book, but I can say nothing good about this brutal slaughter. God will punish him".

[@johnclay2716]

>Fun fact, modern guerrilla warfare like in vietnam and afghanistan only worked because of the Geneva Convention. Historically guerrilla groups would be destroyed through genociding the local populace Yeah, totally no genociding happened in Vietnam

[@donaldtrumplover2254]

Not if the populace is being armed with guns. All it takes is some other nation with a bunch of stuff at its disposal to very much break your whole wartime strategy.

[@Hideyoshi3241]

@donaldtrumplover2254 they still need food, which most of would be sourced locally and nothing prevents you from destroying all crops and killing all livestock with aircraft. Depending on the end goal the conqueror has in mind the local populace is better off dead and replaced with settlers and colonists once the dust has settled. Even if the populace is armed they won't be able to do anything against an opponent that doesn't need them or plan to keep them alive. Afghanistan for example was a war to replace the government structure of the country, which meant the Soviets and the Americans needed the population of Afghanistan alive.

[@YossefMan-hg9cz]

Who are trying to deceive America lost because it lost The us committed genocide in every country they invaded Just compare civilian deaths of iraq to Ukraine war

[@ruse1157]

I felt like your pfp changed, also thank you for another lovely video!

[@walnzell9328]

Vladimir Putin -100% offensive operations penalty +200% boost party popularity scheme bonus

[@gmha23h]

-100% offensive? How then is it that a huge part of Ukraine is under Russia's control?))

[@MK-nv8qq]

Hey Cam keep up the good work, been watching you since part 1-2 of the Falangist Poland run and been hooked ever since. A suggestion for a vid could be Poland in Kaiserreich. They have a pretty good Focus and you can choose many outcomes from remaining with Germany or becoming independent, joining Austria or Russia. It truly would be a blast. :)

[@icantaimpg3d776]

Personally I don’t think that Russia under any case can win a peer to peer conventional war against NATO, assuming NATO commits everything to the war. Russia doesn’t have many stealth aircraft and do they even have weapons for them, i.e the ones you can put in their weapons bay. Russian Armed Forces was extremely devastated by the war in Ukraine, they won’t be able to fight NATO at all. There is no field where the Russians are superior to NATO, let alone equal.

[@LukaSchoone-sd1wn]

Yeah, Russia would eventually become desperate and.. Nuclear war.

[@noahschwartz1222]

​@@LukaSchoone-sd1wnThis is their trump card (no pun intended), that they have more nukes than all of NATO and a plurality of all nukes in the world.

[@patrickkloiber741]

Early war would russia dominate, estonia has 4k personel in the entire army

[@pejsik9691]

@@patrickkloiber741 which are well trained for delaying such bigger force + nato spearhead forces are present

[@esto-bx1me]

​@@patrickkloiber741man damn what did we do 😔

[@UgandanWarriorofHell]

is it just me or does ukraine get insane amount of buffs after 30 days or something into the SMO? any tips that can help with playing as russia? im using 20w divisions for the gazzilion division template the mod forces me to play and edit with 😢

[@coolstuffifound9896]

When I'm in a having controversial political opinions competition and my opponent is a Hoi4 modder:

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

What controversial political opinion is mentioned here

[@maumaumau3929]

I have the exact same thinking about "ww3" that will hopefully never heppend

[@MikoyanIGurevich-2929]

I feel like one of the things weird about the mod is just how much buffs Ukraine gets. Even if you fix everything wrong with the Russian army before the war. Realistically if thats the case, they'd get steamrolled.

[@marysartr]

It's made by Pro Ukranians that's why

[@Apsisikelis69]

Its literally not even that hard winning as Russia. you're just bad

[@Apsisikelis69]

@@marysartr No it's not

[@Sgt_ioiwsl]

@@Apsisikelis69even the guy in the video restarted 3 times dude 💀 it’s fine to admit that a little bias is at play

[@zucaritasenjoyer7259]

​@@marysartrRussia failed irl to conquer ukraine so i think its balanced and actually gives ukraine a figthing chance against russia who has more division more manpower more factories and has the advantage of planning the strike

[@NewtNiko]

I swear, watching hoi4 videos about the Russian Ukraine war feels so surreal

[@johnandrews2050]

10:20 that’s semi charmed life your done buddy

[@MusicalScreaming]

the intros get better every time

[@Sarre_Casme]

14:50 answer: the United States and EU want to lend lease you: -10000000000000000 rifles -10000000 tanks -10000000000 plane

[@styx544]

how did they make nuclear war event scarier than tnos?

[@hopedream11]

TNO's is relatively hard to trigger unless you let the AI go off. There was a bug where the AI would always trigger nukes over a shrimp boat. So people probably got used to it. Also this is modern day and still current where as TNO is fiction. So it resonates more.

[@styx544]

@@hopedream11 i entirely disagree. i think its the creepiness of the child speaking

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

They just stole the audio from one of LBJ’s campaign ads

[@Claudin0]

Does Someone know the name of the music on 0:57 ?

[@RBWR_Russian]

"Служить России!" or "To serve Russia!"

[@Ta-m01]

its to serve russia but i dont know what version lol

[@user-rj4gu5oh3k]

I knew it sounded similar.

[@JustGeorge-S4m]

You deserve more subscribers

[@4T3hM4kr0n]

14:54 Ukraine survived because of a lack of cohesion on the russian side. They ran out of fuel for their tanks, they didn't have any understanding of the terrain and didn't have any maps, the units weren't properly briefed on what was happening, they had unencrypted comms (meaning the Ukrainians could listen in and locate who was talking), and they underestimated the Ukrainian resolve and suffered ambush upon ambush.

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

There was also a Russian soldier who stole a Ukrainian’s AirPods. AirPods can be tracked with your phone. I’m sure you can see where this is going

[@rettillanri4reisiii28ieie6]

I really like that your hoi4 video style are very peaceful to watch unlike other, I suggest you playing expert ai Germany

[@cameronmando]

I think the storytelling part at the start was great

[@BlueCrab-rr9gw]

The origin of the nuke sound is a. Lbj add from 1964

[@jonathaslopes8038]

Ay, finnally playing as the good guys. 💪🇷🇺

[@vorhautzerstörer]

😂 good one

[@jonathaslopes8038]

@@vorhautzerstörer I was half joking and half serious

[@vorhautzerstörer]

@@jonathaslopes8038 Im not sure how I should interpret that

[@ashothegod]

​@@jonathaslopes8038that's... disturbing

[@Sgt_ioiwsl]

@@vorhautzerstörerit means things can be morally grey i personally support Russia in the conflict as a whole but that doesn’t mean i support putin’s government as a whole i see Russia’s war on Ukraine as the best way to guarantee the rights to sovereignty of Russians in the Ukraine Russian was banned from being taught in Ukrainian schools, this IMO is an attempt to eliminate the influence of Russian culture in the country, but in the process that destroys centuries of heritage between what should be brother countries EX: imagine if the US banned the teaching of Spanish, it’s not whataboutism, just to give perspective And while i do believe that Ukraine has a right to defend itself i also believe that Russians have the right to defend their heritage, even if that defense comes with strings attached TL;DR: DPR, LPR, Crimea and Novorussia are the good guys Ukraine shouldn’t trample on people’s rights or lives in the case of the minsk agreements russia shouldn’t kill people, even for a “good” cause

[@seelowe88]

When I saw Viktor Orbán's portrait with László Toroczkai's name and with his party, I didn't know shall I cry or laugh

[@theocculus7398]

This is js funny as shit🤣 js got a new sub just love the commentary 😂

[@Brazilian_Imperialist]

20:10 nega nega

[@Miki-s2e]

The gap between kaliningrad and belarus border is Suwalki Gap, and it's even now strategically vulnerable point, if it get taken in potential war with russia, all of troops in baltic states would be cut off from rest of nato

[@engineerenginering8633]

Not anymore with Sweden and FInland in nato

[@Miki-s2e]

@@engineerenginering8633 Even with finland and sweden, Suwalki gap is still a vulnerable place

[@engineerenginering8633]

@@Miki-s2e yeah, but not as much as it was before 2022

[@ΓιώργοςΠαπακωνσταντίνου-φ5υ]

Major respect for touching conroversial topics like that. Politics have to stay out of games

[@lastpaw8315]

Okay, tbh in start I think that he said:"Putin raised his hand and said:"Hail!""

[@Hamstorian]

Still Waiting for the Channel Pic. Change 👀

[@BBproductions437]

Putin has liked the video

[@juliannolastname2442]

24:10 You are correct that superior technology/equipment means victory. The failings of Vietnam are plentiful but I don’t think it necessarily shows that a technologically inferior force can absolutely decimate a superior one, but instead that defending is far, far easier than attacking. Vietnam is jungle, and the US was not only fighting a conventional war but also a guérilla one. What the last few decades has shown is that large militaries are susceptible to guérilla tactics for many reasons. The terrain in Vietnam was super beneficial for the Vietcong, as they could hide traps and themselves anywhere and whittle away at US forces. Additionally, the war was highly unpopular in America, and higher levels of mobilization were impossible if the administration at the time wanted to stay in power. The most important factor, however, was the reality of a Cold War proxy conflict. The US could not step boots into North Vietnam without Soviet retaliation. The most they could do is bomb the North, and that just wasn’t enough. The Vietcong was spread out and decentralized, and couldn’t be easily brought to their knees with a bombing campaign. Suffice to say, Vietnam is a lesson that good equipment doesn’t win wars by itself. It shows that it’s doctrine, strategy, war support, troop morale, and logistics that win them. In the instance of Russia fighting NATO, they have none of those advantages. NATO has had decades more experience with warfare than the current Russian government, and the industrial might of the West is simply insurmountable. NATO is the combined military strength and knowledge of most of the worlds leading powers, having been a part of multiple conflicts since WW2. Russia, even if we’re including the Soviets, haven’t been in many since WW2. Ukraine is holding the Russians with the aid of just a bit of NATO equipment. What would actually well trained, well equipped, and well supplied Western troops do to Russia that couldn’t be described as Mike Tyson decking a toddler. Don’t even get me started with the air war. Russia wasn’t able to get aerial superiority over Ukraine. Air wins modern warfare, and the United States ALONE has the largest air force on the planet. The second largest? The US Navy. The F-22s will have a fucking field day if they finally get to shred Russian fighters. Hell, Western Russia is flat plains, and that is damn hard land to defend. I give them 6 months, maybe. The only issue is, well. The bombs. Luckily my girlfriends hyperfixation is collecting bottle caps, so I will be absolutely loaded.

[@adameneno9]

Great summarization bro

[@TheLiquelique]

Only disagree with the "just a bit" Most of europeans do shared a lot of their equipments.

[@in_defensione_libertatis]

well summarised

[@hopedream11]

Cope in an entire post. As to NATO experience, I was unaware bombing people in huts usually civilians, was war experience. Must have missed that one.

[@aseemmaurya8267]

THE NAFO GLAZING IS SO REAL. The fact is the west fears Russia so much that they banded together as NATO to deter Russian Aggression. Also fact is most western, centeral European countries won't be big on fighting a land war against Russia Morale despite the popular western belief would favor the Russians. NAFO has no experience besides only real military power who would be willing to fight a land war in eastern europe against russia would only be USA, poland and finland. Rest of the NATO members wouldn't be enthusiastic and I bet Nations like turkey and Hungary would be nuetral. I don't see much young europeans signing up to go to war. But Russians and Belarusians would. Oh, and don't come at me with your western propaganda that Russia is struggling or Russians are oppressed. The fact you need to realize and accept is that Russia hasn't gone all out with the ground troops nor their airforce on Ukraine yet Ukraine has been getting pushed back even when Ukraine's fighting with all it has and massive US and european Aid. Like wtf you mean just a bit of aid? how many 100 Billions USD aid packages did USA sent to ukraine? not to mention the western Europeans sending their own 100 billion Euro aid packages with everything military, humanitarian and monetary aid. West is keeping Ukraine going. Also, what experience? genociding in middle east isn't army experience. most the NAFO pups have done is bomb huts, houses from drones and missiles and not fight an organize coherent modern military! not in afghanistan, not in iraq, the highway of death- most killed were civillians, fighting terrorist groups and bombing civillians in middle east doesn't give army exp worthy of fighting an industrialized, huge land mass and population having country. Besides you have missed the fact that these 3-4 years of modern war in Ukraine has taught Russia a lot they now have hands on exp and a resiliant war economy. Honestly there was no need for the west to make an enemy of Russia all they did is drove Russia In china's lap which is arguably more dangerous and long term rival and enemy for them.

[@slayride136]

1:30 so glad that a content creator finally said it

[@mr.fantastic7756]

Slava Russia 🫡

[@man_boy566]

Russian troops were actually in Kiev and when Ukraine was planning to surrender, they agreed that Russian troops would be pulled out of Kiev, Ukraine didn't hold to their part of the agreement and started an entire counteroffensive. That's why Russian troops had to pull back, they weren't expecting Ukraine to not hold to their part of the agreement.

[@biggiecheese6545]

Cool story bro

[@Sgt_ioiwsl]

i have never heard this before, can you link or recall where you heard this from

[@man_boy566]

@@biggiecheese6545 mb they got close (about 19 miles away) and then were ordered to stop because of the agreements, then they got pushed out by the ukrainians

[@man_boy566]

@@Sgt_ioiwsl i can’t find the article online rn but i’m pretty sure putin said it in his interview with tucker carlson, also only spetsnaz reached kiev and the actual troops were ordered to stop around 20 miles from kiev

[@Plzac]

Rule number 1. Never trust anybody (especially the enemy if you're fighting a loosing war) But the russisn war machine sucks either way. Plus by the way 90% of everything said in the tucker interview is all bogus.

[@entomologistteam4568]

(9:34)The civillian factories loss thing is because of high consumer goods factories percentage. The more consumer goods factory percentage you have, the less available factories you have to build things with. (like this so Cam can see this)

[@Blader445]

Considering how I make up stories in my own HOI4 games, the story addition was great.

[@henrycrystal9740]

4:03 Free and fair referendum! just like real life!

[@DonnellGreen]

The voice snippet at the end was from a Presidential Ad from Kennedy Or Lyndon B Johnson I forget which one

[@reaper9946]

Why i dont have the right names for citys if i play this mod ?

[@iamhego]

I suggest to spend 20 years as Shukshin's Russian Federation In TNO With the Second west Russian war sub mod

[@Destroyer67512]

I love the story telling intro!

[@iGamezRo]

I am Romanian. The name of the guy who is leader when you puppeted Romania is Vadim Tudor. Ummm, he died in 2015.

[@Gurinrando]

press esc when a focus pops up to open the focus tree

[@The_Marechal]

I really liked the "lore", keep doing it pls

[@Dacjr314]

20:10 What did he say 😭

[@memesthememer766]

20:10 what did he say???

[@wiseibis]

plz play monarchist komi in tno, it’s really fun and wholesome

[@carinaslima]

TNO sucks, no.

[@PatrikGorniak]

@@carinaslima no

[@carinaslima]

@@PatrikGorniak It does suck,

[@PatrikGorniak]

@@carinaslima nuh uh

[@theholypeanut8193]

@@carinaslima Its subjective. Some people like it, some people hate it. Just because you hate it doesn't mean that it objectively sucks.

[@marshall8782]

roast pork leg and doritos, you f*cking gremlin. loved the vid btw, keep up the good work!

[@FlowerPotsM]

7:09 how

[@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva]

24:19 - The NVA didn't win the war, the American domestic political situation led them to withdraw in a way that made the South losing more or less unavoidable. Yes, the end result is the same, but it's a pretty bad analogue to a conventional war between Russia and NATO. The Russians don't have the Viet Cong and a complicit American media industry doing a double-whammy attack on domestic morale, and even if they had those kinds of assets it wouldn't change the fact that Poland by itself would be enough of a hurdle that the Russians would have essentially no chance to even go for a Blitzkrieg-style quick victory.

[@subdefy4518]

What’s the song at the start?

[@einfachswayz6366]

to serve russia

[@DirewolfTherius]

0:56-1:08 song?

[@PatrikGorniak]

to serve russia

[@babooin_736]

Ahahahaha pam pam pam pam param pam pam pam param in 2024-2026 when he starting world war.

[@elpanchomayonesa8069]

saying russia is struggling is something that would have worked in 2022 or 2023 😭😭

[@donaldtrumplover2254]

They are still struggling tho

[@elpanchomayonesa8069]

@@donaldtrumplover2254 fun fact, ukraine deployed more man in the front than russia

[@jdftrains3507]

@@donaldtrumplover2254 they're advancing on every front and started their kharkiv offensive not too long ago, they haven't been struggling since last year

[@donaldtrumplover2254]

@@elpanchomayonesa8069 Yes that is what should happen, they are a nation trying to compete with a country that has had 10x more money to spend on its military over two decades before the war. Russia is having a hard time taking a few km at a time with the total pre war population worth of cities taken in the past 6 months not even amounting to 100,000. Even if you combine the aid given with the total military expenditure of Ukraine since its existence it still doesn’t match up to the total Russian military expenditure since 2003.

[@donaldtrumplover2254]

@@jdftrains3507 how far have they advanced? You consider a few km in months “not struggling”? You guys sound like world war 1 generals I swear.

[@allen7520]

I’ve been following the war in Ukraine for the past year pretty closely while also catching up on the history of the conflict, Russia, Ukraine and all the other associated parties. I don’t think they can truly “Win” the war in Ukraine let alone against NATO. 1. Incompetence The most obvious thing I want to mention is how poor the performance of the Russian army has been up to this point. As it stands right now Russia has sacrificed 470,000 combat casualties, thousands of armored vehicles and tanks, hundreds of aircraft (including a few of the A50 early warning aircraft Russia uses that cost boatloads of money), and a countless amount of equipment. All of these had been for a few hundred square kilometers of Ukraine a country with a small fraction of its population. Not only this but their commanders do not even follow their own fighting doctrine designed for the Russians. This may change with the shuffling and moving of Shoigu but I doubt it. People thought Ukraine would fall in 3 days before the war and that Russia was the second best military in the world. We know now that couldn’t be further from the truth. 2. A failing economy A large portion of the Russian economy is supported by oil. Since early in the war Ukraine has wreaked havoc on Russian oil refineries using cheap kamikaze and modified small planes. Dropping Russia output of refined petroleum products 25%. This has lowered the cost of crude oil around the world as Russia is forced to export it for less than they otherwise would be able to. Not only this but while sanctions haven’t been 100% effective they have crippled the Russia war effort and forced them to get “dual use” equipment from China. 3. Western Economic and Political soft power. The majority of western countries are not currently operating in a war economy. Even so with the western countries only donating .2% (US) to like 4-5% (Estonia) of their total GDP to Ukraine and the damage it has done has been insane. The sanctions have also done damage to the Russian economy and isolated Russians. The west is waking up and realizing what Putin wants and is showing unity. Letting Putin know that we won’t get tired of this war and we will defend democracy no matter what the cost. Which brings me to my next point. 4. The will to fight. It is a lot easier to fight a war of attrition when you are fighting for a cause. This is something the Ukrainians have the advantage in (and NATO would too as I cannot see NATO ever making the first move in a war like this) and will likely continue to for the duration of the war as they have been fighting since 2014. Russia is the invader in this war and that mindset is going to keep your soldiers from being as effective as they could be. This is a mindset that is catching up to Russian soldiers as they murder their fellow slavs. I know you mentioned Vietnam and America but the difference between this and the Russo Ukraine war is in this. The Ukrainians and the Vietnamese have that sweet home field advantage and moral boost. Combine this with. 5. Western Military technology and doctrine superiority The average Russian soldier doesn’t even have proper body armor or a ballistic helmet, a AK platform rifle pulled out a humid factory with some ammo made in the 90s, and a week or two of training if that. Compare the to the average Ukrainian soldier who is not only much more well equipped (modern optics, armor, rifles etc) but significantly better trained. This is reflected in how Ukraine values their soldiers compared to the Russians who don’t even collect their dead alot of the times. Ukraine also has access to some of the best military vehicles made in the last 30 years too. F16s will arrive next month in June or early July. Bradley’s are plentiful. HIMARS and patriot systems. Javelins don’t forget that because Russian tanks are especially vulnerable to top strikes from them because of how the ammunition is stored. The list goes on and on and as long as western weapons keep coming in I just don’t see Russia achieving their war goals. Also I know you mentioned specifically France being unwilling to fight. But what’s wild is France is one of the few Western countries who has said specifically that French boots on the ground in combat roles is not off the table. 6. The Russian home front We saw during the election in Russia recently that there are a good amount of Russian citizens who are unhappy with the war and their government. There is even a group of Russians fighting for Ukraine called the Freedom of Russia legion who fights for democratic Russia. Widows continue to be denied death benefits for their dead spouses. Some of them don’t even know where their husbands are. Some have been dead for months and the Russian government denies it. While it may not lead to any revolution or coup it will create instability at home and curb their will to fight. Because Russians are dying alot of them are 3-4 for every Ukrainian. 7. Bonus Russia has a lower GDP than California state and is close to the GDP of New York State. The bottom line is Russia already believes they are fighting NATO while just engaging Ukraine and are not doing so hot. So I don’t believe there is any way they could win a conventional war against NATO. That doesn’t mean they won’t try though and it will be extremely ugly if they do. Just to be clear too I don’t not see Ukraine winning in a traditional sense either. I think the war ends with crimea, the donbass and Luhansk’s all in Russian control. That’s a hard pill to swallow for Ukraine but that may be the price for peace. Personally I think they should try to recapture ALL of their territories as it IS UKRAINE. But I don’t find it realistic or feasible at this moment in time. Who knows maybe F-16s will change the game and Ukraine can get air superior idk.

[@grabelli]

you could say most of these are right, but not "will to fight". ukraine lost more than 15 million people because they left the country, immigrated etc. they are not willing to fight. they want to survive, not to support their bloody regime

[@Fillrob55]

i aint reading allat

[@shipsability]

Well, they are advancing right now, however they are also fighting NATO. Multiple generals admitted that there are NATO troops in Ukraine. It's proven, it's there, and they ain't doing too hot. For what I could say personally, no winners right now. Just WW1.

[@BrattWuuurst]

@@shipsability Well if its proven that NATO soldiers are in Ukraine could you link me the article of it. I'm assuming you're meaning NATO troops that are in active combat with russia in ukraine.

[@allen7520]

@@Fillrob55 Cool no one asked you. Thanks for filtering yourself out for me.

[@thtg4297]

Song; to serve Russia

[@sonal8109]

You really need to try EoaNB

[@nicho9879]

Name of the song in 1:00 pls ?

[@PatrikGorniak]

to serve russia

[@username-oz6gz]

the moment putin become boris savinkov bravo russian state

[@bartekgondek5521]

Farewell forever (im writing down all the songs)

[@danielszabo7748]

Correction Viktor Orbán isn't the president of Hungary but prime minister.

[@momokalover283]

What's the russian song used in the video?

[@ALFA-sm2nm]

Timestamp?

[@AndrewCoolguy1]

To Serve Russia (DPRK Choir Version)

[@bachtruongson9408]

Wow your videos are very high quality, you deserve wayyyy more subs

[@katselija001]

btw ukraine was ready to surender when russians marched to the airfield but usa biden democratic said no to zelensky

[@revolutionaryfrog157]

HOWARD HAMLIN?

[@ATonyAtLaw2021]

I believe russia wouldn’t win against nato unless other countries got involved in the war against nato. Worse outcome, nuclear war

[@hovtchil873]

I could easily be wrong, but I think NATO would win anyway, the US military is just that good. More countries joining would just mean more deaths

[@gamergodeighty1686]

Morals? In hoi4?? UNBELIEVABLE!

[@Johann.863]

6:38 thats not an enclave

[@Sgt_ioiwsl]

yeah my soul was hurt a bit when he said that

[@OhYNo]

I like the story intro a lot more. The previous way of showing what you’re doing in the future to going back to the start is really confusing for a first time viewer and may have them mistake your channel for an ADHD editing style channel lol

[@KK-my6hw]

Vietnam was kind of like Ukraine in reverse. The average native conscripts were poorly equipped, but they were also supported by the USSR with modern equipment and their AA took out over 10k aircraft which the US and her allies were completely unprepared for.

[@ShadowDragon1848]

Vietnam and Russia are not comparable. Both wars would be total different. I think Russia could occupy a few swats or NATO area, the Baltic for example. But I don´t see Russia really winning against NATO.

[@iplaygames8090]

Russia could maybe push into poland but it cannot win a conventional war against NATO.

[@aneggselentfellow5607]

I haven't watched the video (yet?) but this might be the most controversial one

[@WhiteDevil-hi2nk]

i think you are right. In a defensive war Russia world absolutely kick nato's ass. millions of russians will sign up to fight like in ww2.They have like what 20 million men to conscript in reserves. But if russia attacked nato first i don't think it will go very well for them.

[@Sgt_ioiwsl]

i think the third world war will totally depend on who attacks first and where they attack if they focus on Russia then there’s probably no hope the west needs to shift focus to the downfall of the CCP instead

[@artos9406]

sorry, but having 200 factories in 2022 is worse than russian bot did in my game, while I had 260 on Ukraine. in 2021, because he attacked in 2021

[@kuayinal-kadir6846]

There 100% should be an option to put Andrew Tate in power in Romania lol

[@TwisterGamesEverywhere]

PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME HOW DO YOU GET RID OF THE WHITE SQUARES!!

[@theearthguy1814]

it's a graphics thing on his end

[@TwisterGamesEverywhere]

I have that too but how do you get rid of it???

[@colonelcam]

On the launcher switch from 11x to 9x legacy in game settings

[@svampen7782]

Its not just you. Most of NATO is struggling Military wise rn especially when it comes to manpower. Thats what 80 years of softy soft politics does to a population. Not proud or willing to fight and die for their homeland.

[@helenos_152]

Can you play TNO and do Monarchist Komi playthrough please??? Also the intro of this video was gold

[@alexcritical9351]

"""monarchist""" komi :]

[@helenos_152]

@@alexcritical9351 yes, what else would it be?

[@alexcritical9351]

@@helenos_152 i sure hope that country respects the rulings of human rights conventions!

[@DevDog98]

russia cant even beat ukraine, there is absolutely no way they could fight nato hell POLAND on their own could beat russia.

[@L_LGBTQ]

1920

[@notKyv]

But i dont think Colonel Cam is Putin lol

[@JacobFraps]

It looks so ugly seeing poland behind russia, dont see how it could get fixed

[@angelanelligan8083]

How tf does this video hav 7 likes and 3 views

[@PLKID9075]

It's a new video

[@thegreatdothai]

@@PLKID9075 he mean that the like are more than view

[@MrAlex_Raven]

1:00 Careful now, Paradox may ban you from everything relate to them for trying to win the SMO in game. Hah-hah.

[@evart615]

Nice a Video at 2:30 a.m.

[@Null_aaaa]

Mod?

[@braylen5830]

Its in the title

[@Just_One_0]

Because I am totally normal I am actually going to talk about why I don't think Russia could win a war against NATO. 1. Geography: Russia has the very unfortunate situation of its entire heartland existing in the Great Northern European Plain, which stretches from the coastlines of France all the way to the Urals. Now this does give Russia some advantages as well, they could if lucky speed through Northern Europe, Crushing Poland and the Baltics, and quickly making their way through Germany, but this quickly leads to a big problem, the frontline would become overstretched. Having a Frontline from Romania to Western Europe would be extremely costly to maintain, sending resources so far through such a small region, not to mention all of that would be within bombing distance, making it even harder. Furthermore this doesn't consider other geographical features like rivers and mountains, which are great for defense, but awful for assaulting. NATO would have partial or complete control of the Vistula, Oder, Elbe, Danube, Rhine, Seine, Loire, Rhone, Po, Garonne, Ebro, and Tagus rivers, and those are just the big ones; not to mention all the mountain ranges like the Carpathians, Alps, Pyrenees, Balkans, and the Apennines. This would be a nightmare for the Russians to deal with, but that wouldn't be all. The Russians would also have to fight multiple fronts because of said Geography, the could be fighting in Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, The Balkans, possibly Anatolia, and the Far East (if the US decides to cross from Alaska to said Far East, though this might not be a good idea, Far East would be useless to invade as there is only one route from there to the west and it is a singular train track). 2. Home Advantage/threat to way of life: The European members of NATO would have home advantage, using their knowledge of roads, rivers, towns, cities, hills, etc. to be able to stall the Russians, plus civilians would most likely set up militias and sabotage Russian efforts, effectively stalling the Russian advance. Furthermore, people are much more likely to fight for their own countries survival than people think, the Polish Resistance and the French Resistance come to mind for most, but it happens in many countries. People are much more likely to take up arms and die if they think their way of life is genuinely in danger, for example the only time in Australian history that conscription was accepted, and the only time US soldiers were allowed to operate in Australia, was right after Japan had invaded the entire pacific, and Darwin was bombed. I am sure the peoples of Germany and France would go and sign up because their nations ideals would be at risk. 3. Cohesion: NATO isn't just an alliance, it is an entire military command structure, with a well detailed and highly trained and effective military force that has had 70 odd years of constant training, with so many nations in play they had to make sure the entire system worked, and while we haven't seen NATO fight a conventional war, they seem to operate in training very well, and I am sure they have perfected the art of cohesion, something Russia is... lacking. Thank you for coming to my TED talk that probably no one will see.

[@Sgt_ioiwsl]

just TL;DR the message for people who aren’t trying to read the holy bible in a YT comment section

[@theholypeanut8193]

@@Sgt_ioiwsl Well, I am trying to read The Holy Bible in a KZbin comment section.

[@romytch]

you should play "East Showdown". its like "Across the Dnieper", but a little better, though unfinished

[@bartekgondek5521]

TO SERVE RUSSIA, LETS GOO (the song)

[@kizermason]

Bro speaks English, but failed English