The guy isn't a loser. His leaders have stolen his chances since he was born... they stole the money that was meant for the hospital where he was born, the school he went to he maybe got a bad paying job fixing the streets of his town, because that money for the streets also got stolen. i would start drinking for less ....
@DonFahquidmi2 ай бұрын
Good point. Nobody is inherently a loser. I've had soldiers on my teams who had a loser attitude. No problem. Treat them with respect and restore their dignity. Whatever they had experienced in civilian life that had damaged their self-image became a thing of the past.
@looperbirhinger70432 ай бұрын
If he had a sense of moral - he would go steal money, that's much more morally right then murdering for money. You can steal from a corporation of government. But they choose to enlist and become paid mercenaries.
@DonFahquidmi2 ай бұрын
@russbell6418 Yes, that's too common among veterans, even those who have never experienced combat. Having had their self-esteem and dignity restored only to go back to the things that tore them down.
@Legitpenguins992 ай бұрын
@DonFahquidmi THANK YOU for being a great and caring leader. I wish that type of thing was more common
@jeffveraart26952 ай бұрын
No, he's a loser. Not all Russians are like this, many live comfortable normal lives in cities and towns. They work or study just like everyone else. If everyone was like him he wouldn't think he's a loser, he would just be normal.
@lylewalker56812 ай бұрын
I mean, I’ll bang on Russia as much as anybody else, but this is just straight up sad. The percentage of recruits over 50 is just mind numbingly depressing.
@TyllerBoom2 ай бұрын
Nothing is more shameful than sending grandpa to fight a war of aggression, and retreat means death. I couldn't imagine America doing this, or anything outside of a totalitarian country.
@joecanuck37512 ай бұрын
Life under authoritarian rule. Vote blue if you don't want to see it in the US.
@bobbyjones53772 ай бұрын
Least grandpa got to live, 18 year old boys, not so much.
@seancidy60082 ай бұрын
You don't know what their life at home was like.
@TyllerBoom2 ай бұрын
@@seancidy6008 do I need to in order to understand this as a negative thing?
@CrossCultural-c7f2 ай бұрын
This is like systematic suicide.
@poeutpoch94962 ай бұрын
It's a dictatorship syndrome that consume all those who blindingly follow him. We in the US can see this.
@seancidy60082 ай бұрын
Newsflash: Russians are fatalistic and always have been.
@titanomachy22172 ай бұрын
I suspect that may well be the point. The people in charge of Russia do not care at all about the future of the nation. Russian birth rates are unsustainably low, and yet instead of doing anything to raise fecundity, they are needlessly sacrificing hundreds of thousands for a pointless war that only benefits the oligarchs. I think the powers that be may actually want Russia and Ukraine to be destroyed in a mutually destructive conflagration. I always suspect there is more to any geopolitical intrigue than meets the eye.
@CMDRunematti2 ай бұрын
If you're forced, it's not suicide, it's murder
@geofflepper32072 ай бұрын
I just saw a documentary about a woman who traveled to the wilderness far away and died, very possibly in a suicide. Apparently a lot of people go to the wilderness to commit suicide away from family and friends so that they just disappear and die without getting attention. One expert said that as well many people travel to live (not die) in the wilderness as a sort of temporary suicide in that they have disappeared from their friends, family and society, possibly to find out if anyone will miss them when they're gone. Although these Russian soldiers are not going to the wilderness and certainly won't be alone there is some similarity to people who flee society to go to the wilderness as a type of "suicide" whether temporary or permanent. Perhaps there is also some similarly to the children who pack a few things in a bag and run away from home and say, "When I die they will be sorry for how badly they treated me". Except those children almost always change their mind and return home within an hour.
@stephenhayes29962 ай бұрын
As an ex soldier my self I find this so distressing. We were self confident and backed up to the hilt by our commanders with the best kit of the day and trained to a very high standard,and every man jack expected to return home in one peace and most did. UK forces are still among the best in the world. God bless Ukrainian and God help those poor misguided Russians.
@Apophis10102 ай бұрын
I would guess that if an attack fails, everyone would try something different. Russians seem like a mindless zombie horde, advancing ahead the same way
@deannekliene26732 ай бұрын
Families need to be able to collect if solders die in combat....its disgraceful because they know....they're using these men as "Frontline buffers"....knowing they won't have to pay them...
@minerran2 ай бұрын
The Russian army would not last a month against a comparable sized British army force. UK forces are excellent, I agree!
@skiddzjust13892 ай бұрын
@@minerran I'm against russia, but still a nice joke
@rickywinthrop2 ай бұрын
@skiddzjust1389 it's quite true I'm afraid. If their militaries were the same size the Brits would even give the U.S a run for their money.
@artfx92 ай бұрын
These guys are literally playing "russian roulette" with a full barrel and 1 defective round.
@markrivera85872 ай бұрын
Actually that's ruight
@timothydixon25452 ай бұрын
You know what’s hilarious and funny about that statement is Thursday a reason why it’s called Russian roulette and that you just said it was hilarious
@timothydixon25452 ай бұрын
There is a reason not Thursday. Talk to text is good not on my stupid, smart phone.
@artfx92 ай бұрын
@@timothydixon2545 still makes no sense whatever you typed or said. 🙄
@TheManofthecross2 ай бұрын
And they are of the 155th brigade the one brigade responsible for war crimes they have lower chances then the others
@jonlee22172 ай бұрын
They stand there with guns in their hands and they know they're facing certain death but they still don't make sure that "officer" dies first. Incredible!
@Jcron132 ай бұрын
That’s what I’ve been thinking for well over a year now it just blows my mind
@Jcron132 ай бұрын
Right
@thorwolfblackfirer57232 ай бұрын
Now I know why Azov and others find small number of trenches when instead of z boys just bodys are captains when they retreat small cases
@Robert68892 ай бұрын
Are you familiar with concepts such as oath, subordination, and duty to the country?
@TootSocialTV2 ай бұрын
@@Robert6889 More importantly, have YOU heard of "I'm just following orders" was no defence in the Nuremburg Trials? It is an unjust war and the Russian commanders sending their men ito CERTAIN death is MURDER. But the Russian's are cowards and very few rise up against anythign from their superiors.
@matsuz1002 ай бұрын
$150'000 is no use when left dead in a field.
@themurmeli882 ай бұрын
And I'm pretty sure they, their corpse nor the family of said corpse is ever going to see a penny of that money.
@bob-kf8jd2 ай бұрын
Thats the point. The MoD uses them with false promises for meatwaves
@QuincyJacobs-i8hАй бұрын
I'm so sad for these Russians soldiers and their families, Russian people are so nice the people are so different from the government
@John-mf6ky17 күн бұрын
Who's to say your family will ever even see a sliver of that money if you die too. "Sorry Natasha, comrade Sergey is MIA so we can't pay out, he may still be alive"
@markusbalbach760815 күн бұрын
its not for HIM tho, its 4 da fam
@LordMondegrene2 ай бұрын
My dad said there's an old Russian saying, "The poor could make a good living, if the rich would pay them to die for them." Sounds like Putin made that saying a reality. 😢
@jacobfrost21312 ай бұрын
Kidding?
@ScottDore-jn3nf2 ай бұрын
So sad I feel for these older soldiers and even the young ones no one is win except Putin poor Russians
@bilboriches72162 ай бұрын
@ScottDore-jn3nf LoL, russians are poor financially. Don't pitty them for joining the war. They could riot and change the government but they believed that they won't be killed by Ukrainians at the war. They were not fooled. They wanted to believe that. It's their fault.
@thosethatcan2 ай бұрын
Damn that sucks eggs
@Dokumentarfilme2 ай бұрын
Is it? Sounds more like western standards
@GGG-b2z8l2 ай бұрын
I watch a Russian KZbinr called “Vasya In The Hay”. It has opened my eyes up to how rural Russians live. It’s not a life, such is the poverty. I recommend anyone to watch a few episodes.
@seancidy60082 ай бұрын
Russia is backward in technology and its society, but they are also 'my country right or wrong' patriotic in a way that people in the West used to be.
@louiebrown55152 ай бұрын
@@seancidy6008 No wonder Conservatives are flocking to Russia. Judging by all the video blogs they are releasing, it's a great place to live for the white man.
@juliaelrod21542 ай бұрын
I watch it too. If you aren't living in Moscow/St Petersburg, it's like living in the 1800s without the stuff you need to survive in the 1800s.
@geoffgill53342 ай бұрын
Havnt seen him recently...like his content !!!
@seancidy60082 ай бұрын
@@juliaelrod2154 Vodka makes your passing easier.
@hydencp2 ай бұрын
A paratrooper over 50? Dudes not even gonna survive the drop let alone combat.
@franciscoragland15645 күн бұрын
He’s gonna piss himself
@markkimmerling42512 ай бұрын
That is a really demotivating speech. I remember when i was in Desert Storm and our dirtbag e-6 said to us “privates are a dime a dozen , i can replace privates but not vehicles”. Needless to say he became high on the frag list.
@GaryEtheridge-d5n2 ай бұрын
What a DOUCHE BAG- Thank you for your service! Glad you made it back safe too
@theshoot29582 ай бұрын
People still get frag after Vietnam?
@lasagnaocelot47662 ай бұрын
@@theshoot2958Happens a lot, just held to a different standard and practices in the modern age. Most of the time, it existed before the name, and long after the name was declared
@SoloRenegade2 ай бұрын
In the US, we value our lives, we value human life. any "leader" who doesn't value the lives of his men is the enemy of those men. This is part fo what makes teh US military so good. We get creative and adapt to stay alive and win.
@anthonycolbourne42062 ай бұрын
Putin would trade any of his soldiers for a rock to stand on as long as that rock gives him one step forward ... a soldier's life is worth one rock...
@MickyChowMein692 ай бұрын
In Afghanistan US had just under 2000 fatalities. When you imagine that (Including both sides and civilians) that many die in Ukraine every day, for nearly a thousand days now. The scale is hard to grasp. Cheers for the vid squire.
@glintongordon68112 ай бұрын
It puzzles me that people believe these numbers. Russia Ukraine war literally has the lowest civilian casualty count of any conflict, Google it.
@beerandchips25452 ай бұрын
@@glintongordon6811he didn't say this war had the highest civvy casualties, just that the number of civilians killed is not zero. Significantly, Russia has been targeting civilians from day one.
@newwonderer2 ай бұрын
@@glintongordon6811 civilians only on ukraine side (~50k), think of it yourself is that big number or not. But army casualties are huge
@WRAAAMmh2 ай бұрын
@@glintongordon6811 That makes no sense either. Ukraine war has less civilian deaths than the most miniscule conflicts in history? How about conflicts fought in air or sea without any civilian presence? Numbers are impossible to verify, but a lot of explosive material is raining down on cities where people live, so obviously it is happening on some scale.
@mishabazenov70172 ай бұрын
@@beerandchips2545 Ага - с начала войны солдаты РФ даже отпускали переодетых в гражданскую одежду солдат ВСУ в связи с заявлением что это внучек приехал погостить со Львова в Харьковскую область. А сколько народа они уничтожили в 2014 году призахвате Крыма , отключили воду и электричество. Они даже мост построили для подвоза пвточнвх камер. Вот откуда такая информация?
@nagi13372 ай бұрын
Russian is just trading men for farm land. You can see how pointless this war is. They don't have any strategic objectives other than to gain more square kilometers.
@MikeK-l6v2 ай бұрын
look at the map dude, russians have more land than they can manage, the soldiers are there for money
@Robert68892 ай бұрын
Ukraine is losing many more soldiers due to the overwhelming firepower superiority of the Russians. The Russians believe that their opponents will run out much faster.
@pavloburyanov58422 ай бұрын
Man, its even isnt farm land, its mined as hell
@joca29032 ай бұрын
maybe they plan to move more west and sell Siberia to China?
@Bogosbinded2 ай бұрын
@@joca2903damn that would be crazy ngl
@shyamdevadas60992 ай бұрын
No, his reference to "Indians" was referring to volunteers from India. Many impoverished Indians responded to Putin's overseas recruitment campaigns. When they got there and found out how crappy things were, they sent word back home. In response, Prime Minister Modi of India had a word with Putin and summarily got all Indian contracts nullified, so that the Indians can leave and go back to India. I believe that this is a unique situation with the foreign volunteers. India's government doesn't like Putin's war. Not so much for the sake of humanitarian purposes, but for the potential economic and geopolitical risks to the hemisphere. India is one of two countries (China being the other) that has the clout to do this. Good video, by the way.
@GarryMercer-tq5uo2 ай бұрын
Not exactly, there have been a number of Chinese volunteers who were allowed to act autonomously but denied the freedom to return home by russia. China's penalty against its citizens who volunteer to fight in russia is pretty severe
@shyamdevadas60992 ай бұрын
@@GarryMercer-tq5uo Interesting. I didn't know that, but I can see it happening...especially in the provinces in China, where the poverty can really be bad. Thanks for the info.
@Gavriloprincep2 ай бұрын
I think you mean India is one of two countries since putin isn't a country, well yet, I can see it being just called putinland soon enough lol. But the context is being able to gtfo of the donbass so you must mean the Indians who are leaving.
@dialytan20022 ай бұрын
There's less than 70 Indians serving in the whole Russian Army, so he's not referring to them. I think the translation was wrong.
@shyamdevadas60992 ай бұрын
@@dialytan2002 Actually, that sounds about right, in terms of the numbers. A lot of poor Indians and Nepalis signed up. Modi interceded to have them released months ago. But, I'm guessing that there were a few who chose to stay there for financial reasons. These foreign soldiers are kept in common units. My guess is that the Russian commander referring to the "Indians" was referring to either a depleted unit that needed replacement, or one that was already gone. I just don't believe that a Russian commander would randomly refer to a group of people as "Indians". It's more likely to refer to Koreans as "Chinese", which some Russian intercepts have picked up. But, Indians are too distinct a group.
@Apophis10102 ай бұрын
Reminds me of a Russian recruitment ad showing men doing jobs like gorcery store bagger, taxi driver, etc.. feeling lost then transformed into "real men" when becoming soldiers. They know the demographic
@GarryMercer-tq5uo2 ай бұрын
Real men that no one will ever try to recover their dead body and not even their wife will bother to remember
@GodwynDiАй бұрын
@@GarryMercer-tq5uo What wife?
@mabutoo2 ай бұрын
My last Battalion commander didn't give big speeches before an assault. He was loading his mags and checking his gear like the rest of us. He led from the front and if he called me today to go to war I would come out of retirement armed to the teeth.
@gunt-her2 ай бұрын
I would hope he was also looking at maps and intel reports.
@mabutoo2 ай бұрын
@@gunt-her Nope, we just prayed and hoped for the best. Here's your sign.
@zd13222 ай бұрын
@@mabutoolmao
@Robert68892 ай бұрын
Now imagine that you and your commander found yourselves on the battlefields of World War I, where your commander had to repeatedly send you into attack and then into counterattack. How quickly would the relationship become strained?
@erithion2 ай бұрын
The English equivalent of the term russians use is "nullify" or "zero out". The 155th brigade is known for executing surrendered nine Ukrainian "droners" and leaving the bodies stripped to their boxers open-air for the Ukrainians to observe. Also, before that for cutting off the head of a killed Ukrainian soldier, putting it on a spike and recording a video with it. So yes, the AFU pay special attention to the 155 russian brigade. The 95th Separate Polesian Air Assault Brigade of AFU in particular regularly publishes a lot of videos with KIA russians from the 155th.
@nagol14502 ай бұрын
Now all that crazy and depressing footage of russian soldiers unaliving themselves when they get injured makes sense. Imagine being in a state of mind where you believe you have nothing to live for and your own side says they will eliminate you if you retreat, might as well go out the easy way.
@magicconchshell17382 ай бұрын
@@toliklisiy5868 cope harder
@legrosbilly43012 ай бұрын
@@toliklisiy5868??? You must be kidding, or just a kid... these footages are sadly legit and f'up
@nagol14502 ай бұрын
@@toliklisiy5868 yes comrade, glory to motherland
@curious_O_o2 ай бұрын
They also know what they do to pow's and can't imagine we would treat them differently. It's brain rot.
@curious_O_o2 ай бұрын
@@toliklisiy5868lol, where are you from? I have been to rural russia, people live in mud.
@baldricksimson2 ай бұрын
i bet hardly ANY money gets paid to the soldiers , recruiting older men saves a fortune in pensions and medical care
@glintongordon68112 ай бұрын
Then why do people keep signing up?
@ManiaMac16132 ай бұрын
@glintongordon6811 Desperation. If you're a poorly educated Russian serf who's struggling to feed his family you may wind up thinking you have no other choice. This is why the age of the average Russian recruit is far older than most militaries.
@Lucas-wn5wm2 ай бұрын
@@glintongordon6811 no jobs and high interedt rates
@shiroamakusa80752 ай бұрын
@@glintongordon6811 Why do people keep falling for confidence crimes?
@glintongordon68112 ай бұрын
@@Lucas-wn5wm but if they don't get paid what's the point.
@lucasfernando40972 ай бұрын
Damn, Paul. This hit home REALLY hard. I know EXACTLY what you are talking about. Back in 2010 I tried to turn my life around and joined the French Foreign Legion. I didn't make the cut and that has shattered my sense of existence since then. I've finally been able to start trail my path, but, at 43, I feel like it might be too late. Last year, I decided I was going to join the Ukrainian International Legion. I basically told myself in December 2023: "If this last attempt at launching fails, I'm joining the Ukrainian Legion." Just the thought of it seemed to spark some sense of purpose inside me. As it turned out, something lined up in the stars and a new opportunity appeared. I decided to take it and I didn't join. I question that decision everyday, and I follow the war daily, watching your videos, watching Ryan McBeth, Preston Stewart, Denys Davydov, Artur Rehi, etc. But I think I'm going to insist on the current path I'm on and see what happens... But the thought is still there, in the back of my mind...
@robertmaybeth34342 ай бұрын
LucasFernando your comment is very poignant and totally relevant to this situation, glad you found something else worth dedicating your life to! I can tell you over and over not to feel bad because the French Legion didn't happen but it won't help anything. I served in the USAF and my career was far from distinguished but I'm very glad I tried it, just like you tried your best for the Legion. I've met hundreds of guys who never even tried to enlist in anything, and I can tell many of them still feel a pang of regret even if they don't say it. The point is you tried hard to get in the FFL, which is one of the toughest units in the entire world, that spits out men even their own, like a chipper in the best of times! Besides there are hundreds of reasons they might bar you from entering the FFL, they might have too many men on the books at the moment for instance so their quals would be a lot tighter, etc. the last thing you should do is take it personally!
@69spook2 ай бұрын
A wannabe soldier.....
@ayoutubecommenter18272 ай бұрын
Im a man who actually did join the ukrainian international legion. I regret it. It's just full of depressed guys looking for purpose. Many of whom have zero idea what the war is even about. They only know "ukraine good russia bad" very simple minded. I personally have been following the war since 2014. I know it very well
@jacobfrost21312 ай бұрын
@@robertmaybeth3434 >Artur Rehi >Denis Davidov You really don't need a brain lmao
@Robert68892 ай бұрын
Do you want the Ukrainians to throw you in to plug another breach where your positions are being shelled by Russian artillery?
@procopiusaugustus62312 ай бұрын
Fatalism is almost a Russian stereotype.
@Robert68892 ай бұрын
Read 'All Quiet on the Western Front'; this is not just a trait of the Russians.
@dannyzero6922 ай бұрын
@@Robert6889 Fatalism isn't a uniquely Russian culture trait, but they are exceptionally more prevalent than in other places. You can see fatalism anywhere from their literatures to history.
@jdsofarАй бұрын
@@Robert6889what is fatalism? Can you explain it in German context?
@joana.6736Ай бұрын
@@jdsofarFatalismus. Google
@chupacabra30410 күн бұрын
@@jdsofaryou can copy paste your question into Google and get an answer immediately and in German
@jeffhoefer89952 ай бұрын
The Russian's had 10k casualties last week!
@RefurbIshment-z7l2 ай бұрын
And Ukraine zero 😅
@therealchayd2 ай бұрын
@@RefurbIshment-z7l Sure, Vatnik.
@Peacewar20202 ай бұрын
@@therealchayd A new Bandera Boy
@mickser1012 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂 Evidence? Proof? Reliable sources?
@Иванпонимаете-г4ш2 ай бұрын
@@RefurbIshment-z7lnot 1 Ukrainian has been killed in the entire war
@teeguy1002 ай бұрын
Tragic. What an incredible addition to your channel. Everyone everywhere should see this. Great work!
@bernardzsikla56402 ай бұрын
Paul is completely right regarding passive men, that life happens to them. I was that guy too. But in Russia, because there is soo much passivity built into the culture (the enormous alcoholism rates reflects this) there is a huge percentage of men that have accepted that someone else is in charge, and there is no way to fight the system. Passivity is not a flaw or exception in their social system but a feature. This also is common in most authoritarian societies.
@amateuramateur2502 ай бұрын
Alcoholism LOL I thought with the advent of the Internet people became smarter, it turns out there are still people like you... Here's what the Internet says TOP-20 most drinking countries in the world in 2022: 1. Moldova 2. Lithuania 3. Czech Republic 4. Nigeria 5. Germany 6. Ireland 7. Luxembourg 8. Latvia 9. Bulgaria 10. Romania 11. Slovenia 12. France 13. Portugal 14. Belgium 15. Seychelles 16. Russia 17. Austria 18. Poland 19. Estonia 20. Great Britain
@wiseian84732 ай бұрын
One of your best videos. Life without purpose. I would blame the Russian elite and leadership for not improving the quality of life in Russia.
@Apophis10102 ай бұрын
This applies everywhere. Young men growing up in poor neighborhoods, seeing rich people next door, will try anything to become respected, make money. Including crime.
@wiseian84732 ай бұрын
@kti5682 what?
@jimkelly4214Ай бұрын
I would blame the man and woman in the street for letting the elite get away with it
@GodwynDiАй бұрын
@@jimkelly4214 They fought multiple revolutions trying to fix it. Never worked.
@danielweston91882 ай бұрын
That would be like a $240k signing bonus for a usa soldier.
@jonnoMoto2 ай бұрын
We're assuming the bonus actually gets paid.
@seancidy60082 ай бұрын
Yes the parity purchasing power or something like that has to be taken into account when you talk about the Russian economics.
@robotaholic2 ай бұрын
Hard to spend the money when you are under sanction
@Lucas-wn5wm2 ай бұрын
@@jonnoMoto thats a cashback for kremlin
@Rozerand2 ай бұрын
I bet there's a "... if you survive" clause somewhere at the bottom of the page, font size 0.25
@andreasmartin79422 ай бұрын
How do they manage to frighten their own soldiers so much that they don't even think about fighting back? They DO have weapons too, don't they?
@Мрійник2 ай бұрын
they are not afraid, they want to be there
@EdwardMoore-n9z2 ай бұрын
@@Мрійник. No, they want to live
@Мрійник2 ай бұрын
@@EdwardMoore-n9z then why they are still there?
@letir75612 ай бұрын
It's systematic. Gaslighting and violence at every step, psychological and physical, until humand cannot even begin to think about reisiting. There is personal videos from soldiers who literally talk: "Our commander is drunk, he send us on suicide mission, he personaly going to kill us, he is traitor, etc". They know that they going to die, but instead of resisting or at least running away, most just choosing to obey and die. Like animals.
@Мрійник2 ай бұрын
@@letir7561"he personally going to kill us, he is traitor" very interesting phrase, they calling him a traitor, so they are ok with killing ukrainians, they just don`t like dying
@samsham82182 ай бұрын
GREAT point. The feeling of being needed and being part of something is SO important.
@12Bsure2 ай бұрын
Excellent podcast!.. I had a best buddy like you who died in Nam... It's great you came back safe from the Middle East. Bless You......
@masterofnone42832 ай бұрын
Paul is one of the few if not the only American military vlogger who actually realizes what Ukraine is facing and respects the Ukrainian military for their fight and the ways they approach it. Much respect and keep on doing what you're doing!
@curious_O_o2 ай бұрын
Watch Dylan Burns, he's not a vet but is very level headed and visits the frontline to get his footage
@masterofnone42832 ай бұрын
@curious_O_o I know. I follow him too. Good kid, very articulate when it comes to arguing and debating.
@SummitMan1652 ай бұрын
Good report Paul ! 🫡🫡🇺🇦🇺🇦💪💪🇨🇦🇨🇦
@wolfumz2 ай бұрын
2:20 I had a friend, we grew up together, and after he got his degree at Harvard, he taught university courses in Estonia, Lithuania, and St. Petersburg. He was in St. Petersburg for two years, living with his fiancé's mother in a middle class apartment. He talked a lot about how hard it was for him to wrap his head around the sheer fatalism and learned helplessness embedded in Russian culture. Usually university students can be naive and idealistic, and you have to remind them of reality, as a professor.... but not in st. Petersburg! Even the bright, high performing students who are more privileged than peers, they were deeply pessimistic about politics. They all have this mentality described here from the 35 year old enlistee. "It's not for me to decide." Everyone is painfully aware of how bad things are, but things cannot be changed. They _must_ be this way. Teaching in the US, students complaints tended to say my friends was overly erudite and he could be condescending. Teaching in St. Petersburg, though, he got the reputation of an air-headed, happy-go-lucky youth from California, lol. I dont want to make this sound more dramatic than it is. But this kind if pessimism is hard-coded into Russian culture, and it leaves its mark on everyone, in one way or another.
@jdsofarАй бұрын
What is fatalism? Like they just want to die and have no hope because of the history of ww2?
@thomasbullen5239Ай бұрын
Maybe not fatalism, just being bummed out all the time. Why? Because they live in a dictatorship with anything they say or think could provoke a visit from the police. Like being watched constantly.
@troysmith99052 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@mathewsousa39152 ай бұрын
The way you said losers was savage
@educouchez67092 ай бұрын
Seriously, man… you are becoming a source of wisdom in the “school of life” bordering on the philosophical. You pour out very thoughtful and wise reflections on human stupidity in each post and I am left with that feeling of fortunately I am not the only one who sees beyond this war, as a symptom of the social illness in which we find ourselves (on both sides of the front...)
@dj69612 ай бұрын
Wow
@guillaumehoudard1142 ай бұрын
russia society is so grim
@johnnymclaneutah2 ай бұрын
country run by criminals basicly. russia is pretty much a dystopian post-apocalyptic world. law enforcement and military is corrupted to the top because even the officers dont have any money, the salaries are bad. everybody is just trying to survive and wont hesitate throwing their friends under the bus if it means more bread on the table.
@curious_O_o2 ай бұрын
You don't even know. I had to deal with russians directly in my peaceful life, and none of those encounters were positive.
@planetfun852 ай бұрын
@@guillaumehoudard114 fentanyl, homelesness, gangs, school shootings, they/them furies, medical sistem, obesity, what else ?
@doscelulares2 ай бұрын
@@planetfun85 still having that over not being able to pay cancer treatments
@jdsofarАй бұрын
@@planetfun85haha you have Hiroshi Yoshimura - Surround on your detox playlist you know what’s up 👊🏻 that helped me through some crazy hard times
@Cue_D_ball2 ай бұрын
One thing that I don’t believe, is having a superior officer liquidating me. The army that I was in was the 🇺🇸, and I can assure you that there would be no way an officer would liquidate any of us.👞
@Robert68892 ай бұрын
Now imagine that you and your commander found yourselves on the battlefields of World War I, where your commander had to repeatedly send you into attack and then into counterattack. How quickly would the relationship become strained?
@geoffgill53342 ай бұрын
Amen brother
@Cue_D_ball2 ай бұрын
@@Robert6889 World War I I was not born so I won’t be able to imagine that.
@blqhamuha2 ай бұрын
The law allows for the death penalty in wartime.
@Gabriel-x3d2f2 ай бұрын
@Cue_D_ball yes you can. Devolop your brain. Dumb people die, naive people get taken advantage of
@garyb71932 ай бұрын
Soon they'll promise 'Serve a year on the front line and when you make it home, we'll let you write the amount on your own check'.
@ketaminekermit8022 ай бұрын
@@garyb7193 can't write without arms. Smart.
@robertmaybeth34342 ай бұрын
Sign up for Storm Z, win a free pony!
@notmenotme6142 ай бұрын
Serve a year in the front line… just a human wave attack every day.
@deannekliene26732 ай бұрын
This reminds me of when my brother signed up for Vietnam...he used to say he changed his mind when the plane landed😅😅😅 god bless his heart he was shot with scrapnel in a hellicopter and came home with a whole different attitude....he just died a month ago after fighting years of the effects of agent orange ....he had seemed to finally retire n adjust to what happened so many years ago....RIP TIM! He fought in a "senseless war" ...
@Warpigletsofpower2 ай бұрын
At this point,.as a U.S. citizen I'd take pay to go to Ukraine,well as a contract worker, not meat wave attacks! I had a relative that made almost 10k a month as a truck driver in Iraq, not always these opportunities for everyone that's desperate. Another relative made extra money even as soldier around the same time because it was wartime.
@5idi2 ай бұрын
Problem in Russia is no one asks you where you want to serve, and you know where the highest demand is these days.
@brucegordon90072 ай бұрын
Always that chance, one attempt on Trumps life in America.. Crazy people everywhere.
@glintongordon68112 ай бұрын
@@5idinobody in any army gets to choose
@robertmaybeth34342 ай бұрын
Did your relative survive it? And whats the closest he came to death and/or beheading?
@curious_O_o2 ай бұрын
So why don't you join the foreign legion?
@rtdehaan2 ай бұрын
Thanks
@BoBnotThat12 ай бұрын
Their signing up in Moscow so Putin doesn't have to sign up anyone from Moscow, its not a good look for Putin. He saves face with the people who live in the biggest two citys, and who do most the voting, that counts.
@telenkevichpolina37592 ай бұрын
I think it is more about pleasing minor members of goverment - their families and friends live there. Because voting is dead and irrelevant. Besides, mayors try to gather recruits the way they can and mayor of Moscow just can use more money than others.
@thommyrubin18662 ай бұрын
All you said in this video is so true! Thank you so much for that!
@rcchin78972 ай бұрын
Great video. Nobody covers these interviews, except for POWs and the intercepted calls.
@dieterwtm89412 ай бұрын
What an idiotic war! Completely useless. Let us all help Ukraine!
@Younggrasshopper-z9qАй бұрын
Both Russia and Ukraine are equally corrupt no difference.
@kevinp25932 ай бұрын
Thanks Paul 👍👍👍👍👍🌻🕶️
@danielkaelin11082 ай бұрын
Languish in the holding pattern of life. Most excrllent.
@caseymorrisey11002 ай бұрын
Thanks Paul!
@Doom9012 ай бұрын
Good content, thank you!
@L_Train2 ай бұрын
7:37 he could just be saying that about his wife because hes afraid to tell the truth to the media. You have to keep that in mind.
@darrencorrigan85052 ай бұрын
Thanks, Paul.
@luminyam61452 ай бұрын
17:20 he literally means the Indians, Modi got Putin to send his Indian soldiers home.
@xxfloppypillowxx2 ай бұрын
The fact that they're paying 20k for 18-65 tells you a lot about how dire things are in most countries you'd be over 20 years past enlistment age.
@markbarnes72032 ай бұрын
Zero out is another term used for killing your own troops. If you don't make certain goals or objectives they will say Zero Out! They also used to use Code 200 which is the Code for Zinc Coffins or mean Killed in Action.
@gordonaverageguy95562 ай бұрын
"You will all most certainly die, but first, allow me to depress you."
@johncunningham48202 ай бұрын
Life within " The Workers Paradise "....................... Really sad , this .
@jonlee22172 ай бұрын
The workers paradise ended in 1991. Russia is now the oligarchs paradise.
@VajrahahaShunyata2 ай бұрын
It was never a paradise. It was a gulag and you obeyed
@jonlee22172 ай бұрын
@@VajrahahaShunyata Yeah, I meant "workers paradise" in a sarcastic way. You're absolutely right with your gulag comment. The whole country was a gulag, not just parts of Siberia and the far east.
@johncunningham48202 ай бұрын
@@VajrahahaShunyata " Workers Paradise " is a facetious term . No news in what you said .
@VajrahahaShunyata2 ай бұрын
@@jonlee2217 its hard to catch sarcasm in a text sometimes, my apologies 🤏😂
@novvstrivver19 күн бұрын
What kind of army man says this? You signed up for the army? Would you not have signed up if the war on terror was more intense ?
@rayceeya86592 ай бұрын
Using their own people like disposable items. It's disgusting. How long are the Russian people going to tolerate this? My brother was in the US Army for 14 years. Fours tours through Iraq and retired as an SFC. The Russian government is treating their people like grunts in a videogame. Soldiers are an INVESTMENT. You retain them and they get better with time and experience. You don't shovel them into a meat grinder. This is a disgusting way to treat people.
@EdwardMoore-n9z2 ай бұрын
The Russian people aren’t being told. They are string to realize what is actually happening.
@VajrahahaShunyata2 ай бұрын
They have been tolerating it for over 600 years...
@GodwynDiАй бұрын
@@VajrahahaShunyata Multiple revolutions isn't really "tolerating" it just never seems to get better.
@VajrahahaShunyataАй бұрын
@@GodwynDi an overthrown government that is replaced with the same type of government is not a revolution. Its just the next fascist strongman accepted by the sheeple. Revolution is a revolutionary change. They have yet to change.
@davec6016Ай бұрын
and my country that is supposed to be the leader of the free world just elected a convict who cares as much about people as Putin does... he would gladly put people thru a meat grinder if there was profit or power in it for him. Yet the people elected him. It would be nice if only stupid, selfish people had to pay the consequences for putting these sociopaths in power, but many innocents have to pay the price as well....
@tomasbarta30202 ай бұрын
Thank you for the great content & for your much needed material support of UA!
@robertwwallii13572 ай бұрын
Oh, I'm SURE that the recruiters in Moscow aren't complaining!!! Each recruiter would have a mandatory number that they would have to sign up PER month or they would be sent to the front themselves!!! It is the Russian version of being sent to the Eastern Front for the Germans in WWII!
@robertmaybeth34342 ай бұрын
I wonder if the guy doing it is a big fat dude named General Burkhalter?
@GodwynDiАй бұрын
"Russian version of being sent to the Eastern Front for the Germans in WWII" You do realize how nonsensical that is, right? Who do you think the German Eastern front was against? Its been the same in Russia for a long time.
@robertwwallii1357Ай бұрын
@@GodwynDi How would it be nonsensical? The Germans in WWII, considered being sent to the Russian Front a Death Sentence. Considering the death toll of the Russian troops in Ukraine, I seriously doubt that any recruiter would want to be sent to the front.
@iremote76102 ай бұрын
Excellent segment. I love the dives into the human backstory of what this war is actually bringing out.
@darrendavies72902 ай бұрын
The only problem is they not going paying them just ask widows. Have they receive the money every one of them will say no
@novvstrivver19 күн бұрын
It’s not twisted. Just because they are the enemy don’t make us better then them. I was taught by my father to respect all soldiers. Most soldiers fall into that category you put them Russians in
@brentchattin60812 ай бұрын
I doubt many of these Russian soldiers, if they ever come home, will be greeted with much other than indifference, especially if wounded. Because the typical Russian, especially outside Moscow, is too busy trying to stay alive themselves to spend time worrying about soldiers, even the wounded ones. Particularly if the returning soldiers also return to their previous lifestyle of staying drunk, brawling, and only occasionally working. About the only consideration they will get is saying it's the war that screwed them up, not their life long habits. But people will continue to ignore and avoid them.
@Jose-so1hx2 ай бұрын
I had a stiff drink before watching this. Your vid hit me hard. We definitely need more caring in this world. In our governments. Among neighbors.
@curious_O_o2 ай бұрын
Ukrainians were very friendly towards Russians pre war. We had families in Russia. They still invaded, and our relatives tell us "we are there to save you", "soon we will live in one country again, just wait" It's not about compassion. USSR and KGB still live on when they needed to be destroyed past WW2 by allies. Let's see if that weakness will be the final one that destroys the world.
@jakoflynn25602 ай бұрын
Home isn’t worth going home to it’s Russia
@ScootsMcPoot2 ай бұрын
It is if youre russian
@CrystalhikingАй бұрын
You think old Putin wants a bunch of war vets hanging around his pubs, drinking vodka, telling stories, uh, uh😮
@MaxwellMoore-d1u2 ай бұрын
Its so sad they throw every away for an insane Little Man .who dreams of Empire. Instead of Empire Russia is going to Break up .
@fisher33172 ай бұрын
@@MaxwellMoore-d1u And they won't realize it until it's too late.
@jevonte-vb2pu2 ай бұрын
I've been watching your channel for years. Your comment about men needing to be needed as a reason to go on living, to try harder for something tangible, a purpose is something I think is true for males. Something to compete for whether children or recognition, something.
@generalwoundwort81912 ай бұрын
I bet they were all made to unload BEFORE he started this speech!!
@jayburrough4308Ай бұрын
Thanks for your service to all that is and are serving
@MC-el2us2 ай бұрын
Australian here, cancer treatment is free.
@tan4uk6928 күн бұрын
@@MC-el2us russian trolls love to talk about how healthcare in Russia is free too... I guess they just mean vodka
@zoltanszilvassy87152 ай бұрын
Great Episode Paul. Archiving this kind of thing is very important. Some day the Russian people will be able to read/see all this freely translated. Find out the truth about their family members. Good Job. 41C
@stephenrickstrew72372 ай бұрын
A Day in The Life of Ivan ConstructoVich ,.. and then things got worse ..
@JamPowe-w8c2 ай бұрын
one of my favorite book any man can be ivan he's actually every man a teacher a construction a solider they can shackle your body but your mind is gods place only u and your relationship to god is in the heart
@JamPowe-w8c2 ай бұрын
dont be a bowl licker !
@stephenrickstrew72372 ай бұрын
@@JamPowe-w8c why it’s not required reading in school is a mystery
@mistasomen2 ай бұрын
your analysis concerning what men would do to be needed is spot on. I'm genuinely impressed - respect
@crimsonhalo132 ай бұрын
As the song goes, ♫ "200 men on a one way trip ..." ♫ Fratricidal commanders and trigger-happy blocking troops makes the whole thing a hundred times more twisted.
@manchagojohnsonmanchago63672 ай бұрын
Ooh for sure. Russian prison rules buddy
@robmacarthur37782 ай бұрын
Wow. You expressed the difficulty we feel.
@oTNTo2 ай бұрын
17:04 First they said Russians fighting with WWII and rusty rifles, old and rusty tanks, now by sad old not motivated soldiers... But despite all NATO help and technology and logistic and peopaganda and sanctions and pressures and embargo and intelligence support... Russia gains territory every hour!
@berthaalvarado81842 ай бұрын
Great work, keep it up
@Patrick-vo3cr2 ай бұрын
The average lifespan of a Russian soldier in Ukraine is something like 4 months.
@mickser1012 ай бұрын
It's a week for a Ukrainian soldier
@RobertHughes-sv2mx2 ай бұрын
@@mickser101do the math Vlad 😂
@baldricksimson2 ай бұрын
3 months to long !
@jonlee22172 ай бұрын
@@mickser101 Sure thing Ivan, lmao.
@samzavinful2 ай бұрын
and like avg age of 50
@alexisjuillard48162 ай бұрын
"If you were a civilian you should have stayed home" wait happened about having good attitude? That not even telling them ur dead, its rubbing "u were safe now dead" in
@bowgibbly12 ай бұрын
They never get paid
@glintongordon68112 ай бұрын
So why is so many signing up?
@bowgibbly12 ай бұрын
@@glintongordon6811 goofy is as goofy does
@glintongordon68112 ай бұрын
@@bowgibbly1 is that why ukraine keeps losing?
@sebastiaanl98762 ай бұрын
Keeps losing how do you lose a war every day then? If you lose your done you can’t losing a war you lost a war or you win
@EdwardMoore-n9z2 ай бұрын
@@glintongordon6811, they don’t know it’s a one way trip.
@SammywiseG2 ай бұрын
This really points out the realities of how grim life is in Russia, particularly outside of Moscow and Saint Petersburg, in how dying in a meat wave assault is better than continuing to live under Putin's regime. Russia's best hope certainly is sounding more and more like a German or Japanese style loss at the end of WWII where they had a total defeat and were given the chance to reset and start again.
@sciencelad82862 ай бұрын
This needs a complementary explanation. Russia “promises” a sign up bonus. The victim is sent to the frontline on a one way ticket. Russia never pays the victim or the family because they say he is missing in action. End of story. Russia gets its meat for free.
@omaracevedo47842 ай бұрын
In the movie "Enemy at the Gates" Russian officers would prefer trips to the battlefield and sir them if they return. Sadly i feel sorry for the Russians that have been drafted to fight in a war that they as a society do not want. Many tried to flee while others are being gunned downb by their own officers for refusing to go fight.
@DarknessovHezrou2 ай бұрын
".....They know how to do meth..", 😂😂😂😂😂
@hazedemotions6918 күн бұрын
and the part where you just bash on the guy calling him pretty much a peice of shit. you dont know his circumstances you dont know his life. who are you? he may think you a peice of shit for someone sitting at home behind a computer screen talking shit.
@joecanuck37512 ай бұрын
What ever happened to the "I want to live" outreach to help Russian solders defect? One issue I see is if its successful you have to feed and shelter these folks.
@VieneLea2 ай бұрын
It's either very hard or very risky to surrender in a war.
@glintongordon68112 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂 They don't want to leave, they get their money do their jobs and go home, there is a troop rotation going on right now
@baldricksimson2 ай бұрын
@@glintongordon6811 is there ? surely it is continuous ? ...oh i see what you mean ....join , get kitted ,a week of training , off to the front , die and fertilise the soil....rotation happens when the farmer comes and rotorvates the fields ....now i get it.
@glintongordon68112 ай бұрын
@@baldricksimson bro Russia rotate troops every 10 months... ukraine is the ones who have people complaining about being on the Frontline for 2 years... Go watch the videos of rus veterans meeting their families
@alka71452 ай бұрын
@@glintongordon6811 A bunch of them most certainly do not 'go home'.
@DeanCarr2 ай бұрын
I'm 62 years old this is NUTS for old guys! No way should 65-year-olds be going to the front lines??? IT SUCKS!
@ZacharySturgeon-bq5fj2 ай бұрын
This video hit me in the feels. That strong pull of men wanting to be respected and needed by the people in their lives is not talked about nearly enough.
@PokemonGuy6662 ай бұрын
Worst battle speech of all time?
@calc16572 ай бұрын
The progression of 'alternative' recruitment has been: only prisoners who have committed violent crimes ethnic minorities from the remote parts of the Federation prisoners who have committed any crime old guys and no hopers Putin is doing everything to avoid a general draft. If the US elections go his way, the strategy will succeed.
@michaelcox75642 ай бұрын
The recrutes probably get their signing on bonus after training which they do not get
@old_grey_cat2 ай бұрын
Given the average Russian male life expectancy, if I were [edit: aged about 60 ] working in a low-pay job with a family, little savings, and had a cancer diagnosis but was still not obviously unwell, I would volunteer and hope my family got the promised support on my death. Heck, I might do it even if just struggling to do a heavy labour job from wear and tear on my back etc.
@elizabethsproule52272 ай бұрын
Hi people!
@DanBall-bt9ui2 ай бұрын
Always loved your work.This is well put .I could see someone here in the US to do that to.Just do nothing; play games then mom and dad gets sick.And instead of faceing that war to help them .just run away. Death is better than faceing Death.So pathetic.Man up !!
“Indians” might mean soldiers from India. Modi was recently complaining to Putin about Indians being drawn to Russia under false pretenses and then being dragooned into the army.
@chrisc7652 ай бұрын
russia lost 40k this month.
@MrBeagleblue2 ай бұрын
I think you mean Ukraine lost 40,000 and they can`t even recruit more then 3000 a month.
@johnham44852 ай бұрын
@@MrBeagleblue Rus Ape.
@mickser1012 ай бұрын
Evidence? Proof? Reliable sources?
@Lucas-wn5wm2 ай бұрын
@@MrBeagleblue can you make a report? Im interested
@krissianvictir12912 ай бұрын
Does anyone know of a way to cleanse a comment section of bots? I see numerous recently created accounts where all they do is spam hundreds of posts with Russian talking points.