Dr. Phillip Karber on the Russian Way of War

Speaking to West Point cadets and faculty, Dr. Phillip Karber describes what he has learned about the Russian way of war from thirty trips he has made to Ukraine, including six months on the front lines of the war in the country's east.

[@jackr2287]

38:50 As a civvie, working with a GPS near one of our military bases, there is something they do that messes with civilian/commercial/industrial grade GPS units. What exactly would cause that, IDK, but there is the important lesson therein that we couldn't rely on the GPS to do what we wanted always. Had to fall back on older stuff. Always useful to know how to read a compass and map.

[@lufasumafalu5069]

RUS use different Sat Nav same with China.. They are far tougher and resilient to simple jamming by US military.. try them

[@danielloustaunau9940]

Awesome video thanks for sharing.

[@Tailsreturns2]

Very interesting. Pity we couldn't hear the questions from the students. Am gonna look for more about this war

[@reallyhappenings5597]

Very interesting retrospective from the perspective of Spring 2022

[@bbanasschechter]

excellent all around!!!

[@Stefano-dd2sf]

Anywhere i could download the power point presentation from????

[@shawnm2113]

Turn on the news at this point.

[@reallyhappenings5597]

Just pause the vid and read the slides

[@coolbreeze6751]

Great speaker. I learned a lot. Does anyone know where I can see the copy of the Russian Op Plan for Invasion of Ukraine?

[@arty5876]

In the Kremlin

[@civilengineer3349]

I know a Russian prostitute who may have a lead but you need to be an American politician

[@joelexline9]

Taking notes?

[@kishanchali8752]

Are you nuts? Those stuff are available only for the Russian General Staff.

[@amallulla2000]

@@arty5876 LOL

[@Dadecorban]

Anyone know where to find the Russian Op Order for Ukraine thats mentioned at 17 minutes? Failed so far.

[@likebeershowmeodie3271]

How many Russian Op orders did you find?

[@karry299]

The same place where everyone gets their copies of world-famous "Kremlin's playbook", i imagine.

[@thomastheawesome4822]

Bookmark at 30:50

[@WorldPeace-AdamNeira]

Interesting.

[@zdavatz]

Where can I find the slides? Can somebody please inform Dr. Karber, that his website contains no HTTPS and does not properly work.

[@merocaine]

Very interesting talk in light of subsequent events. His belief that the revolt in the donbass was instigated in the Kremlin is mistaken though, it was organised at a quite a low level across southern Russia and donbass and didn't get much official Moscow support till it was about to collapse.

[@wryanddry2266]

38:30 "If you don't know how to read a map, get out of the army."

[@mfeldheim]

What happened since 2018?

[@peterlynchchannel]

This explains so much of what we've been seeing in Ukraine. I was surprised to see the date on this video. At first I thought he was referencing the fighting since February 2022. From the beginning of the "SMO" western volunteers have talked about how it seemed the Russians always knew where you were and would drop accurate fire on you before you knew where they were. The Ukrainians certainly have produced quite a bag of tricks as well. The whole world seems to be rapidly integrating advanced electronics into their warfighting. The EW stuff Dr. Karber mentions was being used years ago by the Syrian army to defeat smart weapons being sent to the rebels.

[@danfarrand1748]

Pretty interesting but certainly with a point of view. He just cannot bring himself to consider the possibility that the Russians had some level of popular support in Crimea and the Donbas and that it was only because of the underlying support (or indifference), that they were able to achieve what they achieved. So, one must filter what he says, but there is also a lot of interest here, especially in light of recent events.

[@xblade11230]

Of course he has to lie, if he was willing to be honest And actually do honest research on 2014 he wouldn't be teaching at west point he would be deplatformed and unemployed There are always 2 sources of news The officers and actual commanders get real news about what is going on in the war while the public and the grunts get fed propaganda that they are winning

[@joanofarc6402]

The Crimean “vote of independence” was surrounded by Russian Special Forces “Wagner Group” to oversee their ballots. Since Russia had been feeding weapons into the area for years. The population complied.

[@xblade11230]

@@joanofarc6402 lol no absolutely not. Russia sent 500 special forces to guard Crimea leaders at the request of Crimea leaders. They wanted extra security because they feared that they would get attacked. They were not at the polling booths

[@danfarrand9072]

@@joanofarc6402 Back in 2014, I thought the same thing. Mostly because, I only paid passing attention to something happening in a land far away. But since then, I've take a deeper look because our government and media has become less and less credible. The more I looked the clearer it became that events in Ukraine were not what they seemed through the lens of the State Dept and Americas official media. I think you have to accept at least the possibility, if not the probability that as you go east and south in Ukraine, the populations identification with Russia grows stronger and stronger. The actions of the Ukrainian government - through the Army, increasingly dominated by ultra-Nationalists who hold a rather odd Ukrainian mythic/ethnic ideology - as displayed by violence in Odessa and Mariopul at that time, explain very well the reasonable fear the Russian speaking majorities in Crimea had. Just the fact that post coup in 2014, a law was passed banning Russian as an official language when 50% of the country are mainly Russian speakers ? Or the law proclaiming a holiday in honor of Stephan Bandera who was indeed a pro Nazi collaborator during WW2. Political killings and disappearances where happening wherever the "volunteer" battalions showed up. I just wont accept the narratives handed out by our government/media any longer without a long hard look.

[@neilhillis9858]

@@danfarrand9072 To the extent disappearances etc happened in Ukraine, you see the historical influence of Russia, where we both know such things are par for the course in national politics. Putin defenders whine about NATO encroachment when for years NATO has bordered Russia, in Turkey and in the Baltics. No, NATO encroachment is only a factor in Kremlin propaganda, and even then only for morons and suckers. Ukraine was finally escaping the Russian boot, after well over a century of struggling against it. And Putin could not tolerate the example a free Ukraine would be for Russians, who would quickly realize that defining themselves by cold-war bitterness, and submitting to the autocratic whip, were not helping them, and that Russia would be dar wealthier, far stronger, and far more respectable without the likes of Putin. His whole existence depends on Russians' conforming to old cliches about loving the whip and enduring autocracy. A free, educated Russia is something he can't risk. This is a far more coherent explanation than any of the pathetic Putinbot deflections or misinformed hot air about NATO.

[@charlesbukowski9836]

I just got my ass handed to me not by the germans....or the japanese....or the russians, but my wife for waking her ass up from the start of the video....BEEEEEEEEEEP

[@Skunkhunt_42]

🤣 thanks for that, needed a good laugh today

[@khangluong5672]

"Another VDV drop"

[@codyweien4513]

God, this man basically slapped the u.s. army back into check for an hr, you could tell the professor wasnt real happy about it.

[@liammarra4003]

Good. The ente DoD should be slapped until they come back to reality. Abd maybe they'll slap the rest of D.C. and shake them of their hubris. They're all going to drive us off a cliff on a war agasint China thinking we are so superior it'll be like desert storm. Our hubris is going to destroy the republic-if it hasnt already.

[@James-May]

Well, well, well, how does he feel now?

[@_.-._.-._.-._.-]

That's the point of doing "lessons learned". Identify strengths of an enemy to the weaknesses of own forces. Can't adapt and prepare if you aren't critical of yourself and don't understand the strengths of an enemy.

[@VT-mw2zb]

​@@James-Maythere are lots of his more recent talks on YT. He's one of the few that has real personal connections to Ukraine and he kept on saying that Western help was "too fucking late". He criticised the West for dallying and never serious in helping Ukraine. He asked people to empathise with Ukrainians, to "walk a mile in their shoes" to understand the destruction and devastation done to Ukraine and please have an understanding if the Ukrainians give up.

[@corvanhoute8072]

🤙

[@nvonliph]

This would be a fascinating lecture to be up dated… …you know, after western weaponry has had its awe removed.

[@StrictlyService905]

Close my eyes… All I hear is Clint from thunder ranch

[@JGalt-em4xu]

41:55 You tactically are going to have to make up that difference. In other words, the poor grunt is going to have to innovate and sacrifice because the slush fund that is the Pentagon couldn't come up with a counter to Russian EW systems. War is a racket.

[@f.a.2115]

Seems like it wasn't a big deal.

[@jamesrice6096]

Watching this now, 5 years later, I'd love to see the take on Trump/Biden, the Afghanistan pull-out, and the events in Ukraine post spring 2022. Very interesting, but it doesn't change the view outside the door of my chicken coop. Just saying.

[@matyhovidea8537]

"Soldat! It's 4pm, time for your another unsupported drop on heavily defended airport!" "Da, mr. President"

[@w0mblemania]

Yes, Russia has stuffed this war up so far. But, they may learn from their mistakes very quickly. We must not underestimate them. They can still inflict major damage, take big chunks of Ukraine, escalate to tactical chemical/nukes.

[@kishanchali8752]

​@@w0mblemania Gostomel airport was captured within the first few days. It's Ukrainian propaganda which says that the VDV troops were wiped out

[@w0mblemania]

@@kishanchali8752 ? Not sure what your point is.

[@kishanchali8752]

@@w0mblemania The comment refers to the Battle of Gostomel airfield and implies that the Russian paratroopers who went to capture it were wiped out.

[@w0mblemania]

@@kishanchali8752 Yes, I understand that. But what did that have to do with my point? Cheers.

[@heiwanushimakazawa3574]

Парни мы в вас верим вы обязательно победите.

[@horaciobiafore7238]

English?

[@romanromanchuk7718]

@@horaciobiafore7238 no

[@colinboyd9121]

If the troll factory hates Karber so much, he must be on the money!

[@akompsupport]

if the globalist shill factory loves himself much he must be a fraud.

[@neilhillis9858]

@@akompsupport Ah, the term "globalist," just like "rootless cosmopolitan," or "Judeo-Bolshevik". Another fascist/Nazi dog-whistle happily employed by Putin's kleptofascist regime, even as they very ironically attack "Nazis" while Putin openly embraces the writings of fascist philosophers and has written of his imperialist ambitions in Ukraine himself. Who do you people think you're fooling?

[@DogeickBateman]

@@akompsupport Keep soying trollboy

[@akompsupport]

@@DogeickBateman Watch as the neoliberal empire crumbles under it's own hubris. Russia will win. Z forces are destroying the globalists!

[@DogeickBateman]

@@akompsupport Ok bot.

[@BedbugGaming]

this guy proves you can know a lot about something, yet be completely wrong in your conclusions.

[@jhngfdsdfgkjnbv]

wrong about what?

[@Dhouston1125]

What side he is on.

[@peterlynchchannel]

I was shocked when I saw the date on this video. This is all what we're seeing in Ukraine right now. At first I thought he was talking about the recent fighting.

[@Comm0ut]

It's 2022 and this video did not age well.

[@forlornvaalan7630]

the guy who was responsible for reforming the russian military into something dangerous was sacked in 2012.

[@syjiang]

I think it aged quite well. All the threat and weakness that he highlighted are demonstrated now. The difference in performance i think is that the russians back than had a better defined political objective, a smaller front, and more time to plan their operations.

[@sethborman7844]

Generating a few BTGs when you have 60 day train ups is a lot different than telling 100 BTGs to go ahead and drive south and see what happens.

[@vslobody]

@@syjiang more time to plan their operations - really? what was forcing them to rush?

[@kishanchali8752]

@@forlornvaalan7630 The Russian Army has Battalion Tactical Groups and that's a creation of its present commander Gen. Valery Gerasimov.

[@drizzd1]

this comment section is a goldmine of spoiled milk

[@DogeickBateman]

Filled to the brim with Russian shills and Vatniks

[@alexlee4157]

It is 2023 Mykhailo Zabrodskyi is back in military service 😮

[@iidacerii711]

Spring-Summer Ukrainian offensive about to get real, can't wait to see the russians get stomped now that he has more capable and numerous equipment

[@galileo_rs]

@@iidacerii711 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jhngfdsdfgkjnbv]

@@iidacerii711 any news?

[@iidacerii711]

@@jhngfdsdfgkjnbv All the equipment has arrived,JDMS are being deployed, russian jets are still falling off the skies , but is still muddy around the frontline

[@jhngfdsdfgkjnbv]

@@iidacerii711 oh, really? ▪Ukraine & Western media report increasing use of precision-guided bombs by Russian military aviation; ▪Russian bombing is increasingly effective owed to dwindling Ukrainian air defenses; ▪Recent Ukraine Contact Group in Germany admit air defenses in Ukraine are a priority, fail to commit to any possible solution; ▪US announces acceleration of its shipments of 31 M1-Abram tanks to Ukraine after a 10 week training course, less than half the training an entry-level US tank crew receives; ▪Despite growing doubts of a Ukrainian offensive, it will likely unfold and may even have success in taking territory but will leave Ukraine at a further disadvantage in what is otherwise a war of attrition; ▪Most of Bakhmut is now under Russian control;

[@user-is7up6ln6m]

Black beard the pirate wants give talk

[@MattDamnit]

He's smart

[@Proslopski]

To defeat Russia in Donbas best you pretend you are dead Russians will leave you alone!

[@t.c.s.7724]

Perhaps we shouldn't have allied ourselves with Ukrainian AZOV Nazis, the US backed coup in 2014 was appalling.

[@martinjanecek4950]

exactly

[@nvonliph]

Just dropping in from California to say z.

[@martinjanecek4950]

Z

[@1pierosangiorgio]

a bit biased, as usual (and that will cost..) but good presentation!

[@MikeBenko]

Gotta say, the Ukrainians seem pretty bad ass, they are ridiculously outgunned and out manned but they held on and keep holding on.

[@Liam-ly8rv]

But so are the rebels in the Donbass. So from a the sight of a proxy war, Russia is actually doing better than the Ukraine and NATO as Ukraine has not stopped or pushed back the rebels.

[@MikeBenko]

@@Liam-ly8rv This is not a proxy war by any measure. It's a landgrab by Russia, and the Donbas rebels are simply Russian irregulars and regulars, trained by the Russians, equipped by the Russians, supported by Russian air power, artillery and armor. Ukraine got none of those things. Now some things are starting to trickle their way, but it is still basically Ukraine vs Russia.

[@Liam-ly8rv]

@@MikeBenko actually is and is considered one by most military experts. The Ukrainian conflict is much more than a land grab. It is essentially a conflict to stop NATO and America moving East to Russias border. It has been noted a proxu war by U.S and British politicians and Generals.

[@akompsupport]

@@Liam-ly8rv slow clap.

[@Liam-ly8rv]

@@akompsupport thank you. Prefer to indulge in your applause.

[@kishanchali8752]

For all those who say that this lecture didn't age well, it's still relevant. 1. The EW, AD, and standoff capabilities are there with each Russian BTG unit. That's why the Ukrainians can't organize a counterattack. All their command centers, comms, logistical hubs, and weapons production facilities are gone. Now they resort to ambush attacks. 2. The Russians are trying to minimize civilian casualties as much as they can while the Ukrainians are using civilians as a human shield. Basically, the Russian Army is fighting with one hand tied. It has increased casualties among their ranks. 3. There's the propaganda aspect of the war that blocks the real situation from the ordinary westerner. E.g. over 1000 troops of the 36 Marine Brigade of Ukraine surrendered within the last few days, but such news doesn't go to the people in the West. Instead, what they see is some random Ukrainian ambushes on a Russian column or a Bayraktar drone attack that fails even to destroy Russian tanks.

[@Kilstryke]

I stopped reading at "Russians are trying to minimize civilian casualties". Tell that to Mariupols 21,000 dead civilians.

[@kishanchali8752]

@@Kilstryke Civilians die at any conflict. The point is that Russians didn't deliberately do so. Also, the Ukrainians are using civilians as a human shield, so civilian deaths should be expected.

[@xblade11230]

A lot of the Ukrainian footage is fake and purposely downscaled to 190p making it impossible to tell if a tank is Russian or Ukrainian A lot of the footage is also recycled from Syria especially the tb2 drone footage

[@DominicFlynn]

Yep. I thought it was a great lecture so far as the militarily situation goes, in 2018, and from a very Ukrainian perspective. He didn't get political at all, which is to be expected since apologizing for Nazism is a bad look

[@Kilstryke]

@@kishanchali8752 TWENTY-ONE THOUSAND.

[@sora_is_my_dad420]

milk

[@burgundypoint]

The US military is going to have a super steep learning curve if they go head to head with the Russians, and lessons are written in blood.

[@jameskennedy6207]

maybe but the US wins in the end which is the point. we have been blooded many times.

[@akompsupport]

@@jameskennedy6207 no we haven't. also no US troops want to fight for the Davos globalist elites. Russia is our friend.

[@jameskennedy6207]

@@akompsupport who i s"we" Cite your source, you are probably a Russian Paid Bot...probably paid very well but hey Goebbels had his paid people as well. Take care

[@jameskennedy6207]

KonaCommuter you are unable to have an intellectual conversation. Who wins today? Russia invading countries and shooting passenger planes? Isis burning people in planes. The us won in Iraq 91 as that is war. COIN is unwinnable by the west under Just War tradition. Soooo go to your echo chamber, find your confirmation bias and move to Russia or some other oppressive govt. the us is winning in freedom and economy and quality of life. What shithole do you live in?

[@johntex4751]

James Kennedy but the us wins at the end hahahha what a joker

[@jhngfdsdfgkjnbv]

21 June 2023 - First and foremost, the counteroffensive gambit has failed. While there is still considerable combat strength left in the Ukrainian military, including more than 75% of the NATO-trained and -equipped 60,000-strong cohort Ukraine had assembled in the past eight months, fundamentally flawed assumptions about the quality of the force on which Ukraine and its NATO allies had placed their collective hopes for victory over Russia have been exposed. In short, Ukraine lacks the military capacity to overcome Russian defenses.

[@mattiasdahlstrom2024]

The Western planners thought the Russians were going to run away, aka the drunken vatnik theory.

[@jonathanforeman1884]

Given what's happened in Ukraine since February 24, it looks like the Ukrainians learned from Karber's lecture while the Russians forgot many of the clever perceptions he attributes to them...

[@gillesturcotte5661]

Call me I have a bridge to sell you

[@demanischaffer]

​@@gillesturcotte5661 Is that bridge still for sale?

[@gillesturcotte5661]

@@demanischaffer You think you're the clever one. But that question says you dont get that simple one.

[@cosmiccum]

when USA is fire and ashes I will partly know why. Very enlightening video.

[@James-May]

Good news! Due to recent events, the USA can sleep well

[@Taojas]

When Putin is in the Hague and the great ruzzian empire is dismembered into 15 pieces you can reference how it happened.

[@karry299]

@@James-May Sleep with the fishes. Yes.

[@Condottieri]

A lot of people in the comments don’t seem to understand the difference between tactical and strategic victories. The US military has rarely suffered any tactical defeats in over 100 years. Our soldiers are the best trained and equipped in the world full stop and anyone that has any shred of military know how understands this. What we HAVE suffered are countless strategic losses. We’re really good at winning battle after battle, but we suck at capitalizing on these victories and just let our enemies take back the ground we just fought to take. If a we went to war with a modern state such as Russia, I have no doubt that we would be capable in every battle we came across, but it’s actually utilizing those victories in the big picture I think is where we would fail.

[@arty5876]

США даже спустя 80 лет после окончания Второй Мировой войны всё ещё оккупируют Японию и Германию. Россия же понесла катастрофические потери, но из Европы ушла. США как раз таки наоборот, получили максимальную выгоду относительно маленькими усилиями

[@Zingalamadumi]

You wouldn't win a war with against Russia. You have never fought any war on your own against any modern army since the foundation of USA.

[@SavageDoc45b]

Since war is politics by other means, 'tactical' victories are worse than meaningless, they are expenditures of blood and treasure on the way to nothing or less than nothing.

[@Condottieri]

@@SavageDoc45b I think worse than meaningless is a bit of an overstatement but I do agree, a tactical victory just about fruitless if it doesn’t achieve anything strategically l.

[@SavageDoc45b]

@@Condottieri This is the concept of the 'Pyrrhic Victory' a tactical outcome that degrades your ability to prosecute the war going forward. Tactical win but strategic loss.

[@allpal3077]

He only showed old weapons nothing about supersonic missiles kinzhal, kalibr, Nothing about small counter UAV systems they are small set it and forget it just resupply ammo when empty , there are at least a dozen new low cost counter UAV systems.

[@alexanderzheliazkov6984]

all those capabilities are nowhere to be seen today

[@lukebruce5234]

Yeah the propaganda machine isn't letting you see them.

[@kishanchali8752]

There's another crucial aspect. The Russians are trying to minimize civilian casualties as much as they can while the Ukrainians are using civilians as a human shield. Basically, the Russian Army is fighting with one hand tied. On the other hand the EW, AD and standoff capabilities are there with each Russian BTG unit. That's why the Ukrainians can't organize a counterattack. All their command centers, comms, logistical hubs, weapons production facilities are gone. Now they resort to ambush attacks.

[@onatskable]

loool you must be blind then. they have plenty of old hw too.

[@xblade11230]

They are being seen, the propaganda machine has been fabricating ukranian victories, and hiding ukranian loses Officers and commanders get the facts, Grunts and the general public get fed propaganda The nazi grunts and public fighting in ww2 was convinced that Stalingrad was still falling even when Russian troops set foot in German territory. They believed that all they had to do was hold the Russians off long enough You as the general public have been fed bullshit about what is actually happening Likewise we were fed lies about Iraq and Afghanistan along with the grunts

[@johntex4751]

Remember serbia 🇷🇸 they were shooting down all nato planes down in 1999 including 2 f117 and a B2 boomer in eastern Croatia

[@atanasijesimic4651]

That was Serbian RV and PVO, not Russians

[@grabir01]

If all this looks familiar, then what good is this guy?

[@ireviewshtuff]

If you needed him to tell it to you while it was so obvious, what good are you?

[@Galf506]

Aged like fine diarrhea "Russia has this and that, so much electronic warfare!" *Insert Russia not even having encrypted radios and getting its ONE EW truck captured*

[@pasticcinideliziosi1259]

this is what they thought they had. Russia is the un discussed king of psychological warfare: they shown high tech weapons and made everyone believe they were full of them. turns out, there’s very little, and what is there si either maintained badly and thus barely works, or isn’t equipped adequately (see tanks with no defense against ATGMs and shoulder fired anti vehicle weapons)

[@gregwallace6159]

Ignorance is bliss! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@omg_wtf]

Lol that was fake. Like everything else you read.

[@omg_wtf]

@@pasticcinideliziosi1259 yeah which is why the US is scared shitless to engage. Not even with the EU forces do they dare step up to Russia. That says it all. Scared shitless.

[@Galf506]

@@omg_wtf how's that copium aging, Ivan? Why do you think I've read it, lmao. There's actual pictures, videos and the Russian radio comms are freely available on the web because they weren't/aren't encrypted since they don't have enough radios. It's getting worse and worse, now they have second line troops with mosins and steel pots. LMAO.

[@danfarrand1748]

this video is only worthwhile from about 27 minutes. Before that is political propaganda

[@xblade11230]

Lol no its not propaganda The propaganda is what's getting fed to the mainstream public where 40 year old men with a weeks worth of training, traveling in a civilian vehicle are inflicting mass casualties

[@kakashisensa001]

lol this aged like milk

[@zkkrhfhska]

what do you mean? all of this is still relevant, the point is taht the ukrainains have been adapting...

[@w0mblemania]

This didn't age at all.

[@Taojas]

I'm from the future and your Mum aged like my own personal Cream Pie.

[@JohnGilger]

This guy seems to be pretty full of himself

[@greense65]

He does have a bit Commander McBragg about him.

[@imperialguardsman135]

Lmao

[@alexsnow5092]

American area of expertise on Russia is in the knowledge of word “Oblast” and use of it like its something important but lack of knowledge that oblast just means districts of area and you could just say that. Its same as Putin trying to look smart in every area that reporters or people might ask him. It’s all funny to watch

[@kennethbetts3557]

... and of course we just take his word for it, cause the pentagon has never lied to us before!!

[@jameskennedy6207]

not part of the pentagon idjit....you don't have to take his word for it...there are others that can confirm. What is your counter argument to his point?

[@samimhoff2766]

@@jameskennedy6207 he's a russian bot. so fucking pathetic. literally sitting in an office writing fake posts. what a great use of time. What a remarkable super power russia is. pathetic.

[@RasPutintheGreat]

The closing of this video shows UA should be with the West...No!! instead West should fix its own problems e.g. merican unemployment, homelessness esp with vets and stop going around the globe interfering with other affairs.

[@DogeickBateman]

Brainwashed.

[@DominicFlynn]

Well done talking about the Ukrainian military for one hour without mentioning the Nazis

[@richrd0001]

In general, it seems that this gentleman just accepts as natural that Americans just should be involved in Ukraine. It isn't now and wasn't then part of NATO and nothing happening there was a threat to the US. One of his slides says more has to be done to take into account that Russia is a "serious threat to the allies." Allies? Trust me I feel nothing for the European freeloaders who are so adamant about committing suicide because of mass immigration. We're equally lunatic on that score but believe me I don't want anything to do with defending Europeans bent on suicide and fawning over "strong" women defense secretaries. It's not anywhere close to being obvious to me that Russia's a threat and the objection I have to this rah rah about supporting the noble Ukrainians just takes it as a given that the Russians are recently descended from tree-dwelling primate and have zero . . . that's zero . . . strategic interests implicated in having NATO weapons stored all along its border. Ukraine's a flawed country and we should no more be involved with it than we should be with Israel or Papua New Guinea.

[@neilhillis9858]

@@richrd0001 NATO weapons have been all along Russia's border for years, and it doesn't even begin to matter inan age of nuclear subs etc. That is a Kremlin propaganda slogan specifically for morons and suckers. Putin simply cannot tolerate a post-Soviet country as big as Ukraine being an example to Belorussians, Russians, etc how much better-off they would be without people like Putin in power.

[@Grahworin]

because there aren't none worth mentions .. check first part of the vid with Disinformation strategy

[@DominicFlynn]

@@Grahworin so, you didn't see the tattoos of the Azov militants when they surrendered?

[@Grahworin]

@@DominicFlynn nope didn't see that but if 20 out of 2500 had that it's still doesn't make Ukraine nazi. If even 1 % were to be far right wing that no excuse to invade a country. All russias excuses are dumb and psy ops. Russia got far more neo nazis than any country in Europe. The far right coalition didn't even get 2 % at the 2019 elections. So whatever your ruz driven talking points don't hold water

[@shivamtomar]

Everyone is who.is saying this didn't age well For all of you phase 2 will start in 48hrs and we will see he is wrong or right They are bringing the bombers and EW capabilities now

[@kakashisensa001]

russian command center go boom

[@Grahworin]

2 months later ,, you were saying what ?

[@raroraroraroo9675]

How can Russia be defeated in Ukraine? I would think a military defeat is impossible but if they have enough casualties they will withdraw. A cruel solution but it seems like the only viable solution.

[@andrerothweiler9191]

Best solution would be kill economy of Russia, no money no weapons

[@lkvideos7181]

It is historicaly proven. The Russian army lost against an insurgency within their own federation, in Chechnya. They eventualy won the 2nd Chechen War, but suffered terrible losses in the process. Trying to subdue an entire *country* is a whole different story.

[@frankgerards1796]

@@lkvideos7181 stalin would have lost Great War, if US wouldnt have given him masses of steel and machines (Lend act)

[@arty5876]

@@frankgerards1796 СССР был бы способен победить и без помощи США по поставкам, просто в таком случае было бы произведено меньше техники и РККА бы понесла большие потери

[@mitrovdan]

Wehere were you during history class?? "If they have enough casialties" ????? Who's gonna inflicht those casualties??

[@markandersen154]

This is less than 50% of the story and there are a few lies sprinkled on top.

[@farmbear1231]

That's a lifetime bullshitter, no question!

[@seastnanseastnan7765]

12:16 "...around england..." Somebody needs to tell Mr.Karber that england is not a part of NATO. However the uk is. The uk is made up of england, Scotland, Wales and part of Ireland. The uk is not england and england is definitely not the uk. He also needs to be made aware that the uk nuclear deterrent is actually based in SCOTLAND not england. Most penetration attempts by the big Tupolov Russian bombers are over the Moray Firth which is Scottish sea territory not english. In fact the Russians quite often park their aircraft carriers IN the Scottish Moray Firth and the Royal Navy knows nothing about this until Scottish fishing fleets report their presence to the Scottish coastguard. What usually happens is a Royal Navy ship is then sent up from portsmouth to investigate. By the time it chuggs its way to the Moray the Russian carriers have moved off. This happens way too often and is really an indicator that Scotland needs to dump the shitty uk union and develop its own independent nation state level naval and air defence. Scotland is one of the wealthiest resource-rich nations in the world and could develop and see to its own coastal defence way way better than the uk ever could.

[@Kilstryke]

Wow... this did not age well at all, lol

[@richardgraham7055]

No wonder US-NAYOYO lost in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Pompous ignorance and self-serving bigotries don't make for capable military forces.

[@rohanmillson3182]

Hilarious: the Russian army is incompetent and takes mass casualties followed, in almost the same breath, by their airborne invasion and seizure of Crimea during which no one suffered a paper cut.

[@daledykes9253]

This post hasn’t aged well.

[@kishanchali8752]

Keep watching CNN and BBC

[@daledykes9253]

@@kishanchali8752 CNN, BBC, FOX News ... they’re all singing from the same song book.

[@kishanchali8752]

@@daledykes9253 Yes. Over 1000 Ukrainians surrendered during the past few days but Westerners know nothing about that. A bunch of brainwashed sheeple

[@penhdog2207]

@@daledykes9253CNN + FOX on war; 2 cheeks of the same a-hole.

[@herrwabbaloo937]

“Ah...[talking]...ahh...[talking]...ahh....” Painful to listen to. I listened to this (didn’t watch) and was not impressed with his seemingly slipshod delivery. That, in conjunction with the information out there about Karber’s history of some dubious information, makes me think my misgivings about this were correct. This sounded more like a guy at a cocktail party with other “swampers” trying to one-up each other with war stories, name dropping, etc.

[@ireviewshtuff]

Looks about as smart as your boy

[@dkudlay]

10:20 what is he smoking? The russian troops were always in Ukraine 20,000. Unless they conducted the most invisible air operation.

[@Grahworin]

so this September 2022 Russia got their 1st Guards army mauled. 7 months in they dont have air superiority, 2000 tanks destroyed 4600 apc´s lost, 50000 troops dead, Air defense systems not working, artilleri worn out, EW battlefield also not in control. Would love to see the assessment of Russia´s great gear and army on paper vs reality. 2nd best army held at Kiev and Kharkiv and stopped at Donbas, loosing at Kharkiv and trapped at Kherson right side Dnieper, by a country basically not having an army at 2014

[@lukebruce5234]

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@volvo245]

Wanna edit your "facts" now, champ? LOL.

[@jhngfdsdfgkjnbv]

kindergarten is not here, boy. The fact that the Pentagon does not seem to have any independently generated intelligence about the Ukrainian army is shocking. They seem to have be relying on Ukrainian propaganda numbers and publicly available deployments data, like the open source Deployment Map. For the record, this is not a knock on the Deployment Map site - I use this resource frequently and find it very useful. The point, of course, is that the Pentagon, with its nearly unlimited resources, does not seem to have any unique insight or intelligence streams of its own in this regard. They gesture vaguely at the map and mutter, “there’s probably a brigade or two in this area, maybe 8,000 men. Or 4,000. We don’t really know.” In fact, all of their axis strength assessments for Ukraine have a 100% margin of error (that is, the upper limit of the range is double the lower limit). One can only conclude that the tail is wagging the dog. The Ukrainians are able to extract material, training, and cash from the west, but there is little accountability or honest information flow in return. There were hints of this earlier in the war - that Ukraine is a sort of black box which sucks in resources but does not communicate honestly in return; American officials have complained (and Ukrainian leaders have confirmed) that Kiev simply does not tell DC all that much. Apparently this remains an issue well over a year into the conflict. One particularly alarming footnote in the leaked documents states: "We have low confidence in Russian (RUS) And Ukrainian (UKR) attrition rates and inventories because of information gaps, OPSEC and IO efforts, and potential bias in UKR information sharing." Good grief. One other issue is the Pentagon’s estimate of Russian vehicle losses. It seems that here too they are copy-pasting external estimates. In this case, they appear to be using the “documented” vehicle losses from the Oryx project. Oryx is… interesting. In theory, they are tabulating visually documented equipment losses, which sounds very scientific and hard to dispute. Furthermore, the sheer mass of pictures they have accumulated is something of a verification deterrent - nobody really wants to sort through thousands of pictures and keep score. However, Oryx has been audited and found wanting. There are a variety of issues that cause them to overcount Russian losses, in some cases drastically. These include double counting (multiple pictures of the same vehicle), wrongly identifying Ukrainian vehicles as Russian losses, counting as lost vehicles that have no apparent damage, accepting images that have obviously been photoshopped, and so on. In one particularly egregious case, a picture of a Ukrainian Msta howitzer had its crew photoshopped out and was marked as destroyed Russian artillery piece bigserge.substack.com/p/russo-ukrainian-war-leak-biopsy

[@raskat77]

что ты несёшь? выдуй уже опилки из своей черепушки и замени на желе, может поумнеешь

[@alexden7714]

LSD?

[@lv3184]

Александр Денисов Агентство интернет-исследований?

[@ursus6881]

I pity the people who listen to this grossly incorrect explanation.

[@atanasijesimic4651]

Do you have a better lecture to recommend?

[@Taojas]

All points spot on. Only error was grossly overestimating the Potemkin russian military. I pity the fool (you) who didn't learn any of the deeper lessons of this talk, which have already been borne out by reality.

[@martinjanecek4950]

Glory to Russia!

[@swright5690]

Could not watch....after him saying "ahhhh" the 50th time, I had to stop watching

[@samimhoff2766]

hi Vladamir, how's your day at your moscow office going?

[@richrd0001]

That is an insignificant objection.

[@Taojas]

Grow up Princess

[@IonutCatana1989]

Interesting, but biased by a lot...

[@jhngfdsdfgkjnbv]

where exactly?

[@dkudlay]

49:30 haha “Bitches this is for Odessa”. Written on the tank. Message from Russians(:

[@miroslavairaldi725]

Horse shit! This is "Expert"? Ahaha omg pentagon spokeperson

[@Gav_na_tebya]

Dr. Karber likes the sound of his own voice too much. He passes on the same tired cliches about the Russian military he'd traded in in the '90s. Whom is he calling ineffective, poorly trained and motivated? I know you are, but what am I? And where did he spot their presence in Donbass (if he's ever been there)? I'm really curious on how he's planning to motivate the very same bored cadets snoozing to his anecdotes and scrawling squiggles in their notepads... No one saw Crimea coming, and now they have intercepts and docs in minute details laying out the evil Russian plans))

[@spiffinz]

Balthus XXX you're projecting lmao

[@Gav_na_tebya]

spiffinz Whatever you're projecting out of your ass you can gorge on.

[@spiffinz]

Balthus XXX what a piss poor comeback, ya half baked moron

[@Gav_na_tebya]

spiffinz I came and pissed on your mom's back.

[@spiffinz]

Balthus XXX poland invented vodka

[@TomaszWegrzanowski]

This aged really poorly.

[@Sarkozuhus]

Haha. Clown.

[@georgemoiseyev8035]

RUSSIA IS PLAYING CHESS USA IS PLAYING CHECKERS LOL LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU LOOSE

[@yawhatever1421]

Russians aren't using their most advanced equipment in the Ukraine .

[@DogeickBateman]

Clueless bot.

[@Grahworin]

because they dont have it .. they are loosing badly .. sleep well whatever

[@dmitryvlasov931]

man, stop doing drugs

[@myopicthunder]

@Snickering Ginger haha American education system is a real joke.

[@Sol_Invictus510]

Bad educational system? American?! I talked to this Russian girl who thought Russia won ww2 on their own and was ignorant of the fact that America provided them with military equipment and supplies. ROFL

[@mitrovdan]

@@Sol_Invictus510 Hahahahahaha, yeah I understand what you mean, no, I really do....you know, one needs ammo, guns etc etc....but if one doesn't have the courage, strenght and strategy then those arms aren't anything. Now tell us o wise one, you have, 18, 19 intelligence agency's, a militairy budget of over 700 billion dollars, heading towards 800 billion....and you have some goatherders in Afghanistan, barefoot soldiers.....what are you on buddy?

[@fossnaomi]

gross.

[@DogeickBateman]

Ok Jew.

[@dkudlay]

14:30 lol wow this guy is crazy. Where does he get this stuff? The Sun? 😂😂🤦🏻‍♀️

[@dkudlay]

13:35 does this guy makes stuff up as he goes along? Most ukranians stayed and joined the Russians.