How Russia's Energy Empire is Crumbling

[@icarusproject]

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[@minionzatwork]

Useless propaganda video. BRICS is only strengthening. You're either high on doggy doo doo or just totally unaware how your dollar is being dumped everyday. Sure, Russia has problems, US has worse problems still.

[@Marcus_Aurelius_6]

Prigozni In his interview with his soldiers in case anything happens to him, clearly reveals the reasons for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It wasn't NATO, nor denazification; those are for the foolish. The reason the Kremlin invaded Ukraine was looting of Ukraine's factories and industry by the Kremlin oligarchs, who had already divided up what each would plunder. Spread the word. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKbTfJ9ves6Jecksi=vlt5c5YyGFYkijOv

[@AktionT4-fj2ic]

Nice Problem Full stop but you don't offer Annie Solutions Full stop

[@Mario123Conserman]

❤​@@AktionT4-fj2ic

[@edwojcichowsky767]

😊

[@thegreatdane3627]

guess russia learned a very simple truth: It is much easier to find a new supplier, than it is to find a new customer. If you have money and are willing to pay, there will always be someone willing to supply. It may take a few years to build new supply chains, but no supplier is irreplaceable. Finding a new market is much harder, especially if you are seen as an unreliable supplier.

[@adairjanney7109]

uhh the energy crisis has not even started for EUrope yet, see Peter Zeihan he is like one of your guys biggest gayballs cheerleader, he says Germany is going to deindustrialize because of no more cheap Russian gas, I wonder if the German people were told that, and given a choice at all in any of this, or even the Ukrainian people whose elections were cancelled and whose men are forced against their will to fight a war for NATO. Basically this war is NATO using Ukrainian's to bleed Russia, its so gross on so many levels.

[@engliterra355]

this problem is completely made up. Oil and gas are one of the most easily sold goods in the world, everyone needs them. Collective west is not the only buyer in the world and even the west keeps buying those through a middle man, just paying more.

[@phoenix5054]

China is learning this too. They hoped to replace the West with Africa and Southeast Asia witj BRI, only to find they are the ones replaced by the US with Mexico and India.

[@pingpong_]

I hope EU and USA learn that it always costs too much to save Russia from collapse

[@engliterra355]

@@pingpong_ when did EU or US save Russia from anything lol)

[@bordersw1239]

Here in the U.K most of my family have frozen to death and I’m still eating squirrel - just as Putin predicted. Oh, wait 😉

[@thegreatdane3627]

you guys still have squirrels? We ate ours months ago, now it's nothing but grass and bugs here in Denmark...😧

[@51madmitch]

😂😂😂💪🇺🇦🇺🇦💪

[@dougaltolan3017]

UK? Surely you mean England... Here in Scotland we don't understand "freezing". Cold, damp, grey sure, but not freezing. That and we've got more renewable energy than we know, what to do with :P Grilled venison, anyone?

[@supersasquatch]

@@thegreatdane3627 you guys clearly haven't heard about Cannibal Canada, since Putin betrayed mankind with his brazen invasion of a sovereign independent state, our world has been shattered into a mad max life of misery and death here

[@glennwhitlock1272]

Squirrel!! You're lucky. We're drinking the water we boiled our squirrel in.

[@xantares13]

Putin thought he was a Tsar when in reality he was a gas station attendant.

[@jjcoola998]

Hey, that is not fair to gas station attendance they actually work hard and clean up peoples messes all day and generally aren’t maniacal sociopath monsters either though their customers typically are

[@scotts918]

Who's being bent over the counter by China, and is forced to thank them for it

[@DuyDi-rj5rk]

😍 Putin is just a dwarf who cannot walk straight or think straight. He lies, he steals, he kills all his life

[@davidreeves8266]

STEALING!!!!!!!... :)

[@DK-ev9dg]

Loser, bitter and jealous. Russia is almost self sufficient in everything

[@jim2376]

Dictator Xi to Dictator Putin: "Your dictatorship is now my dictatorship's discount gas station. Thanks for the cheap oil, comrade."

[@robertatkins9419]

Dictator Jim to Dictator Warburg: 'How many mugs, apart from willing bigots, who buy into the propaganda garbage put out on this channel?'

[@Bryankips]

Businessman Putin 😎 🇷🇺 🇨🇳

[@JuanMartinez-vf5hd]

"Started to build their portion of the pipeline before china even agreed" is so funny

[@raven4k998]

well that and thinking that black mail cannot fail and now they are figuring out that everything is back firing against them everything🤣

[@RatTerminator]

It'll take a decade 😂

[@raven4k998]

@@RatTerminator yeah and for what if Chinas going hydrogen they have no need for oil and gas🤣

[@RatTerminator]

@@raven4k998 CCP only cares about CCP 🇺🇲💪

[@gae_wead_dad_6914]

@@raven4k998 China's DEFINITELY not going hydrogen. They don't even have the infrastructure to support people using electric cars in their country lmao

[@maxlevett7474]

I don`t think there will be any Putin statues in city centers in the future

[@shotshit]

maybe they put yours

[@joecarey4356]

This is not accurate

[@Duck1985]

@@joecarey4356 you are not accurate

[@user-qo4kb4dr1i]

​@Duck1985 he does think there will be Putin statues??

[@maxlevett7474]

@@user-qo4kb4dr1i in his back yard behind a high fence so nobody can see it

[@d3fcon_1]

Don't forget - Gazprom (russian state petroleum company) is now LOSING money instead of barely gaining it.

[@seneca983]

Gazprom is the state company handling natural gas, not petroleum.

[@aocg1914]

Putin pretty much used all rusia money, and the "invesment" never payed a dime, and now they make even less money, its over, period..

[@d3fcon_1]

@@seneca983 gazprom does everything in this economics sphere, and petroleum too

[@kingPln89]

They made a net loss of 6 billion USD last year. That’s huge even for them

[@MrKogline]

@@seneca983 First, So natural gas is a petroleum product. Second, they also produce and transport other petroleum products, including crude oil and condensates. You are more wrong than most politicians, impressive.

[@chris-vn6sw]

Putin trading Europe as a partner for North Korea. Genius 😂

[@Nick-xf5hr]

Just like uk quitting the eu genius

[@cooperised]

@@Nick-xf5hr As a Brit I completely agree 😢

[@ethanwmonster9075]

5d chess giga brain master mind

[@denissinner4625]

@@Nick-xf5hr that way different level of bad

[@DuyDi-rj5rk]

[@RealityCheck6969]

I am glad you mentioned the ukrainian discovered reserves. Most people forget about that. Ukraine could have substitute Russian gas for decades to come so Russia would have been out of business.

[@MrMakabar]

Not really. The EU would just not have depended on Russia that much and gas prices would have been lower. The funny part is that EU gas consumption has fallen so much, that Ukraine probably is not going to sell gas to the EU even if the war ends. Everybody is going for green alternatives instead, so no need for it.

[@bwhog]

Yes, most of Ukraine's mineral wealth, as well as oil and natural gas, are in the east (AIRC), so Russia being able to claim and keep that territory is devastating for Ukraine and for Europe as a whole.

[@engliterra355]

it's a legend. Those fields are small and hard to mine. Why didn't Ukraine get crazy rich from them in 30 years of independence and was buying gas from Russia instead?

[@robertatkins9419]

It's just blatantly false to say that Ukraine could substitute Russian gas. Most people don't 'forget' about something that simply isn't true, and this makes a LIE of your very name.

[@MrCobalt]

@@engliterra355 Because the massive amounts discovered were only discovered recently, and then Russia made its move in 2014 shortly after that discovery, Ivan. But you know this already.

[@BigRedDragonFan]

Good video. One point you overlooked is the most technologically challenging energy projects were developed by foreign companies with outside technical experts. With those avenues gone, they can’t get replacement parts or properly maintain themZ

[@johnsmithNZ]

oh yeah right like Russia didn't build half the ISS and builds 40% of all the nuclear power plants because Russia is technologically challenged.....goof

[@CARLOSTBAEZ]

She will take over Russia to mine minerals in the Artic.

[@pgr3290]

I liked the news last week that OPEC+ want to regain lost market share on the oil markets. Since the self imposed Saudi cuts the gaps have been filled by American and other non OPEC producers. It has shrank both OPEC market share and diminished the cartel's influence. They announced the cuts would roll back starting October and continue to increase production for the year ahead. Russia lives and dies on the oil price. We could be looking at much depressed prices for several years ahead. That's an utter disaster for Russia in the middle of an unsustainably expensive war and good economic news for all the net importers i.e most of the countries that support Ukraine lol

[@Kaz590]

How this is true. This would flood the market and drive oil prices down. In turn would drive russian prices lower and could collapse their economy

[@thegreatdane3627]

fun fact: Saudi Arabia slipped into recession in 2023. For some reason that got very little attention in the media.

[@pgr3290]

@@Kaz590 OPEC+ will start to unwind 2.2 million barrels per day worth of voluntary cuts in the 12 months after October. By this time next year there has to be a decision on another 3.66 million barrels capacity heading into 2026. Saudi Arabia have been alarmed at the loss of market share and generally just the power to influence the market, which has definitely dwindled. The cuts have kept Russia afloat. Any significant drop in oil price and it can be ruinous for them.

[@lifessogood2995]

Yet gas prices still went up

[@thegreatdane3627]

@@lifessogood2995 the oil price in Europe was above $100 pr barrel form 2007-2014, and we were still fine. Today's price is $85.

[@MorningNapalm]

Putin didn't realise how much of the strength and skill of the Soviet Union was, not in Russia as Putin had assumed, but in Ukraine.

[@ronhall9394]

with a smattering of Korean (Northern Accent)

[@binancehighlights4038]

Putin just failed Russia. It is like to loose a game on easiest difficulty

[@pacivalmuller9333]

We will see.

[@fordblu1974]

@@pacivalmuller9333 they already lost

[@pacivalmuller9333]

@@fordblu1974 Yes I have been hearing this since 3 years now. Yet the only army that marches forward in Ukraine is the Russian one, and Russia had better economical growth then Germany.

[@petehowett2854]

I think that,not only are YOU,watching the WRONG GAME,but the fact that YOU ARE IN THE WRONG STADIUM

[@Heidelaffe]

@@pacivalmuller9333Marching forward? Last year the UKA managed a large liberation and this year Russia is paying an extremely high price for just tiny gains. Of cause UA is not defending every inch with countless lifes, but apparently they let Russia pay a hefty price for it. Russia should just move back behind the border of 2013 and take a good look at themselves and what they become.

[@ryanreedgibson]

When performing test crashes for the Federal Highway Safety Institute we used to mark the weak points "weak" now we just mark them "russia". Which not only means weak but poorly designed.

[@dpelpal]

I am Russian, live Samara. I teach English. I do not imagine to know the working of large petrol companies in Russia. But things are much worse in Russia than many know. And, comparitive to Western Country (I speak of UK/EU/USA) then we live very poorly. I fear it will only be worse. There are other Russians! Russians who do not support Putin!

[@thevox1075]

And there are MANY Americans that despite all the propaganda still don’t see the people of Russia as enemies. This war needs to stop, Putin needs to go, and Russians should attempt to become friendly with the west. This Cold War mentality doesn’t do anyone any good. The people of America aren’t the demons that Russian propaganda makes us out to be. I’ve become friends with a Russian that lives up in the Northwestern part by the White Sea. She now understands that we’re not hating them here. But our government here is corrupt as well, and seems to love the money earned from making wars. Not that ANY of those profits make it down to the citizens, we’re still getting ever increasing taxes. 🙄

[@HaiShaman]

i am American, live Chicago.I teach Russian. I do not imagine to know the working of large petrol companies in USA. But things are much worse in USA than many know. And, comparitive to Eastern Country (I speak of RU/CN/India) then we live very poorly. I fear it will only be worse. There are other Americans! Americans who do not support Biden!

[@dpelpal]

@@HaiShaman You would probably sell your own mother to be American, and the entire world is laughing at Russia's army😅

[@markotrieste]

Good luck! Stay safe.

[@dpelpal]

@@markotrieste Thanks to you☺

[@UncleJoeLITE]

Thanks for the analysis, regards from Australia.

[@williamwaters4506]

Fantastic explanation! I would add that the timing of the Ukraine invasion was strategic. NATO was seen as a weak organization that outlived its purpose. When Trump was president he said that NATO had outlived its purpose. Who was going to stop Russia once Putin invaded Ukraine? Ukraine has a population about the size of California which meant it should have been a quick invasion, especially since Ukraine, like Russia, had a lot of government corruption and Zelenskyy was seen as a buffoon. The Ukraine invasion began in 2014 when Russia took control of various parts of Ukraines land. The second of invasion was supposed to be the final blow. Why President Obama did not take action against Putin during the initial invasion is a mystery to me.

[@chrisstrawn4108]

You are correct that Obama should have taken action and did not but you miss the importance of the utter disaster of our withdrawal from Afghanistan. Most of us voted for Obama because we were sick of being lied into open ended, pointless wars. 2013-4 most of America would have been in the streets protesting if Obama was seen as getting us into yet ANOTHER war. We Americans have this big weakness in that we assume once a new President comes in then the international slate is cleared. Not true. Obama was constrained by the lies and cynicism of the Bush administration combined with his own innate timidity. Biden has similar issues.

[@pauldewit117]

Agree, excellent video. Putin wanted to invade Ukraine much sooner. But covid threw a spanner in the works for him. By that time Don the con was replaced. He really shot himself in the foot here.

[@palithaassalaarachchi1497]

Obama is another Chamberlain.

[@afterthesmash]

You must also be a user of Gemini Advanced. It won't tell me, either, what Obama did in response: Me: What measures did the Obama administration impose on Russia as a consequence of Russia's actions against Ukraine? Gemini: I can't help with responses on elections and political figures right now. I'm trained to be as accurate as possible but I can make mistakes sometimes. While I work on improving how I can discuss elections and politics, you can try Google Search. Gemini seems to think that Google Search is infallible. I found a few resources on that old dog suggesting that the Obama administration did more than nothing, but of course that could all be fake news.

[@kreb7]

Dealing with 2 wars in the middle of worst economic disaster since ww2

[@insanebe1]

That is a nice theory but Russian oil still makes it into Europe, here is how it works, Russia exports it to third-party countries like India and UAE, they refine it and then export it as "Indian Refined Oil Products" to Europe, These have been a significant increase in EU imports of diesel and jet fuel from India.

[@PeterSedesse]

Yes, but for that to happen requires two long shipping routes. From Russia to India, and then from India to Europe. This means Russia is selling that crude to India for $25 per barrel less than the USA gets for its oil. The purpose of the sanctions was not to eliminate Russian oil from world markets, it was to eliminate all the profits to Russia By increasing shipping times and insurance rates

[@samstrider3253]

@@PeterSedesse And at the same time developing India and forming a nice friendly partnership between India and the EU 🙂

[@janhammekenbuch142]

Don't forget who takes a percentage of the profits during that long trek... And they know the Russians are pressed for cashflow. Any cashflow.

[@PeterSedesse]

@@janhammekenbuch142 yeah, that is the thing with China and India. They are not doing Russia any favors. They know Russia has no other buyers and so are squeezing them for the lowest price.

[@lsq7833]

And in the process the intermediaries eat up all of Russia's benefit while the oil still makes it to market 😂 The only loser in there is Russia😂

[@pjhgerlach]

Imagine Russia being a civilized peaceful country trading with its neighbours....... nah will never happen. 😏

[@Britephartt]

But it could if the Russian people wanted it but they seem to like be oppressed international villains.

[@help1ng316]

Seeing it from an economic perspective they whiffed soooo hard. Imagine a pipe/train network from russia to europe, north america and china. The sheer amount of easy transport would make a new "silk road" along the edge of southern russia running from east to west and vice versa. But no, we get war :(

[@Flugs0]

fr though, the country could be so prosperous if putin actually cared about his people

[@dougaltolan3017]

They were pretty close just before thus war.

[@g.v4848]

@@help1ng316 Russia just can't help being backwards and totalitarian, it's always been like that. From having prolonged and worse serfdom than the west, to cruel tsars, to their absolute communist police state, to still clinging to outdated imperial ideals in a world of global trade. Russia would have been a third world-power between east and west if it wasn't controlled by incompetent old farts clinging to outdated hierarchies

[@johnnyb1368]

Hope Russian's can speak mandarin, There going to need it soon.

[@zedeyejoe]

China is already taking Russians Eastern territory. Nothing Russia can do to stop it.

[@unknownentity8256]

They're already a Chinese colony, they just don't know it yet.

[@NotRelated-f1o]

Russians will get replaced by Chinese... apparently Chinese are moving into Russia from the East without even asking and building settlements that use Yuan and speaking Chinese only...

[@dh1380]

Hehehe not long now

[@Kodakcompactdisc]

Can’t happen fast enough.

[@OnigoroshiZero]

Will NOT happen.

[@bekeneel]

@@OnigoroshiZero its going from bad to worse for russia.

[@dirusso3030]

​​​​@@OnigoroshiZero☝️ The USSR had Double of RUzzia GDP, Double of RUzzia Population, and 3 times more soldiers than RUzzia. After losing the War to POOR Afghanistan USSR COLLAPSED 💯. ruZzya lost more soldiers in 2 Weeks in the Ukraine war than the USSR lost in 9 years. Afghanistan never entered the USSR TERRITORY OR attacked inside their Territory, how do you expect ruZzya to survive if the Almighty USSR couldn't do it?😢

[@bronyaenjoyer]

The russian trolls work so fast

[@shotshit]

Faster than you

[@nicksmile5811]

what are you then?

[@TheShire26]

@@nicksmile5811me? I’m just a humble farmer

[@Duck1985]

@@nicksmile5811 A person? Bots are not people, they're filthy cockroaches. What do you think Nick?

[@andrewbielecki6154]

@@nicksmile5811 He's on the right side of history, not a supporter of genocide and fascism

[@dgaydos]

A gas station masquerading as a country. --- John McCain. (And a gas station that doesn't even have a convenience store...lol)

[@markgladwell8927]

and a very bad Country at that

[@MrMakabar]

The really scary part for Russia is that most of the EUs gas replacement strategy was not buying gas from other producers, but replacing gas with green alternatives like heat pumps, renewable electricity and so forth. This is very likely never going to come back. Even if Putin gets replaced by a democratic government and the EU wants to buy gas from them to no longer buy from say Algeria or import LNG.

[@dzeklakovic7568]

Those are leftist fairy tales. It's easy to say "Just go green lol", but no one has a damn clue how to do it.

[@znail4675]

Getting rid of kitchen gas stoves solves most of the gas dependency.

[@chrisstrawn4108]

Maybe they shouldn't have invaded Ukraine and done away with Putin's critics like Navalny. Russia will have to be worked into the international community but it's extremely unlikely they will be rehabilitated. They are proud of being the skunk of Europe and blame everyone else for the title.

[@znail4675]

@@chrisstrawn4108 Russia is heading towards being North Korea 2.0.

[@VLAD18041976]

@@znail4675 yep, and you get plenty of electricity from the wall outlets. And its always there!!! Oh wait...

[@tonylyons7711]

Slava Ukraine ❤

[@sogerc1]

Why do bad things happen to bad people?! 😂

[@dpelpal]

I am Russian trust me it all bad here lol.

[@1wun1]

Exceptionally

[@Crying_dog]

Karma

[@johnschroeder7009]

WE call that Karma!

[@1wun1]

@@sogerc1 Statistically bad things happen to 'good people' instead, look at Ukraine as an example.

[@57thorns]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="710">11:50</a> Imagine Russia "selling" the eastern part of the country to US instead of China? That would be hilarious.

[@archersfriend5900]

They have done it before.

[@DavidRichardson153]

No "selling" about it. They actually did sell some eastern territory to the US, so the precedent is set - and you can thank Cassius Clay for that.

[@57thorns]

@@DavidRichardson153 I know about Alaska, that was a communist dicatorship and a tsar ago though...

[@57thorns]

@@DavidRichardson153 The reason for the quotation marks is that is it more likely they will declare independence and then parhaps chose to ask to join US as protection against China.

[@Broockle]

Russia falling apart would be quite awkward internationally. Who gets the nukes, who gets the territory, who gets to be independent. Who still wants to consider themselves Russian. o boi.

[@ivancorey7389]

It’s like the Confederacy withholding cotton exports to Britain during the civil war. Turns out cotton grows other places as well. And following the civil war, the southern states never regained their market share.

[@igorbukovy4313]

I am glad that russian plan backfired. War has no place in 21st century, energy can not be used as a tool of war. Each country should try to achieve energy self-sufficiency.

[@BuddyLee23]

Oh, I think we will soon be discovering just how much of a role war has in the 21st century…

[@humansvd3269]

It can and has been used as a tool of war since the beginning of time. Current year doesn't change reality no matter how much you want it to.

[@petehowett2854]

Which "plan" is that then?As far as I can see,from the Russian side,all the fronts are moving,in tempo.

[@cawstongreenway]

China gets "mate's rates" 🤣🤣🤣Cannot believe Putin is still in power 🙄

[@neluma]

Russia could leave Ukraine and go home

[@humansvd3269]

Except NATO just put nuclear weapons next door and that's unacceptable. Same as of China set up shop in Mexico or Cuba.

[@erwinbos7753]

No​@@David.Anderson

[@rightwank8718]

stop being reasonbable ... and join the outrage!!

[@abdelkaderhamdaoui8337]

Young Ukrainians are all in Hungary, Poland and Romania avoiding the military call up and most Ukrainian soldiers have sought refuge in Russia.

[@CARLOSTBAEZ]

Ukraine with help from the West will defeat Russia and "she" will learn not to BUCK with Mother Nature.

[@lancethrustworthy]

A good and memorable video.

[@Nick-xf5hr]

India is complicit in carrying on the war in Ukraine. A very duplicitous nation.

[@spushkin1]

Agreed.

[@minionzatwork]

India of 1.4 billion people will live it's own destiny and is not a poodle of the West. You can suck it. India will align with whoever it chooses too.

[@MrGoMario]

India is a poor, 3th World country with little to say... They are glad for any breadcrumbs Russia and/or China throws at them....😅 GDP per Capita is like 2500 USD 😅 The word #ShitHole comes to mind.

[@MrAntonBaton]

​@@minionzatwork Just like the west will align with whoever it wants, when China comes knocking on your door, right, my lovely Indian boy:)

[@jakew7982]

@@minionzatworkFound the Indian nationalist. Your women love us 🥰

[@bigbadallybaby]

Also may of the experienced engineers involved in building and maintaining the oil and gas mining have left the country either as they have fled or they were from other countries in the first place. This leaves a massive skills gap.

[@bwhog]

You also should mention the fact that, in order to support the war effort, Russia has had to divert more of its spending to the production of munitions which puts a further strain on their financial situation. This is non-productive spending since everything they build goes up in flames (literally).

[@noelheim]

insipid.

[@tonythedegen]

very interesting, thanks for sharing!

[@42VS42]

Excellent video. Very inspiring and encouraging to see all of this information with none of the nonsense. 💛💛💙💙

[@jimthain8777]

So the important question: Did China manipulate Russia into this debacle? My answer: Yes, it did. Manipulation has always been at the heart of Chinese politics. Now you're seeing that in action on the world stage like never before.

[@defconone1498]

Putin's arrogance started this but no doubt China looked with envy at the new potential. China is not doing all that well economically either.

[@hardtackbeans9790]

At their meeting during the Olympics just before the invasion, Xi kept giving Poots side glances like WTF?!! I thought it was an odd look at the time. Xi had just made territorial claims on Manchuria the previous summer & thought that must be odd to suddenly be the greatest of friends now.

[@ChadHarm_Toad]

They had been mortal enemies the summer before the invasion. I think Xi was genuinely shocked when they found out just weeks before the invasion.

[@gottagowork]

Just as ruZZia manipulated UK into Brexit and US into voting Trump. Yes, bad politicians involved in both cases, but those were in turn influenced by the "masses of people" propaganda.

[@chrishooge3442]

I doubt it. Putin made so many miscalculations that I suspect he cooked this up all on his own. Ukraine fought back. Sanctions landed immediately. Energy blackmail didn't work. The thunder run into Kyiv was wildly unprepared. The air campaign failed to achieve anything like Air Superiority. The Black Sea fleet got decimated...actually worse...lost 30% of it's ships. All of that starts with a colossal Intelligence failure. Putin was a former KGB officer and he couldn't even get that right.

[@gm7304]

1st time here Great Job Thank You.

[@MoonlightHorizon-ev7ev]

If I was Russia I would take the L, pull out of Ukraine, and start talking to Europe again to make a mutually beneficial energy agreement vs the absolute piss take that china is trying.

[@Kodakcompactdisc]

They have hundreds of billions to pay in restitution before even one sanction will be lifted. They know they’re f’ed

[@hellwire4582]

That would be against anything Russia stnads for. If there is one country that doesnt pull back. its russia

[@blenderbanana]

Fascists can't apologize or correct themselves.

[@altifore3934]

​@@hellwire4582what russia stands for? Or what putin stands for?

[@lukask4498]

Putin can't do that. That's the fastest way to get "canceled" in Russia. Russians will have to strike again, problem is majority of russians still support the war. They are just not happy about not winning it.

[@Critical-Thinker895]

Yes finally a KZbinr who gets it. Russia did not invade because of memories of the homeland. Their main objective was to solidify their acquisition of all the oilfields that have been discovered off the coast as well as the much needed ports. Russia had already been suffering for their slow recovery from WWII and men that were working age that could raise families. Now their future has been destroyed by Putin's desire for oil. The geopolitical ramifications of Putin's mistake will be huge.

[@HepCatJack]

There were videos in 2022 that pointed to the oil & gas of the Dunbass region about to be developed by UA with some help from western expertise giving Russia a competitor so that couldn't threaten countries that they supplied with gas by cutting them off.

[@zedeyejoe]

Lots of lithium in Ukraine as well :)

[@jva4120]

It's all of it together. There's not just one reason. Memory has been the spearhead of russian domestic politics for more than 10 years now. And increasingly more hysteric too.

[@mattevans4377]

And the only reason countries defend Ukraine is because of the oil as well. Welcome to the resource wars.

[@HepCatJack]

@@zedeyejoe the lithium was mentioned as well.

[@ComradeCatpurrnicus]

I'm sure North Korea would take some of their useless oil off them in exchange for some useless Soviet era ammunitions 😅

[@bdub1934]

wtf they gonna do with oil?

[@ll_Taylor_ll]

Are you on drugs? We in the west still buy it but we use India as the middle man 😂 we just paid $18.4 Billion for Oil from India which they mainly get from Russia.

[@luxter858]

​@@bdub1934 eat it

[@57thorns]

@@ll_Taylor_ll Russia still have lost refinery capacity, so that oil is either crude or India has refined it. Not as good as cutting off Russia completely, but it does keep global oil prices down and Russia is actually not really making any money. Same as the situation with China.

[@ll_Taylor_ll]

@57thorns Not making money? Just go and check at how much india are now buying and selling to us 😆 They pay Russia average of $81.4 per barrel and import 1.78 million barrels per day $$$$ which they then sell to us in the west.

[@2thousand24]

The delayed affect of world economic sanctions are exponential and are felt for generations down, while Russia stagnates in research and development funding the west continues to develop, this growth becomes exponential further widening the gap between Russia and the rest of the world.

[@Angel2043-w3s]

Too much vodka; The Russians should smoke weed and just chill .

[@oneshothunter9877]

I'm 💯 in on this with you, brother. I am rolling a fatty as I write this. Chill. Be happy. Live and let live.

[@petehowett2854]

They do,although not a lot of Russians,do.They can get their hands on Afghany Black hash,very difficult to find even,in the Netherlands.I mean,legit black afghany

[@BCAT3089]

so this is why Russia just went all in with North Korea

[@jebes909090]

they only have shovels and washing machines left after all

[@nobodyherepal3292]

Ya, that’s why they just begged North Korea to send troops to reinforce them now too.

[@yabatopia]

One important thing to add: to this day there’s still flowing Russian gas to Europe. A large portion is liquid LNG, shipped to the Belgian port Antwerp-Zeebrugge. From there it’s going to the rest of Europe and other countries. The EU has recently decided to ban the distribution of Russian LNG from EU ports like Antwerp-Zeebrugge to non-EU countries in the near future, but there is no ban to EU countries. Even crazier: the pipelines between Russia and the EU are still flowing, although at much lower volumes than before 2022, even passing the territory of Ukraine.

[@chrishooge3442]

My understanding that the pipeline through Ukraine will not be renewed at the end of 2024. Those flows will stop.

[@ettoreatalan8303]

An oil well cannot be switched on and off at will. Clogging occurs if no oil flows. This makes switching it back on particularly complicated and expensive.

[@robertmiles1603]

Really? I'd say it has a big Putin problem. That problem being Vladimir Putin.

[@SovietReunionYT]

Putin is the symptom, not the disease. Once he's removed, the replacement wont be any better. Russia's key problem is a sense of having lost an empire that they need to rebuild. Much like with the Brexit types in England. Too many Russians cant accept that the Russian Empire was a bad thing, that the Russians trying to run the Soviet Union like it was a Russian empire was a bad thing, and that Russia needs to build an alliance of equals in order to prosper. Nobody respects a bully, no matter how powerful they are. Bullies are always resented. But the thing is, Russia CANT participate in an alliance of equals because it's STILL a massive evil colonial empire. It never got fully ripped to pieces like the Austrian and Ottoman empires, and it never got forced to decolonize like the British and French empires. 90% of Russia's land is stolen from other nations, and they want it back. The US has the same problem, which is why it too can never participate in an alliance of equals, it will remain an evil empire that bullies its "partners" until it gets destroyed.

[@SovietReunionYT]

Putin is the symptom, not the disease. Once he's removed, the replacement wont be any better. Russia's key problem is a sense of having lost an empire that they need to rebuild. Much like with the Brexit types in England. Too many Russians cant accept that the Russian Empire was a bad thing, that the Russians trying to run the Soviet Union like it was a Russian empire was a bad thing, and that Russia needs to build an alliance of equals in order to prosper. Nobody respects a bully, no matter how powerful they are. Bullies are always resented. But the thing is, Russia CANT participate in an alliance of equals because it's STILL a massive evil colonial empire. It never got fully ripped to pieces like the Austrian and Ottoman empires, and it never got forced to decolonize like the British and French empires. 90% of Russia's land is stolen from other nations, and they want it back.

[@drmikeosgood]

This has been an excellent informational video! Great job.

[@icecold9511]

To be clear, Russia didn't so much as sell Alaska, as they barely had any claim to it and there was other competing claims. They had no presence in Alaska. They sold their claim to Alaska.

[@JeffreyDick-x6g]

The Russian Orthodox Churches that still exist in Alaska would indicate that they had some presence there.

[@icecold9511]

@@JeffreyDick-x6g But minimal presence. The other claimants, us and Canada primarily, considered them interloper.

[@JeffreyDick-x6g]

@@icecold9511 Canada did not yet exist.

[@JeRefuseDeBienPrononcerBaleine]

@@JeffreyDick-x6g Because the name was different doesn't mean it didn't exist.

[@JeffreyDick-x6g]

@@JeRefuseDeBienPrononcerBaleine Well, "Canada" certainly could not have had a claim on Alaska when "Canada" itself was nothing more than British colony. Alaska was sold to the USA by Russia to keep it out British hands.

[@MrSoles]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="569">9:29</a> Now that right there looks like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's Sub Base map layout. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@SkepticalChris]

Putin failed to understand that just because Russia produces alot of oil and gas, means they're the only ones that produce oil and gas. Oil and gas is produced all over the world and is not difficult to buy for the right prices.

[@bdub1934]

The US no long needs anyone gas. Thats why we are pulling out of the middle east. We still have an Israel problem but other than that we dont give a shit about the Middle east.

[@expertizer]

actually it is! here in germany we pay triple the price of 2021for natural gas and the double price for electricity.

[@jennysue601]

That is untrue. German here. Neither average price kwh electricity 2021:30 cents, 2024 37 cents. It did not double . Average natural gas price in 2021 was 6.5 cent per kwh, 10.7 cents per kwh in 2024. It did not tripple. There was a temporary spike late 22/23 but that was just that. Temporary.

[@ll_Taylor_ll]

We still buy Russias but we buy it through India...

[@user-qo4kb4dr1i]

​@@expertizerha, that would be insane, and I don't think you believe that

[@ashedarke]

I didn't realise China wanted local rates, that's pretty savage.

[@idanceforpennies281]

Russia and China have a border but that area for both of them is about as far from population centres as it's possible to get on earth. That's going to have to be one long friggin pipeline (plus laterals) to reach large Chinese population centres. So it's not attractive at all to the Chinese unless the gas is really really cheap.

[@VulcanLogic]

That pipeline is pretty susceptible to drones and the remoteness means it will be difficult to repair.

[@chrishooge3442]

My understanding is that China just bailed on a new pipeline project.

[@idanceforpennies281]

@@chrishooge3442 Not surprised. I think it's just easier for the Chinese to ship in LNG to existing storage terminals, which already have a spiderweb of pipelines. That way they get supply from anywhere and transport it everywhere.

[@randomescu]

All winters following the war were incredible hot. Well, not hot but 16⁰, compared with negative Celsius. You can wear shorts and a t-shirt at 16 if you are not a wimp.

[@rockodomingo7518]

Out the window Putin goes problem solved

[@AirB-101]

An EXCELLENT general recap! Thank you Sir!

[@1wun1]

China is having a party 😂

[@HarryBarrow-e3u]

One thing you did not mention is that the Russian oil and gas industry is dependent on western technology and expertise for its operation and maintenance. Nowadays, O & G is a high tech industry, from seismic surveys in exploration to monitoring and control of production. Everything from drilling to pumping was being done by western experts, who have all left the country. Wells in permafrost are likely to freeze if they are not constantly producing. Even if Russia gives up in its Special Military Invasion, western companies will be out for at least a decade, probably until long after Putin has gone. Over time Russia’s O & G industry is likely to degrade… The west is also moving rapidly away from fossil fuels to sustainable energy. Russia needs to find another way to earn a living as well.

[@drp2007]

Vlad to his populace, Oops.

[@nicholasgranat2999]

Never thought an invasion would be their undoing! Not everyone is a good chess player!

[@AK-ej5ml]

According to "Russian Fossil Teacker" Russian fossil fuel exports have fallen from 1.9 billion tons annualised rste in January 2022 to 1.7 billion tons in April 2024, so while it is reducing I don't think 10% is enough to call it a disaster for Russia. We need to do much, much more to limit Russian exports.

[@billybobwombat2231]

Good

[@shamol3896]

I've seen so many videos like this. I'll have to read the comments on this video in a year.

[@redsable6119]

When bullies get their comeuppance.

[@bobgreen9980]

*Russia is learning that "YOU CAN CATCH MORE FLIES WITH HONEY THAN VINEGAR".*

[@OFTENUSER]

are they?

[@bobgreen9980]

@@OFTENUSER i can only hope so.

[@stevenjohns-savage7024]

I was in hospital back then.😡. Now I'm here useless but still supporting Ukraine because there not alone 😊

[@JaneSoole]

Delighted to have found this brilliant and clear analysis. Thank you. I will sleep more happily tonight!

[@robertkonrad8827]

There is nothing more restful than the sleep of a mindless russophobe.

[@vovochen]

*Thank you.* You must however link your sources !!!!!!!!

[@expertizer]

he has non...

[@euroxcentric8778]

Source: trust me bro ;-)

[@valbout3639]

These are all questions that Westerners are asking, But I very much doubt that these questions are on the agenda in Russia. The concern of the leaders is to win this war and then they will advise.

[@henrylind9730]

Slava Ukraine

[@HereticalKitsune]

Living in Central Europe it made me very happy when our governments all agreed to cut of gas and oil supplies from Russia, especially with how quickly we found alternatives. Are those all good? Probably not, but it still hits Russia hard.

[@thomastoadie9006]

Economically seen Russia’s invasion is like pulling a Brexit.

[@andrewbielecki6154]

I'd say its 1000000x worse

[@paulgibbon5991]

As stupid as Brexit was, we didn't start throwing our own workforce into a grinder.

[@ivancorey7389]

I would say Brexit was less damaging. It was surely a shortsighted decision economically, but the UK didn’t turn into a pariah. Trade wasn’t severed, there is just import and export controls and taxes.

[@thomastoadie9006]

@@ivancorey7389 Brexit was simply the first to set an example of a trend and thereby defining a word. And yes I agree, Russia´s Brexit is far, far more damaging to Russia compared to the UK´s Brexit. The UK´s position is much more fluid. The UK has options a plenty if they choose to politically. Russia´s not. It´s trajectory is firmly linear down whatever happens. We´re witnessing the true death of 19th century imperialism. Russia is just the last to go.

[@JoeyFTL]

Great video as always man

[@petracastro6021]

I agree that Russia has economic problems. But it's not true that western countries stopped buying Russian gas and oil completely. This is mainly because European countries don't want to put in peril their own economies.

[@olaola63375]

Two and a half years ago the same people were telling us Russian economy is going to fall apart. How come Russian economy not only withstood sanctions but keeps on growing at a faster rate than all Western economies and went up from 5th to 4th position? Do You want to explain why all the predictions failed?

[@abdelkaderhamdaoui8337]

This is because Western media especially the BBC, CNN, ITV, MSN, NBC and Sky News along with the British intelligence spurious newswriting networks are professional at spinning their disingenuously packaged web of lies, deception, disinformation and spurious propaganda demonising Russia and character assassinating Putin. And the morons and imbeciles in the West are swallowing the 'news' hook, line and sinker.

[@nycj3ahudson341]

' Bye... SLAVA UKRAIINI..!!!

[@oxydator]

Dictatorship and ruin are tied together inseparably.

[@jacob_90s]

Early squad assemble!

[@vovochen]

HERE WE ARE

[@blenderbanana]

Weekday Pre-dawn Drinker! GO!

[@Rico-oy3dc]

The US and allies must add to Russia's problems and make sure Putin and any similar replacements get "turned off".

[@malindafrank.028]

🇺🇦👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🇺🇦

[@tonyruggz4487]

Interesting, informative..and factual. Ty..subbed. 👍👍👊

[@allydea]

How do you know it was factual?

[@RichardD-jf1ko]

1st time a country is committing a mass scale suicide

[@alecpym1706]

No the Brits have also done it with Brexit.

[@barriewilliams4526]

He's still a master strategist though😂

[@ЮрійТележинський-й8ь]

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@joebannon9443]

1975-2016 worked oil & gas Russia a major problem they have a dependence on western equipment, spares & skilled labour to support the industry. Pipelines have little or no Russian home made equipment as it either very substandard or very maintenance intensive. There are numerous abandoned sites with home made equipment I have seen in Russia & Kazakstan Site equipment even includes buildings & ancillary equipment toilets, heating etc. Russia are endeavouring to source both labour TWN’s & spares via the Middle East as they are incapable providing a ‘you make we fake’ support industry. The prolonged shut down of equipment is also a major issue as Russian has no skill set personnel to implement preservation procedures which in the case of gas turbines & driven units involves disassembly. I have seen the rise in Russian living standards from 1975 I’m now witnessing its rapid demise all due to one democratically elected dictator, sad.

[@sandytrunks]

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="687">11:27</a> "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." ~ Albert Einstein

[@hellwire4582]

~ Vaas Montenegro*

[@super_happy_alien509]

Ai Gore: Global warming will destoy us all !!!. Putin:..... Plan lost ,,,,,,,,,, Damm globel Warming !!! Ai Gore: Global Warming Saved us all !!!!!!!!!!! Greta thunberg: This is not what i had in mind !!!!!!

[@ErtaiCZ]

Apathy is death. Worse than death!

[@jubjub7101]

There are A LOT of videos about Russia being in trouble in one sort or another. Energy, military, aviation, population, raw materials, etc. You would hope one or two of these would help the decision to pull out of Ukraine. Instead, I’m more concerned these issues will ramp up the Russian government’s lashing out.

[@Broockle]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="460">7:40</a> "Russia does this for its citizens as one of the rare benefits to them for being part of Russian society" This is quite a burn 😆

[@Broockle]

For Russia the oil industry is booming 😎 o no he didn't 😂

[@christiannoble5549]

Back to the more important questions. Why is the guy turning a rebar at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="530">8:50</a> on a lathe?

[@nickcoppard5335]

He is making a shovel handle

[@fjalarhenriksson]

You just lied about China. They are not developing they are falling into pieces 🤣

[@yargolocus4853]

China is very much developing big time. It's not without issues ofcourse

[@DementiaDon]

@@yargolocus4853 Their population is declining and they have massive structural issues within their economy.

[@uteriel282]

@@yargolocus4853 china is even more of a dumpster fire than russia. between natural disasters that the government does nothing about, over their buildings collapsing and killing people nearly every day because of cheap construction to fanatical hate crimes against foreigners because of brainwashing and propaganda the country is falling apart bit by bit. not to mention how china is antagonizing every asian country right now while their own military capability is just about equal to russias.

[@mikethespike7579]

@@DementiaDon China is fast becoming a basket case. A lot of what we see from China are just flashy Potemkin villages. Hidden behind the scene things are falling apart.

[@yargolocus4853]

@@DementiaDon those are the issues. there is progress too, such as in electric car production, batteries, and infrastructural development. I can't see them going *down* in the far future

[@CH-tp4wz]

Great content but the comments section is just as good or even better. I always love reading through people's comments. Some funny one's there 😂.

[@Jupiterloobncj]

I had to chance to visit russia and ukraine. I was shocked how such a heavy weight culture with very skilled people could be so mediocre. Autocracy is the answer i found

[@Macc1]

JCB-style Green Hydrogen powered IC engines will be the game changer here.

[@derrekvanee4567]

*çùkæ bl·lýæt go to bed* Ruzza van afford the people and has the big boom-boom sticks to show the issue.* That said, ruzzans... Get him off life support. Even Poophorzian would be sick if not for *shoiguuuu.....*

[@suvahomescape4665]

NAFO bot detected

[@gherkamum]

Oil must be getting low...