Sanctions, 1 Year Later

[@MoneyMacro]

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[@user-muserf]

after the words Russia began the invasion of Ukraine, you can turn off the video because we won't hear anything interesting and truthful anymore. 1) On February 19, Ukraine began massive shelling of the independent republics of the DPR and LPR , and only 3 days later Russia began to defend them by signing an agreement recognizing them as independent republics (before that, Russia wanted these republics to return to Ukraine under the Minsk agreements) and an agreement on financial and military assistance. 2) Europe and the United States are not fighting against Russia with sanctions alone, but there are thousands of military personnel from all G7 member countries in Ukraine, and this has long been no secret. 3) After the start of the war, most of the Ukrainian refugees moved to Russia , not to Europe , because they have relatives and history here , and they are connected with Europe only by the Kiev regime . 4) Tens of thousands of Ukrainians are fighting against the Kiev regime. 5) Personally, from me, the War was created artificially by 100% and it will not end until the people at the top do not want to.

[@jrocks6969]

Russia invaded crimea which is ukraine in 2014

[@mna7308]

Bye petrodollar

[@UhtredOfBamburgh]

@@velcranoxofficials9970 I bet you think that Hitler freed the Jews too. No one believes you.

[@danyilpoliakov8445]

Why would you advertise surfshark? Didn't you got enough money from Kremlin for this video?

[@johnnydeppsky3510]

Well, as a Russian, I don’t need VPN to watch this video. Sorry, Surfshark. Edit: I connect from Russia, Vladimir Region And as many mentioned here already the Russians don’t get ads on KZbin since monetisation is off for the views from Russia. Thanks KZbin!

[@michaelistoma8356]

So what? Other media are available?

[@michaelistoma8356]

@@legsundeer6108 чел, инст, фэйсбук, сотни независимых СМИ. Ты чо шиз? Не видишь, чо происходит?

[@ШадиАбдельсалам]

​@@michaelistoma8356 Инстаграм, твиттер и фейсбук - в любом случае отвратительные соц. сети, которым, в большинстве своём, есть отличные замены. А так называемые "независимые" СМИ мало того, что на самом деле довольно зависимые, так ещё и банятся повсеместно, это не только российская практика.

[@FisikYadershik]

@@michaelistoma8356 "независимые" СМИ. Это те самые которые получают финансирование из прозападных фондов?

[@Plantagene1]

@@michaelistoma8356 Просто впн включи и все тебе будет

[@glowyy606]

I live in Russia and honestly, nothing really changed. Only thing that changed is gaming. I don’t understand why the heck spotify and steam closed? Putin gonna stop listening to music on Spotify and stop war or what do they expect. You still can buy games on steam using simple tricks tho. I’m talking about sanctions in daily life of a normal person, not country yk

[@woofkaf7724]

Самое забавное что они кричат о поддержке войны при покупке рос. продукции, но почему-то не хотят "отнимать" деньги у Путина путем продажи своего продукта.

[@obosranecc2938]

Поменялось многое для людей чья отрасль работы была санкционирована, например у моих родителей щас бы не было денег если бы не легализовали паралельный импорт

[@MrStormShield]

Changes here are more significant compared to yours. Energy and the deviation to food prices coming after that was shocking and probably will continue to rise. Well that is how it is when whole Europe is lead by US puppets making it vassal states. :)

[@Miraihi]

The termination of SWIFT payments is the major headache. No one "closed" Steam though, you just can't fill your account funds by conventional means, only via some walkaround measures, like buying a game key outside Steam or using Kazakh currency (Tenge) through an unsanctioned bank (Qiwi bank is the most popular and arguably the easiest to use).

[@obosranecc2938]

@@ubiwan7936 Games are not banned there man. Blizzard banned access to ow2 but i still play it

[@jaythomas3224]

Imagine if those same sanctions were implemented when the US illegally invaded Iraq

[@angrysmurf3974]

If all the countries in the world stopped using the dollar 😂😂😂 the US will collapse. One sanction can kill the entire United States of Devils

[@Genshin_7708]

No mate no country can sanction biggest GDP of world and second biggest nuclear arsenal and they can invade whoever they want in name of freedom

[@Genshin_7708]

@i2Sage correct

[@RighteousUncle]

US don't need any sanctions as they are already a failed and bankrupted state without anyones help.

[@Genshin_7708]

@@RighteousUncle but world trades in dollars that's why us can print as munch dollars as it wants without depreciation of currency

[@zerx9926]

I am from Crimea and had experienced sanctions from 2014. And it's really more of an inconvenience. Prices risen a little, but that didn't impact my life at all. The worst thing is that I couldn't pay on the online platforms like steam or battle net. On the bright side I had to learn how to use vpn. Also most of sanctions didn't target primary income of the military complex of Russia, like autor of this video said it's to make people revolt, but since that failed, sanctions remain just a nuisance.

[@wolfey2456]

but they wont revoke them cuz its still a profit to usa

[@realpolitick1468]

So Steam doesn't accept Russian cards?

[@zerx9926]

@@realpolitick1468 No, I have to use an internet store to do that. But they take about 10-15% of the transaction as payment. Some people use virtual cards or cards from relatives that live in other countries. I think there are other methods.

[@realpolitick1468]

@@zerx9926 I thought Steam had suspended operations in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine tho?

[@sunnyspiritg]

@@realpolitick1468 you can't pay with a russian card and some games are unavailable (but that's publishers' decisions, not steam). everything else works just fine

[@mariotomeh1201]

As a person living in a country suffering from US and EU sanctions for more than a decade, sanctions have always failed to curb governments off their policies, put only make it worse for people and businesses over there.

[@mrsnezbit2219]

So we shouldn't do anything.. come on Putin, go towards Gibraltar because we don't want people to suffer

[@pieseldatches]

Iran or Venezuela?

[@doge7906]

​@@mrsnezbit2219 well you didn't do anything during Iraq or Syria or Afghanistan or Vietnam

[@mrsnezbit2219]

@@doge7906 I know but I was born in 1993..

[@doge7906]

Yeah but you are not criticizing the people who were old enough to do something but instead supurted the invaders you are only criticizing Russia

[@francoisluchaire8365]

”Invading your neighbours isn’t without cost”… but invading countries around the world can be done without fearing any sanction… especially when you are the US : kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHKtZXeIpM-mmac

[@Kotenok_s]

Yes

[@rickgolder6818]

True

[@BoleDaPole]

The hypocrisy of my fellow westerners is sometimes beyond belief. So many here think we have the right to police the world and get involved in other countries affairs simply because they don't hold the same " values" as us. The smugness and sense of superiority has always been present here , no doubt about that. The old Bush Jr saying of " you're either with us or against us" is more true than ever before.

[@rickgolder6818]

@@BoleDaPole why your comment is not showing

[@carolean4360]

When you are doing the world a favour you don't need to fear sanctions.

[@Tabula_Rasa1]

There are few items that is important (Dont think I remember hearing it): Blowing the pipeline seal the fate of ever buying Russian gas. India/China replace Europe as its oil/gas clients Attacking neighbor is not prerequisite of sanction or getting reserve frozen. Iraq, Venezuela, Libia & Afghanistan have reserves frozen without attacking anyone. Great video thought.

[@richardarriaga6271]

India and China will take time to replace European gas imports. They might be able to finance construction, but that means far less profit than what Europe would have paid in gas.

[@TwoSouthFarm]

Sanction and frozen reserve are not consequences for the US and it's allies after all

[@chethanshajan9047]

India buys very little gas from Russia they actually buy crude oil and that to only because Russia offers it to them at cheaper prices than the market price. India is basically taking advantage of the situation to buy cheap oil and Russia will hv to sell it to them barely able to cover the principle cost

[@renanfelipedossantos5913]

India and China combined cannot replace the loss of the European market. It's not about how many people buy your oil and gas, but how much they pay for it in aggregate.

[@travisfubu9053]

​@@richardarriaga6271 China alone already replaced Europe's gas imports cope harder LOL

[@michaelh4227]

If there's anything I've learned from this whole war it's that people are more resilient then you think. The Ukrainians didn't fold immediately, the Russians weren't crushed by the sanctions, and the West was able to adapt to a lack of Russian oil.

[@Koropokel]

adapt? Im from germany and everything is becoming expensive the AFD is at an all time high. Germany never sucked more in my whole lifetime.

[@spartanrating8210]

Open the borders to young people from Ukraine and you will see the resilience...the resilience of standing at the borders, towards Europe, and towards Russia. You just can't imagine the queue in the Baltic countries at the border, Ukrainians bypass all the ways to get to Russia.

[@michaelh4227]

@@spartanrating8210 Nobody is going to fucking Russia bro. Speaking of young people leaving, look at what's happening to your country with the young people wanting to leave and escape your draft. 🤣

[@mariiakukharyshyn9392]

​@@spartanrating8210😂😂😂😂

[@heinzriemann3213]

Cuba is still socialist after seventy years of sanctions, Venezuela, Iran, still suffering but standing, just as North Korea.

[@docopoper]

Honestly I preferred learning the lesson that war sucks from history books and stories than encountering it in real life. I sure hope it doesn't escalate much further beyond this.

[@Ratkill]

Whether or not it escalates is entirely out of western hands. If someone tries to steal your car, and you fight back, they're not magically absolved from criminal responsibility because you resisted. They're still the criminal and they ultimately created both the situation and its extremity.

[@aussiegod4269]

Not likely. Russia will puppet Ukraine and annex some of its territory. But there is no where else for them to expand.

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

@𓆏 You should worry. Not cos of Russia invading another country anytime soon, but cos of China eventually being pushed by Europe following the US' dictats enough to finally form an alliance with Russia and create its own foreign bases right on Europe's doorstep. And another possible partnership with Iran. They know exactly where they can draw the US out if they need to strike them - defending Europe and helping Israel. All it'll take is an Iranian nuke for instance, and the shoe will be on the other foot with the US fighting a major war against an enemy backed by superpowers. And then there's Europe after. Don't push your enemies together - it's playing with fire. Right now the US is doing just that.

[@AN-jz3kf]

It's gonna get a lot worse before it gets better

[@thomasherrin6798]

@𓆏 Avoiding nuclear war at all costs is most probably what Putin has in mind, we should not accept Putin's World Order at all costs, whatever that means, and that's fine by me!?!

[@ilnurgg]

As an average citizen of Russia, I want to say that sanctions have a dual effect On the one hand, due to the policy of parallel imports, most of the electronics (iPhone, Samsung, TVs, etc.) have fallen in price very much. On the other hand, sanctions have a lasting effect and gradually harm the industry (I don’t know how successful import substitution is in the sanctioned sectors of the economy) I also draw your attention to the fact that goods, for example, European cars, have risen in price very much, but Chinese ones have come to the market instead. According to my personal feelings, the sanctions had little impact on the lives of citizens. Как среднестатистический гражданин России хочу сказать, что санкции имеют двойственный эффект С одной стороны, из-за политики параллельного импорта большая часть электроники (айфон, Самсунг, телевизоры и прочее) очень сильно подешевела. С другой стороны, санкции имеют длящийся эффект и постепенно наносят вред промышленности (мне неизвестно насколько успешно идет импортозамещение в подсанеционных секторах экономики) Также обращаю внимание, что товары, например, европейский автомобили очень сильно подорожали, но вместо них на рынок пришли китайские. По моим личным ощущениям, санкции незначительно оказали влияние на жизнь граждан.

[@diezblead]

Agreed.

[@argonaut5617]

Кому ты это говоришь, Ильнур, уважаемый? С кем разговариваешь?..

[@skywillfindyou]

@@argonaut5617 Со зрителями видео. Тяжело догадаться?

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Special Agent Expect The Unexpected

[@landlordlol]

IMHO people who were poor af are now even more poor. ИМХО люди, которые еле сводили концы с концами теперь еще беднее.

[@ernestmilos7320]

I'm suprised that you didn't mention that EU is paying 3x more for LNG gas..

[@CheloScotti]

5x more

[@stanhirt]

I heard 5 x

[@route55qatar]

@Vladimir Putain And you don't know that even BASF shutting down their plants? I work in this industries. Germany de-industrialization era has just begun.

[@route55qatar]

@Vladimir Putain Keep spew the lies and fantasy as Western Media. Ghost of Kiev, Bucha massacre's and now economic oblivion? Jajajajaja, Even the Bloomberg headlines, Ruble Surpasses Brazil’s Real as Year’s Best-Performing Currency. Can't even make that one up. LOL.

[@Ayahu666]

​@@CheloScotti lmao 😂 im from Poland and we pay 40% more for LPG not 5 times more lol

[@ДенисРоманов-т4ь]

Спасибо за видео❤ сделаю поправку: вы сказали, что Россия ввела энергетические санкции и перестала поставлять энергоресурсы. Это не так. Россия выдвинула торговую позицию, в которой покупатели открывают два счёта в российском банке: для евро и рублёвый счёт. Переводят сумму покупки на евро кошелёк российского банка, переводят в рубли в рублёвый счёт, а за рубли уже покупают энергоресурсы. Во-вторых из-за повышения цен немного страдают европейцы, но промышленность, потребляющая газ страдают в других масштабах, нежели граждане Евросоюза. Вы что-то слышали про возможность переноса тяжёлой промышленности на территорию Америки из еврозоны? Утечка тяжёлой промышленности, которая пополняет кошелек Евросоюза, является эффектом санкций? Добро пожаловать в Россию, изучайте жизнь изнутри, а не за несколько часовых поясов от той страны, которую обозреваете❤

[@АндрейПомелов-ь6ж]

Совершенно солидарен с вами коллега.

[@Ambussing]

Хоть и евросоюз с каждым разом удивляет нас насколько можно быть импотентными политически, вряд ли они допустят закрытия больших предприятий немецких и французких конгломератов, я бы скорее подумал, что это единичные случаи расширения производства вне еврозоны.

[@Arxangel21rus]

@@Ambussing уже закрываются, уже обсуждают перенос и США спонсирует это (за что ЕС выдвигал осуждающие слова где подмечали, что они нарушают торговые нормы)

[@nikitashilov9758]

​@@Ambussing-50% производства стали за прошлый год. Это, как бы, немало.

[@svyatzabota5602]

В Европе рекордная инфляция и гигантские счета за коммунальные услуги (сам в Европе живу), так что не «немного»)😊

[@evgeniylitvin8077]

Russia survived the crisis of the 90s, when most of the industry and economy simply went to other post-Soviet countries and Russia received all the debts of the USSR - the rest of the countries received industry and zero debts. Also, a lot of things were secretly sold, stolen, taken abroad, simply abandoned. It was one of the most difficult periods for Russia, but she survived. Did anyone really think that the current situation is even close to destroying the country?

[@tyrus1686]

Well if you consider that russia will spend next 15 years to grow its economy to pre-2022 levels its definitely worth it. However russia is a 3rd world country and majority of russians already lived worse than many Africans do in countries like Nigeria, one less loaf of bread here and there won't make the difference. Savage mentality trapped in the 14-18 century philosophy will resist.

[@Iamallwaysright1]

Had to get bailed out by IMF a couple of times. Your oversimplification is wrong.

[@vktrcsk3989]

Thats a simple lie

[@Светлана-т5с3ш]

Абсолютно прав

[@leathermage]

Westerners will never learn...

[@MousesMortar]

Talking about European economics, do not forget that there is a few small countries, which struggle more than Germany or France (for example). I live in Latvia, and our official inflation comparing to 2019 year is 33,5%. Minimal salary - 620€, while the price for heating was 400€ this winter for 55m2 apartment ( before we started illegally import Russian gas again), fuel, food - all rose about 20-25%, while salary is the same as it was 2-3 years ago.

[@davidv89955]

sad reality that noone talks about in media..

[@d.danilkov]

При этом в С-Пб у меня за ку выходит 110 евро в месяц за Всё, квартира 3 комнаты и кухня, 82 квадратных метра. Зимой так жарко что окна всегда приоткрыты и поветривается квартира. Дом новый. Цены в магазинах не меняются, практически. Разве что на огурцы - не в сезон до 3 евро за КГ подскочила цена, но уже упала...

[@georgros4199]

Проебалтика. А вместе было лучше.

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

😪

[@bamf6603]

Well, its a war going somewhere, what do you except? To live the same as nothing happened?

[@dimasrahardja]

One important economic lesson I wish more countries learn, especially mine (Indonesia): the economy is only as resilient as its exports. Diverse exports and tipping trade balance towards exports is the only way towards a real economy, not one fueled by hot money and foreign investment.

[@Eric-zl1kn]

Typically you'd ideally want a trade balance. If you attempt to focus exports that's usually for a political reason since your country is likely missing out on potential consumption when you export too much.

[@Nn-3]

I think you're focusing too much on international trade. Most economic activity will occur entirely within the same country. Thus, imports vs exports should not be the main focus, especially if that focus is at the expense of the domestic economy.

[@علي-ش7ث8ب]

*slaves export,masters import.*

[@lunascomments3024]

the 60% of our GDP is locally made.

[@Contractor48]

Indonesia needs to start ramping up it industries (especially the heavy industries), services and processed goods. As of now, most of Indonesia’s exports are raw materials.

[@MCGangstaKOT]

Good video, thank you. But I have some questions: 1. Why Russian oil is “energy weapon”, but European embargo is “trading sanctions”? 2. Why West team can invade in any country, like Syria, but Russia can’t?

[@johnnydeppsky3510]

You shouldn’t have left The U.S. out of this analysis. It’s the main and the most interesting part.

[@galimbertino4939]

yep, blindness is a religion in Europe.

[@НиколайГончаренко-ы9ж]

США в отношении экономической войны с Россией пострадали не существенно т.к торговый и финансовый оборот стран достаточно скудный. Но о штатах следует упомянуть как о главном месте оттока европейских капиталов. Снова в Европе война и снова сша вытягивают экономику из Европы.

[@achonxnesta5179]

yup.. european are the same always play double standard

[@SamFirtle]

Maybe the US isn't that important, I mean, you haven't invaded anyone for years:)

[@mojewjewjew4420]

@@galimbertino4939 You mean america,it worships blindness as "ignorance is bliss"

[@MishkoWtF]

Чо то я пропустил а в какую страну вторглась Сирия, Ливия и Иран что стали жертвами санкций? Ведь первое правило "позволяющее держать деньги в западной валюте" - безопасно если ты не вторгаешся в соседние страны. Или в "не соседние" можно? 🤔🤔🤔

[@timbow614]

Сирия, Ливия и Иран являются сторонниками международного терроризма, как и Россия. Это поведение, которое мировое сообщество не может терпеть и которое логически ведет к санкциям против этих стран.

[@MishkoWtF]

@@timbow614 Украина является сторонником мирового терроризма, как и США финансирующая террористические группы по всему миру. Это поведение, которое Россия не может терпеть и которое логически ведёт к взаимным санкциям и пике мировой экономики и поиску новых союзников и отказу от нефтедоллара. Ну и к Уно дос трес офк

[@L1kandr]

штаты еще живы благодаря сильному оружейному лобби (им нужно продавать технику и оружие созависимым и ментально слабым государствам - """партнерам"" по НАТО) - они как паразиты, сосущие кровь из остального мира,чтобы выжить...они готовы даже на теракты пойти лишь бы уничтожить конкурентов))

[@timbow614]

@@L1kandr Вы хотите отвлечь внимание от российского террора в Украине? Это не работает.

[@MultiAxeZ]

@@timbow614 никто не отвлекает, просто задают резонный вопрос - а что нужно впринципе делать, что санкции в конце концов не упали на голову тех, кто не нравится западным силам?

[@АлексейШепелев-н1г]

I was so hoping that Coca-Cola and Pepsi would leave Russia so that local soda producers would make their own brands. But Coca-Cola and Pepsi only named their brands differently.

[@SHREPPE]

🤣🤣

[@ZeroOne130]

It would be great if they leave India as well. They will do doing us they favor.

[@TaydolfSwifter]

i hope they do and create another flavour like fanta

[@khaledomar6019]

They suck ass anyway most of us the northern Africans drink other brands

[@johnr797]

​@@TaydolfSwifter but Fanta was created by coca cola because they didn't want to leave...

[@ramennight]

I appreciate what seems to be a well thought video. There are so many "Russia about to collapse" videos, coming out often still, and they *somehow* haven't. Been that way sine the sanctions started, and obviously those people are missing some big pieces of the puzzle as Russia hasn't collapsed.

[@Bracket.]

In time it will. russian budget hole is getting bigger. It is a matter of time

[@tuttirulla]

Economies don't crash overnight, it would be foolish and naive to expect that. Still does not mean sanctions don't work. I would wait at least 2 or 3 years or even ten.

[@npc0467]

​@@Bracket. ты типичный американский бот

[@npc0467]

​@@tuttirulla ты видимо у нас экономист на высокой должности в России, раз знаешь все про экономику России и её кризисе?

[@yuriy5376]

​@@npc0467как там Пыня, проглотил и утёрся? 😂

[@SergeyGalichkin]

Mistake. Russia didn't reduce the flow (at least from the very beginning), but required to convert the contract prices from euro and dollar into rubles which could be used instead of selling gaz for euros and dollars which could not be used.

[@dmitriyzdorovenko6541]

совершенно верно

[@Trailbuilders_ru]

ну, по итогу все равно сократила. Насколько я помню, трубные поставки даже через ГТС Украины сейчас прекращены.

[@SergeyGalichkin]

@@Trailbuilders_ru Тем не менее, в самом начале по сути покупатели сами отказались платить те же евро и доллары (с обязательной конвертацией в рубли уже внутри страны), а потом уже пошли другие события (ремонт турбин и т.д.). Через ГТС Украины разве прекратили?

[@Trailbuilders_ru]

@@SergeyGalichkin ну там объемы вроде процентов на 40 снижены по сравнению с осенними

[@romanzusman2892]

@@SergeyGalichkin Смешные объёмы. Сейчас даже испанцы, которые больше всех скупали рос. СПГ начали искать альтернативных поставщиков. Поляки построили новый СПГ терминал, немцы достраивают+ вкладывают кучу денег в альтернативные источники энергии

[@ousamadearudesuwa]

What we learned from the Napoleonic wars is something we need to always remember. Sanctions and Embargoes only work when you're not a superpower and relies on foreign trade.

[@alexg4927]

Thanks for your opinion. Russia is not a superpower and it relies on foreign trade. It just found other ways to get the needed goods via other countries who are not that willing to put sanctions on Russia

[@axelous_nd]

@@alexg4927 Russia is superpower. Maybe not economically, but in terms of military power and natural resources, yes

[@TheAns51]

@@axelous_nd Only in natural recources. Last year and their wars in the past since WW1 proves they are not a superpower militarily and economically. If they were, Ukraine would have been conquered many times over and their 3 day operation would have been completed in two days. Militarily russia has been very laughable for a long time and all their power is mostly propaganda. They appear strong militarily because they can and will put every man, women and child into the front lines with a gunpoint should they want and needed. Russian wars has always come with extremely high casualties and that tactic is not very sustainable tactic in a long term.

[@deepsixd6620]

@@alexg4927 Russia is the energetic superpower and that is the fact. Also military too

[@TheSDKNightmare]

@@deepsixd6620 If they were a superpower, they wouldn't be bogged down in a war against what even before it used to be one of Europe's poorest and most corrupt countries. Don't even talk about NATO helping or whatever, Russia screwed the pooch well into the opening days of the war, before any significant resources started pouring into Ukraine. It has gigantic energetic resources, true, but that doesn't really boost your nation's GDP if you're selling at a massive discount and when you just basically lost your largest trade partner. They are reorienting towards Asia, but that will take years and maybe even decades to complete, as not only is Asia not buying at the same rate Europe was, the infrastructure to supply it with such massive amounts doesn't even fully exist yet.

[@ДмитрийАндрианов-й4ы]

I read a good comment from some Englishman. When Borrell said that sanctions are a poison that acts slowly but surely for Russia, he asked the question, why did these sanctions act on us instantly?)))

[@solfjk9265]

Видимо у них пошла аллергическая реакция на собственную отраву

[@AtemerusRhayli]

simple we removed a cancer so improvement comes with rehabilitation

[@livedandletdie]

@@AtemerusRhayli What's the cancer? European Wealth... no Europe used to have wealth beyond everyone's wildest imagination, but then Germany closed all of their Nuclear Reactors, which gave them nigh-Free Electricity, heating, etc. Most European nations closed down their Nuclear Reactors, and then their inflation rates began skyrocketing, then they started to destroy their own infrastructure, and then they began to destroy their own wildlife, by putting up automated bird killers, aka Wind Turbines. Then they stopped mining for their own coal, and then they started trading with Russia to support their own infrastructure, and then they sold all of their coal mines to Russia and China, and then they like the idiots they are, put up sanctions against Russia, the sole nation to PROP UP Europe's fake economy. And now we're in this hellhole of a situation where Inflation is rampant and only increasing...

[@TheSommN]

because a lacking supply of energy hits far quickerand can not be so easily compensated for in the short term. in the video he mentioned how dependend europa was on russian ressources and thus the impact was imediate. in russia, since they still had a good amount of money due to the giant tradesurplus they could compesate the sanktions for a very long time. But in the long run the brain drain and loss of trade and so on is more damaging. Russia is cut of from more productionvalue then "the west" is so it will hit russia in the long run more then "the west"

[@ДмитрийАндрианов-й4ы]

@@TheSommN Everything will be, but in the future this is a favorite forecast of people who are not sure of the result. I don't mean you, but the politicians. Brains in Russia do not end, if some have flowed away, then others are born. To think that technology is something exclusively Western is the result of your propaganda work. The Russians once relied on a technological partnership with the West (energy for technology) but I hope they don't make that mistake again. And finally, almost all mathematical and physical Olympiads for schoolchildren and students are won by ethnic Russians or Chinese, if you are already talking about brains))

[@Hydrodictyon]

The trick with russians protesting didn’t work due to the simple truth west probably missed: we try protesting for YEARS now. I’m now 23, and I can remember people protesting against Putin since I was ten or something, with the first major wave coming near 2012, when Putin went on his third presidency. However, protesting only does one thing in Russia, which is getting civilians and politicians in prison. That’s it. The only type protest that will work is probably a civil war. And it’s ten times better to have Putin rather than bloodbath on your streets and extreme uncertainty after.

[@TheStrangeBloke]

The fact that you break out the Hell March in the middle of dry economic talk is why I love this channel.

[@kamilo4989]

Made me lol too

[@foute90s]

I came to the comment section exactly to point this out too (l)

[@antoniolewis1016]

6:57 to timestamp

[@NimbleBard48]

Yeah, very fitting xD

[@gwendolinkirkegaard1812]

THEEEESE WAAFFLES they SUCK

[@Avtoritetovich]

I am russian and i find this video really interesting, thank you for your efforts and really independent from any side propaganda point of view. As for me, sanctions for now dont really give much trouble, just because in my opinion there is nothing else to sanction for both sides. If we talk about the impact of sanction, russians really felt them in march, mostly because of uncertainty and anxiety from raising of goods cost and losing some giant companies, also ApplePay ban was quite a shock and that was funny seeing people still try to use it after days of blocking. For now, i guess both sides just adapted to new conditions. International companies who told big monologues about leaving russia changed their names or just sold business to local management. For now, i would say, my life doesnt look much different than from a year ago. But surely there are things that changed. When it comes to traveling or buying any goods from other countries, it may give you a trouble. But still some of banks that work in russia have access to SWIFT. And, of course, sanctioned goods cost may be 30% more expensive now, for example cars. In my opinion, efforts of european countries to create protests failed, and, moreover, i would say that today i may see more russians who support their country than it was 2 years ago. I cant say if its because of people who had opposite opinions left the country, or because of Europeans politics and propaganda, because of which many russians faced hate in other lands no matter what opinion on situation they had. As for me, i think sanctions will stay till the conflict is done, and when it will be done no one knows, but i hope it will be soon.

[@La__Espada]

@@andyskyfall3891 what are they supposed to trigger then? They didn’t damage Russia’s economy, they made the civilians more united and even patriotic, even some brands that allegedly “left” the Russian market are still working with Russia, using different names in order to avoid the restrictions....so what’s the aim of all those sanctions? I’ll be grateful if you explain it to me

[@Avtoritetovich]

@@andyskyfall3891 thts what author said in the video, thats why i wrote about it

[@laniakeas92]

And MY life was drastically changed. In a bad way I also live in Russia. So speak for yourself, OK? It's different from everybody

[@La__Espada]

@@laniakeas92 что для тебя так трагично поменялось?

[@La__Espada]

@@andyskyfall3891 1. How is this gonna happen? Elaborate. 2. All of them are still active in Russia...the names were changed but the stuff remained the same...

[@antonb.5282]

It is not only in Russia that you can circumvent censorship with a VPN. This is also true for Western Europe.

[@ОченьХомячийЮтуб]

смотря где конкретно.

[@beniaminradomir9798]

Name 1 legit site that is blocked in Europe (No russian propaganda BS)

[@fl1p211]

@@beniaminradomir9798 All gambling websites outside of Switzerland are banned in Switzerland. I have to use a VPN to access them

[@antonb.5282]

@@beniaminradomir9798 Legitimate for whom? Mainstream? Both sides use propaganda...

[@MajorwormXcv]

@@fl1p211 Stop gambling you moron

[@logicalthinker8696]

A big reason why sanctions didn't hit Russia hard is because Russia prepared for big sanctions from nato I mean America. Putin stocked up weapons and trade avenues with different countries not to mention that China along with Russia was already making an alliance with multiple countries prior to the invasion. Most of those countries that's forming an alliance ( briccs) do not like America so America did not get the response that they thought from certain countries and sanctions.

[@sleepete12]

yes, the lowest performing economies including the paper tiger aka red china which has now brutal downturn

[@logicalthinker8696]

@@sleepete12 where are you from?

[@mattdombrowski8435]

You have an extra C in BRICS. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. To start with, China and India hate each other, they nearly went to war last year. India wants to keep Russia at arms length for historical reasons. China and Russia haven't really gotten along since the sino-soviet split. In Russia, "China's final warning" means an empty threat. South Africa has some serious internal problems that will trigger a flame war if I went into more detail, so I doubt they would be willing to make major power plays any time soon. Brazil has potential, 1/5 ain't bad. Now, let's wave a magic wand and make those problems disappear. Portugal will still want to be paid in US dollars. So will France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, etc. This means that BRICS countries would still need to use US dollars to trade with other countries. The US dollar is by no means fated to be the world's reserve currency forever, but it will take a lot of capital H history to change that.

[@yurik8468]

Lol Brix. The most efficient structure. Half of its participants have defense contracts with the US... And India is generally in a treaty against China.

[@logicalthinker8696]

@@yurik8468 Your statement holds no weight at all.

[@tos1asolntsepek]

I think the most suffered sphere is the Civil Aviation. Since i work in Pulkovo airport, i saw how the economic and trading war affected aviation. There's not much problems with spare parts (cuz alternative suppliers exist - shoutout to India), and some companies even manage to get new planes (S7 recently got 2 very young 737-900. Honestly, no idea how they did that). The real problem is the cut of international flights. Before war we had flights from France, Germany etc, and now the entire Europe is connected to us via Turkey. And this caused prices for international flights to rise a lot. Domestic flights are still ok and cheap, no or almost no problems

[@tmrttrn]

спасибо, что сказал(а) про то, что хватает деталей: последний год мне очень страшно летать из-за разговоров об их дефиците

[@raphaelambrosiuscosteau6685]

Domestic flights are even cheaper now cause there is a lot of free planes for us to fly on. Like company lost their international clients so they end up with more "product" that they can "sell"

[@tushkan4ik111]

Эти два самолета (737-900) принадлежали раньше ГТЛК. Просто их вернули из Индонезии, где были они ранее отданы в лизинг

[@dungeonmaster4930]

Гражданская авиация ещё с 20го года умирает

[@Nikita_Grafov]

@@dungeonmaster4930 гражданская авиация умирает с 91 года

[@Pronzatel.]

Как русский, скажу, что санкций практически не чувствую.

[@pavelkutenev5400]

довольно сильно ощущаются в области автомобилей, в остальном действительно почти незаметно

[@sun41KA]

@cubecrusher Я бы с удовольствием там погостил.

[@sun41KA]

@Alibek Kuanyshbek епало завали. Не суди людей по себе.

[@EvillNooB]

По среднему классу думаю сильнее всего ударило, богачи и бедные действительно ничего не почуствуют Гордиться этим особого смысла нет по факту) сбережения в рублях\ в валюте были? аренда? инвестиции на свою пенсию? если школьник или студент то конечно пофиг

[@sun41KA]

@@EvillNooB Стоп, а как сбережения в рублях повлияли? И зачем мне деньги в другой валюте? Причем тут аренда? Инвестиции на свою пенсию? Господи о чем ты? Я простой Россиянин, у меня зарплата в рублях, все финансовые транзакции внутри страны я провожу через через рубли.

[@lemonov3031]

I would argue that replacing imported technologies with locally produced ones will be *better* in the long run, since it will incentivize the local production to improve and develop, instead of settling for foreign replacements.

[@alphabogeyman7462]

That has already happened in the Russian agricultural sector,they banned importation of wheat from Europe, now Russia is the world's largest producer of wheat and European farmers permanently last that market.

[@ren2871]

Russia can't produce high tech, they have experienced a massive brain drain in the last 30 years and they're reliant on western technology. And materials. Right now they're simply importing Chinese technology. No matter what this Kremlin propaganda gobbler thinks, Russia has suffered in a major way. Sanctions don't work overnight. Russia seized nearly 1000 aircrafts that were foreign in Russia and have stripped them down to replace spare parts.

[@alphabogeyman7462]

@@ren2871 Russia produces high tech,they have just been for military use due to comparative advantage.

[@ren2871]

@@alphabogeyman7462 their high tech is comparably weaker to that of Western nations. Sure, they have some high tech industry but they can't compete. Look at the Sukhoi jet, they could barely complete the production of the superjet 100 and a singular amount of countries beside Russian airlines placed any orders for it. Now after the sanction Russia says they will build 3 other variants of produce hundreds more by 2030. Sure thing lol.

[@alphabogeyman7462]

@@ren2871 The West will pay a price too, the sanctions have accelerated the volume of non-dollar transactions with countries not wanting to keep their foreign reserves in the West going forward. This is the first time Africa,Latin America and Asia are defying the US and the West at large and refusing to bulge. Within a year, South Africa,Iraq,Saudi Arabia,Russia and Iran are now doing large volumes of trade in Yuan,even ISRAEL of all countries.

[@mladen5140]

An update to this video would be really cool

[@Денис-у5н6ш]

Так интересно когда вы говорите о том что Европе следует избегать зависимости от 1 поставщика в контексте России, но не кажется ли вам что Европа куда больше зависит от США нежели чем от кого либо другого? Мира и добра всем из России ❤

[@reekreason2082]

Don't worry we Indians are your real friends 👍

[@woofkaf7724]

Да весь мир зависит от нескольких стран держателей технологий.

[@realsoldier8595]

russia started at least 3 wars in last 20 years. US started 0. US seems more stable and reliable partner than russia

[@Brosak.]

@@reekreason2082 what no are u crazy 😂

[@GhostDirt2]

точно также, как ты зависишь от просмотра американского ютуба,

[@brainletxd]

I, as a Russian, expected my country to be dumped on, but I was pleasantly surprised, by both your video and actual civil comment section. Good vid m8!

[@aredtomato8957]

Nah no worry. CN stands with RU. 😎

[@VocalBear213]

Interests of the parties to the conflict in Ukraine: USA: limitation of supplies of raw materials to the EU, increase in the cost of goods of European industry EU: supply of cheap labor from Ukraine, lowering the cost of goods, securing Ukraine the status of an agricultural appendage of the EU Russia: defending sales markets for Gazprom and Rosneft from the US, annexing new territories, appropriating resources and expanding spheres of influence Ukraine: protecting the property of Ukrainian oligarchs, stealing lend-lease, revanchism (go to Crimea at the expense of the West) China: supporting the existence of Russian commodity monopolies I think that the conflict in Ukraine is pure oil and gas.

[@fefunkey3808]

that is so fucking wrong wtf... no country at all is profiting of the war. "ukraine is only defending the property of ukrainian oligarchs" my brother they are fighting for their homeland and being invaded by russia?

[@leninoble]

@@VocalBear213 No, that's just one of the reasons. And the reason is not the most important.

[@chathurangaadikari2059]

Except for few countries around the world, all other countries and people support Russia

[@raivisb326]

Regarding the Russian GDP reduction, I think an important note is to add that as military equipment is produced and soon after - lost, while it still contributes to GDP number. So essentially as much of their GDP has ceased to produce commodities/infrastructure and instead has switched towards weapons production, which suffers high attrition in the war, its basically GDP which goes nowhere. Don't get me wrong, the video is good, and the more details you delve into, the more unreasonably long the video would become. I just think that the focus on GDP misses large part of the situation there. The car sales have been stomped in Russia, the recent oil, gas and petrochem bans as of late 2022/early 2023 has led to almost half of the projected 2023 budget deficit to manifest in just January. As I see, much of the actually potent sanctions (oil/gas/petrochem ban/price cap) were just recently implemented. Perhaps it was slow reaction, but more likely it was so that enough time is given for Europe to not f**k up their supply chains/economy and create alternative energy providers beforehand. In my opinion, of the sanctions, the actually damaging ones for Russia were implemented just recently (Oil ban 2022 Dec, Refined oil product ban Feb 2023)

[@IgorKravchenko_]

It seems that commodity exports are still robust, despite some challenges in finding new buyers. Based on volumes of oil exports to India, it is highly likely that there were help from OPEC countries which let Russian oil companies sell to India and quickly compensate the losses on western market. Without silent help from OPEC it probably would be hard to get so big market in a matter of months.

[@ionnanskilliorus6877]

@@IgorKravchenko_ The sanctions aren't about volumes, they're about price. They're not designed to get Russia selling less oil, quite the opposite actually. They are in place so it has to sell lots of oil, to get anywhere near the same revenues. This stops them being able to choke supply and drive prices up for everyone.

[@IgorKashin]

@@ionnanskilliorus6877 it makes no sense, the more oil Russia sells, the higher leverage it has on the market and more ability to choke supply

[@NarutoXras3ngan]

your comment is more logical than his entire video. You give him too much credit, he's dick riding russia here with no stats but some shitty bias headlines from the press

[@ionnanskilliorus6877]

@@IgorKashin Russia isn't selling more oil because of leverage, it's necessity. If it decides to choke supply, it's doing itself and the ones it's selling it to more damage than anyone else. Plus the US are already making moves to make it even less significant, with the lifting of sanctions on Venezuela. They have huge reserves, that can more than make up for even all Russian oil coming off the market entirely.

[@corvus2288]

Some prices have gone up a bit, some brands (mostly substitutable) have disappeared, some places on the internet became a little more annoying to use, but RKN has been around for a very long time and basically every middle aged housewife knows how to use VPNs/proxies/tor to bypass their (and other) blocks so that's barely a change. Tl;dr, for an average joe the sanctions are at best nothing and at worst a mild annoyance/inconvenience (at least for now).

[@kuka4082]

скинь аву плез

[@saucyinnit8799]

The most sanctioned country casually having it's economy expected to grow.

[@marthas.4456]

You forgot to mention the blow up of Nordstream, a 'friendly nudge' from the USA towards Germany to give up on the cheap Russian gas... and the fact the American LNG gas is appr. 4 times as expensive than the Russian gas.

[@edwinjoy3932]

Sanctions only helped to accelerate the de-dollarization and multi-polarization. Saudi already said they'll accept gold and yuan. Waiting for the upcoming BRICS summit for more drastic changes.

[@theonly6359]

Me too. I can’t wait for the BRICS summit and which country/ countries will join BRICS.

[@shtyry7150]

Keep overdosing on that hopium

[@mulkanmulkan5620]

@@shtyry7150 nah... keep high on your sanction 😆

[@shtyry7150]

@@mulkanmulkan5620 oh we will.

[@mulkanmulkan5620]

@@shtyry7150 on weed i mean 😆

[@aguywithabeard2338]

to this day I still physically cringe when I remember how back in march 2022 western enthusiasts on social media were having THE blast of their lives laughing at how Russia is gonna crumble into a number of mini states because they took away mcdonalds and coca cola💀💀

[@ifisawyourreplyiwillanswerback]

The Chinese have exploited this opportunity like there’s no tomorrow.

[@iliapershin2605]

As someone who participated in these protests in the first stage of the war, and talked with many other people there, I am pretty sure that they had nothing to do with the sanctions or the Rouble collapsing. The reasons for protest then were mainly just ethical and political, not economical.

[@АлександрМеньщиков-й8э]

Fortunately, despite the efforts of our media, most people remembered what was happening in the Donbas. To talk about ethics when such things happen there is pure hypocrisy.

[@leninoble]

- You scoundrel, you hit him in the face! - So he was constantly shitting under my door and throwing poop at my window! - It doesn't matter! These are his natural needs! You scoundrel!

[@Петрарка-п2ъ]

​@@АлександрМеньщиков-й8э Tell me what happened in Donbas? ! 😁

[@kingkamaro9442]

​@@АлександрМеньщиков-й8э What happened in Donbass?

[@NSRomanov]

@@Петрарка-п2ъ The Ukrainian government behaves like a terrorist and genocides the population of Donbass

[@gandalfgreyhame3425]

Excellent video, goes against the stream of "Russia is being destroyed by sanctions" videos. I would note that the main reason the UK is doing worse is because of its self-inflicted wound of Brexit. You might want to do a separate video on that, although lots of others already have.

[@silverhost9782]

The biggest reason why the UK is doing worse is because every single service has been underfunded for over a decade. Just blaming brexit provides a handy cover for the politicians who ran down the economy before Brexit even occurred.

[@imrekalman9044]

Brexit was a great opportunity to break free from the EU. But instead of going around the World doing what Brits do best, that is doing business with everyone everywhere the UK government spent the last few years in an anti-Russia and to an extent anti-China hysteria. Throw in covid and sanctions, and here we are.

[@BoleDaPole]

Brexit in itself didn't harm the UK, it was the terrible handling of post Brexit that really sealed the deal. They got royally boned by the EU, and now Richi rich is trying his best to reverse it, not because it's best for the UK but because it's best for his portfolio. One cant blame him either, why would he be worried about British wealth when most of his is spread across the world? It's only natural for one to want to protect his assets. Previous PMs did this too but they had most of thier wealth tied to the British economy, meaning that if the economy failed they did as well.

[@ronald3836]

But this guy was also positive about crypto, so...

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

rusia isnt in EU either.

[@КириллМирченко]

if you are in Russia, you will learn two terms: stuffy and ventilated: when people open their windows in winter to somehow escape from strong heating

[@rancoy]

Right now I'm sitting with an open window at -7°C on the street in night

[@boogieman8584]

Is that a showcase of how everything is good in russia or what?

[@samurai-f77]

@Boogieman Does it inflicts pain in your little ass?!

[@moth7579]

@@boogieman8584 it's just our houses usually don't have such a good ventilation, cause they were build in Soviet era. They are solid and nice, but you need some fresh air from time to time. Plus the uncertainity with weather at winter leads goverment to use heat system at high power. Because of that the air became dry pretty fast, so if you don't have a fan or conditioner you will get uncomfortable pretty fast. So yeah, we just open windows even around -25c to get our air nice and comfy.

[@krivdaa9627]

@@boogieman8584 That shows the term of "Energy poverty".

[@КарабановАндрей-я6ю]

Great video. Thank you. Thanks to sanctions in Russia: - many manufacturers switched to local suppliers instead of import - Russian owners acquired leftover European businesses for cheap and also technology - logistic companies developed unimaginable schemes of effective delivery - local in country tourism rocketed to the moon + gained huge investment - IT and startup industries got a boost of investment and developed substitutes - and so on. Now our economy is stronger and more sustainable than ever. In most spheres. Several really failed for a short period of time. But in general EU and USA instead of sanctions should have flooded Russian market with cheap goods. This would have had a bigger destructive influence in long term. But how would they know how to behave in this situation with no history awareness and short presidential terms…

[@MrDertien]

The sad part is that the EU and the domestic federal politicians in the EU (who are exempt from paying taxes) get paid such a high salary that the rise of their self-created-inflation is none of their concern. In short they care about their ego's and their 'global game of stratego' more than about the well-being of their citizens - they just assume we get by. These self proclaimed and unelected leaders simply don't feel it because they are disconnected from the daily realities of life of the people they are supposed to represent. They have understood however that greed and power tastes far better than popularity with the people that granted them their political seat. What they don't understand is that people are fed up with a system that gets more expensive every year, but fails to evolve for the better from their perspective. Furthermore, they feel they are entitled to call out that all the things they think, say or do is the will of all of us or the majority. Which is a far cry from reality.

[@br1c3led]

Good luck without access to Western tech. How long do you think the civil aviation will be able to keep planes flying? And what about chips that are used in everything from fridges to cars and military hardware? Russian is in managed decline. Sanctions have only been in place for a year. The final destination looks like North Korea.

[@MrDertien]

@@br1c3led In your eyes, Russia is a 3rd world country. That might be your point of view, but that doesn't mean it is true. Let me explain... - Russia has been a superpower since the end of world war 2 and that is not because it was dependent on western technology - something called 'the cold war' was going on. Look that up if you don't know what that is, and NO it was not cold because we didn't import Russian gas. - I fail to understand why the USA is so damn interested in Russian military technology, if they are so sure that Russian fighter jets and such were inferior, as you put it. - A country that is big enough (like Russia) to be self sufficient in all aspects of its economy can do a permanent lock-down from the rest of the world. Just if this didn't compute with you yet... sanctions by EU Politicians are felt by the citizens of the EU, not the people of Russia, and certainly not Putin. Unfortunately these EU politicians get paid enough not to feel their own imposed sanctions neither. That's a bit of pity actually. The only decline I see here is that the west is starting to look like that fat lazy self-entitled elitarian society the Roman empire was at the end of its cycle. Woke politicians and degenerate laws. FAA managers that are worried more about words like 'cockpit' and 'NOTAMS' and need to see definitions or words changed because some snowflakes could take offense to something that wasn't meant to offend in the first place. Covid debacle cover-ups, lies, vaccine mandates, mask mandates, rising prices in food and fuel, Holland, Canada and France growing more despotic by the minute. Build Back Feudalism Better, WEF meetings, hypocrisy manifesting itself at unseen levels politically, banks failing... shall I go on or have I enlightened you a bit in how this world really works? In short: Russia is a far cry from North Korea, no matter how much you wish it to be so.

[@Frostukys]

@@br1c3led First of all. Not a year. Russia was under a sanctions since 2014 i belive? All that Crimea thingy. Second. Do research on Iran sanctions, decades. Iran people endured it for decades. Did they become North Korea? No. So.. about that final destination that you see for russian people..

[@tamolamo4698]

Wow man cerfull with that copium, that stuff might mess you up real badly

[@Marc-.]

US: We will defeat Russia at all cost! Europe: What’s the cost? US: That’s you

[@AdSd100]

On your point #1 You said “assets are safe if you don’t invade your neighbor, which is not that hard” Wrong! 7B$ of Iran’s money has been frozen by South Korea since 2018. What happened in 2018? Iran invaded another country? No. Trump unilaterally withdrew form JCPOA and imposed sanctions on Iran. Western (read American, Europe is a vassal state of the US) justice is arbitrary. Leave your assets in their hands at your own peril.

[@WindLighter]

5:40 Actually protests and inflation was a coincidence. Protests was not because of fall of rouble or inflation. It was because of peoples values. And most of protests was either before the said rouble drop. The other protestrise was when the possibility of being sent to the war became real for people themselves.

[@bodhisathvan2086]

India's import of Russian crude oil touched 1.6 billion barrels per day in February... It's one third of our total crude oil import... We are getting it at discounted rate and it's a rupee rouble transaction, not dollar... Thank you EU and US for the sanctions 😝

[@yurik8468]

Well, okay. But Russia is losing some of its power and will not be so strong. And I sympathize with you, may God protect you from what is coming in Asia.

[@jontalbot1]

It’s far too early to make judgements like this. Sanctions are slow strangulation not a stiletto. The costs to Russia will last decades

[@lvt2050]

The cost on the EU will last decades...that much is obvious. We only can guess what will happen with Russia, because OBVIOUSLY everyone underestimated Russia.

[@greensleeves8095]

But the cost of EU and UK citizens is felt on every front.

[@JohnnyChronic18]

@@lvt2050 Is it obvious? Already were moving to green energy anyways and petrol products is all Russia has to sell.

[@lvt2050]

@@JohnnyChronic18 lol...if green energy were anything but hype we wouldn't suffer as much.

[@lvt2050]

@@greensleeves8095 so true...we are paying for greedy politicians to play who has bigger willy ...so angry

[@ntx6660]

As an Asian, I feel that your view is very European centric. There are still many countries actually more countries that are still doing business with Russia than those that sanction Russia. Those are not small countries such as China and India. Why dont you look in different way that Europe from now on will not be able to buy cheap natural resource any more. What kind of Europe competitiveness will be in the next few years without cheap Russian gas. That does not look good at all. This move also pushes Russia into China arms. Probably, Russia may just realize that she does not need Europe anymore.

[@tb-cg6vd]

Russia does not have pipelines to India and limited ones to China, it can't make up the loss of oil/gas revenues in the time span required to keep it's economy afloat - if it has the technology to do so anyway as the rest were built by external companies. Otherwise, it doesn't actually produce much else that anyone in the world buys, it's a petro-economy. The sanctions were never going to stop Putin's war, but over years they will seriously degrade the economy. This will reduce Putin's capacity to try military adventures elsewhere as the Russian economy is eaten alive by war costs. And don't fly Russian planes. They'll start falling out of the sky in the next few years with dodgy spare parts from China & India. Who obviously have no problems trading with countries who invade their neighbours and threaten nuclear war as long as they have cheap oil to sell.

[@ntx6660]

@@tb-cg6vd China has money . Another pipeline from China is comming. And I would not underestimate China in building infrastructure project. And if the price is cheap enough, for India, it could goes by ship as it is happening right now. There are non-Russian carriers flying in and out of Russian so it looks OK at least on the international flight. So far, Russian current account looks quite good. But it is so nad in both EU amd USA. So Russian is in a better financial position than the Europe and also the budget deficit. Lastly, Russia is quite self-sufficient.

[@tb-cg6vd]

@@ntx6660 Er, how long do you think it takes to build a pipeline 100's of km if not 1000's????? A couple of months???? Sheesh. But more to the point, you don't seem to be particularly bothered by the fact that Russia invaded a non-aggressive country and is bombing power plants to freeze the citizens of their neighbour in winter. Guess you think that's ok. Bet you didn't say that about the US invading Iraq.

[@ntx6660]

@@tb-cg6vd I am bothered that Russian invaded a country. I am also bothered by NATO expansion, NATO invasion into Syria, second invasion of Iraq to find the WMD and other invasion in the name of protecting the democracy and human right. For the pipeline, there is one functioning pipeline between China and Russia. The capacity is increasing. Another one is under construction I believe. Lastly, I am an Asian I really have different personal view in this regard. The history teaches me or some of us (we also interpret differently in my own country and have different view) that each country just try to do things to benefit their own country. During the colonial era, the western countries expanded the teritory in the name of trade and civilization (you are so barbaric so we will make you civilize). Now, the west have a new set of standard like democracy, human right and environmetal standard. For the last one, it amazed me when EU does not have enough gas and starting to use coal. So, where is the environmental standard ? Previously, EU just tried to force countries like China and India to literally pay for the CO2 while the accumulated CO2 mainly are from the west. I am not a Pro-China or Pro-Russia and do not hate the west. I am neutral and understand that each country or group of countries will do what so ever to protect their interests. But I hate when those countries say that they are protecting democracy, human right or environment but in reality, they just protect their interests.

[@tb-cg6vd]

@@ntx6660 Fair enough, but I disagree with your last statement; it is in the interests of democratic countries to support other democratic countries from invasion, it's not bullshit. It takes decades if not centuries for a country to develop the culture that an individuals intrinsic rights should be valued and protected from the power of authority and it is easily taken away (see Russia where real elections lasted about 15 years). You'll notice that none of the West's misadventures since WWII were against democratic countries as there would never be any popular support to attack another democratically elected regime.

[@hachiko2]

As a russian: The protests in Russia at the begining of war were never financially motivated. The people who protested had very strong political beliefs

[@qbob3530]

If they are not even paid for it, they are doubly idiots. Imagine wishing your country to lose in a war and not even for your own benefit.

[@f0x1ro1]

​@@qbob3530 it was never a war that had to be fought. Plus, if losing that war helps put a rod up oligarchs and government's ass, I myself would be glad to see us lose. The only sad part is the death of soldiers, but at this point it doesn't really matter, people still die in the same quantities.

[@qbob3530]

@@f0x1ro1 Freedom and independence mean nothing to you, do they? I don't understand how one can want to give away the freedom and independence of one's entire country in exchange for replacing some oligarchs with others, but foreign ones. Apparently, when they talk about the Russian slave mentality, they mean exactly this.

[@f0x1ro1]

@@qbob3530 Freedom and independence? You really think that's a thing in russia, or really anywhere? Again, maybe oligarchs have that freedom and independence to do what they want, but normal people don't, so does that mean that Russia has that freedom, because people ruling it do? If seeing my parents work their ass off in pretty normal jobs, for the amount of money that's not even enough to pay for the house we live in is "freedom and independence" then fuck freedom and independence. I hate this country, and always hated it, there is no place for patriotism in a country where people survive and not live just because some fuckers in power dont care for anyone but themselves. This country can burn to ashes for all I care, as long as my close ones live a better life than this. It must be easy to speak about patriotism when your goverment cares, or at least makes it look like they care about their people, huh? When you have human rights, right to speak your mind and not be beaten up to death by cops or put in jail for half your life, with no one else then being able to do anything about it? Yes, I'd rather have my country lose a war and lose its freedom if that would mean better quality of life for me and my family, my friends, because in the end, ironically, by our "country" losing its freedom, we, the people, quite possibly might get more freedom.

[@qbob3530]

@@f0x1ro1 Independence means that you have to provide it through work, and not rely on handouts from the masters. In the case of a country, independence means being able to influence the government of one's country to serve the national interest. In the event of the capture of your country, you and your fellow citizens will be deprived of even a small opportunity to influence life in your country, completely transferring power over themselves to foreigners who will never be interested in the prosperity of your people. So yes, Russia is now free and independent as never before. It is surprising that its inhabitants cannot appreciate what they have. Maybe in order to start appreciating something, you really should lose it first.

[@inksoldier5544]

What's important to understand is that Russia was always well aware that for any move like in 2022 it will be bashed with sanctions. They were actively preparing both the country's economy and the population for years since the initial 2014 sanctions

[@kelzage]

In sanctions I can't understand one thing. Why during any escalation EU countries restrict migration from Russia. It is strange because a lot of reasons: 1. People who have, u'now, brains, can't leave the country (their leaving is reducing rus GPT while increasing eu GPT) 2. Better people can die due to unavailablility to do anything due to system (there aren't many ways: prison, army, or hiding in babushkas village (in far-from-civilization houses in counryside) The key in economic war is not in economy. It's in people. Make propaganda not against the nation, but against the country and it's government, don't make people think that they are not welcome in modern, peaceful countries - and soon there will be no people in army to continue the war

[@magiz0r101]

This comment is seriously underrated.

[@Yattayatta]

Because Russia floods the EU countries with refugees and spies, as seen when they took busloads of immigrants to the border of Poland in an attempt to destabilize the EU. You reap what you sow.

[@magiz0r101]

@@Yattayatta oh yeah, so many russian refugees have the finance ability to move to EU [it's sarcasm ofc]. Dude just turn your brain on. Relocation is possible only in case of having lots of funds and ability to earn money abroad (which means being attractive to companies). Otherwise u will spend tons of money for relocation (which most of russians don't have) and after u eat your money reserves u will have to come back. Summarizing - closing borders for russians is most stupid move west ever played. I guess they hoped that people will stay and protest. But actually they did a great favor to their opponent instead. Russia itself were trying to stop people from leaving, because it understands importance of the people with brains and money for the economy. Simply look at KZ, GE right now

[@johnweak6788]

@@magiz0r101 yeah, they actually uniting Russian and west seem enemy to regular Russian people,west made huge favor for Putin 😂

[@kelzage]

@@johnweak6788 Not enemy actually. Adequate ones just feel vain because stupidity and senseless hatred are growing all over the world, not only in one or two countries

[@lisvin8617]

I am from Russia. We are doing great, no need to worries :)

[@timbow614]

Still...

[@MrNeversweat]

Keep doing great lisvin 👍🏾

[@Uchyiamada]

The west started to sanction Russia back in 2014 if I remember correctly. Among other things they sanctioned their aviation industry by not allowing western airplane engine makers to export their engines to Russia. This ended up with Russia developing their own engines, and they became so good that they not only use it themselves but also export them. Edit: And since you mentioned South Korea, it's worth mentioning that they sought an exemption from sanctions against Russia from the US, and were permitted to continue trading.

[@linusibaren]

Are they as good as your Lada's? 🤣

[@Uchyiamada]

@@linusibaren "My" Lada? I live in the west. Since other countries are importing their engines, I assume they're good. The Soviets had a knack for building good things, so it's possible that they modernized one of the old designs, or perhaps made one entirely from scratch.

[@linusibaren]

@Proxie Ok, comrade. So give me the source? Who buys russian airplane engines?

[@dugzamilza5212]

@@linusibaren China

[@Uchyiamada]

@@linusibaren In Asia alone their top partners who are importing airplane parts are China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Myanmar. China and India alone imported airparts worth roughly 17 billion dollars in one year. In 2017 alone Russia exported airplane parts to the total sum of 452 billion rubles. Haven't been able to find info on what the current sum is, except that the Asian thing above, and that they still export to all continents except the Western ones. Kind of difficult to work with the translator while searching in the Russian search engine, and if I search using Western engines I just get lots of retarded sanction links that have nothing to do with what I'm looking for.

[@ТимурСуфияров-п9ж]

It is always interesting to see how the economic war is assessed from the other side of us (Russia). I can say for a fairly large number of Russians that many at the household level did not feel anything because Western goods/services (more likely services) had decent Russian counterparts. From the same spotify, I switched to yandex without any problems.

[@blindvic4334]

Эх щас бы в яндексе гуглить да у китайцев паленые видяхи покупать. Decent russian counterparts это китайщина с ценником х3 (привет москвич) и больше ничего.

[@ТимурСуфияров-п9ж]

@@blindvic4334 ассортимент видеокарт который был - такой и остался, а яндекс прекрасный браузер которым я пользовался за долго до 24 февраля (если что кто хочет пользоваться гуглом - тот может до сих пор без всяких ВПНов)

[@flicker2891]

@@blindvic4334 помимо китайского предложения есть также параллельный импорт. Ситуация существует всего один год, спрос на продукцию высокий, отсюда и цены

[@flicker2891]

@@blindvic4334 да и согласитесь, с сегодняшним уровнем стандартизации, аналоги действительно достойные)

[@blindvic4334]

@@flicker2891 расскажи мне, друг, когда это в России последний раз цены снижались? Даже не мечтай, видяшки только по тройному прайсу, айфончики и Москвичи из китайского пластика тоже. Это новая реальность. А кстати, почему на продукты то с бензином цена взлетела, они тоже по параллельному импорту чтоли?

[@cristianandrei5462]

I think a big factor in why the sanctions worked that poorly is the fact that Russia is such a huge exporter of oil and natural gas. As the prices of this commodities rose, it helped Russia a lot.

[@isekaiexpress9450]

So, basically: "Son, this is going to hurt me more than you" (pulls out the belt) "Dad, why are you hitting yourself?"

[@slvspb]

😂😂😂

[@pougetguillaume4632]

Russian economists from the central bank itself: we expect a contraction of our economy instead of the growth we were expecting. Internet copelord: see russian economy is doing so good omg sanctions have no consequences lmao!!!!! Look at this cherry picked evidence that's absolutely representative of the situation instead of the actual economic evidence put forth by actual experts lol europe is freezing

[@saucyinnit8799]

​@@pougetguillaume4632cope

[@sleepete12]

yes, europe is so struggling, terrible, of course if russians eat grass and have no flushing toilet than hatrd to notice any change sanction or not

[@kjullthedemon]

@@pougetguillaume4632 I don't think anyone is denying sanctions are hurting Russia, literally what else would they do. It's just nice seeing they backfired, and isn't making Russia go under like everyone expected.

[@Sheqeer-w2n]

As an ordinary person from Russia, the sanctions do not really concern me, I think that the production was seriously affected at the beginning, but now we have developed and created our own machines, we bought something from China, so I'm not sure how it works, but it's too early to say, sanctions work for a long time, let's see what happens later In addition, I watched a video on KZbin about the construction of a hockey arena in Yekaterinburg, it said that many European companies remained working despite the sanctions, apple, nike, adidas also officially left, but their goods can still be bought, globally nothing at all hasn't changed

[@gizel4376]

you said Russia lose on the trading aspect because they lose competitiveness by using sub-optimal equipment, but Europe also lost on that aspect, they lose competitiveness by using suboptimal energy supply, but while both side are currently working on fixing this issue, Russia by develloping their own industry and exploring new option with more reliable partner and Europe by develloping their green energy and nuclear energy, Europe, even if they get close to it, won't get anything more competitive than before , but Russia, considering the cheaper labor from Russia and Asia, could actually get something even more competitive than before. But it's on the very long run, so i will give a quarter of a point advantage to Russia on that one.

[@arianitonline8748]

with "more reliable partner" you must be meaning china, the new owner of russia

[@gizel4376]

@@arianitonline8748 china turkey india brazil, south africa, saudi arabia iran, etc. but yeah the main one will definitly be china and india

[@arianitonline8748]

@@gizel4376 hahaha again, russia is already owned by china

[@Kami-Sama197]

@@gizel4376 as an Indian i do agree here our investments and business dealings have increased a lot with Russia ever since the war started, not just oil but also medical industry supplies and many of the small auxiliary things have increased a lot with Russia which comes under trade since the sanctions and stuff got imposed, becomes more apparent with rupee rubel trade etc but yea China with their Industrial backbone supplied by the west has been the major support for Russia right now which i blame the US since they are ones who helped China into becoming the global factory and with earlier soviet connections US should have seen it like this since 1990 when USSR broke up they been quite lagging behind and not with forethought into tackling comminism.

[@gigacock7187]

so that's why there is no sanctions vs america...she didnt invade neighbors,now all make sense.

[@Antonioivse]

Nobody said this. Uncomfortable truth

[@savingyou89]

This is what happens when you base your research on so-called "open sources" and completely ignore the history of the question, pretending the conflict started in 2022.

[@timbow614]

The conflict already started in 2014...

[@Antonioivse]

Uncomfortable truth!

[@tradingwizard562]

U should have covered 1.Russia asking payments in Roubles instead of dollars for it's supplies to bolster the Rouble. 2.Replacement of EU as oil and gas importers to India,Turkey and China taking cheaper oil and gas but overall profitable for Russia as its alternative customers, thereby reducing effect of sanctions. 3.Turkey and Saudi acting as oil and gas importers from Russia and reselling to EU.Same goes for India and China selling to EU.

[@Antonioivse]

Uncomfortable truth!

[@fdtnightingale9161]

Also industry of eu slowly drain to the usa cuz of better efficiency

[@sekirashop]

The main problem in the first place is that Western bird people believe that sanctions can affect the public mood in Russia. This is similar to the mistake of Hitler who believed that the Russians would greet his troops as liberators from Bolshevism. In our culture to unite under external pressure. We begin to hate the external threat more than our leaders. The vast majority of Russians here in Russia do not consider the war in Ukraine to be aggressive. Ukraine has always been part of Russia. We treat this as an internal matter, in which Western birdmen should have nothing to do. We perceive interference in our affairs as aggression.

[@romdotdog]

How isn't it aggressive if Russia keeps pushing to annex Ukraine despite resistance from the latter? This has always puzzled me.

[@filosofiyaistorii]

@@romdotdog Товарищ, напишу по-русски. Уничтожение и захват янки Конфедерации Штатов Америки является агрессивной акцией? Украина - это просто юго-западная часть России, которая отделилась из-за коллапса СССР. Страны иногда распадаются и соединяются. Так бывает в истории! Если Техас отделится от США и кто-то будет накачивать его оружием и началась бы война, вот было бы веселье. Запад должен навсегда запомнить, что его вмешательство дорого ему обойдется!

[@romdotdog]

@@filosofiyaistorii I get it now. That's a good analogy. However, I would say the Confederate States of America broke away for slavery while Ukraine broke away for democracy. So, do you think authoritarianism is better than democracy?

[@filosofiyaistorii]

@@romdotdog Политические режимы приходят и уходят, а территории и человеческие жизни бесценны. Чтобы вы выбрали, жить в отдельном "демократическом" Техасе? Или в единой "авторитарной" Америке (помнится Рузвельт там был пожизненным президентом), у которой есть шанс на светлое будущее. А если ваша страна раздроблена, то у нее мало шансов на стабильное и мирное развитие. Распри и войны способствую появлению "авторитарных" режимов. И я скептически отношусь к такому пониманию реальности. Существуют элиты, которые правят странами. Поэтому вы неверно истолковываете происходящее ка борьбу демократии и автократии. Есть процесс усиления России и США невыгодно это. Им нужно, чтобы в Евразии всегда были войны. Чтобы в Европе был конфликт (Россия-Украина). Чтобы на Ближнем Востоке была война (Арабы-Израиль). Южная Азия (Индия-Пакистан), Восточная Азия (Китай-Тайвань). И везде Америка поддерживает того, кто слабее (малочисленнее), чтобы конфликт никогда не закончился. Если будет мир в этих регионах, то умные люди и капиталы не будут уходить за океан. Стратегия США - дома спокойно, за окном буря.

[@romdotdog]

@@filosofiyaistorii What evidence is there for the proposition that quality of life in Ukraine would be improved from Russian annexation? I'm assuming this from your premise that Russia has a brighter future than Ukraine in your dichotomy.

[@Wormopera]

Russia and china are truly geniuses Also I think it would be logically for Russia to replace it's reliance on old tech and imports with better techs, so basically in the long run they might not need Europe imports at all

[@KittyCatnap]

I think you're far too optimistic, China controlling Russia's technological imports can't be good for Russia's geopolitical power.

[@Wormopera]

@@KittyCatnap they do share an enemy and had a good history together if I'm correct So I wouldn't say it's dangerous, but you're correct there is a large amount of risk

[@alispeed5095]

Both sides are sure to evolve from this conflict. There will be lots of positives moving forward. Self reliance is a lesson everyone has hopefully learned.

[@alispeed5095]

@@KittyCatnap Enemy of my enemy.....

[@martindizlindahl3649]

You can't self rely on microchips though. And how do you expect Russia to advance when there has been a huge exodus of IT professionals and qualified personnel our of Russia? It's just total nonsense. Russia has the GDP of Italy for fuck's sake. You can't just suddenly replace tech without a huge investment which Russia doesn't have or bright people which Russia doesn't have it's just retarded.

[@anasevi9456]

The west was far too used to using sanctions on small, import dependent or mono export dependent economies. Russia is far too big and diverse to effectively sanction anything more than diminishing speedbumps. Also they share a massive border with mainland China and have a growing asian trade belt down to India. Also no one outside of the Anglosphere and Europe is buttmad enough at Russia to take the potential big economic hit of blocking themselves off from Russia. It's worrying how impotent the west is looking with time. .

[@علي-ش7ث8ب]

bullies will eventually meet someone who punches them in the face

[@StephenRichmond89]

I can't believe Canada is no longer a US ally! Shocking.

[@caad5258]

Mexico would also be, if not a military ally, a strong trading partner of the US.

[@wcg66]

Australia is in but Canada and Mexico aren't? It's like the map was drawn by a republican politician.

[@zezenkop412]

@@caad5258 if the Mexican realize what usa done to their country and i am sure alot of them do they will never support usa

[@caad5258]

@zezenkop they can hate the US all they want, doesn't change the fact that Mexico is heavily reliant on the US for trade. Country's don't have friends, they have interests.

[@StephenRichmond89]

@@caad5258 my comment was a joke about how the map in the video forgot to mark Canada as an ally.

[@Shavkynov]

You did not take into account the fact that the replacement of "quality" foreign components with worse local ones leads not only to a temporary drop in productivity, but also to a rapid growth of industries producing these components in Russia, which ultimately gives growth in the economy.

[@Caelidscope]

Получается в длительной перспективе делает только лучше и дешевле. Точно сказано.

[@hevnhevn]

hahaha, the sanctions will make us strong for sure (no)

[@SteenKolds]

Great video explanation 😊 US plays Poker. Russia plays Chess. EU plays Jackass. Every time another sanction is introduced then a few weeks later Russia quietly plays an unexpected counter move, making the west believing it will work. Russia could have turned the taps at once, they didn't! They still supply some gas and oil, even through Ukraine... EU didn't rely on one supplier they only got 40% gas from Russia so who supplied the other 60%? There is a difference in controlling countries by sanctions vs building infrastructure and trading. Belt and road. 20 years ago Putin wanted to cooperate from Vladivostok to Lissabon but the West didn't want to play along.

[@dobro-mir]

> US plays Poker. > Russia plays Chess. > EU plays Jackass." Your mom plays deez nuts

[@perrybarbe7789]

Stealing yacht is not a sanction. Its theft.

[@DiogoJ1]

Stealing from evil people is justified.

[@EmuIsGone]

@@DiogoJ1 oh, ok! (steals all of USA)

[@DiogoJ1]

@@EmuIsGone Good luck. Russia and USA both deserve to be robbed blind for their sins

[@vietvuxuan8226]

@@DiogoJ1 maybe We the people over around the world should steal all the western countries for hundred years of their colonialism 😚 Call me when you are ready friend

[@kusumandriyanto]

@@DiogoJ1 ahh yes, all european is good, all russian is evil. justice preserved!

[@Rebyataaa]

Thousands of protesters in Russia? Where????

[@АнтонБерезин-х5ы]

The sanctions did not affect the year in any way, because the income is the same, the dollar exchange rate is the same, the goods from parallel imports are the same, mobilization is almost imperceptible.

[@hugodesrosiers-plaisance3156]

I know nothing about economics and I was still able to understand this video very well. Cheers for that, you're a great teacher.

[@yurinator6380]

This guy is a bigger actor than Zelensky😂

[@Propagandamouth]

If you know nothing about economics, how can you determine whether what this guy tells you is legit? This is the problem with mindless sheep. They'll believe anything as long as you petend to be an expert and speak as though you're confident in what you're saying.

[@hugodesrosiers-plaisance3156]

@@Propagandamouth I didn't say I believed him, I said I understood him. I still do have a capacity for critical thinking. Your comment was very condescending.

[@Propagandamouth]

​ @Hugo Desrosiers-Plaisance Seriously? Reread your original comment. "I know nothing... but I was able to understand this... you're a great teacher". And now you're trying to backpedal to "I didn't say i believed it, i'm not stoopid, oh no how dare you". I mean, come on, your line of argumentation is laughable at this point.

[@hugodesrosiers-plaisance3156]

@@Propagandamouth I owe you nothing and I never planned on arguing with you. Have a nice day.

[@rejvaik00]

I think the use of sanctions was because the west was hesitant to go full head to head boots on the ground with Russia as they are a nuclear power So they did the next "best" thing sanctions and give military munitions, material, and intelligence to the opposition force, in this case Ukraine

[@benjamincarter6095]

Russia has already proven it is not capable of fighting a modern war. Why risk lives when sanctions are more effective, just a little slower?

[@TheONEHD1762]

not only this. one of the key reasons is how the russia's central bank has mastered this situation - they showed us a real masterclass.

[@stevenwilliams3015]

Even without nuclear weapons, Europe can't go to war with Russia with the hope to win

[@treyshaffer]

@@TheONEHD1762 the masterclass of keeping 60% of their reserves in foreign assets that got frozen forcing them to ratchet interest rates to a mind-bogglingly high 20% rate turning their treasury bonds into credit card debt essentially?

[@tlhalefobriandlamini3817]

@@treyshaffer real masterclass in the fact that a certain World leader said the Ruble will be errm Rubble! Which failed to happen as The Russian had to control that same Ruble from getting stronger and hurting their economy when it was supposed to be weaker

[@zetajolyne3689]

I hope everyone remind that commodities are not created out of thin air on supermarket shelves, but rely on the division of labor and cooperation of the global industrial chain, from raw materials to intermediate products, processing and finally finished products, transported to stores or your doorstep. While BASF Chemicals has laid off workers on a large scale and closed its local factories in Germany, it has expanded its large-scale expansion in Guangdong Province, China. The reason is not labor costs. To high-tech chemicals that is very small, so they can be operated locally in Europe, until now. The core reason is that in the context of economic recession, wars and political blindness have severely damaged the European supply chain. It is impossible for factories to produce products by magic without cheap materials from Russia. You say buy gas from the United States? Sorry, natural gas is too expensive now. You may be buying the orders that Chinese signed with the Trump administration during his period, then the Chinese sold to European which is still cheaper.

[@nostradam96]

In March last year, as soon as it all started, I bought myself a new smartphone, still at the old prices. I've been wanting to change for a long time, and then I was afraid of the unknown. Chinese, Huawei, and it suits me 100%. My wife loves the sea very much, we have been on vacation in more than 20 countries on the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean. And then she chose Crimea, even in winter. Bang - planes stopped flying to Crimea. I had to go by car. I traveled to Crimea by car about 15 years ago (even through Ukraine), it was interesting for me to compare what was, what became. I found that highways in Russia have changed unrecognizably, for the better. Although there are still many places in the country where living conditions clearly need improvement. What else have the sanctions affected? Again on vacation. In winter, we were going to go to Egypt, problems with planes began, we had tickets for the company that was banned from flying through Jordan. They took, bought a ticket to the Emirates, and everything was very good there (although it was more expensive, of course). And the last inconvenience. I sometimes download various computer applications, pictures, textures, etc. for work. Inexpensive, it's all some units or tens of dollars. And now you need to open a foreign currency account in a bank for this nonsense? I don't do such nonsense, but it always turns out to solve the same tasks for free or for rubles. That's all the damage from sanctions, if you remember. Small, but always surmountable obstacles.

[@WeeJinterz]

Might be worth mentioning the sanction evasions through grey market imports via CIS members such as Kazakhstan, think mobile phone imports up 2000% or something off the top of my head.

[@deliciousdeviant5333]

I dont think losing 200 thousand men in war and another half a million men to brain drain is good for any countries' economy.

[@fchka]

Еще несколько немаловажных пунктов. 1. Несмотря на то, что запад говорил о санкциях против российского государства/правительства, каждый из россиян потерял в своем комфорте, что в каком-то плане сплотило против западников и заставило (в дополнение к общей боли за соотечественников на полях сражений) больше поддерживать текущий режим и даже уважать его за устойчивость. 2. Когда вы говорите о протестах в России из-за санкций, нужно понимать, что довольно большая часть населения поддерживает власти (плюс те о ком я сказал ранее), а оппозиционная часть населения либо уехала(и они естественно не могут протестовать), либо не имеет достаточной силы, ведь их лидеры лишены финансирования(в том числе из-за санкций), посажены в тюрьму и продавлены властью. Ну и конечно невероятная терпимость русских ко всему(можно зачесть и к плюсам и к минусам). 3. Когда запад вводит санкции против нас, он забывает, что мы РУССКИЕ. Тот опыт который накоплен нашими людьми, то говно, через которое мы переступаем КАЖДЫЙ ДЕНЬ, закаляет и позволяет бороться с еще большей силой. В общем наш менталитет - главный щит против действий запада или кого-либо еще.

[@Valiev_russia]

Нет, санкции не работают, потому что на западе думают, что все в провинциальных городах России люди живут, как в Москве.

[@angelroms1991]

Рабсиянская империя развалилась сотню лет назад, совок развалился 30 лет назад, сколько протянет рабсея?

[@InfideI]

Уехавшие "оппозиционеры" это просто бuoмycop, состоящий из евреев и пр. . К России и русским эта биомасса не имеет никакого отношения.

[@gdjkdofuufrk1600]

Хорошо сказал 👏🏻

[@mikehelmet6878]

Totally agree with you.

[@MrGrizzzlik]

Could you please do an extensive objective video on Ukraine's economy? It's really interesting to see what such massive war and debt due to leasing/loans may do to it in long term.

[@greenedleaf2481]

Most Ukraine economy of infrastructure has been blow to bits by Russia but weed export can maintain the economy

[@IxNoiRxI]

Sadly, there can't be a video about Ukraine's economy because there is no economy to speak of now. Ukraine's economy is now fully propped up by the west and each day the war continues it becomes worse for Ukranians. Even if Ukraine "wins" somehow, it will be forever a vassal to the NATO with all that leasing and loans.

[@ramk2443]

What economy ? It depends on the grants by NATO countries Mostly agriculture , few IT service exports . For everything else they have to start anew

[@zaimhazmin8851]

Ukraine can easily recover despite having their infrastructures destroyed. they can waive their rainbow flag and sell their gay hairy arse to cover daily expenses and much more

[@MrGrizzzlik]

@@IxNoiRxI but that's exactly the interesting part. To everyone apart from some very naive Ukrainians it's clear that the help comes at a cost. Ukraine is facing three basically country-killing issues - no service economy even before (highly dependent on agrar exports), destroyed infrastructure, brain loss due to immigration. I don't remember any similar example from recent times. Yes, some people will return but Yugoslavian war shown that the number is insanely low. How can Ukrainian state even continue existing when it lost 30-50% of population, has no competitive industries and is in decade-long debt? It can be rebuilt, but who will want to live there?

[@maysdan_]

For context, we don't starve or become poor, life in Russia don't become much more expensive, it just became a little more inconvenient and a little more expensive to use foreign services And yeah, thanks for kick for our country, we finally began to develop their own production facilities and technologies ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@goldenprincess3564]

Don't forget that this same man posted videos where he said how the West broke, destroyed the Russian economy, and how the Russian economy returned to the level of the 19th century. He says that the EU will have a growth of 0.3%, the same as Russia. He forgets that at the beginning of the year, the IMF publishing an optimistic GDP forecast for the EU and a pessimistic forecast for Russia's growth and later this year it will be revised, he says that Russia had a drop of 2-4%, although the data is clear since the end of January, the drop was 2.1%, he says that Russia replaces the lack of western parts by using old and backward, it does not say that Russia has started massive production from gas turbines (which are better than western ones) to engines for civil aircraft, engines for cars and etc. Instead of Western planes, Russian airline companies now buy Russian planes and thus support the development of the Russian aviation industry. Russia reduced unemployment to 3.7%, GDP in dollars rose from $1.7 trillion to $2.4 trillion, while EU GDP in dollars had a significant decline. Inflation in Russia has fallen to 11% and continues to fall, while Russia has reduced interest rates and they are now lower than before the war, while the EU has increased interest rates. Germany had to set aside 4 billion dollars for interest at the beginning of last year, and 40 billion dollars at the beginning of this year. Russian national debt is already below 16% of GDP, while the debt in the key economies of the West is between 100 and 150 percent. So much for the collapse of the Russian economy and the prosperity of the West.

[@glassmuxxic]

Would be interested in your analysis of the UK’s stagnation/decline/self-sanctioning. Difficult to find a good, broad assessment that isn’t rankly partisan.

[@MrJesterJam]

But you have 4 times bigger GDP than Russia! Try eating it

[@Conserpov]

You want "a good assessment" from a shameless propagandist?

[@glassmuxxic]

@@andyskyfall3891 That the UK economy is stagnating/in relative decline is well-established and uncontroversial (stats on growth, productivity, birth rates, generational wealth distribution, family and business formation, lack of capital investment or building of anything, trade balances are all indicative of this.) Understanding the many ‘why’s and possible routes out are what I’m interested in.

[@BobBogaert]

Freeze frame at 21:47 - Perfect illustration of how economists count! Thank you Joeri for another great video. Recommending your channel to everyone who sends me sensationalist videos as an example of how it should be done. Very clear and straight to the point!

[@dzcav3]

O'Brian: How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? (1984 reference)

[@MoneyMacro]

Hehe whoops. You got me.

[@gogaonzhezhora8640]

Yes, because don't you forget my comission :)

[@rodjarrow6575]

Bob Bogaert It is not true that Russia allegedly sharply reduced the supply of natural gas to Western Europe 7:55, this is propaganda of lies, with the aim of destroying the energy independence of Europe and subordinating the European energy system to suppliers from the US

[@freehck]

9:13 "Russia stopped publishing its import statistics, which is already suspicious". No it's not. It's the only valuable metric NATO can use to ensure sanctions actually work. And Russia made "grey import" legal. I.e. Russian markets can buy iphones to retail not directly from Apple, but from Turkey, Kazakhstan, etc. And this actually works. And now you can get why looking to export statistics can show you a great picture but doesn't mean anything.

[@charlesseraph3249]

The war in Ukraine has opened my eyes, that it doesn't matter what is right and wrong. As long as your country is a strong country then you are free to do whatever you want

[@yamatohime2035]

Wow... I understood it during invasion of Yugoslavia by NATO.

[@kingarmish]

@@yamatohime2035 me when USA invaded almost every Muslim country out there..

[@Antiteshmis]

Most people should have noticed after the war in the Balkans, where the US literally threatened to level Belgrade with its civilian population, in other words an extermination campaign. Then the Gulf war, where the US let the Shiites be exterminated. Then Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria .... Weird it took so long.

[@goodman8469]

"Always has been"

[@andreasmartin7942]

Maybe you learnt the wrong thing.

[@monkerud2108]

The single biggest counterpoint to the conclusion i think is that during the initial phase of the war, towards the failure of the attack on kiev, russia looked in much much worse shape, and that might have stopped putin from mobilizing more men when he needed it most of all, that cant be forgotten.

[@boryspikalov6360]

An underrated comment.

[@monkerud2108]

@@boryspikalov6360 well yeah, its like analysing a football match, where the keepers of each team fainted due to blood pressure drops, 1 faint each, but one team faints during a chance and the other while nothing was really happening.

[@milan51259]

Putin didn't wanted full blown war with them. Quite easy to understand. Many Slavs see other Slav-nations as brothers, something western-propaganda will never emphasize. But US and NATO are very good to make war between brothers, regime-change or provoke wars. Nazi-troops in Ukraine under the term "nation-building" have been supported from the west for nearly a decade now. You need this forces if you want to go to a war and also let the normal people start hating each other. I know first hand as I'm from Yugoslavia. These bastards did that to us too!

[@monkerud2108]

@@milan51259 when you scream i'm going to veat you up if you dont do what i say to your brother you should probably admit your horrible mistake and make up for it.

[@monkerud2108]

@@milan51259 and when you the proceed to hit him in the face with a hammer you are now fully responsible for your own self absorbed murderous tendency

[@theragnarok13]

This has become a clash between 2 layers of society - peasants and governors. It’s never really about geopolitics. It’s always about the control over the population of the country. Politics get away with horrible decisions they make. General public is suffering, rich are getting richer, poor are dying.

[@gremirid]

Okey, do a communism like in France at 1800s

[@hellomoto2084]

Do you have a solution? Na seriously do you have one? Iam tired of everything, guess time has come for me to sleep forever.

[@theragnarok13]

@@hellomoto2084 No solution, mate. The problem is really complex, it would take thousands of best minds of the world to come together and slowly construct the concept of the new system. But this never happens since current order of things is profitable and comfortable for those with money and power, they got they own plans, it’s a big club, but we’re not in it. “A sheep spends it’s whole life fearing the wolf, only to be eaten by the shepherd”.

[@theragnarok13]

@@hellomoto2084 we can only spread the awareness since there’s not much to do about it at the moment. The real power is the truth, bitter and uneasy, but only the truth actually matters.

[@ЮлияКузьмина-м7ч]

Как тут говорили, что санкции действуют только на бедных и на богатых, скажу так, я могу позволить себе ипотеку в 15 тысяч рублей ежемесячно, зарабатываю 55 тысяч в месяц, могу позволить себе один раз в год путешествие в любую страну (кроме очень удалённых стран, такие страны могу посещать раз в 2 года) . Работаю и живу в 350 км от Москвы. Решать Вам.

[@SinaroPtSjunior]

Просто большая часть населения нытики которые не способны добиться заработка выше 20тысяч . Это грусно

[@RafaelW8]

Thank you for this video, Juri! I'm glad you were able to keep it objective, and say how things are from both sides. I've been growing bored of the Western echo chamber that Russia is collapsing imminently. I don't support the war, but I also don't believe Russia is going to get crushed.

[@H0mework]

If you want to see a more balanced analysis see the University of Chicagos most popular video. The west dangles to offer nato support so the countries become hardliners. Then they're destroyed. Look at what they did to Georgia. It'll happen to Ukraine too once they're finished with using their lives. Imagine how the US would react to a Cuban missile crisis. Don't support Ukraine in the war. They're just as corrupt as Russia, and it's a whole money laundering scheme for the western countries. I feel terrible for the people caught they're though.

[@AL-lh2ht]

sanctions all were suppose to damage the econnomy and make russia weaker. it was never going to end the war.

[@planetside7346]

just wait one more year

[@La__Espada]

@@planetside7346 dude you guys have been saying it since the Russian-Georgian standoff....it’s been significantly more than a year...face it, Russia is still standing. And will stand. The civilians didn’t even feel the “impact” of the sanctions...

[@gerhardbenade5869]

A factor not mentioned in this video since it is from a Western perspective, is that very high gas prices in Europe has impacted some industrial activity very negatively. BASF the worlds largest chemical company is moving production from Germany to China. Car exports from Germany has also declined massively. Long term there will be some de-industrialization in Europe unless they can get cheaper pipeline gas from Russia - this is what Qatar told Ursula von der Leyen when she visited there in late 2022.

[@Antonioivse]

Uncomfortable truth

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

You want this channel to lose monitization?

[@Antonioivse]

@@aniksamiurrahman6365 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Freedom of speech. Yeah!

[@humanitylost2475]

The guy is from Belgium 😂. What did you expect?

[@unemiryune9322]

'SOVEREIGN neighbor Ukraine' is the funniest joke I heard this week yet

[@onegraund8949]

well.. they are fighting for it xd

[@unemiryune9322]

@@onegraund8949 I mean, russians sure are fighting to free Ukraine from it's NATO puppeteers, but ukrainians are so brainwashed they RESIST. This is so surreal

[@boogieman8584]

you have a wicked sense of humor

[@tyrus1686]

How is pootins 3 day war going? Taken Kiev 100 times I bet.

[@Evrastrim]

exactly

[@Street_FOX_boom]

It's strange that you chose a map from Ukraine with Crimea, because the Russian flag has been flying there for a long time.

[@katitadeb]

Yeah, ILLEGALY, Crimea is Ukrainian you like it or not And no, the "Russian speaking population" is not a valid excuse

[@Street_FOX_boom]

@@katitadeb your words reminded me of America and the part of Mexico they captured. "but this is different, you don't understand"

[@jotarojojo7159]

​@@katitadeb lol Kosovo is Serbia then

[@travma715]

​@@katitadeb Cry about it while the Russian flag still flies over Crimea.

[@major4ik771]

@@katitadeb The fact that other countries do not recognize this does not mean anything. A referendum was held. More than 83% of the population took part in it and 95+% voted FOR joining Russia. I want to note that the referendum is the will of the people

[@Vednier]

main problem with sanctionis mentioned in video "if war stops WORST sanction will be lifted" or "maybe lifted". This uncertainty undermines reasons to stop, official just say "sanctions is forever now, what difference?"

[@krivdaa9627]

well, we, here in Russia a pretty sure the answer is "not going to be lifted".

[@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding]

I wouldn't say the santions are failing. Russia is relaying on their tank stockpiles, which means they are relaying on decades old tanks.

[@vinesgg3578]

they actually produce a lot of brand new tanks from scratch. You dont really need super high tech to cast a tank and gun

[@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding]

@@vinesgg3578 Of T-62s... and is not production, is maintainance to make them operable again. If the santions turn the Russian army from one mainly using T-72s and T-90s to one using T-62s, I would consider them succesfull.

[@DoubleUProds]

@@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding Thanks aren't viable anymore in modern warfare. any beefed up tank the russians can make costing millions of dollars will just get rendered useless by 1 ukrainian with a rocket launcher

[@B_Cleric_Time]

@@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding You don't know what you're talking about, so why talk?

[@stranger6797]

@@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding there is no tank called the t60.. and secondly the rate at which Russia is losing equipment is more than the rate with which it can manufacture. The Russians aren't low on t72s the t62 is used by Donetsk militants NOT by the Russian army

[@Tigran_Pan]

Логика Европы: Европа: Ха-ха-ха, Россия, мы больше не зависим от вас, теперь мы зависим от Америки. Учитесь, вот что такое суверенитет! Россия: 🤧.

[@Isomeria450]

Так ничего не изменилось, они еще со Второй Мировой ничего не могли сделать без... "рекомендаций" из Белой Избы.

[@jackholmes7521]

Rather be dependent on Americans than Russians. Russia is a shithole and so are countries dependent on it.

[@Tigran_Pan]

@@jackholmes7521 Is that why Europe is now moving its enterprises and factories to the USA? To make Europe richer ? It smacks of slavery and complete annexation ... Your logic is very dumb and stupid. Europe has always said that it is independent , but in fact everything is different. And the United States is the world hegemon and aggressor, what is happening between Iran and Israel now? Don't you know? Or is it the hands of the USA ? That's different, right? You are still stupid because you cannot understand in any way that there are a lot of unused resources on the territory of Russia, and in the future you will still have to turn to her for help, if of course Russia still exists. This also proves with concrete that Russia does not need additional territories to increase its wealth, unlike the United States, which very quickly exhausts its reserves and has already invaded almost all Asian countries unmotivated, it is concluded that for the sake of resources, as it was in Iraq... Live on in your fantasies!

[@jackholmes7521]

@@Tigran_Pan oh shut up. Russia is only good for oil and gas. A pathetic country fighting a pathetic war against its neighbour.

[@agilebot1]

Логика России - ха-ха вместо сырьевого придатка запада мы будем гордым придатком Китая.

[@АлексейГлазов-г9о]

as a citizen of the Russian Federation, I also want to draw attention to the psychological effect of the sanctions, in the video they simplified everything by saying that the protests began due to inflation and the fall of the ruble, because they began on the same day when the troops crossed the border of Ukraine. However, they also subsided because, from the position of a citizen, the following situation is obtained: If you are against the war and cannot leave, your state can punish you, you have also lost your work for foreign customers, and your usual way of life, etc. The choice in such a situation is either to focus on current everyday problems, or still leave the country, or put up with it. But a very large percentage of citizens who were loyal to the West in the past now hate the West both for sanctions and for the culture of cancellation and for hypocrisy (According to the West, we have a dictatorship and the people cannot influence the government, but at the same time they hit the people so that they influenced). Part of the protest activists left, part turned into people loyal to the regime, and part simply mired in everyday problems. So, touching on the ideological part of the sanctions, we can safely say that they only aggravated the situation and now there are only more people who want to win this war and no matter how it would costs. I personally came to the conclusion that if the West wanted a regime change here, they should not have cut off all ties with the Russian Federation at the root, but, on the contrary, should have encouraged the opposition, which is not numerous but still remains. And now it turned out that the war is beneficial primarily to the United States, which crushed the same fuel market in the EU under itself, and it is beneficial for them to weaken us, so even if the war in Ukraine ends, no one will lift the sanctions. There is no humanistic motivation here, only money. That is, it makes sense to support only your country, because here is your home. So don't be surprised why there are so many people here with "z" patches on their clothes. YOU yourself added fuel to the fire instead of putting it out, and played into the hands of Putin ...

[@leninoble]

"Rely on one partner." Hmm. It's about the same as shooting yourself in the foot and then wondering why your leg hurts. Russia did not renounce its obligations - Europe itself refused to trade with Russia. And then another "best friend of Europe" - the United States undermined the Nord Stream to consolidate the "success"... The fact dropped out of the analysis - why did Europe have to intervene in this conflict at all? After all, when the United States repeatedly did the same in the Middle East, no one imposed sanctions against them, dutifully accepting refugees. Or "this is different"?

[@musakazem2998]

"Sanctions showed other nations that attacking your neighbors will not go unpunished" *Im paraphrasing ofcourse. While that is true it also showed all the nations in the world that investing in the west is a double edged sword. And if other alternatives arise in the future these sanctions would be one of the biggest mistakes ever commited by the west in their foreign policy. edit: Saw the whole video and you did mention what I said. But I still think this issue is being underestimated. Overall good video 👍

[@williamthebonquerer9181]

What alternative? It's also incredibly easy to not get sanctioned, don't commit genocide, dont invade Ur neighbours, don't have a millitary coup, don't have nuclear programs, don't fund terrorism and don't host Soviet nuclear missiles

[@musakazem2998]

@@williamthebonquerer9181 Would you like some tea and biscuits while you are at it? This isn't a buffet where you can list your demands and expect everyone in the world to accept it. It also doesn't help the matter that the one who makes these demands are the very ones who do this themselves. People need to stop playing with Ukrainian lives and think of a compromise to finish this horror at once instead of fueling it.

[@williamthebonquerer9181]

@@musakazem2998 Russia should make comprises not Ukraine, these demands are Americas demands and they, not Russia are a world power

[@musakazem2998]

@@williamthebonquerer9181 Yea let the war drag on and we'll see who makes the compromises. These wishful thinkings will be the death of more innocent Ukrainians. The Americans already gave up on getting crimea back.

[@trunksbrief6728]

@WilliamTheBonquerer are you dumb? The west has invaded countries before and destroyed yet they go unpunished. Its hypocritical

[@0AmonRa0]

6:50 Our governmant do the same here... Is France a dictatorship ??? 🤔