The Death of Russia

[@anavila8107]

Imagine being russian, having just listened to a man explain how your country will probably colapse and then trying to sell you skilshare

[@dusti9353]

Industrial revolution an it's consequences

[@ejtattersall156]

That is hilarious.

[@historyjunkie9851]

Ah America

[@alexrowe7063]

Low Key telling Russians they have a skill issue

[@barackobama2968]

@@ejtattersall156 That's depressing

[@kingoftheduchies752]

im leaving a comment here to check back on in 19 years to see if russia has collapsed by then

[@rembo4149]

Ну удачи😂

[@дельта.228]

я надеюсь что этого не будет

[@rembo4149]

@@дельта.228 я тоже надеюсь что этого не будет

[@Schwarzo]

update: it's still standing strong

[@datcao6854]

@@Schwarzothe video said russia may standing for more than two decades , by the time fosses fuel is death , maybe that is when russia face some serious issue but now just let the time how they handled ukraine

[@elvastan]

There was actually a plan for the Soviet Union to sort of stay around called the "Union of Sovereign States", where most of the post-soviet states (All except the baltics, Georgia, and Armenia) would be semi-independent nations led by a council in Moscow with a unified foreign policy. It was supported by the majority of the population in all the remaining soviet states, but the attempted coup in 1991 killed the idea.

[@OkachaWasTaken]

Source?

[@Ulostdgame]

"Semi-independent countries led by a council in Moscow." Thats not fucking Independence you fool

[@jacobjohnson4785]

@@OkachaWasTaken search up August coup attempt

[@OkachaWasTaken]

@@jacobjohnson4785 What does algeria have to do with the soviet union?

[@stanisawzokiewski3308]

@@OkachaWasTaken maybe they misspelled armenia?

[@Barsick2803]

I am Russian and I realized that the country was dying when I saw that I could not buy games on steam

[@doublethink6947]

While I do think this is an accurate analysis of what Russia is going through, let's not forget that not only Russia is close to a demographic crisis but the whole Europe is. There isn't a single European country that has an above replacement level birth rate, some balkan and baltic nations are suffering from dramatic depopulation crisis and western europe is increasingly having to rely on non-european immigrants to keep their population afloat and it's still not enough while also creating the same problems Russia has with too many ethnic minorities.

[@johnmanpls5577]

Sounds like more of a problem of sending too many Russians to a pointless war to die zzzzzz

[@nightadmin283]

I think no country will ever go to that point of total collapse. There will be man or woman step up to kick asre and solve Except North Korea.

[@duhmzdaih]

Well, a LOT of migrants are coming here to Europe, how many people migrate to Russia? By the way... "too many ethnic minorities"? are you talking about... like... THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF EUROPE????

[@Fr_87]

@@duhmzdaih Out-numbering of the native population by non-native immigration is arguably worse than a haemorrhaging population, look at western China and the Native Americans being wiped out as examples of that.

[@duhmzdaih]

@@Fr_87 worse? haha, worse for WHOM??? what you say stinks of xenophobia. "native population"?? hahaha, unless you live in Africa, you are the descendent of migrants, period, at a certain generation, your ancestors WERE NOT in your "native" country. There are people in America, Asia, Europe and Oceania because people migrated there. Humans are migrants by definition, and "native" is a made-up concept that makes sense only from a tribalistic perspective. How do you define that a population is "native" in a certain place? a couple of centuries living there? a thousand years? it's always arbitrary, you can't define it in an objective way. Western China and Native Americans being wiped out? LOL "native" populations do the same to each other, look at the aztecs or the ancient greeks. Little boy, tribalism isn't limited to race or flags, there's tribalism in a family fighting another family, there's tribalism in gangs killing other gangs. Your examples are bad.

[@paralyticdreams]

бля я умер

[@OkachaWasTaken]

The image of Hank while talking about Russia's mineral exports literally killed me.

[@Halcon_Sierreno]

Damn, did you type this from beyond the grave? What's the afterlife like? Did you go to heaven or hell? Did you get reincarnated? Did you get sent to a parallel world? How did you come back?

[@TheSkyGuy77]

Pro pane

[@aveyli]

@@Halcon_Sierreno 🤓🤓

[@OkachaWasTaken]

@@Halcon_Sierreno What the hell are you talking about lol

[@Neptunes_Bounty]

@@Halcon_Sierreno Are you having a schizophrenic episode?

[@Gachibas]

"tiny Ukraine" = biggest country in Europe, with support from NATO members and some others countries. Military support that forced them to empty their own warehouses. Well... It is very strange that the conflict has dragged on so long, yeah?

[@robertbones326]

"And they all suck! No offense" I like how Hoser sounds like a teenager who had a few beers and begins explaining shlt

[@xezmakorewarriah]

but he's right

[@rowrat7014]

@Harry Groundwater and the shit hes explaining is the truth

[@onerxowns2202]

"like a teenager"... Why "like" ?

[@acoustic5738]

Evidently you have never used russian and west combat systems

[@rowrat7014]

@@acoustic5738 you dont have to , we clearly see how effective they are in ukraine

[@georgios_5342]

13:40 in fact Putin himself has admitted this failure. He says that the most tragic thing that has happened in Russia's entire history was the Collapse of the Soviet Union, and he said that he's unsure if they'll ever manage to remedy this. Edit: for everyone asking, here's the link kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIXZpKqtipp4mdE

[@randomstuffprod.]

source?

[@misomoistt4848]

@@randomstuffprod. I'm sure looking it up yourself would be faster than waiting for a reply

[@HK-gm8pe]

and with saying that he made sure that all the ex- svoiet countries hate him forever:) and there is no possibility for us EVER being friends....good job Putin! Almost eeverybody inmy country except for some brainwashed russians think that Soviet collapse was the best thing ever happened in here , nobody wants it back

[@georgios_5342]

@@HK-gm8pe I'm certain that life in the Soviet Union was bad, horrible in fact. But from a strategic standpoint, it was bad for Russia. The Soviet Union, at least in Putin's mind, did not need to be communistic in ideology. It just had to remain a united entity, a Eurasian Union of sorts.

[@randomstuffprod.]

@@misomoistt4848 I just always ask for sources. I think it's good to be sure the person is not just making it all up.

[@helast3916]

Russia will decline and not be a “superpower” anymore but it will surely still exist as a nation. To destroy a nation it takes a lot of effort, look at south sudan that took 25 years and 2-3 million (SS population was never above 8 million before indipendence) deaths to become indipendent.

[@CapzL]

Russia is already not a superpower.

[@aiworldvn]

Interesting video! Can you give me your comment about my channel? Thank everyone

[@binbows2258]

Sure, but the USSR also collapsed fairly quickly and effortlessly compared to some other countries. It wouldn't be hard to imagine Russia going out the same way.

[@jonasjones4160]

@@binbows2258 Russia is more mono ethnic than USSR was. Russians were only 50% of USSR's population, but now they are at 80% in modern Russia. So it's not really the case of nation collapsing, but of government change

[@Akech101]

That war traumatized the South Sudan nation we fought hard for independence 🇸🇸

[@Pig.._]

Although "The death of Russia" feels a bit dramatic, it is obvious that we are leading to that or something similar so there is very little to criticize. Nice job again with your research

[@mrnanner5162]

your russian ?

[@alienelephant4721]

Try Koreans. Birth rate of 0.7 pretty much tells they want to die.

[@ccdsds3221]

@@igorkraljevski9191 north macedonians are literally bulgarians, what are you talking about...

[@SatchelChannel]

Hope the US will fall too

[@ericvincentofinowicz5610]

Just plagiarized Peter Zeihan's points that he's repeated in his last 3 books. Probably lifted this from recent interviews as Z then brings up the spectre of Russian nuclear first use in lieu of conventional military success.

[@ng_music812]

After a while, the author turned out to be right. Life without KZbin ads has become unbearable. I hope these grave consequences will serve as a lesson for the whole world.

[@Nilats1917]

lol , you crazy

[@Gynophobe1]

I know right, man living in the Russian thriving economy is such a hassle, i have to get up everyday and live in one of the most developed and powerful country in the world 😅 this youtuber is a joke!!

[@dan-bz7dz]

@@Gynophobe1 Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.

[@Gynophobe1]

@@dan-bz7dz Obviously not, Russia is an amazing country and even during the war everything is fine. Don't believe me? come see for yourself.

[@MF-pb4rl]

@@Gynophobe1so great you have lost 40% of the occupied territories so far

[@mariatheoak]

Its not the first time in the last 200 years haters are saying that Russia is done

[@dabubba4603]

And it wouldn’t be the first time in 200 years that Russia did actually collapse, the communist revolution over the tzar and the Soviet collapse in the 90’s. Definitely has collapsed more times than say America.

[@mariatheoak]

​@@dabubba4603and Russia is still standing

[@mariatheoak]

@@amkmapping-hu9ud how does this refute the fact that Russia is still standing?

[@amkmapping-hu9ud]

@@mariatheoak its standing with a new government system.

[@mariatheoak]

@@amkmapping-hu9ud and?

[@KShtan]

as a Russian, I’ll say that all those problems that were on the video have always been in the history of Russia, and this did not lead to the complete disappearance of the state (plus, the fact that there are a huge number of revenge-seekers in Russian society) and experts who remained from the time of the Soviet Union who can describe in more detail about Russian society and why Russia will NOT fall apart or disappear (compared to overseas experts who actually do not understand anything about Russia)

[@TedShatner10]

But now their economy, military, and population arguably cannot absorb Russia's next collapse like in '17 and '91.

[@TedShatner10]

Russia's arguably been in decline as a great power since the Russo-Japanese War (and had maybe even sowed the seeds of its destruction even further back with the Crimean War).

[@dallas9397]

I hope your country becomes great again. It truly is tragic how much suffering the Russian people have gone through during the past century.

[@Projolo]

@@dallas9397 Russia is special most nations have cycles of prosperity and misery but Russia is a continual spiral of just misery

[@TheNorthernDane]

The correct word for the "revenge seekers" is revanchists

[@ShamanMcLamie]

It's a huge misconception that Russia had no industry by World War I. Russia was industrializing rapidly just prior to the war. The big problem Russia faced was that it couldn't easily retool that industry to support a war effort. So a factory that made tools couldn't easily be converted into making guns. Most of this industry was wiped out during the Russian Civil War and then the Soviets understanding the need for a strong industry rapidly, but more importantly forced industrialization. Which along with the prior wars collapsed Russia's birthrate and killed millions.

[@georgyekimov4577]

also they mobilized in record times wich surprised the germans forcing them to withdraw A LOT of their forces from the western front but it also was made extremely hap haphardeos wich made the army qutte inefficient

[@bagrat6085]

The link of a collapsing birthrate to industrialization is kinda shaky in this context as the obvious answer as to why people stopped having kids around the late 80s is the ridiculous poverty caused by the botched market transition

[@georgyekimov4577]

@@bagrat6085 yes in the 2010s or 2000s people were living more or less well before the moth decided to annex some stuff and oh wonder the birthrate was above the deathrate

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

The soviet union was led by hebrews. We goyim are just cattle to them

[@plasmakitten4261]

I mean people generally have that perception because they assume there has to be some reason why Russia's massive numerical advantage didnt count for more in WW1 but the reality of that is just that their military doctrine was incredibly horrifyingly terrible in the context of industrialized total war.

[@zrentshian9346]

Clearly not propaganda

[@hyperbreath]

Bias maybe but propaganda isn’t the case also most things that was talked about are true about Russia

[@darth_fyodor]

Man this is all good and logical but it shows that you've never been to Russia and you probably don't really understand how it works. By Russia I don't mean Moscow and Saint P, I mean the rest of it. This country will Never Die. And I don't mean it in any heroic/patriotic/propaganda-oriented way, there is no emotion in it. Throughout history Russia got beaten, partially conquered, decimated, mutilated, thrown into the moral nothingness of capytalistic world after the fall of USSR, and is still here. It's just a fact. Hard to argue with. Now Russia is going through yet another dark phase of its existence. That's also a fact. And imo it's not even the darkest part of this phase at the moment. But will it die as a country? I don't think so. It will drastically change though, that's for sure.

[@NEFR-ON]

Каждый раз Россия перерождается, но остаётся Россией и даёт врагам пиздюлей. Every time Russia is reborn, but it remains Russia and gives the enemies a pussy.

[@sharoyveduchi]

KZbin recommended this to me so I'm just going to say I disagree. This comment probably won't be visible but I will still write it. People who think Russia will collapse are willfully ignorant that Iran also exists and has been under economic sanctions for much longer than Russia and has been much more isolated than Russia and had much less industry than Russia. Iran still stands and Iran won't collapse anytime soon. The same can be said for Russia.

[@ambassadorofbadtaste]

Writing a reply simply to show that this comment isn't invisible

[@Isaac-mc6er]

So true

[@pommefullplus15]

I partialy agree because iran doesn't have Russia's demografic problems

[@Izual001]

Not to mention European countries still make backdoor deals with Russia despite the sanctions. It's all circus and lip service. This is one of thosewishful thinking videos that will age like milk.

[@alyasVictorio]

The Russia won't collapse but USA will (due to its large portions of evil Americans in comparison to Good Americans based on how many Twitter dorks are) due to their disrespect to other nation's culture, 2 side of the same coin (both woke and anti-woke), dystopian collapse of AAA industry (both gaming and entertainment), and the capitalism that motivated greediness that cause poverty (so greedy people are the main cause of the creation of all the crimes existed)

[@alexsandrsilionov7866]

Ah 😅 This aged well didn't it

[@gzegoshbreshtashikevich]

Watch, they collapse any second now... Aaaany second now....

[@techtical7079]

I like how you people see a video explaining why Russia is a sad shithole and why it will not last. And then promptly forget that the Soviet Union died in very similar circumstances and it took a decade.

[@gzegoshbreshtashikevich]

@@techtical7079 Aaaaааааааааааааааааааааааааааааааааааааааny second now....

[@debater452]

​@@gzegoshbreshtashikevichIt's only been a year

[@deadpusik]

​@@techtical7079Forgot to mention that I would be able to finally leave my 5 room apartment to live in a cardboard house bought on a mortgage for 200 thousand dollars that will fall apart if I breath to hard, I wish I could taste the Starbucks soy milk grand latte for 40 bucks and if I stabbed my toe and went to the doctor having to pay amount equal to buying a car would be awesome. So sad that my authoritarian regime won't let me see what life in a first world country is like😢

[@uzbeenvalve396]

​​@@debater452 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaany second now......

[@harrisonofcolorado8886]

I find it super cool that you use animals to show countries, like how Russia is a bear, America is a buffalo (or bison, I can't tell the difference), Greece is a dolphin, Turkiye is a cat, Spain is a bull, Germany is a eagle, Norway and Sweden are both moose, etc, etc.

[@Sam_Sam2]

Buffalo is the same as bison

[@kiraflash4596]

And Romania as a bat! 😂

[@IgorPetruk1989]

Is Ukraine honey-badger? )))

[@alejandroreyna5952]

USA should have been a Bald Eagle

[@thelittleredhairedgirlfrom6527]

@@Sam_Sam2 Bison. American Buffalo aren’t real buffalo, they’re bison

[@tsetserlegch]

What im ultimately the most scared of is Russia getting backed into a corner and "forced" to bring in the nukes. I'm from Finland but I'm just worried for other countries, including Russia, as i am for my own. I don't want any innocent people from either side to die

[@margarine3844]

it will be bad for everyone.there is no bad nation, there are bad people. And wishing someone dead is very low thing.

[@medivhtheguardian9297]

I am from Russia and the fact that my country will collapse is worse than a nuclear war, because the history of my country is so great that I cannot believe that it will end like this. I hope that after the Ukrainian war my people will not be split and we will finally bring ourselves freedom, prosperity and unity. #NoPutin #FreeNavalny #FreeTheRussia

[@schwinkle716]

@@medivhtheguardian9297 Если Россия и развалиться, то полностью она не исчезнет. Максимум, исчезнет федерация.

[@medivhtheguardian9297]

@@schwinkle716 по мнению Ходорковского, будет необходимо переучреждение государства

[@KenLinx]

Well worry not as Russia won’t ever instigate a nuclear war. Russia’s main priority right now is to stay afloat and starting a nuclear war against the world would be counterintuitive and is the last thing they would want.

[@miguellama7618]

when you go so far in strategizing for a country that you go into considering a post-apocalyptic scenario

[@juliuspavilovskis4862]

Fallout IRL baby!!!

[@na-dt5pw]

"my life is like a video game" moment

[@juliuspavilovskis4862]

@Text Reader then I hope that its Metro Exodus then

[@Mark-tb2oz]

@Text Reader ironically Metro 2033 was made by ukrainian developers

[@def3ndr887]

@@Mark-tb2oz they planned it didn’t they XD

[@ГерцогОгурченый]

Ну че, мы уже померли?

[@macaroni9496]

Yeah kinda

[@blackbuster382]

no@@macaroni9496

[@architech007]

щеневмерли ещё братан

[@ГерцогОгурченый]

@@architech007 бля ждём получается

[@has1k_yt]

Еще не вмерли

[@ARES-zf5fz]

While I do respect your opinion and analysis, let’s not forget how Poland was wiped out of existence for more than a century and still existed. Countries are not broken so easily, it’s the people and its heritage that make it live forever.

[@alinalexandru2466]

Well yes, but are Russians really unified the same way that Poles were? The Chechen wars kinda say otherwise. Note that the video doesn't exactly say that Russia will cease to exist altogether, rather that Russia in its current state will die, with various regions with different cultures and peoples breaking away.

[@deanfirnatine7814]

Got to have babies so there IS a next generation to come back

[@sadeksama5057]

When was Poland wiped out of existence for more than a century? Who occupied them?

[@alinalexandru2466]

@@sadeksama5057 really dude?

[@sadeksama5057]

@@alinalexandru2466 yea I'm not European I know the USSR and Germany both occupied Poland during ww2 Then the USSR had alot of influence on them afterwards

[@originalpost1925]

Honestly, I feel like Russia won't die or collapse; Russia as a nation has gone through much worse in its history and still prevailed, so I think Russia totally collapsing is sort of un-likely.

[@immalogg1642]

I would not say they have prevailed in any regard. They have limped along.

[@Apogee012]

hope the prevailed you mean here isn't related to being victorious, as @Log said, they have barely been keeping up.

[@redrevise4668]

At 13:06, he kinda made a argument for it. The one huge factor to why the Russian Empire/USSR were able to go through such terrible events is due to their population. Now if you said USSR or Russian Empire, then you are correct, they would somehow survive through what modern 2022 Russia is experiencing. But Russia is not USSR or Russian Empire. They lost all their buffer states, their population, and everything else h0ser explain in the video.

[@pablodelsegundo9502]

You're right- it'll explode. There'll be an ethnic Russian core west of the Urals, though, indefinitely.

[@jamesgarner327]

@@pablodelsegundo9502 Both east and west of the Ural, both sides are mainly made up of ethnic russians.

[@yum8666]

Man I apreciate you educating us young people in an engaging way. A lot of people that try to "teach" us modern-day politics take advantage of us newbs and our naivety by swaying us to one side of thinking or another through exaggeration, fabrication, or straight up propaganda. You coulda easily said Putin bad, or Nato bad, and most of us woulda belived you. But for at least the most part you keep it real man.

[@2912sweetiepie]

It's funny u say that bc they still do that. The only difference in this case is that they're using well researched data, geography and history, and taking them to present overly exaggerated opinions that should not be taken as factually accurate! The research is good but the conclusions are seriously flawed (such as they're main point that Russia will see a significant decline or vanish in 20 or so years). Not to mention they literally called Putin "evil" in the video.

[@yum8666]

@@2912sweetiepie Fair enough clear bias does show through in areas. But it could be a lot worse.

[@carlosdumbratzen6332]

@@2912sweetiepie you wish lol. The simplification of complex historical matters in his videos is honestly pretty concerning. Dumbing down history to simple factors of cause and effect (like industrialisation means birthrate collapse) leads you down a path of blindness towards contingencies. And history is full of contingencies. Though I must agree that the animals are cute :3

[@carlosdumbratzen6332]

@@davidmontgomery1442 i mean there are thinkers, who had a deterministic world view, but still thought the only way to deal with inevitable decline is to fight against it (best example is Oswald Spengler). Obviously one has to ask why a situation, where a Putin can act like this, happens in the first place. But we ask this to prevent something similar to happen again and that is only possible if we accept contingencies as part of history.

[@cavaleermountaineer3839]

He just goes into depth. Do that with anything and eventually you will arrive at the truth. His style/delivery tho is all time great narrative.

[@he11walker]

Славянский зажим яйцами

[@badgames7109]

Yes

[@mainmeasurement4388]

Славяне-это потомки сарматов, тюрок и монголов. Они не европейцы.

[@ZzzRUS42069]

fr

[@lucianoosorio5942]

“How many dictators does it take to turn an empire into a Union of ruinous states? It’s a disgrace what you did to your own people.” Rasputin

[@elkeking3940]

Anyone who ever sold you pierogi? Shot! - Joseph Stalin

[@helast3916]

@@elkeking3940 “we have only to kick the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down” -hitler on the ussr

[@hoticeparty]

@@helast3916 How did hitler manage to get on the USSR? And who will get him down??

[@aiworldvn]

Interesting video! Can you give me your comment about my channel? Thank everyone

[@wazkangz955]

“One time in freezing cold, my comrades and I try heroin; no effect.” -Joseph Stalin

[@clray123]

The video already starts with a lie. Ukraine is not some "tiny little" country resisting a huge aggressor. It already had the biggest military in Europe before the war. And of course it got endless financing of the entire NATO once the war started. Without such external global support, Ukraine would have indeed already collapsed seven times over.

[@turtleneck369]

sadly 😢 i think it might even so numbers Russia has too many numbers

[@tipisaro1889]

@@turtleneck369 ахахаххахах а чё в украинке то мобилизация круглосуточная а у нас нет?

[@turtleneck369]

i just said Russian have more people to mobilize and send to war than Ukraine it has multiple times higher population @@tipisaro1889

[@d-zed9567]

​@@tipisaro1889Потому что Россия своих людей на убой не бросает как это делает украина с её контрнаступом

[@paulwilson8061]

@@turtleneck369 mobilization in russia lasted for 48 days in the fall 2022. Ukraine’s mobilization has been lasting for 2 years already and getting harder and harder.

[@DarthBiomech]

If Russia didn't fractured in the 90s, where people were literally dying to famine and criminal gangs roaming the streets with AKs, what would make it fracture _now?_ Most of the regions have more to lose by becoming independant than to gain.

[@shorewall]

Russian People are disappearing. How does Russia survive the Russian People? Are Russians going to come back from abroad? Are other people going to migrate to Russia and become Russified? That's what people mean. As long as there are Russians, Russia will survive. But the Russians are disappearing.

[@DarthBiomech]

@@shorewall To dissappear in just a couple decades they'll need nothing short of a retaliatory genocide.

[@MrToradragon]

Psychology, the ghosts of the past were still too strong in 90's. But now it is 30 years and you have 1-1.5 generations that does not remember USSR and KGB. That can be something that will make it disintegrate.

[@090giver090]

It did fracture. USSR (basically Russia in other name) lost its the most predominantly non-Russian frontiers and had experienced severe bout of separatism in Caucasus region. Not to mention it had to federalise to check separatism of the region (ever wondered why regions like Tatarstan, Baskiria or Yakutia are being called Republics with their own Presidents and constitutions instead of Coverners like in every other oblasts?).

[@dekippiesip]

The Caucasus definately. Putin had to use a lot of force just to hold on to that area. I think it would be the first ethnic minority region to be lost if things got bad in Russia. I don't know about all these other ethnic minority regions though. I haven't heard of major insurgencies or independents movements in Siberia or close to, say, Kazachstan. They seem more friendly and accepting of their Russian identity, and perhaps these regions are just too sparsely populated to be viable countries in their own right.

[@ИванИванов-й8у8е]

щасщасщас уже умрём пацаны, зуб даю, hoser врать не будет

[@OILAnsvver]

Твёрдо и чётко

[@dinodonut5776]

People have been pointing out these problems for literally centuries. Germany in both world wars thought they could “kick down the door and bring down the whole rotten structure”. These problems severely harm any efforts to become a modern industrialized economy and Russian society and governance is totally corrupt but by no means is it in danger of not existing. The secessionist threat is also not really that big. Yes “only” 75% of Russia is Russian but there is no ethnic group near big enough to actually plausibly ever succeed in full secession. Look at what happened to Grozny. Russia would rather and absolutely will simply level a city before letting it leave their grasp. If anything, all this corruption and isolation only strengths Russian cohesion. When all of the west is against Russia, it makes it very easy to unify Russians under the banner of “us vs them”.

[@MrAlepedroza]

Did you even pay attention to the video? Things have completely changed and Russia no longer has the population edge nor the impetus to retain its once imperial power. Seeing how inept the russian army is, how ethnic russians are quickly aging and dying out sand how quickly the West will jump in to weaken the Kremlin, secession as a possibility can only increase. These young Chechens who were kids during the war are now becoming fathers. The turkic folks may eventually decide to team with China. Things have changed completely.

[@michaeldavison9808]

Absolutely. Russia DOES have many problems, which is why it is so underpopulated, poor and backward. But that doesn't mean it will cease to exist and more than other countries with problems. Personally I don't want to live in a country run by kleptocrats, with a male life expectancy of 58, endemic unemployment, a per capita GDP like Chile and Equatorial Guinea - where even that money is all siphoned off by the Oligarchs for their super yachts.... But no doubt Russia will continue indefinitely as a backward country with a rose-tinted view of its past and undeserved optimism about its future.

[@jacobp.2024]

Leave it to a Kremlin bot to say corruption is their strength.

[@pratyushdam1]

N Korea also functions this way. That does not mean it is a relevant international player.

[@shawnv123]

@@pratyushdam1 russia and north korea both use these tactics but the reason why north korea is irrelevant is cause it’s tiny as hell russia is just that big

[@Quickshot0]

I guess to an extent the problem here is that Russian leadership wants to continue Russia along at some what of a same stature level as before, while of course also becoming rich off of it. Excessive pride and greed are common themes before major disasters. Of course this also indicates a way Russia could get out of it, 'if' it were capable of such a reform. Which is to limit its ambitions and greed, to invest more in the country while for instance aligning with other entities and accept it isn't able to do everything on its own any more. In such a case a realistic policy could be made and the country could survive and the people could even become substantially more wealthy. It's the kind of adjustment the various European nations to their West made, at times with great difficulty, but when done successfully gave them a new window to a future. Still, that's a pretty big 'if', is Russia at the moment capable of reinventing itself?

[@milanvitu3963]

even economic or politics cant fix a people who lost in ugly citys, nihilism, abuse, alcoholism, mass abortion of children (population decline)...but the west is maby less then 100 years from same issues.

[@HK-gm8pe]

I have advice toRussia....maybe they should try to get along with its neigbours? And not threaten us with war all the time would be nice aswell....we have tried to getalong with Russia but Putin simply makes it impossible, also Russia held soo many countries captive for sooo long...its no miracle that everyone inhere hates Russia

[@redwoodpartisan2433]

Russia is a land of Hail Marys. They always seem to defy the odds, defy every expectation of dying. Peter the Great RAPIDLY advanced Russia within a generation, Stalin made it from a civil war ridden country to the second superpower, either Russia dies or they somehow against all odds throw a successful Hail Mary pass. I’ll eat my underwear if they actually manage to reform somehow

[@b7076-y7x]

The key word(s) here is "reinvent itself"

[@MrTigracho]

Well, they could gain some help from China, but that can only help so much as their core political and social problems still persist.

[@retrodragonfigther7729]

The "soviet car" in the video was actually an east german manufactured Trabant, which while not pretty fast and luxourious, is absurdly reliable and robust

[@TacticalAnt420]

My French teacher’s first car was a soviet model. It was always broken due to its age but repairs were easy and cheap so it was very useful for him when he was younger.

[@nukegamer5750]

Not with it´s two stroke and plastic body. Even though I like Trabant myself, it was a nightmare of a car even when it comes to it´s reliability

[@Schwupsdupsbeepboop]

Trabant is not a car, it's a lifestyle😎😎 ...of eternal suffering and torture by the own government who ought to keep you happy and alive, who knows everything about you, sometimes more than you do. But Trabante are cool

[@aleksejkolomenskih]

One question... What is RIGHT about this video?

[@magnvss]

Some points to consider: 1) The perestroika tried (in a clumsy way) to fix the incredibly inefficient and centralized decaying economy and system of the communist regime, the Soviet Union was already crumbling, perestroika or not. 2) Ukraine has found huge deposits of oil and gas that can easily replace those of Russia: that, paired with its turn towards the West, made the invasion more than likely. Ukraine population is also quite aged with its younger people working abroad, is wasn't that much of a population gain (though obviously it would have helped). 3) Nuclear weapons are very costly to upkeep and maintain: their mythical huge numbers are to be taken seriously but with a grain of salt, it's not like they can be dismissed but you have to wonder how many of those thousands of nukes are operative, what is a state secret and could be quite low. 4) The population collapse is a shared problems with all developed nations, no one is safe. But Russia again, it privates Russia of its traditional strength of solving problems (send big numbers to die) and without it, it won't be able to maintain such bloated borders. Ukraine may be its last "just send thousands to die" strategy, yet they are not taking the big cities' youth for fear of a political revolt.

[@genghiskhan5701]

Another thing to consider is that among the developed nations facing a demographic crisis, it is said only the United States has the most good-ish demographics that can produce a good enough population of young people thanks in part to how the US population is more religiously conservative(the Mormons are literally carrying the US fertility rates)

[@luissimental6302]

@@genghiskhan5701 not really the Mexicans carry the fertility rate if not even higher than average lol

[@hlibushok]

@@luissimental6302 It's not a developed nation. It's developing, with rising demographics.

[@Carewolf]

Also nukes have a half-life of 20 years. They need to be updated and replaced regularly or they turn into duds. At least half of the nuclear bombs in the Russian arsenal are already duds by conservative estimates, some say 3/4.

[@andred7684]

The US has a huge influx of immigration. People are still buying the American dreams, despite its flaws. The USA still has one of the best if not the best universities out there plus they're a highly innovative country although it's healthcare system is simply trash

[@YotaGym]

Блин, так тажко, оказывается мы умираем. Стране ещё 40 лет нет, а уже умерли. Мечтайте

[@GreenBaldrick]

So, any update? Is Russia dead already?

[@HawkThunder907]

„Collapse“ I didn’t see any collapse when I went there. Sure it looks depressing, but which post Soviet country has no depressing places?

[@engineerenginering8633]

Russia can't even keep it's own citizens warm.

[@ushapedcurve3831]

I remember, when I was young Russian graduate I could not afford to purchase my own apparent, to get married, and have kids. You need money to do all these investments in the country-s future. All the jobs available are bad low paying jobs. And I understood that I was not stupid, I was not lazy. I have no future, the whole country has no future, because all married couples I know have one kid for M + W.

[@Master_dreadeye]

It was like in America the woman were so easy it's like they don't have any men there.

[@Master_dreadeye]

​Funny how it's America collapsing an Russia is now destroying nato@@engineerenginering8633

[@uzbeenvalve396]

​@@engineerenginering8633 source is american TV?

[@markini6898]

I absolutely love to return to such videos after a year and wonder why Russia is still alive and kicking, and why its GDP has only grown since the 2022

[@MisterComunist]

You're a genius man.Truth

[@thomasg6916]

All countries grow massively in GDP during war years, but it's a "false" growth. Yes on paper more is being produced when counted. But what's being produced isnt things that the economy needs. Tanks and weapons may inflate the total worth of everything the economy produces but a country does so by producing far less of what the economy actually needs and digging into its cash reserves or borrowing huge amounts. And there is a limit to how long an economy can keep this up.

[@Notlilithsbitch]

@@thomasg6916the key thing to note though is that Russia has mobilized their civilian industries into the war effort meaning that it is undeniable that their arms industry has surged during this conflict

[@Masterchief_Tito]

Average ruskie fanboy

[@MisterComunist]

​@@Masterchief_Tito I m not a fanboy , I m a patriot

[@Tork789]

This guy studied Russian history in a McDonalds parking lot, using memes as the primary source and filling up the gaps with whatever he could pull from his ass.

[@tonylife94]

nice copium

[@tonylife94]

@@Orbitalresonancefrequencies ok

[@mpc7440]

@@OrbitalresonancefrequenciesNo Crimea?

[@horatiuscocles8052]

@@Orbitalresonancefrequencies Wonder how long will you people keep talking about Russia' collapse when the war is over and Ukraine is gone.

[@Maestro-ee4rj]

Watching this from Russia. Having a great laugh. Nice fanfiction, bro.

[@mikekekim]

Cope

[@MrGleboPedo]

@@mikekekimdon’t tell Russian what to do, Yankee 😉

[@nam3less14]

@@mikekekimIf Ukraine losses the war against Russia, it’s simply because the west allowed Russia to win. -soyboys at infographics show

[@kerikplay1692]

Значит, видимо некоторый тебе подобный пипл у нас живёт в параллельной реальности. Вполне нормальные были приведены в видео аргументы, но принять их некоторым горе-патриотам сложно.

[@deadpusik]

​@@kerikplay1692ну бля хуй знает, ежедневно выкатывают подобные видосы и ничего не происходит. Аргументы из видео применимы к любому моменту истории России. Жизнь не стала хуже, самое странное что случилось так это пожар на складе доставки откуда пожарным удалось спасти здоровый дилдо.

[@acl6615]

Im sure he's going to delete this video when the war is over. lmfao

[@patricklindberg6851]

Я вернусь к этому видео через 20 лет и тогда узнаю, кто ты на самом деле

[@pooq6611]

Скорее всего подобное послание станет явью в других странах😄

[@КириллТрифонов-е5ф]

At first I was kinda sceptical about this video because of the tytle. But after I watched it I can't do anything but agree with it only giving little corrections. It's very hard nowadays finding a video about Russia on English KZbin that's not just saying "the Russians are badies cuz Putin😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬" and actually talks about our real problems and reasons behind our aggression. It's sad to realise how dark our possible future. And no one will help us. Even more, after the last events all the strongest governments will probably do everything for our collapse

[@BlueHawkPictures17]

Maybe Estonia and Finalnd should invade and take St. Petersburg to improve their borders too.

[@Eletruun]

@@BlueHawkPictures17 russia still has nukes and using them against a army invading your territory is valid …

[@Abcdefgpseudonim]

Maybe you will also pay Ukraine some reparations before going down, and don’t forget that Ichkeria is an independent state

[@Bister_Mungle]

@@Eletruun You really think the commenter above is partial to being vaporized for his country's goverment and their choices?

[@alexsilent5603]

@@Eletruun There is no invalid use of nukes, especially against Estonian and Finnish regimes.

[@arnoldmbuthia2687]

Russia GDP increased by 4.9% in Q2 2023. This video kinda aged like milk.

[@w1pa123]

Can you source that?

[@techtical7079]

According to Russian sources eh?, which are known to be as full of shit as can be. Russia's economy under no circumstances has had the capacity to grow, it's a petro state that exported and imported almost everything it has from Europe, which it has now been cut off from. Russia's infrastructure for energy trade with China is almost non-existent when compared to Europe so it's impossible that they could make up for their losses there. In short, waging a costly war with a declining populace, being politically and economically isolated, being cut off from almost all of their major export sources. Russia also imported almost all of their heavy machinery, parts, medicine and electronics from Europe. And that does add to their certain economic decline. Any data that Russia gives off is complete bullshit.

[@gendalfgray7889]

@@w1pa123 by that he repeated words of russian propaganda. Russia opened war factories where tanks fresh from conveyer belt go to ukraine to die miserably commiting nothing to economy but look nice in excel spreadsheet.

[@dan-bz7dz]

@@gendalfgray7889 Not Russian propaganda, facts. Russia's economy is growing. And not collapsing due to sanctions they told us would happen. Cope more.

[@Eric0225]

@@gendalfgray7889 You can literally google it lol, even Wikipedia said it lol

[@v.k.8153]

Everyone loves throwing shade at the small apartments, but the USSR, for all its flaws, at least managed to build housing for everybody.

[@BuiltSimilarG]

Not fully everybody and that’s the case for a lot of nations too

[@yeetus_feetus8564]

Well the USA also has enough housing for everyone ... But not wveryone can afford one

[@dete31]

yeah at least it didn't have millions of homeless people

[@niio111]

There was a years long waiting list for housing unless you were a superior.

[@Kartez228]

@Free Man Че еще скажешь?

[@m4rkscott]

I think that one of the reasons for the invasion was the fear that Europe may have started opening up gas and oil fields in Ukraine thus not being reliant on Russian energy for the next 20 years or so whilst the transition to green energy including nuclear and I believe Ukraine has plenty of Uranium as well. It may well be not about what they gain so much as what they may lose, Putin has a history of getting rid of competitors in politics and might be using the same strategy in economics.

[@aoeu256]

Russia wanted to get warm ports like Mariupol and Crimea who were originally part of Russia so that Russia isn't land locked. Most industries require importing things to work (chips, factory parts, etc...) and if Russia had a warm port in Crimea & Mariupol they could develop these industries instead of being dependent on exporting natural resources.

[@hufficag]

@@aoeu256 Or they could just keep the peace with other countries and ship using rail cars from those ports, like everyone else who relies on globalization and trade for their economy. Other countries also need peace to maintain an economy.

[@NAT-turners-Revenge]

@@hufficag precisely but this is Putin we're talking about.... he wanted to reabsorb it via intimidation

[@jesse76th96]

It's definitely priority #1 for Russia to remain the dominant exporter of oil to Europe. Without oil money the government will collapse because they don't really export anything else except smart Russians avoiding conscription

[@qefewfwdcwdc]

@@aoeu256 ah yes port in crimea will spawn a chip factory. okey buddy 🤣🤣🤣

[@Avaricumstudios]

This isn't even close to the worse crisis Russia has experienced....Russia has experienced the mongols, Napoleon, Sweden, The ottomans, Napoleon, devastating ww1 and an even more devastating civil war ,followed by a terrible ww2 ....and it still stood so...

[@GeReapeters]

They experienced Napoleon twice?

[@debater452]

Times have changed

[@A-G-F-]

A country collapsing dosent mean its gonna dissapear. Russia had their fair share of famines and crisis.

[@stalker2011mixa]

This video is a great example that people who lives outside Russia shoudnt speculate in that bold way about it... Even experts who understand much more and have an access to some more advanced info are not that sure (if it is not for propaganda of course) about this kinda process. I dont really need much to say about because after some time we will see how it goes.

[@Ma3str0TheRussian]

Honestly, life there didn't even change much.

[@-kenjo-421]

Its crazy how he said that this the "last nail in the coffin" for russia as a country, while it gave more opportunities for development and boosted the production inside the country, gave second life to the technologies which were abandoned after ussr collapse, globally it shaked the dollar world trade dominance and made BRICS new rising powerful alliance

[@reddix435]

There are sober people outside of Russia. But Russians have to cope with vodka. Russians are the greatest - but only as drunkards. Russian famous soul and culture is only vodka. What will you see what you can`t see now? There is no hope for you. Drink your vodka.

[@haxeplays9962]

@@-kenjo-421 yeah, and the most hilarious line is "russia's economic in free fall since 1991" lmao

[@runningoutofnames3CS]

@@-kenjo-421BRICS ain’t shit 💀

[@shayk4791]

One other thing to note: Ukraine also has a ton of natural gas reserves which if fully exploited can undermine Russia's energy monopoly in the EU.

[@zdspider6778]

Exactly. That's why they need to retake those regions, establish pipelines and sell them to the UE and use that money to rebuild their entire nation. So many people died because of this... In 2011 independent surveys found there to be _three times_ more oil and gas reserves in Ukraine than in Norway (a country which became VERY rich in the last few decades by exporting those resources to other countries). Putler's eyes lit up. That's why Crimea was illegally annexed soon after (in 2014). It holds the most resources of oil along the Black Sea. This war is about money.

[@phillipholland6795]

@@zdspider6778 And Crimea always was a part of Russia, and was handed over to Ukraine as a technicality during Soviet days.

[@philippinekatipunanflag4372]

@@phillipholland6795 yeah ukraine is just supposedly used as a fake country by the Soviets to get votes in UN look.how it backfired

[@sqly3129]

@@phillipholland6795 yes, but it was still anexed illegaly

[@hellothere1656]

@@phillipholland6795 No. Crimea was invaded by the Russian Empire in 1783. The Crimean Tatars who lived there were brutally massacred and deported in order to fill the place with Russian settlers.

[@baronvonjo1929]

I find it hard to believe any politican can plan this far ahead. Or even care.

[@AthenaTennosN]

Congratulations, you win this comment section.

[@alfatazer_8991]

Politicians can't avoid geopolitical realities.

[@georgyekimov4577]

these really arent the terms putin thinks in his popularity was plumeting so he needed something to boost that. he cant cheat the system again last time he tried the backlash and it would be even bigger this time. was massive he also cant retire because his system is build on him being the presidet and being essentially an autocrat there is a high probability he will be prosecuted within a year of his retirement so he needs extra rights in persecuting his political opponents and keeping people down and scared also he needs a popularity boost and the easiest way to get one is a small sucsessfull war he thinks of ukraine as a failed state that will approach him with no hesitation because this is what he was fed byhis inner circle for years now

[@dan-bz7dz]

@nicholasdarrylh.9062 The opposite is true. When you have term limits the politician only cares what happens during their term. And the referendum Russia held was to impose term limits, not remove them. Before Putin and Medevev alternated each term. The change of the constitution removed that loophole.

[@index1937]

1. Russia is not even in 30 countries on alcohol consumption. Just write "List of countries by alcohol consumption per 2023" and you will see that Russia overtake countries such as Germany - 3rd place, Ireland - 5th place, Spain - 6th place, Luxembourg - 9th place, France - 13th place, Austria - 18th place, UK - 20th place, Switzerland - place 21th place, I can go on for a long time, but Russia is ranked 32nd and the United States is ranked 38th. 2. The author shows statistics up to 2010, it’s like showing United States statistics for 1939 when there are already 1953. 3. To say that Russia will disintegrate because it once had problems is like saying that China will disintegrate because it had the greatest famine in human history. 4. Almost all that Russia trades are minerals that come through pipelines, and Russia doesn’t need the seas to sell them, the war in Ukraine started because Putin needed a "little victorious war" to win the presidential election in 2024. 5. Pakistan has more people than Russia and Russia has more people than Germany. 6. Russia cannot break up because of wars, nor can America break up because of Biden. Conclusion: bro leave Ukraine💀

[@debater452]

Your average Russian can't afford as much alcohol and a far larger % percent of the Russian population drinks. Russia needs to export these materials to have an economy. Russia's demographics and economy has gotten much worse, since 2010. Germany isn't the largest country on the planet.

[@index1937]

@@debater452 1. I can not insert a full link to statistics so most likely KZbin will accept my comment as spam and remove it, so just write in Google "List of countries by alcohol consumption per 2024 datapandas", I used this source to collect information, But even if you use a different source, the statistics won’t change much. 2. I literally wrote "Almost all that Russia trades are minerals that come through pipelines, and Russia doesn’t need the seas to sell them® to explain that Russia took Crimea not to come to the sea for trade. 3. I did not say that the performance of Russia deteriorated or improved, I said "The author shows statistics up to 2010" 14 years have passed this statistics can be thrown into the garbage. 4. I gave Germany as an example because it is a more developed country than Russia, although Russia has a larger population than Germany, I made this comparison to show that the numerist of the population does not matter. bro💀

[@barbadolid5170]

Well, you aren't the first guy in history to make this assumption. The idea of "the death of Russia" is like "the conquest of Afghanistan" or "the Prohibition (in the US)".

[@enclavehardin586]

Watch as 20 years later Russia is still around

[@TerraNova407]

Watch 300 years later Dollar is still around 🤣

[@aquinoloayza8822]

This is such an american view point lol

[@DarthVader999-0]

Bro he's Canadian, NOT American 💀 (And…. No, Americans and Canadians are nothing Alike.)

[@alexanderrevan4478]

@@DarthVader999-0 living in Canada, what a poor guy...

[@PepsiVor]

Россия вот-вот развалится, вот прям уже почти, вот-вот, щас уже 2-3 месяца, 3-4 дня, вот почти уже совсем, немножко осталось, щас после контрнаступа уж точно развалится. 10 лет это слышу

[@Vavilon77777]

Да ты подожди. Сказали же, скоро. :)

[@smoothjazz2143]

Russia was the 6th most industrialized country in the world by 1914, the Soviets didnt kick started Russia's industrialization as it is often assumed, but they sped it up.

[@TheChewman2001]

the ussr and the russian empire really were night and day in terms of industrialization. russian was semi-feudal in 1914.

[@benismann]

to be completely fair, "5th most industrialised" is by sheer number of factories or something, probably not by something per X ppl. Still mean to exclude that russian empire in the last 15 ish years of it's existance did, altho slowly, develop some industries

[@mainmeasurement4388]

​@@TheChewman2001-Нет. Просто Российская Империя фактически была колонией Германии. Русские была "рабами" и слугами в этой "империи". В 1917-м году население России скинуло европейское рабство и попало в "красное рабство", во главе в евреями, которые устроили русским геноцид. В 1993 году после развала СССР, на бывшей территории "России" наступило "Американское/Западное рабство", продолжающееся до сих пор...Неужели вы до сих пор этого не поняли? Это так трудно узнать?

[@mainmeasurement4388]

​@@TheChewman2001- Русские-это феодальный "рабский" народ.

[@reverendnon5959]

Wrong. Just wrong

[@crovat5218]

As a russian, absolutely not.

[@raysonproduction6164]

мы это с 14 года слушаем,но это как всегда оказывается очередной фантазией

[@jkulb452]

Кто тебя сюда пустил? Владимир Владимирович запретил ютуб

[@foobarbazkarabas]

@@jkulb452так это и есть сам вв 😂

[@jurgeeen]

@@jkulb452 похрюкай

[@mikhail7863]

@@jkulb452 а тебе зеля разрешает еще не на фронте быть? скоро заберут пушечным мясом

[@ushapedcurve3831]

Я думаю что если дерево долго гниет, оно рухнет рано или поздно. Со страной то же самое. Но это не страшно, люди не исчезнут, и на этом месте будут другие страны. Белгородская Народная Республика, Московское царство, ТЫВА, Татарстан, Якутия, Сахалин, Республика Ичкерия ...

[@alexandrdostoevski]

Funny how your notorious sanctions didnt change my life a bit. The only thing that i noticed in every day life is the absence of coca-cola and no ads on youtube

[@debater452]

"Sure"

[@alexandrdostoevski]

@@debater452 come and see for yourself

[@LapkaKutiapka]

But Cola from Chernogolovka factory is even better then original one!

[@alexandrdostoevski]

@@LapkaKutiapka не, но вот байкал и квас по прежнему есть оригинальная всё равно лучше была

[@LapkaKutiapka]

@@alexandrdostoevski Ну не знаю. Я подсел на Черноголовку и больше не хочу возвращаться к оригинальной. Но у всех разные предпочтения.

[@asdfghjkl-g1j]

> only 3/4 of Russia even russian As russian i can say that it is totally wrong. People always think that some peoples want to be independent only because their nationality is not like major nationality in the country so they are totally different and they want to be independent. For example you may think that yakuts, tatars, belorussians, mordva and many others are not the same with russians. Sounds belivable. But there is one thing. All nationalities that live in russia mostly even identifying themselves as russians in their documents. Ok, some of them really thinking that they are not russans. But that's not means they want to separate: they just understand that they are not looking like russians. As a great argument I can surely say that all not major peoples are talking only on russian and nothing else: many of the not major peoples even have not their own language. For example I know that most tatars and yakuts don't know their own languages at all even if their regions have special free schools with tatar and yakutian languages. All i am trying to say is that thing that all not major nationalities in Russia are totally integrated and assimilated with Russia and russian culture, they don't mind about their own culture just because they have near lost it while they was integrating and assimilating with Russia with peaceful methods without any violence. Even in USSR and even in Russan Empire every tatar assosiated himselve as russian and that's ok. The only nationality that can try to separate today is chehens. They have tried this before and that is why i do not really belive they can do this again. Many things was done scinse 1998 year so they barely have even small amount of nationalism to rise against Russia. I can say also that chechens today are the most effective soldiers on the ukrainian front so i don't think they even want to separate. So even if 1/4 of Russia "is not russian" it is not going to separate. It is literally like the spanish (mexican) people in USA: they are minority but lol most of them are native english speakers and they have not any nationalism at all, they just not have any idea of seperatism to protect because they don't want to have their country and they have no culture to protect and fight for. It is exactly just like the minorities in Russia.

[@fedeonio555]

I agree but Belarus should be a separate nation, and it is on paper know

[@ОлегКондрацкий-э6п]

@@fedeonio555 thats dumb but majority of them thinks that they are brothers with russia and supports war

[@ytgfy]

I wouldn't say that the overwhelming majority of yakuts don't know their language. But i can agree that some yakuts who live in Yakutsk don't speak and don't understand the language. And i believe that this is the fault of their parents, who reject to speak yakutian and speak only russian. Because they believe that the yakutian language is the language of villagers, the mambets. I call it an intra-national chauvinism😂

[@gooldii1]

Zelensky is a Hero! a brave Fighter, while Putitler is an old, ill, impotent , evil Loser! He looks like a Mongol, Wife and Daughters left him, he is a Dictator of a Shitholecountry, a Paria-State!

[@gooldii1]

So, ruSsian Minorities OUTSIDE RuSSia are an Argument for "RuSSki Mir", but INSIDE, the other Minorities must stay still. RuSSki TrollSSki!

[@civotamuaz5781]

Nothing better than a clueless American nerd explaining Russian politics and geopolitics

[@civotamuaz5781]

@@konakona420 ok lucky starboy

[@justinh.7846]

He's Canadian

[@civotamuaz5781]

@@justinh.7846 Is Canada not in America, or did I miss a lesson?

[@MikeHawk-s2g]

@@civotamuaz5781Canada is in North America

[@civotamuaz5781]

@@MikeHawk-s2g Now say that for this Justinh fella to hear

[@cibko]

I live here in Moscow, work in a private company, and I've been hearing about "Russia is about to collapse" for about 30 years now. the situation was much worse in the 90s, now we have a much more robust economy. we still export our stuff well and the GDP actually grew a little since 2022 :) politically here is as stable as ever. the author of the video is so ignorant, it's actually funny :)

[@TacticalAnt420]

I think he massively overlooked how today Russia’s economy depends more on BRICS than on the West. India and China still do trades with Russia. As long as it isn’t completely isolated, it will find partners.

[@CroElectroStile]

yeah, this Chanel is nonsense encapsulated, some of his takes on South Africa, Rhodesia and Middle eastern countries is Wikipedia articles made into videos basically.

[@adaml.5355]

Make a video about how great your country is and post it to youtube. Oh wait you're just a state propaganda bot.

[@dmitrymakarov4764]

@@adaml.5355 Does this person have a different opinion from mine? No, it can’t be like that, he’s one hundred percent a bot! Don't forget to wear your tin foil hat.

[@adaml.5355]

@@dmitrymakarov4764 Russia flooding social media is one of the only strategies they have that actually works. Doesn't take a tin foil hat to see through all these random no name accounts spreading propaganda. It just takes a brain. "Politically stable as ever." Lmfao as if there wasn't an attempted coup just months ago. "Export our stuff well." Nearly all imports and exports are blocked by sanctions because Russia is still attempting their failed war.

[@SireMuhammad]

This did not age well

[@debater452]

How

[@thetayz72]

@@debater452 he's on the copium, won't read the writing on the wall for the long term

[@eucaliptusx]

Man, this is 2024 West have become tired of the war, Ukraine is on the verge of the coup (zelensky vs zaluzhny), Russia had a remarkable economic growth previous year and all this with practically no effort from ordinary citizen. The problem is, that foreigners have a very limited perception of what Russia really is. It’s economy is more self-oriented than they think, the inner demand is a key driver of the economy as well as the ease, at which the country is capable of changing its supply chain (like oil exports to India and china, for example) There are many problems (for example problems of huge capital withdrawals by immigrants from former soviet republics that no one mentioned), but these problems are not what may lead to a collapse of the country. Moreover, everyone here remembers scary stories of the collapse of the Union and 90’s, as well as dreadful examples of failed states like Ukraine, Armenia, Tadzhikistan and Moldavia, that nobody wants to repeat it. Even in places like Yakutia (Tyva republic) or Komi republic people of local ethnicity are pro-state and highly unlikely would vote for branching from Russian Federation. That’s because Russian is not something like “German” or “Chinese” or “Latin”: not ethnically-based, but a nation-based

[@blackpoint0075]

​@@eucaliptusxcopium?

[@hughmungus6964]

Russia/Soviet Union did not win WW1. That's just wrong. Search for "Friedensvertrag von Brest-Litowsk" Russia gave up about 1/3 of it's population and 1/4 of it's territory. It was partly restored by the treaty of Versailles. But WW1 was most definitely not a victory for Russia, but rather one of the most humiliating defeats of it's history. Also the war on the eastern front was not some kind of trench warfare.

[@gontrandjojo9747]

Also the Russian military was not so backward in WW1. Sure they suffered some big defeats against much more inferior German troops (in numbers) but they kicked the butts of Austria-Hungary.

[@slingshot7792]

@@gontrandjojo9747 well Austria Hungary was a massive clusterfuck with several soldiers generals speaking different languages, logistics was a complete nightmare and was a total burden on Germany. If they were competent ww1 would’ve been so much scarier for Russia and the allies

[@It-Will-All-Be-Okay-I-Promise]

@@gontrandjojo9747 Austria-Hungary suffered more defeats against its enemies than BULGARIA. If Austria Hungary was even sort of united then Russia would’ve been morbed into the dirt. Austria-Hungary being utterly shit is the only reason Russia wasn’t just completely smushed in the first place, after all.

[@georgyekimov4577]

well "takes out 100 years old cope bottle" russia was fighting a bloody civil war in the worst part of the conflict while the army has forces germany to use far more troops than they expected reliving the allies and forcing the germans to pull out crucial forces at important places like the somes or verdun but this quick and unexpcted mobilisation came at a cost of bad training and a lack of equptment and logistics also the treaty of brest was signed to late because russia was tring to get out of the useless war as soon as possible and this being the main point of communists made a lot of sense but by the time they were entiteled to pullout they it was to late and the germans got to dictate their terms

[@benismann]

@@gontrandjojo9747 not to mention the ottomans

[@Iceberg_Trotsky]

Biased as hell 🤦🏻‍♂️ This is 90% heavily exaggerated

[@nailxbreak6777]

I, as a young Russian, laugh a little, because there are really a lot of people who believe in these naive fantasies. For more than 1000 years, ill-wishers have been hoping that we will perish, but we always cope, this is a pattern.

[@therealestrobert]

🤓

[@HeadsetHatGuy]

​@@therealestrobert🤓

[@therealestrobert]

@@HeadsetHatGuy Henry stickmin pfp Opinion ignored

[@nailxbreak6777]

@@therealestrobert 🤓💻💬"🤓"

[@therealestrobert]

@@yaya_is_real I dont use reddit

[@seanhogan6533]

10:30 , I know this might sound like a good point, but It was actually shocking to conventional Marxist theorists that Russia had a social revolution. It was supposed to happen in the most industrially developed societies: Germany and Britain. What I think people underestimated was: 1.) how rotten the door was to kick through (in regards to the czarist regime) 2.) how few choke points their were in the country to take command and control. The state hadn’t built up the same methods of industrial control in the same way Germany and Britain had. Essentially, capitalism was underdeveloped enough in Russia that it didn’t have the antibodies to prevent a popular socialist uprising

[@relentlessaddict98jm]

Good point Marx envisioned Socialism and then eventually communism rising out of prosperous capitalist nations not going from quasi-Feudalism to state socialism. Socialism was not really intended to solve the production problem imo but the distribustion and exchange problem.

[@zersky495]

Americans trying to teach geopolitics is like a Filipino trying to demonstrate proper skiing methods

[@debater452]

How

[@lemonov3031]

lmao "Russia's economy will collapse in 3 months" type beat

[@OneOfThoseTypes]

We need to declare total economic war on orcland. President Biden needs to declare orcland as a terrorist state, which would force all American businesses to stop doing business with orcland, including all social media. Orcs want to be isolated, so we need to help them kill their own economy.

[@Andrsup]

​@@OneOfThoseTypesamerican democracy's the best in the world😂😂😂

[@OneOfThoseTypes]

@@Andrsup Everybody knows that.

[@AsgardTheFatcel]

Cope. @@OneOfThoseTypes

[@OneOfThoseTypes]

@@AsgardTheFatcel Russians need to show some strength for the first time in history. Doesn't it embarrass you that you have to depend on your enemies? 😂

[@woomicky]

Two years later and this turned out to be a giant load of horseshit lmao

[@Zuiker1]

I mean have you seen the rubble?

[@gfsx3756]

have you seen japanese yenas? @@Zuiker1

[@debater452]

He never said that Russia would collapse in two years

[@dionysos8326]

If anything the last year has told us that the military power of Russia is about comparable to Ukraine supplied with whatever the weapons were not good enough for the US army

[@XTheLolX301]

​@@debater452dosnt seem is going to in that direction tho, they are recovering in terms of economy and aparently they will also win the war after the failling ukranian counter offensige

[@sylviafaix7479]

Russia had never collapsed and will never collapse you can sit down on your couches my American friends :)

[@Occycat]

december 25, 1991 and march 19th, 1917

[@TheBobVova]

@@Occycat So, Russia had disappeared, right?

[@dmitrikulkevicius9161]

@@TheBobVova Getting smaller and smaller.

[@TheBobVova]

@@dmitrikulkevicius9161 So, what?

[@ambassadorofbadtaste]

​@@dmitrikulkevicius9161UK got smaller too. Did it disappear though?

[@AverageWarCrimeEnjoyer]

Looking at this more than a year after this was released This aged about as well as milk

[@ghosts14_2]

Why

[@peekaboo1575]

Aye, Russia will be fine.

[@nosokcat2429]

Hey everyone! I'm Russian Ivan from the Siberian wilderness, I ride a bear to school and drink vodka every day. Ask your questions

[@HowDoU24]

Good analysis, but I wouldn't underestimate Russia, historically they've always had issues like this when invading Ukraine

[@Wladeksk8]

Any Russian against Ukraine conflict you can mention? Oh what it was always the same country

[@mmaksymko]

@@Wladeksk8 1917-1921 war, for example. the ussr invaded Ukraine People's Republic

[@maxym9483]

@@philippinekatipunanflag4372 they were recognized by the German Empire, Austria-Hungaria, Ottomans and all of their allies in WW1. More so, they were even recognized by the soviets, after Germans helped drawing them out of Ukraine but after WW1 ended russians just went back to their imperialist policy.

[@lukesalvidge118]

@@Wladeksk8 u sound like a Russian bot lol

[@ivaN45301]

@@mmaksymko I might be wrong but it wasn't really an invasion, Russia was just helping the Bolshevik party in Ukraine that made a civil war causing the collapse of the Ukraine people's Republic and creating the socialist Ukraine Republic which then joined the USSR.

[@soltpeppah5815]

"Russia has no water based trade routes" holy mother of ignorance

[@he_acdvv]

did you even finish watching the video

[@soltpeppah5815]

@@he_acdvv Yes I laughed at every second of comedy in this video.

[@GreoGreo]

@@soltpeppah5815 True. This video was pure comedy.

[@Light_chel]

It's very funny to look at old videos of bloggers about "how Russia will lose", "Sanctions will destroy them", etc. as soon as the Blogger says that Putin "just like that" invaded, it is already clear that he is not the best historian

[@jamescharles5907]

war is still a stalemate, million + young educated russians fled, hundreds of thousands of dead russians. and you think thats a good result?

[@dimbasz]

​@@jamescharles5907more than a half of that million+ are already returned, and these "hundreds of thousands dead" exist only in Hohol copium fairytales, buddy

[@jamescharles5907]

@@dimbasz ah yes state media said so it is true!!

[@TheBobVova]

@@jamescharles5907 *billions

[@jamescharles5907]

copium @@TheBobVova

[@Namal23]

This Propaganda video didn't age so well. And it has been only one year of 'Ukraine winnings'

[@Losowy]

Then where's that winning russia cuz all I see is stalemate

[@__Bondrewd__]

@@Losowy 🤣🤣🤣Oh, don't you see the decree on the mobilization of women in Ukraine? Live on in your own little world.

[@tendo649]

​@@__Bondrewd__ Mmmm yes small nation has held off big scary world power for two whole years and now mobilizing women, very pathetic (I am being sarcastic obviously) Even if Ukraine looses Russia has lost in the propaganda department. There will be no winners in this war.

[@ОксанаЧернохвостенко]

Why don't you show us that decree? Because it's nowhere to be seen and I live in Ukraine. There are volunteer women in the army@@__Bondrewd__

[@__Bondrewd__]

​@@ОксанаЧернохвостенко № 2664-IX Обязательна постановка женщин на воинский учёт, пол дела. Конечно есть добровольцы , но называйте мобилизованных мобилизованными, а не добровольцами. Коррупцию коррупцией, а не лоббирование.

[@ЕвгенийПрокофьев-у9в]

i'm just tired of some wanna-be historian and politicians whom are talking about a county that they are not even a native speaker. For the past decades western citizens scream for downfall of China, India, Russia yet nothing even close comes to their claims.

[@dmitrikulkevicius9161]

You're one of the people who believed that USSR would not collapse.

[@ЕвгенийПрокофьев-у9в]

@@dmitrikulkevicius9161To you knowledge, i was born long after ussr fell. Every country experiences a downfall, like british, germany, spain. So no surprise there

[@knightlord368]

​@@ЕвгенийПрокофьев-у9вexatly

[@mofik26]

Russia could collapse though. People trying to move out and escape being drafted with ruble slowly collapsing certainly doesn't help. I mean the US dollar is worth 95 rubles currently and it only falls closer and closer to the insane 134 rubles the dollar was worth at the start of a war when Visa and MasterCard shut down.

[@knightlord368]

@@mofik26 i hearing this russia could collapse for months

[@siempeeters5983]

I really wish I wasn't living through major historical events right now.

[@nahrukchan]

I would like to see video about problems in Ukraine from you

[@wiwersewindemer4437]

Eh, I think you're overselling it more than a bit. 1) Russia has historically had an amazing ability to reconstitute itself, to make a very brief and scant summary, fraught with missing details furthering my point, from before the kievan rus, to the muscovites, to the tsardom, to the USSR, to modern Russia. Through Mongols, the time of troubles, the october revolution, and the fall of a superpower. No mean feat. I don't see them losing that ability now. I suppose one could argue that it's been too soon since Russia reinvented itself, but according to your timeline, they'll fall around 200, by which point it'll have been over 50 years since the fall. 2) As said above, you've mentioned 2040 pretty specifically as roughly around the time Russia will collapse once and for all. You know what is projected to happen, also around just then? A good and very much useable arctic canal, through Russian waters, with Russian ports. And given how climate estimates lean towards the hopelessly optimistic, I don't think I'd be remiss in saying it'll likely happen way sooner. This'll both provide Russia the ability to diversify it's economy, and suddenly gain easier access to the world markets. And lastly, I am in no way stanning Russia, I'm a Swede through and through, I've known Russia as the enemy for as long as I can remember, and I'm willing to suffer if it means the Russian state suffers more. This however also means I cannot underestimate them either.

[@shorewall]

In all of history, Russia had a large population. Lots of young people to do things. They don't anymore. For a country to exert power, they need young people to be the workers, the soldiers, the drones. Russia doesn't have that anymore. And they don't have the education to make the people they do have more efficient.

[@mekingtiger9095]

@@shorewall Yeah, even though "death of Russia" seems too overly dramatic to me, there is quite something in modern times that doesn't apply to past centuries that makes everything or a lot different than before that I can't quite point my finger at.

[@DOSFS]

I agreed that Russia wouldn't likely to collasped anytime soon. (They won't allow it to happened no matter that cause) But they clearly headed for age of decline that will take them down from world stage and more focus on themselves (after Ukraine) for a foresable future.

[@al.7744]

2) is it really going to be better if the global market collapses over the climate crisis? Let alone the permafrost grounds in a lot of areas would melt and some habitable areas might cease to exist. Also fishing would stop because of marine death and farming areas would face drought. They are naive if they think they would experience the climate crisis positively. By the way the breakdown of Russia should not in my opinion be viewed positively. Whether nuclear materials would be kept safely or not the very absence of a world farming producer would cause famines and economic collapse to a lot of nations dependent on its products

[@genghiskhan5701]

@@al.7744 What climate crisis? Its warmer during the time of Augustus and both China and Rome were at their peaks then. Not to undersell the negative impacts of a warming climate(as it is with any shift in climate conditions) but the climate doom is just pure bs pushed by people living in beach side properties and flying in private jets to attend climate conferences

[@ДаниилБакулин-щ5д]

Some wet dreams of Western politicians, not an analytical video. I hope you at least get paid for this.

[@stan5899]

На западе про авторов таких видео говорят, что они окончили университет макдональдса или волмарта

[@thebalticpower2301]

No you are wrong, not The West's fault that Russia is doing so bad and Is gonna collapse in the next 10 to 20 years.

[@БенитоМуссолини-р8ц]

​@@thebalticpower2301можно примеры того, как внутри России дела идут плохо иль очередная база от соевых?

[@nickjones4629]

imagine to listen coping young man youtuber who made videos about countryballs and mr beast and now he is getting into geopolitics.

[@Occycat]

this guys channel has always been about politics, plus I think your the one coping

[@TheBobVova]

@@Occycat You don't think.

[@grievetan]

I want to look at your face when Russia will actually collapse. I bet you will be unironically surprised

[@ambassadorofbadtaste]

​​@@grievetanPutin was listeting to this shit for more than 8 years now and he still doesn't give a fuck. Do you *really* think it will ever happen?

[@skywillfindyou]

We hear such things every year for 20 years. Meanwhile Russia getting ready Arctic infrustructure, there are already floating bases within ice. Russia is close to making fuel out of nuclear waste it gathered from EU, next step of energy tech.

[@dmitrikulkevicius9161]

50-60% Of ruZZian gas and oil sales dropped, cope with it vatnik.

[@DanielNotWise]

@@dmitrikulkevicius9161 Link?

[@dmitrikulkevicius9161]

@@DanielNotWise Just google "Russia's oil and gas budget revenue drops"

[@KoKSSaKeR]

​@@dmitrikulkevicius9161yeah another year and counter attack will work hohol you just need another year

[@TheBobVova]

@@dmitrikulkevicius9161 So what?

[@vladzodchey]

This aged like milk

[@Orbitalresonancefrequencies]

Just like when Putin called this a “three day operation” lol of course the economy will grow if you produce weapons. War economies are great for the moment, but look at russias long term prospects, they have none. The copium is strong with you lol

[@hadesium]

​@@Orbitalresonancefrequencieshe literally never said that lmao. It was a american 3 letter agency clown who said that and now westerners are repeating it like they're broken records. 😂

[@AlexC-ou4ju]

Guys its 2023 Europe has frozen to death without Russian gas, the ruble is stronger than ever, Kyiv has fallen Russia has destroyed 6000 Leopards and captured 4 Zelenskyys.

[@debater452]

Russia has also cured Cancer and brought back Dragon ball z Abridged

[@suckersupreme4380]

@@debater452fuck that would be great 🤣

[@NP3GA]

The 4 Zelenskyys was the moment that killed me.

[@ananas_fin161]

Honestly this anti-east sentiment is kinda annoying.

[@MrThhg]

Anti Russian, you get what you give.

[@OkachaWasTaken]

How is this anti-east?

[@chatnoir1224]

Russia is not east. We are west. Sick, with problems, but still west

[@ptasznik5973]

let me guess you are either western or asian both of them dont know what Russia really is

[@MrThhg]

@@ptasznik5973 Russia doesn't even know what Russia is so idk bro

[@nsdapcommunism2780]

What a load of bullshit, especially the part about Russia having a 'strategy' and strength in numbers. Just for comparison, in 1700 The population of europe: Russia - 13 mil, France - 21 mil, britain - 9 mil, Austria - 10 mil, spain - 24 mil, Ottomans - 27 mil, poland - 9 mil. If you go further than the West Europe will establish giant colonial empires with population in tenths of millions. By the way, during the cold war Nato had twice as much population than the eastern bloc, while USSR and USA had almost even population. Not to mention the fact that the Russian economy under heavy sanctions is doing fine, because unlike this video states Russia has other economical industries, besides oil and gas. For example, Russia currently dominates nuclear energy and years ahead of usa, france, britain and etc Also, most of the problems mentioned here: high suicide rates, drugs and alcohol issues, falling and aging population, large presence of ethical minorities also apply to the whole Nato.

[@MuhammedMuhammed-xd7qo]

NATO and the west always have to present themselves as the moralistic underdogs to distract their populations from the fact that they're actually the aggressors and destabilizers in most cases. That's why the problems in other nations that you mentioned (suicide, drug use, etc) are actually much much worse in many if not most NATO countries, but that all gets swept under the rug. How many train derailments did Russia have in recent memory where several hundred square kilometres were poisoned and the chemicals released created a cloud which could be seen from space, only to have the incident suppressed on the nation's media and the locals brow-beaten into silence in a co-ordinated government campaign to silence all talk about the incidence which everyone knows is going to lead to massive rates of cancer in the coming years? How many residential schools does Russia have with mass graves? How many paedophile scandals does Russia have? It's not only childish to frame Russia's movements into the Ukraine as "a bad easterner invading the good west", but it's genuinely stupid considering how criminal and illegitimate most western governments are.

[@Roblox-qy1ki]

What we see, 2023 Russia didn't collapsed

[@techtical7079]

The Soviet Union took about a decade to crumble down and collapse in the same circumstances as Russia is in today. I like how you vatniks see a video detailing why the sad shithole of a country called Russia is crumbling and it doesn't happen in the span of a year you somehow think it's not true. A country collapsing is not a fast process, it never has been.

[@debater452]

He said 20 years not a single year

[@grommet_h891]

video made one year ago. welp, this didn't age well all im seeing today is the collapse of ukraine, russia is more stable than it was a year ago and the war being prolonged seems to be serving the russian side greatly not to mention zalensky being the less favorite child of the war fueling west now that israel is busy burning ammo on residential buildings.

[@debater452]

What are you talking about. Russia had a massive coup attempt this year

[@grommet_h891]

@@debater452 "this year" of course its this year and the coup guy got killed no wonder. but how about you see whats happening today look at the rate russia is capturing territory back, even western media are starting to admit it. the next coup attempt im watching out for is in ukraine with zelensky not wanting to hold an election and trying to weaken generals strength to stop him from taking over because lets face it. west might be on zelensky's side but the ukrainian people most likely hate the fucking guy i mean look what happened to ukraine, any war analysis channel will show the huge progress on the russian side in just a few days. my point remains that russia is more stable than a year ago and def more fucking ready

[@dmitrikulkevicius9161]

@@grommet_h891 ruZZia trying to take Bakhmut in 8 months now they try to take Avdiivka and lost 100's of military equipment and thousands of conscripts. If Ukraine is loosing why ruZZia did no take Kiev? You vatniks are funny.

[@stavi975]

now explain in detail, how prolonged war has aided russia in any way, and how it's more stable then ever? with some video or documental proofs, not just words. I mean, being this confident and all, you would have ZERO problems explaining this point, and accommodating it with various video and document proof, right?

[@ushakovilia88]

Guys, a year have passed and we are still didn't collapse...How much time should i wait ?

[@debater452]

He said 20 years a country dosen't collapse in a year

[@klebleonard]

@@debater452 this video screams copium from ukrainian supporters

[@ghosts14_2]

​@@klebleonardpov if a russia soporter see facts that are not god vor him its just a lia

[@leonardoleo5740]

Although the video is mostly "good", there are still flaws. The example one is the assumption that Russia will crumble and fall apart into many states. This is not going to happen today, nor yesterday nor in 200 years. The non-russian peoples of the country actually want to stay there since they dislike China or any option they would have. And to destroy a nation, you don't need just low birth rate(otherwise east Asia and Europe wouldn't exist), you need someone to erase completely the identity of the people. Who can do this to Russia? No one. The mongols tried, Napoleon, Hitler and all and they failed. Secondly is the war. Shall I enforce here I am not a supporter of Russia. Although it seems Russia is losing, they are only making a operational break before returning to the attack. This happens in any war and is in this case too. To assume Russia wants to take the entire Ukraine is simply crazy. They wanted mostly the eastern part. To take Ukraine, they would need more than 190.000 troops(border guard troops) and an iron will. The third is their economy which is actually doing pretty well(not as good as Europe but still) and the sanctions clearly backfired. Not only backfired, but now they can sell their resources to China and India, which are more important markets. So no, there's no collapse of the russian economy.

[@josousa78]

Some people still insist that Russia want's full Ukraine when Russia send less than 200k soldiers, to take a country the size of Ukraine they would need at least 800k if lucky.

[@aquatic4760]

I think you fail to realize that all empires have fell before. It doesn’t matter whether the people don’t want to be controlled by others, Russia one day will fall. This applies to every country. China will fall, Russia will fall, USA will fall, and so on. Russia is not exempt from the tides of collapse, in fact, they’re a perfect example of a collapsing empire. Whether it take 200 years, it will collapse one day. As said, this applies to all countries.

[@georgiykireev9678]

​@@aquatic4760 The Russian empire has already fallen, Gorbachev and Yeltsin broke it apart. You assume the eastern territories are colonies striving for independence, but what is the point of being independent if you have extremely low population, rely on European Russia for many important supplies and have a majority ethnic Russian population anyway?

[@el_Marmelado]

Это видео нужно к образовательным курсам по психологии прикреплять

[@paulwilson8061]

По шизофрении

[@АбсентистъЧеховъ1917-ы9ь]

Психиатрии

[@user-iw1nw4du8x8]

There is nothing funnier than hearing a youtuber trying to put all anti-Russian cliches in a single 20-minute KZbin video 9:07 - 12:42 is just crazy, I don't even know how you can seriously critisize that