US Think Tank Admits Russia's Massive & Growing Military Industrial Output

- US think tank CSIS admits previous claims of Russia's flagging military industrial output were inaccurate;
- CSIS reports massive production numbers of Russian tanks, artillery guns and shells, as well as drones, missiles, and electronic warfare systems;
- CSIS recommendations are decoupled with reality and the prerequisites required to expand military industrial production across the West to catch up to Russia;
References:
CSIS - Back in Stock? The State of Russia's Defense Industry after Two Years of the War (April 22, 2024):
www.csis.org/analysis/back-st...
CSIS - Out of Stock? Assessing the Impact of Sanctions on Russia’s Defense Industry (April 14, 2023):
www.csis.org/analysis/out-sto...
Defense Express - U.S. Made 75 M1 Abrams Per Month in the 1980s, Now 12 is the Limit (November 2023):
en.defence-ua.com/industries/...
Politico - U.S. to send Ukraine more advanced Abrams tanks - but no secret armor (January 2023):
www.politico.com/news/2023/01...
The Telegraph - Russia has found the critical vulnerability in Nato’s American tanks (April 26, 2024):
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024...
CNN - Exclusive: Russia producing three times more artillery shells than US and Europe for Ukraine (March 2024):
edition.cnn.com/2024/03/10/po...
CSIS - Expanding Equipment Options for Ukraine: The Case of Artillery (January 2023):
www.csis.org/analysis/expandi...
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[@OOOOutdoorOffGridOverland]

You can not sanction self sufficient. Russia is maybe the only self sufficient country in the world.

[@shaneobrien148]

Australia. If they would leave us alone

[@nenadpaldrmic]

America too

[@Samuel-hd3cp]

Australia is reliant on other countries for weapons.

[@PeterLamin-pi6rv]

US has lost it's manufacturing capacity, to China. 🎯🙃🤔🤔🤔​@@nenadpaldrmic

[@jamesrichardson559]

Not to mention virtually no debt and massive trade surpluses. A successful functioning economy.

[@retiredrebel]

Hands up, down, & sideways this channel is the best at dispelling Western Propaganda & the best channel dismantling rhetoric of the Think Tanks, NGOs. Meticulous detail. Thank You Brian.

[@siamcharm7904]

couldn't agree more

[@aidanmacdougall9250]

So when they talk about stakeholders they don't mean us! 😮

[@pariaheep]

[@jacobrijpstra8366]

A static and precise comment, however if you are listening to Larry Johnson ,he has the right level of disgust for the West ,listen to his last analysis.

[@OO7sMom]

​@@jacobrijpstra8366❤️❤️❤️LARRY JOHNSON !!

[@yeska62]

The west is trying to twist a nightmare into a dream they control. Hilarious!

[@MailBoxExpress]

People who believe in the American dream now realise it was always a nightmare of debt, no free speech, no real food...just pure garbage.

[@HellBot-gi5si]

Then why did Vladimir Putin arrest the deputy minister of defensive for corruption. Now Putin has removed Shoigu the Defensive Minister and put on a counsel that no one pays attention too.

[@doctoribanez]

Crazy a person can watch a KZbin channel and be more informed than all of congress.

[@hkiani6853]

Correct. It takes an open minded person to see between Right and wrong, to see between reality and fake garbage Propoganda.

[@seaofcronos675]

Congress is full of idiots

[@darrylknight2675]

Yes it is crazy.

[@user-xk1sy9pl6z]

But every congresscritter gets a piece of every dollar sent there and don't forget about "The Big Guy's" 10%!

[@danielhutchinson6604]

The Electoral Industry provides over 25% of Media revenue. The $15+ billion Budget allows a lot of Votes and Souls , to be bought. Congress understands who Butters their Bread.....

[@Amerikaz]

Since 1991 NATO was constantly threatened and blackmailed Russia with the war and when the war with Russia started NATO just pooped and failed humiliated.

[@captainz9]

The hazards of globalization. We saw it with the shortages of things in 2020 when the coof hit, and we should remember we rely heavily on Taiwan for advanced semiconductors.

[@davidshepherd-sj2tj]

It's all part of the plan, this is y even though it's plain to see that the west has nothing but nuclear deterrence against these other nations , and yet we have a mentally challenged person leading the charge into WW3 , as the majority sits and waived Ukrainian flags proudly as we go .... Like children following the piper into the abyss

[@ViceCoin]

​@@captainz9US consumer economy relies on exploited labor.

[@Bullitt3401]

Biden did the same thing last week. (he soiled himself in front of the cameras again)

[@danielhutchinson6604]

@@captainz9 Is "Globalization" just another term for Colonial Exploitation? The original US Dudes who created a Nation, to escape Colonial Exploitation, might not be very impressed with the British making a Colony out of Persians. They then passed that Colony off to Texaco and Standard, as War reparations after WW2. The French donated Vietnam. Jefferson might not be Impressed? Is the USA now the Center of a Colonial Empire? Has the Corruption affected the US, as the fall of the Roving Umpire did to Romans?

[@eloy1004]

NATO is in panic mode.

[@JanB56]

lol you are delusional

[@worththewatch1517]

Nato = US is in panic mode

[@kazegarasu4704]

@@worththewatch1517 Nato is a good business, in terms of siphoning money

[@eloy1004]

@@worththewatch1517 Agreed 💯 the US is the head of the evil NATO snake

[@swiftusmaximus5651]

NATO has gone NUTO

[@AzizAziz-lc2qk]

Russia is suffering alright, they're suffering economic growth and prosperity under wests sanctions 😆 🤣

[@PeterLamin-pi6rv]

Defination of inflation in the west is changing.😂😂😂

[@robzilla730]

Remember when Trump had the economy humming along and the msm/demos made it sound like that was a bad thing...?😢😅

[@AlahanAlloha]

Suffering from success 😔🙏

[@deadpoolguy283]

@@robzilla730 Its bad for the "blue bloods". If they could they would legally starve us, without Loopholes.

[@ikaustralia]

The return to traditionalism and lack of homosexual propaganda is also very well welcome addition to sanctions 🎉

[@hawkbartril3016]

They're showing us Russia got it 100% compare to them. What a sad effort. Another thing Russia showed them was how to do war without civilians having to die. Try to think of a war the west and especially the US that has been conducted without lots of civilians dying

[@callthespread]

russia showed them how to do war without civilians hainv to duie? excuse me?

[@Obtainedfox]

lol im guessing you live in an echo-chamber never daring to search for things that challenge your narrative. Russia kills civlians. If someone tried to say Ukraine was winning, i would say their deluded. They are not. If someone would say the west is outproducing russia in terms of tanks, vehicles or artillery...they are deluded. This comes from someone who supports ukraine. NOW, with all this being said. IF SOMEONE SAYS RUSSIA DOESNT KILL CIVLIANS.....THEY ARE DELUDED. so many commenters who seem to support Russia seem to have this belief that they are better then EVERYONE from the west. That the west is some joke. Just a bunch of ignorant morons...Yet when you check alot of the comments..not all, but alot..you see whos really ignorant. Its either Ad hominem or some equally childish comment. You want to be better then the west. Act better

[@davidcollin1436]

US murdered over 5 million in their wmd war lies

[@alphaomega9255]

@@callthespreadI know right, wtf. Killed lots of civilians Russian tactics kill their own civilians

[@DennisMeij]

But much and much less than what the west had done in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Vietnam, Serbia relatively compared to the span and intensity of the war.

[@novicasimovic7973]

Simplest explanation of Putin's changes is that he is preventing something to happen in Russia that already happened in USA. He is preventing military - industrial complex to take control and ruin economy, and in same time preserve Russian capabilities to fight NATO. God bless him! I am Serbian retired military technical officer. Best wishes. Not only for you, but for all of us in this crazy times!

[@dr.garylilienthal6434]

I don’t know how Brian has the “strength of digestion” to read the American war propaganda.

[@pariaheep]

It boggles me also!!!

[@tayclift5322]

I would guarantee that he speed reads and filters out anything that is not relevant to what he has set out in the structure of his analysis.

[@TheNewAtlas]

It honestly is a daily struggle.

[@vaska1999]

​@@tayclift5322Nice try.

[@augustomundombe829]

From Angola; Africa. VIVA Long live the INDISPUTABLE greatest WARRIORS of our world; with the most POWERFUL army on planet; Big Russia rules⭐

[@trout1187]

May we prosper after all this

[@Hardball230gr]

Нашим Ангольским братьям и сёстрам поклон и уважение!!! Обожаю Луанду ! ❤☦️🇷🇸🇷🇺🇧🇾🇦🇴

[@augustomundombe829]

@@Hardball230gr Sposipo' i'm from Benguela

[@Hardball230gr]

@@augustomundombe829 Вам Спасибо 🤝 Я очень надеюсь что колонизаторы оставят Африку и дадут ей развиваться. Сколько Африканских ресурсов украли западные колонизаторы .... 🇦🇴🇷🇺🇧🇾🇷🇸☦️♥️

[@augustomundombe829]

@@Hardball230gr The good news for Africans; was Russians and Cubans that help African countries INDEPENDENCE from the West~NATO Nazis ... SPOSIPO to all Russian people for that.

[@testimonium6596]

Russians are clever, hard workers and united. So, if their country gets threatened, which is the case, they can largely outrun Western's armament production capacity. God bless Russia !!!

[@hkiani6853]

Russia is not on rush to achieve their Goals. They know well as this conflict drags on, Western Idot Government can not hide behind lies of their garbage propoganda fake Media to save their Face.

[@davidlazarus67]

It’s more basic than that. They maintain their military production for need not profit. So maintaining a mothballed factory still benefits capacity and all they need are manpower to rapidly expand production when needed. Over the past decade they could have upgraded all the machinery and expanded capacity all within the same factory space.

[@Intel-i7-9700k]

Add to that that the Russian government started preparing for an attrition war in 2014 already. This gave them almost 10 years to modernize military production without needing to actually produce large amounts of armaments.

[@ikaustralia]

As a dual citizen, an average Russian is much smarter than an average westerner. To us westerners are like kids level in their limited way of thinking and knowledge 🤓

[@danielhutchinson6604]

@@Intel-i7-9700k They saw Victoria Nuland coming in the 1990's, when She went to work for the Clinton Administration. They had 30 years to prepare.........Right?

[@spazmonkey3815]

Russia's approach to this war is like watching a chess game. They've been pretty brilliant.

[@Obtainedfox]

if by brilliant you mean just brute forcing solutions. sure...brilliant. Is ukraine winning, no Is America using this situation to thier advantage. Yes. Is Russia some stategic military genius. No. Lets state the facts and not look at things with rose tinted glasses and be hypocrites.

[@Paladiesh]

that's kind of an overstatement. The first year of the war was sort of a clusterfuck on both sides. Especially the initial entry which looked a lot more like a psychological operation in order to shock the opponent into capitulation and Russia clearly seemed to lack a plan B for a while and it took a number of changes in top tier military staff to change the approach. And even now there's a lot of issues with military bureaucracy stifling the army's ability to evolve and advance.

[@DarkoFitCoach]

​@@Paladieshnow do an analysis of western failures 😂😂

[@lemagnifikyves9533]

​@@Paladiesh Now tell us about the US and his allies failure. Waiting for you

[@Paladiesh]

@@lemagnifikyves9533 I mean if that's what you want. It's hard to definitively tell if the west has failed since there might be varying opinions on what the west's objectives really are. If the objective is a decisive victory over Russia with subsequent partitioning of it then the west has failed due to its unbelievable hubris, gross underestimation of the opponent and viewing the conflict through ideology coloured glasses. Their equipment and training aren't as good as they think and Russia isn't as incompetent as they'd like to believe. Also it proved that economics isn't a real, or at least not an exact, science since the western economists absolutely failed to predict the outcome of sanctions. On the other hand some might say that the west simply wanted to invest in a prolonged war which might benefit them in the long run through weakening Russia and turning Ukraine in to a debt slave after the war is over. In that case the west is doing rather ok, although there are many indicators that this is not their intended goal and it would be giving their dim witted politicians too much credit.

[@Henry1965ism]

But the Russians never ran out of shovels.

[@Intel-i7-9700k]

The shovel is mightier than the sword. - William Shakespeare, 1604

[@novicasimovic7973]

😂😂😂😂

[@blehbleh5095]

NATO playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded gun 😂😂😂

[@davidlazarus67]

With an automatic not a revolver. 😂

[@pariaheep]

@@davidlazarus67

[@Amerikaz]

Russian 'LANCET; drone effectiveness appeared to be over 97% proved on a battlefield. Supper - effective.

[@davidlazarus67]

While western weapons are around 6%. It’s going to be a bloodbath. Israel and its allies wasted $3 billion using more than 150 aircraft to defend Israel from $40 million of Iranian drones and missiles. Yet they still got through to hit their targets. The strategic balance has now switched against Israel.

[@Intel-i7-9700k]

The Russians have shown to excel at surgical precision strikes. They frequently hit urban military targets with none or very minimal civilian losses.

[@jaydee2072]

Too bad they can only build a few of them. Don't you think if they could build more they'd dispense with the low quality Iranian terror weapons(which have been aimed solely at civilian infrastructure since the start of the war). Get real.

[@lukilladog]

@@Intel-i7-9700k Like the opposite of Israel.

[@Jax1317]

@@lukilladog”Hamas is using civilians as human shields so its acceptable to level hospitals and schools” 2years ago. “Russia is bombing hospitals and schools!!! Murder on a grand scale. Arrest Putin at once.” The news: 5 civilians including 2 children killed as Russia bombs civilians. The news today: 120 civilians killed as Hamas uses human shields throughout Gaza. I dislike double standards when it is clear where the evil lies in the world

[@user-we9xf4js1c]

Well, they still think its shovels and refrigerator. 🤣

[@tomiputra3720]

Dont forget the washing machine 😅

[@wyliamulayye7534]

" Rubles would be rubble" and "the economy is in tatters, I am telling you, in tatters" 😅😂🤣

[@johnboykin3128]

And babushkas with pickle jars downing Russian aircraft

[@user-ul9dv2iv9s]

And toilet bowls for the outside toilet. Keep to the facts, not the farts.

[@genestone4951]

Thermobaric shovels ftw

[@tropolite]

"The Global South" is more appropriately termed and correctly termed, "The Global Majority".

[@brucealbert4686]

That only took 2 1/3 years to notice! Brilliant 😊

[@basook6116]

NATO leaders are run by morons

[@Gunni1972]

Do you still believe they have ANY surveillance gear, and did NOT use the ENTIRE budget on hookers and blow in Vegas? (And then have the "mob bosses" do the "research")?

[@davidlazarus67]

When your income depends on bullshit, you ignore the truth. I am surprised that they are being more truthful now.

[@DavidImpatief]

So you can't forge steel with sunshine, wind and a Rainbow. Genius!

[@pariaheep]

😆

[@user-ul9dv2iv9s]

Ooooooh, you ARE naughty.

[@donmacquarrie9161]

"think tank" wow that's a misnomer

[@Amerikaz]

UA fired 26 PATRIOT missiles at first Russian hypersonic 'Kinjal' missile and all in vain. Since then its even did not try to do it again.

[@colinturney8046]

At 4 million dollars a missile that sure is expensive target practice

[@liljasere]

Where are you getting these figures from ?

[@GlobalResearch2001]

@@liljasere It was all over the news last year and it happened over Kiev !!

[@liljasere]

@@GlobalResearch2001 what news network so I can look it up ?

[@vaska1999]

​​@@liljasere What news network, you ask. You expect known liars to tell you the truth?! 😂

[@garynew9637]

1000 ways to entice the bear out of his cave, none to put him back in.

[@pariaheep]

[@user-ul9dv2iv9s]

Bear shmare. It's just your usual imperialistic fascist nightmare.

[@tomiputra3720]

Using own propaganda as own intel have been the own goal movement from NATO

[@Brix96]

Thats the truest thing i`ve read for a long time.

[@jjryan1352]

Welcome to the bizarro world simulacra

[@Intel-i7-9700k]

US and Western-Europe tend to feel morally superior to others. That is part of why they were convinced that a "backwards" country like Russia, who even lost the Cold War, would be unable to compete with a Western-backed Ukraine.

[@AlbertKarhuFilms]

hahah genious 😂

[@sfukuda512]

CSIS should stop writing policy papers and start writing children's books. They would contain the same amount of wishful thinking.

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

More money in policy papers 🤷‍♂️

[@brianlove8413]

Looks like they weren't listening to what Russia was saying at home! The Independent UK, Wednesday 22 November 2017 Russian business should be prepared to switch to production to military needs at any time, said Vladimir Putin on Wednesday. The Russian president was speaking at a conference of military leaders in Sochi. “The ability of our economy to increase military production and services at a given time is one of the most important aspects of military security,” Mr Putin said. “To this end, all strategic, and simply large-scale enterprise should be ready, regardless of ownership.” A day earlier, the president had spoken of a need to catch up and overtake the West in military technology. “Our army and navy need to have the very best equipment - better than foreign equivalents,” he said. “If we want to win, we have to be better.”

[@yfelwulf]

Russian equipment is already 20 to 30 years ahead

[@manuelvega1100]

Outstanding analysis. and kudos demolishing the CSIS 2023 report. Underestimating Russias capability was same mistake Germany made in WWII with the number of tanks before it launched Operation Barbarossa. Boy were the Germans Shocked.

[@jameshadad8569]

Russian tanks gave birth to the German tiger tanks

[@adrianariaratnam5817]

An excerpt : The majority of people, by the way, don’t actually understand the real reason behind Germany’s trepidation at sending the Taurus. It’s not that Germany is somehow more afraid to get involved, considering the fact they’re already the top aid provider besides the U.S. It has more to do with the fact that, unlike the Storm Shadows, limited to under 250km for the export versions given Ukraine, the Taurus comes stock at well over 500km range, and is reportedly secretly capable of carrying nuclear warheads-a fact the Bundestag indirectly confirmed by declining to answer the question recently, stating it was ‘top secret information’. That means the Taurus presents a totally different type of strategic threat if used against Russia. From the Russian standpoint, if a Taurus were to be launched into Russian territory, Russia would have no choice but to treat it as a potential nuclear first strike attack from NATO, given that Moscow is less than 500km from Ukrainian territory and there is no way to determine if the missile is nuclear-armed during its inbound flight. This opens up an entirely different can of worms, which would doctrinally give Russian armed forces the allowance to potentially respond to Germany in almost any escalatory measure, up to and including preventative nuclear launch on Berlin. Germany knows this, which is why the Taurus is off the table. However, they’re now considering their old ‘circular’ game of providing the Taurus to the UK in exchange for UK freeing up its remaining Storm Shadow stocks to Ukraine, etc. simplicius76.substack.com/p/macron-attempts-to-woo-nation-to

[@alphaomega9255]

No way to know…except the FACT Germany to Ukraine have gave no nuclear weapons to Ukraine thus the “possibility” is zero. You think like a Russian MOD …”it could be so we will act like it is”

[@societyreborn33]

Simplicious is the single greatest journalist regarding this whole conflict imho

[@adrianariaratnam5817]

@societyreborn33 Indeed ; the depth of knowledge is "simply" mind-boggling. Cheers.

[@8wayz2shine]

@@alphaomega9255 If you think the Russians believe everything Germany, the USA, the UK and the like publish in official communiqués, you are in deep trouble. Just two weeks ago the US president confirmed that they have already sent ATACAMS missiles back in February without approval from the Congress and without any announcement. The job of the military is always to assume the worst case scenarios, as often it is the real situation in the air, on the ground and in the sea. That is also why all countries have spies - to fill in the gaps between the lies and deliberate misinformation.

[@blehbleh5095]

​@@alphaomega9255That's basically the mindset of the US during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[@jimsteen911]

Thank you for all you do Brian the only good thing about all this is a lot of Americans are waking up to the geopolitical reality and the fact that Putin is a great man in Russia should be our ally

[@trout1187]

Totally agree

[@rogerc6533]

So many potentially glorious western empires met their end because they ultimately chose to fight rather than cooperate with the Russians. Of course Britain deserves much of the blame for turning Europeans against Europeans for their own nefarious goals in many of these cases.

[@Vaskak12]

Russia but they need disregard their governments opinions on china, n.korea etc

[@user-ul9dv2iv9s]

No, most Americans support Ukraine.

[@mayamichelle6741]

Thank you Brian. Always excellent reporting and analysis.

[@basook6116]

what CSIS didn't mention if NATO could produce 50% of Russian's weapons, how much this would cost to people of NATO

[@worththewatch1517]

Cost nothing because you always print money

[@mikeoneill655]

@@worththewatch1517printing money causes inflation. Inflation causes a reduction in people’s spending power Ergo, it does cost!

[@189Blake]

@@mikeoneill655 I think he was being sarcastic.

[@seaofcronos675]

​@worththewatch1517 the public is then liable to tax increases and fuck that.

[@GlobalResearch2001]

@@mikeoneill655 Obviously US people don't mind spending !!

[@craftsman40]

A new The New Atlas video? Yes! Let me lay back and watch this. I'll do my work later.

[@weikwanglee4383]

No prizes for guessing who pushed Russia into this.

[@user-ul9dv2iv9s]

Putin did!

[@johnforbey8454]

Nuland and biolabs did...

[@Cruelaid]

America: Let's have an arse kicking contest.! Russia: I'll go first, spin around.

[@tayclift5322]

😁👍 Made me think of that man that steps in with the giant boot in the Simpsons episode where they go to Australia.

[@user-ul9dv2iv9s]

Hee hee hee hee.

[@gags730]

The Thermobaric-Dishwasher saved the war for Russia. 🤣

[@Torgo1969]

Rooting for Puting, darn tooting!

[@pariaheep]

🙂😉

[@harvillmurray8413]

THE US FINALLY MET THEIR MATCH

[@user-ul9dv2iv9s]

Has it? So what was all that nonsense about the scary NATO creeping up about to swallow those poor threatened Russians?

[@johnforbey8454]

NATO's pushing the bear into a corner. Ukraine's going to be the buffer zone.

[@peterkogl1329]

Thank you Brian. Cold truth is bittersweet!!!

[@EmmanuelDuru-fy5jj]

Sanctions can help a country to gain local industrial production independence and innovation. This is what Russia, Iran, and North Korea have done. As such, countries should not be afraid of pursuing their national strategy interest because of collective west sanctions threats.

[@hkiani6853]

Also they all have common cause, idiogy to help Russia. They all want to be free of Chain of Zayniysm USA. They do not want to become like Eropean Countries total Sub servant.

[@pnndrgn]

Another great post!!❤️You’ve been the sanity in the insane world on these geopolitical issues.

[@falcoperegrinus2292]

00:00 - CSIS self-owns; revises report 'telling funders what they want to hear' vs ACTUAL FUCKING REALITY. 🤦🏻

[@russiaandtheworld1597]

You are completely right! You are one of the few real and not fake experts in the West. I’ve been talking about this for 10 years on various forums, but in the West people prefer to believe propaganda and movies rather than look at facts and reality, so reality begins to hit them over the head in the end. There are many cases when the T90 tank withstood a direct hit from up to 12 ATGM missiles and at the same time the crew survived and the tank did the same. But the West often distributes a cropped video of the T90 battle against two Bradleys, while no one said that one Bradley was completely destroyed along with the crew, the second was seriously damaged and could not accept further combat, and the crew partially survived, while the tank was attacked by Bradley guns, two kamikaze drones and an anti-tank missile, while the crew survived and the tank was subsequently evacuated and restored. As for the Abrams, reality has shown that the tank is too heavy for open areas and the engine is weak and it’s enough to drag it over rough terrain, and to immobilize it, it’s enough to hit one kamikaze drone from the back of the turret, and a second drone hitting it a little higher destroys it and the crew as the ammunition detonates.

[@birtybonkers8918]

Abrams are now used mainly as artillery, too, having clearly demonstrated that they are not fit to be used as an MBT on the front line.

[@markward3981]

Yes reports stated last week they were pulled from front lines ....

[@thanakonpraepanich4284]

They can be used as front-line tanks and can do it well, but not in Ukraine condition of non-existence communication grid and crewed by conscripts with three months of training. Better give running ones to Russian tank cadets and see what they can do with them.

[@rogerc6533]

​@@thanakonpraepanich4284if they were forced to use a captured abrams in battle Id like imagine theyd convert them into turtle tanks.

[@well9179]

​@@rogerc6533yes...turtle tank is very effective during Krasnohorivka offensive, you can laught at them to make you happy.

[@rogerc6533]

@@well9179 never said the turtle tanks werent effective, the abrams is a terrible useless and expensive tank without the extra protection of superior turtle armor. Western technology costs 10x more but is useless in battle.

[@nicolasroirand8011]

Bonjour , merci beaucoup monsieur Brian pour votre travail sérieux .

[@mrosbaum]

They forget to mention they twice bigger than the USA, they can survive by themself.

[@Skatakephalos7434]

So could the USA - minus the welfare/warfare Uniparty.

[@EdT.-xt6yv]

China ,India, Iran ?

[@zoltanbarath7371]

​@@EdT.-xt6yvthose are quite big, too.

[@maxmagnus777]

who owns those companies, perhaps Black Rock? who "invested" so much in Ukraine, perhaps Black Rock? Who stands to lose huge amounts of property in Ukraine if the war goes wrong?

[@trout1187]

I've said that for years totally agree

[@antonk6027]

Yep. But it's a great thing to know, Blackrock won't allow the West to escalate the situation to a degree in which their property would become a barren wasteland

[@user-ul9dv2iv9s]

Who owns the Russian military industrial complex.

[@maxmagnus777]

@@user-ul9dv2iv9s Russian state

[@antonk6027]

@@user-ul9dv2iv9s Russia

[@rubenvicenteleuzzivazquez2237]

What good analysis you do!! I really appreciate that you alone, without guest assistance or complementary videos, are able to produce, with just your image and a flat wall in the background, 47-minute videos, maintaining the user's interest. Thanks for the effort...

[@DavyRo]

All we have to do is take a good look at the whole Russian leadership, then compare them to the whole Western leadership. The differences are absolutely staggering. On every single level the standards of the Russian proffessionals. Are so far ahead it speaks volumes about how our system is so wrong. It's no wonder Russia is embarrassing over 40 countries by itself. We are talking the so called most advanced countries. The truth is the only people who believe these over 40 countries are the advanced ones, are themselves. Arrogance & ignorance seem to be the only qualifications needed, to advance in Western politics.

[@user-ul9dv2iv9s]

The Russian leadership has pushed the country into a quagmire. They've shown the world the degree of their massive corruption. They're pushing their country into destitution. Their children are being primed into cannon fodder. Wow, sounds like a fascist fantasy coming true. You must be pinching yourselves each happy day!

[@mirba6933]

Russia even exports weapons, from airplanes to whatever you need.

[@Amerikaz]

Yes, and grab 20% of World MIlitary market from US that made US mad-mad-mad

[@user-ul9dv2iv9s]

Except Putin. He won't be travelling abroad much.

[@johnforbey8454]

But Putin doesn't have to run to and fro-he's based.

[@user-ul9dv2iv9s]

Based like Putin. Do you reckon you're based? Stable perchance? A little awestruck by thuggish runts, maybe unsettling to the more peaceful amongst us? Like that million strong exodus appeared to indicate?

[@user-wj9hr5tf6e]

The 8th reliably destroyed M1A1 Abrams tank of the AFU was stuck in a ditch in the middle of the village of Novoselovka Pervaya on the Avdiivka direction, where it met its "Krasnopol".

[@alphaomega9255]

Oh no. We only have 10,000 more. 🇺🇸

[@rogerc6533]

​@@alphaomega9255i thought your fleet was 3500 at best with many being aged chassises needing refurbishedment or aged 80s standard models.

[@terryeley6218]

​@@rogerc6533you're right. And even refurbed, that's still 10,000 wastes of money.

[@DutchK75]

Those Abrams are export versions. No Chobham or deleted uranium armor. And are in M1a1 trim. Not in sepv3 or M1a2.

[@rogerc6533]

@@DutchK75 extra armor isnt going to make a difference when its mainly flank attacks or mobility kills taking out all these Abrams. If anything their weight needs to be reduced cause the weight makes recovery that much more difficult.

[@russelmurphy4868]

"One Western tank is worth 10 Russian tanks." "One Southern fighting man is worth any 10 Yankee hirelings." Sound familiar?

[@chucksnightmare7674]

@russelmurphy4868-- The Washington dc REGIME clearly underestimated both. Did Russia help the Confederacy in their battle for Independence? Would help make sense of washington dc's vile unreasonable hate of Russia.

[@russelmurphy4868]

@@robyenney951 Not really. This was actually a common belief amongst Southerners in the early part of the American Civil War, I was making a comparison with the guff peeps are saying about all things Russian.

[@user-ul9dv2iv9s]

The confederacy lost.

[@CashCatz]

There were no large-scale cannon factory in the South. So yes, very familiar.

[@dennismenace636]

Shit how do we cover up our lies haha lol

[@trout1187]

Good one

[@user-ul9dv2iv9s]

That's refreshingly honest.

[@5150TJT]

One hours use, 8 hours for service, yes US tanks are great 😂😂😂😂

[@nickl5658]

It is typical. US makes hanger queens, with the understand their enemy will never be able to strike against them and is lightly armed so a few functional machine working for a few hours is enough to mop up any resistance. For F22 it is 1 hour of use and 30 hours of maintenance.

[@bobsmith3983]

Same with the F-35 the hanger queen sometimes submarine.

[@vaska1999]

​@@nickl5658Works fine as long as you're fighting Iraqis and Afghans.

[@babygerald4645]

If you are refurbishing tanks, it's usually preferable to make the new tank better than the one that preceded it. The M1s the US dumped on Ukraine were stripped of the best new equipment found on an A2 in case they got captured by Russia and the tech fell into enemy hands. Ukraine is and always has been a dumping ground for NATO garbage-- a clearing house for outdated vehicles dripped into the country with no useful air defense or electronic countermeasures to protect them from death from above.

[@DavyRo]

That has a Lott to do with how good the hardware is to begin with

[@terryeley6218]

The problem is, the west doesn't have "better" stuff. The Javelins are a great system- less than 20% of the time. The F35 needs 11 hours of maintenance for every hour of flight (when the 27% of them that are capable, actually fly). "We have better stuff, we just give them outdated weapons" is a myth.

[@danielhutchinson6604]

The end seems clearly near, after the General Dynamics Folks could not afford to buy a Speakers Chair for their Representative. Corruption is the downfall of most Empires. How many Pentagon Audits reveal "Undisclosed Account."

[@user-ul9dv2iv9s]

Right. That's the secret behind turtles is it?

[@johnforbey8454]

Makes a difference if you can beg for it...

[@johnwade6472]

U.S.national debt is currently $34 trillion dollars, having increased $2 trillion dollars this past year. In addition, American taxpayers have spent, an estimated $6 trillion dollars, ‘fighting the war on terror’, over the last 20 years, while last year U.S. lost 100,000 people, due to drug overdoses alone. We spend an estimated $840 billion dollars per/year on our ‘defense budget’ (war department). Our financial oligarchs overlord’s goal is: Endless wars, for endless corporate profits…$61 billion dollars for military aid to Ukraine, and $29 billion dollars for military aid to Israel; as our homeless population, is now over 600,000 people, living on the streets. Follow the money, how powerful, U.S. elite campaign donors ‘buy’ basically all our elected officials, in order to fund wars overseas, ‘the gift that never stops giving’ - while basic human needs of the American people are ignored.

[@trout1187]

We'll you do have 11 Jewish families that between them have 351 trillion dollars in USA

[@MikeisaGoob]

​@@trout1187shh you're not allowed to talk about that because of muh antisemitism

[@pariaheep]

@@trout1187 🤯🤯🤯😱

[@16blockheads]

Yes, seen elsewhere economic Professor Richard Wolfe says the interest payments on these debts are equivalent to the US military budget! He says obviously that this is not sustainable!

[@markoradulovic3307]

Try 46 Trillion

[@captintinsmith3774]

And to think that the US has the hubris that it can take on the Russian Armed Forces! Battlefield Ukraine is NOTHING like battlefield Afghanistan! Talk about a shit load of body bags coming back to the US!

[@user-ul9dv2iv9s]

No, the Ukrainians had the courage to take on the Russians and exposed them for what they are.

[@TXLorenzo]

If CSIS was as honest in their assessments as supporting their corporate agenda, the accuracy of their reports would increase significantly.

[@herohero-fw1vc]

This is by far the best video by Brian.......Thank you for all the effort.

[@davidlazarus67]

One thing that I learned about the old T55 tanks is that the barrels can tilt upwards significantly and so act like mobile mortars. So their age is irrelevant for their new tasks, a new barrel and it’s a new weapon.

[@rogerc6533]

An ancient T-55 used in the mobile fire support role is far superior to the brand new US M-10 booker in firepower and protection despite the Booker being specifically made for this role. Infact its all round superior to the 10x more expensive Booker just as a normal tank. It really puts into perspective how overblown and impotent "superior" American weapons tech actually is.

[@Amerikaz]

Brilliant analysis from Brian, as usual !

[@othmanmajid6380]

Think tanks are full of thoughtless people😂😂😂😂

[@feydrautha012]

I disagree. Think Tanks exist to market the ideology of the individual(s) that fund them. So they are thinking hard, it's just about spin, propaganda, and deception, rather than objective analyses. Also they're tax-exempt, so the MIC billionaires that fund them can consider such money spent as a "charitable" donation to the people who sell their desired ideology and policies.

[@cyrilparfait9387]

🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

[@03stmlax]

NATO: maybe if we put Russian industry in wartime production overhaul they'll have less weapons/arms

[@vaska1999]

😂

[@CashCatz]

And what's cray-cray about your statement is - they're not even in true wartime production (meaning shutting the economy down and shoving everyone into arms factories).

[@m0nlo]

Excellent work as always Brian! Thank you! I really appreciate you providing the sources!

[@mirba6933]

No matter how you look at it, the Russian tank is better constructed than any Western tank. Only when you compare the different weights of the vehicles, you see that the Western tanks on the Ukrainian terrain are an excellent target for shooting exercises. They pop like popcorn from overexertion from the weight. Even up to 80 tons. The heaviest Russian tank is about 55 tons, otherwise the average is somewhere around 40-45 tons. So if you ignore everything else, this is enough to say which tank is better in this war.

[@GenAndrei]

And Russia isn't even on a war time economy))

[@user-ul9dv2iv9s]

Hello, Shoigu's replacement. A war economy just to take Ukraine. Amazing isn't it. This is where Putin is taking Russia. It's mind blowing isn't it. Hello, anyone in there? Nope, nobody home.

[@joylarson9040]

Thank you Brian for updated and accurate information.

[@incog99skd11]

The "shovels" were misunderestimated.

[@yfelwulf]

The West refurbishs problem is cost is almost the price of new

[@edvargas3105]

Brilliant analysis of this report. Your superb knowledge is so evident in your analysis that it is a real pleasure to listen to you. Great work Brian!!!

[@selwinpandinadan7540]

'Ukraine issue' has provided a great deal of revelations on the workings, benefactors, objectives, goals as well as on elementary biases & misinformations that these types of unprofessional strategic think tanks propagate. Russians are winning and would continue to achieve as the Western colloquial crumble for thr inability to reason.

[@user-em4kb3gm8g]

How long did it take for the US "admit" it lost its war in Vietnam? It might take long before it'll say using Ukraine as proxy against Russia was a "mistake".

[@user-ul9dv2iv9s]

The penny hasn't dropped yet has it. The Ukrainians told the basketcase Russians thet don't want to be part of their Ruskiy Mir. Oops, that didn't go down to well did it. That's it.

[@OO7sMom]

THANKS BRIAN!! FOR ALL THE WORK YOU DO !! ❤

[@user-yr8jj5ut7z]

NATO better not go into Ukraine I’m British and Not in Our Name.

[@weiggie66]

There is a key point to consider about refurbishing equipment. The difference in refurbishing a tank is that it does not increase the total number of tanks in the inventory.

[@alistairnewton8898]

Russians are a tough bunch of warriors. l respect them , as for our Lesbian / Sodamite military in the west 😢

[@hellboy3050]

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[@-CourageTheCowardlyDog]

You respect the meat wave tactics? That's what you call "tough bunch of warriors", a horde of half drunk criminals who are so scared of their generals so much that they would rather throw themselves into a meat grinder then say no to them?

[@rdallas81]

I respect the Russians much more. I feel sorry for the others.

[@thinhvcoin]

By the time of this video, there are, at least 9 Abrams were hit and destroyed/abandoned recorded on videos.

[@johnboykin3128]

The challenger tank is a bloated failure that is best described as a heavy vulnerable limited weapon system with no practical purpose

[@rogerc6533]

At this point I see no difference between it and impractical heavy behemoths like the Char 2C or Neubaufarzeug. Heavy, expensive and vulnerable paper tigers that only seem impressive as propaganda tools!

[@michaelfoley3777]

Brilliant! You never let me down with your concise & extremely clear analysis! Thanks! Most Sincerely Michael Foley 🤔

[@HDucky60]

No one talking about fires in US andUK shell plants?hmmm

[@randyindvik1171]

Very informational!!!!! Thanks.

[@snapper69996666]

Thanks for the update

[@mfromaustralia1]

Excellent ! Thanks Brian

[@pamela7433]

❤😊RUSSIA IS WINNING BIG.

[@user-ul9dv2iv9s]

"Wake me up when they hit the Donetsk border". Rip Van W.

[@CashCatz]

@@user-ul9dv2iv9s Agree, they're winning but fat lady has not sung yet.

[@choifayue9848]

Russia have been preparing and setting up the output way before Feb 2022 later with the help of Iran and N Korea they are much stronger than we think PEACE

[@seabreachertahoe2507]

Russia has been planning since 2008 ish for these sanctions!

[@choifayue9848]

@@seabreachertahoe2507 precisely at and after the 2008 Olympics

[@mayamichelle6741]

Just watch the faces of Rumsfeld and McCain during Putin’s 2007 Munich speech. He knew those assholes’ agenda then. 😒

[@indycoon]

Listen to Putin's speech at Munich conference in 2007. He tried to agree.

[@hkiani6853]

No Country should believe Western Government. Western promise, contract, Hand Shake, UN are all worthless, just like their propoganda garbage Media.

[@pkorolov]

While I greatly value Brian's analysis on military matters, on the question of military production, and the problems the US is having, I think he's fundamentally misunderstanding the economics. Of course a government owned company will build whatever the government orders, but so will a private company. No company will turn down a lucrative military contract. Many small manufacturers in the US would love to bid on a shell production contract. However, this almost never happens. Large military contracts are almost always done in back-room deals between lobbyists, congressmen, and DOD procurement types. Yes everyone is in it to make money. The congressman wants the arms factory in his back-yard plus a large campaign contribution, and the DoD guys want to make sure that their friends get the contract, and so on. This is no different in Russia, government procurement always has a certain level of corruption built-in. Both General Dynamics and Uralvagonzavod are for profit companies. Uralvagonzavod exports T90-s to India and many other countries, they also make train cars that they export around the word. Russia, doesn't have a large military budget so they want all their government companies to be profitable. In fact until recently Russia was thinking about privatizing Uralvagonzavod. The main difference between them is not who owns the company shares but the political system. In the US, the economy follows a corporatist model, in Russia and China it is more free-market (like the US up till the 1920's). That means Russia and China can produce goods a lot cheaper and a lot quicker than US and Europe . Turning General Dynamics into a another government bureaucracy like Amtrak is not the solution. The US needs to reduce regulations on manufacturing, labor, environment, diversity, arms sales, etc. Of course cracking down on corruption in both Congress and the Pentagon wouldn't hurt either. The other big factor is the talent of the work force (compare Elon Musk to Mary Barra). Russia has a lot of great minds improving manufacturing, the US does not.

[@Alienmeth]

Well put

[@sportiboye]

Nobody but no-BODY makes geo- strategic policy more understandable or interesting than Brian Berletic. Thanks, Brian!!!

[@giolag5593]

Great video! But I can't stop thinking how perfect you would be for the role of Lex Luthor in the next Superman movie

[@AlahanAlloha]

Excellent video as usual Brian. The start was such a succinct presentation of how the US Foreign Policy is made.

[@vaska1999]

Nobody does it better than Brian!

[@MakedonskaAkropolaMKD]

Kompliments and many thanx for a detailed in-depth reports of the bigger picture in Pokraine special military operation and behind!

[@aleaiactaest8354]

Excellent reporting.

[@boboayame2065]

Hamish de Breton-Gordon refers to American tanks, he was the fool that said the Challengers would 'sweep Putin's conscripts from the steppe', failing to point out most of the Challengers were likely destroyed in storage and have been no better than the Abrams

[@macrosense]

When the U.S. had a robust and diverse manufacturing industry…and many consumer appliances were made of METAl….there was a lot of machinery and machinists and workers that could turn capacity to producing artillery and mortars and rockets.

[@probasket8159]

Great job!

[@hongqingxiang3374]

Thank you very much for your informative update & analysis🙏👍🙏

[@kahutochishisumi9056]

NATO/EU is a headless chicken

[@FrancoisMouton-iu7jt]

Brilliant and sane analysis, thank you.

[@alexeyklochkov2275]

Brilliant as always, thank you, Brian

[@soniaasquez321]

Thankyou Brian x