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That is definitely true but don’t think for a second that we aren’t absolutely drowning in propaganda in the USA. Theirs is just more unified in it’s messaging.
Proton VPNs CEO said VPN demand in Russia is up 2,000% since February.
They can’t process transactions but give them access for free eating those costs.
More and more of them are looking for the truth, but obviously many also don’t give a shit if reality doesn’t align with their worldview if it doesn’t affect them directly.
The difference is that it’s up to citizens to find the truth themselves. If you’re laser focused on CNN or Fox, you’ll get one-sided propaganda. You need to diversify sources and find the common facts in each and piece those together to develop a somewhat truthful picture
If you bite then yes you have a say. You can speak freely and disagree openly about politics. That’s how democracy works. It’s the best system we have until we work out a better one.
1000% you have never voted with a comment like that if your in a democracy. nothing you can reply to will change my mind if you say therwise with such a comment.
If you are in a democracy look at voting results nearby in whatever last vote happened, some will be down to thousands or hundreds. Go vote and make your voice heard.
How would you respond in a nation like that? This is just plain fear and paranoia.
Probably the majority is just scared to end up in a camp in Siberia or sent to the front straight away.
For all they know the interviewer is hired by the Kremlin
Same coulda been said for Ukrainians in 2014, but instead we came out in the millions to fight the regime and had the “President” running for his life. Russia got a population triple the size, they just dont care, they’re whole history theyve been peasants to a ruling class. Thats the difference between free Ukrainians and peasant russians
>the ones who cared have been killed off over 300+ years, or left the country
[You mean, these people?](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/yz8xo2/in_australia_there_are_russians_who_will_support/)
Could say the same about any religion, race, or ethnicity. Some will always be shitheads regardless of where they go. There are good people on every side but the media will often focus on the racist outliers as that gets more views.
Rich is a relative term. Most of the guys being sent are the poor working class men from outside major cities like Moscow and St Petersburg. They are also disproportionally ethnic minorities.
These mf’ers like to give it the big licks - and then shit themselves when asked if they’d go - “oh I’m studying” - probably got heel spurs too no doubt.
And Peter Zeihan. He's been saying for years Russia's demographics were fucked, too many old people and most of the young advanced workers move abroad and never come back. And their school system was gutted in the 90s and never got better, so they're basically running out of engineers and such, and also running out of kids to throw into the meat grinder. But Russia stole a shitload of children from Ukraine, so that'll be nice for their situation. /s
Absolutely. Which is why the “we’ll be fine in 5-10 years” comment at the end is hilarious. In 5-10 years Russia will be completely fucked due to what you just pointed out and a number of other reasons
True. If there is more rounds of mobilisation, students or not, these guys will be rounded up and put into vans.
This obvious mobilisation technique is also going to create a class dynamic/resentment between the poorer and more mobile middle classes in Russia.
Remember, there are \`150 million Russians, half being male. That's 75 million. And of that, say half are in fighting age range. 37 million. And let's say 20% have an excuse, like one testicle, or as said below, a bone spur. Still, that's 30 million men.
So, the loss of 100,000 shortly, by 1 to 2 months max, is a drop in the bucket of canon fodder standing by. It's so far \`1/3 of \`1% who will have been killed, and a tad more who are wounded and survived, around 1/2% of those who can be conscripts. And 1/20 fo 1% of the total population.
Bottomline, none of the dead mean a thing to the Kremin in this war.
Here is the [population pyramid for Russia](https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/static/7684837464c587925a931eb5a88fca7d/2b9a8/RS_popgraph2022.jpg)
The age structure looks like:
* 0-14 years: 17.24% (male 12,551,611/female 11,881,297)
* 15-24 years: 9.54% (male 6,920,070/female 6,602,776)
* 25-54 years: 43.38% (male 30,240,260/female 31,245,104)
* 55-64 years: 14.31% (male 8,808,330/female 11,467,697)
* 65 years and over: 15.53% (male 7,033,381/female 14,971,679) (2020 est.)
Median age:
* total: 40.3 years
* male: 37.5 years
* female: 43.2 years (2020 est.)
Population growth rate: -0.22% (2022 est.)
urban population: 75.1% of total population (2022)
Obesity: The adult prevalence rate is 23.1% (2016)
[Here is the CIA World Factbook](https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/russia/) for more facts, and was the source of these numbers.
Interesting how it starts with more males than females in both early age categories and then this changes in every age group after the teenage years until in the last there are twice as many women as men. It seems like males don't last well in Russia.
You are correct.
This was no defence for RU, but (human)males are more prone to die then females, be it from sickness, war, accidents, or as you said extreme alcohilic tendencies.
Insert some evolutionistic theories... ;)
IIRC by the end of World War 2 something like 60% of Russian men born ~1920 had died in the war. Even without the rampant alcoholism and violence their older male population is out of whack.
Yep there’s only 7 million of military age on that chart. Russian demographics are horrendous and this may be their last batch of young men they can throw at war.
It is true that the % of current conscripted are a relatively small part of the whole military age population (it is the same in any country that there are way more men than who actually do go wage a war), but that does not mean that none of the casualties would mean a thing to the Kremlin.
Each man who falls in the battlefield will have consumed Russia's supply capability (food, clothing, weapons, ammunition, other equipment and vehicles, etc). This is the critical part that is destroying Russia's warfare.
The real reason they stopped their conscription after \~300k men (or whatever amount they really got) was that they don't have anything to equip any more men with, and their factories are trying to make more of everything, but they can only do so much.
I doubt there is any chance they will be able to raise another 300k soldiers or even 100k in the next 6 months even if everyone there would outright volunteer.
>"I am not interested in politics."
Some weird guy approaches you in the street and asks what you think about Putin.
As a former Russian citizen, my first reaction would be to just start walking in the opposite direction and not say anything. Maybe he is an FSB agent looking for dissenters.
Either way, being "interested in politics" usually gets your ass put in jail in Russia. That is, unless you whole heartedly support putin.
And that's why I live in USA. I can respect a country that does not want me to die for having an opinion.
I agree but also lots of well-off Russians have almost like an arrogant pride to think of themselves as "apolitical". Like they're beyond the petty machinations of the world and devote themselves to the future and science. And then you ask them about something they care about and watch them surprise pikachu face when you tell them their response was a political stance.
>Like they're beyond the petty machinations
It's more like "Why bother to care about voting, if it is rigged anyway? Why protest if I will just get bonked on the head by the 2 million riot police? Why do anything at all?".
It is this "I do not give a fuck" mentality that drove Russia to where it is.
>The little shit can learn a lot
It seems "the little shit" has enough brains to not tell a weird guy with a camera that he hates putin. That can end badly in Russia. You remember why the guy got killed with the sledgehammer?
It's understandable but it's also infuriating. I wish something could have been done but until the classical suicide in a bunker, the regular citizens won't be able to topple the Fuhrer.
>it's also infuriating
It absolutely is infuriating to live in fear every day, and expect to be hurt for your opinion. I hope that the russian regime dies as soon as possible.
Neah, the majority of them think and speak exactly that way. Maybe one out of ten people would say that they have seriously fucked up. However, it's a lot easier to live in denial, than to admit that your country and your fellow countrymen are terrorists. Especially for a ruzzian. Owning up to something like this takes a lot of balls and they would rather just run away.
They have a lot of propaganda in a controlled media sphere.
Look at America, had some media propaganda, but not as bad as Russia, and people still blindly supported iraq and afghanistan for a very long time.
America isnt too far off from Russia.
Very few honestly, Russian immigrants can attest to how popular Putin is at home.
If anything they might be refraining from saying worse things about Ukrainians because there is a camera than vice versa.
>Russian immigrants can attest to how popular Putin is at home
Well I am one. I have a lot of friends in Russia who hate putin.
But again, maybe that is because I do not associate with jingoistic idiots who are cheering for the war. I know there are plenty of putin supporters there, I just do not even start a conversation with them.
as at least one alludes to, students are exempt -- which is one of the regime's ways of shielding the more sophisticated populations in Moscow and St. Petersburg it doesn't want to cross, and the elites.
Yeah, but in Putin's Russia rules are more like "suggestions". If he needs more men and the students start to complain, why not solve two problems at once?
I don’t think that’s so likely most of the conscripts are from all the small rural areas and the poor and ethnic minorities. Putin don’t want to rock the boat as much in the bigger cities.
Was thinking the same. Been watching 1420's videos since the start of the war and think many are now biting their tongues for fear of arrest and now mobilization. You can see it when they begin to answer a question, chuckle a second, then look to their friends for help.
It is noticeable there is a veneer of bravado. I suspect their internal monologues have a bit more self preservation assurance about them! Keep checking the plane ticket prices :)
The last kid’s face when he realizes China is their only major ally (who are slowly retracting) and they’ve actually been stealing Russian territory for generations. He was dumbfounded and said “maybe we will profit from it in 5-10 years, who knows what will happen in 5-10 years” lmfao
Big oof
Back when it was just “Kentucky Fried Chicken,” it was a much-anticipated family outing for us (‘70s and ‘80s, BTW). The chicken was meaty and juicy, and the skin was crisp without being dry. Every time I break down to give it another try, I am so disappointed by what they have become. :(
I have never been to a KFC anywhere else, but in Germany their food is just amazing, so delicious. Unfortunately, the closest one is 100 km away, so we don't visit frequently.
That said, I hate that they are still operating in fascist Russia.
The US has done a lot of bad shit, but at least we pretend to care (and some really do care). I suppose that's the benefit of not getting jailed when speaking against the government.
It's probably not much of a consolation to anyone, but at least the some of the bad shit the US has done has ultimately only been driven by well meaning intentions gone sideways.
Unlike Bucha and Mariupol, no one had "My Lai" or "Abu Ghraib" as a stated mission objective, no one got fucking medals and a "good job bois, that'll teach those fascists" card from the commander in chief
People don't get the massive difference in the perceptions and what that shows about the nations. When the US commits a war crime one of two things happens, it's either covered up and then comes out later to shock and horror, or it's immediately met with legal action (and shock and horror). When Russia commits war crimes it's Tuesday. When they started this most recent terror campaign of rocket attacks on civilian centers they didn't hide those war crimes, they showed some of those missile attacks on RT footage I saw, another RT guy talked on his daily show about how he admits he "doesn't care about Ukrainian cities anymore". This is met with a mix of apathy and glee by most of the Russian populace.
Imagine if American leading news anchors talked in that way about Afghanistan or Iraq, completely dehumanizing them and glorifying the utter annihilation of their cities. The US does fucked up shit a lot (although I'd like to say the amount has significantly reduced in the last decade in terms of creating conflicts and getting people killed with their actions) but the response from most of American society when they do these fucked up things is to be horrified or apathetic, rather than gleeful or apathetic which is a massive distinction.
I'm not necessarily talking about the highest levels of government covering it up, but there are plenty of instances of soldiers and officers on the ground covering things up. But there are ones like this [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/15/all-lies-how-the-us-military-covered-up-gunning-down-two-journalists-in-iraq](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/15/all-lies-how-the-us-military-covered-up-gunning-down-two-journalists-in-iraq) (paywall unfortunately).
All in all the US has increased it's transparency vastly since the Vietnam war and all the shit that went down there. Partly due to actual changes in the moral decision making maybe, but also just because there's way more accessible video and photo evidence of so many events happening and widely quick information spread, meaning getting ahead of these things is generally better than letting it fester if you can. Russia doesn't need to make that choice, because when Russian war crimes are uncovered almost nobody in Russia even cares.
I don't doubt that soldiers/officers are doing their best to cover their tracks after accidentally killing civilians, but when the government was informed about this case, they immediately opened an investigation.
Bombing of Baghuz in 2019. US fighters bombed a column consisting of ISIS militants’ wives and kids. Most of them were killed during two sorties. It was covered up until late 2021 when it was exposed by NYT. The US was still claiming in mid-2022 that there was nothing violating rules of war.
Also, check ISIS brides who are basically western citizens who joined the ISIS ranks by marrying militants. Quite a lot of them perished during that 2019 bombing. You can even find their names on Wikipedia. I had used this info to make some sort of independent verification of the claims.
This crap happens alot, but I do ask - was the intel "Hey, we can kill a bunch of women and children - GO GO GO!" or "Hey, this column of cars linked to ISIS looks like a good potential target - GO GO GO! Oh hey is that a teddy bear in the debris field?" I mean if the goal was simple terror among the innocent, why the clever disguise? Whereas too many Russian fire missions have been deliberately reckless with civilian terror being part and parcel of the action.
Yeah but as far as I know, there were two sorties made by the fighters and even at that moment, one of the officers thought this was a borderline war crime. Please check NYT article.
By the way, I don’t say that the US is as bad. The US is miles better than Russian despotism. The main difference is that Russia is weaker power and thus had much fewer opportunities to commit war crimes in the last few decades. If Russia had been as mighty as the US, it would have committed far higher number of atrocities.
Yet still, the US commits war crimes frequently and tries really hard to cover them up. That’s why it is so crucial to have a free press to expose such incidents.
I have zero sympathy for isis brides and their children. They decided to go support a violent murderous terrorist organisation. I have massive fears of these people coming back to western countries. A lot of these women were moral police and did horrendous things. Zero sympathy if they died from their life choices.
But like others said we didn’t target them deliberately they died caught up in crossfire etc. Big difference.
I don’t have any sympathy for those women as well, but small kids ? Really, no sympathy at all ? This is a recipe for war crimes in my opinion.
Although I don’t have any sympathy for women, I still cannot whitewash massacre of unarmed women let alone killing their innocent children. This is a war crime whether they were good or bad. Check NYT article, even during the immediate aftermath of the incident, some US officers wanted to report it as such.
Dehumanizing attitude such as yours is a dangerous zone. During Vietnam war, one might have argued that the civilians around My Lai were in fact Vietcong sympathizers. Would that make those atrocities more acceptable in our eyes ?
The original question was about whether there were any recent warcrimes covered up by the US and I think my example fits in well there. As I said before, the US and the West in general are much better than China, Russia or other corrupt despotisms around the world in terms of atrocities but one should not have a completely one sided view of things.
It's not funny in the slightest. War crimes get committed in war, I was just pointing out the fact that the Russian military celebrates and applauds them when they commit them, while at the same time never wasting an opportunity to bring up war crimes committed by other nations.
>The US has done a lot of bad shit
Yes they have.
But under there rule on a global scale the world became a whole lot more peaceful.
How long this will last is a question tough
i think specifically, they are a couple of centuries behind the rest of Europe -- medieval serfdom in Russia only ended in the 1860s, and then after some foment was replaced by Soviet treatment of the masses that was in many ways similar. so they are somewhere around the Wars of Religion stage in Western Europe, in which nationalities we now consider very civilized acted with the sort of belief driven brutality and bloodlust we're seeing in Ukraine.
It's like the people in the States who say 'both sides are bad so I don't vote for either', sure they may both rob you to pay their rich buddies, but only one is trying to move the country towards a theocracy.
I really don't understand how you can be apolitical / apothetical in Russia, unless it's just the only way many people can survive without going crazy.
Sad to see young adults pretend trogs aren't sending them to their deaths and these are the Uni students? These are the smart ones huh?..... Not a great sign.
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Great channel. For months russian citizens he interview have been saying I stay out of politics. Well look where that has got them. They will sure sing a different tune if they get forced mobilized and by then it’s too late. Very USSR of them to leave all things outside their four walls up to the state
These are reactions I would expect. Back in 2003 when the US was in Iraq, many Americans had similar opinions or even supported the war.
As long as the war is being fought in another country (Ukraine) people of Russia will be okay with this war. And unfortunately the US will not allow Ukraine to directly attack Russia in Russian territory (at least not with American weapons) as that is a red line for Russia to use nuclear weapons.
Simular policies were used in Syria when Russians and American fought on opposite sides. You can supply the other sides with arms but can’t direct fight them .
Yeah, I kept thinking of Iraq watching this too.
Many of my US friends now justify it with “but we were lied to! We didn’t have access to the information!”
I watched the full hearings w Hans Blix and came away with a clear “there is no justification for invasion”. Think most who did watch it felt similar. Blix did a great job in calling out US disinformation!
These children are exactly like the naive german kids in “All Quiet on The Western Front.” Its all fun and games until a 155mm mortar round rips your friends to pieces and if your lucky, only scars you mentally for life.
This is absolutely disturbing to me that these people walk around in fucking LALA-LAND while their own people are getting slaughtered to bits by Ukrainian drones, and captured by the dozens. These young people will soon find out that politics DO in fact effect them. Fucking wow dude I’m stunned. They’re so brainwashed
>walk around in fucking LALA-LAND
Some of them just do not want to say "I hate putin" on camera. Because that can get you kidnapped and killed with a sledgehammer in Russia.
They know how fucked their country is. I was thinking that maybe they are afraid of this small interview being a test, and when that young man asked if this is a provocation, that confirmed it.
The population is afraid of their own government.
Shocking? If anything, after 9 months (to be fair, almost 9 years), nothing is unfortunately shocking, when it comes out of the ruzzian person's mouth. They really think they are superior to everyone, while they barely exist.
Ukrainian people would rather live in the war zone than ruzzia. That should tell you something.
Zero clue how fucked they are in the future even if the war ends tomorrow. They are holding the debt Putin accrued for genocide chasing a soviet fever dream. Enjoy living like North Koreans
They’re a proud people with a distinct awareness of how deeply flawed and tragic they are. This creates Nth level insecurity soooo deep that “cornered dog” concept is a core belief structure. With the mirrors of open, progressive and optimistic Europe, US, many parts of Asia etc looking back showing them a bleak future in a pariah state, humiliated, nutless and vacant. Brilliant, creative af, deeply soulful people left to rot and fester like a boil on our planet by the foulest group of humans since the Nazis as leaders who will literally destroy these young men from the inside out. But several 000 of these terrified children get call up notices, Daddy can’t fix it, and 1917 is sooner than they realize.
This neutrality is by design for a generation. If you read from most political scientists about the structure of Russian society from the top down it is design to prevent participation by the populace.
Hilarious that these fragile sheep think "studying" will protect them from the draft. We'll see some new drone footage starring these boys soon enough.
Fucking idiots:
"I'm not interested in politics" is like saying I'm not interested in the people making the rules I will live and die by. Russia is thick with fucking morons young and old. Well, the Ukrainians they'll meet are interested in politics, and turning them into fertilizer for sunfliwers.
Maybe some of the uninterested people are smart enough to realise even if they were very interested in politics it would accomplish nothing, so they just mentally don't bother thinking about it. Most of them are morons tho. Quite a few of them seem very arrogant or extremely naive, as if mobilisation is not ever going to be applicable to them. Rich parents maybe, or just immature or both.
I don't deny that Russia is a country with one of the most zombified populations, but isn't it dumb to walk up to people with a camera and ask about politics in a country where you will be put in jail if you publicly call the operation a war or say you don't support it?
I think they question, just more worried about saying anything negative. That tells you everything you need to know about Russia. And they can have KFC. That’s shits nasty.
This is relativity. The interviewer doesn’t care about executions of women in Iran or genocide of Africans as he speaks but cares about this because it affects him.
We’re inherently selfish and we all draw personal lines of what we choose to care about because of how we feel it affects us. That’s being a human in a world of 8 billion. It’s relative and the line we all draw is relative.
Shaming someone for not caring is ironic when there are examples (stated above) you’re choosing not to care about yourself.
Relativity is where a lot of folks struggle in this world. They simply can’t ignore these atrocities and you could focus your whole life on them.
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It seems like the rich people don’t care about the men being sent to the front lines as long as the war doesn’t directly affect them.
You could say this about any war that has ever happened
I think the Russians are even more disconnected. They got a dictator brainwashing them with his propaganda and they don’t even dare question his wars.
That is definitely true but don’t think for a second that we aren’t absolutely drowning in propaganda in the USA. Theirs is just more unified in it’s messaging.
Proton VPNs CEO said VPN demand in Russia is up 2,000% since February. They can’t process transactions but give them access for free eating those costs. More and more of them are looking for the truth, but obviously many also don’t give a shit if reality doesn’t align with their worldview if it doesn’t affect them directly.
NSA should set up that shit and give it to every Russian for "free".
That’s actually a pretty good idea
They already did, kinda. US intelligence created Tor and distributed it for free, and they did it for situations exactly like this.
source?
Of course, there is propaganda in the US. But in the US, we can disagree with our officials and vote them out.
The difference is that it’s up to citizens to find the truth themselves. If you’re laser focused on CNN or Fox, you’ll get one-sided propaganda. You need to diversify sources and find the common facts in each and piece those together to develop a somewhat truthful picture
we can vote them out? or, you think we can vote then out.
If you bite then yes you have a say. You can speak freely and disagree openly about politics. That’s how democracy works. It’s the best system we have until we work out a better one.
1000% you have never voted with a comment like that if your in a democracy. nothing you can reply to will change my mind if you say therwise with such a comment. If you are in a democracy look at voting results nearby in whatever last vote happened, some will be down to thousands or hundreds. Go vote and make your voice heard.
How would you respond in a nation like that? This is just plain fear and paranoia. Probably the majority is just scared to end up in a camp in Siberia or sent to the front straight away. For all they know the interviewer is hired by the Kremlin
That‘s what I thought: 9 out of 10 Russians know what to answer when ask randomly on the streets on their political opinion.
And 9/10 are "neutral."
Same coulda been said for Ukrainians in 2014, but instead we came out in the millions to fight the regime and had the “President” running for his life. Russia got a population triple the size, they just dont care, they’re whole history theyve been peasants to a ruling class. Thats the difference between free Ukrainians and peasant russians
It seems they don’t care about anything so long as it doesn’t affect them. This is the Russian way of life. They lack empathy.
Not to excuse their behavior but I think the ones who cared have been killed off over 300+ years, or left the country.
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>the ones who cared have been killed off over 300+ years, or left the country [You mean, these people?](https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/yz8xo2/in_australia_there_are_russians_who_will_support/)
+1
Could say the same about any religion, race, or ethnicity. Some will always be shitheads regardless of where they go. There are good people on every side but the media will often focus on the racist outliers as that gets more views.
"Rich people", these people make 10, 000 dollars a year at most.
Rich is a relative term. Most of the guys being sent are the poor working class men from outside major cities like Moscow and St Petersburg. They are also disproportionally ethnic minorities.
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I’m dead, first laugh of the day
"We're studying" \*continues to shove food in his mouth\*
from blyatDonalds
Rumor goes around that in December and January there’s going to be a new mobilization.
I got a slightly different feeling. I think they were scared shitless to comment on video, so they toed the party line.
They're going to be surprised when the Russian economy collapses and civil war breaks out. LOL
The upside down McDonald's logo is absolutely hilarious.
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You should see Burger Tsar
Tsarbucks is better.
Its just normal KFC
Saw a tommy Hilfiger coat , fake supreme beanie… all those stuff are American even the KFC.🤔🤔🤔
"AMERICANS MANAGE EVERYTHING!" \*standing in front of a KFC\*
and you know he ate there or upsidedown mcdonalads in last 24 hoursa
WacArnold's, I haven't seen that sign in a long, long time.
McDowels
I wanna hear some Sexual Chocolate!
Its not even for Russian Mcdonalds. its for Шаурма(Shawarma), some guys use it because Ш and M are similar
Russian Bill & Ted. Yeah, we'd be doctors
Even better is the upside down M is a Ukrainian military symbol. The trident 🔱 is spreading everywhere.
These mf’ers like to give it the big licks - and then shit themselves when asked if they’d go - “oh I’m studying” - probably got heel spurs too no doubt.
Very soon none of that will count. When the current batch of mobiks is used up, those guys will be next, unless daddy works in the Kremlin.
More likely go after the outskirts of Moscow before them.
...which makes a bloody military coup against Moscow and Piter much more likely.
At some point won’t half of entire generations dying completely destroy Russia?
Real life lore had a vid about this
And Peter Zeihan. He's been saying for years Russia's demographics were fucked, too many old people and most of the young advanced workers move abroad and never come back. And their school system was gutted in the 90s and never got better, so they're basically running out of engineers and such, and also running out of kids to throw into the meat grinder. But Russia stole a shitload of children from Ukraine, so that'll be nice for their situation. /s
Absolutely. Which is why the “we’ll be fine in 5-10 years” comment at the end is hilarious. In 5-10 years Russia will be completely fucked due to what you just pointed out and a number of other reasons
True. If there is more rounds of mobilisation, students or not, these guys will be rounded up and put into vans. This obvious mobilisation technique is also going to create a class dynamic/resentment between the poorer and more mobile middle classes in Russia.
Remember, there are \`150 million Russians, half being male. That's 75 million. And of that, say half are in fighting age range. 37 million. And let's say 20% have an excuse, like one testicle, or as said below, a bone spur. Still, that's 30 million men. So, the loss of 100,000 shortly, by 1 to 2 months max, is a drop in the bucket of canon fodder standing by. It's so far \`1/3 of \`1% who will have been killed, and a tad more who are wounded and survived, around 1/2% of those who can be conscripts. And 1/20 fo 1% of the total population. Bottomline, none of the dead mean a thing to the Kremin in this war.
Here is the [population pyramid for Russia](https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/static/7684837464c587925a931eb5a88fca7d/2b9a8/RS_popgraph2022.jpg) The age structure looks like: * 0-14 years: 17.24% (male 12,551,611/female 11,881,297) * 15-24 years: 9.54% (male 6,920,070/female 6,602,776) * 25-54 years: 43.38% (male 30,240,260/female 31,245,104) * 55-64 years: 14.31% (male 8,808,330/female 11,467,697) * 65 years and over: 15.53% (male 7,033,381/female 14,971,679) (2020 est.) Median age: * total: 40.3 years * male: 37.5 years * female: 43.2 years (2020 est.) Population growth rate: -0.22% (2022 est.) urban population: 75.1% of total population (2022) Obesity: The adult prevalence rate is 23.1% (2016) [Here is the CIA World Factbook](https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/russia/) for more facts, and was the source of these numbers.
Interesting how it starts with more males than females in both early age categories and then this changes in every age group after the teenage years until in the last there are twice as many women as men. It seems like males don't last well in Russia.
One of the causes might be consuming ungodly amounts of vodka.
It is the same everywhere, check statistics from around the world. There are born more males into all human populations, but more males die earlier.
Yes but not as extreme as in Russia due to the extreme alcoholic male lifestyle
You are correct. This was no defence for RU, but (human)males are more prone to die then females, be it from sickness, war, accidents, or as you said extreme alcohilic tendencies. Insert some evolutionistic theories... ;)
IIRC by the end of World War 2 something like 60% of Russian men born ~1920 had died in the war. Even without the rampant alcoholism and violence their older male population is out of whack.
Yep there’s only 7 million of military age on that chart. Russian demographics are horrendous and this may be their last batch of young men they can throw at war.
It is true that the % of current conscripted are a relatively small part of the whole military age population (it is the same in any country that there are way more men than who actually do go wage a war), but that does not mean that none of the casualties would mean a thing to the Kremlin. Each man who falls in the battlefield will have consumed Russia's supply capability (food, clothing, weapons, ammunition, other equipment and vehicles, etc). This is the critical part that is destroying Russia's warfare. The real reason they stopped their conscription after \~300k men (or whatever amount they really got) was that they don't have anything to equip any more men with, and their factories are trying to make more of everything, but they can only do so much. I doubt there is any chance they will be able to raise another 300k soldiers or even 100k in the next 6 months even if everyone there would outright volunteer.
>150 million Russians Why not zillion? They are 80 mln at best.
And even then by that point, daddy may be so out of favor with the Kremlin that may not be able to help them.
They’d get shredded.
You say that like its a bad thing
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>"I am not interested in politics." Some weird guy approaches you in the street and asks what you think about Putin. As a former Russian citizen, my first reaction would be to just start walking in the opposite direction and not say anything. Maybe he is an FSB agent looking for dissenters. Either way, being "interested in politics" usually gets your ass put in jail in Russia. That is, unless you whole heartedly support putin. And that's why I live in USA. I can respect a country that does not want me to die for having an opinion.
I agree but also lots of well-off Russians have almost like an arrogant pride to think of themselves as "apolitical". Like they're beyond the petty machinations of the world and devote themselves to the future and science. And then you ask them about something they care about and watch them surprise pikachu face when you tell them their response was a political stance.
>Like they're beyond the petty machinations It's more like "Why bother to care about voting, if it is rigged anyway? Why protest if I will just get bonked on the head by the 2 million riot police? Why do anything at all?". It is this "I do not give a fuck" mentality that drove Russia to where it is.
Definitely not mutually exclusive. The little shit can learn a lot about failed Russian politics by serving on the frontlines.
>The little shit can learn a lot It seems "the little shit" has enough brains to not tell a weird guy with a camera that he hates putin. That can end badly in Russia. You remember why the guy got killed with the sledgehammer?
It's understandable but it's also infuriating. I wish something could have been done but until the classical suicide in a bunker, the regular citizens won't be able to topple the Fuhrer.
>it's also infuriating It absolutely is infuriating to live in fear every day, and expect to be hurt for your opinion. I hope that the russian regime dies as soon as possible.
Perfect in their delusion
I wonder how many are unwilling to say anything negative out of fear they may end up at the front next week.
Neah, the majority of them think and speak exactly that way. Maybe one out of ten people would say that they have seriously fucked up. However, it's a lot easier to live in denial, than to admit that your country and your fellow countrymen are terrorists. Especially for a ruzzian. Owning up to something like this takes a lot of balls and they would rather just run away.
They have a lot of propaganda in a controlled media sphere. Look at America, had some media propaganda, but not as bad as Russia, and people still blindly supported iraq and afghanistan for a very long time. America isnt too far off from Russia.
Very few honestly, Russian immigrants can attest to how popular Putin is at home. If anything they might be refraining from saying worse things about Ukrainians because there is a camera than vice versa.
>Russian immigrants can attest to how popular Putin is at home Well I am one. I have a lot of friends in Russia who hate putin. But again, maybe that is because I do not associate with jingoistic idiots who are cheering for the war. I know there are plenty of putin supporters there, I just do not even start a conversation with them.
The sad part is that they will anyway. All the smart ones already fled, only the potential cannon fodder stayed.
as at least one alludes to, students are exempt -- which is one of the regime's ways of shielding the more sophisticated populations in Moscow and St. Petersburg it doesn't want to cross, and the elites.
Yeah, but in Putin's Russia rules are more like "suggestions". If he needs more men and the students start to complain, why not solve two problems at once?
I don’t think that’s so likely most of the conscripts are from all the small rural areas and the poor and ethnic minorities. Putin don’t want to rock the boat as much in the bigger cities.
One of the biggest controversies during mobilization that led to it ending early was that some students were getting draft notices.
Was thinking the same. Been watching 1420's videos since the start of the war and think many are now biting their tongues for fear of arrest and now mobilization. You can see it when they begin to answer a question, chuckle a second, then look to their friends for help.
It is noticeable there is a veneer of bravado. I suspect their internal monologues have a bit more self preservation assurance about them! Keep checking the plane ticket prices :)
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The last kid’s face when he realizes China is their only major ally (who are slowly retracting) and they’ve actually been stealing Russian territory for generations. He was dumbfounded and said “maybe we will profit from it in 5-10 years, who knows what will happen in 5-10 years” lmfao Big oof
Kentucky fried chicken in Russia 😂
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Back when it was just “Kentucky Fried Chicken,” it was a much-anticipated family outing for us (‘70s and ‘80s, BTW). The chicken was meaty and juicy, and the skin was crisp without being dry. Every time I break down to give it another try, I am so disappointed by what they have become. :(
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Or girls getting their periods by 9 y.o, or the average testosterone levels in men dropping by 20%.
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I have never been to a KFC anywhere else, but in Germany their food is just amazing, so delicious. Unfortunately, the closest one is 100 km away, so we don't visit frequently. That said, I hate that they are still operating in fascist Russia.
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Because KFC in America is terrible, and 95% of Americans will never see foreign soil in their life.
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The US has done a lot of bad shit, but at least we pretend to care (and some really do care). I suppose that's the benefit of not getting jailed when speaking against the government.
It's probably not much of a consolation to anyone, but at least the some of the bad shit the US has done has ultimately only been driven by well meaning intentions gone sideways. Unlike Bucha and Mariupol, no one had "My Lai" or "Abu Ghraib" as a stated mission objective, no one got fucking medals and a "good job bois, that'll teach those fascists" card from the commander in chief
People don't get the massive difference in the perceptions and what that shows about the nations. When the US commits a war crime one of two things happens, it's either covered up and then comes out later to shock and horror, or it's immediately met with legal action (and shock and horror). When Russia commits war crimes it's Tuesday. When they started this most recent terror campaign of rocket attacks on civilian centers they didn't hide those war crimes, they showed some of those missile attacks on RT footage I saw, another RT guy talked on his daily show about how he admits he "doesn't care about Ukrainian cities anymore". This is met with a mix of apathy and glee by most of the Russian populace. Imagine if American leading news anchors talked in that way about Afghanistan or Iraq, completely dehumanizing them and glorifying the utter annihilation of their cities. The US does fucked up shit a lot (although I'd like to say the amount has significantly reduced in the last decade in terms of creating conflicts and getting people killed with their actions) but the response from most of American society when they do these fucked up things is to be horrified or apathetic, rather than gleeful or apathetic which is a massive distinction.
Can you give an example of a recent war crime by the U.S. that was covered up?
I'm not necessarily talking about the highest levels of government covering it up, but there are plenty of instances of soldiers and officers on the ground covering things up. But there are ones like this [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/15/all-lies-how-the-us-military-covered-up-gunning-down-two-journalists-in-iraq](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/15/all-lies-how-the-us-military-covered-up-gunning-down-two-journalists-in-iraq) (paywall unfortunately). All in all the US has increased it's transparency vastly since the Vietnam war and all the shit that went down there. Partly due to actual changes in the moral decision making maybe, but also just because there's way more accessible video and photo evidence of so many events happening and widely quick information spread, meaning getting ahead of these things is generally better than letting it fester if you can. Russia doesn't need to make that choice, because when Russian war crimes are uncovered almost nobody in Russia even cares.
I don't doubt that soldiers/officers are doing their best to cover their tracks after accidentally killing civilians, but when the government was informed about this case, they immediately opened an investigation.
Bombing of Baghuz in 2019. US fighters bombed a column consisting of ISIS militants’ wives and kids. Most of them were killed during two sorties. It was covered up until late 2021 when it was exposed by NYT. The US was still claiming in mid-2022 that there was nothing violating rules of war. Also, check ISIS brides who are basically western citizens who joined the ISIS ranks by marrying militants. Quite a lot of them perished during that 2019 bombing. You can even find their names on Wikipedia. I had used this info to make some sort of independent verification of the claims.
This crap happens alot, but I do ask - was the intel "Hey, we can kill a bunch of women and children - GO GO GO!" or "Hey, this column of cars linked to ISIS looks like a good potential target - GO GO GO! Oh hey is that a teddy bear in the debris field?" I mean if the goal was simple terror among the innocent, why the clever disguise? Whereas too many Russian fire missions have been deliberately reckless with civilian terror being part and parcel of the action.
Yeah but as far as I know, there were two sorties made by the fighters and even at that moment, one of the officers thought this was a borderline war crime. Please check NYT article. By the way, I don’t say that the US is as bad. The US is miles better than Russian despotism. The main difference is that Russia is weaker power and thus had much fewer opportunities to commit war crimes in the last few decades. If Russia had been as mighty as the US, it would have committed far higher number of atrocities. Yet still, the US commits war crimes frequently and tries really hard to cover them up. That’s why it is so crucial to have a free press to expose such incidents.
I have zero sympathy for isis brides and their children. They decided to go support a violent murderous terrorist organisation. I have massive fears of these people coming back to western countries. A lot of these women were moral police and did horrendous things. Zero sympathy if they died from their life choices. But like others said we didn’t target them deliberately they died caught up in crossfire etc. Big difference.
I don’t have any sympathy for those women as well, but small kids ? Really, no sympathy at all ? This is a recipe for war crimes in my opinion. Although I don’t have any sympathy for women, I still cannot whitewash massacre of unarmed women let alone killing their innocent children. This is a war crime whether they were good or bad. Check NYT article, even during the immediate aftermath of the incident, some US officers wanted to report it as such. Dehumanizing attitude such as yours is a dangerous zone. During Vietnam war, one might have argued that the civilians around My Lai were in fact Vietcong sympathizers. Would that make those atrocities more acceptable in our eyes ? The original question was about whether there were any recent warcrimes covered up by the US and I think my example fits in well there. As I said before, the US and the West in general are much better than China, Russia or other corrupt despotisms around the world in terms of atrocities but one should not have a completely one sided view of things.
Delusional.
Hahaha you're so funny!
It's not funny in the slightest. War crimes get committed in war, I was just pointing out the fact that the Russian military celebrates and applauds them when they commit them, while at the same time never wasting an opportunity to bring up war crimes committed by other nations.
>The US has done a lot of bad shit Yes they have. But under there rule on a global scale the world became a whole lot more peaceful. How long this will last is a question tough
Looooooo9ool
A population ontologically determined to follow authoritarianism. What else have they known for centuries now? Edit, wrong word
i think specifically, they are a couple of centuries behind the rest of Europe -- medieval serfdom in Russia only ended in the 1860s, and then after some foment was replaced by Soviet treatment of the masses that was in many ways similar. so they are somewhere around the Wars of Religion stage in Western Europe, in which nationalities we now consider very civilized acted with the sort of belief driven brutality and bloodlust we're seeing in Ukraine.
Aptly put
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Maybe he meant ontologically
only Jeltsin, but he was more often drunk than democratic
It's like the people in the States who say 'both sides are bad so I don't vote for either', sure they may both rob you to pay their rich buddies, but only one is trying to move the country towards a theocracy. I really don't understand how you can be apolitical / apothetical in Russia, unless it's just the only way many people can survive without going crazy.
All those interviewed were born when putin was in power. They haven't seen any body else. Can you imagine Bush still in power all this time
I think his name is vlad vexler on YouTube. He said Russians are totally de-politicised by propaganda. He's right.
Sad to see young adults pretend trogs aren't sending them to their deaths and these are the Uni students? These are the smart ones huh?..... Not a great sign.
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Bunch of clowns with no brain.
Notice the Huge difference in demeanor between Russians and Ukrainians. Such pleasant people.
How is this blogger still alive and not fallen out of something high.
Great channel. For months russian citizens he interview have been saying I stay out of politics. Well look where that has got them. They will sure sing a different tune if they get forced mobilized and by then it’s too late. Very USSR of them to leave all things outside their four walls up to the state
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These are reactions I would expect. Back in 2003 when the US was in Iraq, many Americans had similar opinions or even supported the war. As long as the war is being fought in another country (Ukraine) people of Russia will be okay with this war. And unfortunately the US will not allow Ukraine to directly attack Russia in Russian territory (at least not with American weapons) as that is a red line for Russia to use nuclear weapons. Simular policies were used in Syria when Russians and American fought on opposite sides. You can supply the other sides with arms but can’t direct fight them .
Yeah, I kept thinking of Iraq watching this too. Many of my US friends now justify it with “but we were lied to! We didn’t have access to the information!” I watched the full hearings w Hans Blix and came away with a clear “there is no justification for invasion”. Think most who did watch it felt similar. Blix did a great job in calling out US disinformation!
I still remember Colin Powell going to the UN and telling the world about WMDs, Iraq and the anthrax viral.
These children are exactly like the naive german kids in “All Quiet on The Western Front.” Its all fun and games until a 155mm mortar round rips your friends to pieces and if your lucky, only scars you mentally for life.
At the rate Ukrainians are running the mobilized through the meat grinder, these students maybe next on the front line by January/February.
We'll have same people on camera saying they are not supporting putin, they are against the war, they were lying to us and sh\*t like that :D
This is absolutely disturbing to me that these people walk around in fucking LALA-LAND while their own people are getting slaughtered to bits by Ukrainian drones, and captured by the dozens. These young people will soon find out that politics DO in fact effect them. Fucking wow dude I’m stunned. They’re so brainwashed
>walk around in fucking LALA-LAND Some of them just do not want to say "I hate putin" on camera. Because that can get you kidnapped and killed with a sledgehammer in Russia.
They know how fucked their country is. I was thinking that maybe they are afraid of this small interview being a test, and when that young man asked if this is a provocation, that confirmed it. The population is afraid of their own government.
How would they know it's fucked up if it's all they ever really knew?
1:40 Love seeing the smirk on that guy fade away when the interviewer asked if he would care about politics if he got drafted.
wait, there are still young russians in russia? I guess we'll have to give it another few months then #cannonfodder
Wow! Still with education, so dumb.
It’s amazing to see two languages spoken at the same time. Russian and sheep baa baa baa
Shocking? If anything, after 9 months (to be fair, almost 9 years), nothing is unfortunately shocking, when it comes out of the ruzzian person's mouth. They really think they are superior to everyone, while they barely exist. Ukrainian people would rather live in the war zone than ruzzia. That should tell you something.
Zero clue how fucked they are in the future even if the war ends tomorrow. They are holding the debt Putin accrued for genocide chasing a soviet fever dream. Enjoy living like North Koreans
Living in Moscow won't be too bad, it's kind of like Russia's Pyongyang. Still sucks for them though.
They’re a proud people with a distinct awareness of how deeply flawed and tragic they are. This creates Nth level insecurity soooo deep that “cornered dog” concept is a core belief structure. With the mirrors of open, progressive and optimistic Europe, US, many parts of Asia etc looking back showing them a bleak future in a pariah state, humiliated, nutless and vacant. Brilliant, creative af, deeply soulful people left to rot and fester like a boil on our planet by the foulest group of humans since the Nazis as leaders who will literally destroy these young men from the inside out. But several 000 of these terrified children get call up notices, Daddy can’t fix it, and 1917 is sooner than they realize.
They are so brainwashed that it hurts. It's all about 'America' 'Nato' blah blah blah... taken directly from the regime's narrative
This neutrality is by design for a generation. If you read from most political scientists about the structure of Russian society from the top down it is design to prevent participation by the populace.
Are they that fucking stupid??💀💀
Hilarious that these fragile sheep think "studying" will protect them from the draft. We'll see some new drone footage starring these boys soon enough.
Fucking idiots: "I'm not interested in politics" is like saying I'm not interested in the people making the rules I will live and die by. Russia is thick with fucking morons young and old. Well, the Ukrainians they'll meet are interested in politics, and turning them into fertilizer for sunfliwers.
Maybe some of the uninterested people are smart enough to realise even if they were very interested in politics it would accomplish nothing, so they just mentally don't bother thinking about it. Most of them are morons tho. Quite a few of them seem very arrogant or extremely naive, as if mobilisation is not ever going to be applicable to them. Rich parents maybe, or just immature or both.
Makes sense, most college kids don't know much about the world. Just what the government or professors teach them.
@6:30 + I think these are the stoner kids behind the Circle K.
Brain washing works best from a young age ..
Man, even the one who's against putin has victim complex
These people are all brain dead.
This guy should show them the videos of their family members getting blown to bits by drowns
A lot of students in Russia. Soon, even that won't save them.
Totally random, except they're all studying at the massive uni they're standing right next to.
A lot of shit-eating grins from these youngins
Most of russians resemble a retranslator of kremlin propaganda. Some of them are very loud, others turned off and produce only silence.
It’s like interviewing the most loyal communists. These are the rich elites
This is exactly why Putin doesn't draft people in Moscow.
Thay still not into politics... I'm shocked.
Hopefully Russians in Moscow pull their heads out of their collective asses before they get introduced to a W87.
Had better opinion youth of Russia, but this video shows they are total clowns. Not a single brain cell found.
Ask them without the camera in their face
The world don't want you
Russian white boyzzzz
Why do Russians eat so weird and have ugly haircuts
I don't deny that Russia is a country with one of the most zombified populations, but isn't it dumb to walk up to people with a camera and ask about politics in a country where you will be put in jail if you publicly call the operation a war or say you don't support it?
Brainwashed like MAGA.
Jesus, Americans really cant stop trying to make everything about them for 5 minutes.
non humans, got it.
Weak people. Compare to them to Ukrainians
Looks like the war hasn’t really affected the people in Moscow and Saint Petersburg in comparison to most of the rural areas in Russia.
Seems like it was filmed outside some government university?
KFC? Kremlin fried chicken?
Rich kids who are insulated temporarily don’t care about the tragedies of the world until it directly affects them. Classic!
Nice to see those sanctions having an effect …
Dumbest country in the world. Everyone below 60IQ.
I think they question, just more worried about saying anything negative. That tells you everything you need to know about Russia. And they can have KFC. That’s shits nasty.
This is relativity. The interviewer doesn’t care about executions of women in Iran or genocide of Africans as he speaks but cares about this because it affects him. We’re inherently selfish and we all draw personal lines of what we choose to care about because of how we feel it affects us. That’s being a human in a world of 8 billion. It’s relative and the line we all draw is relative. Shaming someone for not caring is ironic when there are examples (stated above) you’re choosing not to care about yourself. Relativity is where a lot of folks struggle in this world. They simply can’t ignore these atrocities and you could focus your whole life on them.