Well, howdy there, internet people, Lidsboo again. So today we are going to talk about

Russia in their performance, why they are not meeting the expectation that some people have for them and their

performance and we're going to talk about where that expectation came from and why it needs to be adjusted.

And this all stems from the T55 video.

There were a number of messages about that.

And there is now a talking point among those who are favorable to Russia that maybe we should

go over.

I've seen it a few times and I've seen it repeated by people who I'm fairly

certain are just repeating it and they don't know that this is more than likely something that's engineered propaganda.

Okay, so here's one of them.

Your T55 video is just NATO propaganda said for YouTube.

I hope you have made yourself proud.

You expect viewers to believe Russia is probably having this shortage already

when the US had no shortage all those years in Afghanistan.

Yeah, okay, so it's worth noting that since that video went out it is now confirmed they are using

uh... t55s it's also worth noting that this message was sent before that confirmation came out as well.

You even now have Russian military bloggers talking about how great the T55 is because of its ammunition load, which all stems from a statement made by a retired, of course, lieutenant general,

retired because he actually had experience with the thing.

So we're going to use Afghanistan.

They chose it. We'll use it as the comparison.

But we're also going to talk about why people believe Russia was on par with the United States because

that's a comparison being made here and the answer may surprise you. Okay so Afghanistan. The US took roughly

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