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Let's talk about questions on Russia's failure....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Well, howdy there, Internet People, Litzboo again so today we are going to talk

0:26.8

about some questions that somebody sent me there are still people who are leaning into the idea that Russia is on some next level 4D chess type of stuff.

0:37.0

So we're going to go through these questions which are being presented as unanswerable and we're gonna answer them.

0:45.8

These questions get presented and then it leads people down this road where they start embracing wild ideas.

0:56.0

And really it's all centered on misunderstanding one simple thing.

1:01.0

So we're just going to kind of run through it and hope that we can kind of

1:05.3

of put this part behind us.

1:10.1

The real issue here for a lot of people is perceived capability versus actual capability.

1:19.0

A lot of people, Western analysts included, have equated Russia with the Soviet Union and

1:25.1

therefore Warsaw Pact for a long time.

1:29.1

Russia has a GDP of 1.5 trillion dollars. They are not an economic superpower. They cannot afford the military

1:36.2

the Soviet Union had. It's that simple. That's where people need to start.

1:43.0

Because of the perceived capability being high and the actual capability being pretty low,

1:49.0

it makes it even more dramatic.

1:51.0

So people have to seek out an explanation for why they believed

1:55.2

Russia was so strong, rather than just kind of acknowledging that the estimates were wrong,

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