Comments by "John Walsh" (@johnwalsh4857) on "Silicon Bites - Summary of Latest news from Ukraine and Russia from a Wide Variety of Media Sources." video.

  1. and even though Russia manages lets say to "win" by keeping its current winnings in the war, the captured territory is in ruins, infrastructure and industry mostly destroyed. depopulated, Ukr partisans still menacing the Russian army. Russia cannot exploit its winnings in fact, Russian economy is so damanged they wont have the funds to do it, even trying to maintain whatever army they mobilized is difficult. and very taxing on the Russian economy.
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  2.  @SarahMould  yes while Putin can place Russia on a war footing, it will really adversely affect his public support. I dont think Russians want to go to a stalinist North Korea style economy again.
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  3. I think Russia is being set up to be ground down by this war. which is a good thing. with a leader like Putin who seems to only want to hear what he wants to hear like to micromanage the war incompetently and has staked his regime survival to getting some sort of "victory" in the Ukr war. THe longer Russia stays and fights this war, the more it will be horrible for Russia economically militarilly and even socially. Even with a Russian "victory" which I think means the Russians keep whatever they have conquered in Ukraine. The economic and social trauma of the war where several hundreds of thousands of Russian casualties and in the state of the Russian economy I doubt it if the surviving Russian trooops will be fully paid and compensated by the Kremlin, this will cause social chaos and unrest back in Russia when you have hundreds of thousands maybe a millioin or so by the end of the war. coming back to Russia who are psychologically damaged, not paid or underpaid, angry at the kremlin gov. coming back to a Russia with no jobs facing economic collapse and depression, and if Russia lost the war, facing discrmination being blamed for losing the war. but they do bring back military skills how to kill , how to use military weapons, ....taking up the example of the crazy Russian 90s where Russia expereinced a bad wave of law lessness and unrest due to defeat in the 1st chechen war, fall of the USSR economic depression, and defeat in the Soviet afghan war. Well looking at the potential results of the Ukr war on Russia which is even significantly bigger than the Soviet Afghan war and 1st Chechen war. and the fact no help is coming to Russia from western foreign investors like in the 90s, Russia will experience an unrest not seen since perhaps 1917.
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