Comments by "John Walsh" (@johnwalsh4857) on "Ukraine u0026 Russia - Game Theory" video.

  1. I notced the Russians are the ones constantly attacking yes, its in their doctrine, the best defence is the best offense, that is how their army was bult, the Russian army of 2024 is practically still the Soviet army of the cold war. while the Ukrainian army started out this war having a hybrid Russian and NATO combat doctrine and throughout the war has been gradually shifting to the NATO combat doctrine. While the Ukrainian army is not yet a fully NATO style army, it is very NATO like in doctrine and equipment, practically a lot of their combat equipment are NATO weapons.
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  2. geopolitical and economic go hand in hand. As Clausewitz said paraphrasing through James Coburn in Cross of Iron(not said by him), War is continuation of state policy by other means.
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  3. hahah Im still a big board wargame fan and player to this day, first started playing board wargames in 1980 with my first played games being Bundeswehr and Titan strike by SPI. Still continue to play and collect board wargames to this day. and I have even graduated to playtesting board wargames for Decision games board wargame magazine like strategy & tactics, modern war and world at war and various independent board wargame designers like Ben Madison, heck even wrote historical articles for those magzines and reviews on paper wars.as well as got a board wargame called Storm over Taierzhuang 1938 published for Against the Odds magazne.
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  4.  @EconLessons  Yep and to add the Soviet army doctrinally of the cold war is not much different than that of WW2 Soviet army. The Russians since end of WW2 played up the great patriotic war as like a holy war, they constantly glorified it for the past 80 years. and Putin used this to his ends. and these WW2 style ideas will be a disaster to Russia economically , militarily and demographically: Economically despite the Russian GDP growing , its all gov spending geared to prosecuting the war in Ukraine. This is a disaster to the Russian economy in the long run. in fact analysts have predicted that by mid to late 2025 , the Russian economy will start to degrade, and when that happens , hyperinflation and economic depression is just around the corner and there are already signs that the Russian economy is buckling hard under the weight of the costs to support this war which is costing Russia 400 mil to 1 billion USD a day. The appointment of Budanov to replace shoigu as defense minister, Budanov is a economist who believes in centralizing the Russian economy, yep this moron is a big espouser on returning the Russian economy back to teh Soviet economy. Disaster. Also Budanov said he would cut costs and the budget of the Russian army which signals the Russian economy is in trouble. Military: Yep the war has cost the Russians 500K casualties and several thousand kaput tanks and APCs in 2 years and 3 months of war. and the war is still a bloody stalemate despite the Russians having 10X the GDP and military of Ukraine and 5X the population of Ukraine. Russians hold around 20 percent of Ukraine and cant really seem to expand from that. The current Kharkov offensive is turning out to be a disaster for the Russians with the Russians losing 1K casualties a day and the Russian commanding general of this offensive being General Lapin, who was fired in late 2022 for being the commander of Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine after the Ukrainian forces literally collapsed a bunch of Russian divisions under his command and took back a large chunk of Ukrainian territory. Yep they took back and reinstated a Russian moron general who might soon fall from a window if the latest Kharkov offensive turns out to be a disaster. Also as stated earlier Budanov the latest ministry of defense appointee told the Russian Duma during his inaguration that he intends to do budget cuts for the Russian army LOL. DISASTER. Shoigu was already throwing massive amoutns of weapons and money at the war but the Russian army was still failing now budget cuts hahahaahh Demographics: Well the war has costs lots of casualties for teh Russians and possibly 1 million casualties after the war is over and Russian population is actually in decline before the war with some of the worst life expectancies in Europe where the average Russian male has a life expectancy of 65 years. The European average is 80 years. This war will make things worse. and even much more worse a possible bloody civil war after the war is over.
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  5.  @CCRoselle  now its worse. Only the show piece cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg look good the rest blehhh
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  6. There are already a bunch of board wargames published on the current war In Ukraine and the 2014 Ukraine war. and for future reference also a bunch of wargames on a future Russian civil war.
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  7.  @EconLessons  loved SPI however the majority of my games were from Avalon Hill. and yah SPI was massive but It was hard to get them outside the USA, I used to live in Manila , Philippines in the 70s to the early 90s and got my board wargames from Japan, Hong Kong and locally and at the time Avalon Hill was jsut all over the place like you can buy them in Hong Kong and Japnaese department stores while SPI games were rare. My first board wargame that I collected was Samurai from Avalon hill bought from a Daimaru dept store in Osaka Japan. The first hex CRT game I collected was Operation Konrad designed by Perry Moore published by Close Simulations bought from a Hong Kong book store in Kowloon back in 85.
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