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@MsDboyy

Жыл бұрын

💯

@noban2730

Жыл бұрын

You have 100 channels and they are all absolutely terrible

@robertocalderon1584

10 ай бұрын

"The Chechen Strayegy of [Four poorly armed dudes vs. The World]" lol I died laughing bravo sir...bravo.

Yeah I was serving in the US Army when these events happened and I remember our sergeants were surprised that the Russian army was doing so poorly. Considering they served when they were led to believe the Soviet Army was some type of juggernaut.

@Theshropshireratter

Жыл бұрын

I've always thought that how this great military of a super power that would sweep though Europe was literally crippled by a break away region be very interesting if the Soviets did try to take West Berlin it might turned into urban killing zone

@TR1P0DL1F3

Жыл бұрын

Sounds oddly familiar

@s3quencial

Жыл бұрын

@@TR1P0DL1F3 kek

@Silver_Prussian

Жыл бұрын

By the time the russian army was not what it was as the soviet army not only that americans didn't perform all that good in their wars when they entered towns. Urban warfare is really hard regardless of how good your army is

@Silver_Prussian

Жыл бұрын

​@@Theshropshireratter there is so much more to war, strategy and tactic you do not know.

When the Russian army couldnt capture Grozny, they flattened it with tens of thousands of civilians still in the city, leading to tens of thousands of civilians dead.

@patrickmunneke8348

Жыл бұрын

So? The only crime in war is to lose. Russia won in the end. Maybe if the CIA and other Western powers hadn't urged them on, there would be fewer civilian deaths.

@user-fw4uh7ob2s

Жыл бұрын

@Jayhawksfan not comparable in any way. + typical russian whataboutism

@mdolfjitler9833

Жыл бұрын

Hmmmm sounds like Mariupol

@guill90

Жыл бұрын

​​@Jayhawksfan Whatabout shock and aw? Lol

@jasonlib1996

Жыл бұрын

ironically a tactic they still try to utilise today in ukraine. The problem is that a leveled city is just as valuable to the occupier as the defender. they might be able to claim capture of a city, but when theres nothing left to capture it kinda defeats the point

I've heard terrible stories of how callous the Russian military treated their own dead & their family members. One example I heard of a mother who came home to her flat to find a coffin with her son inside had been leaned up next to her door because nobody was home when they delivered his body. To make it worse she did not even know he had been a casualty in the first place.

@prestonjones1653

11 ай бұрын

Sounds like typical Slavic custom

@jizburg

11 ай бұрын

Zinkybois

@ratulxy

9 ай бұрын

American veterans aren't treated all that well anyways.

@pipipupu5104

8 ай бұрын

​@@prestonjones1653😂😂😂Lmao I choked upon my coffee

@4evermarx

8 ай бұрын

Dude, there is a doc on KZread, the betrayal. There is a mother that got a letter her son died in chechnya but she didnt belivie the russian goverment. She joined some organisation named "mothers" or something like that, it was a group of mother that have their sons fighting in chechnya. The mother that got deathletter traveled to chechenya and found her son alive, also chechens wanted to prison exchange and all the corpes could be taken back. Watch that doc and u can see the russian corruption and how careless they are for chechens civilians and also their own.

'... Ethnic cleansing. Speaking of which, today's sponsor is MY HERITAGE!'

If anyone wants to gain great insight into the two Chechen wars and the Russian military as a whole, I recommend reading the book “One Soldier’s War” by Arkady Babchenko, who served in both. The connections between this war and Ukraine is great

@stpancraschapel2136

Жыл бұрын

Just listening to the Chechen tactics against columns of Russian armour, it was striking how similarly vulnerable mechanised divisions in Ukraine have proved, particularly in the drive towards the capital at the start. It’s scarce credible the Russian army has learned so little thirty years.

@andersjjensen

Жыл бұрын

@@stpancraschapel2136 When delusions of grandure is a national pandemic there is systemic resistance towards any kind of change.

@matthewkeaneone

Жыл бұрын

Good book

@chapiit08

Жыл бұрын

@@andersjjensen The "steamroller" delusion. During WW2 the casualty ratio was 16:1 in favor of the Germans. Russians have a fatalistic view of war and life in general which translates in a complete disregard for the safety of their own troops. Most of their victories have been Pyrrhic and their defeats difficult to quantify in terms of losses of men and materiel.

@carlosbalazs2492

Жыл бұрын

Great book, I'm reading it right now. Babchenko has an axe to grind, but I'd argue it's with good reason.

Russia destroyed Grozny ruthlessly regardless of number of civilian casualties.

@sniperviper4922

Жыл бұрын

How war works

@calebc5057

Жыл бұрын

Hmmm sounds very familiar…..

@stc3145

Жыл бұрын

Incoming whataboutism……..

@christianjocson5509

Жыл бұрын

Bakhmut will become one too unfortunately.

@bigmatthews666

Жыл бұрын

So what.

History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.

@markkwasny9650

Жыл бұрын

Words to live by . . .

Setting a prerecorded message at a train station that simply says “Welcome to Hell.” has to be one of THE most badass things ever

I'm so glad you made a video on this. I've seen various footage and images from Grozny. Russian language documentaries show much more than the English ones. It's just rubble, bent metal, grey skies and rotting bodies.

Respect for real Ichkerian people. Greetings from Poland. Greetings and great respect for that fight for your freedom.

@MrNotStop

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the nice words, we will emerge again

@twisters999

Жыл бұрын

@@MrNotStop I have no doubt you will! 💪 Stay strong friends

@zamsuthalim

Жыл бұрын

free ichkeria

@sleepyjoe7518

Жыл бұрын

Yes to more freedom and liberty between Polish Ladies and Chechen Men and prsperity to their resulting offspring.

@zamsuthalim

Жыл бұрын

@@sleepyjoe7518 you say it like its the wrong thing,everyone have a choice in thier live about who they love,cant force love

The way Russia fights wars makes other Superpowers look like they just go into countries handing out pillows. Holy Hell.

@imgvillasrc1608

Жыл бұрын

Mongols: *Points at Russia* That's my girl!

@Oumegi

Жыл бұрын

@@imgvillasrc1608 That's not even a stretch, big chunks of Russian "culture" do come from the Mongols. The fact that Mongolia changed since then makes it all the more ridiculous.

@DauthEldrvaria

Жыл бұрын

@@Oumegi Yea I was just about to say something like that. I mean I know Russians aren’t Mongols but I’d expect with the geography their would be so ethnic mixing if not cultural.

@russty81ify

3 ай бұрын

Yeah really impressive, and that's why they don't win any wars. joke military beaten by civilian milita

Most depressing moment of this war were the two friends turned enemies.

@alexandervolkov5205

Жыл бұрын

That telephone conversation echos in my mind…

@kingmusa8618

Жыл бұрын

🤔

@user-fw4uh7ob2s

Жыл бұрын

they were not friends, its a fake story

@malcomx1924

Жыл бұрын

@@user-fw4uh7ob2s no it’s not they fought in Afghanistan together in the soviet afghan war.

@loismylane

Жыл бұрын

@@malcomx1924 Many of these insurgents were also there. Sucks to think about the fact that many of these guys fighting were likely friends

The battle of Grozny is a stark rebuttal to any notion that it's Putin alone who is to blame for today's Russia being so aggressively evil. After all, this horror happened back in the mid 90's during the Yeltsin era, when virtually everyone in the West was pollyannishly optimistic about the prospects for a free and democratic Russia.

@thejudgmentalcat

Жыл бұрын

That's a very good point. The West (incl. myself) are very ignorant of this history. Warographics is helping us understand

@Silver_Prussian

Жыл бұрын

Russia isnt aggressive nor evil if your nations security was at stake your wouldnt be bending the knee would you ? No you would be doing anything to preserve that security. And we all know nukes arent an option

@DrMrPersonGuy

Жыл бұрын

The West wanted to believe in a rose-tinted friendly image of russia, but russia's neighbors know better. Unfortunately many in the West still can't accept that it's a bigger problem than one guy at the top.

@Oumegi

Жыл бұрын

Putin is a mere product of his country and culture. His support in politics grew after he literally erased a city.

@Adv-vr1uh

Жыл бұрын

@@thejudgmentalcat Thank you so much for being willing to learn! We (Ukrainians) are dealing with muscovites for 800 years (since so-called russia emerged as a nation). It's not a putin's war. It's *russian* war. They were always brutally evil, they were always men without honor.

You and the team always make such fantastic content! Thank y'all!

Your content is getting better and better on this channel. 10/10. Very well done.

The similarities between this story and the war in Ukraine are astounding

@MaxvanRijn-ro3yx

Жыл бұрын

The little they learned is even more astounding

@blechman3871

Жыл бұрын

​@@MaxvanRijn-ro3yx russia learned that when they bomb city in to the rubbles they can take it. Turns out they dont have enough amunition for every city of ukraine.

@brinkee7674

Жыл бұрын

@@MaxvanRijn-ro3yx Seems they learned nothing

@Mortablunt

Жыл бұрын

In both there were murdererous genocidal ethnonationalists killing people for the crime of being of of different ethnicity and so Russia had to stop them because they refused quit peacefully, the rest of the world acted like Russia was the bad guy for stopping a genocide.

@hamishgaffaney5323

Жыл бұрын

It's closer to the 2nd chene war

Grozny was taken back by Chechens in 1996 and forced Russia to withdraw their army and sign a peace treaty in 1997. Chechnya would be invaded again in 1999, this time by Putin. It's been estimated that aroud 300 thousand Chechens were killed in both wars (about 30% of population). 45K of them were children. Interesting fact: The Chechen President Dzhokar Dudaev (killed by russians in 1996) said that he has documents indicating that Crimea is the next target for Russia and also predicted the war between Russia and Ukraine. He also added that Ukrainians will never accept being a part of the Russian Empire and the war with Ukraine will be the end of Russia. Chechen wars took way too much time and resources, forced Russia to delay their plans of invading Ukraine until 2014.

@Mortablunt

Жыл бұрын

Do you have the agricultural licenses to pump out this much bullshit

@yeslol4267

Жыл бұрын

​@@Mortablunt Holy shit, you're a dedicated vatnik

Prosecuting an urban warfare theater is nasty business, it doesn’t take a military tactician to understand that.

Such a depressing story. Thanks for covering

Thank you for the very informative video. I am a bit surprised at the lack of maps and graphics in this video. It could have helped to show some basic maps of the region and the city when describing different parts of the battle. The video is still very informative, thank you for posting.

The craziest part about this whole video is how he manages to change shirts so fast for that commercial

@ryhol5417

Жыл бұрын

He’s clearly a witch

@josephgriffin2388

Жыл бұрын

I noticed that as well. Cat like reflexes Simon has I tell ya

@MrSniperfox29

Жыл бұрын

I love it when he does that, it makes it easier to skip and find the actual content on the time line.

@SkunkApe407

Жыл бұрын

Clones. It's clones.

Ty Simon and your team. This is the best channel on KZread

I did a My Heritage via your discount link ages ago, (two years?) Have ended up with over 1000 people on the tree, and have met up with cousins I didn't know I had, some travelled from New Zealand to the Uk to see us!

This Video was so helpful on My Chechan War research paper thank you!!!

Wild how familiar the "bloodless blitzkrieg" sounds, if they had learned from that mistake the battle for Kyiv could have been very different.

@croaklikeatoad4384

Жыл бұрын

It really reminds you that russias first victim (of many) is it’s own people

@oleh.kachynskyi

11 ай бұрын

@@croaklikeatoad4384 They're not victims, stop saying those stupid things. They're the aggressors, they decided to stand aside while their corrupt government continues sending them for death. They did nothing to stop the Chechen war back in the day, and they continue doing nothing to stop the war in my country and leave Ukrainian soil. Every russian is responsible for the death of Chechens and their children, as well as every russian is responsible for the death of Ukrainians and our children. Memorize it, repeat it, and understand it. Every, single, russian.

@spoopytigrams9076

9 ай бұрын

unfortunately for the russians, they’ve deceived even theirselves with their own military doctorine, “make everyone think we’re strong, even if we’re not”

One of the best examples of modern urban combat. Of course, the Ukraine War and the Iraq War and the Syrian Civil War also have some very good examples. The Chechens were able to quickly access the Russian command radio nets (sound familiar?), that, combined with “funneling” tanks into kill zones was a major force multiplier

I served in the Soviet army in 1988 and I knew how poorly prepared we were for the next war.

Simon can't even get through an ad copy without going on a tangent

@Zeppathy

Жыл бұрын

Ever wonder how many get cut? Lol.

Urban environments are a nightmare for any attacking military… I was in 1st Battle of Fallujah and we had supposedly a ~10:1 advantage; around 20k of us and 2 or 3 thousand of them… We had air superiority, better training, better equipment and it took us over a month to secure the city, really we never truly did but that’s what historians say… It was a well sized city but everyone other than the militants had left and let’s just say the construction standards for the buildings wasn’t like US or European cities… I can assure you infiltrating a decent sized city even if the opponent is out manned and out gunned is not an easy thing unless you just level the whole place… We did our fair share of leveling in that war so I can’t judge another military for choosing that route…

@stevenwynn7162

Жыл бұрын

If you haven’t already did one do one of these on Fallujah which we gave up and then had a second engagement in down the road… We aren’t any better than anyone else no matter what we may believe

Thank your heritage for the video, very good

Great video!

This guy has a million channels. His production schedule must be absolutely insane

@Mortablunt

Жыл бұрын

US state department funding to spew out the appropriate propaganda helps.

@yeslol4267

Жыл бұрын

​@@Mortablunt Everything is propaganda and I love it.

@samt7351

Жыл бұрын

@@Mortablunt cope

@sonnymp1337

Жыл бұрын

​@@Mortabluntthe sovijiiieet bot again

@Mortablunt

10 ай бұрын

@@giorg1174 Someone has to counterbalance all the genocide loving Nazis with the Banderafahne pics.

I have never understood the hubris of people who believe that they would be welcomed as liberators, without any resistance. Why can't people realise that "their" reaction would be the same as "your" reaction. People would rather have their own Hitler than a foreign Gandhi.

Try to talk about something about a specific countries is doing. People in comment section: "Bu.. but, America.."

@alexalexalex92

Жыл бұрын

State-run troll farms be that way

Incredible video

1:35 - Chapter 1 - Background 3:00 - Mid roll ads 5:10 - Back to the video 9:00 - Chapter 2 - Belligerents & tactics 12:25 - Chapter 3 - The battle 19:35 - Chapter 4 - Aftermath & analysis PS: Since it's the chechen again, can we send Slavoj Žižek to stuck Putin in the "toilets" ?

Thanks for this videos and keeping us informed simon.

@dakotastrain338

Жыл бұрын

His videos aren’t very factual.

@ChangedCauseYT-HateFoxNames

Жыл бұрын

​@@dakotastrain338 Then why are you here risking miss memory and furthering his algorithmic reach?

All the comments are so on topic, I just came here to say that I love you.

Barely audible in the background in the video " severnaya" goldeneye 007. Thats absolute class. I was just playing that theme yesterday walking through a big open frozen field at dusk. Such a vibe

Warographics is amazing! The Quality of the content is astonishing! I really enjoy your videos, it's incredible to learn history through them!

@Theshropshireratter

Жыл бұрын

Like history channel in the good old days

Urban warfare is something that is really hard to engage in because its basicaly like entering a fortress full of hundreds of small fortress, any building can be an enemy stronghold. No army in the world has ever been able to go through this kind of warfare and say it was not challenging.

@housellama

Жыл бұрын

Urban warfare and counterinsurgency are two of the hardest challenges in warfare. Both are made a lot easier by winning the hearts and minds battle first. If the enemy can't hide among the population, then that makes things a lot easier for you. If you are facing a hostile population and are trying to fight an enemy within a city, you're better off just shooting yourself. That would be a lot less painful.

@kx4998

Жыл бұрын

True, even the US army took thousands of casualties when engaging in urban warfare. But at least the commanders expected heavy casualties and enter with a preparation of house to house fighting, and not march in with parade formations

@Kaiserboo1871

Жыл бұрын

@@kx4998 The bloodiest 21st century American battle was the Second Battle of Fallujah in 2004.

@brrrrrtenjoyer

Жыл бұрын

​​@@Kaiserboo1871Didn't we lose like 500 people in Fallujah? That's about an entire elementary school. Not saying that isn't a lot of people but it looks like a masterpiece in comparison to Grozny or Ukraine.

@Kaiserboo1871

Жыл бұрын

@@brrrrrtenjoyer You are correct, it was light casualties relative to past battles.

Kadyrov spits in these men's faces! Those men died to not have a puppet like him in power.

Thanks

One of my prized items in life is a draft of a passport. The Chechen Republic of Ichkeria passport. There is a small map where the capital is named Dzokhar not Grozny. It stays right beside with my own national passport.

@TheDimir

Жыл бұрын

Greetings from Ukraine. Living in situation somewhat similar to that of Ichkeria in 90s, I'm really sad that back than your country and people weren't backed up by west as Ukraine is backed up now, or at least backed up more by islamic countries. Maybe the war of today would not be happening if world helped Ichkeria to fight for independence, or helped Georgia in 2008. I reall hope, that brave Ichkeria warriors, who are now fight for freedom of Ukraine, will be back home in independed Ichkeria and that my country will help to make Ichkeria independed again.

I highly recommend any of the books Anna Politkovskaya authored on the subject of the Chechen wars.

The narrative is wrong There were two battles for Grozny. In 1995, the Russians lost and negotiated under Yeltsin. In 2001,the Russians flattened Grozny under Puriin. The scriptwriter has both events mixed up.

@Ocelot835

Жыл бұрын

Technically three if we count 1994 attempt of Chechen Provisional Council and FSK to capture Grozny before oficial Russian involvment into conflict

love your stuff. great topics. Consider something about Cold War? Say between 1970-2005?

The amazing thing is that Russia is still using the same sledgehammer approach to warfare.

@amotriuc

Жыл бұрын

You can't teach an old dog new tricks :-)

@billybigballs5776

Жыл бұрын

Russia always fought with quantity,they never had quality.People in their country never were considered human,just meat for warfare.

@cmdrgarbage1895

7 ай бұрын

That's what happens when both sides can't get air superiority

somehow Russia never learned when they invaded Ukraine... the same mistakes committed.

@CakeofWisdom

Жыл бұрын

Basing your whole strategy around "drive in and expect them to surrender" is what both historians and military planners call: *a fucking stupid idea*

@robinbeckford

Жыл бұрын

Hardly. They've learned from the Chechnyan mistakes, and now they stand back and let the artillery do the work.

@velouris76

Жыл бұрын

⁠​⁠@@robinbeckford Are you serious? You didn’t even watch this in full, did you…Did you even see the clip from The War in Ukraine at the end of this vis: Russian tanks advancing in straight column on outskirts of Kiev…simply picked off by taking out first and last tank…the rest becoming total sitting ducks, exactly like what happened in Grozny… They seem to have learned little to nothing from Grozny…

10:40 this frame took my breath. Thinking about how many people lost their lives brutally and I know it may sound silly but I can't help thinking about pets. I love cats and seeing this frame was so heartbreaking.

"Alik, have mercy on your men's mothers.... Its better if you come to me as a guest."

Sometimes the best you can do against a massed-force invasion is to make each one of their objectives as expensive in blood and ammo to gain as possible, and then try to live to fight another day.

@schloops8473

Жыл бұрын

the solution is always the same... go after the dictator and it's key players, their families and everything they ever cared of. Dictatorships do not care about anybody else and so killing hundred of thousand of their soldiers is useless... all your artillery should be pointed at the white tent

@andersjjensen

Жыл бұрын

The Russians should have taken their own advice and encircled the city for a classic siege. Nobody and nothing gets in and out. When they start getting desperate due to lack of food you let women, children and the elderly out. Then the negotiations start "10 pizzas for a Kalashnikov!"... It may take months, but it will sure as hell be cheaper.

@kraigisboss

Жыл бұрын

@@andersjjensen It would have worked well in this case cause the country in question was so small and outside help was not coming. The modern conflict right now would be a harder encirclement to pull off because Ukraine has a functioning army to work with, not a militia. Also, it really does seem like the Russian army just forgets all lessons learned and needs to keep relearning them.

last time I was this early, Russia was invading its neighbours Oh wait

Can still see that vid of the young conscript getting a blade in his throat...think the world had there back till beslan

I mean, in terms of the first battle of Grozny, the casualties at the train station from the Maikop motorized Brigade basically tally up to all the western powers losses in other conflicts. Doctorine and negligence are very powerful things

Omg, this guy is everywhere… youtube keeps recommending his videos every single day

@block8893

Жыл бұрын

He narrates like 20 channels

@ChucksSEADnDEAD

Жыл бұрын

KZread slowly becoming SimonTube.

@Mortablunt

Жыл бұрын

He doesn’t make the videos western propaganda just pays him to talk over them. Watch out everything he says always supports the western narrative and is always ever so perfectly cut to ignore a little details that would make the Russian side reasonable.

@galacticupfan7386

Жыл бұрын

@@Mortabluntwhich details were cut in this case?

🐺🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️🟥⬜️🟩 Free Chechnya

@AL_AFGHANI1

10 ай бұрын

Free America from Americans

That myheritage ad was a crazy change of pace 😅

I read a book called "My Jihad" in 2002 that went into a bit of the battle for Grozny.

Rest in peace to those that passed away.

The Russian General in charge of the first assault was drunk and believed Grozny would fall within a day 😂

One thing for sure 2 things for certain: Them chechen boys had Russia SHOOK!

Lol the cc said anti doodie....doodie😂😂😂

"Alik, it's better for you to come to me as a guest. Alik, from my heart, I wish that you survive this, but you better leave." Most Chechens didn't want to fight, but the Russian troops weren't given a chance by their superiors.

I'm glad this was addressed. I wasn't told about this in school. (Indiana) thank you

@sleepyjoe7518

Жыл бұрын

Now read about the history of American frontier and how cruel and brutal Anglo-Saxons enslaved Native Americans .

@jeremyreff6511

Жыл бұрын

@@sleepyjoe7518 don't worry I was lucky enough to have native American friends growing up.

@Oumegi

Жыл бұрын

@@sleepyjoe7518 How is it in any way relevant to Chechnyan wars ? :)

@sleepyjoe7518

Жыл бұрын

@@Oumegi Simon is Russophobic, presents his analysis with a slight bent but ignores Anglo-Saxon crimes and injustices.

@Oumegi

Жыл бұрын

@@sleepyjoe7518 The same way Russia would not be mentioned in a documentary on Manifest destiny and various American colonisation crimes, US doesn't need to be mentioned in a video on the battle of Grozny. That's not Rusophobic. Frankly, barely anything called Rusophobic these days actually is so.

There’s a video “On the road to death” (?) filmed on a video camera by a Russian soldier. Absolutely savage.

Looks like it got fixed up nicely.

*Holy shit, is there a more Russian looking Russian than Boris Yeltsin??* 😅

@protosszergs5323

10 ай бұрын

to be honest, he looks like the Finno-Ugric tribes, he doesn’t look like a Slav.

These episodes are getting incredibly better & better!

I really miss hearing you say “Nagorno-Karabakh “ 😂👍🏻

Fun fact: the president djokhar dudayeav warned ukraine they would be the next if chechnya falls their expansion wouldn’t end this was said in an interview

Video 8 of asking Simon to do a Syrian civil war video or perhaps more, as well as a Rise and Fall of ISIS (for Into the Shadows tho) Would be greatly appreciated

@KennyNGA

Жыл бұрын

do you have a problem with me ironpro?

@ironpro1511

Жыл бұрын

@@KennyNGA?

@KennyNGA

Жыл бұрын

@@ironpro1511 do you have a fucking problem with me?

@iand4374

Жыл бұрын

a syrian civil war video would have to be in 40 min parts 😂😂

Great episode!!! It honestly blows my mind how much the Russian military and govt get away with time after time, war after war. They have the same playbook but we clearly haven’t read that play book. 🙈

Got business blaze vibes from that ad read.

How many channels does this man have

This video reaffirms my lack of understanding as to how any Chechens can fight for Putin in Ukraine.

@user-fw4uh7ob2s

Жыл бұрын

The amount of Chechens fighting for Russia is minimal, Ukrainian government released a complete list that showed out of 2,500 kadyrovites, only half were chechens (1300). Many of these are forced. On the other side there are many Chechens that fight for Ukraine: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechen_volunteers_on_the_side_of_Ukraine

There's a recording of one the Chechen General's radio'ing his old friend who was the Russian General begging him to not invade. Also that if he did he couldn't do anything to save him. He served in the Russian army previously

@user-pg3hs1wb6j

Жыл бұрын

Well, not generals. One of them is supposed to be an officer from 131st Maikop brigade, while the other is most likely Ali Adaev, one of the Shamil Basaev subordinates. Adaev was killed that night and the Russian officer was most likely to be killed as well.

Re-uploaded video? I feel like Simon already did the video on this topic.

Grinder, the term of the year 2023 . Piss pounding, adrenaline stimulating meat grinding. That is war.

Kadyrov when he got the call from Pootie sold his moral convictions. A man like that Isnt worth a lick of spit...

@Mortablunt

Жыл бұрын

Under him the Chechen people have prospered like never before. From a forgotten fringe to one of the jewels of the nation. From ashes to skyscrapers in under five years.

@user-dr7ru8pm3d

Жыл бұрын

@@Mortablunt lol

@antiSrusnya

10 ай бұрын

​@@Mortablunt😂😂😂

Can you do Estonian war of independence some day in the future. Love your videos.

Man i fuckin love this channel

Theres videos of interviews from survivors from 131st maikop brigade

This battle was like Mariupol but somehow worse

Remember, this is what Putin is willing to do his own citizens.

@patrickmunneke8348

Жыл бұрын

Remember Waco? All governments are the same.

@badluck5647

Жыл бұрын

@@patrickmunneke8348 You think murdering your citizens in a false flag to justify a war is the same as an accidental fire that started during a raid on a cult of pedophiles?

@SpecialFishSimon

Жыл бұрын

@@patrickmunneke8348 ah yes, because law enforcement taking on a compound of religious extremists is the same as the military leveling a whole city. and seriously, all governments the same? That is incredibly ignorant and demonstrably false. I cant remember Iceland doing something like this, or Switzerland, or Norway

@ChucksSEADnDEAD

Жыл бұрын

​@@patrickmunneke8348 Pure whataboutism.

@tempino273

Жыл бұрын

​@SpecialFishSimon the reason the cops were called on them was a lie anyway. So yes it's the same as killing your own citizens for no reason

War, war never changes

*looks at Ukraine* They never learn! History repeats itself!

@patrickmunneke8348

Жыл бұрын

Yet Russia won this conflict and will win the other as well.

@Oumegi

Жыл бұрын

@@staryucheny6698 They will throw a hissy fit at the end when Ukraine wins, I bet. I just worry what kind.

@falloutking2819

Жыл бұрын

@@Oumegi Nah, they’ll just lie and say they were fighting thousands of NATO special forces. These people seem incapable of learning

@yuriyseliuk4120

Жыл бұрын

@@patrickmunneke8348 🤣

@v.emiltheii-nd.8094

Жыл бұрын

@@patrickmunneke8348 And what a pyrrhic 'victory' that is.

You know what’s funny? Well funny for me. Is the fact that at the start of Chechen war and Ukrainian war there were 1 phrase which literally made me think “well it will end badly for us”. So our propaganda news start saying “ we will take Kiev in 3 days”. So the funniest thing is that Grachev the military man who was mentioned in this video, before invading grozny said “ give me two parachute troops and Grozny will be yours within 2 hours”. Honestly saying the same phrase it’s just so stupid.

I live in germany and got a russian family as neighbors, of which the father served in the russian army in the 90s and actually fought in Grozny and told me that it was an absolute nightmare to go through. But take a guess what his take on the russian invasion of Ukraine is

@Mortablunt

Жыл бұрын

If he’s a good Russian and not a Nazi lover he will be standing by it, sad, but understand the need to stop the nearly decades long and still ongoing genocide against the Russians of Ukraine. The Russian people do not love war but understand its necessity.

@chrisiooo

Жыл бұрын

@@Mortablunt Please tell me, what genocide? The 14000 deaths since 2014, made up of military and civilian losses of both sides and even including the people in the civilian airliner Russia shot out of the sky? Or the fact that they made ukrainian the only official language in Ukraine but protect the rights of all people in Ukraine who's first language isn't ukrainian?

@rumeysadgn

9 ай бұрын

@@Mortablunt ongoing genocide against russian in ukraine? Aaa excuse me? Stop spitting bullshit. Russia is the one who always commits genocide. Killed crimean tatars, killed chechens killed circassians killed georgians noe killing ukranians.

@monetum1392

8 ай бұрын

​@@Mortablunt Your ass seems to be a great source

Predictability has a quality of its own - Vlad P.

40 years since Afeghnistan and they keep doing the same mistakes. If Georgia was a large country they'd had more troubles

@ravenmusic6392

Жыл бұрын

It's more the opponents they faced. The Russians in the 90s were dreadful and faced a dedicated bunch of former Soviet soldiers with excellent terrain. They got better by the second war and by 2008 had quite a good grasp of pre-planned operations, and the Georgian army folded like paper, it wasn't a serious fighting force in the same way the Chechens or Afghans were

Russia is the worst neighbor on the block.

Anyone with enough explosives can level a city...doesn't make them warriors or a functional military force.

@frankrenda2519

Жыл бұрын

sure does

@alabastertheunicorn3204

Жыл бұрын

Well if you can absolutely obliterate an enemy from afar, then yes it's worth it

l should watch this before it gets banned...

shoutout to Simon's nan

Can you do something about Czech history? We have a lot of interesting stuff too. Hello from Olomouc the city of forts 👋

@thisisabcoates

Жыл бұрын

When I think "war" and "Czechia" I tend to think of the Second Defenestration of Prague. Oh, and kings fighting wars against their brothers (Jaromir and later Wenceslaus, etc)

@rubiconnn

Жыл бұрын

The Hussite wars would be interesting.

@SkunkApe407

Жыл бұрын

The treatment of Chechens and "lesser" Slavic groups at the hands of Russians is sickening, to say the least. It's a wonder that any former Soviet state would dare trust Russia, let alone side with them.

Considering how badly it has gone for Russia in Armenia, Chechnya and Georgia I wonder why the hell they figured Ukraine, a country much much bigger and much much more capable, would go down smoothly?

@noahgray543

Жыл бұрын

Because things went fairly well during the invasion of Georgia and in the first invasion of Ukraine? I mean, any idiot could see that today's Ukraine and 2014's Ukraine are different beasts entirely, but I am not saying that Russian intelligence isnt idiotic.

What are your AR-15's going to do against guys with tanks and jets? I dunno? Same thing as guys with AKs but with better aim.

You’d think that by now, they would’ve learned their lesson, but based on the war in Ukraine, it’s obvious that Russia hasn’t learned anything! I hope they don’t and this horrible war is over soon with Ukraine winning and keeping their independence!! Excellent video. The various Chechen wars are so rarely covered, so this was thorough and very interesting. Well done Simon and team 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@maitreytelang2312

Жыл бұрын

Shouldn’t the West worry more about it’s energy needs? You won’t have a running power grid if you don’t have energy.

@Furyfrags

Жыл бұрын

​@@maitreytelang2312we dont need russian gas, we got LNG. Say goodbye to ur EU market no one wants ur gas putin

@hs3633

Жыл бұрын

@@maitreytelang2312 don@t worry about the West. We will do just fine! Worry about Putin and the terrorist country aka Russia(officially!)

@nanonano2595

Жыл бұрын

@@maitreytelang2312 is this what the putin bots are resorting to now? no energy issues in the US btw.

@maitreytelang2312

Жыл бұрын

@@nanonano2595 Is the US equal to the West? If you’d have seen the news, there were massive protests in Germany and France due to the hiked energy prices, during the last winter.