The Roman Empire Reveals How Russia Will Collapse

Empires rise and fall, and Russia is just one in a long string of failed empires over human history.

Let's talk about the Russian economy, and how it's holding up as Russia wages its war against Ukraine. I discuss Russia's "war chest", the collapse of the ruble, inflation, and how Vladimir Putin is running out of cash.

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[PaulJWarburg]

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[singamajigy]

“Every lie incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid.”

[MrBigbonzai]

The first minutes I had the impression you are talking about the US.

[jussitoivanen]

In these times when many of us get updated through short Instagram and Facebook reels, need people like you who have the patience to analyze and explain what is really happening. Thank you!

[ehzimmer]

I appreciate that you film these videos outdoors.

[DecoyJayc]

"Too frequent rewards signify that the enemy is at the end of his resources; because, when an army is hard pressed, as Tu Mu says, there is always a fear of mutiny, and lavish rewards are given to keep the men in good temper." —Sun Tzu's Art of War, Chapter 9

[ivanov]

Hi, a russian here. I have recently discovered your channel and I might say that your analytics is very accurate. A lot of people outside of the country usually do not have such a level of understanding how things work here, but you do. Hell, even a lot of people INside the country cannot see the obvious signals of what’s going on and think that everything is fine. Thank you for your videos.

The only thing I would add is that those artificial "good times" are for the Moscow and a few selected cities only. Coming from a small town I might say that thing got really REALLY worse. People outside of Moscow lived in poverty before, but now everything is way worse even that it used to be. The Moscow and the other parts if Russia live in two absolutely different worlds, the inequality level is insane right now, and ironically it is also what happened to Rome as well

[rogerazevedo]

Very well explained. Negative replies are from people that “heard” you, not listen to you. The biggest problem with this type of people is that when they start listening their mind switches modes to “critical analysis” so they so busy focusing on how to analyze that they stop listening and start hearing.
Keep up the good work. Perfect Analogy regarding Roman Empire and that’s History repeating itself.

[cristinaprevir]

Thanks Mark! I’m from Ukraine, currently live in Kyiv, and working with USA in IT field. I appreciate that you support us and understands how the reality is. I found your thoughts interesting! I hope that Ukraine at least survives in this war. We as ukrainians are quite well understood both sides - the russians and the western world, and we could be helpful with explaining aspects.

[JaqUkto]

I’m Russian and I do 100% agree. As a businessman I struggle to compete with state-owned companies for employees. Another thing is our finance rates that start from 25%. I’m glad that we can survive on equity, but that’s not the case for most companies.

[holger]

What I like most is your timing. You give the audience time to listen and understand, you don't rush through your content as seems to be mandatory in the entire web today. Look at those gazillions of youtube or other channel contributions: Speakers rush so fast as if the world ends within the next minutes and they need to squeeze in just another million words. For a non-native English listener a nightmare. Thank you very much for this unagitated, focused and factual content.

[ErynRea]

You have a great speaking voice and cadence. Keep up the good work!

[markmcreynolds]

I just subscribed to your channel. I’m 69 years old and you have explained things in a very simple and straightforward way. I think a lot of people don’t understand what is really happening. I was one of those. I hope you are trying to get the message out to a larger audience besides your channel. This is information that everyone needs to hear and understand. Great work!

[Serezin]

Interestingly there is another empire at the beginning of collapse 😂

[virtualmontrealfountaintours]

Sorry Mark, the war is now in eleven years. It started in 2014.

[АлександрК-ыдщ]

As russian I should say you are completely right.

[paraweir]

History has proven, over and over again without fail, that all empires eventually fall. ALL empires, great countries, powerful and prosperous countries, oligarchs and kingdoms over history, all eventually died out.

[georgeschenk]

The quality of Paul's videos are much appreciated.

[gloriasanchez]

Young man! Russia collapsed when the Soviet union collapsed! Unfortunately for us we are already collapsing. We are the most indebted country in the world! The county infrastructure is old. We have fallen 20 years behind from some Asian countries!

[tetianavarvynska]

recently discovered your channel, always amazed at the quality of your content and especially the quality of your narration style. You are never too fast and never too slow, you articulate so well and your arguments are so well constructed and grounded. Many thanks. Hopefully when the full scale war is over and I stop donating that much money to support Ukraine's war effort, I could become a financial supporter of the channel. For now I can only offer my deepest gratitude and likes and recommendations to friends.