Russians REBEL Against Putin – They Refuse to DIE for His STUPID War

august has never been a good month for russia world war one started in august the failed coup that collapsed the soviet union happened in august and most russians alive today still remember black august when russia defaulted on its own debt the ruble collapsed the banks failed and ordinary russians watched their entire life savings evaporate overnight august again and guess what that actually happened on putin's watch and by every measure russian analysts are quietly using right now august 2026 is now shaping up to be the worst month of vladimir putin's entire 25-year rule the fuel crisis just keeps getting worse the russian bond market just quietly shut down after nobody would buy government debt the russian stock market has entered its longest decline in almost 30 years and the russian economy is now losing billions of dollars every single day putin is so afraid of all this that he has started arresting his own inner circle and i promise you by the end of this video you'll understand why russian oligarchs are now openly comparing august 2026 to 1991 and why one of most influential businessmen in russia just got arrested and why a ukrainian actor who once played napoleon in a russian movie is now burning down moscow to the ground as you guys know my name is sam you're watching business basics and of course we'll talk about the major strikes that just took place ukraine just wiped out 50 of russia's biggest company but before we get to that let's quickly talk about why russian oligarchs are calling for a coup take a look at this tweet this is from michael kotakowski he used to be one of russia's richest men but he made a mistake of speaking out against putin for that he was jailed for 10 years and then he had to flee the country and this is what he's saying right now august is coming in russia august has a reputation coups defaults catastrophes this year russia has a reputation coups defaults catastrophes but it's not just about the coups in russia russia has a reputation coups defaults catastrophes this year august has a reputation coups defaults catastrophes but it's not just about the coups in russia russia has a reputation coups defaults catastrophes but it's not just about the coups in russia it's about the coups in russia russia has a reputation coups defaults catastrophes but it's not just about the coups in russia russia has a reputation coups defaults now i'm sure some of you guys know in 1812 napoleon bonaparte invaded russia and set moscow on fire well guess what 200 years later in 2012 a completely unknown ukrainian comedian with a name that most people couldn't even pronounce at least most americans played napoleon in a low-budget ukrainian comedy film the actor was some random guy named vladimir zielinski with two y's i don't know which one you pronounce but it was napoleon zielinski the actor was some random guy named vladimir zielinski the actor was some random guy named vladimir zielinski the actor was some random guy the actor was some random guy named vladimir zielinski the actor was some random guy named vladimir zielinski but nonetheless well guess what in 2026 that same ukrainian actor is the president of ukraine and he's once again setting moscow on fire and i think this time everyone knows how to pronounce his name now i'm sure everyone knows that over the last few months the ukrainian long-range strikes have been hitting moscow all over the place old facilities wild berries warehouses logistics hubs anything that you can imagine and this is causing a massive problem for the kremlin because people are turning against the war we have russians now getting on on camera on social media publicly calling for putin to end this special military operation but before i show you guys that clip let me quickly go over that august list the historical list of why august is such a bad month for russians this is an important pattern so let me walk you through the big ones the ones that everyone remembers in august of 1914 germany declares war on russia the great war begins world war one and that war ultimately destroys the russian empire then august 1917 russian provision of russia goes on for a while the russian revolution takes over russia the russian revolution goes on for a while the russian government is overthrown which opens the door for the bolshevik revolution which creates the soviet union then let's fast forward a little bit we come to august 1991 i think this is the one that everyone remembers the infamous coup where soviet hardliners tried to remove gorbachev as the president of the soviet union they fail but they end up triggering the collapse of the soviet union the very thing they were trying to protect august 1998 putin is making his rise through the kremlin and this is when the original black august happens the worst month economically speaking in modern russian history russia defaults on his domestic death which triggers a ruble collapse banks start failing russian banks start failing and then ordinary russians basically lose everything that they have within days the situation is so bad that russia is forced to publicly beg the united states and the imf for emergency aid now this is something putin sees personally because he's very close to the center of power in moscow he's part of the yeltsin government he's not yet at the top but he's making his way to the top in fact he talks about this in his biography that he's going to publish just like two years later when he's running for the presidency when he's campaigning for the presidency but nonetheless that's a topic from a different video but this is something putin remembers but guess what august doesn't really improve for putin even when he becomes the president because guess what his first august as the president of russia was probably the worst month he has ever had that month there were bombings happening inside moscow very close to central moscow then on top of that the curse disaster happens where the submarine just disappears then and then the cursed submarine goes down with the entire crew inside of it and putin who was on vacation at the time decides that it's not that big a deal so he just stays on vacation that becomes a very very major problem and on top of that when he does finally show up there's this whole commotion where the public turns against him and they had to like sedate a woman who was complaining to putin on live tv there's a clip of this on youtube that you can go watch right now in fact many people argue that this was the moment when putin started that he's not going to do unscripted interviews anymore and he's not going to associate himself with bad news anymore that's why whenever there's bad news to report to the russian people it's all the people around putin who give the bad news putin is always there for the good news but let's keep moving forward we get to august 2023 this is when prigogin's plane goes down this might be the weakest pattern in this whole list because it's not really bad news for russia i guess in a way it is bad news for russia because prigogin could have removed putin but he gave up his chance he did not seize the moment but nonetheless his plane goes down in august 2023 then in august 2024 russia becomes the first country first nuclear armed country to be invaded first time since world war ii there were foreign troops on russian territory and putin becomes the first president first russian president since world war ii to basically go through a russian invasion of course i'm talking about the ukrainian counter-offensive in the cruise region where they took over a piece of russian territory and they held it for a very long time in fact putin had to beg north korea for help to get the territory back that's how bad the situation got and guess what now many people are predicting that this next month august 2026 might be the worst of all which brings us back to what ordinary russians are actually saying about all this while ukraine keeps hammering russia every single night on your screen you can see some russian girl who's filming her city burning behind her and then the caption on the screen says thank you uncle vova for the beautiful sunrise vova is the nickname for vladimir putin and the song that's playing on this clip is also mocking putin now of course we cannot play the song but the song basically goes vladimir putin well done and it's meant to be a pro-putin song but i think with the imagery on the screen you can tell why this song is marking putin all the while russian cities are burning russians are using this song to basically thank putin for everything he has done for the country now this is actually nothing compared to what we are about to see next because as i said ukraine did hit two more or i guess three more wild berry warehouses in the last two days and because of that russians are now publicly calling on putin to just end this special military operation take a listen i can no longer hold back my tears just 20 minutes ago a drone struck the krasnodar warehouse the krasnodar warehouse is now on fire imagine how many of our goods were stored there damn honestly i just want this smo to end so many people are dying so many entrepreneurs are suffering we now have to submit our tax report for the sixth month the half-year filings i don't know what to do anymore you understand the krasnodar warehouse just imagine 20 minutes ago a subscriber sent me a message saying brother i'm sorry i shouldn't have sent this here's the video 20 minutes ago the wild berries krasnodar warehouse was destroyed krasnodar warehouse in valberis krasnodar warehouse in valberis i don't know how to handle this situation now before we get into this next clip i do want to provide you guys with an important context over the last week since ukraine started heading these warehouses russians more specifically a russian business owner small business owner have probably lost billions of dollars because of these strikes because they had a lot of merchandise stored in these warehouses now that's important because in this next clip we have another russian woman explaining how her life basically got destroyed because of this war first she lost her husband because of the special military operation he went to ukraine on the front lines to probably earn a paycheck earned that bonus that putin has been giving out but unfortunately he did not make it back and on top of that she went into business for herself selling on wild berries and even that is not working out because of the special military operation take a listen explain to me when will this nightmare end when will our government stop playing games first my husband was killed then i threw myself completely into work on wild berries i lost two million rubles last year and i had to take out a working capital loan then the bank f***ed me over because of a credit holiday because i took just one month of a credit holiday they threw an extra 700 000 rubles on top of it just for f***ing nothing i just threw it down the drain because i couldn't close this loan i had to take out a new loan on top of it a f***ing debt trap then a contractor scammed me out of two million and now all my remaining inventory in the wild berries warehouses is burning down i've lost huge amounts of money in a single year plus i've acquired 4.5 million in loans not even counting the mortgage what else what maybe that's enough now there's an important connection we have to keep in mind here even though all these clips a lot of people are talking about economic problems those problems can become political very quickly and russians have been unhappy with the situation they are in ever since war has come home as ukrainians say russia has been striking ukraine for a very very long time but russians didn't really care for that because they weren't being affected but now that ukraine is heading back over the last 10 months russians are way more unhappy with this war than they were before the strikes begin all that anger is turning into political pressure on oligarchs to help out ordinary russians and guess what wildberry's ceo just announced before i started recording that she will be compensating all these sellers who are losing basically their life savings in this war but unfortunately this war is not over yet this announcement isn't exactly what it seems like because there was a lot of legalese that she was speaking to get out of paying everyone and that's something we'll cover in just a second but before that let's talk about all the elites that putin is arresting because it seems like putin is not just afraid of ukrainian strikes he's also afraid of his own friends i guess he's truly becoming stalin 2.0 take a look the kremlin is now like spiders in a jar a war of all against all has started among the kremlin elite accompanied by unprecedented arrests of people who were close to putin they used to believe that they were untouchable and that this status was guaranteed now everyone understands that it is only a matter of time before they are targeted the arrests now taking place suggests that the system has begun to crack the most significant arrest and criminal trials there were a couple of people who were arrested from putin's inner circle they've been his close associates for a very long time then on top of that there's been a purge at the leadership position of russia's defense ministry as part of a large-scale campaign under the pretext of fighting corruption and embezzlement nearly the entire inner circle of former defense minister shoigu has ended up either in pre-trial detention or under house arrest then we have names of all the people who've been arrested and on top of that we also have a sweeping purge among governors and mayors the most high-profile ones are the ones you can see on your screen all these prosecutions and arrests point to redistribution of influence within the kremlin an intensifying struggle over the power of the elite and the fact that principle of the elite being untouchable no longer applies even to putin's longtime friends putin is persecuting and eliminating his old friends while becoming even more fearful for his own life and that's something we talked about in our last video there's fear all over the russian elite at the top specifically there are people who are afraid of putin but it's also putin who's afraid of other people now there was an oligarch who recently recently spoke out he gave an interview to a western publication economist and that's something we covered in our members video but that interview was definitely interesting because it seemed like that was like a fake interview though it was a controversial one where he was speaking out against the economic failure that russia is going through but he wasn't really putting the blame on putin or putting blame on ukraine he just avoided the war altogether saying that west cannot afford to you know see russia collapse that's basically was the warning and that's why many people are pissed about that article and that's something we talked about in our members video but nonetheless we're seeing this happen more and more a lot of oligarchs are realizing that they may not be as safe as they had assumed inside of russia but unfortunately it's not easy for them to get out of the country either because of sanctions and because a lot of their what is it called a lot of their wealth being tied to the defense industry that russia is pumping so much money into now historically speaking this is nothing new i'm sure you guys remember the great purge that took place under stalin mao used to do something similar where he would regularly arrest people from his inner circle and usually these kinds of operations line up exactly to the point when leaders start fearing for their own power and their own position i'm guessing that's exactly what's happening with putin now unfortunately with putin bad news isn't just coming domestically it's not just domestic market that's causing him headaches he's also getting bad news from the front lines now just recently we covered it in a video where we learned about a new statistic that was just shocking where an average russian soldier only survives 20 to 30 minutes on the front lines that's the average lifespan which was hard to believe but guess what cia just confirmed that publicly here we have cia director john ratcliffe telling the world exactly what cia knows take a listen the average life expectancy of a russian recruit right now arriving on the battlefield in ukraine is estimated be is estimated to be between 20 and 30 minutes 20 and 30 minutes and and that's because um uh you know ai powered drones have have gotten to be such specialized low-cost killing machine now another important thing to keep in mind here is that this is not coming from ukrainian intelligence because of course as you guys can imagine ukraine has an incentive to put out bad information about russia which makes sense they are getting invaded they want to you know win on all fronts as much as possible including the informational front this is coming from american intelligence which means there's more of a credence to what this number actually tells us it doesn't have to be that exact but just the fact that lifespan is being measured in minutes tells you everything about how russia is truly winning this war as russian war bloggers always like to claim now on top of that i do want to point out another thing why this is possible and that has to do with ukrainian drone innovation this is something also we recently covered in our members video but ukraine is currently approving two new drone designs every single day and this is a stat that's from 2026. that's just insane so they probably have more than 200 designs approved this year and of course some of that makes it to you know after all the testing it makes 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ukraine is actually hitting inside of russia everyone is talking about the wildberry warehouses that are getting destroyed and that is an important story so we'll go over that in just a second but that's not the only story because ukraine has been hitting a lot more than just warehouses take a look just yesterday ukrainian drones hit 13 more russian shadow fleet tankers across the black sea and sea of azov that brings the total number of russian vessels that have been hit by ukraine to 196. just four more and they'll hit 200s and remember this only happened in few weeks this operation began on july 6th we're not even a month in and 200 russian vessels have been hit on top of this it's also important to remember that ukraine is using unmanned drones which means there are zero ukrainian lives that are being put at risk to carry out these operations and that's exactly why russian war blockers are getting so mad take a look at this message that russian warblogger recently published there used to be food coupons soon tanker departures in the black sea will require coupons too russia's black sea fleet is trapped in its bases and base unable to sail into the open ocean a reminder crimea was seized precisely so russia could dominate the black sea we think that if vladimir vladimirovich putin knew about this he would have already taken action but no one reports it to him surely because he is being kept in the dark he is still convinced the cruiser moscava remains the lead ship anchored off snake island we hope for the best now for those who don't get the joke the moscava was russia's flagship black sea vessel but ukraine sunk it back in 2022 four years ago and now this warblogger is publicly mocking the idea that putin still doesn't know what year this is i'm sure putin is still hoping for that three-day special military operation to finish but nonetheless this is the good old russian coping strategy of good boyars it's the old russian belief that czar himself is always wise and good and the country's problems are always caused by advisors boyars who are feeding him false information and bad information it's the old russian technique of coping but i'm sure putin does not mind it because for putin all he cares about is staying in power so as long as russians are not blaming him for their problems he's happy but unfortunately that's a very hard thing to continue because russians are now seeing their country literally burned to the ground and yes i'm talking about those wild berry warehouses for anyone who missed our last video here's a quick recap wildberries is a massive russian company kind of like amazon here in the united states but structurally speaking wildberries is actually way more dominant inside of russia than amazon is here in the united states in fact their logistical footprint is so massive and so efficient that the russian military has been quietly using them to supply to the front lines they've been using them to you know fulfill their logistical problems and this is a exactly why ukrainians started striking it roughly five days ago and these strikes have gotten worse every single night now it started with a warehouse in moscow region not the city but the region so like the whole state and guess what this is what that warehouse looks like just a few days after that strike take a look so well guess what since then ukraine has destroyed even more wild berry warehouses in just last two days they have struck three more take a look a highly successful night for ukrainian armed forces taking out two massive facilities owned by wildberries in southern russia and here are the clips that fire does not look real i mean that it's hard to believe that fire is real it's massive i don't think anything is gonna survive in there and this is the clip we saw at the beginning of the video where the girl was thanking putin for the sunrise the russian sky that's probably not good for the air quality now this is something we'll go over in just a second but the two facilities that ukraine destroyed they were the fourth largest and the sixth largest airfield in the ukraine in the country for the company so massive facilities being taken out and i think the first one has already been hit so there are only a few left in the top 10. here's another clip of a russian finding out exactly what's happening right outside their window take a listen now in this next clip you can actually see a helicopter trying to put out the fire but it's having no impact at all it's like a mosquito trying to put out a fire or something you can still hear some sort of popping sounds it looks as though the remains of something are exploding helicopters are flying around putting out fires but it seems to have been unsuccessful there's smog it's still the right-hand side that's burning the most after all the smoke is blackening the one on the left seems to be holding up for now but if they don't put out the fire on the right the left will get it too and the one on the right is already burnt out almost completely they're putting out the fire with a helicopter and the scale of it is such that the helicopter looks like a tiny speck against the backdrop of it all right here is the helicopter now for some russians this is actually creating a great tic tac content a lot of them just having the fire in the background and just making videos pretending like it's not there and it is going viral good morning for some reason i got up at the crack of dawn today i don't understand for some reason i'm being haunted by some anxious thoughts well it's just this generation you know we're zoomers do you happen to suffer from anxious thoughts today for some reason i feel especially anxious now on top of this this is something that has not been confirmed yet but as i'm recording this on thursday morning there's another warehouse there's a fire near a wildberries warehouse in rosneft we don't exactly know if the warehouse was hit or if something else was hit if you were to make an educated guess you would probably have to guess it was the wildberries warehouse in few hours we should have more information and if the warehouse was hit that means ukraine has hit six out of top 10 warehouses that this company has number one number two then number five six seven eight you can easily guess what's next and then after that ukraine will move on to something else now luckily for russians who are losing everything they had in these warehouses just recently the ceo of wildberries did announce that she would be providing compensation for everyone all the russian sellers who lost everything now not everything seems like what it is so we'll talk about this compensation in just a second but before that we're going to talk a little bit more about what's going on in the warehouse and what's going on in the supply chain and we're going to talk a little bit more about what's going on in the supply chain i saw a video of a russian merchant asking a very important question and that's a question that kremlin should be asking when ukraine decided to hit russian oil refineries they hit russian oil refineries when they decided to hit russian tankers guess what they hit russian tankers and when they decided to hit wild berries warehouses they hit wild berries warehouses so what is kremlin exactly doing to stop and what happens if ukraine decides to hit something else way more important that's what this guy is asking take a listen so if i understand correctly ukraine hits whatever targets it chooses it can reach them as well so if they want to strike oil refineries they strike them if they want to strike wild berries warehouses they strike them if tomorrow they decide to strike i don't even know the kremlin airports train stations the military industrial complex they'll strike them vpk so what happens after that now let's talk about that compensation as you guys can expect there was an intense political pressure on wild berries to pay people who are losing everything even though wildberries changed their contract 10 days ago basically saying that hey if there's a drone strike on our warehouses we don't owe you anything but despite that contract change wildberry ceo did say that she will be compensating sellers but this is where the math does not make sense you see according to estimates and this is just estimates coming from russian experts the company probably lost around 3.5 to 4 billion dollars around 300 billion rubles in merchandise over the last five days that's a lot of money but maybe you're thinking relatively speaking maybe for a company this massive that's not a lot of money that's what i believed initially but i looked into it this company is only worth about nine billion dollars and i'm not saying nine billion dollars is not a lot of money it is a lot of money but a nine billion dollar company cannot pay out four billion dollars in losses at least in my mind that seems very very unlikely no nine billion dollar company has four billion dollars in cash and guess what this is where we have to go back to her initial statement she said she would be compensating sellers she did not say she would be paying the entire amount that they lost and that's exactly what's happening here we have a clip from a wildberry seller who got his compensation and it wasn't anywhere close to what he was expecting take a look today is july 23rd and wildberries paid us compensation for the goods that burned in their warehouse on july 23rd 18th let me show you the size of this compensation here is the value of our remaining inventory at one of the attacked wildberries and now i'll show you how much the world bank decided to compensate us today voluntary payment for goods damaged as a result of force majeure please note the amount is 10 687 rubles 94 cents this is the compensation we received today did you receive it write in the comments whether you received any change today or not the money he got was less than one percent of what he actually lost in fact it was less than half a percent of what he actually lost which is genuinely insulting at that point no money would have been better off now of course this strike is definitely a positive one but i don't want to make it seem like it's ukraine just hitting russia russia has been hitting back and unfortunately as russia always does they're heading back at civilian targets but before we cover those stories let me show you exactly how the russian media the russian propaganda machine is covering these strikes on russian wild berry warehouses take a look the headline logistics infrastructure of online marketplaces under attack the russian economy risks coming up against a new pro-inflationary factor strikes on logistics infrastructure and their consequences may become a new pro-inflationary factor in the russian economy which will require special attention from the central bank just like with the imbalance of the fuel market after ukrainian strikes on oil refineries commerce has calculated that in a week drone attacks have affected five wild berries warehouses with a total area of 802 000 square meters or 14.3 percent of the company's total logistics capacity eight percent of capacity will temporarily suspend operations in the near future logistics will likely be revised with some goods sent to the urals and siberia for storage and an increase in the share of sellers with their own warehouses the front page of moskovsky comes to wallets today russians again expect prices to soar now as i said russia has been attacking back and specifically going after ukrainian civilians too just recently on july 21st russia attacked in charniv region where they had an administrative building one person was injured at the same time they hit a residential building in the sumi region where six people were wounded including four children and they also hit infrastructure in odessa then the night before that russia actually attacked and killed an 11 year old maria lefchenko she was with her family in her home when the russian bomb struck and unfortunately she did not survive this is something that's happening in ukraine a lot a lot of children are getting injured or hurt because of russian strikes my name is sam and i'll see you guys in the next video according to russia's own parliament the kremlin's propaganda budget is set to jump by 54 next year they call it the ministry of truth and in 2026 it will spend 146 billion rubles or nearly 2 billion dollars the goal is to flood the internet with kremlin's narratives and bury anything that dares to criticize vladimir putin including podcasts like this one we are already seeing this happen over the past month we have gotten dozens of one-star reviews all coming in the middle of the night minutes apart of one star reviews coming in the middle of the night minutes apart from each other almost like someone on the other side of the world is working on the clock but here's the truth we 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