Comments by "M S" (@MS-ii1sv) on "Russian Economy - US Dollars Compared to Russian Dollars Spent on Geopolitics" video.

Was Ukraine any better than Russia or pretty much the same?
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@videotosse I never went to the Ukraine but I went to the Baltics and Russia in 2002 and really the Baltics felt just as decrepit and gross as Russia for the most part. Estonia was the only exception probably due to a lot of aid from Finland. Sure there were some people with fledgling businesses and what was new was pretty nice but that was the case in Russia as well. Russia is just a huge country and it takes a lot more to turn it around than some little country especially when the EU is willing to bleed its taxpayers dry to subsidize that little country.
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@videotosse Yeah. All of Eastern Europe flooded into western Europe once they got into the EU. That's why Britain left. They were getting double shafted with migration on one hand and paying billions in subsidies on the other hand. I live in Canada and honestly for every Russian I meet there's probably five Ukrainians, a Lithuanian, a Moldovan and a Belarusian. That's before the war. That doesn't suggest to me that Ukraine was an especially prosperous place. Now we are inundated with Ukrainians and many of them have a pretty bad additude. The pre existing (early 20th century and post ww2 and descendants) Ukrainian community doesn't really want much to do with them. I have a buddy from Ireland and his village of 1000 people got like 400 Ukrainian men and according to him they are drunken bums. People I know from Poland say they have had enough of them too. I am not buying this idea that Ukraine is some utopia but for the current conflict.
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