Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "NATO troops train in Estonia as Putin prepares to ‘increase hostility’" video.

@Infopirates Of course I have. I have also travelled to Russia's rural areas. We brought aid there after the collapse of the Soviet Union. People were starving and in rags. It's a little better now, but I fear it's going to be the same again -- soon. Estonia's PISA scores clearly exceed those of Russia, but I guess facts aren't your thing. You sure like them emojis. You be you, don't let anyone tell you that you're childish.
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What's clear is that your strength isn't "on grammar", but the emojis compensate for your grammatical ineptitude. On second thought, I would add another five for good measure.
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So, Russia has justified fears of Estonia marching on Moscow? With all due respect for Estonia's few-but-spunky soldiers, I didn't know Russia's armed forces were in such a bad way.
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@Infopirates Estonia's GDP per capita still clearly exceeds that of Russia, no matter how you measure it, PPP or no PPP. Also, it wouldn't hurt if studied up on service economies.
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@Infopirates So cute!
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Someone from half across the world, who feels beholden to the Soviet Union Russia, comes and offers expert advice?
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@SnakePliskin762 Funny, when we joined NATO, you lauded us in Congress for our performance in the Winter War. That was overwhelmingly a conscript/reservist army. You've appropriated our conscript war heroes, too, like Simo Häyhä -- whom you never fail to mention when snipers come up -- and Lauri Törni a.k.a. Larry Thorne, supposedly the quintessential Green Beret.
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@SnakePliskin762 On our own turf? After the Winter War, which was purely a defensive war for Finland, Stalin claimed that the Finnish army couldn't conduct large-scale offensives. He must've opined differently when the Continuation War broke out and we promptly got our own back. It took frantic US diplomacy to stop our offensive, because we were threatening lend-lease deliveries over the Kirov railway. Again, conscript/reservist army at work. Incidentally, I also served as a conscript in the Royal Netherlands Army, in mechanised infantry. A few years prior, one of our tank batallions had participated in the biennial Canadian Army Trophy. Our conscript tank crew won, beating all the NATO regulars, including those from the US. Rumour had it that your guys trained exclusively to win the next competition -- which they did, too -- but we regained the trophy two years later.
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@SnakePliskin762 Up here, it's only winter in the winter. The big Finnish push of the Continuation War took place in the summer of 1941. My mum is Finnish and my dad was Dutch, so I got both nationalities at birth. I first served in Finland, where I started thinking about a career in the military. I thought a NATO army a better career choice, so I enlisted in the Netherlands. It wasn't to be, although I subsequently served tours with UNIFIL and KFOR -- with the Finns. The KFOR tour was interesting -- while activated, I kept my full reserve officer rank. When my NATO colleagues in Kosovo learned that I wasn't a regular, they refused to believe me at first.
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@РафаэльСаркисянц-ъ2т No-one provoked you, unless Ukraine spurning an unwanted suitor -- Putin in this case -- amounts to provocation. Ukraine made its choice, and Russia wasn't it.
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@РафаэльСаркисянц-ъ2т You should give it try, if only to find out how much sooner that would bankrupt Russia. Also, I wonder if Cuba and Venezuela would warm up to the idea, having witnessed how poorly Russia can protect its allies <cough>Armenia<cough>Syria<cough>.
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@РафаэльСаркисянц-ъ2т We're fine, you're not. In Russia, inflation is rampant, interest rates are sky-high, the ruble has nose-dived and even your favoured Chinese suppliers are getting risk-averse and stopping deliveries. BRICS? BRICS is a great opportunity for its members to help themselves to Russian resources on the cheap. They have access to world markets, while Russia does not, so they effectively set the prices. Russia plays the role of bargain basement in BRICS. "My" USA? Whatever made you think I'm an American? You can choose from 141 countries that oppose Russia, yet you arrived at the USA? I'm insulted. I have a master's in history (among others), and I distinctly remember being taught that the Soviet Union had to sound the retreat in the Cuban Missile Crisis. It spelled the end of Khrushchev's career, too. Great Soviet-style historical revisionism, but I wouldn't expect anything else from a Putin fan.
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@РафаэльСаркисянц-ъ2т Ooh, you'd rather not discuss rampant inflation, crippling interest rates and the myriad of other problems that bedevil the Russian economy, because it's a sore point! Understood, bury your head back in the sand. I don't think you've understood the law of supply and demand. With the exception of Russia, the whole world is our supply. For you, the supply is far, far smaller, because you're being sanctioned left, right and centre, or prospective trading partners give you the cold shoulder for practical reasons. When this limited supply falls short of your demand, suppliers instinctively jack up their prices. Nonetheless, you need their currency, so you have to drop your prices to them, often even below cost. Especially China and India are adept at this. As long as Putin has been in power, he has promised to diversify the Russian economy, but progress has been slow or non-existent. The Russian Federation truly deserves the epitaph 'gas station that masqueraded as a country'.
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@lovemanunited1234 There's plenty of historical evidence to the contrary, bud.
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@lovemanunited1234 You don't know your history. In Afghanistan, the Soviet Union lost wars not once but thrice -- in 1926, 1929 and 1989. Then there were the Baltic wars of independence, all three of which were lost by the Soviets. The Polish-Soviet War, samo-samo. In WW2, the Soviet Union beat Germany and some of the latter's smaller allies in Eastern Europe -- hardly "almost all Europe [sic] bro", in other words. Should we move on to the wars lost by the Russian Federation? Oh, the number just doubled.
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@lovemanunited1234 "They have more" -- what? Defeats? The Russian Federation has only existed since 1991. Already, it has racked up two defeats and a third, a really big one, is in the making. The Soviet-Afghan War did the Soviet Union in. Let's see if the Russian Federatio survives this one.
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@lovemanunited1234 Russia is worst coloniser of them all -- and unlike the former ones, it hasn't ceased and desisted. I call hypocrisy.
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Gay themes fascinate you. Go on, open that closet door!
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