Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics" channel.

  1. Mark mentions that nonsense the Kremlin peddles about the Bolsheviks creating the Ukrainian SSR and before that Ukraine was not a country. Ukraine had a constitution in 1710. Almost 300 years before "ruzzia" got one in 1905! Google - Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk
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  2. On the NATO issue at the end of the show that you put to Mark, I have to beg to differ. It's so important I put it in a new comment. "Not one inch to the East" referred to the then East Germany, The USSR had not yet collapsed to the Warsaw pact still existed. This is a HUGE point the vatniks never get right Pyotr. From the Brookings article - Did NATO Promise Not to Enlarge? Gorbachev Says “No" - We now have a very authoritative voice from Moscow confirming this understanding. Russia behind the Headlines has published an interview with Gorbachev, who was Soviet president during the discussions and treaty negotiations concerning German reunification. The interviewer asked why Gorbachev did not “insist that the promises made to you [Gorbachev]—particularly U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s promise that NATO would not expand into the East—be legally encoded?” Gorbachev replied: “The topic of ‘NATO expansion’ was not discussed at all, and it wasn’t brought up in those years. … Another issue we brought up was discussed: making sure that NATO’s military structures would not advance and that additional armed forces would not be deployed on the territory of the then-GDR after German reunification. Baker’s statement was made in that context… Everything that could have been and needed to be done to solidify that political obligation was done. And fulfilled.”
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  3. Great conversation as always Pyotr, I love your show mate, but I have to push back on something Mr. Foreman said and your reaction to it. Mr. Foreman stated that a breakup of Russia would make the breakup of Yugoslavia "look like a children's picnic", you had a chuckle at that. Before I go on, Mr. Foreman is not the only one saying that Colonel Phillip Ingram says something similar - "It would look like a Sunday school picnic". I get what they are trying to convey, but it really irks me. I'll explain why. My ancestry is the former Yugoslavia, father Bosnian, mother Serbian. What happened there was horrific as Mr. Foreman stated. My father's side of the family were ethnically cleansed from a town called Bosanski Novi, it's now in Republika Srpska and is renamed "Novi Grad". They can never go back and are all over the world as refugee's in Australia, Canada and the USA (I grew up in Australia). MY mother's Serbian side is living their lives as normal in Beograd (Belgrade). What happened there was not funny and it was not a 'school picnic". Arkan's paramilitaries (the Tigers) used to go into Bosnian villages and cut the hearts of out peoples chests. The Serbs (who are Russian lapdogs) were just as barbaric as their Russian masters. Lastly, my mother's Serbian side of the family disowned me when I moved to Ukraine, says all you need to know about Serbs. 😥 Anyway no hard feelings mate, but next time someone says that don't laugh, I beg of you. In Ukraine we all want to see Russia as it exists fall apart, it's a tall ask and highly unlikely, but we live in hope. As long as Russia exists in its current form it will be a threat to us here. Cheers!
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  4. On Ryan's "prediction" that there might be some kind of Sinai peninsula peacekeepers, like in Kosovo, this is just nonsense for two reasons. I've lied in Ukraine for a decade (Ukrainian wife), been displaced twice, in 2014 and again in 2022. My ancestry is the former Yugoslavia btw (grew up in Australia). Anyway back to why his Sinai/Kosovo DMZ analogy is BS. 1. President Zelensky signed a decree that all lands must be de-occupied and 2. It is against the Ukrainian constitution to trade land for "peace" and redefine the post-Soviet borers as agreed at Belovezha in 1991, also, it's easy for Ryan to talk this nonsense when it's not his home that will be "negotiated" away for some super-dumb "peace" deal that will only let ruZZia re-arm and try again, like my Donbas home will be. Sorry but Ryan is just pulling utter nonsense out of his posterior. I agree with him on the F-16's though!
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  5. great interview Peter, so the first question you asked the good Lt. General, about what are the objectives, the answer that he gave was multi factorial and this is the correct approach. Too many pundits look for a "main reason" for what we are doing here with the Kursk operation, when in reality, it is multi-factorial, even going so far to say that in some way, the top brass are "seeing how it pans out" and rolling with the punches. There's a bit of everything going on here and there is no one main explanation. But of course President Zelensky has stated some of them, "buffer zone", "prisoner exchange fund" etc....already we are in multi-factorial territory with the official narrative!
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  6. This guy pisses me pff for a number of reasons, he's ostensibly on our side, but came back hard at you Pyotr, when you mentioned, lets deal the hammer blow to ruzzia via Ukraine. Frankly, China is not an immediate threat, Xi will not endeavour to take Taiwan after the lessons of Ukraine, unlike the "Prophets of Doom" (such as Mr. Alperovitch) trumpet loudly from the rooftops about. Then he makes some absurd comment about "What is victory for us here" ?. That's the wrong question. We just want ruzzia out of Ukraine, and yes he maybe correct, they will continue to lob missiles at us over the international border. But eventually Putin will die and this will end. He makes a big deal about the Houthis and overplays them, well almost everyone's going around the cape now. Problem solved, forget the Suez canal, it's done. But here's the last and biggest gaff this guy made, back when the Karkhovka dam was blown, he stated (paraphrasing) - "I don't think the russians blew the dam, Putin would not be that crazy" - Well Putin WAS that crazy. Intelligence had revealed (because everyone blabbed about it, unlike Kursk) that the main push for the failed offensive last year would come through that territory to split the land bridge, so the russians blew the dam and f'ed the plan up. Mr. Alperovitch has never apologised for being so wrong about this. 🤡
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  7. You have excelled yourself Pyotr, I love all your guests and discussions, but sometimes I have some criticisms, this time 💯 on the money with defence attache Foreman. We were neutral here in Ukraine from 1991 to 2014 and how did that go ? (rhetorical question, we all know the answer).  "Putin's poker face is good, but his chess game is 💩", hahaha! SPOT ON MATE!! He is no Kasparov....
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  8. I am from the former Yugoslavia Jake and Croatia's beautiful, Split is a very touristy city (due to Roman emperor Diocletian's palace) right on the coast there and you are not wrong about being priced out for locals. Lyviv here in Ukraine is a bit like that but probably not as bad as Split, it's very touristy and everything in the shops is way more expensive than in other parts of lUkraine (except fro maybe other tourist places in the Carpathians etc). There's no way I could afford to live there.
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  9. Agreed, I consider Pyotr to be a European. It's tough for Pytor, he's between a rock and a hard place, Brexiters don't want Europe, and his Russian ancestry means that on the other side of the continent, Russia is anti-European and also has been disowned by Europe.
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  10.  @seufer12  Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk 1710, backwards ruzzia never got one until 1905.
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  11. Peter, you mentioned you only discovered Chris's chan recently, just in case you are not aware, there is a channel called "Covert Cabal", and the guy who runs that channel, pays for his own satellite images of storage bases in russia. Some of them are classified and he can only show them a fe w months later. Anyway, you should check out his video run downs of the old Soviet equipment draw downs (they're usually short 10 mins or so). They are burning through this stuff FAST. I can't paste links, my comments get zapped but go to this video after the dash, the estimates are half of Soviets stocks left or as low as one third (adjusted for spare parts vehicles that are unserviceable etc) - Definitive List of Russia's Armored Fighting Vehicles in Storage
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  12.  @marieelliott8368  On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians - Tsar Puyin was saying they are the asme people, which is complete BS. The kremlin has stated the western parts can go to Poland and Hungary, so he does want all of Ukraine. Maybe most of it. I re-listened to the show again, it's not that bad, They don't sound like sympathisers. Mark stated that the consensus of NATO would be difficult to overcome, but he went on to say that Ukraine should be in NATO, that here is ways to get around the current situation and get VIP entry and if not NATO, get nukes. The original objective of the SMO was to overthrow President Zelensky and install a puppet and get out and control Ukraine that way, (as they were doing with Yanukovich before he got tossed out). When that failed he went all in on taking land and controlling it directly. This is exactly what Mark and Pyotr discussed. I've lived in Ukraine for ten years and been displaced twice. I give the chat a thumbs up. I've been here long enough to sort out the grifters.
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  13. That was a great discussion Peter, Mr Giles is about as god as it gets with the Russia experts, not many are on par with him, maybe Sir James Sherr and a few others. Sometimes Mr Giles is let down by a poor interviewer or host who isn't really up to speed with the topic and cant ask the right questions (like shows that do general topics and don't specialise in one particular thing), but you focus on the geopolitical issue at hand here mostly on your show. I really could not fault anything that was discussed. I lived in Ukraine a decade (Ukrainian wife) so I can sort the wheat from the chaff so to speak, when it comes to talking about this part of the world. Really looking forward to part 2!
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  14.  @davidwright5094  Yes fair enough, you've lost me with all that technical talk about semantics, grammar and what not. You sound like my wife! It's all gibberish to me. On that thing about Ruzzia breakup, they were not "all" wrong (about the invasion in 2022), I over played that statement, BUT...very few got it right, some of the biggest names in the "Russia experts" realm got it wrong, Mark Galleoti comes to mind. But you do get the main gist of what I say, that, maybe the breakup of Ruzzia, as highly unlikely as that is, will not be as bad as the "prophets of doom" make out - while using that rather poor taste Yugoslavia "picnic" analogy IMHO, but as you explained with the technical English lesson, it is to convey a point, I get that point. My emotional stake in the thing may mot matter in that case. I am a nobody anyway. Cheers.
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  15. When you mentioned that they were "filling their tanks with cardboard", that was too general, and I think you confused Johnny. What Ryan was referring to was the ERA blocks (Explosive Reactive Armour). The ERA blocks I saw blown apart here had black stuff in them that looked like rubber, but maybe if they didn't have rubber they used cardboard, instead of explosives, to defeat an armour piercing charge by exploding outwards, this protecting the steel hull of the tank underneath. Anyway, whether it was rubber or cardboard or both, Russian corruption was so bad it ruined Putin's modernisation. Everyone was stealing money, like their Czar.
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  16. At the 22:24 min mark, Mr. Cappy states something that is every problematic with tons of pundits, not only him, with poorly explaining this issue of sending is military aid here, he says "....people they talk about how we shouldn't be funding war in Ukraine, we shouldn't be wasting dollars over there when we have so much trouble in America...". This highlights two things based on ignorance, firstly, people literally think that we are sent bags of money here in Ukraine, which is complete and utter nonsense, it's the VALUE OF OLD PENTAGON HARDWARE THAT IS RETIRED, it's not new money! As Frederick Kagan on Bill Kristol's show on YT, put it - ""Ukraine is being sent....40 billion or whatever, worth of stuff....they are not being sent cash....". Secondly, since when does the Pantagon reallocate money to pay for schools, hospitals etc. ? Never. Why are Americans so ignorant of how the Pentagon works! Anyway, my main point is Chris did not explain this properly, Frederick Kagan, & Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, are the only ones I have heard who explain this properly. You really need to get Frederick Kagan on the show Ptoyr, if you can awing it and chat about that.
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  17.  @paulpaisley5291  Yea, "winners" lose 2,000 soldiers a week and lost 800,000 dead. How's ruzzia's "winning" going in Kursk ? 🤡
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  18. Putins poke face is great but his chess game is :face-fuchsia-poop-shape:. Quote of the century. Holy Mother of God, you are not wrong about the Victoria Nuland thing vatniks bring up Pyyotr. Great conversation as usual, been waiting for this part 2! Mark is a heavyweight in Ruzzian affairs who got the invasion wrong, just saying. I beg to differ on Mark's take on Donbas, slightly, I was there in 2014, but that's neither here nor there. Lost a home in Makiivka. But I still find him very interesting. Look, on Ruzzia joining NATO, would that not have been akin to letting the Fox into the metaphorical Henhouse ? Knowing Ruzzia's imperial mindset and historical modus operandi. Was this not a worry ? Mark even mentioned the degeneration to Stalinism with the large families and fecundity of women etc. On the "Ruzzian" multi-ethnic state that Pyotr, identified as bogus, (and racist re: the airport) - It is no co-incidence that the largest article on neo-fascism in Encyclopaedia Britannica is the Russia article.
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  19. Well this DMZ nonsense is fine if your own home won't fall within it (like the Trump people proposing it). What will happen to my home in Pokrovsk, it's so close to the front line now it may fall with in this "DMZ". Do my wife & I and the 65,000 other residents of Pokrovsk get to go home ? Will Pokrovsk fall within out outside of the "DMZ" ? maybe Trump should swap homes with my wife and I and then eh can "DMZ" his home out of existence. How deep will this "DMZ" be ? That is the main question. My wife had a flat she lost in Makiivka (now in the so-called DNR), what happens with that, does Putin get that for free ?
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  20. 2 comments shadow banned, mine and another persons. You can only see them if you sort by "Newest first". 😥(then you will see 3 replies)
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  21. Best 15 mins of my life, I watching it again. Maybe you prefer liars like Simonyan on RT ? Or Peskov's 💩....
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  22. Well. maybe he is softening, he said he'd end the w*r here in 24 hours, then it was 100 days, now it's "maybe 6 months". There is a glimmer of hope as Lt. Gen. Hodges stated. Let's see how it pans out.When Avdiivka fell, I said to my Ukrainian wife - "...the Russians will be looting our flat (in Pokrovsk) by the end of the year..." - they got close, 5km, but they are not looting our flat yet. Lt. Gen. Hodges correct in that prediction. Thank God I was wrong.
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  23. Reword your comments, & try again. it's YouTube not the channel's unless you are a serial pest. This happens to me too all the time on tons of chans. Blame YouTube and give Peter a thumbs up, this conversation with Mr Giles was boss, I watched it gain today for the second time. Can't wait for part 2
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  24.  @marieelliott8368  👍
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  25.  @MrLandL0rD1  It does not mean borderlands that's Russian propaganda, it means "in country", from "v Kraina" = in country (v = in, Kraina = country). If you look at old maps, it's written Vkraina, then later Ukraina, the v is pronounced like an u and it means "in". Where I come from in the former Yugoslavia we actually spell "in" as "u" not "v", but it's the same thing.......U Krajina....
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  26. Mr Taylor summed up something succinctly, that relates to a comment I made on a previous show about how his colleague Chris poorly articulated the "aid" we get here (paraphrasing), "why should we send them billions of dollars when we have so many problems sin America". Well Mr. Taylor hit the nail on the head, the Bradleys we get are old models that they are going to get rid of anyway and cost money to store. Sending them here saves the US taxpayer money! Imagine that. It's just the value of the old stuff! It's not cash or new money. But very rarely is this articulated correctly (Frederick Kagan, Jake Broe, General Hodges the rare few). Lastly, you touched on a very important point Pyotr, why give them so little if it makes no difference, let's use the 31 Abrams as the example, that you brought up. General Zaluzhnyi asked for 500 Abrams tanks, he got 31. I always used to say - "WTF are we going to do with 31 ABrams tanks ? You can't even defend my small home town of Pokrovsk, with 31 tanks, let alone a 1,000 km front!". Because of that folly, it's too late now for my home town of Pokrovsk and that lack of equipment has cost us victory. :(
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  27. With the Russian ERA, they didn't even need to open them up, we'd blow up the tank with NLAW's or Javelins and the ERA blocks on the turret would be ripped apart and were full of rubber instead of explosives!!! Russian corruption is a friend to Ukraine.💸 Covert Cabal is a great chan that Ryan mentioned, I recommend it to everyone, the guy that runs that chan, buys his own up to date super-hi-res satellite images to count tanks.
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  28. Overblown, ruzzians are coming here to Ukraine and stealing our toilets and washing machines because life is so good there, out in the boon docks in Siberia. I am really diggin' these mini-doco's Pytor!
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  29. Of course we are defying the odds. I am with of you 💯 at the 10:10 min mark Pyotr, when you mentioned the "Pricks" and the heinous things they say. I have lived in Ukraine for 11 years (Ukrainian wife), lost 2 homes, displaced twice and tons of people gave me sympathy, but there are also tons of wankers who came at me, they revel in the opportunity to peddle BS at me and demand I explain it. So, just like you after this full scale invasion, I learnt the hard way what dark "humanity" a segment of society is, they actually have no humanity ethics or morals, ready to come at someone who's lost 2 homes and been displaced twice just because they want to give them a hard time online.
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  30. Always appreciate your show even if I don't agree with some things. You're going to get burned in the comments for this one Pyotr, they'll just read the title and go from there. Anyway, my take. I live in Ukraine, moved here a decade ago (Ukrainian wife). We have been displaced twice. 2014 from Makiivka in the so called DNR and 2022 from Pokrovsk. Trump wants to give our homes away to Putin to end this war. Putin claims all of Donetsk Oblast where Pokrovsk is, will Trump just give it all away to Putin for free ? At least with VP Harris we will get more of the same or maybe better regarding our situation in Ukraine. But, I do not think all is lost if Trump wins, he very malleable and it's easy to play to his ego and get him to change his "peace in one day" folly - e.g. "Mister President, you are the most powerful man in the world, if you let Putin take some of Ukraine, that would make America and therefore you, look like a weak loser, we need to arm the Ukrainians up and let them finish this and win, and make you a winner in the process"!
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  31. Decent run down Pyotr, I have no strong opinion on this situation (I am sure you are relieved after some of my longer rants on previous shows, lol), except when it comes to Iran, because that is what concern us In Ukraine (I have my own war to worry about). I do have a guest suggestion if you can swing it, James Sherr OBE (he lives in Tallinn, Estonia) and has his finger on the pulse when it comes to this part fo the world in the former Soviet space. Discuss the Iran-Russia nexus as it relates to the Orange wrecking ball and us in Ukraine ? (also maybe why Israel has offered zero help to Ukraine) or something like that. Cheers. Love your shows even if I don't always agree with 100%, but for the most part do.
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  32.  @theglobalgambit  💛💙👍
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  33. I think we are. But we can ride it out to 2025 when some pundits think ruzzia's war economy will implode and the million casualties will finally break society.
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  34. Greenwald is a complete and utter degenerate as is Dugin, we all know how both of those frame things and the best Vlad can do is give a tacit approval of the BS they spoke about ? Seriously ? Did those two degenerates Greenwald and Dugin teach us anything we already don't know ?
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  35.  @AfterTheIce-q4j  Phraseology and keywords the YT algorithm jumps on. It seems the criteria that gets your comment shadow banned is now words that are not actually that "aggressive" shall we say. It could even be taboo topic based. I do know sometimes if a comment is flagged as maybe suspect, it goes to the channel owner for "approval". (Ian from Cold War Conversations pod let me know this). In that case if the chan gets a lot of these "pending approval comments" with thousands of comments, they may be overwhelmed and not bother. So it's a bunch of reasons. But sometimes I reword my comment and it posts ok.
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  36.  @careyfreeman5056  Indeed the chance of a clear cut victory for us was lost long ago - escalation management and drip feeding - had we got what we had gotten up to now almost 3 years ago things might be different. Look my question is, do all of us 65,000 residents of Pokrovsk get compensated if our homes fall into the DMZ ? It's easy for these rich ignorant Americans like Trump to give our homes away for peace. Just saying.
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  37.  @AfterTheIce-q4j  So it's 50/50 if we get to go home. 😥 Why should ruzzia get a say in that detail, they get to steal our land and homes. Maybe America & Ukraine work out the details ?
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  38. IMHO,Tsar Putin represents a ideology of ruzzian neo-imperialism & wants to expand the current ruzzian empire (it is a "federation" in only but name). Tsar Putin misses the superpower status the USSR had but he does not miss the communism (he needs capitalism to steal and enrich himself & his kleptocrats). The USSR was just a continuation of the ruzzian Empire by revolutionaries tearing it down then recreating it under communism, they are indeed opposites as you state Pyotr, or but the intent was the same , domination + expansion. The mistake at the end of the cold war was everyone thought, "Great, we defeated communism, problem solved!" [WRONG]. Communism was just an temporary iteration of the real problem...ruzzian Imperialism. That was the mistake made in 1989-1991 period of "the peace dividend". Let's keep in mind that ruzzia has an economy the SAME SIZE as Florida (the 4th largest US state by GDP). Even if you put the USSR back together it would only have an economy the same size as Texas (second largest US state by GDP). For those vatniks that want to mention "but price power parity", ruzzia cannot build a gazzillion "cheaper" Su-35's and T-90 tanks, barely 100 jets and 200 tanks a year each. So what is it going to spend the rest of its worthless rubles on ? 🤡
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  39. Are you drinking Chardonnay or some kind of white wine straight from the bottle Pyotr ? If so, it is the festive season, so we'll cut you some slack on that! 😉
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  40.  @theglobalgambit  Oh ok, I've still got 15 mins to go in this ep, I new this was a part 2 but I figured I could watch part 1 later out of sequence. Anyway, Happy New Year Pyotr!
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  41. Let me remind Ryan if he wants tot to get cocky with his stupid cigar on "countries that haven't been to the moon", but were too dumb to convert between metric and imperial systems and crashed a probe into mars because the deceleration burn was out by a factor of 3, that he needs to look up "Mars Climate Orbiter" - from the Wikipedia article. - "The Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) was a robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998, to study the Martian climate, Martian atmosphere.....However, on September 23, 1999, communication with the spacecraft was permanently lost as it went into orbital insertion. An investigation attributed the failure to a measurement mismatch between two measurement systems: SI units (metric) by NASA and US customary units by spacecraft builder Lockheed Martin.".🤡
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  42.  @thechrisandphaedrusshow  Yea, this is just an extension of the nuclear sabre rattling Putin has so far done verbally. But due to the western leaders finally waking up to his bluffs he has to go a step further. This is nothing new, he's has been talking loose with nukes since 2014 over Crimea.
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  43. The first time I noticed that bottle, I thought you were drinking some kinda white wine like Chardonnay straight from the bottle. 🤣🍾
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  44. So the BRICS summit was really the "RICS summit". I think we can lure the North Koreans to defect to us by droning them tons of Choco Pies with a note in Korean to surrender to Ukraine if they want more. I am not being flippant, it might actually work. Google this headline below.... North Korean soldier who defected has been granted Choco Pies for life — a snack Kim Jong Un hates With the West v Eastern Ukraine thing, I've lived here for a decade, my wife and I have been displaced twice & lost 2 homes in Donetsk Oblast (Makiivka in 2014 and Pokrovsk). For starters, there were a lot of people with bad attitudes to Ukraine even back in 2014 when I was in the DNR in Makiivka, re-integrating these people will not be a walk in the park. Some are just ambivalent, even one of my wife's own cousins & friends still stuck there. I'd like my Pokrovsk home back TBH. But I am not Ukrainian , only a permanent resident. A lot of the soldiers are just tired and want the war to stop, other's think the fight must go on. Rotation is a huge problem. Look, everyone, all the pundits on our side say the same thing (even Jake) - "A pause will let Russia re-arm and try again". - but maybe it's time to see it the other way around, maybe our tired soldiers who are sick of fighting need a pause and Ukraine can re-arm and be ready. It really should be up to the heroes and defenders here doing the fighting not those of us sitting at home. Anyway that's my 2c worth based on being here a decade mostly near the war zone.
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  45.  @JesterEric  That's nonsense the constitution was written in Ukrainian NOT ruzzian (There was also one latin copy for the king of Sweden). Cossacks are Ukrainians. ruzzians are serfs. Modern Ukrainians fight like their Cossack ancestors, they are a direct genetic ethno-cultural lineage. That's why ruzzia can't win.
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  46.  @seufer12  It's a fact, I have seen the actual constitution on display in Kyiv in October 2021. You can read electronic scans of the original online. You are just a more-on who is too lazy to look up "Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk". It has got nothing to do with hearsay and it is obvious by your infantile statements you have no clue whatsover of history.
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  47. Going by that term, Ruzzia is China & North Korea's proxy!
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  48. Great conversation, can't wait for part 2. Sanctions can only do so much, and they are not going to win the war for us here in Ukraine, they'll always hav the work arounds, as Mark Said, plus it hasn't stopped North Korea or Iran after decades, especially when over half the world, China, India, most of Africa is not on board with the sanctions.
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  49. This is a test, my reply got shadow banned, so let's see if it sticks a comment. It's very interesting you did a Brazil run down this time. You brought up Ukraine and Lula's comeback in your great mini-doco, so I won't repeat what you already stated but do a value add for your listeners. Before 2022 interrupted everything, Brazil had a very decent relationship with Ukraine in many aspects of friendship and trade. For instance, pretty much well all the imported players for my football team Shakhtar Donetsk were Brazilian. But to your question of can Brazil become a big player, imho, it could have done that a decade ago and still may have the opportunity in the future. One little known fact is that Ukraine was co-operating with Brazil on its space programme up until 2015. in Fact when Lula was President during his first tenure back in the first decade of the 2000's, he presided over a programme to buy and launch the Ukrainian made "Tsyklon" (Cyclone) launch vehicle, a medium lift rocket that could put 5 tonnes to LEO. Unfortunately due to shenanigans on both sides this project fell through. I can't paste the link (comment gets zapped) but just google the SpaceNews article title - Brazil Pulling Out of Ukrainian Launcher Project - "RIO DE JANEIRO – The Brazilian government is ending a decade-long project to operate Ukraine’s Cyclone-4 rocket from Brazilian territory following a government review that found too many open questions about its cost and future market success, the deputy chief of the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) said. It remains unclear whether the decision will force Brazil to pay Ukraine any financial penalties for a unilateral cancellation of a bilateral agreement. Over the years, the work to build a launch facility for Ukraine’s Cyclone at Brazil’s Alcantara spaceport has suffered multiple stops and starts as one side or the other fell short on its financial obligations to the effort."
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  50.  @davidwright5094  English was my second language dude, first was what was called "Serbo-Croatian". I understood all that, but it still irks me that A: two Brits now peddle the same analogy, it seems like unoriginal and insensitive thinking. How do they know the breakup of Russia will be so bad ? They were all wrong about the re-invasion of us here in Ukraine almost three years ago. The USSR had 40,000 nukes when it broke up, Russia has a piddling 7,000. What are they worried about ? No nukes are located in Southern Russia, so Ramzan Kadyrov has NO chance to get his hands on any. and B. Easy for you to lecture me like that when you have never lost anything in your life. First Yugoslavia now Ukraine, what have you ever lost in your life ? Gone to McDonalds and ordered 12 McNuggets and only gotten 11 ? Thanks for language grammatical lesson, I speak four languages now since moving to Ukraine ( addition of Rusky and Ukrainian). You seemed to partly understand where I was coming from, but not fully, then proceeded to lecture me with grammar or whatnot, fine. Keep in mind my wife is an associate professor of languages, and when she tells her English students about "past present" or "past perfect" etc etc, or whatever, I jovially tell her after the lessons, I don't even know hat that means, it's irrelevant, I just speak the language. She of course begs to differ and thinks it is relevant.
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