Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Putin’s Ruthless Purges Are Destroying Russia’s Future" video.

  1. 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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  2.  @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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  3.  @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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