Youtube comments of Emir (@irongron).

  1. Holy mother of god, you've excelled yourself now old chap! Lt Gen. Hodges correctly predicted months ago that we'd start to see wins on the battle field and turn it around here in Ukraine. Great man, great host, great conversation! I can't afford to support you, lost a home in Donbas and am ITD with my wife in west Ukraine. But I am recommending your chan to everyone I know who speaks english! 😀
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  2. I live in Ukraine, I have been displaced twice in 2014 and more recently from Pokrovsk, where my block of flats was shelled and destroyed last week, and I do think this "ceasefire" is absurd for various reasons, some of which you mentioned (ruzzia has broken all ceasefire agreements we made with them, Minsk 1 & 2, the Normandy Format, Steinmeier formula, etc), but I don't think it will be a hard sell for Czar putin, to the ruzzian public, indicators are that a majority do want the war to end (polls are dodgey there, people are afraid to speak out against the war, but they are sick of the war too). The real resistance will come from the so called, Z-Patriots & Z-Bloggers, so the ultra nationalists like the incarcerated Igor Girkin etc. They are a small but loud minority. Putin could sell whatever he wants to the ruzzian public that is uncritical in thinking and are like sheep. It's the Z-nationalists that re the real conundrum. Anyway the most absurd part of this ceasefire is - who gets to start shooting first on the 31st day ?
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  3. A great Ukrainian and a hero of the battle of Hostomel that saved Kyiv, Heroyam slava!
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  4. Ander's is spot on about why you won't see pictures of important installations on social media etc. I've lived here for a decade (Ukrainian wife) and way back at the start of the invasion in 2022, the train station of our home town in Donbas, not far from our flat, got hit. I had some pictures, and was going to show some buddies on IRC and my wife accosted me and told me never to do that, or the Russians might find out how well (or bad) they did. But since then I adhere to OPSEC and that's how all us civilians in Ukraine do our bit. E.g. if someone lives in Kyiv or other big city near an air-defence system, you don't take pictures of it and you don't talk about it. The locations are secret for obvious reasons.
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  5. Crimea was NOT "historically always Russian", it was historically always TARTAR. Stalin ethnically cleaned them in 1944. Even in 1991, a majority of Crimeans, 54%, voted to leave the USSR and became part of Ukraine. This show earned a thumbs down for that BS.
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  6.  @noahbrooksphoto  That would give the ruzzians battle damage assesment.
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  7. At the 12:00 min mark when Mr Ponomarev, states "we need to treat the origin of the war", he is spot on, as he says, even if we push the russians out, the war will just continue form the international borders and they will continue to lob missiles at us anyway.
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  8. Great conversation Jake. A lo of bad things have happened to us here in UKraine, but we are lucky to have dedicated people like you and Vladislav going to bat for us all. Much appreciated.
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  9. Colonel Ingram is a great guest, I always like to hear what he has to say, but I take issue with the comparison of "russia" breaking up making the former Yugoslavia look like a "Sunday school picnic", my father's Bosnian side were all ethnically cleansed from their home town of Bosanski Novi 35 years ago almost, and are now all over the world in Canada, the USA & Australia. They can never go back as Bosanski Novi is now in Republika Srpska and renamed "Novi Grad". No "Sunday School picnic" for them. The USSR had 40,000 nukes (yes, 40,000 google it) when it broke up in 1991 without any major wars like in Yugoslavia, so why is the break up of "russia" with a piddling 7,000 nukes a "huge worry" ? The world community dealt with that ok and here in Ukraine we do not consider the breakup of "russia" a huge worry, but a must or they will just keep doing the same 💩 they always do. Like the USSR, "russia" must go! No ifs or buts.
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  10. A couple of great Ukrainians. I am not Ukrainian (ancestry former Jugoslavija), but my wife is and I have lived here for almost a decade. My wife lost her flat in the so-called DNR at Makiivka in 2014, so we moved to the Ukraine side of the contact line in Donetska Oblast and I bought a new flat to replace the one she lost and we had to leave last year. We haven't been home in a yar and a half. The Azov heroes not only fight for Ukrainians, they fight for a resident like me too, so that one day I can go home to Donbas. Heroyam Slava. Za peremogu!
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  11. Good stuff Jonathon. Jade on point at the start of the show regarding the exasperation of attending and putting up with events back home in the UK vs what is going in Kharkiv. She even mentioned that there is a nuance between different parts of the country here. My wife and I are IDP's from Pokrovsk and where we are now in west Ukraine no one has been displaced. Anyway, regarding Jade's exasperation with the ignorance on the home front in the UK. I totally understand where she is coming from. I have been a permanent resident here for a decade (Ukrainian wife) and can never go back to Australia, because everyone there would give me the 💩's with their ignorance regarding the situation here and their petty BS in their lives (ordered 12 McNugget's at McDonalds but only got 11 etc). I agree with Jade, the possibility of a clean victory was lost long ago. Irregardless, by life is here with my Ukrainian wife and I am here to the end. Za peremogu!
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  12. Great discussion by Mr. Bell & Mr. Ingram. They should be featured more often!
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  13. Marnie is the first peson I have heard online in sn interview specifically mention these old lands in the east that the Russians stole. I've been arguing this online myself for years. If you look at old demographic maps from 100 years ago, all the land to the river Don were ethnic Ukrianain lands, most of Krasnodar region in Russia up to Rostov on Don. All ehtnically Jkrainian over a century ago and the Bolsheviks & then Soviets ehtnbically cleansed all these lands and stole them and made them "Russian".
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  14. I'm not Ukrainian but have been a permanent resident since just before the first war in 2014, and I can attest to what Mr Buzarov said about Donetsk City not being neglected or run down. In fact it seemed like a quite impressive modern city to me when I first moved here a decade ago almost. My wife lived in Makiivka, which is like a smaller satellite city that is more or less integrated into Donetsk City due to urban growth and even Makiivka was not that bad, mr wifes neighbourhood was probably one of the more run-down quarters of Makiivka and it was not horrible, the back roads had some potholes but the main road where her flat was, Bogdan Khmelnitsky street, was very good. That flat has been lost since 2014 in the so called DNR now. I bought a new flat to replace it in Pokrovsk a few years later and now we had to leave that one too, mostly because the University she works for moved to a a very safe part of NW Ukraine, whereas Pokrovsk is semi-dangerous to dangerous currently. the city we are in now in NW Ukraine has only been bombed twice in the time we've been here, (over a year) so I would call it almost-safe, I would rather live here than Chicago USA for instance!
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  15. They really got their arses kicked in Avdiivka, YT chan "Combat Veteran reacts" host Paul, described the tactical prowess of the Avdiivka attack as "Unsophisticated" and had all the hallmarks of a clueless idiot who knows nothing about tactics and strategy that over-rode his Generals (i.e. one Vladimir Vladimirovich) by looking at the map and saying "surround it and take it", ignoring that they've been trying this since 2014 without success.
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  16.  @Ikkeligeglad  SO what ? I repeat relevant posts like that instead of typing them out again. He does the same.
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  17. I can't believe this is the last podcast of Ukraine the Latest we'll ever hear Mr Knowles on ever again. May he rest in peace and he will never be forgotten to us here in Ukraine. Condolcences to all the team who have lost a great colleague and true friend of Ukraine. Heroyam Slava. (David was a hero of Ukraine too) 💛💙
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  18.  @alangordon3283  I would very much call into question russian capabilities in this field due to decrepitude and corruption that spans all their infrastructure compared to what the USA can do. But maybe russian agents just buy time on commercial satellites that are far better than their own, lol
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  19. For the interviewer when she asked about F-16 (sorry I don't know her name) it took Poland a decade to fully convert their pilots (and this is the key word) competently from MiG-29's to the F-16. Given that was in peace time and maybe a slow to steady pace depending on funding. Even if you compress that time down due to the war here in Ukraine, it will take a few years to get our pilots fully up to speed on the F-16. The fact a year and half has already been wasted in that "few years" time period, is in my opinion "criminal". I am just an arch-chair "air vice marshall"aerospace enthusiast so to speak, but what I have stated above echoes what RUSI expert Justin Bronk has said on the record, except the part about the time wasting criminality, thats my opinion not Dr Bonk's.
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  20. Great interview Jason, look I was really disappointed with your chat with Jonathon Fink on Silicon Curtain last night and the abundant "Trumptimism" you were peddling. I moved to Ukraine 11 years ago (Ukrainian wife) and we've already been displaced twice, lost a home in Makiivka, bought a home in Pokrovsk to replace that one, can't live there either now. I understand how buttering up Trump with compliments may have worked, but it is clear now, that any folly of Tumptimism is bunk. He wants to give away our home in occupied Donbas to Putin for free and Pokrovsk is partly surrounded, and will be a virtually unliveable after any "peace deal". My mode of income is lost forever, rent one flat out, live in the other. It's easy for people like Tump to give away our homes in the occupied lands to Putin for free. His entire admin is a dumpster fire, you are on our side and are a rock solid supporter, I beseech, you, cut out the Turmptimism. I would have rather taken my chances with President Harris and her new team which would have given us rock solid assurances, without Jake Sullivan. She was far more hawkish on Russia than Biden.
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  21. Latika was a great guest, she is 💯 on point. NO disagreements with her at all. But the issue with the Oz-embassy here in Ukraine got me wound up regarding the Australian government not being "fair dinkum" (ask her what that means, not explaining it here). Let me give some context. I have Yugoslav ancestry,, grew up in Australia and am a permanent resident of Ukraine for a decade now. I retain an Australian passport and have to renew it every ten years. The last time I did that was at the embassy at Kyiv in 2021 (during co-vid). I was still living in Pokrovsk at that time, and on the 12 hour journey to Kyiv to pickup my new passport, I caught co-vid, because the embassy required a personal pickup, rather than sending in registered mail. Anyway, it really pisses me off to hear that the Aussie embassy in Kyiv is NOT re-opened. I will have to renew my passport again in 2031 & if there is no embassy in Kyiv I will have to go to Poland or w/e. Shame on them. But, finally to end on a good note, the department, DFAT, that Latika will be familiar with, were very good to me when the full scale invasion started. I registered as an Aussie expat in Ukraine (had already been here 8 years almost), and the DFAT people called me once a week to confirm my welfare. They offered my wife refugee status in Australia but we chose to politely decline. They did urge me to leave, but I explained my life and family are here in Ukraine and they rolled with it. But I am saddened that the embassy is not going to re-open here and they buried hardware they could have given us and sold off the rest. They are not being "fair dinkum"! Thanks to Latika, may she keep up the good work and keep the news honest back in Oz. 💛💙
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  22. What is horrific, is now the "civilised" ruzzians treat soldiers who make a mistake, there was a story recently of a 62 year old thrown into a pit without clothes for a few days. I went out onto the balcony with my cat for a few minutes in west Ukraine and it was freezing, I had to go back inside and let the cat look out the window on her own. Anyway, that's not the way a winning army operates.
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  23. Great interview. When making comparisons of the russian economy people often compare it to Italy, but an even more hilarious comparison is that the state of Florida in the USA has a GDP the same size as decrepit russia. There's a fun fact for you all! If you go to the wikipedia page - List of U.S. states and territories by GDP - Florida in 2024 was 1.6 trillion and is the 4th largest in the US after Cali, TX and NY, this is how pathetic russia is. 🤡
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  24. At the end of the show Anastasiia mentions how the term "Donbas" - from DONetsk coal BASin - is problematic, this is 100% spot on. That term was invented by the late ruzzian empire and perpetuated by the Soviets to wipe out Ukrainian identity and replace it with a russian and Belarusian industrial identity. Well known Ukrainian philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko is advocating for this term "Donbas" to be ditched. For example the ancient name for the area I settled in a decade a go when I moved to Ukraine is called "Pryazovia", not "Donbas".
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  25. I don't want to say too much because of OPSEC, but I will say this, I have been IDP from Donbas in NW Ukraine since last year and lately I have heard a lot of jet activity in the skies here, way more than usual. This might be the F-16's online as per your theory.. That's all I will say. Merry Xmas Anders. Always appreciate your insightful presentations. 🙃🎄🎅✈
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  26. At the 16:00 min mark, Sir Richard on foreign policy and geopolitics rarely playing a part in British general elections in he last 100 years - "...what a far cry from the days when Gladstone was talking to packed crowds about the Balkan massacres..." - Sir Richard is not only the quintessential military leader, but a great historian. My ancestry is from the Balkans and my Great Grandparents on my father's Bosnian side were impacted immensely by the Ottoman Turks. From Encyclopaedia Britannica - "Bulgarian Horrors, atrocities committed by the forces of the Ottoman Empire in subduing the Bulgarian rebellion of 1876; the name was given currency by the British statesman W.E. Gladstone. Publicity given to the atrocities, especially in Gladstone’s pamphlet “The Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East” (1876), served to arouse public sympathy in Europe for the Bulgarians and other southern Slavs attempting to gain independence from the Ottoman Empire."
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  27. Hearing Carlson and Putin's voices together at the same time is beyond tolerable, I think I'll read a transcript, lol
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  28. I have already watched this presentation twice. I have never heard of Mr Gressel until now and I was really compelled, intrigued & impressed by his exhaustive knowledge of details & technical aspects (like the Soviet doctrine re: choppers not going beyond 50km etc). I love that kind of detailed technical talk, that others seem to find "boring". I hope Mr Gressel will return for the "other half a dozen episodes you could plan", Johnathon! He is up there with the "gold standard" analysts, such as Sir James Sherr or Kier Giles. All your presentations re great but this one of the standouts for sure. I await Mr Gressel's return! BTW, I tend to swear too much, like John Sweeney (love the guy!). so I found that aspect of Gustav appealing and authentic!🙃
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  29.  @SiliconCurtain  Heroyam Slava, indeed he is John (I feel bad calling you old chap, you don't actually look that old). I've lived here for almost a decade (Ukrainian wife) but I have had nothing to do with the army here, I am just an IT guy. The good Lt . General on the other hand he knew something I did not, he's been part of the mix training them up since the Canadians began Operation UNIFIER in 2014 - getting us away from those backwards Soviet methods and tactics, so he knows how good the army is here and how rough they are and how much qualitatively better they, hence I think his gut feelings on future victories panned out! TBH my wife was very optimistic like Ben was at the outset, I was more pessimistic and thought it would go to partisan tactics like in my beloved Jugoslavia ala "Tito" in WW2 1940's style! I was wrong and my wife (and most Ukrainians and Ben were correct!).
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  30. They seem to be worried about the 7,000 "nukes" but seem to forget that the USSR had 40,000 nuclear devices (yes 40,000) and the world dealt with the collapse of the Soviet Union's nukes without disaster. Does anyone else feel the same way I do about this BS aversion to Russia's collapse ? I've lost a home in Donbas and haven't been home for over a f'in year because of Russia, it has to go, break it up & get rid of it asap!! Also I love listening to Mr Giles. Jonathon needs to ask if Mr Giles can coax his colleague James Sherr to come on the show! 😀
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  31. You really put together the "trifecta" with this top shelf panel. With the Kursk thing, a lot of pundits look for a main reason, when in fact it's multi-factorial, but as Macer said at the start, I think we are rolling with the punches. I have a flat in Pokrovsk that I might lose, if the Kursk thing drew some enemy troops away then great, but if not, there's many other benefits, it really has changed everything, the elusive "game changer" the pundits are always looking for!
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  32. Yea , I'm sad too, the home my Ukrainian wife & I (I'm a permanent resident, Jugoslav ancestry) bought 2 years ago in the Ukrainian part of Donetsk Oblast will now apparently be part of "Russia". We don't know anyone who wants Russia! We had to abandon everything. I've got some expensive artwork there too, my Uncle was Ostoja Balkansi, one of the most famous artists and writers in modern Serbian era. that art was my nest egg, it might be worth a few thousands of dollars to a collector, or 250,000 dollars, who knows. t includes an oil painting of Mostar 1979 and a sculpture of Josip Broz Tito. This is serious Jugoslav heritage .Got no chance of going back to recover anything at this late time. We need to win this war and beat Russia down once and for all!
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  33. At the 1:04:30 mark, Mr Pinner says all the ring leaders of the 2014 invasion have been locked up etc, well he's forgotten about Denis Pushilin, who is still in charge of the co-called DNR where my wife lost her Makiivka flat in 2014 when I first moved to Ukraine. He's right about the Vice news expose from back then, I recall it well, Simon Ostrovsky went round the war zone reporting about it. The most memorable one was when he went to Crimea and the Tartars told him they never got voting cards in that rigged referendum (so they couldn't vote, even though they were boycotting it anyway). In that same episode a bunch of Putin boot lickers form Europe were "over-seeing" the sham referendum and some German sounding guy Simon spoke to from that delegation said "I have not see any armed men with guns" - when that Vice news episode showed APC's and soldiers everywhere!
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  34.  @Emanon...  That's not true, Eamon, I used to think that before I moved here a decade ago, but a Ukrainian General in the rocket forces said they could be over-ridden, in case of loss of communications with Moscow, so they could be launched when WW3 came. Also, the Soviets were so backwards they never had Permissive action links for their nukes like American, British and French ones did.
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  35. The well known (in Ukraine) journalist Dmitry Gordon conducted an extensive interview with Igor Girkin for 3 hours and in that interview he admits to the Crimea and Donbas operations. The Crimea operations with the little green men fooled no one, it was Russian soldiers already stationed in Sevastopol. The Donbas situation was always passed off as a "local uprising" which is complete and utter nonsense, for two reasons, I was there and witnessed it first hand as it unfolded (since when do local uprisings have heavy artillery?). I'm paraphrasing but it went something like this, starting with a cleverly worded question from Dmitri Gordon - Gordon: "In 2014 you illegally crossed over the border onto the territory of Ukraine in Donbas can you elaborate or discuss this further" Girkin: "Of course, I crossed over the border with 54 (or maybe 53, I forget, watched it 5 years ago) men, we had hardly any arms and ammunition...etc etc". Once he had done it and it could not be called off, the Kremlin went all in and send more men and they got heavy weapons, some of them appropriated from a local army base with sympathisers. If you want to watch this interview and you understand Russian (otherwise use auto-subs) look for this title on YouTube (there is a comprehensive index in about the 4th comment down) "Гиркин (Стрелков). Донбасс, MH17, Гаага, ФСБ, полудохлый Путин, Сурков, Божий суд. "ГОРДОН" (2020)" Interestingly, Girkin discusses his disdain for Putin and the kremlinite oligarchs/siloviki etc greedy corruption and for Denis Pushilin, the leader of the so-called DNR!
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  36. Mr Zeihan on point 100%. Great return guest.
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  37. A correction, that Tu-22M3 at Poltava is not the last one as the host and pilot stated, there are 3 more Tu-22M's (M0, M2 & M3 variants) at the The State Aviation Museum located next to Zhulyany Airport in Kyiv. WHen I moved to Ukraine a decade ago (Ukrainian wife) I visited all these aviation museums.
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  38. I think i had one of those trolls, troll my comments in the "Silicon Curtain" channel. I was commenting on how, as an IDP from Donbas, where everyone speaks Russian, I had never been hassled for speaking it in West Ukraine, and some random dude not part of that conversation thread came in "there's tons of people being harassed in Ukraine for speaking Russian" and I replied, it could happen, especially with those who've suffered from Russian rape or torture or had family suffer, but I also said in my reply, show me some of these clips as there was one well known fake of a woman being accosted in a car that got pulled over by soldiers and it was staged in the DNR to make Ukraine look bad.....i got no reply back of some clip names or chans to check out...
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  39. Had our first air-raid siren in literally weeks, yesterday, in NW Ukraine. Another epic fail for Tsar Putin freezing us out this Winter, looks like another un-seasonally warm Xmas/New year is on the cards!
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  40. You took the request right out of my mind Sal. Much appreciated. You pre-empted most of us with this very timely presentation!
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  41. You don't sound too well Johnathon, hopefully doesn't get worse. I've been sick this last week and a bit too, I think I caught COVID again.
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  42. clown 🤡
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  43. It's very telling that the Hamas leaders were in Moscow a year ago and also recently. Plus the chief Rabbi of Russia, well over a year ago, called for Jewish people to leave ruzzia. That's very telling too. The otherwise corrupt and criminal Netanyahu finally did something ok, as you said Jonathon. There is hope!
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  44. This conversation with Inna is really important. On Russian state TV they call Ukrainian a "southern Russian dialect", that's complete and utter BS. My Ukrainian wife is an asscoaite professor of langauges. But let me give my own insight as a South slav (i.e. Jugoslav). Archeological digs have confirned, even back in Soviet times that the langauge of Kyivan Rus was closest to what is now called modern day Ukrainian, NOT Russian. This is via garffitti on the archelogical finds, but it's not spray paint that coms to mind, it's like scraped into the wood, if you have ever visited Saint Sofia church in Kyiv you can see this graffitti on the walls there if you look carefully. Secondly and very impoertant for me as a Jugoslav, there is actual eveidence in the south slavic langauges that Urkainain is the older langague because we have close similarities with both Russian and Ukrainain words, but if you go back far enough the Ukrainian words came into our laguages in the balkans first. This lends eveidence to the fact Ukrainian is the older tongue. NOT Russian, it came later, - like a cousin lamguage, but defenitely not the ancinet langauge Russians make it to be.
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  45. I've been a permanent resident here for 10 years,, I totally agree, Mr. Zeihan is on point, can't fault anything he said at all.
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  46. I am glad the Trumptimism pretences are finally gone forever, Much appreciated.
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  47. 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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  48. General Breedlove on point 100%, a great American and a true friend of Ukraine.
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  49. Professor Lucas is one of my favourite analysts. He's up there with Sir James Sherr, Ed Lucas, Dr jade McGlynn, Keir Giles et. al.
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  50. Was it just me or did the pilot Ken Sears seem on the verge of getting emotional (i.e.holding back tears). He had a real situation on his hands and he came out ok in the end. Saved the ship & the basin. That "close call" aspect of it must be a hard thing to handle & deal with, even afterwards.
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  51.  @ownagesniper1  That's not the case. From the article - Deceit, Dread, and Disbelief: The Story of How Ukraine Lost Its Nuclear Arsenal - "In his memoirs Brent Scowcroft noted that then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney vigorously opposed the removal of nuclear weapons from the newly independent states at Russia’s periphery. Ukrainian nuclear weapons will not threaten the U.S. as Russian nuclear weapons do, for the simple reason that Ukraine, unlike Russia, is not a serious potential adversary. It might even prove advantageous to us to see Russian power checked—and Russian nuclear weapons deterred—by a Ukraine with a minimal deterrent. In any case, we hurt ourselves with the Ukrainians by insisting that they be stripped of nuclear weapons while we legitimize those of their powerful neighbor."
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  52. Cheers Sal, good timing with the video drop, it's early in the evening here in Ukraine and when you mentioned the Bab-el-Mandeb and didn't have a drink, I had one for you and one for me (it was the hard stuff too). 🥛
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  53.  @soul0360  Indeed. Before the full scale invasion, we didn't have Marshal Law and OPSEC was not a thing I was aware of, (the only action was pot shots across those static front lines in Donbas from 2014 to 22) so it never really crossed my mind not to do dumb things like that once the entire country was affected. The wife quickly straightened me out, haha
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  54. Interesting story you tell of your time in Moscow having a beer on top of a cooling tower, my first thought was, thank God you didn't get Legionnaires disease. There's a good chance that old Soviet air-conditioning system was full of legionella bacteria! Anyway you hit the nail on the head that many pundits miss, at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union, everyone thought, "Great, we defeated communism, problem solved!" (WRONG). Soviet Communism was only an iteration or evolution (in the form of the Soviet Empire) of the real problem - Russian Imperialism.
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  55. Interesting when Mr. Kurkov mentions the book he wrote about civilian life in Donbas (because most of the other 200 books were military stories) that his book was reviewed negatively by Ukrainian "progressives". I am a Donbas IDP in west Ukraine and I have always had a good experience with people in west Ukraine when they find out I am from Donetska Oblast, but I am not Ukrainian, I moved here a decade ago, so maybe they treat me differently because I am not a real "Donbas" person. MY wife on the other hand is a real "Donbas" person (from Makiivka originally) and she gets the same nice treatment too. But I f do remember Rick the Ukrainian saying when he left Makiivka for west Ukraine a decade ago people used to call him a "terrorist" or something like that. But times have changed from a deacade ago with the war in Doonbas to the full scale war now. When my wife and I got run out of Makiivka by the separatists we just moved across the contact line, until 2022, when we ended up in west Ukraine. Mr, Kurkov has given me the idea that maybe I should write a book about civilian life in Donbas from a expat resident point of view, but I am not much of a writer. Got a huge library of photo's covering a decade and some good stories to go with them.
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  56. All the pundits are saying the counter is over...well....it has just begun!! 🙃🚦🔛🔰
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  57. Professor Ashour is an excellent semi-regular guest, always appreciate his insightful military analysis!
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  58. Mr Ponomarev is great, you need to have him back for an extended discussion!
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  59. Captain Hendrix is a favourite return guest for sure. His proposal to police the Shadow Fleet is totally doable apparently, it's a matter of the coast guards of relevant nations whose waters they pass through doing the job. But it seems these coast guards in the Baltic Sea and elsewhere are over stretched. Maybe the USN and other navies as he suggested, Britain France, need to get involved. A great channel to follow on here if people want more maritime learning is "Whats going on with shipping", I am pretty sure that Captain Hendrix probably is aware of the retired merchant mariner who runs the channel Sal Mercogliano. I also agree with the Captain's push back on Ukraine having "no navy", well we do have a navy, it's as he said, a new type of navy! - I suppose the correct term is "Ukraine does not have a conventional capital ship type navy"!. Lastly, I also think that the tactics we have used to "own" the Black Sea and run off the russian fleet is only possible in an enclosed sea, it would not work to run off the USN in open waters for instance. Sea baby drones do not have the range to maraud the Pacific or Atlantic for example.
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  60. Out of almost 20,000 subs here only 7 are kickin' you a ferw quid on Patreon. Comon people dig deep he's putting a lot of time into these great presentations. I've been displaced in Ukraine so I am not curently in a position to support finacially, but when I get to go home to Donbas after we boot the Russians out, I'll probably throw in too.
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  61. I think it's time to start referring to "President" Xi as Chairman Xi.
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  62. Mr. Blackburn is a true english gentleman, and a true hero of Ukraine (as is Greg Terry). One of your finest interviews yet Jonathon. 🙂👍 Also there's a BOJO pub in Lutsk, and it's 30 feet underground, air raid sirens don't affect it! 😛
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  63. Kira is a "Hetmansha!" (Гетманша) 🙃💛💙
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  64. AS they say "the best defence is a good offence", our incursion into Kursk is a defensive offence.....
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  65. Mr. Moore at the 7:30 min mark "...so why is Jake Sullivan not managing a Chipotle in Adams Morgan DC....". HAHAHA, spot on - Adams Morgan is noted as a historic hub for counterculture and as an arts district - Jake could be paying guitar in a bar there. But on a serious note, what Mr. Moore stated about the National Security advisor being a Lawyer with no military experience, makes it all more clear now (I did not know that). As stated "Lawyers avoid risk", this explains everything about the incrementalism that has cost us victory here! 😐
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  66. 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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  67. On Belarusians having their culture totally wiped out by Russia, I met a young guy from Belarus in the early 90's who did not even know there WAS a Belarusian language!!!! Because when I asked him, "do you speak Belarusian", he LMAO'd at me and replied "There's no such thing, WE SPEAK RUSSIAN"!!! 😵This was very common in the post-Soviet years....crazy!
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  68. Former Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul is fully on board with giving the frozen assets to Ukraine. I remind the viewers that only the most senior and capable diplomats get the Moscow Embassy post. President Biden was VP back then too. Mr McFaul's words should still carry a lot of weight in DC I hope!
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  69. I'm not Ukrainian but I've lived here for a decade, had to leave my flat in Donbas for West Ukraine. Your father was an interesting guest, you should have him back on every now and then for sure!
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  70. THis Ruzzian Imperial identity that Mr Eristavi speaks of is key. I will say this because I can (other pundits might be more reticent) but Mark Galeotti's partner Anna Arutunyan, identifies as "Ruzzian" but her surname is dead giveaway that she has Armenian heritage. A certain RT boss called Simonyan, who is more Ruzzian than Ruzzia - again Armenian - Margarita's ancestors even escaped the Armenian genocide that Turkey perpetrated but preaches open genocide on us in Ukraine on behalf of Ruzzia. What is it with these nationalities like the 2 aforementioned Armenians who think they are "Ruzzian" ? I suppose Gary Kasparov is the same, Soviet "Ruzzian" chess player that is half Armenian and Georgian (I think) is part of this also. BUt again as Mr Eristavi states, they are not a real nationality ( well "Rus" - Russian - was a slavic nationality located in modern day Ukraine until the Muscovites stole it under Peter the Grifter in the 18th century). Ukrainian YouTuber Yaroslav "Savage Sage" recently did a video that explains how "Ruzzians" are not even real slavic people, search for - Are Ukrainians and “Russians” really the same people? - They are Finno-Turkic tribes that just got the language later on. This is true, slavic can refer to languages or etho-cultural heritage. For the so-called "Ruzzians" it's the former not the later. A decent percentage of Ruzzian men (almost 10%) have DNA of Genghis Khan in them, take a look at a bunch of pictures of Lenin or Yeltsin, you can see the Mongol in their eyes. Just saying.
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  71. Mr. Giles is a favourite return guest for sure, you must have him back for that "Moscow Rules" discussion he suggested at understanding the Ruzzian mindset. Anyway, at the 34:10 min mark Mr Giles mentions how the US has "seized on the lessons being demonstrated in Ukraine". This is very true, I follow defence channels on YT, mainly retired aircrew etc. For a good example of how the USA is not sitting idly by and is learning form the battlefield here in Ukraine as Mr Giles mentions go to a channel called "The Merge", hosted my retired USAF F-15 E Strike Eagle WSO (i.e. the back seater or "wizzo" - Weapons Systems Officer) MIke "Paco" Benitez, the thumbnail for the show is called "Microwave Mayhem" and the video is - High Power Microwave Weapons 28K views 4 months ago The Merge - Just search for that video title, I can't paste the link, my comment gets zapped. This weapon can take out entire drone swarms in one go, definitely a high tech system we could do with here in Ukraine!
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  72.  @SiliconCurtain  Cheers Jonathon, they have rebuilt their lives since so it's all good in those aforementioned great countries they went to. On another note with the nukes, if you look at a distribution map of where they are located in russia, there are none whatsoever in southern russia, and for good reason. Therefore, there is no chance the Kadyrov clan will ever get their hands on any nukes if russia breaks up! Ditto for say, Azerbaijan getting some to pass on to Iran etc.
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  73. On the Red Cross, my wife and I as IDP's are eligible for aid packages....ONCE A YEAR!!!...so we've gotten 2 x 10kg boxes in 2 years, that's it.....fat lot of good that's done us. To be honest, we have food, water, power and gas, we don't need those 2 boxes in 2 years, the people on the front line towns living in wrecked houses need them, and as Greg has stated, where the F are they ? Safe as houses in West Ukraine giving IDPs 1 box a year that they don't need. Just saying.
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  74. At the start of the show Mr Terry mentions, the older people in the East who have spoken Russian all their lives and now they are trying to switch over to Ukrainian & speak a "hybrid" language. It has a name, "Surzhyk". When I first moved to Ukraine a decade ago, I settled in Donetska Oblast & everyone spoke Russian there, so I had no chance to learn Ukrainian, even though that was my preference (My ancestry is the former Yugoslavia, so I already know what used to be called Serbo-Croatian). Anyway, when my wife and I became IDP'S in 2022 and were forced to move to West Ukraine, I started to convert, but I spoke a mixture of both, called "Surzhyk", actually, it's more like a form of "Yugo-Surhyk", as sometimes I sub-consciously throw in a Yugoslav word, when lost for both. Also it's a pure co-incidence for me that the region I settled in, in Donetska Oblast used to be called "Pryazovia" (the Russians wiped out the term by contriving the "Donbas" construct - from DONetsky coal BASsien i.e. DONetsk coal BASin - to wipe out Ukrainian identity in the East) & there were lots of Balkan (i.e. former Yugoslav) people who settled there, so it felt like I belonged there too! Hopefully Jonathon will have Ukrainian Philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko back on to discuss the problematic nature of the name " Donbas".
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  75. You made a good point about Lex Fridman, a coupe of weeks ago during the Joe Rogan controversy where he told not only President Zelensky, but all of us in Ukraine to "F off", someone suggested it would be better for Lex Fridman to handle these interviews and I agreed, but you have made me realise the folly of that. Lex is just a more sophisticated and less crass version of Joe Rogan in a nice black suit, but in the end they are both clueless more-ons and actually do as much damage as they do good but maybe Lex is more genuine but just very naive, Rogan is a complete and utter d-bag & POS. But your analogy of interviewing the mad Austrian that drove Germany into the ground almost a century ago would be a very relevant thing to ask Lex when wanting to both sides this Good vs Evil situation here. Lex featured a good chat with Serhiy Plokhy but then features "other side" d-bags that confuse his listeners with dangerous BS.
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  76. Johnny FD is a character, I saw him a few months back at the Silicon Curtain event in Lyviv. I left Australia and moved to Donbas in 2014 (Ukrainian wife). I flaked it and arrived right at the time in Donbas (Makiivka) when Girkin & his bandits took over & proclaimed the so-called DNR. May wife lost that flat in 2014 and we moved to the Ukrainian side of the contact line, to a town called now called Pokrovsk - old Soviet name was "Krasnoarmiisk - i.e. Red Army (town). I bought a new flat to replace the one my wife lost in the DNR and we had to leave that last year. It's only 60km (40 miles) from the front & too risky, we have no car and if the Russians over ran it, we would have no way to escape their cruel sadism.. Now my wife & I are IDP in NW Ukraine. Haven't been home in a year and a half. I had to leave my guitars behind. I used to strum every day. Last time I picked up someone else's guitar I couldn't remember any of the songs I used to know and mis-fretted tons of notes and chords. One of a thousand reasons I hate Zealot Russians and that cretin in the Kremlin. I did think about starting some YouTube thing, but I had to leave. my spec'd up tower PC in Donbas and only have a 2009 MacBook that I want to throw out the window when I use it.. I'm just a nobody in some kind of grey zone. I could have went back to Australia, but to be honest I can't stand Australians and their petty whining about trivial BS. My wife and I believe win Ukraine and we will not leave or run away. I will live out the rest of my days here. Don't miss Australia at all. Good on ya Jake, love ya show and looking forward to your father returning to shoot the breeze with you. That was definitely an interesting show, because you re mostly doing excellent monologues (you have a great format/style) but it is a nice change to have a guest to chat with every now and then.
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  77. Pokrovsk is my home town, I moved to Ukraine a decade ago (Ukrainian wife) and settled there. It's my adopted Ukrainian home town and I miss it dearly. Any hope of ever going back home is pretty much well gone forever now. You are not wrong about the mine, there's a huge slag heap outside the southern part of town, I used to see it every week or so riding the eko-trail (a forested area with some lakes) on my mountain bike. Sometimes in Pokrovsk, you'd see guys in cover-alls with black eyes at the local supermarket on the south side of town closer to the mine (The EKO-Market) it looked like they had "Alice Cooper" make up on, but this was actually the coal dust!!! Great run down Jason. I like your monologues. Most people that do them are kinda boring, yours are very interesting. 👍
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  78. Indeed, Hein was an excellent guest. I really liked the way John and Hein sounded like they were just "shooting the breeze", in a casual conversation. Definitely agree he must come back for another show later on. As I have aid many times, I've had to abandon my home in Donbas and my city (Pokrovsk) is not occupied yet and I'd like to see a victory where the Russians are driven out once and for all so my wife and I can go home.. I'm not Ukrainian, I've lived here for almost a decade, but I can say that most other Ukrainians feel the same way. If the lads want to keep fighting to save their families, then so be it. It's sad and scary but these Russians just won't F off and leave us alone. Crimea defintely has to be next, it sounds impossible but really it's eaiser than taking back the DNR and LNR, as they can be supllied directly over the border by Russia, If the Ukrianian army can cut off Crimea, re-supply will be very hard for Russia,, of course we'll have to hit the Kerch strait bridge again, or "re-visit" it as good ol' General Hodges puts it!
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  79. Interesting she mentioned cultural connections after having recently been to Croatia's capital city as there is an old old connection between modern day Ukraine and that part of 'Jugoslavija'. If you go back to my grandparent's I have Bosnian and Croatian on my father's side and Serbian and Montenegran on mother's side. Anyway about 1,500 years ago, there was an ancient tribe of slavs living in this part of Ukraine I am in now (north of Galicia) called the "Beli Horvati" i.e White Croats (in modern times we dropped the "o" it's just Hrvati now) and that ancient tribe began migrating into the Balkans between 1,300 years ago. I suppose that they are my ancestors and I have come back to this part of the world they came from full circle. That's the ancient connection with Ukraine we have!
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  80. Are things still that bad there ? I moved form Oz to Ukraine a decade ago (Ukrainian wife) been displaced twice too, 2014 and 2022. Anyway, for sure the Poles are fair dinkum when it comes to Ukraine v russia. They know what it's like to be under their jackboot. Cheers mate, more support for Ukraine .
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  81. NASAM's are cheaper than Patriot interceptor SAM's and just as good, they use re-tasked AIM-120 AMRAAM's in SAM role. We need more NASAMS in Ukraine.
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  82.  @graemes52  That's where you are wrong 🤡 haha, durak! What's even more hilarious is English was my Second language, Graeme Sutherland decrepitude /dĭ-krĕp′ĭ-too͞d″, -tyoo͞d″/ noun The quality or condition of being weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use. The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age. The state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use.
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  83. Yea, the "KIEV" vs KYIV" thing is very telling. James Sherr was onto this a decade ago also pointing out "na Ukrayinu" vs "v Ukrayinu"... as my Ukrainian wife puts it, "na Ukrayinu" is almost racist to her, it's making Ukraine and Ukrainians the "Untermensch" as Russians see us here.
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  84. duzhe dobre! heroyam slava!!
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  85. With the nukes, I had to make this as a separate comment, because it is so important. Leonid Kravchuk, the first President of Ukraine, went to his grave regretting letting Bill Clinton and Bush Senior, tricking him into giving up the nukes. Also it is complete and utter nonsense that the "codes were all controlled from Moscow" and that keeping the nukes was useless.The soviet Union never implemented PAL's (i.e. Permissive Action Links, technology which the USA shared the the USSR), because it as too backwards and if communications was lost with Moscow, how could they launch the nukes ? The codes could be over-ridden, I remember an old ex-Soviet Ukrainian retired General stating this a decade ago at least, confirming this. So forget what other "russia adjacent" pundits et. al. tell you regarding this.
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  86. Comon people, almost 20K subs and o nly 9 patreons ? Surely more of you can kick in. It's guys like this that are advocating for us all in Ukraine, so that I might be bale to go home to Donbas again one day. Comon, 9 financial supporters out of 20K subs is crass :(
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  87. Look, before I say this, I want to mention that I was at the event you held at Lyiv a bit over a year ago, and I met both you and Mr Sweeney and shook your hands. I love you both, you are true friends of Ukraine, but I have to push back on something. ,At 16:20, Mr Sweeney says that, "..under the Czars, until they lost the Crimean war, the vast population were not free, they were Serfs...Slav, if I think the etymology is correct, the base word for slave..." - this is complete and utter nonsense. There was even a National Geographic article that peddled this falsehood. It is more commonly agreed with scholars and academics that the word "Slav" came from the world "Slovo", i.e. people of the word. This is because the old slavic word for Germans is "nemtsi" (people who are dumb - unintelligible). In the former Yugoslavia where my ancestors came from the word for Germany is not "Germaniya" like it is in ruzzian, it is "Njemachka", derived from the eastern slavic Kyivan Rus word "nemtsi". When Kyivan Rus fell, my ancestors migrated to the Balkans, -these where the "Beli Horvati" tribe - ("White Croat" tribe). There was also a Red Croats tribe too (hence the red and white checkered flag pf Croatia). In Ukraine the word is also "Nimechchyna". RuZZia is not a good gauge of the historical etymology of our words!!!
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  88. yea it's a mis-translation she says "warm" (Tepli) not winter
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  89. Same, I am with you 💯on that. Sir Richard is one of the top shelf english speaking former military that Jonathon features, along with Lt. Gen. Hodges and Captain Hendrix et. al.
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  90. haha, Mr Goncharenko seems like a bit of a character, at the end there giving the Katsap's the finger with his kid. Isn't just Odessan's who feel that way. I explained to my wife we'll probably get to meet Mr Goncharenko or at least get him briefly, she feels shy and embarrassed, she says she's not a public person. Anyway, should be a good day, I'm hopin' to say G'Day to the two "John's" in particular (Sweeney and Fink).
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  91. The next time Captain Hendrix is back on, I'd like to know what he thinks of Admiral James Foggo's assertion that it was a mistake (in hindsight) for the USN to reduce its presence in the Black Sea after the end of the Cold War & Soviet Union collapsed. Admiral Foggo has been saying that the USN "needs to get back in there" - of course it can't do that now due to the Montreux convention - but get back in there ASAP when the conditions permit. Even in late Soviet times, there was a lot of action in the Black Sea, I doubt anyone besides myself, the host and Captain Hendrix would be aware of the "Black Sea shouldering incident" in 1988, the hilarious thing is, if that happened now everyone would be screaming "OMG WW3 OMG ESCALATION", but back then it was not so hysterical. President Ronald Reagan's "peace through strength" in action, and it worked. from Wikipedia "1988 Black Sea bumping incident" "The Black Sea bumping incident of 12 February 1988 occurred when American cruiser USS Yorktown tried to exercise the right of innocent passage through Soviet territorial waters in the Black Sea during the Cold War. The cruiser was bumped by the Soviet frigate Bezzavetny with the intention of pushing Yorktown into international waters. This incident also involved the destroyer USS Caron, sailing in company with USS Yorktown and claiming the right of innocent passage, which was intentionally shouldered by a Soviet Mirka-class frigate SKR-6. Yorktown reported minor damage to its hull, with no holing or risk of flooding. Caron was undamaged."
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  92. Pokrovsk was my home town. Russians totally are "Raby". Anyway, Sergej Sumlenny (he's German and knows Gustav Gressel) of the The European Resilience Initiative Center channel interviewed another British sapper called Christopher Garrett in a YT video aptly called - "Ukraine’s mine clearance will outlive all of us" - it's worth watching as a supplement to this one.
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  93.  @medeology4660  wow, well said, I hear ya, but from my decade living in Ukraine, the spirit of the people is such that they refuse to descend into darkness of mind, even just recently, over Xmas, there was people all over the city where my wife and I are IDP's singing carols and not letting the ruZZian savagery drag them down, to not foster negative emotions. I totally agree that President Zelensky has become more "steeled" as you said, a very serious and stern man, but I think he will not let the heavy burden he shouldered totally kill his comic spirit! Well lets hope so anyway!
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  94. At the 43:35 mark, Casey states that when putin is done with Ukraine (if ever) his next (easier) target would be Kazakhstan. Totally makes sense, as everyone is familiar that Sevastopol was being leased in Crimea and that as unacceptable in the end, well, everyone forgets, the Baikonur Cosmodrome is being leased to russia and they would totally want to take enough of Kazakhstan to rejoin it with russia.
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  95. Nice, I've been waiting for this one with Macer!
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  96. With the differentiation between, isolationist & "globalist", good on you Professor for being the right kinda republican!
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  97. As I am in Lutsk I really would feel guilty if I didn't make an effort to go. Take a day or so to organise someone to look after our 2 cats, plus the Mrs has been travelling a lot lately on excursions to Poland. Czechia as she's got "cabin fever" due to the war's effect on travel, so she'll jump at the e chance to come along. Hopefully I can get 2 free slots by the time I organise it and let her know and find a cat-sitter. If I had a car I could drive to Lyviv in ike 2 and a bit hours, but it'll be a 7 hour bus trip. Still worth it! see what happens. My favourite place in Lyviv is a bar/restuarant callled Kriyivka, it's an old UPA underground hideout.I'll be going for 2 reasons, your conference and dinner and drinks at Kriyivka!
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  98. Indeed, one of the top shelf return guests, along with Keir Giles and Sir James Sherr. We all know about the "Ryazan sugar" here in Ukraine. I wish I could afford Mr Satter's audio books, but currently my home in Pokrovsk is about to be turned to rubble. The uni where my wife worked there was hit again today for the 3rd time. It's been evacuated for a long time to west Ukraine. Genius ruzzian targeting....
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  99. The wikipedia page "List of wars involving Russia" puts pay to that. Even excluding the few wars where it got attacked - keeping in mind that Moscow started World War II as an Axis Allie by invading Poland in 1939 - there are so many wars listed, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds it takes you half an hour to scroll through them with the mouse wheel.This is indicative of the pattern and modus operandi that confirms your comment 💯!
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  100. lol, we live in hope!
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  101. He's quite sane, they should have him on more often.
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  102. At 20:43 min mark, Mr Sweeney says, regarding foreign troops in Ukraine for logistics, training and support roles "...it becomes harder for the Russian to bomb Ukraine willy-nilly...", in the Cold War days this was called a "trip-wire force", most notable stationed in West Berlin (an island in the middle of Soviet East Germany - the GDR) and they essentially prevented the Soviets attacking and over-running West-Berlin for fear of killing French, or British or American troops and dragging those countries into a potential war (hence trip-wire). These "trip-wire" forces deterred the Soviets. They can do the same for us in Ukraine as Mr Sweeney (and Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges at the Chatham House event) pointed out.
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  103. WIth the "Oligarch" situation between Russia & Ukraine, you are spot on, Oligarchy by the text book definition, implies roughly equal power between the oligarchs, this is what we have here in Ukraine and as Anton pointed out, Russia does not, Russia is not an Oligarchy, becasue the top dog is the only one with power, that is what is called a Kleptocracy, Putin and his ilk are all Kleptocrats not Oligarchs. Anyway, great stuff John, your work is top shelf!
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  104. What is the title of the article DW's son wrote, so I can search for it ? I am from Pokrovsk, would love to read that article. Good on him for putting my home town in the news and getting the attention of the EU parliament. He's a chip off the old block, like his father. ♥
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  105. Hear hear, victory will not be acheived untill all the kids come home, tbh, even I didn't think of it this way, untill you said it John.
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  106. Right on Jonathon, what Hanna states at the start of the show re: the real problem was not Communism, it was just an iteration or evolution of the real problem - Russian Imperialism. In 1991 everyone thought, "great, we got rid of Communism problem solved" - WRONG & very naive. From the article - Deceit, Dread, and Disbelief: The Story of How Ukraine Lost Its Nuclear Arsenal - First President of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk talking to last Soviet Foreign Minister and first President of Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze.....take note of the prophetic last sentence, "They are still sick with imperial infection".... “I would understand Russia’s nastiness,” Kravchuk lamented, “But Americans are even worse—they do not listen to our arguments.” Shevardnadze remarked to his fellow post-Soviet leader: The Americans do not know about our terrible, rough relations with the Russian empire and the USSR. Without that knowledge, building predictable and trustworthy relations with ‘democratic Yeltsin and Russia’ would be very difficult, whom the Americans currently call ‘Russian democrats’...I know many of them, talked to them a lot. They are still sick with imperial infection."
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  107. Aliona mentioned the former German chancellors and French presidents - number one vatniks Merkel and Sarcozy "vehemently opposed" Ukraine joining NATO at Bucharest in 2007, so we are where w eare today. Sarcozy was sentenced to 3 years in jail for corruption, reduced to a year of home detention.
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  108. On what does "victory" mean/////Speaking as someone who's not Ukrainian but lives here and lost a home in Donbas (not counting the wife's in Makiivka in 2014). so this question about "what is victory" that goes beyond just booting Russia out to 1991 borders. I've had a lot fo time to think about this since moving to Ukraine and it;s simple, victory, means full membership in NATO. Once that happens, Russia own't touch this country ever again. Full victory means neutralising Russia. and there's only one answer to that. NATO. It's done it's job. It's prevented every member from being the subject of Russian aggression. It's really that simple. One warning with Vareniky, don't get frozen one's from the "magazin" or supermarkets. They're not that good,. You need to experience proper home made ones!
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  109. ты много работал! тебе нужен долгожданный отдых! и скоро ты будешь здоров! 🙂
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  110.  @watch3r1  ok bad wording, He always was an post Soviet advocate for the return of Crimea to ruZzia, the 2014 invasion revealed his crass imperialism posthumously. A direct quote form Solzhelnitsyn the Imperialist - “Not the whole of Ukraine in its current formal Soviet borders is indeed Ukraine. Some regions … clearly lean more towards Russia. As for Crimea, Khrushchev’s decision to hand it over to Ukraine was totally arbitrary.” - Totally ignoring the Belovezha accords of 1991, that agreed on the borders as is. Same for Budapest 1994 which re-iterated the borders as agreed. The ruzzian President's signature was on both documents. Live and learn. 🙃
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  111. 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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  112. At the 23:10 min mark when Mr Kuleba talks about how the Soviets imported criminals and deported the Ukrainians, a few years back I saw an ethnographic map from 120 years ago drawn up by some French source back then, and all the lands of the east including Krasnodar region in Russia and all the way to the Don river were majority ethnic Ukrainian lands. The Bolsheviks ethnically cleansed them and stole their land. If justice was served retrospectively, all the land to the river Don and a good chunk of southern Russia would be part of Ukraine too....
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  113. All the vatniks bring up "Gladio" and the NATO stay behind agents, but they never bring up the Soviet-Ruzzian version of the same thing. Gladio is done, there are no stay behind agents n the former Soviet sphere, BUT...but, we have lots of Soviet-Ruzzian agents amongst us on our side of things.
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  114. 11th of November, wasn't that when the Edmund Fitzgerald sunk in 1975 ? Remember the Big Fitz! Never forget.
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  115. A good proportion of those EU manufactured shells are going to African customers Jake. Totally need to suspend their sales and send them here to Ukraine!
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  116.  @misterserious3522  you put it very well, I'm Slavic but not RUssian, My ancetry is former Jugoslavija and I've lived in Ukraine a decade, and as you point out threte's cultural differences above and beyond the general slavic similarities for sure. Not even the so called "Russian lapdogs" Serbia are like Russians in tat sense, I know that 'cos my mother's side is Serb/Montenegran, Father, Bosnia/Croatia, so going back to the 4 grand parents on both sides, hence why I call myself "Jugoslav". 4 out of 6 republics in me!
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  117. Mick Ryan's a fair dinkum good guy. I used to live in Australia, grew up there, moved to Ukraine almost a decade ago. My Ukrainian wife lost her home in the DNR in 2014 and we had to abandon the new flat last year i bought in Pokrovsk to replace it a few years back. He's defintely up there with the other retired "top brass" like Ben Hodges, Phil Breedlove, Wesley Clrake and Admiral Foggo. I really appreciate how they tirelesly advocate for victory so that my wife and I and all other Donbas refugees, can go back to home one day after being IDP's in west Ukraine for almost a year now.
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  118. 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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  119. I used to live in Australia before moving to Ukraine a decade ago and to put it in the vernacular that only Lesa will understand "she's a fair dinkum good lady!". For sure Ukrainian is more softer and melodic than Russian which is harsher. Compare the harsh Russian greeting "Zdrastvuitye" (pronounced "ZDARST-VOOOT-YEAH") to the way softer Ukrainian "Vitayu" (pron. VEE-TAH-YOU). When I first moved to Ukraine from Aus, I settled in Donbas and everyone spoke russian there, so that's what I had to learn over my preference to speak Ukrainian. Anyway I agree with Lesa, Russian harsh (like German), Ukrainian softer. One thing with "Da" (yes), I am IDP in West Ukraine and everyone here speaks Ukrainian only, never hear russian, but the one russian word I do hear everyone use here sometimes is "Da" (mixed in with Tak), it's just so ingrained every now then everyone says "Da", kinda sub-consciously I suppose. I exclusively use "Tak"! Currently as I am crossing over, I speak a language called "Surzhyk", which is russian and Ukrainian mixed up. My first language was what used to be called Serbo-Croatian i.e. "Jugoslavian" (Father Bosnian, Mother Serbian) before English, so when I am lost for a russian or Ukrainian word I unconsciously use a Jugoslav word and kinda speak a weird "Jugo-Surzhyk"!
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  120. As far as epochal or infamy goes Yevgeny Prigozhin and Wagner have even eclipsed Simon Mann and Executive Outcomes, I guess not many people would even know what the "Wonga coup" attempt even was anymore!
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  121. Russians think like slaves i.e. they are used to a "big leader" (Veliki Vozhd) making the big decisions for them and this ingrained submissive thinking has its roots in centuries of Serfdom, almost uniquely due to the entire Russian population being ostensibly the "property" of their Tsar. Many countries and cultures practiced slavery & countries had slaves, but no country or culture ever enslaved the entirety of their people like the Russian Tsar did. not since at least Roman times, you'd have to probably go back to Egyptian Pharaohs ? (but that 3,000 years before Russia) I think Pharaohs they treated a large proportion like property, but most likely not even to the extent Russian Tsars did (making Russia more backwards than Egypt 3,000 years prior!!!). It's just the way the socially backwards system developed so it's got to do with the hundreds of years the entire Russian population were slaves of the Tsar (and by extension the state) under Serfdom. Ask any Ukrainian that question and you'll this similar answer. e.g. a Russian will take a beating form his master and maybe shrug it off, thinking they might have deserved it, a Ukrainian would not even entertain the thought or reality of someone being his master and resist that with a perpetual struggle to oust the oppression, let alone the humiliation of a punishing beating. The Ukrainian. strives to be free, the Russian, makes do with the bad situation and hopes it might get better sometime down the track.
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  122.  @thommyrubin  lol, yea 🙃
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  123.  @AlexIgSmith42  Yea sure, why don't you swap homes with me then. You can have the Donbas home I lost in 2022 (or the one my wife lost in 2014) and I'll have yours, then you can "negotiate" your Donbas home away for some super-dumb "peace deal" that will not last and just give Russia the time it needs to re-arm and try again....
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  124. Really looking forward to the monthly co-hosting with Konstantin, & it should be popular with the audience I hope!
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  125. 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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  126. Ukraine probably would have become a Russian vassal by stealth if Yanukovich wasn't tossed out. He was the one who renewed the lease for the Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol with his infamous "Kharkiv Pact"when it was decided by Ukraine not to renew it by President Yushchenko. (He was the one who also was poisoned) from Wikipedia - Kharkiv Pact "During the presidency of Victor Yushchenko (January 2005 – February 2010) the Ukrainian government declared that the lease would not be extended and that the fleet would have to leave Sevastopol by 2017
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  127. I think the "wndow" thing affects the kleptocrats almost exclusively rather than avereage man or woman oin the street, so to speak, also the average man is more valuable as cannon fodder, literally "gun meat" in Russian, (Taras pointed this out too, i.e. meat not fodder)
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  128.  @SiliconCurtain  Girkin is very frank when he does give answers, except for MH17 thing where he says he "regrets it happened due to the conflict" (paraphrasing) - very Machiavellian open ended answer there, it's the fault of the war not him. (may I add, I knew it was BS as I was there and he was bragging constantly that he would shoot down any Ukrainian jets - giving away he had the capability with a BUK - , and he especially wanted to get a "Antonov" to kill as many UAF soldiers as possible, well he got his "Antonov" but it was a Boeing). But when Gordon asks something he does not want to discuss he says "no comment" or w/e and moves on to the next question.
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  129. Russian backwardness didn't just extend to their technology and institutions overall, even in Soviet times, but also to their thinking - the way I used to put it to the trolls on Twitter lurking on the "History Ukraine" account was like this - Muscovy was a "suburb" of Kyivan Rus not vice versa, therefore Russia belongs to Ukraine not the other way around! - .they hated that, it brought all the trolls out of the woodwork, lol 🙃
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  130. Jake has a point about the army, I used to live in Australia and there the attitude was only the "no hopers" that couldn't get a decent job joined the army, but not so for the Navy or Air Force (RAAF). So it is true in some countries for sure. I haven't lived in Australia for going on 11 years now, I live in Ukraine, maybe the attitude has changed.
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  131.  @andyhowells1141  Yeap exactly and the new football stadium in Donetsk (Mr Buzarov probably saw a match there), the home of my team Shakhtar Donetsk, was rebuilt for the 2012 Euros, it lies disused since 2014 in complete and utter (Russian) decrepitude. Now that you bring up the airports, i am also reminded that the train stations at Makiivka and Donetsk City got really nice upgrades too for the Euros. This is hardly "neglect" like they probably see now under Russian control.
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  132. At the 6:40 min mark Lesia mentions the "...division between West and East Ukraine that has to be acknowledged...". Indeed, but there is more nuance, especially to the Eastern part. A common myth is that the eastern part is all Russian speaking. There's maps that generalise the demographics of language so much it is misleading. When I loved to Ukraine a decade ago, I lived in Donetska Oblast (am IDP in West Ukraine now). Yes all the big towns, like my home town of Pokrovsk, or even Donetsk City or the sister city next to it Makiivka, where my Ukrainian wife had a flat that we lost to the so-called DNR - they spoke Russian, BUT, here's the but...lots of the small villages in between these places, even the ones around Pokrovsk, people there spoke Ukrainian mostly, NOT Russian! But the vatniks will pull out those maps and say "All of Eastern Ukraine is Russian speaking" - this is just complete and utter nonsense. But hardly anyone, who doesn't live here would know that. Also recently on a trip to Zakarpatia to a town only 5km from the Romanian border, as far West as you can get in Ukraine, the maid that changed our sheets in our room, I thanked her in Ukrainian "Duzhe djakuyu" and she replied "Pazhalsta" (i.e. the Russian word for "budlaska", she spoke a kinda of mixture of both languages called "Surzhyk"). As Lesia pointed out Ukraine could have been better with the facts and messaging, it just got lost in all the noise peddled by the Kremlin and their vatnik stooges in the west.
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  133. With the fake Chinese tourniquet's that fall apart, I once bought a Rubik cube off Aliexpress and, I do not exaggerate, the first time I tried to use it, it fell apart in my hands!!!! Like the entire cube segments all fell apart, and it wasn't because they were loose which can make a cube come apart, the plastic was so thin, the locking pegs in the centre literally just disintegrated!!!
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  134. 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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  135. You're pretty much well guaranteed a top half insightful conversation with the Chatham House experts, (or even just any Silicon Curtain guest, tbh) probably one of the best think tanks in the world in terms of staffing, especially the Russia & Eurasia programme. Contrast that with some of the popular alt-media outfits, which are almost all highly contrarian anti-NATO/US pro-Russia Kremlin mouthpieces (e.g. The Grayzone, Convo-Couch, Sunday Wire, TNT Radio,Not The BCFM Politics show from Bristol, MOATS with GG, The Richie Allen show etc )) that get biased ultra-Russophiles and present tham as an expert on "Ukraine" (Ince when is a Russophile an. expert on Ukraine ? really!)
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  136.  @timthetiny7538  He's spot on, the nukes and the fear of a russian breakup are the self-limiting factor, even Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges says the same.
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  137. Yea, but that's where you can do an entire show, the pervasive and corrosive effect of Russo-centrism in academia is a serious issue that goes back a century when academic escapee's from the Bolsheviks came to Western Universities. They were anti-communist, but not necessarily, anti-Russian Imperialism. Solzhelnnitsyn is a textbook example, anti-Soviet, but when Russia invaded Ukraine and took Crimea, he was revealed posthumously, to be a Russian Imperialist of the most crass from (He always advocated for the "return" of Crimea). Google this - "Do Svidaniya to Russo-centrism Western schools start decolonizing Eastern Europe studies". Mearsheimer is the tip of the iceberg and most well known in that respect that evolved from this insidious effect of Russo-centric narratives a long time ago. The most insidious and dangerous of these "Mearsheimer" types that is not well knwn is Samuel Charap, he is on the advisory team for NatSec Advisor Jake Sullivan and surely poisons his ear with the Russo-centric nonsense that Mearsheimer peddles.
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  138.  @SiliconCurtain  The good Lt Gen has a full schedule, the other day he said he was on his 13th interview for the day, pass on the thanks of listeners who much appreciate his great analysis, proven by his vindication of predicting Ukrainian victories months ago! Vlad's fan base got you over 10K views last time I looked, love him! haha
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  139. God bless Greg, God bless Jonathon, God bless Ukraine, Geat Britain & America and God bless supporters of us here like you!
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  140. A Great American and a true friend of Ukraine, for sure. Same goes to you too, any American supoorting the good Lt. Gen. and his advocating for us here in Ukraine is also a "great American!"
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  141.  @hmmm2564  Thank God, someone who is not fooled by this grifter, see my comment in this thread. He uses the internet money he grifts to stuff his face with fine food at his "breakfast Club" every weekday while Ukrainians on front line towns starve.
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  142. Exactly, I don't know anyone who is relieved with a "new brightness" that Trump won, (Fun Fact, people in downtown Kyiv around Khreshchatyk Street, always have a "brightness" about them, they're downtown in the fun district!) my Ukrainian wife and all her friends are very worried about Trump, when a Kamela Harris admin would have had a different NAtSec team that was not Jake Sullivan etc. But when Trump gives away our homes in Donbas to Putin for free it won't effect Joe or any of the people he talked to in Kyiv (except if he ran into some actual IDP's from Donbas, which he obviously did not).
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  143. GOod conversation. When you mentioned that Africans would come to study in the Soviet Union days and Russia, it reminded me about the situation here and a personal anecdote about Ukraine and Africa, Before we had to leave the DNR, becausue it was becooming the toilet of Europe (i.e. the "Ruskiy Mir)., I remember back in 2014 it eas not uncommon to see the the occasisinal African student walking around Donetsk City centre near the Uni my wife taught at. I haven't been to Donetsk City since then but I doubt you'd see any African students now. THey're all gone, it's too dangerous for them to study here. This is how Russia has runied education opportunties in Ukraine.
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  144.  @77thTrombone  The host spent some time in the post-Soivet Russia I do believe and he speaks fluent Russian too, so that might be why he is on point!
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  145. Indeed, that horror story Mr Satter told of what happened in Nizhny Tagil is proof of that....
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  146. At the 59:15 min mark Ada says "..you read Serhiy Plokhy, it could have been stopped in 2014 and it wasn't, it could have been stopped in the 90's and it wasn't" - on the 90's angle, former Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul had some pleasantly surprising things to say in retrospect about some mistakes made in the 90's on the Hoover Institution YT chan "Secrets of Statecraft - Getting Inside The Mind Of Vladimir Putin" episode. If you want to hear it search for the clip title in quotes (URL's seem to get the comment zapped) and start at the 24:30 min mark and listen for a few minutes, but I'll quote some of it here... Interviewer - "what should have been done back in 2014 that might have saved Ukraine from its present disastrous situation" Ambassador McFaul - "now I haven't pushed you back and say what should have been done in the 1990s that's when we missed the opportunity although I'll talk about 2014 in particular but in retrospect and now we have the benefit of that time but I believe that we should have expanded NATO as fast as we could when Russia was weak and we should have armed those countries, Georgia as well and and you know Ronald Reagan used to say peace through strength. Russia's never or the Soviet Union has never invaded a NATO country, by the way NATO has never invaded Russia" 👍💯
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  147. What Marika says about Bidzina Ivanishvili controlling the government, I think it might even been her, in a twitter space a while ago run by the "National Security Media" account, that stated (paraphrasing) - "Georgia has one oligarch, Ivanishvili..." contrasting with Russia's Kleptocrats and even Ukraine that have more than one! This is the real eye-opener with Georgia.
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  148. It has to be the weirdest contraption I have ever seen in shipping. I have nothing to do with sailing or the navy, I just take an interest in powerful machines (am into train spotting and aerospace too). I also am glad it was saved, even if just for the weirdness of it! Students in loud Hawaiian shirts, thing of beauty Sal!
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  149. Wait, is he dead really ? Unfortunately everyone's favourite "turbo-patriot" Z-man is not dead. THat's what my contacts and others tell me. Let's see what happens in the next few days or weeks, I hope Jonathon is correct. Interestingly on his "nickname", he explained to famous Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon in an online 2020 interview that his grandmothers surname was "Strelkova" and that's how he came up with "Strelkov". I always assumed he chose that name for the tough guy image of a shooter. But it was a fluke his babushka had that surname.
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  150. just like in that Small Faces song "WHAM BAM THANK YOU MAM!!
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  151. This was an excellent -presentztion that covered some points rarely mentioned correctly or even mentioned at all on other shows or podcasts. Captain Hendrix mentioned "Russia being separated from one of its major military installations", this is one of the the main reasons for the agrtession towards Ukraine. to secure the Black Sea Flotilla (or fleet as it is called now), it's always been about the BLack Sea flotilla, not NATO! Also this is the first time I have hasrd yhe proper explaination of why Crtimea was transferrred to Ukraine by the Soviets, that wasn't the absurd "Krushchev was drunk" BS peddled by the Russian mouth pieces. It was done for practical adminisratibev purpoes. u.e. all the water and power for Crimea came from Urkaine not the Russian SFSR! Greast stuff John. I have found that the Naval commentators like Captain Hendrix or Admiral Fogga are the most interesting of all the US top brass and ex cheifs of staff doing the rounds. The army guys like Ben Hodges et al are great to listent to, but so are the aforementioned ex-navy guys plus that one air force guy, Phill Breedlove. THey're all out there going to bat for Ukraine and are muhc appreciated by us here in Ukraine. Cheers!
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  152. Professor Lucas is a great guest, you must have him back regularly! On taking out the launchers and aircraft that drop the glide bombs, this is 100& on point, I follow fighter pilot channels like ex F-14 Tomcat RIO (i.e the back seater or Radar Intercept Officer) "Ward Carroll" or even ex F-15E Strike Eagle WSO (i.e. the "wizzo" or Weapons Systems Officer) Mike Benitez's chan "The Merge" and they both say the same thing using this metaphor - "it's better to go after the archer rather than the arrows" - meaning, it is wasteful and pointless to keep shooting down the missiles or glide bombs (the arrows), go for the source (the archer) launcher batteries or jets + airfields. This is exactly what the good professor was saying too!
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  153. or even 1991 borders!
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  154. Very insightful, I really enjoyed that conversation. Next time he writes an article you'll have to have him back again! All your guest are great John, but Alex's philosophical style and way pf saying things really gave it an interesting touch. Great stuff! Cheers.
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  155. @ ruzzia violated Minsk 2 before the ink had even dried on the document, during the siege in Ilovaisk, commanders of Ukrainian forces in the city attempted to negotiate an agreement that would allow them to withdraw and putin said that a "humanitarian corridor for besieged Ukrainian soldiers" should be established, allowing the trapped soldiers to leave Ilovaisk, and then they were all massacred, in a massive crime, so don't come on here and lecture me with your Kremlin lies.I was there in Donbas at the time, you were not.
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  156. The days of the "Kuchmagate" scandal that Zakhar referenced are long gone and that was more the exception than the norm here. The proofs in the pudding, The Kyiv Independent and its staff have not been run out of town like they would have been in Russia.
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  157. It's ok, I found it, "The Ukrainian City Of Pokrovsk Before The Storm" - Sep 2 - Written By Honor Phillips
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  158. May the force be with us too! (at least Mark Hamill is)....
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  159. Excellent discussion, always appreciate Michaels candour.
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  160. Great conversation! Good show old chap!😃
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  161. When Simon's mentioning some of the experts who have a good take on Ukraine and are on our side but fall over flat on Crimea, Mark Galleotti comes straight to mind on that one. I like Mark, great guy, but unfortunately he thinks Crimea is some kind of red line. Simon put's it well as a counter "has India always been British", Crimea was part of Ukraine as long as the USSR existed almost. There's some kind of perception problem on Crimea in that sense. Maj Gen Ben Hodges puts it in perspective well, when Crimea gets bombed how come the Russians all run away instead of going to the recruitment office to sign up and defend it , if it's so dear to their hearts historically ?
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  162. Mr, Douglas made a good point at the start of the show regarding Trump's trolling. Due to the power of the POTUS account he was the greatest 💩poster on the planet until Elon bought Twitter.
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  163.  @garyyoung3179  Oh ok, thanks for wising me up, but that's also useful to dispell this myth, about "the control codes were only in Moscow" as the Soviets were too backwards to even have PAL. Yes the ultimate command to launch came from Moscow, but as I explained to Eamonn in another reply in this thread, as you state, ultimately the commanders in control of that nuke site (subs, bombers, land based etc) could arm the nukes on their own initiative if contact with the centre is lost.
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  164. His surname is interesting, it's Slavic for "Tooth", (even in the former Yugoslavia where my ancestry is). I wonder if one of Orest's ancestors was a dentist or village "tooth puller" back in the day ? 🙃
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  165. "Russkiy Mir idi na khuiy" - I second that! 🙃... On a more sombre note, your video instills some powerful emotions, This one's well put together John, powerful imagery and commentary. Spot on. I've only got 2 clips in my chan, there's one where I am at the book of remembrance at a military museum in the oblast I live in, same emotions being in front of that book, you can hear it in my voice as I ay a few words. F-16's only being maybe handed over now after a year and half of time wasted, that's almost criminal. Same with ATACMS, which could immediately make a difference unlike the F-16's which will take years.
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  166. At the 13:00 min mark Mr Andersen mentions terrible journalism with the "map", split into Blue for Western Ukraine and red for "Russian (speaking) Ukraine". I have lived here 10 years, most of that time in Donetska Oblast and that trope about "everyone in the east are Russian speakers" is BS. In fact the large towns like my home town of Pokrovsk, yes most people there spoke Russian, but in the smaller villages all throughout Donetska Oblast, you would hear UKRAINIAN in those villages not Russian. It was far more nuanced than "the east is all Russian speaking". This is what those more-on journos who parachuted in missed totally and they just peddled the ignorant Russian agiprop.
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  167. The Belorussian "aircraft carrier", was at one time the Soviet "Special Western Military District" in WW2. In keeping with current russian nomenclature (i.e. military districts named after the 4 points of the compass + a central district) that is what it can be called again. Remember, the Z is for "Zapad" = West, named after the Western Military District of russia where the exercises that were the "cover" for the build-up to the invasion, were held.........or maybe the "ZZ Flop" district - from whence the failed Kyiv "operation" came! 🙃
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  168. I think it was the former world heavyweight champion boxer, Mike Tyson, who said, "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face", well Czar Putin had a plan to over-run us here in Ukraine within a couple of weeks or so. Well he got punched in the face but now we need to knock him the f**k out! Force is indeed, the only other language (besides ruzzian, which is a northern Ukrainian dialect btw) Czar Putin and his cronies understand. 🥊🥊
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  169. Yeap, he keeps it real, for me, especially about Mikolayev and Odessa being safe cities (even though the odd infrequent missile strike), well I have been an IDP in Lutsk for 2 years and in that whole time we have had 2 strikes, Lutsk is safe as houses, but a certain YouTuber, who I shall not name describes her home town of Lutsk as "Semi-Dangerous", which is complete and utter BS. My Donbas home town of Pokrovsk is "semi-dangerous" all the flats and buildings around mine have been bombed, including the police station across the road.
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  170. Indeed, this problem does not go away when Putin goes away. The Russian "Federation" (it's really an Empire, with dozens of non-slavic conquered peoples, Evenki, Chukchi, Tungus etc etc) has gotten way too big for it's "breeches" and it needs to be broken up. As they say in the UK, Good show old chap!!
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  171. Professor Lucas is top shelf, always on point, even more than Mark Galeotti, the one beef I have with Mark is he peddles the "Crimea is a red line" nonsense.
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  172. same, they should make this one regular every now and then!
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  173.  @spudwesth  Not from 1954 to 2014 it wasn't clown. It part of Ukraine for 60 years, the USSR lasted 69 years and collapsed, lol
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  174. I can't afford his books, I've lost a home in Donbas, but for once he's gotten it right....so I gave him a thumbs up and re-subscribed
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  175. The Black Sea fleet are stuck there, the Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits means they can't get in or out during war time. Turkey is very strict with policing this.
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  176. The title made me think "oh here we go, another hit piece bad mouthing Ukraine" but within 30 seconds of starting to watch the clip that thought turned out to be a very incorrect presumption. Very interesting as it turned out, excellent work as always Mr Felton!
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  177. 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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  178. Great rundown Sal, much appreciated. I've lived in Ukraine a decade (Ukrainian wife) and I only found out about your chan when Ward Carroll suggested his viewers sub to yours. Been a faithful viewer ever since. I'm mostly an aerospace fan, but ships (and trains) also interest me greatly. Engineering marvels that move a lot of tonnage. I'll give you some help with "Novorossiysk" - you pronounced it "Novo-risk" - no big deal, I'll give you some phonetics to improve that - NOR--VOR-ROW-SISK - say that quickly and you'll be close enough! 😉👍
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  179. When Beverly mentioned that Prigozhin's Konkorde group had not done anything that useful in two decades in Africa, that did bring to mind pioneering PMC "Executive Outcomes" which were of some useful success in Angola, with the UNITA rebels and in Sierra-Leone with the RUF guerilla's. The infamous Captain Simon Mann was involved with EO way before the "Wonga Coup" that brought him to into the headlines circa 2004. EO was banned by the South African government at the end of the 90's and I suppose it left a vacuum for the decrepit Russian PMC copy (The Soviets and Russians copied everything badly, even PMC's it seems)!
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  180. Regarding the Crimean Bridge, according to an F-15E WSO (i.e. the back-seater - Weapons Systems Officer) that flew missions in the former Yugoslavia targeting bridges, "..you need a 2,000 pounder to drop a span...", so that's the load out for the F-16's when we get them. The Taurus ALCM has a special fuse that lets the warhead burrow intp structural concrete before detonating, but Germany, holding out on us, I'm sure the good Lt. Gen. is not impressed with that, living in Germany himself!
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  181. "Sasha" is the father of Belarus, he will make it all better! (i am being very sarcastic, it's a joke). Also I know all you journo's at UATV know this, I write this comment o educate the readers who don't live here. Anyway, It's funny, Lukashenka nicknamed himself "father", In Ukrainian "bat'ko", Belarusian = "bats'ka". Belarusians call him something far more rude & appropriate (cockroach), but he is also known as "kartoplyanik" here in Ukraine - it's a type of potato pie, but colloquially in English it's maybe "the man from potato land" (and by extension "potato dictator"). From wikitionary.... бацька Noun ба́цька • (bácʹka) m pers (genitive ба́цькі, nominative plural ба́цькі, genitive plural ба́цькаў, relational adjective ба́цькаўскi, diminutive ба́цечка) father, dad (plural only) parents (colloquial) a nickname for president of Belarus Alyaksandr Lukashenka 🤡
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  182.  @ninemoonplanet  yeap, Operation UNIFIER, our Canadian friends have been here with us since 2015. The partnership was even extended a couple of years ago if I am not mistaken. I found it funny when Macron said he might let French troops come here in a training capacity etc and all the pundits were like "OMG NATO in Ukraine"! Obviously they were not aware of UNIFIER and that Canada is in NATO!
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  183. Indeed, the closest language to what was spoken in Kyivan Rus is modern day Ukrainian, NOT "Russian", it's a cousin language that matured much later. The currency of Kyivan Rus was the Hryvnia (Grivna) not the Rouble!
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  184. Same here. John should have her back to talk about the other issues she works with down the track. I've lived in Ukraine for alsmot a decade and a lot of the BS that well intentioned news and radio and podcadts really jumps out at me, becasue I know what's what, compared to someone who isnt from ehre. An example was today I listed to Geopilotics Decanted as it regularly features Miucheal Koffman who's very good with teh mil rundowns and the host Dimitri Alperovitch, whom I hav e a lot fo respect for, he means well and is not a propagandfist. but tofday he said that he thinks there is now ay Russia would do such a thing as blow up the fam and he thinks it wsa pobsbly sn scvcidernt ot a mistsake, he was totally excluding tyhe glaringly obvious suvh as, the stops being closed to fiull the fdam, wy ? That this conincided with tyhe offensive kicking off to thrart it....very siuspicious anfd he said the excuse all the Russian mouthpieces p'edlde now "why would Russia take out the Crimean water supply" it is not in their interests and makes no sense to tzke it out. BUt he fails to take into account their reckless modus operandi and also that, they KNOW they are going to loe Crimea and we wll reclai m it, and are factoring in that in their reasoning for wrecking the peninsula as much as possible for when we take it back. IT's toaly something that they would do and have demonstarted in Ukraine sincer day one. THey don't give a f**k about anzything, even their own men!!!......SO it was very dissappointing to ehar Dmitri go down the path of making excuses for RUssia! BUt thats ok, it wont turn me off listenign to Geoplitics Decanted. It's good stuff, esp co Koffman is a regular@ !
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  185. yeap, I agree and `i live in Ukraine. , I think Anders counter arguments are valid.
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  186. The host mentions how industry can't keep up with the hardware presently, Interestingly, recently on the "Red Matrix" YouTube channel where former Air Vice-Marshall Sean Bell is a co-host, he mentioned how in the Battle of Britain is was the reverse, there were 20,000 Spitfire fighters produced but not enough pilots to fly them! He said, if the pilot managed to bail out (it was very difficult, no ejection seats, they had to flip it upside down and fall out of it) - Sean said "Dust him off, give him a beer (and a new Spitfire)" and away he goes again! That was a great way to put it, very British!
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  187. That period when Buill was doing bvusiness in the Yeltsin years really was when Russia had the true Oligarchy, when they all banded to together to help Yeltsin beat Communist Party leader Zyuganov in 1996. I heard some commentator say only the other day, froget who now, maybe one of the retired Generals on TImes Radio or a Silicom Curttain preserntstion, that in defeating the communists in 1996, by hook or crook, we may have gotten something way worse. I tend to agree with that assesment. Another interesting thing about the Yeltson era, Iforget where I read this , possibly a boiography of Leonid Kravchuk (first President of a free Ukraine) that back then the Russian nationalists had plans to seize Crimea but Yeltsin put a stop to it, not because he cared about Ukraine so much, nut more because it would set a precident for the Chechens to leave Russia, "Hey if Crimea can leave Ukraine we can leave RUssia!" type of hypocrisy he wanted to avoid. Intertesting stuff!
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  188. I typed this on linked-in half an hour ago, I may as well paste it here too. Ruzzia is ramping up, our Western friends need to "tamp up" too. I know our American friends are doing so with their production, but they do need to go harder. The big worry is the EU, that has way too many, to put it politely - "Putin boot lickers" - and people might think I am singling out Hungary or Slovakia for obvious reasons (Orban & Fico). Oh no, they're small fry in the "big game" of Putin boot licking within the EU, I am talking about Germany & France. They have huge numbers of anti-Ukrainian #vatnik officials that need to be dealt with. An example is, Angela Merkel thought she was on our side, and tried to act like she was, but really she was Europe's greatest #vatnik.
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  189. I found myself agreeing with both Jonathon's even when they differed on some point. President Zelensky should have never went to the WH. Anyway, at the 42:10 min mark an important point was made, that if American companies come in here, it will prevent ruzzia from violating an agreement and Mr Fink says "it's a straw man argument". SPOT ON. This is where I have differed with Jason Jay Smart of the Kyiv post, he has the idea of American (minerals deal) investment here as being a deterrent. Jason's a great guy he's on our side in Ukraine, but he's very wrong if he thinks American investment here will offset ruzzian aggression as Mr Fink correctly points out (and Mr Pearce, regarding the US companies in ruzzia), it's an absurd argument.
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  190.  @marcusk2  That high quality Soviet communist engineering everyone looks for when they go bargain basement shopping!
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  191. Same, Professor Lucas is always on point!
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  192. Your segways are great, not disrespectful at all. Paul, i want to mail order some gum, but the site does not offer shipping to Ukraine! Look, I know a lot of companies won't ship here and your shippers must be in that boat, but I am in west Ukraine, and if you put the gum in the normal regular mail it will make it here, if I contact you, can we work out some way for you to personally ship me some ? I'll buy a substantial amount to make it worth your while. 🙃
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  193. 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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  194. Hello from Ukraine. Great video, I have no problem with your "mini-fridge" terminology (for thin walled little black or big red), but your use of the term "degree's" was problematic. Why ? The whole world uses Celsius, only a few banana republics got stuck in Fahrenheit: Palau, Belize, the Cayman Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the United States of America. 🍌
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  195.  @jplindsley  Just a heads up Joe, Canada's been doing more than you think, they've been with us since 2015, instead of just jumping on the bandwagon in 2022, like some other major countries in NATO. They got us up to NATO standards and methods and away form the Soviet ways, for what we knew was inevitable with Russia. "Operation UNIFIER is the Canadian Armed Forces’ (CAF) military training and capacity building mission in support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was launched in 2015 at the request of the Ukrainian government, and in 2023, was extended until March 2026. There are currently over 300 CAF members now deployed under Op UNIFIER training and support roles, as well as aiding in the facilitation of military aid delivery." - Like Will Blackburn, the quiet achievers!
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  196. My ancestry is from the former Yugoslavia (Mother Serbian, Father Bosnian). For me, Islam never felt right, for starters most of my fathers side of the family were closet drinkers, so I would not call them real muslims. I grew up in Australia and going to the mosque there was weird, it was mostly Pakistani's and us Bosnians. All of us kids hated learning Arabic to read the Quaran, so we would go out in the back yard and play cricket, Pakistani kids love cricket and Australians love cricket, so that was it for us. When I moved to Ukraine a decade ago, I was baptised into the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, thus correcting a mistake my father's ancestors made in the Balkans hundreds of years ago because of the Ottoman Turks. Anyway, thanks for the scholarship Mr. Harris and I hope this comment helps as a kind of "value add" to your quite lively discussion with Mr. Stewart!
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  197. Great philosophers panel Jonathon, the only person missing was Ukrainian philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko! I get the feeling Trump brought this on himself, he was the guy that bragged "I could go out on the street and shoot someone and get away with it!", as Professor Lucas said on the show he's been playing this politics of violence the entire time. Trump reaped what he sowed.
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  198. With your postulation of what will Europe do to help Ukraine & Moldova once they are in the EU - I remember a while back a former Estonian prime minister said something like "after we gained independence from the Soviet Union, we rushed to join the EU - that was our "soft" protection, then we set about joining NATO - that was our "hard" protection"..Also those articles about the stale mate being the west's fault because they never gave us the arsenal we needed to in, is spot on. And finally, speaking of Arsenal, they went top of the league last night! COYG!! 🙃⚽ <---- the "nuclear" football ?!!
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  199.  @corinnem.239  yea it's all backwards, I jokingly say, this is why Russia was always so backwards - it's full of backwards thinkers. For example, they say Ukraine belongs to them, but it's actually the other way around, Muscovy was essentially like a "suburb" or the outskirts of Kyivan Rus that came way later than Kyiv, so really Russia belongs to Ukraine, not vice versa!
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  200. First we had to free the Leopards. Now it's time for a "FREE THE BULLS" campaign. The missile is manufactured by TAURUS Systems GmbH and the logo clearly contains a Bulls Head icon.
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  201. IN SOVIET RUSSIA GIRL DRIVES YOU! 🙃(or is it RIDES YOU!)
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  202. This is excellent, in my current situation I can't offer much help in this field (IDP, left everything behind in Donbas, except a bag of clothes and a useless 2009 macbook) even though I've been in IT my entire career. But on this topic, Mr Hural is on point and I can only quote Hamlet to support what he said regarding cyber-security, because as John pointed out, you don't hear it reported much and you don't see it - "There is more in Heaven and down on Earth, than is dream't of in your philosophy Horatio!"
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  203. TAM DE MI YE, best song ever :) It's about a real story of escaping from the "Jail/gaol" read on below in the reply to this post
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  204. lol
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  205.  @Longtack55  haha, yes well I am not that young, I remember on good ol' British TV shows as a kid, maybe a war movie and they pulled a good move or did something great one of their pals would say "good show ol' chap!!"! 😀
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  206. That observation of Russian's commitment to religion is spot on from the observations I have encountered with my wife's side of the family (my ancestry is Jugoslav) who are in Russia, father and step-sisters in Abakan, Cousins in Norilsk, Aunty's/nieces in St Petersburg, none of them go to church or are fully committed to the faith but they all would claim to be of the faith. Contrast that with my wife who goes to church and says her prayers when she has time at home (she's a very busy english teacher online). I was baptised into the Ukrainian Orthodox church in 2018, correcting a historical mistake a felt my ancestors on my fathers side made in Bosnia-Hercegovina hundreds of years ago because of the Ottoman Turks - before they came we all used to be Serbian Orthodox more or less. The upshot is Ukrainians are FAR more committed to their religion than Russians are in general imho, that's what kept them strong over the centuries of Russian oppression, their faith, that religious corner in every household where they could find solace.
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  207. The Ukrainian soldier reporting from Bakhmut, on his greens is the nickname "киянин" (KIYANIN, which denotes someone from Kyiv. It's not a surname. Definitely a nickname. or w/e. That is most likely his call sign I'd say! :)
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  208. I agree, this is one of hte top shelf conversations for sure.
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  209.  @pipe_currency  Indeed Brian, if you look at the big picture, which you would be ware of due to your stint here paralleling mine, the areas of infrastructure that were the responsibility of the government were. not that bad, i.e. the aforementioned roads, airports and train stations etc. If there was any neglect, it would have been maybe the privately owned (by the oligarchs) things like the mines, where they extracted as much obscene profits as they could, keeping in mind, all assets sold off quickly to the "nomenklatura" to break the Soviet system post 1990/91 and of course back then all the orders came from Moscow, whether it was Gorbachev or drunk Yeltsin, before the official dissolution in December 1991 with Gorbachev's resignation.
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  210.  @pipe_currency  oh I forgot to add, the public transport system in Ukraine is excellent, you can get a bus or train anywhere and they are always on time (Marshrutka buses etc). I grew up in Australia and the public transport there was crap compared to here in Ukraine. Did you get the same impression during your almost decade here Brian ?
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  211. ​ @boblacks945  Honestly, never, in fact my wife and I and about 30 of her colleagues from her university in Donbas (where everyone spoke Russian) are refugee's in NW Ukraine and most of us still use Russian although everyone is trying to change. We have never been accosted or abused in that time here in Western Ukraine. The thing that some of the "traitors" in the east in Donbas made a big deal of was that you had to use Ukrainian when filling out government paperwork sometime post 2014, which is fair enough, ironically they'd help you to filll out this paperwork in Ukrainian whilst conversing Russian with you! This was the case I experienced when finalising my permanent residency paperwork which was completed in 2015 after a year and a bit. In fact by a co-incidence, only today Youtuber Jake Broe, a true friend of Ukraine, made a presentation where he featured the Japanese man who moved to Kharkiv to open a cafe serving 1,000 free meals to Ukrainians every day. If you go to the 29 min mark and watch from there you'll see it, the comment I made there explains the rest - "In that first "feel good" clip you can hear a lady quite clearly thank Mr Tsuchiko in Russian, (Spasibo Balshoe = Thank you very much) demonstrating that speaking Russian does not mean "is Russian", just like speaking English does not mean "is an Englander". English and Russian are simply both languages of Empire and conquest that's all. English being former in that sense, Russian, current."
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  212.  @j.k.1239  The same can be said of people speaking Ukrainian during 2014 onwards when Igor Girkin and his provacatuers agitated, you'd get the s**t beat out of you by an angry crowd if you even tried to utter anything in Ukrainian, Look I know some people, especially those who suffered directly Russian cruelty or lost someone, might be like that, it's never happened to any of us in West Ukraine as refugee's/IDP's. We still speak Russian amongst ourselves at restuarants or together but use Urkainian to speak to the waiters, in another situation like at a "magazin" (shop). We've never been hassled. Look back in 2014 even up untill this re-invasion the rule was, if you went to a restuarant, and you spoke Russian OR Ukrainian, the waiters would match whatever language you spoke. I think whoever was aksing that up there meant from that entire period 2014 onwards. I'd like to see those videos as a bunch could be staged, like the staged fake video of "Ukrainian soldiers" accosting a woman they pulled up in a car for speaking Russian, it turned out that was DNR guys staging a fake video to make us look bad here in Urkaine.
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  213. For our American friends who grow "tired".... from President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address (1961) "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. This much we pledge--and more. To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do--for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder."
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  214.  @kadovax6567  Yes. The book he wrote about life in Donbas is called "The Grey Bees". Go to the 4:35 min mark and you'll hear him state that.
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  215.  @kadovax6567  There is also a compendium of all his war stories called "Війна " (War), that includes the Grey Bees and some other war books he wrote. That one might be worth looking into as well, if there is an English version.
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  216. 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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  217. They've probably planted all 26 million mines here. Perun did a rough calculation of mine density per square metre using maybe 6 mines a square metre and it came to a billion mines. So yea, all 26 million for sure. Also, google this headline in case you missed this story last month in the Times of Israel "Russia’s Lavrov meets with Hamas politburo chief Haniyeh in Moscow "
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  218.  @seufer12  Constitution of Pylyp Orlyk 1710, backwards ruzzia never got one until 1905.
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  219. Do you ship to Ukraine ? I'm not Ukrainian but my wife is and we have been IDP for about a year and a half, I like the idea of buying something that will help everyone here made homeless, but also I can't drink energy drinks, they make me belch badly, a normal can of coke won't do that to me, so I\d like to try some strike gum.
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  220. When Yana mentioned that Ukrainians have been struggling for independence since the 16th century under established Cossack territories , one thing that came to mind that is never mentioned regarding that epoch, is the that that Ukraine had a constitution back then - The Constitution of Prylyp Orlyk 1710 - the original was written in Ukrainian, not Russian and a latin language translated "copy" was made at that time for the KIng of Sweden. If Ukraine is not a country as Tsar Putin & all the alt-media Kremlin parrots repeat ad-nauseum over, then how did it come to have a constitution before even France and the USA ?
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  221. A reminder of the dichotomies of the Russian court Jester Zhirinovsky......from Encyclopedia Britannica topic fascism Russia Most neofascists denied that they were “fascists,” and Zhirinovsky was no exception. On various occasions he asserted his adherence to democratic values, the rights of man, a multiparty system, and the rule of law. However, in 1991 he declared: “I say quite plainly, when I come to power there will be a dictatorship. Russia needs a dictator now.” He added: “I’ll be ruthless. I will close down the newspapers one after another. I may have to shoot 100,000 people, but the other 300 million will live peacefully. You want to call it Russian fascism, fine.” 🙃
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  222. Good conversation, My wife & I + 2 cats areIDP from Donbas in Anna's city. Ruasian langauge was juat a language of conquest and empire like english, I am Jugolsav but grew up in Australia, doesn't mean that I an an Englander 'cos I spoke enlgish. Try telling a vatniik that a Russian speaker isn't "Russian". Back in Donbas everyone spoke Russian but not everyone was for "Russia", only the duraks who watched the Soviet Nostalgia TV channel, now banned, cos it was just Soviet propaganda BS!
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  223.  @effexon  Thanks, indeed the culture wars you mention seem to be a huge problem & divisive distraction for sure in he countries where we need the most help from. But also good point with the kremlin, one look at how long a small country like North Korea has survived much harsher total sanctions indicates that a country like russia with far more resources will be crippled only so much, but it will continue economically,
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  224.  @michaelmullins3396  yeap, there's barely a handful who are proficient at English so there's 18 months wasted they could have been learning English, hence why I think this whole F-16's too late debacle and time wasting is "criminal".
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  225. You Estonians have "got our backs" here in Ukraine, to use a slang term. We know we can always depend on you. Too bad about the Germans, they always seem to want to do Ruzzia's bidding..
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  226. Indeed. You may like watch this latest video by a Ukrainian called Yaroslav - Are Ukrainians and “Russians” really the same people?
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  227. Scott Lucas is always good to hear great analysys about not only Ukraine but US political machinations., I usually catch him on Monocle24 & Times Radio! Hopefully he makes some more appearenaces down the track.
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  228.  @zetristan4525  Duzhe djakuyu! (Ukrainian for "Spasibo balshoye") which means "thank you very much" and also a quick demonstration of how Ukrainian and Russian are not the same language!
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  229. I spent a lot of time arguing with ruZzians trolls how have "appropriated" Korolyov, like everything in their culture. They would claim he was "Russian" but in all his documents he would put for question "Natsionalnist" (Nationality), "Ukrayinets" (Ukrainian). I have visited the Korolyov home in Zhitomir where he was born and the museum across the road. (The ruZZians attacked the town, it's near Kyiv)). I recommend the book by James Harford "Korolev: How one man masterminded the Soviet drive to beat America to the moon" (because it was the Soviet period he uses the Russian transliterations for everything). At 6:45 Yaroslav mentions "wrong scissions by the Communist party", one major F up, Brezhnev's cancellation of the N1 manned lunar launch vehicle (Soviet "Saturn V") in 1974. They had 2 flight ready launch vehicles ready to go, on the pad, at Tyuratam (vehicle's 8L & 9L - L= "Luniy" - moon) that would have proven the concept, but they where ordered scrapped, after 4 launch failures. N1 had a large cluster of 30 engines in the first stage (Block A), smaller & cheaper than the 5 huge Rocketdyne F-1 Engines on the US Saturn V. It's no co-incidence Elon Musk's "Spaceship" launch vehicle uses a large cluster of 33 engines it its first stage. He's what you call in Russian "ochen skupoy chelovek" ("very stingy (or cheap) man", just like the Soviet Communist's cheapness). The "N" in N1 means "nossitel" = carrier. After victory here in this war I reckon you could pitch the idea of a Korolyov movie to President Zelensky;s TV production company and he'd do it as a serious thing after the burden of war leadership drains the comic out of him (Yaroslav should tweet the President on Twitter and plant the seed of the idea in him!!!). I could talk about Korolyov in detail all day, best SC episode for me ever!!!!
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  230.  @MarcosElMalo2  💯👍
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  231.  @blacklion8208  :thanksdoc:👍
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  232.  @betterdonotanswer  I can roll with that, I used cousin to distance from the "nashi bratya" BS that gets peddled. I can't fault anything you said, it's no wonder Russia was always so well known for being backwards, they think Ukraine belongs to them, but, it's the other way around if you consider the realities of history - Muscovy was a "suburb" or the outskirts of Kyivan Rus, therefore Russia belongs to Ukraine and not vice versa!
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  233.  @betterdonotanswer  haha, I stand corrected, now that you mention that, the Russian word for money is not a slavic sounding word, - "dengi" sounds Asiatic and is indicative of the horde's boots they were licking and paid tribute to, as you stated.
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  234.  @Finnbearl61r  Tak!!!
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  235. yea the langauge thing is absurd , Russian was a language of conquest and empire just like English was. Russian speaking does not mean that person "is Russian". Just like Marnie and I speaking English does not to equate to "is an Englander". Of course you are the exception in this case John!
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  236. I just watched this one again today and it hasn't dated at all and never will be dated. Definitely worth setting aside the time to have a look.
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  237. Keir Giles actually mentioned the other day, on Pyotr Kurzin's channel, that Kursk has dropped of the news a bit, but that's not so bad, because it's become normalised, and then Mr Garner mentions how Putin said when asked about Kursk, "vse normalno, spokoyno!" - all is normal, it's calm/quiet!" - Keir Giles vindicated 💯. Finally, Mr Garner's Russian is very good, just those 3 words gave away, with his annunciation, he knows how to speak Russian, as does the host Jonathon.
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  238. Far out Jonathon, your voice us shot, I hope you aren't too ill, have a few days off and let yourself recover.
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  239. 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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  240. 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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  241. Same, these two gentleman, just complement each other so well. They are the best "panel" Jonathon features regularly. All his guests and panels are great, but Mr Toth and Mr Sweet stand out and are always on point 💯. I've lived in Ukraine a decade and I know enough to sort the metaphorical "wheat from the chaff", it's hard to fault anything they say. Definitely a channel return favourite for me! 👍 Regarding going on Joe Rogan mentioned at the end of the show, I have urged Timothy Snyder and Jake Broe (on Bluesky) to reach out to Rogan and go on his show to set him straight on Ukraine. Rogan has NEVER featured any Ukrainian voices. Mr Toth and Mr Sweet live in the USA and could travel to Rogans studio in Texas, why don't they give it a shot ? It's time to use these other forms of media as mentioned by Mr Toth. Do it for Ukraine! 🙏
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  242. That's my second fave Pink Floyd song after "Dogs" from Animals.
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  243. same, also the acoustics in the tiny room did change how he sounded!
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  244. IN SOVIET RUSSIA SKY FALLS ON YOU!🙃
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  245.  @SimulacronX  durak
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  246. ​ @sempressfi  They're at an anti-war rally somewhere waving Soviet Flags - check out "Russian and Soviet Flags at Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC during "Anti-war" rally". Those clowns have no clue as to what communism really entails, or the meaning of hypocrite as they benefit from bourgeoisie stuff, like telephones , cars, private property and free speech, lol
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  247. I wonder if there are any Russian field marshals or generals with the moral integrity and guts to tell Tsar Putin to "end the war you idiots" after reusing Tsar Putin's stupid orders. I think not, as it seems most Iranian women have more intestinal fortitude than Russian men when it comes to staying in country to protest and over-throw your despotic regime, rather than running away like complicit cowards!🙃
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  248. You must have Mr DeBatto back on the show down the track! Revisiting this one now for the second time, I'm part way through and I love it! :)
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  249.  @gerryhouska2859  Good point, there's a qualitative boost for the Soviets right there!🙃
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  250. I liked his intro, got a laugh out of that!
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  251.  @ownagesniper1  cheers, definitely worth the read, it's 5 pages or so. 👍
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  252. Ahh The British Council! My Ukrainian wife is an associate Professor of langauges (she teaches English) & the "Kings English" is taugh here as part of the official curriculum. Before co-vid and then the war, My wife used to attend an annual conference that lasted a week run by the British Council, I think pretty much well asll the text books and teching methods for the English laungauge was sourced via the council. I used to accompany her to Kyiv for the week and while she and her colleagues attnded the coneferenvce I'd hit the streets and just be a tourist! Always loved visiting Kyiv, have lunch at the cafes., apend a bit of time milling around kreschatikstreet etc! Anyway I hope the conferences resume once all this nasty busniess is over and we boot the Russians out, they ruined everything! :(
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  253. At 57:30 Andriy mentions that Poroshenko produces extremely good chocolate called "RPSHEN" ( from - PoROSHENko). Agree 100%, when I moved to Ukraine a decade ago I discovered Roshen and it's the BEST - they make a wide range of top-quality confectionaries. 🍫
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  254. yea the joke is Iranian women have more "balls" than Russian men!
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  255. Mr Pearce brings up a very good point off the bat, about "self-agrandisement" I've seen a lot of people that have inserted themselves into the situation here post 2022, (where were they in 2014 ? The only guy here in 2014 was Greg Terry BUT......). and for some, it's all about them, there's one guy,, won't mention his name, but he always says "it's not about about me", but in fact, it's always about him. Everyone's throwing around "Slava Ukrayiniy" like a cheap slogan. they don't even say it right. As famous footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic said that sums up this well, if you care about a charity, why show off about how much you give, just STFU and do it, don't show off about it. Everyone's problematic in their own way, except for Will Blackburn, he does runs into the front line but he never shows off about it on youtube to an almost crass level. If Mr Blackburn wasn't on this show the other day, no one would even know who he is. A quiet achiever, not a loud mouth, blow in.😐
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  256. Paul, I went to buy some strike and at the checkout, where you choose your country, there is no Ukraine. What gives ? can you send me a sample pack of something ?
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  257. The song "TDME" on the words of the frontman of the group "Antityla" Taras Topolia became the first studio work after the autumn concert pause, but at the same time dense work in the studio over the new album. Maxim Sivolap, Sergiy Vusik and Taras Topolia wrote music for the song. The group was inspired by the creation of a desperate, but daring deed, of a scientist-oceanographer Stanislav Kurilov, who became famous for his daring escape from the USSR. The scientist jumped overboard from a passenger ship in the Pacific Ocean on December 13, 1974, and floating three days and three nights to the Philippine island, overtaking more than a hundred miles, following his dream. A citizen of the Universe, Stanislav Kurilov, simply could not accept the framework in which it was driven by a totalitarian state.
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  258. Yea but why has the Kiss logo never been a problem ? the double SS's in Kiss are EXACTLY like the Nazi SS font.
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  259. RIP Pete, Heroyam Slava. I can't stop crying.⚔
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  260. Politically the UK is far stronger and can lead from Whitehall.
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  261. Professor Lucas is a favourite guest for sure, up there with keir Giles and Sir James Sherr et .al. He's also the only one I have heard since this incident to point out that Trump peddles this politics of violence, the guy that said he could "shoot someone on the street and get away with it". But the poor Don, he is reaping what he sowed and now he''s the "victim".
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  262. I remember when I was a kid the National Geographic did a story on the Estonian SSR, can't recall the exact time, but circa 1973/4, it was an old one my father had, used to love reading them as a kid. Anyway in that article the thing that always stood out to me was that the NatGeo reporter who did the story on the ground there observers that the Estonians, when out on the street and they ran into a pair of Soviet * (usually Russian ethnicity) ""Militsiya" (i.e. kinda like Police, more of the Gendarme type). Anyway whenever they ran into these Soviet oppressors who they considered invaders they'd shout out to them in Russian "GO LOAF AROUND IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY!!!" hahaha, that always cracked me up, cheeky Estonians, but hey it was fully justified and a humorous trait.. The NetGeo only had the english translation and unfortunately not the original Russian & I don't know the word in Russian for "loafing" which means hanging about with no reason or purpose, but maybe their slogan went something like "idi i boltatsya bez dela v svoyey strane" ? :)
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  263. Jake with the oil pipeline transit, same with the gas transit, the contracts expired this month and won't be renewed by Kyiv.
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  264.  @SiliconCurtain  Ok I have even more to add, the Mrs was asleep last night when I was up late and listened to the podcast so I asked her this morning, was there lots of AFrican students at her uni and did they complain about racism, and she said, there were African studetns also Asian students, but not any complaints she knew of for racIsm as far as she could recollect from back then pre-2014.
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  265. I'd go a step further with describing Wagner as Waffen-SS, they're running around out there like a neo-Einsatzgruppen. :(
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  266. I noticed that Mr Friedman mis-spoke Soviet Union when he meant Russia, but that also brings up one disagreement I ha e with him over the issue of the nukes. When the USSR broke up they had 40,000 nukes (that's not a typo, it was 40,000) and nuclear devices, and we dealt with that ok, why should we be worried about about Russias 7,000 odd nukes ? Maybe that's a question worth putting to Mr Friedman next time he's on!
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  267.  @Eli-Eizen  Exactly, I would also add, he hasn't "observed" the Ukrainian constitution of Prylyp Orlyk 1710, Ukraine has been a country for the last 300 years but Russia won't allow it.
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  268. Hans is is 100% on point with all the things that should be self-evident to the wider public, but are somehow overlooked or ignored. Agree with everything he said from start to finish. I ended watching it a second time, today after watching it last night Hans making sense when lots of others can't. I know these things, you know these things, lots of your audience know these things but those that listen too much to the lies of Galloway et al, they're lost in a cesspool of BS and obfuscation with issues that should be self-evident if thought about without malign opinions influencing the outcome.
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  269.  @haraldthi  Yea out in the backwater Oblasts it's kinda like that, but Tsar Putin, being more in the spot light had to nominally give the optics of following law, calling it a war would have meant conscripts could be called up from the get go, he was trying to avoid that to keep that supposed social compact about "you stay out of gov and we'll stay out of your lives"
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  270. At the 01:30 min mark "...ruzzia was forged in the cold of Siberia..." Are you kidding me Max ? Everything east of the Urals is NOT Slavic and is conquered Turkic and Asiatic cultures, like the Tuvans, Evenki, Chuckchi, Tungus etc etc...sorry Max, you earned a thumbs down for your ignorance.
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  271. That building was a mining college, I used to live in Makiivka but we lost our flat there back in 2014 and had to leave the decrepit DNR.
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  272. Gen. Cross means well and is nominally on our side but Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, a real General with field experience would beg to differ with, I'm sorry to this "useful idiot" when it comes to Crimea.
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  273. ​@ Yeap, Crimea was part of Ukraine, 1954 - 2014 (60 years), for almost as long as the Soviet Union existed from 1922 - 1991 (69 years). "Historically always part of russia", what complete and utter nonsense, As you mention the Greeks, all the "pol" suffix cities here in Ukraine are from Greek "polis" = city. e.g. MariuPOL, MelitoPOL, SimferoPOL, SevastoPOL etc etc. The Tatars want Ukraine not Russia, that's for sure.
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  274. That was a great conversation. If we are going to hear about a decent Russian perspective, then dissidents like Alexander are the ones to talk to. Far more realistic than being pushed Kremlin BS. Defeintely have him back when his new book comes out!
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  275. I don't usually listen to her shows, I find her monologue's bland as I am not her target audience. Definitely more interesting in a proper conversation and this clip wasn't fed to me by the algorithm, haha. 🙃
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  276. Otlichno! On dal ochen horosho predstavleniye...
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  277. The Georgians were probably the first ever in the USSR to get away with an huge anti-Soviet protest in 1978 in Tbilisi. The Brezhnev government covered it up sop hardly anyone in the USSR knew abut it back then. - "On 14 April 1978, demonstrations in Tbilisi, capital of the Georgian SSR, took place in response to an attempt by the Soviet government to change the constitutional status of languages in Georgia. " - Pro-R.S.F.S.R. ruzzians also started the trouble in Abkhazia that is a problem to this day.
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  278.  @Guy-Lewis  Yes, he is Dabbling in both Maoism and Confucianism, Chairman Emperor Xi!
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  279. Keir Giles is up there with Sir James Sherr, they are the top shelf of Chatham house experts. (All Chatham house experts are great btw). 👍 Keir off the bat is on point that this war was not a matter of regime survival as Vlad Vexler states (Il love Vlad but he's got it wrong in this case). It doesn't take a genius to work out that Putin would have just rigged elections this year like he has since he was appointed in 1999 by Yeltsin. This war was about something other than "regime survival", and obversely, was a great risk to his regime if it fails.
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  280. Decent conversation, at the 7:20 mark the host mentions how the west is scared off by "Putin's wrath" but that wrath is perpetrated on us here in Ukraine. The people in the west don't suffer this "wrath". Exactly, So this brings to my point. one of guests, I won't mention which one, were talking about the loss of Pokrovsk, vs the Kursk operation. What really pissed me off, is they kept saying how "Pokrovsk doesn't matter strategically". Well, Pokrovsk matters to me and the 65,000 other people who have a home there. Again, it's easy for them to comment like that because...they don't live in Ukraine and have a home here that they might lose, but they are ostensibly on our side. But still the same ignorance similar to the western allies fear of the "wrath" that we suffer here. The western allies aren't suffering the "wrath" and one of these guests who was talking about how "Pokrovsk doesn't matter" isn't suffering the loss of a home! I am not even Ukrainian, my wife is and I bought that flat in Pokrovsk to replace the one she lost in Makiivka, in the so-called DNR in 2014. Pokrovsk matters to me, it was my home town for 8 of the ten years I'be been in Ukraine.
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  281. Retired F-14 Tomcat RIO (i.e. the back seater or Radar Intercept Officer) Ward Carroll is ex USN and he can play guitar, maybe Captain Hendrix can too!
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  282.  @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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  283. Paul better toe the line or we'll put him on the list too! lol
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  284.  @SiliconCurtain  👍
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  285. lol, yea, good times, chillin' in the village!
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  286.  @o______opanasovych  Indeed, I suppose you are correct, we have the one great example of the man who was more ruzzian than ruzzia - a certain Georgian by the name of Dzhugashvili! Chernenko - Born to a Ukrainian family in Siberia - was Soviet General Secretary after Andropov etc. The surname is a dead giveaway, "ko" or "uk" surnames are usually Ukrainian - e.g. Medved-ev = Russian, Medved-chUK = Ukrainian, in both cases the surname is "Bear"). Brezhnev was even born in Ukraine.
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  287. 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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  288. With those Vatniks that never acknowledge their errors or apologie like Galloway etc. One that I caught out talking trash about Ukraine was Max Blumenthal, who runs Grayzone "news" (news meaning Kremlin propaganda). At the start of the war there was a clip from CNN or whatnot, that showed an old lady being taught how to fuse an AK-74 by an AZOV soldier, you might remember it, and Max Blumenthal commented on his show that "if those AZOV guys get into the LNR or DNR, they will commit genocide on the Russian spekakers" but what that moron Blumenthal didn't realize(because he doesn't know Russian) is that in the clip the old lady was speaking RUSSSIAN!!! hahaha. SO according to him, the guy that quy who wants to genocide Russian speakers is showing a Russian speaker how to shoot guns! I caughtt him out totally spreading BS about Ukraine and he still shills for Russia hard to this day with Nasty anti-=Ukrainian BS.. What a piece of work he is. He's you typical Anti-NATO, US, the west, etc a true archetype! lol
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  289. That Hinkle clown is a real vile piece of garbage, but Max Blumenthal has probably done more damage long term. A couple of examples where I caught him out, he sometimes says cynically "Once CIA always CIA" to denote they can never be trusted (everything is a CIA plot for him ) but when it suits his BS narrative, he'll wheel out Binney or McGovern. Another really clownish example of him peddling BS to make Ukraine look bad, just before the invasion there was a clip getting around that I think CNN did, every network used it and it was an Azov soldier showing an old lady how to use an AK-47. Blumenthal on his Greyzone "Lies" YT chan showed the clip and then said "If these Azov guys get into the separatist regions they'll commit genocide on the Russian speakers." but what that f**ken half-wit didn't realise was the lady was speaking Russian! So according to his logic "the guy who wants to genocide Russian speakers was showing a Russian speaker how to shoot guns!" I really should go back and look at the Jnauary shows in 2022 greyzone did to dig it up so NAFO can make a fool out of him. in a meme. 🤡
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  290. Just to add to what Dr. Tallis sad about "Realists", I think it was Sir James Sherr who called them "Ahistorical" charlatans and that there was nothing "realist" about them at all. I would further add to that, great men like Sir James, or Keir Giles, these are the real realists. Actually real and really actual in their take on the situation here. Unlike Mearsheimer, Charap, et. al.
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  291. They bombed Lutsk today, lost power and water for a while...."vast majority of Ukrainians" + one Jugoslav!
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  292. Most of the Ukrainians have been ethnically cleansed from these regions, including my wife (I'm Jugoslav and only permanent resident so can't vote) from the Ukrainian part of Donetsk Oblast, we had to abandon our home and are ITD's in West Ukraine. But of course the vile anti-Ukrainian Russian shills like Galloway etc will have no problem with these votes and peddle it as all legit...
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  293. I can't buy any 'cos you don't ship here!!! Super irony as 50% of the money is supposed to help IDP's like me. 😐
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  294.  @silverkinjal  Wrong. Ukraine is actually real and really actual, therte were Slavic tribes here well over 1000 years ago,, my distant ancestors the "Beli Horvati" i.e. White Croats, were in the region of West Ukraine were I live now as an IDP, 1.200 years ago! They migrated to the Balkans and eventually became"Jugoslavija" in what was the remnants of the old Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium). BUt the Iranic connection is intruiging for sure, there are place names in Croatia, that bear an Iranic origin, so you are partly correct!
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  295.  @-0164-  yeap, here we observe OPSEC
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  296.  @Tazmanian_Ninja  Cheers, thanks for the positive comment.
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  297.  @Dddd-zb3ui  As someone who lives Ukraine and was near the front from 2014 to 2022, yes, I have "inspected" their capabilities to a greater extent than the average Joe living in other countries.
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  298. ATB is a large supermarket chain here Jake. It usually has the best prices. With those old "babooshka's" speaking Ukrainian in russia. It's also a common misconception that in the east "everyone speaks russian". It's not the case. For instance my home town of Pokrovsk, mostly everyone speaks russian there on the streets, but in the smaller villages in Donetsk Oblast, it's not uncommon to hear Ukrainian in the entire village. So those maps or vatniks saying "Eastern Ukraine is russian speaking" is nonsense, it's far more nuanced than that!
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  299.  @firasbouhamdan9917  Yea exactly, He was anti-Soviet communism, but not anti-Russian empire.
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  300.  @jaarneal  Well said, It seems none of his thesis matches actual demonstrated reality. If you go to the wikipedia page "List of Wars Involving Russia", there's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of wars pre-1949. I'd love tp put it to Mearsheimer, "Which of those several hundred wars pre-1949 was 'provoked' by 'NATO expansion', keeping in mind, Stalin started WW2 as an Axis Allie by invading Poland". I think he sticks to his 'bent guns' because admitting he was wrong is bad for his academic career, so he continues to peddle his BS. Samuel Charap is a "Mearsheimer" type of thinker and unfortunately he is on the advisory team for Jake Sullivan, poisoning his ear with the same nonsense.
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  301. I watched this for the second time today, well worth it for anyone reading this comment.
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  302. Dr Monaghan is one of the few that characterises this war here in Ukraine properly, as does Sir James Sherr, that for Putin it's "total war with the west". You only have to take note of the asymmetric stuff going going on in Europe with warehouses burnt down etc.. It doesn't mean a full on attack on NATO either, but maybe they test article 5 by taking a small chunk of Estonia or remote Finland in the north.
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  303. I am from Pokrovsk, and their reports are usually very good, unlike whatever BS you listen to.
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  304.  @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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  305. Good to see Captain Hendrix back, he's a very interesting return guest. The retired USN contributors such as himself, or Admiral James Foggo et. al provide a very compelling perspective & unique analysis. Regarding the Black Sea, Admiral Foggo also advocates for the USN to "get back in there' and has stated it was, in hindsight, to leave.
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  306.  @Virtus555  The Ukrainian word for King is Korol' & yov ending is Ukrainian - in Russian it's Korolev, fool or should I say "durak"?🤡
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  307. `In that first "feel good" clip you can hear a lady quite clearly thank Mr Tsuchiko in Russian, (Spasibo Balshoe = Thank you very much) demonstrating that speaking Russian does not mean "is Russian", just like speaking English does not mean "is an Englander". English and Russian are simply both languages of Empire and conquest that's all. English being former in that sense, Russian, current.
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  308. Another nuance with the "stalemate" paradigm is the way friend of the show and maybe a personal friend too, John Sweeney, his sources telling him this may the the case but, BUT, it's because we haven't been given what we need to do the job. Retired General Sir Richard Shirreff backed up that second part about the drip feed, BS that impedes our progress to victory. Mr Sweeney for sure copped a lot of flak and got called all sorts of things. But really the gist was "GIVE US WHAT WE FRACKIN NEED TO WIN"!
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  309.  @20chocsaday  lol, Yes but you have to remember, the backwards Russians say on "Russia 1" etc that Ukrainian is a "southern Russian dialect", but it's actually the other way around. Russian is a northern Ukrainian dialect!
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  310. Great, this exposure will really help BOF and TFU a lot. Shame Brian was too busy to make it, he works a day job plus manages TFU full time too. Hopefully he can make it in a future show.
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  311. That part about Zaks mother thinking Putin is a CIA deep fake on TV, it;s not just older ladies who are fools in Russia, my wife's Aunty in Saint Petersburg, has a grand-daughter that was speaking to a relative in Kyiv, my wife's cousin and the cousin in Kyiv was telling the grand-daughter in Saint Petersburg, "a rocket hit near my place, they blew up a block of flats" or something like that and the grand-daughter replys "oh don't watch TV, thats all fake news (about the war)" and the cousin replys, "no, I'm standing there right now I can see the destroyed building" and the grand-daughter just changed the subject and talked about something else!! 🧐
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  312. Artur, New word of the day is "bezdorizhzhia!" (Rasputitsa is Russian, stop using it!!!) Everyone changed from "Kiev" to "Kyiv". Time to do the same with the muddy roads! Wikipedia - Бездоріжжя 🚧🚦⛔🚫🔰🔱📛🏁🎴🚗
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  313. 💯
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  314.  @sticksman1979  lol
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  315. In case you missed this from last month, google this headline from the Times of Israel "Russia’s Lavrov meets with Hamas politburo chief Haniyeh in Moscow"
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  316. Mr. Smith & Colonel Ingram are a great return panel, hopefully they become regular return guests, pretty much well on par, with Mark Toth & Jon Sweet as a well integrated combo pair that knows their stuff. One more point, about the secrecy of the Kursk operation - last years summer "counter offensive, the original plan was to go cut the land bridge in the territory of the Karkhovka Dam, and because everyone blabbed about it, the Russians blew the dam and f**ked up our plan. THat's part of the reason the counter never worked, that and the Sorovikin line, but we'd chosen the weakest point to hit at it and the flooding of the land in that region ruined that, probably, as Jonathon intimated, the plans got leaked to the Kremlin via Washington.
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  317. 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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  318. I find Captain Hendrix's optimism very positive and authoritative and I ask you to provide me with some examples of where his peers didn't take him seriously. Just gimme some names and quotes nd I'll see if you are full of BS or not.
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  319. I go to church on Sundays too Professor, well not every Sunday, but my wife does, anyway, her English students back in Donetska Oblast she teaches online, had an idea to make wax field heating devices for the army out of empty soft drink cans, hardly anyone buys cans here, a tad expensive (around 20 grivnas for 250ml) you get a better deal buying a big 2L bottle at the supermarket on special (40 grivnas). But coke tastes better out of cans than plastic bottles, dunno why, so I always by cans, and I sent her students hundreds of empty cans (2 huge UkrPoshta sacks, 4 feet tall when full). My empty coke cans re-tasked as field heaters keeping the lads warm on the front! On a side note, when I say to my wife "Im helping the Ukrainian Army" she replies "Stop buying Coke and just give them the money"!! But I do that too, I donate cash regularly on the streets when I pass a collection stall. Just can't win!
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  320.  Matthew-wn8oq  hah, of course! It's all good we love our American friends!
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  321.  @DarkestAlice  Lex would be good too, they should go on both those shows, (Lex's and Rogans) huge audiences. 👍
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  322. The Mooch has already predicted exactly what you stated. Trump tweeted at the Mooch the other day and called him a "major loser", haha. We are in for some serious 💩posting after January, form the POTUS account for the next 4 years.
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  323. The RUSI people are great, thanks to Mr Arnold for being a friend of Ukraine.
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  324. Exactly, and the excuse Russian mouthpieces and useful idiots say that "why would Russia take out the water to Crimea on purpose:" ? is not valid either......simply....they know they are going to lose Crimea when we relcaim it andey want to make sure it's wrecked for when we take it back. This iis in line with the reckless modus operandi they have exchibtred since day one.
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  325. I'm trying to help keep you independent, but you don't ship to Ukraine! 😐 I haven't been home in 2 frackin' years, so major ultra-irony that the gum that's supposed to help me is not available here! ffs...
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  326.  @marinohect  Well, with the Tuck, we have a textbook example of what's known as "The Dunning-Kruger Effect" - The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities."
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  327. I think if anyoine oculd have "winged it" and got through that US panel you had to self fund to go to, it would have been you, you can speak Rusky, your command of the history and Soviet era is top shelf, you probably could have outdone many of the panelists imho!
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  328. It's bad enough that the degenerate, putrid, Duginite "Russky Mir" is a literal hell on Earth , but like a disgusting, deadly pestilence it has even infested the Heavens - a vile Demonic evil that has finally found it's way to infiltrate the wondrous cosmic realm of the angels and bring them the darkness of the decrepit world (mir) of the feeble minded Serfs (Russky) the demons inhabited a very very long time ago.
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  329. In addition to the useful idiots peddling the "Nazi's in Ukraine" BS that Steven mentioned, one of the biggest offenders in addition the one's mentioned is Max Blumenthal's Grayzone "News" (news in the sense that its the latest Kremlin propaganda and BS) and his sidekick Aaron Mate, they have been pushing this "Nazi's in Ukraine" BS hard and they have blood on their hands, They hare hateful vile anti-Ukrainians shilling for mass murderer Putin who has killed 250,000 in the second Chechen war and upwards of 100,000 in this war on both sides. They influence a lot more people in the US than we think. It's highly problematic and their treachery needs to be nrutralised.
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  330.  @larrywilliams3858  We also lost a property in the DNR in 2014 -city called Makiivka, that was my wife's flat, and yes worthless, maybe less than $10,000 USD now, but in pre-war, worth $40,000 and now it happens again, unless we win....
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  331. I just watched this one again, looking forward to when Scott makes another appearance. I wonder if he's related to Edward at all ? Both great analysis btw!!!
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  332.  @markdouglas8073  oh yea, for sure he has his own power basewith his his wagner fiefdom, but he along with Kadyrov occupy a very special niche, these guys are true "warlords" and are a cut way above the average kleptocrat but they still can't come nywhere near challenging the top dog, but anywauy getting to your point, for sure they are culpable and responsible for what goes on on within their fiefdoms. no arguments there!
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  333. Holy mother of God, eight quid a pint at the pubs around Whitehall ? that would by me half a dozen 500ml (a bit over a pint) beers at a bar/cafe here in Ukraine. Maybe a few less at a restaurant. I'd still walk away with 4 pints under my belt! 🍺🍻 btw, I love cricket, I used to be a pretty good all-rounder back in Oztralia before I moved to Ukraine a decade ago. In memory of David I might even try to get myself into a cricket club here, if I can find one in my area.
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  334. All the pundits are saying the counter is over...well....it has just begun!! 🙃🚦🔛🔰
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  335. Sasha on russians - "spineless atomised individuals" - 100% spot on. Those million odd that ran away like rats from a sinking ship to Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan etc, instead of all going to red square to over-throw their czar. What really irks me is theres a cabal in Tashkent stuffing their faces with fancy restaurant food every day at "the breakfast club" living the high life in really nice apartments, while on front line towns Ukrainians starve in wrecked homes with no windows, gas, power or water and hardly any food. These spineless russians are so crass they brag & show off about it on YT, rubbing it in our faces grifting money for fancy restoran meals. For instance my wife and have spent 2 years in a run down ex-soviet refugee flat in NW Ukraine and can't afford to eat fancy restaurant meals daily, nor even once a week, since leaving Donbas last year.. These Tashkent cowards aren't having their day ruined by air raid sirens, it took me 3 trips the other day to be able to go to the bank, walk there, air raid goes off , have to go home, same again, then 4 hours later I make it to the bank without an air raid. These russians that ran away living the high life are "сволоч" just like that old lady Vera Ivanova said in a street interview that went viral.
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  336. Yea this was a great conversation to try and decipher the mind of Putler. John mentioned that he had a video pulled down, which one was that ? Maybe we can complain to YouTube and get it restored. Was it too anti-Ruzzian ? Owen is spot on about their bad attitude towards Ukraine in general, when they talk of Ukraine they say "na Ukrainu" - (on Ukraine) rather than "v Ukrainu" - (in Ukraine) in Russian saying on Ukraine when you should say In Ukraine is almost racist, implying Ukraine and Ukrainians are nothing....
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  337. I think that second last question you got Paramahansay Yogonanda, which sounded very pro-Russian, speaks volumes to the lack of empathy that gets back to what you said Professor about when it comes to international relations, to put yourself in the heads of the people involved which this Paramahansay Yogonanda, character is incapable of doing. It's easy for him to ask such primitive 19th century nonsense when it's not his 2 Donbas homes, like the one's my wife & I lost in 2014 and recently in Pokrovsk, that will be given away to Russia for free, because he thinks borders should just be redrawn to end a war, because of his simplistic "lines on maps" way of thinking that totally leaves out the people and lives affected.
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  338. I feel really misled and ripped off, not bcasue I donated to that fake account. It's because I am not Ukrainain but I am from Donbas since I moved here a decade ago, and I did do a few podcasts on the Ochelli Effect, but without faking a Russian accent. My ancestry is Yugoslavia and I grew up in Austarlia. I moslty just sound like a stupid Aussie, haha. Maybe I should now start a "Dobas guy" account with the onus that I am actually real and really actual and rather than peddle Kremlin BS, I'll be telling the truth about Ukraine!
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  339. Re: Weapons and the timing....spot on jJake, you're a true friend of Ukraine, love ya man. (Paul too!). You guys got our backs....
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  340.  @jamesgornall5731  yea, that was a good one, haha
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  341. The rules based concept you mention is paramount. Ukrainian philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko mentioned on his latest podcast "Will ‘Peace Talks’ with Russia Really End the War?" - that if Trump allows Russia to keep Ukrainian territory (Trump says "Crimea is Russia" but Mr Yermolenko states, correctly, that there is no difference between Crimea and the other 4 Oblasts Putin claims) and redefine borders by force of violence and reward Putin, that this marks the end of the core UN based international rule of law. It will be bunk.
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  342. Mearsheimer is so crass, I love your assesment, "intellectual grifter", that's a good one. In a recent panel with Professor Micheal McFaul and some others who were for Ukraine he kept repeating stuff like "Ukraine has no right" to choose becasue it matters what Russia thinks. I can't call him what I would like to but the acronym is POS.
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  343. I dunno about Deane's explanation for that NATO "useful idiot", managerial skills and whatnot, sounds like a lot of unrelated mumbo jumbo, you want a fair dinkum explanation it's simple, I'm not Ukrainian, but I've lost a home in Donbas, I've been IDP in NW Ukraine and haven't been home in over a year. It's easy for that NATO clown to talk the way he does when it's not his home that going to be given way in some idiotic land for peace deal. I think it's more about empathy than "managerial skills".
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  344.  @deanejoyce5393  No offence man, but it goes far beyond having a few TQM courses under your sleeve or whatnot. These kind of people like that NATO clown or Elon Musk don't consider the absolute living hell that "Russkiy Mir" is. Giving away territory not only means I and a bunch of Ukrainians never get to go home, it also abandons a ton of Ukrainians to the rape, torture and systematic ethnic cleansing of "undesirables" and the stealing or seizing of children too. That's a fate worse than death. President Zelensky has made it imperative we do not abandon Ukrainians to this fate. These clueless peace deal clowns claim to want to save lives but yet have no empathy or understanding or wtf is really going on here. They just need to go away and stfu! ☹
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  345.  @deanejoyce5393  Cool, 'cos if you're an associate of Johnathon, your "street cred" is rock solid. Mate I tried in the past years before the re-invasion, on a liive radio net/podcast of mostly "conspiracy nutters", you know "tankies" and "vatniks" who hate the "NATO pentagon cabal" but benefit from the freedoms that cabal gives them to bad mouth Ukraine & be Kremlin mouthpieces without fear. I did many podcasts. The host, Chuck Ochelli was good enough to not be a Putin boot licker like all his alt-media colleagues. But in the end no matter how much I demonstrated the history of violence going back 500 years or more by Muscovy and later the Russian empire, pre 1948, you still had d-heads calling in going with the "poor Russia, victim of NATO" BS. Even if you brought up "so who provoked the wars before 1948, was that NATO expansion" (very sarcastically), these frackin' morons would just repeat the Kremlin BS! I've even got a better story than all the above, Chuck got a job at TNT live radio in Queensland Australia for 60K a year. TNT is funded by that fair dinkum drongo and putin boot licker Mike Ryan (not to be confused with Maj Gen Mick Ryan). Anyway Chuck invited me to talk about Ukraine on his debut night there and the next day TNT contacted Chuck to have a Zoom meeting regarding "content issues". The upshot is they said I was never to be invited on a guest again and they told him to change his tone about Ukraine and Russia. Being a somewhat man of honour he declined to be forced to be a Putin boot licker and propagandist and within few days Mike Ryan and TNT sacked him. He didn't een last a week. Talk about disgusting and if you check the TNT website they brag about being "honest" with news. What a bunch of f'in wankers. Propaganda dirtbags peddling Kremlin BS. I just grew tired of wasting my time.
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  346.  @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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  347. He's a grifter, have you seen his twitter feed, it's just crass, self promotion and jingoistic grandstanding, it's all about him, throwing out "Glory to Ukraine"'s will nilly like it's some cheap slogan. I've lost a home in Donbas my wife lost hers in 2014 in the DNR. Having this one dude on our side is not going to win us the war, won't lose it either if he's gone....
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  348. i agree with Jake's assessment of surovikin, in ruzzian that would be "durak" (fool) or even better "glupiy kak osel" (dumb like a donkey)! 🙃 and agree 100& about the mother...S**t got real for that Ruzzian c**t and she curses Ukraine not Tsar Putin.....she got her karma, remind me to cry her a river one day.....
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  349.  @brianstoner5424  there's always gotta be a "what aboutist" to put forth things that have nothing to do with me losing 2 homes to Russia since 2014.....I am Jugoslav, what about Kosovo ?, you forgot that, clown!! Tsar Putin always brings that up as a rationalisation of his actions, why didn't you ?
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  350. Thorium, molten salt reactors are the way to go with nuclear power, google "Kirk Sorensen Thorium". Can you do a clip on that Peter ?
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  351. same,. its a great format
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  352.  @Noddy2750  Because all of the coal mines are now in the occupied territories. Donbas = DONetsk (coal) BASin. That's how the name came about you intellectually-crippled, mouth-breathing, half-wit. It's where all the coal is. Those old tanks are still better than the Soviet Russian garbage,. A 30 year old Bradleys IFV took out a T-90 here, a tank Putin bragged was "the most advanced in the world". 🤡
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  353. I think this Chay Bowes clown needs to check out the hundreds of wars listed on the wikipedia page "List of wars involving Russia" and see if he can count them all, there's that many wars there going back hundreds of years you can't count them all, but hey yea, Russia never starts wars! It's all "NATO expansion", even the ones pre-1949!! lol
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  354.  @artmcteagle  Yeap, 200 billion USD in todays money. They never paid that all debt back either, When the USSR collapsed the remainder of that debt was re-issued to Boris Yeltsin's government and they paid back not even 10% of what was outstanding from Soviet times.Indeed as you say, the Soviet Union was close to being Kaput until lend lease came along. TIK History channel has done some excellent presentations this matter.
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  355. ​ @ownagesniper1  That's not the case. From the article - Deceit, Dread, and Disbelief: The Story of How Ukraine Lost Its Nuclear Arsenal - "In his memoirs Brent Scowcroft noted that then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney vigorously opposed the removal of nuclear weapons from the newly independent states at Russia’s periphery. Though most of their personal papers on the subject remain classified, a memo to the National Security Advisor from March 1992 demonstrated that these disputes did not disappear. National Security Council staffer David Gompert noted three major counterarguments: Ukrainian nuclear weapons will not threaten the U.S. as Russian nuclear weapons do, for the simple reason that Ukraine, unlike Russia, is not a serious potential adversary. It might even prove advantageous to us to see Russian power checked—and Russian nuclear weapons deterred—by a Ukraine with a minimal deterrent. In any case, we hurt ourselves with the Ukrainians by insisting that they be stripped of nuclear weapons while we legitimize those of their powerful neighbor."
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  356. Mr. Smith is a very interesting guest, a great man and a great discussion, much appreciated. When you mentioned "escalation management" and he corrected you and said it was appeasement, I will mention to all readers in your defence Jonathon, that you also have called it this for a long time, ditto for myself too. Another thing that jumped out at me was Mr. Smith's mention of "s different form of communism under Tito", well in Yugoslavia at that time we could travel freely, own a small business and farms remained in private hands, there was no disastrous "Sovkhoz" or "Kolkhoz" collective farms. Keep in mind that Tito broke with Stalin and left he Soviet Bloc in 1948 successfully (unlike poor Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Hungary in 1956). And lastly, I don't think we are ever getting the F-16's. We were supposed to have them last new years, now mid year, this month. It's never gonna happen. Thank you Jake Sullivan and Samuel Charap (massive sarcasm). 😐
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  357. A third Russian tanker has broken up in the Black Sea. "Beware when the Black witch of December comes calling!". Need to do a cover of that Gordon Lightfoot song about the Big Fitz with some changed lyrics for the Black Sea. - "The big sea it is said, never gives up its dead when the Black witch of December comes calling....". 🎸🚢
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  358. IN SOVIET RUSSIA TROIKA INVENTS YOU! lol.........Yea, the Ruzzians appropriated Gogol too.....
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  359. It's amazing what both of you DIDN't say, neither Trump no you Sanders, no mentions of us here in Ukraine. You earned a thumbs down for that. You're no better than Trump.
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  360. Great interview and great guest. I have a story to tell for Mr Goncharenko about how insidious the ruzzian orthodox church is here. I hope he reads this comment. My wife and I are IDP's from Pokrovsk and moved to Lutsk (it got bombed extensively today). Anyway when I moved to Ukraine a decade ago, I was eventually baptised into the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in 2018. When my wife and I arrived in Lutsk, we went on a self walking tour of the religious places in the old part of Lutsk with cobblestones. We visited a synagogue and a Lutheran Church. When we came to a ruzzian orthodox church we were shocked to find a note in the foyer of the church that read (it was written in Ukrainian even!) - "“якщо вас не хрестили в канонічній церкві, не подавайте записки, ми не приймаємо такі" - if you were not baptised in a canonic church (i.e a Moscow church) don't ask for payers for you" - for a small donation, or if you are broke, no donation, the priests usually read out prayers for your relatives who are sick or need help etc. This means that I was a "non-canonical" person, due to being baptised in a Kyiv based church and could not leave a note with names of relatives for prayers!
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  361. October 17, 2019 Russian President Vladimir Putin has revoked an additional protocol to the Geneva Conventions related to the protection of victims of international armed conflicts, a Russian parliamentary website cites a letter from him as saying. The Additional Protocol I to the 1949 Geneva Convention was ratified by the Soviet Union's Supreme Council, or parliament, in 1989.
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  362.  @SourVodka  So far so good, I asked the Mrs if she wanted to go to Lyviv for a few days and she said "yes" before I could even finish the sentence, just gotta get one of her colleagues from the uni to look after our cats then I can book 2 seats. 'Cos were IDP's heree we don't know many people to ask to cat-sit, everyone we knew was really back in Donbas, they're all over Europe now.
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  363.  @SourVodka  cat sitter orgsnised, 2 tickets booked!
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  364. Buzzwords can ve really annoying when over-used and "escalation" is right up there in that respect. I'd bet all my savings that not one of the people of journoas saying that every other day now about us wanting the material to defend ourselves to match Russia, would have ever used the word "escalation/escalate" in their life before last year. In what context would they hasve used that word "I was accosted on the street by a drunk and decided not to say anything back becasue I didn't want to escalate!!", lol They've never used that word in theior life and now they repate it several times a week. It's like when a young kid learns a new big word and has to say it all the time, just to impress. These journaos are no different in mentality.
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  365.  @artmcteagle  Great old school film about Nero, and also the book was written by a Polish author, forget who it was. Someone should do the Russian voice overs for the old film and distribute it in Russia! 🧭⚔✝
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  366. Yes indeed, one quick look at the wikipedia page "List_of_wars_involving_Russia" quickly puts pay to the logical fallacy of the "POOR RUSSIA VICTIM OF NATO" narrative, there must be hundreds of wars listed there pre-1945 before NATO, way too many t even begin counting! I find the clowns who push that Kremlin line to be quite tiresome.
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  367. Great discussion with Professor Grunewald, she briefly touched on the aircraft industry, as part of her general outline. I can do a value add comment for her here, as my personal studies going back to the late 80's was Soviet Aerospace. Susan mentioned the freedom some "camps" had (like the Germans building the 2nd tallest university in Moscow) plus also how late some were held (as late as 1955). These 2 points are very closely related to the prison "workplaces" (they were more like workplaces than camps) for aerospace workers, called "Sharashkas" - from the wikipedia article "Sharashka" - Sharashkas (singular: Russian: шара́шка, [ʂɐˈraʂkə]; sometimes sharaga, sharazhka) were secret research and development laboratories operating from 1930 to the 1950s within the Soviet Gulag labor camp system. So, the famous Ukrainian rocket scientist Sergey Korolyov, worked at one of these "Sharashkas". He was saved rom the normal GULAG' camp system by Andrey Tupolev, (the designer of the Tu-95 Bear , Tu-22 Blinder, Tu-26 now 22M Backfire etc). Also rocket engine designer Glushko was saved by Tupolev et. al.. These "Sharashkas" was how the USSR beat American into space in 1957 with Sputnik and 1961 with Vostok (Yuri Gagarin)". Anyway the main point is the many German rocket scientists and V2 technicians who were held in these "Sharashkas" were not let go until mostly 1955 as far as I can determine. The best, well researched source for this (there's many others) is a book by author James Harford called - Korolev: How one man masterminded the Soviet drive to beat America to the moon
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  368. 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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  369. ALso speaking of those though and mean ones Russians love, Josip Broz Tito essentially told Stalin to go F himself and brojke the the USSR in 1948. Stalin wanted to invade but lost th the nerve (unlike Kruschev 1956 or Brezhnev 1968, which is very strange) anyway, Stalin to compensate, ekpt seending bumbling Russian idiots to try and kill tito and it stopped after a letter Tito sent to Stalin, that scared Stalin off, it's legfendary.... “Stop sending people to kill me! We’ve already captured five of them, one with a bomb and another with a rifle… If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send another” ― Josip Broz Tito :)
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  370. I re-watched this viideo oj James discussing many interesting topics for the second time and it hasn't dated at asll, still worth watching again for sue He also mentioned the 1997 Moscow founding document with NATO in regards to the bogus "poor Russia victim of NATO" BS peddled by Mearsheimer et al. here is a summasry of the text, if I put a link the comment willl get zzpped. The document explicitly staees "NATO and Russia do not consider each other as adversaries;" so it makes you wonder, did Tsar Putin ever read this and note that very important point ? Yeltsin obviously was aware of it, seems his chosen successor was not.... Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between NATO and the Russian Federation 1. The "Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between NATO and the Russian Federation" was approved by the North Atlantic Council on 16 May 1997. It is the product of four months of intensive negotiations between Secretary General Solana and Russian Foreign Minister Primakov. The Secretary General, the Heads of State and Government of the North Atlantic Alliance and the President of the Russian Federation will sign the document in Paris on 27 May. The NATO - Russia Founding Act reflects the changing security environment in Europe, an environment in which the confrontation of the Cold War has been replaced by the promise of closer cooperation among former adversaries. It reflects in particular the practice of consultation and cooperation established between the Alliance and Russia over the last few years, the most remarkable example being the participation of Russian troops alongside those of NATO and other partner countries in IFOR/SFOR. NATO and Russia do not consider each other as adversaries; the Founding Act is the expression of an enduring commitment, undertaken at the highest political level, to build together a lasting and inclusive peace in the Euro-Atlantic area. 2. The new security partnership between NATO and Russia will be one step among others which are being taken to build a stable, peaceful and undivided Europe. It will allow the Alliance and Russia to forge a closer relationship. This is in the interest, not only of NATO and Russia, but also of all states in the Euro-Atlantic area. 3.The Founding Act, as agreed with the Russian side, has four sections. It begins with a preamble which establishes the context for the stable and enduring partnership we want to build. It states the reasons why NATO and Russia believe that it is in their shared interest to cooperate more broadly and intensively. It highlights the profound transformation that the Alliance has undergone since the end of the Cold War, through reductions of conventional and nuclear forces, through a revision of its strategic concept, through its new missions such as peacekeeping, and through its support for security cooperation throughout Europe, in particular within the framework of Partnership for Peace. It also refers to the transformation Russia is undergoing, its force reductions - which will continue -, the withdrawal of Russian forces from Central and Eastern Europe, the revision of Russia's military doctrine, and its participation in the multinational operation in Bosnia-Herzegovina. 4. Section I details the principles on which the NATO - Russia partnership will be based. These include commitments to norms of international behaviour as reflected in the UN Charter and OSCE documents, as well as more explicit commitments such as respecting states' sovereignty, independence and right to choose the means to ensure their security, and the peaceful settlement of disputes. Both sides commit themselves to strengthening the OSCE with the aim of creating a common space of security and stability in Europe. 5. Section II creates a new forum: the NATO - Russia Permanent Joint Council (PJC). This will be the venue for consultations, cooperation and - wherever possible - consensus building between the Alliance and Russia. The PJC will: hold regular consultations on a broad range of political or security related matters; based on these consultations, develop joint initiatives on which NATO and Russia would agree to speak or act in parallel; once consensus has been reached, make joint decisions, if appropriate, and take joint action on a case-by-case basis. Such joint actions may include peacekeeping operations under the authority of the UN Security Council or the responsibility of the OSCE. 6. Section III details a broad range of topics on which NATO and Russia can consult and perhaps cooperate, including preventing and settling conflicts, peacekeeping, preventing proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and exchanging information on security and defence policies and forces. Conversion of defence industries, defence related environmental issues, and civil emergency preparedness are other areas for consultation and possible cooperation spelled out in this section. 7. Section IV covers military issues. In this section, the members of NATO reiterate their statement of 10 December 1996 that they have no intention, no plan and no reason to deploy nuclear weapons on the territory of new members, nor any need to change any aspects of NATO's nuclear posture or nuclear policy - and do not foresee any future need to do so. NATO also reiterates its 14 March 1997 Statement indicating that in the current and foreseeable security environment, NATO plans to carry out its collective defence and other missions by ensuring the necessary interoperability, integration and capability for reinforcement rather than by additional permanent stationing of substantial combat forces. Accordingly, the Alliance will have to rely on adequate infrastructure to allow for reinforcement if necessary. 8. NATO and Russia commit themselves in the same section to pursuing promptly the work relating to the adaptation of the treaty governing conventional forces in Europe (CFE), in order to further reduce the levels of Treaty Limited Equipment. This commitment will be pursued in the ongoing negotiations on CFE adaptation in Vienna and will help to achieve a result that reflects the changed security environment in Europe since the Treaty was adopted in 1990. Finally, Section IV provides mechanisms to foster closer military-to-military cooperation between NATO and Russia, including by creating military liaison missions on both sides. 8Both sides have agreed that nothing in this document restricts or impedes the ability of either side to decide independently. It does not provide NATO or Russia at any stage with a right of veto over the actions of the other. The provisions of the NATO-Russia Founding Act can also not be used as a means to disadvantage the interests of other states. 9 The NATO-Russia Founding Act does not subordinate NATO to any other organisation, and it can in no way diminish the political or military effectiveness of the Alliance, including its ability to meet its security commitment to current and future members. NATO and Russia will work together on a broad spectrum of tasks in the Permanent Joint Council, which will, however, remain clearly separate from the North Atlantic Council - NATO's own decision-making body. The Founding Act with Russia has been negotiated and will be concluded on its own merits; it is not meant as a compensation. It does not delay, limit or dilute NATO's opening for the accession of new members, and it will not relegate any new NATO member to second class status.
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  371. The quintessential King's Hussar. A Great General and a great host. Watching this for the second time.
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  372. yea, If you look at the wikipedia page "List of wars involving Russia" it's jaw dropping, even for the RF section, let alone USSR and Russian Empire, Muscovy etc, there's so many wars listed it's not even worth attempting to count them. I wonder which of all those wars before 1947 Mearsheimer et al could put down to "NATO expansion", LoL
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  373. yeap, Lovin' this new format for sure, good condensation of the main headlines & weekly roundup!
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  374. Thumbs down - you don't ship to Ukraine. Paul, if you put a sample pack in the mail, it will make there.
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  375. At 3:30 mark - "..there's great open source analysts..." indeed, go check out the Covert Cabal chan here on YT, he pays for his own up to date satellite images of Ruzzian storage bases.
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  376. 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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  377. 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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  378. 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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  379. 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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  380. Great format, I enjoyed it very much. Do more of them@!
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  381. Good analysys, but if we take into account one trait or characteristic - recklessness - then Russia remains the prime suspect, all the other countries really have not demonstrated that trait....but as say not "Tsar Putin" but maybe more extreme elements, these hardliners, send the pigs down the pipes with bombs on them, too easy!
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  382. I agree with Mr Satter's assesment that in the end, even though there are multi-factorial reasons at play as you initimated John, but in the end this was just all aboiut regime preservation, but there would have been many secondary benefits had that cretin in the Kremlin pulled it off. Vladislav Vexler also thinks the same as Mr Satter re: Regime Preservation. Was good to hear this "old hand" at Russia journalism again. Great stuff as always!!
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  383. This video now makes me realise what a clown Zeihan is "take a pick axes to the pipeline", does Zeihan even understand friction and how hard it would be to "swing a pick axes" under water, haha
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  384.  @kevkeary4700  Many reasons, the UK was a founding member of NATO, FInland was not. During the Soviet period Finnish foreign policy had to be approved by Moscow, how is that political strength ? The UK has major influence via the British Commonwealth, its former Empire, in Australia, the USA, India, etc Does Finland have this political influence ? NO way it does. Don't kid yourself dude. FInland is a decent country, but who do you think listens in the white house to Finland ? Sorry to say, but NO one. But the Brits get a say and the ear of many people.
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  385. He gives a good summary of the standard Kremlin narrative verbatim......he offers nothing new to the conversation, if you want to hear Kremlin talking points why not hear them from the horses mouth and tune into Russia 1 . How do I know ? I live in Ukraine, have lost 2 homes and Mr Hitchens has not.
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  386. The alt-media kremlin mouth pieces still push that vile "Nazi's in Ukraine" BS hard, but NEVER mention <3% support for that here and never harp on about AFD in Germany, Lepen in France, Orban in Hungary, Greece, now Sweden and Italy, all neo-fascistic and way more support than 25% and up....even in Britannica the largest article on modern fascism is the Russia article, no mention of Ukraine! I can't paste the link, the bots zap my comment but just google Britannica fascism Russia
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  387. It seems both sides of US politics, but the GOP fringe more so, think in the zero sum mentality of Putin and his kleptocrats, i.e. "if it's good for you it must be bad for me", so if the MAGA-GOP-far-righters faction think Ukraine is good for the Dems, it must be bad for them. So they go with the the opposite out of childish petulance and vice versa with the quasi-marxist-identity-obsessed Dem far-lefters. Total clown show on both sides of the isle.🤡
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  388. The reprehensible Merkel saying "engagement" was the only way is like saying "engagement with Unca Jimmy was the only way to make the kids happy"... :(
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  389. Let's hope Kostya is right, Bortnikov is ominous but just another bumbling fool with no military competence like Gerasimov. At best we will get another "Ryazan Sugar" event ? But what pretexts can it set, "Mother russia" has been attacked and no nukes!!!
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  390. 💩💩💩
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  391.  @davidgoodnow269  Those songs are ok but kinda "meh" too. Hang 'Em High off Diver Down album is maybe my second fave track.
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  392. That day is my birthday! Thanks Peter now I can have a few drinks later to celebrate my birthday again! 🙃
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  393.  @JimGobetz  It's not a surname, it's a nickname, KIYANIN means "the one from Kyiv" or "Kyiv guy" or similar. How do I know this, I've lived in Ukraine for almost a decade....
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  394.  @christianmolick8647  good point, especially re: SMO rather than calling it "war", he did do that for legal obfuscation within the RU framework
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  395. New York Times = American "Pravda", it's the East Slavic word for truth, but, really, they just peddle nonsense.
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  396. About 25 mins in Mark mentions some very important criteria regarding the stolen lands under occupation and those who want us to "negotiate" sodas to end the war, nominally, "to save lives" but completely ignoring the fate worse than death of all the Ukrainians in "Rusky Mir" would endure. The logic is pure cognitive dissonance, save lives and then negotiate away other lives to the putrid "RUSKY MIR" in occupied land to be given away for "peace". Absurd and unpalatable for sure.
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  397. The best thing is his format is concise and he doesn't waflle on too much. He explains stuff really well & logically. I like his new intro better, it differentiates him from Denys. Defenders of the truth or Ukraine etc.
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  398. At 51:45 Mr Fink on point again - the UK should look at co-producing the next generation of nuclear deterrent with France - EXACTLY, French nukes are not sourced from the USA like Trident.. France retains FULL CONTROL. THat's a bonus in todays Trumputian world. If the UK develops nukes with France it can retain control and I am sure they can work out a deal where France doesn't have some control over them like the USA does with Trident, just like with Concorde, they co-developed the worlds only supersonic airliner and they both retained control of their own versions (i.e. British Airways vs Air France).
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  399.  @pipe_currency  oh interesting, I've never been resident in Kyiv, so the times I went there the metro seemed good, but I never used transport there extensively (lot of taxis). In the smaller towns, yes the Marshrutka's are old and crowded but at least regular and on time. Back in Australia a lot of bus routes did not exist or the bus was always late or just n never turned up due to a cancellation. terrible. Here also way cheaper, too, especially compared to the ripped off prices for trains.
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  400.  @kirstinevad347  💯👍
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  401. Pokrovsk is my home town, I hope you are right. Thanks for all your help Paul, and your listeners and subscribers - be sure to send the lads some strike gum along with the drones and other hardware! The AFU uses tons of energy drinks!
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  402.  @lolakauffmann  That's fair enough, no one hates you. Lets give thiss ome conext, the guys that push Kremlin BS for the last 8 years, some of it fangerous hate propaganda about us all being Nzi's here, that literally is getting us killed and the reason for the brutality, those podcasters have blood on their hands and they get thousands of bukcs a month. But guy like John, doing the right thing, not pushing BS but the truth, he's not even getting 50 quid a month. It just seems kinda unfair the scumbags spreading lies get so much and the good guys trying to get out the truth get so little. Thats all
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  403. Exactly, Lindsley the latte sipping Fox News yuppie bending the truth at the 5:00 min mark too "I speak every single day in Chicago WGN radio", that's BS Bob Sirrott's show is only a weekdays show 5 days a week not "every single day". Zarina Zabrissky is a Ukrainian-American reporting every day from Ukraine for example. But she doesn't matter because Joe the yuppie hero boy, is so full of himself. Typical arrogant Fox News attitude.
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  404. Hello Anders algorithmic response here. 😉 As you state, the pundits get it wrong, they look for one single reason for Czar Putin's objectives and fall on territory. But they fail to realise the situation here is multi-factorial, for sure political control was the primary objective, but also, the Kremlin is not about go give up any territory they have gained so far, and in fact, lay claim to territory they have not yet conquered, even going so far as to enshrine it into the Russian constitution. BUt anyway I agree 💯 with this great presentation. But let's not forget there is more than one reason.
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  405. 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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  406.  @anibbotson  Yea, Budapest, Hungary, but that was in the Warsaw pact and was suppressed very violently. The Georgian protest in 1978 was actually in the USSR proper and they seemed to get away with it to some extent.
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  407.  @anibbotson  oh, haha, that's ironic. They didn't like Nikita dissing their boy Dzhugashvili in the secret speech!
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  408. Konstantin points out something the rather obtuse Mr Hitchens fails to understand when he says "Ukraine is more corrupt than Russia" (which indicates his ignorance). Where did that corruption come from ? It did not origiante in Kyiv, it came from Moscow via the Soviets and before that Russian boyars etc....Great conversation John! I would disagree with him on Solzhelnitsyn though, yes he was anti-Soviet, but he was no Sakharov, after the USSR collapsed he just became a Russian Imperialist, his attitude to Ukraine was the typical mentality - that is, Ukraine was always part of Russia and should always be part of Russia. Interestingly my wife’s family shares similar stories to Konstantin - "Kulaks" who lost land to the Bolsheviks and got deported and a great Uncle who was taken to Germany to work on a farm during WW2..
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  409. Ronald Reagan - "Peace through strength", ⚔ Donald Trump - "Weakness through appeasement".🤡
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  410. I didn't really think of it from that angle Kateryna put in, about "dehumanisation" of Russians, calling them "orcs" (I find that trem a bit childish and don't use it tbh, I'd rather just call them scum, haha), the Russians gave done a good job of dehumanising themselves, as usual.
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  411. As Mr. Sims stated "Russia is the opposite of freedom", I get the feeling VP Harris has got our backs here in Ukraine and of course there will be no more Sullivan/Charap et. al. "escalation management", let's see how her new national security team pans that out. Victory will probably have to come in stages, Sir James Sherr outlined a scenario like that today on Brian Whitmore's "Ppwer vertical" podcast. On ruzzia joining NATO back in the 90's, it seems like letting the fox into the metaphorical hen house, I get the impression, from his known modus operandi's so far, Putin would have just started to attack members from within and wrecked NATO totally. Mr. Sim's 💯, If you are going to set such a line, you need to enforce it. It reminds me of a skit Cheppelle did about Rick James (Coke's one helluva drug), who was a habitual line crosser, because he was doing too much coke, and Eddie and Charlie Murphy would have to keep him in check and literally thump him to get him to cut that crap out.. You gotta keep line crossers in check or you look weak!
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  412.  @marieelliott8368  👍
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  413.  @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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  414.  @piseag458  👍
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  415. It's easy for everyone to talk about the loss of Pokrovsk as - not a big deal, not a surprise, expected, etc etc, when you don't have a home there that will be gone forever like mine will be + the 65,000 odd other residents. So is there any chance of a free complimentary audio book version of one (or both) of your books ? Seeing as I have been displaced twice and can't afford to buy them ?
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  416.  @American-In-Mykolaiv  No, he's correct, I went into the sound properties and only the left channel is working on this YT video, when I moved the slider to the right, it was no sound. It seems you are the "Durak", American in Mykolaiv.
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  417.  @American-In-Mykolaiv  I had the same effect, I have an all in one BT speaker, it's stereo, but there is not much separation. But I decided to check the balance controls. Anyway man, no hard feelings. I am from Australia and lived in Ukraine a decade (Ukrainian wife). Home town used to be Pokrovsk. Now the Mrs and I are IDP in west Ukraine. All the best in Mykolaiv, stay safe.
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  418.  @vadymkvasha4556  indeed, of course some nasty enemies of Ukraine might be on that site, but it's not connected to Malyuk's or Budanov's "list". The SBU or GUR will do what Mossad does with enemies of the state over the decades. I was just kind of making a joke there with my original comment, nothing serious, I hope Paul got a laugh out of itt! haha
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  419.  @vadymkvasha4556  Tak, sto vidsotkiv.
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  420. Anyone remember the Aral Sea ? No Aral Sea.....seems even PZ here forgot to mention that disaster.
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  421. ok I have had enough of this clown, I unsubscribed...., seriously, if he put on some white makeup and a red nose, those stupid eye movements and faces he pulls, he could be a real clown, the new BOZO! 🙃
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  422. A heads up Mr Cappy, "Malyuk" is Ukrainian for any small child, but it can be masculine in certain grammatical uses, but mostly it's a general term for any small kid - unlike the Russian "Malchik" which means a little boy only! The Urkainian word for just a little boy specifically is "Khlopchik"! 🙃
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  423. The distances to traverse the stars or galaxies or universe are way too vast, even at 1/4 light speed. Fermi's "paradox" isn't a paradox IMHO, it's just a practical aspect of the vastness of space and the limitations on high speed travel (forget all that warp BS you see on Star Trek or sci-fi shows). Any exo-civilisation would be lucky to have anti-matter drives and half light speed craft. (at the speed of light your mass is infinite, an impossible target, let alone even half light speed, maybe 1/4 is more feasable). Why would they even have the choice to go explore exo-planets over vast inter-stellar distances ?  This plant or that planet, it seems irrelevant. I've been reading about this stuff since I was a kid. I am a space guy, unlike you Jordan. Decent guest, she didn't tell me anything I didn't already know, but she waved her hands around way too much (she became really annoying after a while), a non-video radio only version of this would have been much better.
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  424.  @georgemartin1436  Yea, they don't make paint like that anymore do they ? It would put them out of business in the long run!! LOL ;)
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  425. At the 10:17 min mark you mis-spoke I think, you say "..the UASF were also interested in lifting bodies.." UASF = USAF ?
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  426. I love listening to Kostya ramblings! :) He's always very intruiging. Just re-listened to this for the second time, it hasn't dated at all. Good stuff.
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  427.  @wgowshipping  YW Sal! oh, one clarification with the phonetics - row as in ROWing boat, not to be confused with an argument or "row" (like owl) as the Brits say it.
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  428. THat was a great show John, I think you are onto a really interesting format. Good to hear what your assessment is of the situation reports and news., Youre also familiar with the info warrior community battling the BS. I loved the off tyhe cuff new segment you called "Vatnik soup", haha, good stuff. I guess vatnik soup is a borShch substItute they feed you in Russian gulags for liking a Ukrainian post online and getting locked up for 5 years!!!. I watched this show twice already. gg
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  429.  @Clapperofcheeks5000  LOL
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  430.  @junkscience6397  We're ready bruh! They turned on the central heating today, good luck trying to freeze us out, be another epic failure like lsst winter. lol 🙃
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  431. At the end of the presentation, Mr Kuzio mentions the SBU going after Russian war criminals the way Mossad hunted down Nazi's long after the war. Interestingly on the most recent podcast of "The power Vertical" hosted by Brian Whitmore, the two guests Michael Weiss and James Sherr mentined how "the SBU is tne new Mossad"! (due to how innovative and effective the SBU is, like Mossad was).
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  432.  @lornes3464  👍💛💙
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  433.  @teddy.d174  Russell escaped rom the funny farm I suspect.🙃
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  434. Indeed, interestingly, the largest article, by far, on fascism in Encyclopedia Britannica is the Russian article. There are articles on many other countries but no mention of Ukraine! (because < 2-3% support for that htere). I can't paste the link as the comment gets zapped but google "Encyclopedia Britannica Russia Fascism" the first hit will be that article!
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  435.  @Jimmy-ye3wg  That's what everyone was saying about the USSR breaking up, until, it did, - "federation", is a joke, it's an empire, and it is already falling into decrepitude and will break up just like the USSR did.
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  436.  @Jimmy-ye3wg  Sorry jimmy, you're crackin' corn and I don't care! 🤡
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  437. I re-watched this one & it is the mother lode, up there with James Sherr, it has not aged at all and is a timeless gem (except for the bit about PrIgozhin being referred to in the present tense, lol) worth having another look at if.
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  438.  ScottJohnston-hy2jt  It won't work out, Trump will give our Donbas homes away to Putin for free, then we can have a great "national holiday". Of course anyone originally from Lutsk won't have to worry, their homes won't be given away. Good times.
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  439. Yea, but that's where you can do an entire show, the pervasive and corrosive effect of Russo-centrism in academia is a serious issue that goes back a century when academic escapee's from the Bolsheviks came to Western Universities. They were anti-communist, but not necessarily, anti-Russian Imperialism. Solzhelnnitsyn is a textbook example, anti-Soviet, but when Russia invaded Ukraine and took Crimea, he revealed himself to be a Russian Imperialist of the most crass from. Google this - “Do Svidaniya” to Russo-centrism: Western schools start decolonizing Eastern Europe studies
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  440.  @jaarneal  No arguments at all. Legitimate and relevant points & questions. 👍
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  441. 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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  442. Never forget Katyn, and never forget Holodomor! I miss Michal Rachon, will he be back ?
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  443. With the comparison by Pundits of the behaviour of President Macron of France and PM Starmer of the UK, it is not valid. For starters, JD Vance HATES Ukraine, he stated in the past he does not care what happens in Ukraine. Trump has alwasys like Russia more than Ukraine. This is not the case with the UK or France, Vance and Trump have no beef or bad attitude with those two countries. But they have a VERY bad attitude towards us in Ukraine. So, of course it is not a legit comparison to say President Zelensky should behaved more like PM Starmer or President Macron, with the VERY differing attitudes of Trump and Vance to UK/France vs Ukraine.
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  444. It's easy for you talk to talk BS about "negotiations" when it's not your home being "negotiated" (or partitioned) away . Why don't you swap homes with me Mr. Bremmer, you can have the home my wife lost in 2014 in the DNR and also the home I bought to replace it that we lost in 2022 and we'll have your home, then you can " negotiate" and "partition" your 2 Donbas homes away in some super-dumb "peace deal" that will only let ruZZia re-arm and try again. ok ? And what about all the Ukrainians we abandon in your degenerate idea and "negotiate" and "partition" away ? would you be ok with "negotiating" away your own friends and relatives trapped in the occupied lands to raped, tortured, filtered and murdered ? :face-fuchsia-poop-shape:💩🤡
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  445. AT the 5:45 min mark Mr. Heappey mentions the "Zapad" exercise (Zapad = West; in ruZzian, Zahid in Ukrainian) in the western military district that was the cover for the invasion here. For ure imho, the Z symbols on ruZzian tanks etc stand for "Zapad". This is an omen of their future plans if they win here in Ukraine, to go west, as all the usual nu jobs on Russia 1 TV keep saying, including Medvdev, Solovyov, Simonyan etc. That Z is a harbinger, not just a random symbol, and Europe better wake up because for western Europe, something wicked their way comes. 😐
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  446. I'm not a Ukrainian citizen, just a permanent resident and I was mistakenly issued a writ to front up for service. One phone call and it was all cleared up - according to Ukrainian law foreign nationals can't be forced to fight unless they volunteer. probably not the case if I was in Russia I would bet! - "you better turn up to the office and show us your papers anyway."....and bam ..I'm f****d!
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  447. Mr Leach ,mentions CSTO expansion & CIS expansion etc, but really it boils down to this - NATO "expansion" (protection) is directly proportional or related to ruZZian expansion - it's that simple, but try explaining that to a vatnik...good luck with that! 🤡
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  448. same! I only found it about a week ago, this guy does some great stuff, and I know for sure because I have lived in Ukraine for almost a decade, I can rat out the propagandists fairly quickly!
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  449. haha yes indeed when Tsar Putin came to power the first thing he did was ban that show in the early 2000's with the puppets that mocked politicians, i think it was even just called "Puppets" - Kukly! in Russian, Putin hated that show with a passion, they mocked him on it, lol
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  450.  @betterdonotanswer  lol, yeap....butta bing, butta bang! BUTTA BOOM! 🙃
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  451.  @dixonpinfold2582  Yes indeed, the Soviet era, was a continuation of the old Tsarist system in essence "re-branded" as Soviet socialism It's not fully realized by most that mention collectivisation - usually about the negative affects of the implementation by Stalin - and move on in the discussion, that the Kolkhoz's (collective farms) & Sovkhoz's (state farms) were ostensibly a continuation of Serfdom by stealth. A worker on these farms was bound to the land like a Serf in that they had to get permission to leave the Town or Village the farm was based around. If they sought this permission, it was of course, rarely, if at all, granted. You make some interesting observations, and I agree with the comparisons to tinpot dictators that were so prolific in post colonial Africa. I note with bemusement, Nguema was actually the Uncle of the current President of Equatorial Guinea, Obiang, whom Captain Simon Mann and other former "Executive Outcomes" (world first PMC essentially) mercenaries tried to over-throw in the failed Wonga Coup attempt in 2005.
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  452. Thanks for the comprehensive report Sal, much appreciated. That strike was way out of line, not cool. Not a valid military target. But if the white house approves us to use ATACM's (and maybe even JASSM's) to strike into Russia, the ships in the Caspian Sea bringing Iranian ballistic missiles to Russia to be used against us here, would totally be valid and important targets imho. Look I know this involves putting mariners in jeopardy, but, they're not working for humanitarian loads like grain in this case. May they supposrt the war like lots of Russians maybe they don't. WHat's your thoughts on this Sal ? Maybe the Caspian Sea's out of range anyway, I am not sure.
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  453. ​ @gandydancer9710  If it was sunk after taking on the grain going home to Egypt it's an act of war against Egypt too and maybe even us. Sal can adjudicate maybe in a future show, who knows. Anyway, the gas transit contracts expire at the end of this year in December with GAZPROM and will NOT be renewed by Kyiv. Ironically, the EU is twisting our arms to renew, because land locked countries like Hungary and Slovakia (who happen to have pro-Putin boot lickers as leaders), without sea ports for large LNG tankers get exemptions. This is also why the BS story by German mass media (another country full of Putin boot lickers), that we blew up Nord Stream II is compete & utter nonsense. We could just shut off the pipes in Ukraine, much easier, But hardly anyone is aware of the gas transit agreements that expire end of this year.
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  454. Heya Sal, at the start of that clip they seem to be speaking English, but when they start shooting after they hit the blow fish, it's definitely Russian "-Swear word-, all normal, all normal, we shot it and we exploded it" roughly translated, they are speaking Russian but with a Ukrainian accent IMHO, so it's Ukrainians who are speaking Russian. It makes sense here in Ukraine that they would be Russian speakers, as the southern coastline port cities like Odessa where the crews might be from are mostly Russian speaking cities. But htey definitely don't want to be part of Russia!
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  455. I had to reword and tone it down maybe due to a "shadow ban" - I am with Mr Bersky on the Russian "reset". So frakin' naive, not to mention the clowns used the wrong word on the red button reset switch. peregruzka instead of perezagruzka! lmao :)
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  456. You should have Mr Giles back more often. Definitely one of my preferred Chatham House specialists.
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  457. Have you taken leave of your senses ? (maybe that's ideobabble, not sure!) Are Americans who are against sending military equipment to Ukraine "selfish" ? They commonly use the excuse "my taxes pay for this", revealing they have no clue how presidential drawdowns work. It's the value of all the old (mostly retired) Pentagon junk the US military don't want anymore, i.e. retired equipment paid for 30 years ago before the selfish idiot whining about taxes was born maybe ? It's not new money being sent here, in fact the new money gets spent in the USA buying their military new stuff! Is it not selfish to not send us help and let the Russians wipe us off the map and rape and kill us all and steal our homes, toilets and washing machines when you have old junk you don't need that can be sent here to help us ? Just asking TIK. Not trying to be a smart alec. If they're not selfish what are they, un-empathetic or greedy maybe, or just complete and utter f**kwits ?😐🙃
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  458. A Super Power clown show at best.
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  459. Paul is mostly right about the nebulousness of "Russians"....Vlad Vexler said Russians are just some people occupying some land.....hence no civil society......how do I know this ? I've lived in Ukraine for almost a decade and lost a home in Donbas twice over....(2014 in Makiivka and this year in Pokrovsk)
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  460. Brilliant episode Mr Harris. Your postulation on manufacturing anything modern form scratch like a smart phone, had me thinking that was unfair, in that maybe let's even it up a bit and make it more simple and fair (like when Elon bet you that covid-19 would not exceed 35,000 cases and you offered a more fair bet of 35 million and he refused and promptly lost the bet and cheated you and the charity of a million bucks), so could anyone make a simple thing like a toaster ? Ok, so the smart-asses would say, build a fire and put a slice of bread on a stick, there's your "toaster". Ok fine, so can they make the bread from scratch ? Grow some wheat, harvest it, grind it down, to get flour, then add a water, make dough, then bake it to make bread, then manufacture a knife to slice the bread and put it on a stick in a fire to toast it. I doubt any modern person, including me, could make the bread from scratch (not gong to the supermarket and buying flour but MAKE the flour!) let alone mine and smelt the iron for a knife and forge it.
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  461. All the pundits say the counter is "over"...well....it has just begun! With Dnipro, just say that, its the Ukrainian of "Dnieper" which is Russian. Everyone switched from the Russian "Kiev" to Ukrainian "Kyiv" so do the same with DNIPRO! 🙃
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  462. Great show as always, much appreciated. Keir Giles and James Sherr have been talking for a very long time about how Russia is at "Total war with the west (so far hybrid)". Is it not time to get them on the Sitrep podcast ?
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  463. To add to Mr Sattter's very relevant points about the ruZZian mentality, the lack of understanding by the UK & USA etc. This brings to mind the major mistake or miscalculation that was made at the collapse of the USSR in 1991, everyone thought, "we defeated communism, it's gone, problem solved!"... WRONG. The reality was that communism was just a subset or iteration of the bigger problem - ruZZian imperialism - and this goes back to Mr' Satter's point about the lack of understanding of the imperial mindset of ruZZians in general and the superficiality the pervades western attitudes.
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  464. Excellent expose Mr Felton. Too many red flags for that to have been the real Mrs Hitler. Teeth, Shrapnel, 15cm too short in stature, the half bitten capsule etc. It is not beyond the realms of imagination to entertain the thought that the story of where the corpses where burned was a Nazi ruse to obfuscate where the real burials are located. There is no way that the "Eva Braun" found was actually real, or the really actual Eva imho!
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  465. 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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  466. At the 7:30 min mark "...it's not looking to re-create a communist empire of any sorts, it's about russia's humiliation..." yes, BUT there's one more element that was not mentioned, and it's the main gripe putin has, he misses the SUPER POWER status the Soviet Union had! This is key, the loss of the super power status was the humiliation. There's an intrinsic inter-connection between the two, BUT, but, the "humiliation" is a symptom of the real issue that matters to Tsar putin....super power status..... This is why he's always talking loose with nukes, it's a direct pathology of the craving for this long lost super power the Soviet Union had and only vestige russia has left of this long lost super power status is the nukes.
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  467. Barack Obama is the president who didn't honour the 1884 Budapest Memorandum on Security guarantees for Ukraine when Russia violated our border sand the memorandum - he's a piece of garbage and as you said Peter, a do nothing useless man, also a coward and an enabler, who by his inactions, gave Tsar Putin the green light to do whatever he wants here in the former USSR, he fell for the same BS that is scaring off Europe and the USA from helping us directly with air support, there's no reason why the USAF can't be sent in to wipe out Russia WITHIN Ukraine only - except the self limiting cowardice of the leaders!
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  468. I speak as a former "Australian" who has lived in Ukraine since 2014 in Donbas amongst the "Russian minoroty" that twice Peter mentioned "had problems" but never specified these mythical "problems". We speak Russian there all the time, even in the magazins where you are supposed to use Ukrainian in commerce. There is no problem with Russian speakers or the Russian langauge. Is it not proper that Ukraine should mandate its use in Government for example ? It's the native langauge of Ukraine which was suppressed by Russia for hundreds of years. Ukraine had a constitution in 1710, I have witnessed the original in Kyiv last October in Sofia cathedral where it was on display.. Ukraine has been trying to be a country for 300 years but the Russians won't allow it. Typical flawed analysys of Ukraine. Although his analysys of Russia was fairly good post USSR. When it comes to Ukraine he's just another hack peddling Kremlin talking points. I know this because I live iin Ukraine and he does not. I am now an ITD in Lutsk having had to evacuate the home I only bought last year to replace the one my wife lost in the DNR in 2014. Poor Russia "victim of NATO". How about poor Ukraine, victim of Russia ?
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  469.  @tamasgyorffy1  Everything you say is a possibility in ruzzia, no arguments there. For sure when President Zelensky announced it, it was obvious this was just to recover our normal status before the argument and ambush in the white house where Vance and Trump set up the reasons to "take it all away" for us. Then, just to get back to that status Ukraine had before that ambush in the white house, we get forced into this pointless 30 day "ceasefire". It was a dirty tactic from Trump, but it worked to force us into his ways. Then take it from there with everything Mr Warburg stated in this show he did. He does a good job.
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  470.  @rckwldr  You don't "sound" like someone with a brain. Terribly not sorry that I am correct. How do people "sound" in chat ?
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  471.  @buddyrojek9417  Look, this was going to happen maidan or no maidan, Putin revealed his malevolent imperial intent quite clearly - Ukraine is not a real country, Ukrainians don't exist as a nationality, they are "wayward russians", the Baltic's are historic russian lands too etc - not having The Maidan qould have only delayed it a few years, extrapolating your counter-factual, if Yanukovich was voted out and then a more Pro-European President initiated the EU accession, Putin would have tried to sabotage it again and failing that would have used force. In hindsight, given all Putin's imperial and anti-Western speeches before the re-invasion, these are clear indicators it was going to happen, whether or not the Maidan happened. The essay Putin wrote "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians" was a dead giveaway of his intent. If you want to be fair dinkum, then this is how it would pan out.
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  472.  @buddyrojek9417  Ukraine was neutral until 2014, fat lot of good that did, NATO "endless" spending ? 2-3% of GDP is not "endless" and that NATO protection will be worth every kopek to keep russia off Ukraines back. You really don't understand Ukraine's "russia problem" at all, just stay in Australia eating meat pies and tomato sauce where "EU bureaucracy nor NATO endless spending" won't be a problem.
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  473.  @buddyrojek9417  Sure, Ukraine is a free society, the Kremlins loving the opinion of their "kangoorski durak" in Australia! Peddling the same BS they want.💩
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  474.  @buddyrojek9417  You're a prime example of A: why I don't miss Australia at all and never will go back ever. & B: The clueless "Kremlin inspired opinions" of Aussie drongo's will give me the 💩💩's on a daily basis.
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  475. The military will be reading the.little booklet "Xi Jinping thought", much Like Mao had!  ...from the wiki article - "Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, commonly abbreviated outside China as Xi Jinping Thought or Xi'ism, is an ideological doctrine created during General Secretary Xi Jinping's leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that combines Chinese Marxism and national rejuvenation. According to the CCP, Xi Jinping Thought "builds on and further enriches" previous party ideologies and has also been called as the "Marxism of contemporary China and of the 21st century""
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  476. At 22:40 Mariia says that regarding Crimea, there is the military and political talk and the political talk centres around "Crimea is a red line" - Mark Galeotti peddles that Kremlin. BS verbatim, it's my biggest beef with him. Owen Mathews is even worse, he peddles the Kremlin "Ukraine will be partitioned" talking points verbatim also! There's a huge problem of Russo-centrism in Western academia going back decades and the aforementioned are archetypes of this way of cognitive dissonance, shall we say. It's about time Russian academia was "de-colonised" of these types of people and ways of thinking. They're insidious and slip in Kremlin nonsense because of their very educated sophisticated gentlemanly veneer. But in the end Mark just wants to get off the ban list so he can go back to visiting Russia (he admitted that on his "In Moscow's Shadows" podcast) and Owen Mathews has more concern for the colonists, no surprises there, his ancestors were Boyars in the Kharkiv region during the Russian Empire. Mariia is spot on about Crimea, we don't need to invade over that narrow isthmus, just make it "untenable" & take out the bridge, as Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges has been saying for 2 years!
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  477.  Matthew-wn8oq  Sorry Matthew, in Ukraine we are taught the KINGS ENGLISH (i.e. British English). American English spelling is not valid here. "Offence vs. Offense—What Is the Difference? Offence and offense are both correct. Offence is the spelling more commonly used outside of the United States. Offense is the spelling more commonly used in the United States."
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  478.  @proven22x52  👍
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  479.  @Dedicated_.1  There's no convincing these crackpots, Try telling RFKjnr that Tsar Putin, the guy he goes to bat for, is a mass murderer that has killed over maybe 400,000 people, 250,000 in the second Chechen War and the rest in Georgia and Ukraine. That dangerous lunatic wants to give my home in Donbas (and my wife's lost in 2014) to Putin in some idiotic peace deal. Easy for crackpots like RFKjnr to talk BS like that when it's not his 2 homes that are going to be lost to Russia forever.
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  480. Operator Starsky 💯 on point about his fears of the Yanukovich win in 2010. The thing that I can never forgive Yanukovich for, (among 1000 other reasons) is that, during the presidency of Victor Yushchenko the Ukrainian government declared that the Black Sea lease would not be extended and that the fleet would have to leave Sevastopol by 2017. Well guess who cancelled that decision of the Rada and renewed it ?   From the wikipedia article "Kharkiv Pact" - "The agreement, signed on 21 April 2010 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and ratified by the parliaments of the two countries on 27 April 2010, aroused much controversy in Ukraine. The treaty was effectively a continuation of the lease provisions that were part of the 1997 Black Sea Fleet Partition Treaty between the two states. Shortly after the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in March 2014, Russia unilaterally terminated the treaty on 31 March 2014"
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  481. PPP itself has an inherent fallacy no one ever mentions or factors in Anders. Ok Russia has more purchasing power to buy more "cheaper" hardware internally, but how many "cheaper" T-90 tanks or Su-35 jets or MiG's can they buy ? They can't buy a gazzillion of them, they can barely build 50 jets a year and 250 tanks a year (same goes for missiles etc, they can only make a couple of dozen each month), so what are they going to spend the rest of their useless PPP adjusted rubles on ?
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  482.  @robertatkins9419  He is 100% spot on there is an "irrationality" that is plain as day, but you beg to differ. Maybe you know better because you live in Ukraine & have lost a home to decrepit Russian imperialism ? Have you always been an intellectually crippled mouth-breathing, half-wit, or this this a recent phenomenon ? If it smells like a Vatnik & bark's like a Vatnik, it is a Vatnik!
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  483. Russian EW was testing or "practicing" jamming the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission drones here before the invasion in 2021 and maybe earlier in 2020, this is very ominous Paul. - "Donetsk, May 24, 2021 – OSCE SMM's long-range UAVs were jammed during 75 pc of their missions over the last two months, the SMM press and public information department head Dragana Nikolic-Solomon told DAN. "During the past two months, SMM's long-range unmanned aerial vehicles were subjected to jamming on 75pc of their missions," she said. On May 17, an UAV of the mission on an announced flight experienced dual GPS signal interference, assessed as caused by jamming, which continued uninterrupted for the remainder of the flight. The SMM conducted an emergency landing of the UAV; as a result of the impact, the aircraft sustained damage to its tailfin and rear fuselage. -
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  484. LoL, yea she was a POS like MTG and Tucker. THank god for Mitch McConnel keeping the GOP crazies real...."do not trust Zelensky" , there's only one reason why these peices of garbage hate him.....
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  485. The next time President Zelensky is on the phone to Xi, he should politely slip in, as diplomatically as possible that, around the time the USSR transferred Crimea to Ukraine (for more efficient administrative purposes as it is directly part of Ukraine, but not directly connected to the Russian SFSR,and all the power and water was supplied by Ukraine not the RSFSR) China annexed Tibet a few years prior in 1950, so therefore if Xi maintains the official Chinese position is that Crimea is not Ukrainian, then by extension Tibet is not Chinese! That'd be a good reminder of the double dealing at play here and renders China as nominally in dereliction of duty when it comes to being a legitimate "neutral" mediator.
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  486. National treasure ? LMAO. He's a national clown. Jocko is a frackin more-on, it's easy for him to talk BS about not giving us the weapons we need to boot ruZZia out when it's not his 2 Donbas homes that will be "negotiated" away in some super-dumb-f**k peace deal, that will only let ruZZia re-arm and try again.
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  487. 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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  488.  @ashroskell  man you miss the point totally, before this Prigozhin asassination the Kleptocrats and others in the inner circle like the Siloviki and Turbo Patriots etc, themselves (i;e; not dissidents) did not have to fear retribution as when Putin made a deal with them, he stuck to it. They were not ruled by "fear", but by being loyal and that guaranteed no hassles. What you are referring to is the dissidents, who had to fear being killed by the Kremlin. That fear was always there, but not for the inner circle, for them now fear is the new normal too. You over generalised and didn't go down to the details. Anders made it quite clear too, but hey even I miss points in clips and need to re-watch them over, i happens to all of us! 🙃
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  489.  @FreeTheDonbas  So Russian imperialism is ok ? Maybe you wouldn't be talking that BS if you'd lost a home to Russian imperialism like i have, clown.
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  490. if you actually translate "Security council" into ruzzian, all is revealed....."Soviet bezopasnosti". 🤡
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  491. Anders has caused a bit of a stir very recently, Vladislav Vexler even did a video adressing it a few days ago.. This one is worth revisiting, even now after 3 months. Maybe get him back on the books for a return ?
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  492.  @betterdonotanswer  👍.... like their word for money "dengi", from whose boots they were licking and paid tribute to....muscovites were the khan's bitches.
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  493.  @beachbum77979  You're welcome, I am glad you like reading the comments, much appreciated!
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  494.  @cherienafo7676  Now there's a fair dinkum fluke, I moved to Ukraine from down under a decade ago. The Mrs is Ukrainian, but when I settled here it was in Donbas. The wife had a flat in Makiivka that she lost (it's now in the DNR), so I bought a flat in Pokrovsk to replace it, so Pokrovsk for me is my adopted Ukrainian home town, spent my entire time in Ukraine living there until we became IDP in west Ukraine (except for a few months in the DNR). I always hoped to go back one day, but, I think, that hope is now gone forever. I love Pokrovsk, it's a great Donetsk town, I will miss it dearly. It's getting strikes every day now and will end up like Mariupol, Bakhmut, Vuhledar or Vovchansk etc etc. 😥The 69th sniffing brigade is dong a lot of good work delivering vehicles here. Keep going to bat for us down under! Appreciate the kind words.
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  495. Most of the anti-Ukrainian loud mouths who trumpet loudly from the rooftops about corruption here in Ukraine forget to mention the country they shill for (i.e. Russia) is even more corrupt than Ukraine on the world index of corrupt countries.
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  496.  @GrahamCStrouse  yea, I get the feeling the USN will deal with the drone threat a tad better than decrepit russian navy did. Maybe some kind of re-tasked Aegis system for taking out sea drones or something like you mentioned.
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  497. hah! "crna trojka", hvala za prichu. Izgleda da tvoj otac je bio vazhan i nije mogo otichi. Moj babo je otishao u Australiju u 1960 godine, i to je bilo lagano. On je samo bio geolog! Ja zhivim u Ukrajinu.
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  498. Thats the MAIN point about RT, and I've heard RT UK clowns like George Galloway or Martin Summers say "no one tells me what to say on RT" and yes THAT'S THE POINT -they got the job 'cos they are known reliable vatniks. NO one has to tell them what to say, they whore themselves for free...
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  499.  @spiritualdeath101  what's the error
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  500.  @JamesKerLindsay  Thank you. Indeed, I think your approach to educate these people who ask this kind of question is the right way to go about it, I personally find them irritating for the obvious aforementioned reasons. These same questions comes up commonly all over the world in many countries. Americans who are "anti-American/NATO" for instance. I am not sure where that listener was from maybe the sub-continent or Indonesia where the anti-western sentiment is very prevalent as you mentioned.
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  501.  @Robert-z8t4m  Recent tactics employed by the Russian military involve the use of deceptive imagery on tarmacs, possibly to mislead attack drones by presenting false targets. The Primorsko-Akhtarsk air base stands out as a notable example, as discussed in a Business Insider article . I can't paste the URL or my comment gets zapped but google "Russia painted fake fighter jets at its airfields, new satellite images show, likely to trick Ukraine into not blowing up the real deal"
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  502.  @whatisahandle_69  Yea but a can of Monster is like 80 Grivna's (UAH) here, thats like 2USD. A pack has way more than 2 cans worth. Plus maybe if Paul ships here I'll get the first buyers discount!
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  503. hahA, I noticed that too, I'm Jugoslav and I had to replay that part and re-listen to it to make sure it caw not out of context or he "mis-spoke". I wonder why he had Jugoslavija on the brain, usually that happens when a previous discussion slips into the next conversation. I suppose the last war in Europe in the 90's draws parallel discussions about Ukraine!
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  504.  @ABRAM_BEATS  lol
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  505.  @waltercolombe6105  SMIRNOFF!! legend comedian!!! 😀
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  506. I hope you are right about Pokrovsk Jake, When I first moved to Ukraine a decade ago in 2014, my wife had a flat at Makiivka, now in the co-called DNR. She lost that flat in 2015 so I bought a flat in Pokrovsk to replace it. I consider Pokrovsk to be my home town. Before the re-invasion in 2022 the front was 50km away, now f course it's half that distance. It's too dangerous to live in Pokrovsk so my wife and I are IDP's in West Ukraine. I get the feeling that the ruZzian's will be in Pokrovsk by the end of this year. 😥 Just as an FYI "Pokrov" from which the town gets its name means "the protection of the mother of God", let's hope Mother Mary protects Pokrovsk. It used to be called "Krasnoarmi'isk" which means "Red Army Town" - it weas renamed in 2015 as part of the de-Sovietisation process here.
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  507.  @stefansekulic7903  obadvoje ja mislim!🙃
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  508.  @rachelc2227  merci!
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  509.  @larsrons7937  Thank you so much, The main thing is to support Ukraine for victory in any way you can afford. Even If it's just in the information war etc. I've had offers of personal support from good hearted people such as yourself and I always say, forget about me, the best way to help us all here in Ukraine is to donate or buy stuff for the Ukrainian army so they can boot the Russians out and we can all go home. For Americans write to your congressman and urge them to support the aid packages etc. Once again, thank you.
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  510.  @franksims6452  Much appreciated. Thanks so much.
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  511. I agree 100% with Mr Satter about Boris Yeltsin, he was no democratic hero and he appointeed Putin, he gave us Putin........I devised my own meme years ago I repeat on social media and it goes like this "Without clowns there would be no Russian Federation" but you have to see the accompanying clip to see the whole meme, search on youtube for "Best of drunk Boris Yeltsin!" it's only a 3 min clip. :)
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  512. Great conversation, many relevancies re: Cold War II even now, in hindsight, a couple of years later. Action in the South China Sea is ratcheting up, He was spot on regarding Germany's lack of power and Merkel's blundering vision, which in hindsight, appeasing Russia, gave the green light to that decrepit little cretin in the Kremlin to destroy us here in Ukraine. What is the name of that piano intro piece, great little tune, where can I find it ? Does anyone know the name of it, who may read this....
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  513. Good on you Jordan, RFKjnr is dangerous lunatic when it comes to Ukraine and Russia, he's the archetypal useful idiot. It's easy for him to talk the way he does when it's not him that lost a home to Russians in Donbas (2 if you c9unt my wifes lost in 2014). He really is a dangerous lunatic. and I personally thank you for not platforming him. There's no convincing people like that about the truth.
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  514. Never heard of "Blinding lights", but my favourite song of all time is "Blinded by the light" (both the Springsteen original and Manfred Mann's Earth Band cover, which I think is a huge improvement). I've heard of Taylor Swift (I wish I had not) never heard any of her songs except snippets, and don't really want to hear them (her genre is not my genre, 70's prog rock and metal and pretty much well any other genre, country, or whatever, that isn't that bland electronic all sounding the same garbage of today). Never heard of Mister Beast at all. I've lived in Ukraine fo a decade (Ukrainian wife), and I didn't have access to my guitars and bass for 2 years, because we had to flee Donbas because of f'ing ruzzia. My wife and I didn't have a car and had to leave with a bag of clothes and a cat in catbox in each hand to get on a mini-van to take us West. I had to leave my geets behind. One of a thousand reasons why ruzzia is evil and we will never forgive them. Anyway, that's my story Mr Beato. Love your show.
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  515. Jake, Russia has an economy the same size as Florida (at 1.5 trillion USD), the 4th largest US state by GDP after NY, TX and Cali. Ruzzia is a frackin' backwards, decrepit, joke country that is a wannabe super-power (more like stupor-power). It's pathetic that our partners can't help us defeat them here in Ukraine. Check out the wikipedia page - List of U.S. states and territories by GDP
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  516. 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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  517. I've been criticaL lof you in the past Peter but I am with you 100% on this one, Russia did it and the excuse Russian mouthpieces and useful idiots say that "why would Russia take out the water to Crimea on purpose:" ? is not valid either......simply....they know they are going to lose Crimea when we relcaim it andey want to make sure it's wrecked for when we take it back. This iis in line with the reckless modus operandi they have exchibtred since day one.
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  518. When it comes to Ukraine's nukes, t's unfair to just single out President Clinton, it was George Bush senior who started that process and it was completed under the next administration. Interestingly Bush Senior's then SecDef Dick Cheney opposed removing the nukes from here. from the article - Deceit, Dread, and Disbelief: The Story of How Ukraine Lost Its Nuclear Arsenal - "In his memoirs and later interviews, Brent Scowcroft noted that then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney vigorously opposed the removal of nuclear weapons from the newly independent states at Russia’s periphery. Though most of their personal papers on the subject remain classified, a memo to the National Security Advisor from March 1992 demonstrated that these disputes did not disappear. National Security Council staffer David Gompert titled it “Why We Must be Adamant about De-nuclearizing Ukraine.” He noted three major counterarguments: Ukrainian nuclear weapons will not threaten the U.S. as Russian nuclear weapons do, for the simple reason that Ukraine, unlike Russia, is not a serious potential adversary. It might even prove advantageous to us to see Russian power checked—and Russian nuclear weapons deterred—by a Ukraine with a minimal deterrent. In any case, we hurt ourselves with the Ukrainians by insisting that they be stripped of nuclear weapons while we legitimize those of their powerful neighbor."
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  519.  @buddyrojek9417  Good work mate! The thing is, you are pretty much well Kremlin Agent adjacent, with your anti-Maidan BS & "referendum" nonsense.
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  520. 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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  521. Forget Uranium, you can just use Thorium in a different type of reactor, Thorium, molten salt reactors are the way to go with nuclear power, google "Kirk Sorensen Thorium".
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  522. Professor Lucas is excellent, you ahold have him on more often.
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  523. yeap, Mr Bruno was a great guest, he mentioned many interesting things. I don't remember watching James the first time he was on that John said, so I'm gonna go through the archive and re-watch it, or maybe even first watch! Lots of very credible excellent guests and regular output, for sure one of YT's top chans for highly rated discussions about this part of the world where I live!
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  524. I had the misfortune of living amongst Australians for way too long, they're a bunch of useless wankers as this video clearly demonstrates. In Aussie speak the phrase is "fair dinkum drongo's!". btw, RAAF is pronounced not as an acronym (Are aye aye Ef), but a word, in the way you say "raff" in "Riff Raff"....
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  525. If ever there was a reason why those hateful anti-Ukrainianites at Grayzone "news" (who are 100% kremlin mouth-pieces that feature convicted quasi-pedo's like Ritter 'cos it suits their agenda) are moral degenerates advocating for the "final solution to the Ukrainian question" by being vehemently pro-Russia & Putin, while claimning to be anti-war, haha, it is the Rabbi's statements to get out of Russia while these vile GZ clowns shill HARD for Russia!
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  526. Yea the Soviets got bogged down in Afghanistan for 10 years and lost 15,000, and that was enough for Soviet society - the mothers and grandmothers - having enough of the war and actually piping up about it. Fast forward to decrepit Russia and with maybe 300,000 lost in a couple of years & no ones piping up too much. Just pathetic video appeals to Putin about treating their husbands & sons better so they can fight the war better and kill more Ukrainians. The other big difference was, back in the Soviet days no one believed the BS the Kremlin put out on state TV, now it's the opposite and the stupid Russians believe it as gospel truth!! It's totally nuts. "Backwards Russia".....lol
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  527.  @dmitryletov8138  Fun Fact - half of the Soviet Union's aviation fuel was supplied by the USA in WW2! LMFAO!!!! 🙃
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  528. With the John Birch society, a prominent neo-Bircher and barking mad conspiracy nutter would be James Corbett of the Corbett report. Pretty much well the stock standard "alt-media" Anti-Ukrainian, nominally pro-Russian (claims to dislike Putin though) UI.
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  529.  @gerryhouska2859  💯
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  530.  @TheDreadPirateRoberts-jr2fk  Only ruZZia & China is "imperialist", 🤡
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  531.  @adams5414  Denys Shmyhal Prime Minister of Ukraine Hun Sen Prime Minister of Cambodia Ralph Gonsalves Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Roosevelt Skerrit Prime Minister of Dominica Lee Hsien Loong Prime Minister of Singapore Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Prime Minister of United Arab Emirates Frank Bainimarama Prime Minister of Fiji Sheikh Hasina Prime Minister of Bangladesh Keith Mitchell Prime Minister of Grenada Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed Prime Minister of Djibouti Edi Rama Prime Minister of Albania Kokhir Rasulzoda Prime Minister of Tajikistan Xavier Bettel Prime Minister of Luxembourg Prayut Chan-o-cha Prime Minister of Thailand Gaston Browne Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Stefan Löfven Prime Minister of Sweden Carlos Agostinho do Rosário Prime Minister of Mozambique Timothy Harris Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis Saara Kuugongelwa Prime Minister of Namibia Keith Rowley Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Justin Trudeau Prime Minister of 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of Tunisia Jonas Gahr Støre Prime Minister of Norway
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  532. hahA, I noticed that too, I'm Jugoslav and I had to replay that part and re-listen to it to make sure it caw not out of context or he "mis-spoke". I wonder why he had Jugoslavija on the brain, usually that happens when a previous discussion slips into the next conversation. I suppose the last war in Europe in the 90's draws parallel discussions about Ukraine!
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  533. After the brutal Russian invasion in 2022, Bill Clinton was so shocked, he actually apologised publicly for tricking first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk into giving up the nukes. Very rare for any President to apologise for anything.
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  534.  @ownagesniper1  That is not the case, in fact, quite the opposite, from the article "Deceit, Dread, and Disbelief: The Story of How Ukraine Lost Its Nuclear Arsenal" (Google the title if you want to read it all) "In his memoirs and later interviews, Brent Scowcroft noted that then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney vigorously opposed the removal of nuclear weapons from the newly independent states at Russia’s periphery. Though most of their personal papers on the subject remain classified, a memo to the National Security Advisor from March 1992 demonstrated that these disputes did not disappear. National Security Council staffer David Gompert noted three major counterarguments: Ukrainian nuclear weapons will not threaten the U.S. as Russian nuclear weapons do, for the simple reason that Ukraine, unlike Russia, is not a serious potential adversary. It might even prove advantageous to us to see Russian power checked—and Russian nuclear weapons deterred—by a Ukraine with a minimal deterrent. In any case, we hurt ourselves with the Ukrainians by insisting that they be stripped of nuclear weapons while we legitimize those of their powerful neighbor."
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  535.  @ownagesniper1  From the article - Deceit, Dread, and Disbelief: The Story of How Ukraine Lost Its Nuclear Arsenal - "In his memoirs Brent Scowcroft noted that then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney vigorously opposed the removal of nuclear weapons from the newly independent states at Russia’s periphery. Though most of their personal papers on the subject remain classified, a memo to the National Security Advisor from March 1992 demonstrated that these disputes did not disappear. National Security Council staffer David Gompert noted three major counterarguments: Ukrainian nuclear weapons will not threaten the U.S. as Russian nuclear weapons do, for the simple reason that Ukraine, unlike Russia, is not a serious potential adversary. It might even prove advantageous to us to see Russian power checked—and Russian nuclear weapons deterred—by a Ukraine with a minimal deterrent. In any case, we hurt ourselves with the Ukrainians by insisting that they be stripped of nuclear weapons while we legitimize those of their powerful neighbor."
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  536.  @OmegaSupremeWCheese  go away, vatnik 🤡
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  537. 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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  538.  @theglobalgambit  💛💙👍
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  539.  @SyKnife  It's worth it,, once the war's over do come and see it for yourself.... I can't paste the link as the comment might get zapped but search for this you'll find the exact web page "The Walls Speak: Ancient Graffiti Deciphered In Kyiv Cathedral"
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  540.  @corinnem.239  LoL amen
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  541. 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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  542.  @Blahblahblerf  Yeap, he's splitting hairs. For instance, the whole world uses Celsius, only a few banana republics got stuck in Fahrenheit: Palau, Belize, the Cayman Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the United States of America.
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  543. I remember you saying that about the wagner gravesite and it being paved over eventually for a parking lot, you called it man, shoulda thrown 100 grivnas on it at a betting site, haha
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  544.  @avztralopitec  ignore him, he's an intellectually crippled monkey, if you go back to my Grandparents,, Mother's side is Serbian (Grandfather) & Montenegran (Grandmother),, Fathers side Bosnian (Grandfather) & Croatian (Grandmother), hence why I call myself "Jugoslav" - 4 republics, which do I choose ? heh
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  545. Tucker Carlson....The "Geoge Galloway" of America on the other side of the Atlantic! Both vile pieces of work those two.....the problem with naming and shaming these morlally degenerate scumbags is they are so proud of ebing pro-Putin and pro-RUssian, they don't feeel ashamed of this at all, even other dirtbags like Max Blumenthal or AAaon Mate or Ben Norton, those clowns are not ahsamed of being anti-Ukrainiates that bad mouth Ukraine incessantly whilst apologising for Putin and Russia.....I cannot begin to describe how vile and horrible these people are without going fulkll ad-hominem....SOrry if I seem to extreme, but losing a couple of homes becasue of RUssia and made a refugee does that to you...
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  546.  @SiliconCurtain  yeap, as with literature, the same goes for the other thing the Soviets are well known for in the Space race in the early days, First sattelite and first man in space etc, these were masterminded by Sergei Korolyov - a Ukrainian, the Russians have tried to steal him too and claim him as their own! Russians are no more than just mongrel slavic Brigands, haha. Even to this day the Ruzzians go to space in Korolyov's Soyuz boosted by Korolyovs, Semyorka (i.e. little 7 from "sem" = seven, refers to the R-7) rocket, a Ukrainian invention!
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  547. I can't paste the URL or my comment gets zapped, but search for the headline "News site editor’s ties to Iran, Russia show misinformation’s complexity " it's a Washington Post article where they finally out and bust Max Blumenthal's Grayzone "News" - News in the sense it' the newest Kremlin agitprop and BS - for taking Kremlin RT money and also Iranian money via a "managing editor". If the WP article is paywalled for you there is an MSN version that is not. just search for that headline.
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  548. He advocates tirelssly for us here in Ukraine and so I can one day go back to my home I lost in Donbas. You owuldn't be talking that vatnik nonsense if you'd lost your home to the Russians you seem to want to lean towards. NATO protection would have prevented the war had we been aloowed in back in 2008. ok got it ? If you hate the west so much go an d live in Russia then, I can ggive you the keys to the flat my wife lost in the DNR in 2014 if you like ? Put your money where your big mouth is and swap homes with us. sinvce you hate the west so much....
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  549. IN SOviET RUSSIA MUSTACHE WEARS YOU!
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  550. I presume that has to be one of your best flukes ever Mr Felton! I'm not British, (Jugoslav ancestry, resident in Ukraine) but as our British friends would say "Good show ol'' chap!" 🙃👍
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  551. Regarding that early 2003 period Georgie spoke of, and how you mentioned it gave an insight into Putin;'s true nature early on, in 2000 not long after he came in, 6 months or whatnot, Putin banned a puppet show called "Kukliy" (it literally just means "Puppets"). This really was an indicator of what was to manifest in worse and worse displays of Soviet authoritarianism and dictatorship typical of his KGB roots.I remember reading at the time that this show used to make Putin livid with rage, He hated it as it mocked him regularly. haha. From an article about the shows demise.... "High-ranking officials have grumbled about the puppet show for years, but former president Boris Yeltsin, a frequent target of the show himself, always refused to allow it to be persecuted. In 1995, Russia's prosecutor-general launched a criminal investigation against Kukly for "insulting" the president. But most politicians rallied to support the program, and the prosecutor was fired in disgrace. Today, however, the political environment is radically different. Unlike his predecessor, Mr. Putin has never been a defender of the media. He has accused some journalists of being "traitors." Russian media outlets are under intense pressure to support the Kremlin. Several outlets, including NTV, have been caught in a crackdown. NTV is the only independent television channel with a national audience. It is also the only channel that refuses to follow the Kremlin's official line on the war in Chechnya and other issues. Its parent company, Media-MOST, was the target of a raid on May 11 by heavily armed police commandos wearing masks. The channel described the raid as an attempt to intimidate it into obedience."  .....and thus ended Kukliy......
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  552. Oh, if anyone's interested in seeing the show they have it here on youtube, I found a good example of the mockery of Putin, it's got English sub titles too. just search for this in youtube search bar "Putin’s Story | The Puppet Show Banned In Russia (Kukly NTV 2000)"
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  553.  @Grundewalt  exactly, he just tells all these fools what they want to hear, to grift internet money and stuff his face with food every weekday at the "Breakfast Club", never once heard him mention donating the money he scams on YT to feed Ukrainians on bombed out frontline towns, like Greg Terry does.
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  554.  @BjornSeverinLarsen  Why don't you google "Yunarmiya" clown....and see how wrong you are about fascist Russians.
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  555.  @Елена38  конечно! мы, те, кого вы со своим президентом, сделали бездомными из-за войны, все это прекрасно знаем! это только полезные идиоты на западе ничего не понимают!ї🙃
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  556. This is going to be a great conversation, partly into itm yes our new tanks will need some air cover, time to free the "Griffins"! I only ever hear the good General for all too short appearabces on Times Radio & I do prefer to hear details and extended conversations. Esp. with Sir Richard. We;ve got some decent ex Top Brass goinbg to bat gor us here, Lt Gen. Ben Hodges, Major Gen. Chip Chapman et; al. me of hour and decency, unlike the washed up twice convicted degenrate & former UNSCOM guy, Ritter, he's so hateful towards Ukraine. Apt that decrepit Russia, has a correspondingly decrepit hack doing theirbidding!
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  557.  @SourVodka  YW & you're genuine enthusiasm has done the ssme. John's gone from an unknown to one of the premiere YT presenters in the Ukraine infosphere for English audiences in the West. I suppose it's accepted that anyone could start a channel and try that, But your average Joe off the street would not have the knowledge to prepare relevant questions and the follow on conversation, or the background in Russian language. Hopefully some other regular listeners in Europe can make it, I assume most of the SC audience would be from the USA, so it's a long shot any Americans will turn up.
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  558.  @tarasbulba7476  yea, I know, where I am IDP here in Lutsk you never hear anyone speaking Russian, but where I am from in Donbas, you never hear anyone speaking Ukrainian. I haven't been home in a year maybe it's changed but people we know stuck there still use Russian. Background in Russian that would be the host of this channel. There's still some people in Donbas with a really bad attitude to Ukraine, if they see you wearing a Vyshyvanka on the street or heard you speak Ukrainian, they think you are a "Banderovats", haha, I sometimes call the Mrs "Moya Banderovka", lol 🙃
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  559. At 7:50 mins "Those are people, those are fathers sons...." (that have come to our land in Ukraine to kill us, rape us, and torture us and loot our homes), what part of the bigger perspective do YOU NOT GET Preston ? WE are not on their land raping their women, killing their civilians, looting their homes, stealing their children, but yet you feel sorry t=for these POS ruzzian d-bags ? Get real man, get with it, it's easy for you to talk BS like that when you haven't lost 2 homes in 10 years to these "poor ruzzians". I had to leave everything in Donbas 2 years ago, I haven't been home in 2 frackin years, haven't played my guitars n 2 frackin years. Poor frackin ruzzians, poor them.....
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  560. Any chance of getting Tony Iommi or Geezer Butler on the show ?
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  561. You forgot to mention that Ritter is a quasi-pedo that did 5 years and was convicted snd jailed twice. Russia is trying to get the US to "buy into a new security framework" by killing tens of thousands of Ukrainians and making mllions of them homeless, including me and my wife. Russia's lost 50% of the territory it held here and RItter calls that "winning" ? He's a piece of garbage with no clue about the real sitution here. A washed up hack who is just a clown.
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  562. yeap, same.
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  563. ​ @markbryant4641  LMAO, myasnaya volna, eto pravda, "Ivan Durak".🙃
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  564. Roger is a sad case, he's gotten in with those dirtbags at Grayzone "news" who are just essentially ultra-toxic Kremlin mouthpieces. Blumenthtal, Mate and Norton are ironically hateful Jewish anti-Ukrainianites advocating for the "final solution to the Ukrainian question". He's been grifted by those Grayzone "lies" intellectual degenerates becasue he's a stupid old geezer.
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  565. I have lived in Ukraine for a decade (Ukrainian wife) and I must thank you for keeping it real regarding the history. The far left and far right are both against us in Ukraine. As you said, the Ukrainians "welcomed" the Germans for like 2 days and then realised they were not a lesser evil. The far left always bring up Stepan Bandera, but fail to mention the Gestapo arrested him on like the 3rd day and threw him into a camp. That's hardly how you treat some mythical "uber" Nazi collaborator.
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  566. There are some things you can be proud of as CanEHdians eh, google "Operation UNIFIER" 🍁💛💙
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  567. 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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  568. My comment got zapped so here goes again. As the good General mentioned with the drones being lost due to Russian ECM, they've been doing this for years with the OSCE drone used to monitor the contact line from 2014 - 2022 when they had to pull out. My Donbas home i had to leave last year in Pokrovsk iss right near the contact line so I used to pay attention to the OSCE reports. BUt I found the drone jamming especially intruiging, if you want to read more about it search for "OSCE SMM long-range unmanned aerial vehicle lost due to dual GPS signal interference assessed as jamming"
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  569. Hello Paul, just a heads up, fellow YT mil-blogger and ex-German Army vet Torsten Heinrich who runs the Military & History chan, gave a good run down going over the evidence that proves it was a Hamas false flag, check out "Proof: Israel didn't bomb Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital"
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  570. The people who stuck up for RFKjr like that example you showed are clueless idiots, just like the example you showed Jake. They haven't suffered in this war or lost a home so who the hell are they to weigh in on the side of an anti-Ukrainian dirtbag like RFKjr. People who are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome are totally irrelevant and should just sit in the corner snd shut the f***k up! Your 100% spot on jake, I say that as someone who's lived in Ukraine a decade almost and lost a home in Donbas. Good work. You're a true friend of Ukraine, Love ya man.
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  571. I am an IDP from Pokrovsk in Volyn Oblast.
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  572.  @awf6554  A simple look at recent history over the last century demonstrates that claim is bunk. 100 years ago ethnographic maps showed all the land to the river Don was ethnic Ukrainian lands, ethnically cleansed by the Bolsheviks. Now 100 years later they did the same think, drove out all the Ukrainians (all of whom spoke Russian there mind you). Russian speaking does not mean "is Russian", just llike english speakers in Australia "are not Englanders", same with Americans etc. But the toxic propagandists peddle the nonsense you mentioned without any of the aforementioned qualifications!
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  573. ALways greatd to hear theat the good Major General has to say!
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  574. Mr Unger is correct on the definition of an "asset" - in KGB and now FSB parlance, a useful idiot that peddles pro-Russian Kremlin BS of their own free will is regarded as an "asset". SO it's not conspiratorial to call Trumputin an asset!
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  575. He should run as a GOP candidate for President, too many of them are Putin boot lickers and it's becoming increasingly hard for an aging Mitch McConnell to keep those fringe crazies in check.
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  576.  @loveandwar4474  Hoe so, Ukraine has had a seat at the UN wince 1945, look it up, how does "non-country" get a seat at the UN "Ukraine was one of the founding members of the United Nations when it joined in 1945 as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic; along with the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukraine signed the United Nations Charter..." :)
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  577. Your earned bragging rights on this one Anders. Much appreciated, that Mearsheimer clip was gold. He is a charlatan. Mr Galleoti is ok BUT..... but.... he does say a lot of things that are cleverly hidden apology for Russia. He even said on his "In Moscows Shadows" podcast, that he wished "this ghastly was was over so he could go back to visiting Russia" (he is currently banned and wants to get off the ban list). This is very revealing about Mr Galleoti and very disappointing. He is your typical Russophile expert that has a inbuilt bias and fetishhism for Russia.
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  578. There's an Aussie Major General who would be a way better guest......he's very on point with Ukraine, I think his name is Mick Ryan.
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  579.  @seanmoran2743  can you even read ? I did mention his name, and yes that Ukraine flag means i live in Ukraine & lost 2 homes - how many have you lost ? The MSM is not always "lies" as you seem to think. The mainstream narrative is far more on point than the alt-media narrative which push Kremlin talking points almost 100%. It's always contrarians like you who think they know better. Well you yourself have an inherent bias by thinking the MSM always lies,, You really need to stay out of topics you know nothing about from direct experience.
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  580. You didn't address Thorium Molten Salt reactors!!!!! Kirk Sorensen seems to be the foremost advocate for this completely different way of using a nuclear reactor called the Molten Salt method - the nuclear fuel is actually the "coolant".
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  581. Niall is definitely the pleasant chatter. Maybe John should get Kevin Rudd on to chat about China! haha ;) All jokes aside, former PM Rudd is a very good authority on this topic.
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  582. Indeed, she signed the Nord Stream II contracts a year after Putin stole Crimea. She rewarded him. Where did her "engagement" (i.e. appeasement) get us ? It got my homes in Donbas lost in 2014 and again in 2022. She must go down as the most prolific useful idiot in Europe ever along with Gerhard Schroder who was on the GAZPROM board of directors.
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  583.  @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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  584.  @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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  585.  @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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  586. 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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  587. lol, yeap. but spot on with his influence, only existing useful idiots pay attention to him, so no big deal there.
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  588.  @jackshavlik  Yea ok let's cut him some slack.
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  589.  @HR_8035_YEA  Serbo-Croatian was my first langauge, being flippant about serious things shows what a clown he is anyway, I've lost 2 homes to the Russians and he says in another vlideo "expect Transnistria to be wrapped up soon! ...ignoring that this will involve the deaths of many people to "wrap it up"...he's a clown and so are his fanboys like you, ok ???
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  590.  @hikingpeaks4377  They peddle vile anti-Ukrainian racism constantly, is this the truth you seek ? For the Ukrainians to be wiped out and for them to have no right to exist ? Dugin was even sacked for this kind of extreme racism, haha. If you seek this kind of vile racist truth, then get a VPN and tune in to their website directly, so you can hear your "truth from the Kremlin, because the Soviets where truth tellers of the highest order as the successor state is.....
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  591. ​ @hikingpeaks4377  Yes , correct I am Jugoslav, ex-Aus, and resident in Ukraine almost a decade.......are you always so useless checking profiles ? If you knew Ukrainian history, which you do not, you would know this is not a proxy war - but a historical wrong perpetrated for over 300 years, get a clue & check my profile out and go away and learn before you comment about things you know nothing about. "Banderite" is the phrase vile anti-Ukrainains like galloway or blumenthal use, peddling a Kremlin lie that is getting us all killed here and our homes lost. Ukraine has the lowest support for far right in Europe, <2%.....contrast with LePen in France with over 24% support
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  592.  @hikingpeaks4377  Djakuyu! za peremohu, slava Urainiy, Moja mama je Srbksa, budala jedan, hahaha, yes I used to hate NATO 20 years ago, but, now we need them more than ever, how times change.!!!.....you are just stuck in the past with caveman brained "sphere of influence" thinkers that belong with the reactionaries of the 19th century..... :/
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  593. If ever there was a reason why those hateful anti-Ukrainianites at Greyzone "news" (who are 100% kremlin mouth-pieces that feature convicted quasi-pedo's like Ritter 'cos it suits their agenda) are moral degenerates advocating for the "final solution to the Ukrainian question" by being vehemently pro-Russia & Putin, while claimning to be anti-war, haha, it is the Rabbi's statements to get out of Russia while they shill HARD for Russia!
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  594. Piers on point, good man, If there is a "negotiation" then my Donbas home I had to abandon last year will be given away to that cretin in the Kremlin. It's easy for all these clowns calling for "negotiations" when it's not their home that will be lost to Russia!
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  595.  @jovanitisns  ma da, ali ja isto mislim da on se shalio bre!
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  596. I dont' disagree with the story, but I can't give a like for 25 years in prison for poor VK!
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  597. This is worth taking a look at......moral of the story, don't treat out flag like a rag! "A Ukrainian delegate punched a Russian delegate after he grabbed the #Ukraine flag at a summit"
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  598.  @betterdonotanswer  THat's really interesting and thanks for the heads up about the etymology's of the meanings of craot (I'd never actually looked into it yet) and and " Sěverъ" is pheoneticaly similar to the way you'd say serb msybe. that's make me wonder if the y were the ones that became the Serbians (older slavic used to call them "Servians" , I' ver seen that version , bu it may have been a corruption but it does inerestingly bring icloser to Sever)) Yea, haha Craots are a lot more like Ukrainians than the other Balkan groups, one thing for sure, they never wanted to be part of Jugoslaija or( Greater Serbia!), just as the Ukrainians never wanted to be part of "Greater Russia" or the USSR.. Also very more nationalistic with their culture a cut abo ve and beyond most other slavic groups, just like thd Ukrainains. THeir politics of modern times lines up, whereas pther slavic groups dabbleld in communism Craots & Uke's hated it from day one and saw it as an abomination and never wanted any part of it, even just a little! anyway yea Croatians dont do the "ye" for "e" sounds and dont say the "o "sound as an "uh" like RUsisans and to some extent Serbains too do, which makes the "o "sound more like "a"......cheers for the heads up again, or shiould I say Hvala Lepo!
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  599.  @betterdonotanswer  ahhh ok, that's very interesting, I have no knowledge of all this. My mother's side is Serb, but I agtee with you, somethings not right about them, they too, like the Russians, can't accept not being the frist primal organised slavic cultre from which maybe we originated rom in he Balkans which was probably the Beli Horv ati and for sure the reason for their ongoing animisity to Croatians. THanks for that insight. Your conversation has spurred me to look into this in far more detail, something I have been mening to do for a long time but never got around to it.
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  600. I hear ya TIK. I too have to justify myself to the Putin boot lickers in western countries (i.e. "tankies" and "vatniks"). My answer to "how do I know I am right" - "I live in Ukraine and they don't, I can speak Russian and Ukrainian and they can't" etc, but, ofc, that's sometimes not good enough, but mostly works for my situation. 🙃
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  601. @enda2519 Do you even now what you are taking about 🤡 ? The JAS-39 Gripen can carry the Meteor AAM, which has a longer range than the russian R-77 or American AAMRAM. F-16's carry AAMRAM's. No F-15 of any variant, has ever been shot down in any conflict it has participated in since entering service. Any of those named aircraft could own the even more outdated Soviet junk the ruzzians have. The only thing with a "dent" in it, is your head, lol
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  602.  @AnthonyCarroll-ue3uv  ...or a piece of :face-fuchsia-poop-shape: like you ?
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  603. hahA, I noticed that too, I'm Jugoslav and I had to replay that part and re-listen to it to make sure it caw not out of context or he "mis-spoke". I wonder why he had Jugoslavija on the brain, usually that happens when a previous discussion slips into the next conversation. I suppose the last war in Europe in the 90's draws parallel discussions about Ukraine!
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  604. well put, text book case!
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  605.  @fredericklehoux7160  Exactly, I have lived in Ukraine for a decade (Ukrainian wife) and we lost our home in Donbas last year and have been IDP for over a year and a half. Hitchens has never been to Ukraine and he is a vile despicable anti-Ukrainian d-bag peddling Kremlin propaganda verbatim, he's never been to Ukraine (he spent a year in Russia 30 years ago) but somehow he is an "expert" on Ukraine. He's just a piece of garbage that needs to go away and shut up.
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  606. yeap!
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  607. The term you are looking for that isn't "air superiority" is "air dominance" Mr. Zeihan! But the ruZZians barely even have that, nominally, maybe you could argue they have "air dominance". But air defences on both sides negate even achieving even that ...
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  608. As someone who has a lost a home in Donbas, I had to give the thumbs down, sorry, not because of Mark Galeotti, love him, great guy, but 'cos of that loud mouthed American clown, easy for him to talk like that when he hasn't lost a home ...
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  609.  @SiliconCurtain  That's very sad but not surprising. All I can add to that is that I never saw these students being accosted on the streets or being hassled. I tend to think Ukrainians would be more tolerant, being victims of Russian racism themselves. Also Donetsk City was the home of Shakhtar Donetsk FC, and half the players were Brazillian imports, darker lookin' fellas and we all loved them cos they helped good ol' Shakhtar score goals! Also I can speak from my own personal experience back in Australia. where I grew up, having a name like mine was not a good thing -"you can't be Austarlian with a anme like that" - "F off and go back to where you came from wog", the usual racist stuff Aussies dish out. I've never experienced that kind of racism since moving to Ukraine almost a deacde ago. Go figure that one out!
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  610. ​ @Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo  *precision guided ammunition......they seem to only have dumb bombs left...also, with the "dumb" artillery rounds, he was specifically talking about the 'rate of expenditure', which has fallen off sharply...'cos A: we've ! blown up & captured lots of their ammo dumps & B: they're "running low".....sorry, he's vindicated! 🙃
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  611.  @dickderuiter5892 He gets it right most of the time, his wide sweeping predictions that he talked about months ago, have eventuated (iparaphrasing "by the end of september/october the Ukrainians will start to reverse the Russian gains on the battlefield & see some victories) - these battlefield specifics are more tricky to predict. yes, but they were supposedly well established in Kharkivska Oblast and they ran like dogs and left us a bunch of T-80's, 72's + ammunition and artillery! He is definitely on point more than disgraced & convicted quasi-pedo Scott Ritter, who is pretty mich now a Kremlin mouthpiece of the Ruzzian MoD, he has said some things that are barking mad nonsense (like the failed Kyiv operation was a "feint" to draw Ukraine army away from the real objectives, turns out he forgot that on ria-novosti they published an article too soon stating that Moscow had won and pulled it down! haha also what kind of feint involves losing thousands of men and equipment, Ruzzia lost half it tucks in that supposed "feint", the reason is it was a real attempt to take Kyiv, a real feint involves going in and out without losing men and equipemnt.
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  612.  @dickderuiter5892  This clip came out today, it shows the "dug in" Ruzzian troops running like yellow dogs in total chaos!! \watch?v=0aU6bIWFxqM
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  613.  @war-painter  Yeap and actually now you mention these staged events, at the start of this re-invasion, there was a clip put out of supposedly two Ukrainian soldiers stopping a woman in a car with a small kid and abused her for speaking Russian, they fired their guns in the air and "scared" the crap out of her, the background scenery was identified as being in the DNR, and that helped to geolocate it, so there was no way it was UAF in that area, it was in fact some DNR militia staging that to make Ukraine look bad, as usual. Indeed its bad in teh USA, you have vatniks like Jimmy Dore peddling Kremlin BS, and Greyzone "news", it's "news" in the sense that it is the newest Kremlin propaganda, Blumenthal and Mate are vile anti-Ukrainianites, defending dictators like Putin and Assad. Ditto for Galloway in the UK.
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  614.  @markb8468  💯
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  615. It's time to refer to the Wagner NEO-NAZI's for what they really are, enough damage has been done to Ukraine with the Azov BS peddled by the kremlinites. :P
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  616. Easy for that clueless moral degenerate Gabbard to pontificate, when she hasn't lost 2 homes to the Russians like me and my wife have. The first one in 2014 in the DNR and the second one that I bought 2 years ago to replace the one we lost in 2014. WTF man ?? Easy to talk the talk when you haven't walked the walk Rogan, you frackin intellectually crippled, mouth-breathing, half wit. Why doesn't Tulsi or you put your money where your big mouths are and swap homes with me ? ??
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  617. In the end the Meirsheimers and late Cohen's of this world we're caveman brained 19th century "sphere of influence" thinkers that advocate Ukraine being a door mat for Russian Imperialism. NATO Protection! Also a qouick look at the wikipedia page "List of wars involving Russia" quickly puts pay to the clownish "POOR RUSSIA VICTIM OF NATO" BS narrative that Meirshiemner peddles.
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  618. Panama is my favourite Van Halen track by far too Sal. Shame the rights to use it are off the scale.
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  619. The two questions on the former Yugoslavia were interesting. My father's side of the family is Bosnian, Mother's side Serbian. My father's side all from a town called Bosanski Novi - now renamed Novi Grad (New City) and it is in Republika Srpska. My father's side were displaced all over the world, to Canada, the USA and Australia, I grew up in Aus), they're never going back. My mother's side are living their lives as usual in Beograd. I moved to Ukraine from Australia in 2014 (bad timing, my father passed on in December 2013, so I left Aus) and the doom followed me. 😉 My mother's side of the family disowned me when I loved to Ukraine. I'll leave it at that. You'll see as many Russian flags flying in Serbia at rallies as you will in Russia. I will never go back to the former Yugoslavia ever again, too much baggage. My Ukrainian wife and her colleagues from her university in Ukraine visited Montenegro in summer. I stayed home with our 2 cats. Complicated questions to answer, you gave as good an answer as could be given Professor. Hvala lepo! (thanks very much).
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  620. Yes, but the point is, all the innovation is from Europe or the USA. Russia and China only steal ideas and IP. Manufacturing can be returned to the USA and Europe. Apple's markups are off the scale, Why is it that you can buy 2 (or even 3) top of the line "windows" PC's or laptops for the price of one Mac or Macbook ? Apple have always been a rip off. Here in Ukraine a Macbook is like 100,000 UAH but a decent windows laptop is like 30 - 40,000 UAH!!! (my wife bought a really good ASuS laptop for 15,000 UAH new). Apple make nice stuff but is it worth the preposterous shake down ? The lithographic machines that make high end chips all come from one country too - The Netherlands. Do you consider that a hole we have dug for ourselves too ? ( I don't, the Dutch are decent members of the world community). Lastly, trust me, if the price of iPhones goes up to $5,000, the Apple fan boys will still pay it!!! 🤣
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  621.  @stefantaubert  Wow, your friend who went to Spain for the cheap Beamer got rolled😉. I had to laugh a bit but really that is a 💩 act from BMW. But it proves their markups are outrageous if they can sell stuff "cheaper" in lower per capita GDP countries. This demonstrates there is room for price adjustment to bring manufacturing back. As you say they can't build factories overnight, but a slow rise in costs would be better than a huge one all at once, if the western countries want to decouple form China. We all have to take these hits. For instance here in Ukraine power was subsidised for 3 decades. Cheap power. But in June our power went up 80%! We had to pay almost double for less power (rolling blackouts), So we have to pay for the stuff russia bombed to get rebuilt! (russia should have to pay, but that's where we are). Anyway, your valid points say how difficult it is, but the change must be made, because even if China was to have a revolution and toss out the CCP, there is no guarantee we won't get another pile of garbage country like russia with a new dicatorship.
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  622.  @stefantaubert  Indeed, I hear you 👍. Just to tell you a funny story, here in Ukraine we are stuck with China for those mass products if you want to buy with online shopping. The reason is almost all sellers on eBay and most other seller sites won't ship to Ukraine due to the war, but Aliexpress, they will ship to Ukraine. Ok, that is war related but still a bemusing note to top off this conversation!
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  623.  @noahway13  Thanks, I didn't get what "Curst" was (I live in Ukraine) bit I thought their comment was very good none the less., Cursed, yes, hahaha
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  624. Regarding degenerates who say "I'm sick and tired of the Ukraine war", my reply to them, and I have had to do this myself several times with some Americans and Australians I used to know (I told them to go f themselves after I finished with them), my reply to those ignorant degenerates is "try being in the f**kin' war, then see how sick and tired you get, I haven't been home in a year and. half and YOU'RE sick and tired of the war!!!". seriously, how evil and un-empathetic are those kind of dirtbags, sitting at home, talking BS about Ukraine.
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  625. What's it like to be a POS IRL ? :face-fuchsia-poop-shape:
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  626.  @kara88bg  The KLA was never listed as terrorists, Arkans Tigers were the real terrorists. You'r just peddling Serbian lies and agitprop of Milosevic. - "During the Kosovo conflict Milošević and his supporters portrayed the KLA as a terrorist organisation of militant Islam. The CIA advised the KLA to avoid involvement with Muslim extremists.The KLA rejected offers of assistance from Muslim fundamentalists. There was an understanding within the ranks of the KLA that foreign assistance from Muslim fundamentalists would limit support toward the cause of Kosovo Albanians in the West."
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  627. On shifting the centre of gravity of NATO east, pending membership for us in Ukraine (if ever), I think the centre might already be starting to shift towards Poland, they've got a huge military and building it up. When you mentioned the UK's weakened military,, interestingly, if you separate out the nuclear forces spending of the UK, the GDP spent on the UK's conventional forces is only 1.6% of GDP, which is considerably less than some other NATO countries spending on military that don't have nukes and spend all of their cut of GDP on conventional forces. Estonia's up to 4% for instance. No wonder the UK's conventional forces are not doing so good with a realistic 1.6% GDP figure spent on them.
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  628. SMYERT PUTINU!!!
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  629. 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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  630.  @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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  631.  @MWodenberg  You fanboy's are something else, sorry - I am not on board with the cult of PZ like you, poor him with a cough from talking too much, I'm sitting in west Ukraine as an IDP from Donbas, freezing my a** off, will be -3C tonight and no heat....remind me a cry Peter a river one day...
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  632.  @jkin1447  lol
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  633. Very interesting and an apt presentation for contemporary times in Ukraine unfortunately. I have been resident here for almost a decade now. I have lost property in Donbas. Here is a short anecdote with some obliquely related synchronicity. Anyway. A long time go in a country far, far, away, in another hemisphere, used to like listening to Black Sabbath & among their most well known tracks is a song called "War Pigs" - it statrs out with guitars, bass, drums....& air raid sirens. Probably one of the most hauntingly doomy starts to any song ever, very typical of Black Sabbath. Back then it never even crossed my mind that I would ever hear those sirens in a real situation. But here I am decades later & what seemed like a ar off impossible thought, is actually real & really actual. Great stuff Mr Felton, you doco's are very concise, no nonsense and always to the point. Cheers!
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  634. V L A D I S L A V,!!!!! Everyone's favourite ex-Soviet refusenik!! Always very good vslue. OCHEN HOROSHO!!! Ok seriously, with the reasoning taking into context the absurd time frame of having it all over with in a 3 days or week as you mentioned - hat's it more or less, as in the end all the other reasons preferred whether, religious, historical, political relating to maidan or the CIA, and esp the the clownish "poor Russia victim of NATO" grifters, become superfluous, Tsar Putin did this because he though he could get away with it, previous experience demonstrated he could, what was Merkel in Germany or Macron in France going to do ? "engage" (i.e appease) more ? More sanctions, that seemed to be no deference ? I heard someone say recently he did it for thgat aforementioned reason, might have been you John and my reaction was to say out loud and clap my hand "BINGO"! thast's the one when you distill it all down.
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  635. Dude, I liked most of your mini-doco, BUT...but...you have done some poor research here. The R-16 disaster was not part of the manned space programme, it was a an ICBM. The launch vehicle was never used for manned space flight. It had nothing to do with "rushing forward to beat NASA". The R-16 and the manned space programme were two different genetic lines, shall we say. The General in charge (Marshal Nedelin) of the R-16 programme when it was being tested wanted to sit near the missile (with his entourage) as it was being de-fueled after some technical failures and the hypergolic fuels exploded. Also at the 11:30 min mark you show a Soyuz spacecraft but call it a "Vostok". If you look at a Vostok and Soyuz (the spacecraft, not the R-7 Launch vehicle with that name), you will see they are very different. If you need any help with "proof viewing" of Soviet space doco's you make, I can help. Check my chan and email me.
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  636. It's now the Black Sea Flotilla!
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  637. 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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  638. When you asked Mr Kutelia why did the ruZZian's stop and not go all the way to Tblisi, I knew abut their crap logistics which played a part, but there had to be more to it and, even with crap logistics the ruZZian's keep going. It was when Mr Kutelia pointed out that the Bush Administration sent some logistics for the Georgians and made a "significant" intervention that sent a message, that things became clear to me. Fast forward to 2014 and then we have "do nothing" Obama and "do nothing" Cameron in charge in the USA and the UK. Now this brings to mind VP Cheney, who back in the 90's. vehemently opposed the removal of nuclear weapons from Ukraine,, but he was over ridden by Bush Senior (Clinton went on to finalise that folly, but credit to him, after the 2022 re-invasion, he was so shocked, he apologised publicly for making a huge mistake). From the article - Deceit, Dread, and Disbelief: The Story of How Ukraine Lost Its Nuclear Arsenal - "In his memoirs and later interviews, Brent Scowcroft noted that then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney vigorously opposed the removal of nuclear weapons from the newly independent states at Russia’s periphery. Though most of their personal papers on the subject remain classified, a memo to the National Security Advisor from March 1992 demonstrated that these disputes did not disappear. National Security Council staffer David Gompert titled it “Why We Must be Adamant about De-nuclearizing Ukraine.” He noted three major counterarguments: Ukrainian nuclear weapons will not threaten the U.S. as Russian nuclear weapons do, for the simple reason that Ukraine, unlike Russia, is not a serious potential adversary. It might even prove advantageous to us to see Russian power checked—and Russian nuclear weapons deterred—by a Ukraine with a minimal deterrent. In any case, we hurt ourselves with the Ukrainians by insisting that they be stripped of nuclear weapons while we legitimize those of their powerful neighbor."
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  639. Indeed, Mr Zeihan, does not always get it right, a great run down of the stuff in your wheelhouse (pun intended!). I live in Ukraine and sometimes when Peter talks about this part of the world he gets it wrong too. One classic example, is he confuses the second last Soviet Leader (before Gorbachev) Konstantin Chernenko with one of the former Prime Ministers of Russia Viktor Chernomyrdin (who was also a Soviet Gas Minister before the USSR collapsed). The surname's CHERNenko and CHERNomyrdin, start with the same prefix, and thus might confusingly sound the same. But anyway Sal, just one example in my wheelhouse" of knowledge inthe former Soviet Union where I can call Peter out for a mistake. I like watching him too, he is interesting none the less, but not perfect in the wide range of geopolitical stuff he tries to cover. Not an easy thing to do!
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  640. I'm still pised off, I am a Donbas guy, but I am not Ukrainian and never pretended to be. "From Ukraine" ues, but my profile always said Jugoslav, ex Australia....what a nasty c**t she is. Jimmy Dore a "political scirntist", he's literrally Bozo the clown, as in he could paint his face white and p'ut on a red nose and it would make no difference to his persona! lmao
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  641. interesting, tbh when he said he's gonna run away this winter, I kinda got pissed off, I've been here since 2014 and I will never run away. I'm just a nobody sticking it out to the end. there's a lot of grifters here inserting themselves into the situation and some of them, it's all about their self promotion, its not about Ukraine, they're just grand standing..Johnny FD has helped with some fund raising and whatnot, A lot of people are anti-Ukrainian - at least he's on our side.
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  642.  @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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  643. If you search for "Cheburashka" in English, you'll get tons of hits of this kinda ok Soviet children's show. Cheburashka is the cute character with the big ears. It'll give you an idea of how low the russians go with military nomenclature. They are all in Russian so you'll have to use auto-subs, there's maybe a few with proper English subs. When I first moved to Ukraine my wife told me about this show and I watched pretty much well the entire series!
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  644.  @SiliconCurtain  haha, Cheburashka clown battalllon.
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  645.  @franksims6452  I don't think it had a propaganda message, there was only like a few episodes, and it was a deacdae ago when I watched them. Cheburashka was maybe an outcast (in the 1st ep, he ended up in a store in crate shipped from far away, no one knew what he was) . there was only one of him. He was always very happy even in bad situatiions. His friend was the crocodile called "Hena" (short for Gennady). The slogan of the show might give you an idea - "it doesn't matter where you are from, only kindness matters". A lot of Soviet film makers and story tellers mocked the Soviet system, maybe this show was about being happy in dreary, unkind Soviet life. It offered optimism. Ironically, kindness is not something Putins russian population offer, only hate.
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  646.  @SiliconCurtain  My home town in Donbas got bombed again this week, but even it's only been bombed infrequently, compared to places like Kharkiv or Kherson or Kyiv which get pounderd a lot more. Worst is leaving home over a year ago with our 2 cats in catboxes a bag of clothes each and a 2009 macbook which I want to throw though a window every time I use it. Cant use it for remote work, I had a really fast modern tower box with a 16 core CPU +36gigs RAM and 16TB hard rive space i had to leave behind in Donbas. Haven't played my guitars in over a year . Last time I picked up someone elses guitar I couldn't remember any of the songs I used to know and misfretted every chord just about, that and a thousand other little things starting to piss me off, but hey at least my wive and our 2 cats are safe for now.
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  647.  @richardamullens  This reveals how clueless you are about history with your clownish "dog wagging the tail" vatnik BS take. It was unprovoked, NATO was not a threat, Russia IS the threat, that's why NATO exists, because Russia has an aggressive history of attacking everyone. If you think you know what you are talking about, go to the wikipedia page "List of wars involving Russia" and tell me which if those hundreds and hundreds of wars (try counting them, you'll take a week) before 1949 was "provoked" by NATO "expansion". Even in WW2 they were the aggressor and started the war by attacking Poland as an Axis allie. 🤡
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  648. oh i forgot to mention, whenever you read the atuo-translate say "cream" it really means "Krim" i.e. Crimea, which is pronounced like "cream" almost.
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  649. Jake, on the Romanian Air Force not shooting down the drones and escorting them to allow them to bomb us here at he final destination. You need to look at this story from last week, that I am sure you missed (it wasn't reported by the mss media). So there is a former Air Marshal in the UK - he's pretty much the USAF General Phil Breedlove of the UK - called Air Marshall Greg Bagwell. He has been advocating for a no fly zone over WESTERN Ukraine. It's do-able. I can't paste the link, my comments get zapped bu search for this short clip on YT at the Forces News channel - Nato no-fly zone above Ukraine a 'serious option'
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  650.  @timthetiny7538  We've got nuclear reactors here and nothing has been "sold" on the "black market" all these decades. It had nothing to do with the "black market", that's what clueless journalists and fools like you thought. It was about abiding by the START treaty - As the Soviet Union began to collapse, the George H.W. Bush Administration sought to preserve the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which promised to decrease the world’s strategic nuclear weapons stockpiles by 80 percent. After nearly a decade of negotiations, it was signed by the United States and the Soviet Union in 1991. But with the USSR about to shatter into five sovereign countries, how would this two-party deal endure? Later that month, America’s first ambassador to the Russian Federation, Robert Strauss, wrote to Washington about the hysteria caused by reports of Yeltsin considering a nuclear strike on Ukraine. The situation was “made worse,” the emissary wrote, by the new president “acknowledging he had discussed the possibility with military experts.” In his memoirs and later interviews, Brent Scowcroft noted that then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney vigorously opposed the removal of nuclear weapons from the newly independent states at Russia’s periphery. Though most of their personal papers on the subject remain classified, a memo to the National Security Advisor from March 1992 demonstrated that these disputes did not disappear. National Security Council staffer David Gompert titled it “Why We Must be Adamant about De-nuclearizing Ukraine.” He noted three major counterarguments: Ukrainian nuclear weapons will not threaten the U.S. as Russian nuclear weapons do, for the simple reason that Ukraine, unlike Russia, is not a serious potential adversary. It might even prove advantageous to us to see Russian power checked—and Russian nuclear weapons deterred—by a Ukraine with a minimal deterrent. In any case, we hurt ourselves with the Ukrainians by insisting that they be stripped of nuclear weapons while we legitimize those of their powerful neighbor. Gompert dismissed these objections, and the Bush administration continued on its path. The document, however, bears witness to the persistent debate that unfolded within the administration. - no mention whatsoever of your "black market" nonsense.
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  651.  @yurilytviak9066  ahh yes, I have actually seen an old USAF video from the 70's where they practice a launch of a Titan ICBM and that was indeed the case!
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  652.  @davemartino5997  Yes, Jocko is a frackin opinionated more-on, it's easy for him to talk BS about not giving us the weapons we need to boot ruZZia out when it's not his 2 Donbas homes that will be "negotiated" away in some super-dumb-f**k peace deal, that will only let ruZZia re-arm and try again.
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  653. I don't want to say to much due to OPSEC here, but the part of North West Ukraine I have been IDP in for the last couple of years, in the last week and a half I have heard a lot more jet activity in the skies the last couple of weeks, way more than usual, could be some of those F-16's already online. I agree with not trumpeting loudly from the rooftops about deliveries here, like Poland did at the start of the invasion last year with those MiG-29's that got kyboshed. That was infuriating and they should just have STFU about it and done it without fanfare.
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  654. On Mr Horsfall's opint about BOJO, I agree 100%, - it's why he has pubs here named after him - the scandals and malarkey back in the UK rally were not relevant here, he was out on the front foot, at least a month before the Americans got on board with their Javelins, organising MANPADS from wherever he could source them with allies in Europe. - interestingly, we already had Stingers here, that got shipped, ironically, on Trumps watch - contrast with Obama who refused any "lethal aid" when we asked in 2014, he screwed us bad. Robin mentioned that and it's totally on the money - I would go so far as to say President Obama is guilty of criminal neglect. Why, people may ask ? He was just as responsible for making the Budapest memorandum "toilet paper" as much as Tsar Putin did.
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  655.  @Catinthehackmatrix  Yea exactly, there's a chain of command and PAL's (permissive action link's) with US weapons tha prevent unauthorised use without the codes, but the Soviets were too backwards to ever implement them, and it's doubtful the russians are any better. But yes, it's not someone in the kremlin "pressing a red button". They probably give out the launch codes over the phone, who knows.
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  656.  @wurfyy  My Ukrainian wife echos that, she says back then they were young and having lots of sex, of course they thought it was better. lol But really life there was a pile of garbage, even in Moscow, where Paper Skies ate his first bag of chips, there were long queues to get into the magazins just to buy basic stuff.
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  657. You're a clown, in the time Czar Putin has been in power Ukraine has had over half a dozen Presidents, how's that "non-democratic ? It's easy for you agree with BS about giving away territory, when it's not your home that's going to be "negotiated" away for some super dumb false peace. I haven't been home in a year and a half since leaving my Donbas home last year but you're at home agreeing with BS about Ukraine.
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  658.  @brianleonard6598  Ukraine's had half a dozen President's in the time Russia has had one (who rigged every "election"), you clueless clowns.
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  659. Galloway is a piece of garbage and a monumental hypocrite, who trumpets loudly from the rooftops about "genocide" in Gaza but denies the genocides in Ukraine at Bucha, Irpin etc. He rails against "US Imperialism" but is all in for Russian Imperialism. I am all for Mr Hitchens take on the vile Galloway, but when it comes to Ukraine/Russia, they re one and the same. i.e. Anti-Ukrainians who peddle the "Poor ruZZia, victim of NATO" BS....
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  660. Super Etendards, more like Super Retards. 🤡
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  661. Good on you much aoppreciated. I thought it was quite appalling to be honest how little he was getting froma a potential base of almost 20,000 people. My wife and I give what spare cash qwe can to the Ukrainian army, they're the ones fighting to get our home back. You haven't lost your home so the onus is not on you to do what mt wife and I are doing, but if you believe in our cause which goes way beyond getting out home back and just defeating tyrany, then supporting those in your country who advocate for us here is a good thing.
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  662. TOVARISH KIYANIN!!
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  663. Look, what I am about to day is not meant to be offensive to anyone that is overweight, but one thing you do notice after living in western country a long time, in my case Australia, is there is far less obesity here than back in Aus or North America (I spent a yar there with relatives refigee'd from Jugoslavija back in the 90's too). There are sturdy Ukrainian women but obese is very rare, but back in Australia or USA/Canada there's way too many people like that. Thsat's what I have noticed in that sense after living here for almost a decade. But I am kinda not impressed, you derailed the whole issue about the kids being stolen with this thread....
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  664. ...ditto for one of his "advisors"m Samuel Charap.....
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  665.  @Mopsisgone  Indeed, as you probably know, the name of city comes from the word "Pokrov" which means "The protection of the Mother of God", so let's hope Mother Mary puts her veil of protection over the city, and the Ukrainian Army pulls off a boss move to save the city!
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  666. Great conversation. I was listening to radio national recently and they had Mick Ryan - Retired Major General ADF, author of “War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict”. He had a pretty good take on the situation in Ukraine here. Any chance of getting him on as a guest John ?, he only spoke for a short time on RN, would love to hear a more extended conversation with him.
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  667. General Breedlove on point about hoping we go "to the table", that's why the F-16 delivery keeps getting pushed back, from last new years to mid year & i bet it gets delayed again to this coming new years, with more lame excuses, "hold off a few months, lets see what happens <add excuse here> (e.g. "a new Navalny type might appear and save the day! we'll all be ok". Last time it was "English" (BS excuse, most western oriented pilots know English), this time when they need an excuse it will be something like "they need a new coat of special stealth paint in the high threat airspace" or "they have the wrong tyres on the landing gear for using Ukrainian runways" etc etc etc.
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  668.  @ronjenkins7998  M is next to N on the keyboard, any dumbo could work out that typo, but thanks for the heads up.
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  669. IN SOVIET RUSSIA, VIDEO DE-MONETISES YOU!
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  670. 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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  671. Foxxy Patron! 🦊
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  672. Seriously Preston ? "mixed feelings" ? You don't get that we are binging these criminals to justice. Maybe you wouldn't be so ambivalent if you'd lost 2 home to Russian aggression and been displaced twice in 2014 and 2022. What have you ever lost in your life Preston - Gone to McDonalds and ordered 12 McNuggets and only gotten 11 ? You earned yourself a thumbs down.
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  673. 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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  674. This reeks of an FSB hit. Everything that Russian said was complete and utter BS. Ukraine's chief of staff, the top military dog, his assistant gets hit. That is no co-incidence or accident, ok ? It's well known that the FSB is "handling" traitors here. They reported the missile hits on Hroza, the cafe in Kramatorsk. Suspects were identified in both those cases. That's 2 of many examples. But yea ok, I'll let someone who is not from Ukraine school me. Vlad's ok, but he's not always on the money. Ditto for you too ProFessor. You had no clue that only 14 million Russians (of 27 million SOVIETS) died in WW2, not 20 million or 27 million, just flailing for numbers without really having the clarity.
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  675. Officially not a hit, and just sheer stupidity. You win Professor!
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  676. I spoke too soon and I am revoking the "you win". There's a lot of traitors here being handled by the FSB. Two well known examples. 2 men who called in the strike at the funeral in Hroza. (escaped to Russia) and a woman arrested for calling in the strike in Kramatorsk that killed Victoria Amelina at the Pizzeria. It may not be a hit, but going with Vladislav's concensus & authoritatively writing it off as not the case before the full investigation is concluded is a bit much. "The Bureau is in the process of establishing all facts related to the tragic event and has not excluded any possibilities, including that it was: 1. an accident resulting from mishandling of ammunition; 2. an attempted assassination orchestrated by Russian special services; 3. a targeted killing based on personal animosity between parties; 4. a failed attempted assassination against another officer of the Commander-in-Chief’s staff by Russian special services.
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  677. I made this comment a few days ago in another video, but I'll repeat it here. NYT = American "Pravda", it's the Eastern Slavic word for "truth" but they just peddle Kremlin nonsense. It's easy for that Russian clown in their editorial board to give away Ukrainian land when it's not his home that's going to be given away in Donbas, like my home will be, that I had to leave last year.
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  678.  @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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  679.  @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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  680. I suppose this was the MSC Michigan VII's Star Wars Luke Skywalker moment at the battle of Yavin in the first movie when they made their run down the Death Star trench and Luke, as flight lead in the X-Wing 3-ship formation says "WE'RE GOING IN FULL THROTTLE"!!
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  681. Speaker Johnson is a srt8 up anti-Ukrainian P.O.S. like Marjorie Traitor Green.💩💩
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  682.  @vadymkvasha4556  Yeap, the enemies of Ukraine are not on a public list, they'll get what's coming without notice. They themselves know who they are.🙃
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  683.  @bighands69  yes indeed and more salt dust in the air blows around too, pretty much well a "lose lose" situation.
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  684. Going by that term, Ruzzia is China & North Korea's proxy!
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  685. AT the 7:10 min mark Mr Lin says "...isn't this a hard red line for the ruZZians, no NATO troops inside Ukraine..." - Fun Fact - The Canadians have been here since 2015 and they are in NATO - google "Operation UNIFIER". 😉
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  686. Trump is a parasite, President Zelensky refuses to sign any deal without security guarantee's. A "shrewd move" dead in the water before it even took shape. The Turmptimism never ends. Great work! Keep flogging that dead horse.
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  687.  @Graham_Wideman  LOL
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  688.  @MarvinWestmaas  Energy drinks here are way expensive a can of coke, fanta or pepsi is like 20UAH a can of monster is like 80 UAH
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  689.  @timchikun  OMG, thats about 54UAH according to google, we're really getting ripped off here in Ukraine for energy drinks, I think Paul has made the case for buying some strike!
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  690. Where did you dig this charlatan up from ? Empower the Ukrainians too much" is bad ? Easy for this clown to talk BS like that when he hasn't lost 2 homes here in 2014 and 2022 and been displaced twice. Putin's been threatening nukes since 2014 over Crimea. He's not going to use nukes, those bluffs are for useful idiots like your guest. Occupation is far more terrifying than putin's bluffs about nukes. No one here is worried about "nukes" when several of our cities were flattened WITHOUT NUKES - Mariupol, Bakhmut, Toretsk etc.
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  691. 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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  692. My Ukrainian wife and I are some of those people on the other side of the world that's doing it hard cos of Russia, appreciate your humanity, really glad to have stumbled onto your chan that's for sure!
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  693. We should trust Elon here in Ukraine 100%, becasue Ultra greedy people (i.e billionaries) always know what's best!
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  694.  @signorasforza354  Yes, family was Russian, but he was born in Kamenskoye, which is in Ukraine. He was a bastard anyway, he participated in confiscating food from Ukrainians in the Holodomor.
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  695.  @signorasforza354  Exactly, he was not Ukrainian but there was pictures of him as Soviet leader wearing a vyshyvanka shirt, so maybe people used to see those pictures and think he was Ukrainian by mistake.
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  696.  @mishynaofficial  Thanks, he was not Great! 😉
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  697. It's kinda bemusing how Trump wanted to extort president Zelensky to "dig up some dirt" on Joe Biden's son, but another irony, Burisma was based in Crimea and after 2014 was "Russian". Anyway getting back to "digging up the dirt", there was back then, still a black market in Ukrainian "chernozem" (i.e. Black Earth) that used to get smuggled to the EU maybe for use in Plant Nurseries or whatever. If Trump really wanted some dirt , we should have offered him a semi-trailer load of "the real dirt" haha! 🙃
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  698.  @SiliconCurtain  yea, that and black market amber, which is a also in abundant supply here was a huge problem back when I first moved here circa 2014 that have been stomped out, i read more than a few stories over the years where the gov here was trying to clamp down on this as part of the EU accession "improvements" and also, especially interesting, was the nuclear power stations here were also being upgraded and brought up to spec, what bothers me is the upgrades to the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, have all gone to waste due to the decrepit clown world "Russky Mir"....
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  699. I used to live in Australia, which is the "bottom" of the world, and I didn't fall off into space, down was towards the ground, which to a dumb flat earther looks like "up", but it's not, the Earth is so huge and has massive gravity. Now I like in Ukraine and it's on "top" of the world. no difference to Australia, except ruZZian invaders. This show was much better just Godfrey and Dante, TBH that Jamar clown is a rude d-bag, calling Dave names and dissing him badly even before he came on. He is no Lord. What kind of arrogant prick calls himself "Lord". RIP "Lord" Jamar. I don't doubt we landed on the moon but Godfrey's stand up jokes about that are still funny.
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  700.  @SiliconCurtain  It's a shame James Sherr has not taken up you offer yet, but I hope he does. Is it worth reaching out to Professor Micheal McFaul by any chance ? He is very much in support of our cause here, his substack has some very good articles.
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  701.  @kogorun  WHen you say "The "attritable" US drones costing 100k $ a pop" are you talking about the Switchblade 300 and 600 loitering drones ? To be fair, they came out in 2015 well before the 2022 re-invasion. The US did send some 300 models here early in the invasion. But yes that is not sustainable (they're like $80,000 USD each ? AeroVironment doesn't publish prices of these drones so they have to be worked out by deduction from x amount procured with millions of dollars contracts) so that's why we made our own cheaper FPV loitering munitions. The Pentagon for sure has learned that lesson too. AeroVironment will always have a space for it's more professional drone, this is just how Pentagon procurement works. But they will not be the, be all and end all, after the lessons learned here. There will be cheaper options.I think where the game is at now is drone countermeasures, like that microwave weapon that can drop entire drone swarms all at once! That is some "Microwave Air Defence" we can do with in Ukraine. But it's so new and the underlying tech is classified, so alas, we may not get them here anytime soon.
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  702. Jake, I just want to push back a bit on you disagreeing with Anders, by reasoning that there'd be pictures, we are under Marshall Law here, and it mostly doesn't effect daily civilian life, but everyone in Ukraine is obliged to adhere to OPSEC, so for instance, if you live in Kyiv near the secret location of an air defence battery, don't photograph it, don't talk about it etc. I don't know of any pictures of these batteries online, and I think the same could be extended to the F-16's. All I will say to add some weight to Anders claim is that in North Western Ukraine where I have been IDP for almost 2 years, I have heard a lot of extra jet activity in the skies here, way more than usual. It could be the F-16's already online or it might just be MiG-29's doing extra CAP's or whatever in anticipation of infrastructure bombing.
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  703. lol, , No really ruined, cut him some slack, I noticed that too, I'm Jugoslav and I had to replay that part and re-listen to it to make sure it caw not out of context or he "mis-spoke". I wonder why he had Jugoslavija on the brain, usually that happens when a previous discussion slips into the next conversation. I suppose the last war in Europe in the 90's draws parallel discussions about Ukraine!
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  704. I transferred a large amount of money from my Australian bank to my Ukrainian bank account and got caught up in this anti-corruption dragnet. the bank in. Ukraine refused my SWIFT transfer untill I proved my source of wealth! :(
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  705.  @awf6554  well yes and no, yes they are trying to stop corruption, but i was facing having tens of thousands of dollars of my honest money siezed, that's not good. in the end it was all sorted out.But man for a few days I was really stressin bad, coulda had a heart attack.
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  706.  @nurseSean  Exactly. i said this in a separate comment but I'll repeat it here, a decent percentage of Ruzzians have the DNA of Ghengis Khan in them, take a look at a bunch of pictures of V.I. Lenin or B. Yeltsin, you can see the Mongol in their eyes.
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  707. Yeap, we've got German charlatan journos still peddling Kremlin BS trying to blame us n Ukraine. There are so many Putin boot lickers in Germany , i's shameful, Fuhrerin Merkel and Gerhard Schroder were both corrupted by Russian gas. Where did Merkel's "engagement" i.e. appeasement get us ? Well all know the answer to that. When Putin stole Crimea in 2014 one year later she rewarded him with the Nord Stream II contracts. No punishment. She will go down as Europes most prolific useful idi0t ever.
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  708.  @junkscience6397  Winter ? Surely you are familiar with how Tsar Putin's lies work by now. He won't make good on his lie about not mobilising anyone again until after the presidential election in March next year, That's in Spring, untill then, they've got nothing except more dumbass BS like "Avdiivka"
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  709. Those dumb questions you hear at events, infuriating for sure, for me it's "escalate", I'd bet the bank that before Feb 2022 none of the clowns worried about "escalation" ever used the word in that English case except for ""I'm taking the escalator to the next floor" - but that's a machine. - "I was at the pub when some drunk accosted me, I was bigger than him but I decided not to flog him because I didn't want to escalate!" - yea, right, lol. They never used that term in their life before this second invasion! haha 🤡
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  710. Paul is spot on re: Russia's obtuseness with the nukes. Alll that loose talk about them is very incongruous with a reposible nuclear power.....its unacceptable
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  711. Love the Mooch, seems like a decent straight talker. He'd definitely be the best republican candidate.
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  712. These clownish frontal "human wave" assaults need a specific name, maybe named after the clownish Wagner commander who pioneered them, because food cart vendors make the best master tacticians, strategists and Field Marshalls, right ? Something like the "Prigozhin death-frontal" or w/e, if you have an idea post it as a reply to this comment! 🙃
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  713.  @appstratum9747  👍
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  714. I think you could be doing more for Ukraine Peter. by discussing the not so well understood or commonly talked about vicissitudes of countries like Germany, who for us here in Ukraine,, whether it’s dragging their feet with help, robbing us of revenue with Nord stream, or appeasing Russia with their “engagement” thanks to Fuhrerin Merkel, which gave the green light to Tsar Putler to get away with anything he wanted, knowing that the worst that would happen is that Merkel would “engage” with him more but still keep buying Billions of bucks worth of his gas. I can speak for most Ukrainians who I have living amongst for al most a decade, Germany has been pissing us off for a long time, none of use here trust the Germans to do anything else other than what appears to be, time and time again, Russias budding/work for it!
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  715.  @spudwesth  How much money do you donate to help the veterans ? Probably nothing, but you use it as a weapon of convenience to denigrate us here, thank's for the 1.5 billion, d-bag.
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  716. Pokrovsk is my home town, spent 8 of the ten years I've been living in Ukraine there & I have a flat there, tough 💩for me & the 65,000 other residents I guess. I don't have the money to buy another flat & don't have a job, good times.
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  717.  @Jimmy-ye3wg  So what ? What the people want and what they get are diametrically opposite, thanks to their Tsar and his degenerate war. He doesn't give a 💩about their wants or needs, he just needs them to be cannon fodder in his personal regime survival war. 🤡
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  718.  @mariadekelver2240  Put this into google if you want to read more about it, "2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt" it was also known as the Wonga Coup.....the planeload of mercenaries all got busted in Zimbabwe and Mugabe threw them in jail. But in the end only Simon Mann was left to rot in a Zimbabwean prison. The Iron Lady, Dame Margaret Thatchers son Mark was also involved in it, but more as a financier, he wasn't a mercenary like Captain Simon Mann.
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  719.  @rogerphelps9939  Indeed,.
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  720.  @hardywatkins7737  Man it's amazing how many people can't read properly and comprehend the nuances. What about converting tne entire air force, that was the main point of the Poland example, what about flying a 4 ship formation in multi roles competently ? Ok so Dr Justin Bronk and ex F-14 RIO Ward Carrol are mistaken (it ws on Wards show they discussed the Polish example) and you are the armchair expert who knows all....just saying
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  721. 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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  722. yea it's a good news run down. I closed my twitter account, had too many pro-Russians piling on and no NAFO help, toxic and supposaedly from a podcast online radio outfit that claimed to "not be my enemy" but all the followers were, I even did some shows before the war started 'cos most of the alt-media was people not from Ukraine peddling Russian BS, it was a Huge waste of time. It was called "The Ochelli Effect" I suggest reporting the active follwers to NAFO as of enemies of Ukraine. ;)
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  723. FUN FACT - the usual nickname for Aleksander is "Sasha", but this is not enough for cult of personality of the man who has been in power longer than Stalin. He calls himself "Batska" i.e. "father"!! ...from Wikitionary.... ба́тька • (bátʹka) m anim (genitive ба́тьки, nominative plural ба́тьки, genitive plural ба́тек) (colloquial) father, dad (colloquial) "father", boss, master, lord, kingpin, number one, pro (colloquial) a nickname for president of Belarus Alyaksandr Lukashenka, also the Belarusian term ба́цька (bácʹka) is used in this sense.
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  724.  @Yo-yo715  Yea, the wiktionary entry is misleading as it's only his self-appointed "nickname", I'd try & change it but the wiki nazi's will just revert it without a cite to "prove" the obvious.
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  725. Great conversation, Ed's always good to listen to, aways on the money and that comes from someone who's lived in Ukraine for a decade almost and gotten the blunt end of the stick when it comes to disruption and property loss, definitely in the same boat with Ed regards the past guests etc. With regards to that state of war Ed said Russia is gearing up for, that's a distinctly Nazi ideological characteristic, the looming wars that must be had, Hitler made that theme prominent in his rantings. isn't it ironic that those hypocrites are here to "de-nazify" us in Ukraine with a mercenary army named after Hitlers favourite composer - Richard Wagner - by that clown Prigozhin!
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  726. A heads up for you Jake, it seems weird that in America you only rent an apartment, or buy the whole block that seems silly, here in Europe and Ukraine, you buy flats, individually, my wife lost hers in the DNR in 2014 and I lost the one I bought 2 years ago to replace it in the Ukrainian part of Donbas 'cos of the the Moscal Russian dirtbags. But yea Jake we buy "condo's" here or apartments, we call them flat's as per British english!
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  727. Great chat, Professor McFaul is a rock solid supporter of is in Ukraine. Just as an FYI, the Pentagon has denied that cyber operations against Russia have ceased. Just google it, you'll find the sources online.
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  728. Great discussion, as Hamish pointed out we never got enough tanks for the counter offensive (General Zaluzhnyi asked for 500 Abrams tanks, we got 31), then you get clownish commentators like Ian Bremmer saying, "Ukraine can't win, we gave them lots of stuff, they will be partitioned, period" (paraphrasing, but that's the gist). It's easy for ambivalent people like him to talk BS like that when it's not his Donbas home that will be "partitioned" away like mine will be! Anyway, this should be a regular show with your 2 great Defence Analysts Michael Clarke and Col. Hamish De Bretton-Gordon.
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  729.  @jmtpolitico80  this thread is about gum, stop cross-posting on the wrong thred!
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  730.  @personlikeu  Souljah's need energy bruh!
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  731. POME = Prisoner Of Mother England ?
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  732. Forget about "unchained" or "unleashed" as a suffix word. Seeing as Matt knows a more than bit of ruskie, why not - Useful Idiots : SVOBODNIYE!!! - Matt knows what it means for sure but for the pumdits ...(it means "freedom" - svoboda, but in the correct tense or w/e for this phrase). Pheonetically english speakers could say SVOR-BOARD-KNEE-YEA :but say it really quickly with a brisk "knee" like "ni" & you'd be close enough!
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  733. I see some parallels with these "mines" being found 80 odd years later and the gazzillions of mines laid here in Ukraine by the ruZZian invaders, that on one podcast was aptly titled "Ukraine’s mine clearance will outlive all of us" (it's worth watching, search for that title on here). Also the 'Phoney war" brings to my mind the "Phoney aid" which is always too little too late, we ask for 500 western tanks we get 40, we ask for F-16's two years ago we get them only now and in too small numbers to make a difference. But thank god BOJO was out on the front foot for the UK when he did, securing us NLAWS and whatever he could in Europe, a coupe of months before the Americans woke up to it all. Merry Xmas and a happy new year to all, and thank you Mr Felton for your always interesting mini-documentaries.
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  734. Because the ruzzians you listen to are truth tellers of the highest order ? 🤡
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  735. On that French event you attended Jonathon, that brings to mind a very prominent person who doesn't hold those reservations about not taking back Crimea privately, he peddles this nonsense publicly so I will name names, there's a channel on YT called "Red Matrix", it's a decent chan, and former Air Vice-Marshal Sean Bell is a co-host and he peddles the BS that Crimea has always been russian, they need Sevastopol, it's their only warm water port - well that's complete and utter nonsense - Novorossiysk is the largest port on the Black Sea and it's a warm water port. In fact the original home of the Black Sea fleet was at Novorossiysk since 1829. It grinds my gears every time I hear Sean intimate, Ukraine really should not and will not ever get Crimea back. 😐 I suppose one thing is at least he has the guts to say it publicly unlike those French cowards, haha.
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  736.  @normanboyes4983  This is an argument vatniks always make it's nonsense. when to comes to russia, as if they can buy a gazillion jets and tanks "cheaper". It's BS because they can only make a limited number of "cheaper" jet fighters (25 max) T-90 (100 max) tanks a year, so what are they going to spend the rest of their useless rubles on? They're already paying their soldiers more than a US army soldier makes a year. Inflation is double the figure quoted, so 25%, that's a 1/4 of their "cheaper" spending power gone. russia is a joke and we will beat it down forever🤡
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  737.  @normanboyes4983  Not really, vatniks quote that price parity nonsense as if russia can churn out a gazzillion "cheaper" T-90's & fighters a year, when in fact they can barely turn out 25 fighters and 100 T-90's a year. So what are they gonna spend the rest of their useless rubles on ? Inflation at a real figure of 25% is already eating up a 1/4 of their "PPP" advantage". 🤡
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  738. putin has been threatening nukes since 2014, it's no big deal, it's more 💩 talk....
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  739.  @allencameron3419  Look, you miss the entire point of "using" nukes, if you are going to use a nuke you don't advertise it to the world, you lose the element of surprise and first strike becomes useless. putin's been a blow-hard with nukes since 2014, that's the modus operandi of someone who wants to scare everyone off, and it's unfortunately having the desired effect with the chicken 💩 cowards out there....
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  740. LMAO, Squirrel going to for some "Zeihan nuts"! Lucky it never made it up Peter's leg!!! 🌰
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  741. Shoigu is like Voroshilov re-incarnate!!, lol
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  742. Professor, to understand Elon better you need to know what an "EdgeLord" is.Elon is the archetypal Edgelord, and maybe, the wortd's most prolific and infamous of all time. This is not an accident. He is to Edgelord's as "President" Trump was to sh*t-posting, when he had the POTUS account on twitter. No one on 4chan could even get close to the that before Tump came along. because 4chan had no where near the clout or "shtick" that the POTUS account has. If you look up sh*t-posting on wikipedia, Trump gets a paragraph in the article. Anyway, Elon's acquisition of Twitter gives him the same kinda boost as an Edgelord, that Trump got with POTUS. Elon is the God-King of Edgelords by a long shot and no one can come close to him! 🙃
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  743. "....a County of the Soviet Union...." is he f'in kidding us here in Ukraine, a CountRy of the USSR. There were 15 Soviet Socialist REPUBLICS (i.e. countries NOT counties) in the USSR. Why does he keep saying that and why do your journos let him get away with that BS ? 😐
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  744. Prince 'arry is a Gunner i.e. Arsenal supporter, as am I and Piers Morgan! A Royal "Gunner" deserves the guns gaurds does he not ? :P COYG!
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  745.  @20chocsaday  100% spot on, If you include what was called the "Soviet bloc satellite states" (these days it's "vassals") they controlled more than any Tsar ever dreamed of. I think the use of the term "Satellite states" back then was a euphemism to help legitimate the Soviet Empire and ignore the realities, just as the realities were ignored up untill 2022 about Russia itself....
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  746.  @isthisokpal  I have lived in Donbas for those 10 years and the separatists forces where shelling us and over half of that 14,000 was killed by pro-russian fire and most of the people killed in the DNR were killed by mines laid by the DNR forces. The OSCE reports also confirm this you lying 🤡
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  747.  @gurglejug627  I have lived in Donbas for those 10 years and the separatists forces where shelling us and over half of that 14,000 was killed by pro-russian fire and most of the people killed in the DNR were killed by mines laid by the DNR forces. The OSCE reports also confirm this you lying
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  748.  @grahamstrouse1165  It's ok, I have become unhinged. Wife's undergoing so massive stress with her uni. But stupid statements like that national holiday thing, really pissed me off (no one I know in the same town we all live in was acting like it was a "national holiday" - same town different worlds)! Anyway, now we just wait and see how things pan out. I tend to think David Debatto was more on point with the American situation, but I have never lived there so I defer to your take on that. Cheers.
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  749.  @marieelliott8368  Try sorting by "Newest first" you will then see your reply or comment, then copy it, then delete it and reword it and repost it. Also sometimes messages get flagged for approval by the channel owner, and if they get tons of messages flagged it may take days for them to approve. Currently if you sort by Newest first there are 17 messages, but Top comments shows only 13, so 4 are shadow-banned. Including this reply!
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  750.  ScottJohnston-hy2jt  Indeed, but alas, certain people here in Ukraine and on YT who hate Jake Sullivan more think the chaos and anti-Ukrainianism of Trump will serve us better than a new Kamela Harris team without Sullivan might have. But when Trump gives our homes in Donbas away to Putin for free, it won't affect the aforementioned. None of them lost homes in Donbas. I think they should pay attention to David Debatto. Nothing good will come of Trump giving away our land to Putin. Cheers.
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  751.  @gmw3083  @yedoin = bot
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  752. Communism killed more people than the Nazi's ever did, 120 million in China and the USSR and Cambodia under Pol Pot etc. When Stalin declared "Socialism in one country" the USSR effectively became National Socialist. The Soviet Union exterminated as many Ukrainians i the Holodomor genocidal famine as the Nazi's killed Jewish people in the Holocaust. The USSR was the equivalent and greater evil.
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  753. When I first moved to Ukraine a decade ago almost, my "home" town was called Krasnoarmiisk which means "Red Army" - Krasno = Red and Armiisk = different tense of Army. In 2015 my town was re-named "Pokrovsk" which is from "Pokrov""– Protection (Patronage) of the Mother of God – celebrated October 1st each year. My wife and I had to leave Pokrovsk last year and are IDP in West Ukraine, but it remains occupation free, even though it's very close to the front. Mother Mary protecting my home town from the demonic Russians ?
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  754.  @Asptuber  I'm not in Lyviv, I am in another large city in North West Ukraine, I'd rather not say which, you can probably guess it!
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  755.  @Asptuber  Yea Lyviv is where all the action is for foreigners but I am not there, I am up in that corner near Belarus and Poland.
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  756.  @HenryKlausEsq.  IDP = Internally Displaced Person.
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  757.  @BTinSF  Yea that would explain the extra jet activity over Western Ukraine that I've heard in the past week or so, where it's reasonably safe to fly without worrying to much about ruZZian threats.
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  758. The Spruce Goose's one and only flight 7 to 25 feet above the water, reminds me of another folly, but by the Soviets with an actual ground effect vehicle, called the "Caspian Sea Monster". Thank God it failed too, or the ruZZianz would be using its missile launch tubes to bomb us here in Ukraine!
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  759. I think Tsar Putin definitely decided to invade after he couldn't get the DNR & LNR into some kind of Federated Ukraine as Trojan horse wreckers via the bogus Minsk Agreements. Putin has said publicly he decided to enact the plan to retake Crimea after Euromaidan, but his decision to eventually take Crimea goes all the way back to 1999 when NATO bombed Serbia and helped Kosovo's independence. I remember seeing an interview years ago (I can't find it, it's buried by recent events) were he got angry with a bunch of journalists asking him if US meddling in Syria to topple Assad was the reason he decided to take Crimea and he got really annoyed with them and told them all to shut up and then said something like "none of you have any idea, it was not Syria it was Yugoslavia, it was what NATO did to Yugoslavia, that's when I decided Crimea would have to be taken in the future".(something like that, was a long time ago) He also mentioned it to Sholz when he visited Moscow in Feb 2022 just before the invasion.  from "EXPLAINER: Putin’s Balkan narrative argument for Ukraine war" by The Associated Press "“But all of us were witnesses to the war in Europe that NATO unleashed against Yugoslavia,” Putin said. He recalled that it was a major military operation involving bombing strikes against a European capital, Belgrade. “It did happen. Without any sanctions by the U.N. Security Council. It is a very sad example, but it is a hard fact,” Putin said. He has argued that by intervening in Kosovo, the West created a precedent with longstanding consequences."
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  760. Most people called Aleksandr are nicknamed "Sasha" but Lukasheko gave himself a new nickname that no one uses - "father" of Belarus!🤡 but really that title should go to Stanislav Shushkevich....from Wiktionary ба́цька • (bácʹka) m pers (genitive ба́цькі, nominative plural ба́цькі, genitive plural ба́цькаў, relational adjective ба́цькаўскi, diminutive ба́цечка) father, dad synonyms ▲ Synonyms: айце́ц (ajcjéc), та́та (táta) (colloquial) a nickname for president of Belarus Alyaksandr Lukashenka
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  761. At the 10:18 mark Jonathon mentions the Yanokovich win in 2010 (Putin even came to Ukraine to campaign for him). Yanokovich ran in 2004 and cheated and lost to Viktor Yushchenko, then cheated again in 2010 and won. Jonathon mentions the aim to turn Ukraine into a puppet state like Belarus, to hollow out the army etc. Well this is right on the money about the parallel.. A little known fact is that Viktor Yushchenko declined to renew the lease for the Ruzzian Black Sea fleet and they would have to leave Sevastopol by 2017, Well guess who reversed that decision and renewed the lease in 2010 ? (This left Ukraine wide open for invasion form the south in 2022 & was the trojan that let Putin take Crimea in 2014). From the Wikipedia article - Kharkiv Pact - "During the presidency of Victor Yushchenko (January 2005 – February 2010) the Ukrainian government declared that the lease would not be extended and that the fleet would have to leave Sevastopol by 2017. he agreement, signed on 21 April 2010 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and ratified by the parliaments of the two countries on 27 April 2010, aroused much controversy in Ukraine"
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  762.  @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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  763. On the anniversary of this famine, guess what the Muscovite cowards who ran way to Tashkent were doing, stuffing their faces with restaurant food at "the Breakfast Club" and to top it all off there's Ukrainians on front line towns without power, water and gas, and hardly any food. The thoughtlessness of these crass degenerates affording to pig out on expensive restaurant food says it all. 83 year old Babushka Vera Ivanova wasn't wrong when she said all her countrymen were "Svoloch" in that street interview that went viral recently. btw, @laconically, you are the best Silicon Curtain commenter by far! 🙃
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  764. hahA, I noticed that too, I'm Jugoslav and I had to replay that part and re-listen to it to make sure it caw not out of context or he "mis-spoke". I wonder why he had Jugoslavija on the brain, usually that happens when a previous discussion slips into the next conversation. I suppose the last war in Europe in the 90's draws parallel discussions about Ukraine!
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  765. Paul literally peddled a Kremlin talking point verbatim - "I want to hear what his [Putin's] interests are from his own mouth" - Answer: They're not a secret, you can read them from his 2021 revisionist and genocidal essay "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians".
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  766. 9At the 6:50 mark, Mr Garner says, "...so when Putin came in, those same (Yeltsin) spin doctors were literally battering down the doors of the media and applying all osrts of pressure..." - The first thing they did was cancel a political satire show that used puppets to mock politicians called "Kukliy" i.e. puppets (also used as a word for dolls too) but the show was called Puppets. The word is here in Ukraine that Putin used to blow his stack every time he saw that show -they did mock him a lot on it - he hated it, plus they got a lot of mileage out of Yeltsin, but Yeltsin was not bothered by it, he was so drunk mostly, he probably laughed along with it! 🤡 Summing up, this was the first ominous sign, preceding the "Ryazan sugar" incident, that showed the true character of Putin, but the western political establishment ignored it all, Merkel being the most prominent example here in Europe - she signed the Nord Stream II contracts with Putin not long after he took Crimea and Girkin started the war in Donbas. 💩
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  767. Taras was spot on at the end of the podcast re: the evils of Soviet communism and Nazism. I point out all the time that both a forms of socialism, that the ideology of Nazism and Fascism is National Socialism and vatniks come back with, "but they are complete opposites", revealing how little they understand the nuancves of the political spectrum. I think they are offended befause most of therm consider themselves "sociliasts". The only ananlogy i can draw is an F1 racing car and small off roader are kind of complete oppisites in a way, but both are still cars! Soviet communism, (international socialism) and Nazism/Fascism (national socialism) are both just as evil and both forms of SOCIALISM! :)
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  768. When Stalin declared "Socialism in one country", did they not then become National Socialists, rather than international Soviet Socialists ?
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  769. Mr Mearsheimer is a caveman brained, 19th century sphere of influence thinker, that seems to think it's ok for me to lose my home in Donbas to Russia because "might makes right" (hence caveman brained)....easy for him to talk like that when it's not his home that is being lost!
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  770. Regarding the question about the JAS-49 Grippens, the answer is YES, they would be an excellent choice, thry require far less ground crew (with as little as 3 ground crew) than the F-16's require and can be operated from small hangers by roadways in a distributed fashion preventing the destruction of squadrons that are clustered together at a single air base, this is how the Swede's operate to mitigate losing all their air force in a massive strike on an air base. They'd be perfect for Ukraine. Jake - I urge you to check out this short video which explains why the Grippen is way better for us here than the F-16 /watch?v=BQn6Xb2xTek For a more complete one hour explanation featuring Justin Bronk who is a professional on these matters check out Ward Carroll's channel, he is a retired USN F-14 RIO. Probably the best YT chan for anything about fighter Jets etc. He also is on #TeamUkraine like you are Jake! Great guy!
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  771. As Dr Sasha Dovzhyk said on Silicon cCurtain a month ago - "Russians are spineless atomised individuals". I don't waste my time with him anymore, I've watched a ton of his shows and NOT ONCE did he ever pledge money to support Ukrainians, he uses all the money to stuff his fat face with food every weekday at his "Breakfast Club", whilst on front lien towns Ukrainians are living in wrecked houses with no power, water, gas or food.
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  772. Otlichno! Ochen horosho! moi druh! 😀
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  773.  @mirnamisevic1993  yea dawg, really, I have a home in Makiivka, I want back.
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  774.  @cecilwilliams8586  Like the fools that said the USSR would never collapse.....ruZZia is next.
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  775.  @jmhorange  He's explicitly stating that WE in Ukraine should be forced into a deal, oblivious that ruZZia DOES NOT WANT PEACE. Why does he not talk about ruZZIa being forced to sue for peace ? I stand by what I said, he's a clueless loud mouth, and if my "analasys is so crap", then let him put his House where his big mouth is and swap homes with my wife and I. He also had the hide to conclude in other YT vids "Ukraine can't win, they will be partitioned, period" - We asked for 500 Abrams tanks, we got 31, but Mr. Bremmer's clownish conclusion fails to take this bleedingly obvious thing into account. If we had not have been drip fed everything up to now and got it all at once 2 and a bit years ago, I would still have a home. I've been displaced twice and haven't been home in over 2 years, but Mr. Bremmer speaks of super-dumb-f**k peace deals that won't work, Refer above to my original comment and read it properly. 🤡
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  776. A very important point at the 23:00 min mark, Mr Williams talked abut Apple CEO Tim Cook's "engagement" with China to justify being there and it was never successful in changing Xi's or the CCP's attitude. Well, what did Angela Merkel's "engagement" (i.e. showing weakness via appeasement) with Tsar Putin get us ? We all now how that panned out. Massive displacement of millions, lots of deceased civilians and fallen Heroes of Ukraine, total war. Merkel signed the Nord Stream II contracts not even 3 months after Putin stole Crimea. She must go down as the most prolific useful idiot of all times.
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  777. Yea, it's like letting the Fox into the Hen house, they'll wreck it from within. NATO exists because of Russian EXPANSION. The USSR and Russia were never serious about joining NATO, but only to wreck it from within. Johhny and Pyotor being naive. Russia committing genocide in Chechniya, flattening Grozny twice in two wars.
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  778. What happened to Kostya ? Did the FSB poison him ? 😐
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  779. Niall is spot on, if Ukraine & Georgia was allowed to join NATO and not opposed vehemently by the appeasers Merkel and Sarcozy, we would not ba having this conversation about war and I would have not lost my home in Donbas and be and ITD. I'm an Australian citizen but I would rather stay in Ukraine for various reasons. I believe in this country's future as does my wife. DFAT did offer my wife refugee status to come to Australia under the Morrison government, which was great on their part John, that being your ex-party. The department did a good job as far as welfare checks and whatnot!
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  780. RT has some real charlatans on there talking as "Russia experts". One of them makes regular appearances on RT UK, his name is Martin Summers & I caught him out on a podcast he does in Bristol called "the politics show". He said that Russia had to take Crimea because Sevastopol is the only warm water port they have, he had no clue about Novorossisk, the largest port on the Black Sea and in Russia proper! Summers is a the archetypal useful idiot, a clown that peddles some really vile anti-Ukrainian propaganda as does that vile rat in a hat that hosts MOATS!
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  781. I've lived in Ukraine for a decade and lost my home in Donbas, wife lost her's in 2014 in the DNR. Sorry but this guy's twitter feed is just crass, jingoistic grandstanding & self-promotion. It's all about him. One extra person is not going to win us this war.......one less person is not going to lose us the war either.
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  782.  @dmitryletov8138  We'll stop writing the truth when you stop writing BS. - " 95% Ukrainians speak Russian" - this is only because Russian was a langauge of Empire like English was too. If the languages as so similar as you claim and " 95% Ukrainians speak Russian" , then why is it that "0% of Russians speak Ukrainian" ? - are Russians so stupid that your one example is beyond their comprehension ? so tell me where is the "one letter difference between the basics like.... yes and no (tak/ni -da/nyet) greetings (zdrasvuitye - vitayu) thank you (spasibo - djakuyu) goodbye (do svidanya - do pobachneye) that's just the basics so, who's talking BS now ? 🙃
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  783.  @betterdonotanswer  tak, tak, tak!! Slava Bogu!
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  784. Victory might have to come in stages. We get the borders as agrred at Belovezha in 1991, but in stages. Any chance of a clear cut victory was lost long ago, because we were never given what we needed 2 years ago, we got it all in stages up to now. the "escalation management" of the white house has not served us well. Samuel Charap is just another "John Mearsheimer" essentially, he's the one of many poisoning Jake Sullivans ear. Everyone forgets when the USSR collapsed it had 40,000 (yes 40,000, not a typo) nuclear devices and that was dealt with ok, Why is ruzzia's 7,000 nukes a worry ? The world can deal with that too. ruzzia has to go, if it exists as it, it will always be a threat to us here.
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  785. it was 27 Million Soviets and 9 million of them were Ukrainian, 5 million were Belarussin, only 13 million "ruzzians" actually were killed..what about the responsibility to us in Ukraine ?
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  786. At the 8:03 min mark Johhny FD...."this one is from Ukraine Matters and I am not sure what flag that is", Georgie is Latvian, it's a f**ken Latvian flag. Maybe if Johhny knew more about flags than food he wouldn't be such a more-on. It's good to know we have such clever people supporting us here. For a guy that's visited so many countries, he's really clueless about the countries supporting us in Europe. 🤡 All that matter's to him is stuffing his face at the NAFO dinner's and his own self-promotion.
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  787. I forget who sings it, but there's a song about fighting fascists in the spanish civil war and the chorus goes "if you tolerate this then your children will be next". Ukrainians don't want tolerate the Russian fascists or their children will be next, like all the stolen kids missing so far. :(
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  788.  @hgv1883  thanks!
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  789. Hidden Clause 7 - a million conscripted.......
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  790. I hope this is correct, I am from Pokrovsk, and my flat is not bombed yet. But the city is being shelled daily.
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  791. Looking forward to "History Undone", I love counter-factual's (or alternative theoretical historical timelines) when done sensibly by people who know what they are talking about.
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  792. When Renee mentioned smoking and taking it up because your peers smoked, this reminded me of something my Ukrainian wife went through.But with a post-Soviet twist - when the Soviet Union collapsed in the early nineties, my wife had to take up smoking to get in with the right work group of seniors to advance her career at the university she worked oat. I now this sounds crazy, but it's what she had to do to be bale to hang out with them outside during smoke breaks and build connections. She's since given up smoking long ago thank God and, she's an associate Professor now. But how stupid was that ? Taking up smoking to get in with the right crowd for your career. Only in the former Soviet Union could some stupid nonsense like that pan out! I sometimes joked with her, lucky it wasn't a mid-morning break, vodka drinking group which was typical in the late USSR during Brezhnev's time and later. 🥛🚬🚭
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  793. Just hit this one up for the 3rd time now, it's part of the "mother lode"!
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  794. I've worked in IT for decades and I have some advice for anyone here in Ukraine reading this. With the "no internet' Mari mentions at the 3:10 mark, there is a "trick" you can do to get internet when the power is out here. What you can do is plug the WAN ethernet cable directly into your laptop or macbook (if it's a macbook air like my wife has you'll need a USB ethernet port dongle, the "air" part of the name mens Wi-Fi only) and then get internet. Some caveats, because you are bypassing the router (and the firewall it has), make sure your firewall in OSX or Windows is ON, otherwise you are wide open for shots. The other thing is you may need to register these devices that are not your router with your ISP as when you plugin the cable in will get you an IP addy and DNS server addy, but no internet traffic. All you have to do is call you ISP here in Ukraine and get them to register all the laptops and macbooks that will use this WAN cable. It's better than relying on SIM card data and tethering to your phone as when the cell towers batteries run flat SIM card data won't work, plus the SIM network gets congested when the power is cut as everyone hits the SIM card data hard as you can imagine.
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  795. Same. These kind of mini-doco run downs are ok, in addition to the usual interviews. Pyotr should do them more often!
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  796. Paul literally peddled a Kremlin talking point verbatim - "I want to hear what his [Putin's] interests are from his own mouth" - Answer: They're not a secret, you can read them from his 2021 revisionist and genocidal essay "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians".
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  797. Paul literally peddled a Kremlin talking point verbatim - "I want to hear what his [Putin's] interests are from his own mouth" - Answer: They're not a secret, you can read them from his 2021 revisionist essay "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians".
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  798. ​ @thewand3r3r45  Independent Kremlin stooge, he does it for free, without being a paid agent of Russia, he whores himself for nothing.
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  799.  @SiliconCurtain  Undoubtedly, a good proportion of Americans I knew online back then, mostly IRC at that time, were "over it" all, so to speak and they pretty much well all started out as "lets go get 'em" patriots.
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  800. it only went for 6 mins, 60 mins would have been nice.
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  801. At the 47:35 min mark, Anastasia - "...here in America there is this concept of community.....I can not bring myself to find the analogous word in ruzzian..." - indeed, neither can I, but in Ukrainian the word is "Hromada"! From Encyclopaedia Britannica - Topic - Hromada - Political movements in Ukraine; "…19th century, clandestine societies called hromadas (“communities”) were formed in various cities to promote Ukrainian culture, education, and publishing under conditions of illegality. Originally associated with the Kyiv hromada was the leading political thinker of the time, Mykhaylo Drahomanov, who advocated the transformation of the tsarist empire into a federative republic in which Ukrainian national rights would be assured. Toward the end of the century, younger, primarily student-led hromadas became involved in more overtly political activities. One such group in Kharkiv developed into the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party, which in a pamphlet published in 1900 advanced for the first time as a political goal “one, single, indivisible, free, independent Ukraine.”
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  802. Are you kidding me ? Both Kissinger and Matlock showed extreme short sightedness and ignored the stark fact that the countries under the Soviet-RuZZian jackboot, never wanted to suffer that again which has come to pass now. They made the same mistake everyone did back then - "Great, we defeated Communism, problem solved" [WRONG] - Soviet Communism was just an iteration of the real problem, RUSSIAN IMPERIALISM. Ruzzian imperialism has never gone away. KIssinger said Ukraine and Belarus are "blood bothers", NO WE ARE NOT. Muskovians are not even real slavs, they are Mongol, Turko-Finnic mongrels
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  803. They're gonna have to bring out a movie with a Simonyan & MTG lookalike eating each others moldy twats for 90 mins and meme it hard! 🙃
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  804. The ruzzian phrase for olga is "vokzalnaya shluha" i.e. train station whore.....
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  805. A ONE SHIP ruzzian SEAD strike package ? LMAO. 🤡.  That's NOT now how the Americans do "Wild weasel" strike packages. Just ask Dan Hampton!
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  806.  @СерёгаСерегин-р8б  лол, дурак 🤡
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  807. It was the right thing to do to save the belongings and treasures, even if they were personal, from the Russians, they steal and loot absolutely everything, I can attest to that living in Ukraine , from the direct testimony of my wife's relatives stuck in occupied lands. One of my wife's cousins from a village near the contact line, occupied after 2022, returned after de-occupation to find the entire contents of her house looted, to put in her words (translated) "they took everything, they left nothing, they just took it all". Thrse were just the mundane household contents of an average person, not unique treasures.
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  808. Yeap, great man, heroyam slava!
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  809. Exactly appeasement will only lead to more attacks later on down the line......I might also politely add, if you count Mao it' s120 million dead due to the Communist "Spectre".
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  810.  @Ajay-vf6di  Seriously ? Why does RuZzia come here, to Ukraine, and steal our toilets, why does half of India not have toilets yet ? Search for this headline to see how well BRICS is doing...."Half of India couldn’t access a toilet 5 years ago. Modi built 110M latrines – but will people use them?"
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  811. I live in Ukraine and actually he wasn't that smart, he peddles the nonsense that if putin losses he would use nuclear weapons. This is complete and utter nonsense and ignores 11 years of "red lines". putin has been threatening to use nukes since Crimea in 2014. These bluffs are intended to make cowards like Jordans foolish guest capitulate. No one in Ukraine is afraid of the "nukes", occupation is far more terrifying. putin has flattened several of our cities WITHOUT NUKES. Mariupol, Bakhmut, Toretsk etc etc etc.
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  812. With all this loss of power generation here, we need to get the ZNPP back to Ukraine. This should be the biggest priority for any new counter-offensive ? tak ?
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  813.  @UATVEnglish  oh, so I suppose if all the territories are recovered eventually, any CHPP's returned to Ukraine would also be sabotaged and the same situation as explained above for the thermal power plants too. 😥
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  814.  @jonson856  Indeed, I think you might be right, also in slavic, the word for slav is "slovyanski", when it got transliterated to English is ends up "slavic", so the etymology gets confused with the way it ended up in English somehow. Slovenia and Slovakia get their names from the root for Slovyanski etc. But I think it's Greek or Latin that used "Sclaveni" and aslo in old times Serbia was "Servia" with a v, which maybe relates to that root word you mentioned.
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  815. At the end Mr Zagorodnyuk mentions our biggest problem here is air power, two words dear Jonathon - "Dan Hampton"! 😉✈
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  816. What is really astounding to me is how the world has forgotten that Russia proper under the Russian empire was one of the most anti-Semitic entities on the planet for over a century with the little mentioned "Pale of Settlement". It seems the Putinite KGB that run Russia now are trying very hard to foster some false kind of Jewish tolerance via propaganda. They seem to have even fooled pro-Ukainian podcasts like "Battleground Ukraine" - in the face of Lavrov (saying Hitler was part Jewish in an epic fail at stealing the thigh ground from President Zelensky) and Putin using the K word in the past several times - where a "listeners E-Mail" was read out on air praising Putin's love of Jewish families he encountered in his past, and the two hosts Patrick Bishop and Saul David fell for it. They seemed to have no idea about Putins K-word rants of teh past!!! This is how insidious and duplicitous the Kremlin really is.
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  817.  @martinoneill5804  The plans to take back Crimea have been around since Yetlsin's time. Yeltsin prevented the nationalists in Russia to do so because, If Crimea can leave Ukraine then it would have set a precedent to allow Chechniya to leave Russia. I saw an interview almost ten years ago, where a bunch of journalists kept asking Putin, was it the American meddling in Syria that made him decide to take Crimea. and he got angry with them all and told them, to shut up and he said (paraphrasing) - "don't you all know anything ? I wasn't Syria, it was Yugoslavia, that's when I made the decision to take back Crimea", that means he made the decision in 1999 and waited for the right time. That was well before Sochi, so the joining NATO issue had nothing whatsoever to do with Crimea in 2014. That's just BS. I have heard Matlock in interviews and he says a lot of things that are really problematic. Like most people who only spent time in Moscow, he has a pro-Russian bias. Kissinger was wrong about Ukraine and changed his mind, he was wrong about the idiotic notion of a "chat". Chatting to Putin does not achieve anything. ok ? DI all the endless chatting by Merkel or Macron have with Putin achieve anything ? No. Matlock and Kissinger obviously never saw that interview in 2015 that I saw or they wouldn't have been talking such nonsense about a chat. Putin was never serious about the NATO thing, he wanted to jump the queue and be admitted ahead of what he thought was insignificant countries, without due process as was mentioned in the interview. I have lived in Ukraine for a decade, how many years did Matlock and Kissinger spend here ? Zero.
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  818.  @martinoneill5804  The Soviet Union was the Russian Empire by another name, Russia is no different, it's an empire too. The kremlin in Moscow is the same seat of government of the USSR. The same Soviet KGB d-bags are still in power there. Putin proved exactly why NATO has to exist, because of RuZZian aggression. Have the Baltics been re-invaded ? NO.... Why ? NATO protection. NATO isn't a threat to RuZZia, it's just an impediment to its imperial ambitions. I'd like you to go to the wikipedia page "List of wars involving Russia" and tell me which of the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of wars listed pre-1947 was "provoked" by "NATO expansion" ? Keeping in mind that Moscow started World War II as an Axis Allie by invading Poland in 1939 2 weeks after Germany did.
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  819. Let's not foget Muscovy was a "suburb" or outskirts of Kyivan Rus that came much later. Russians think that Ukraine belongs to them, but it's the other way around, Russia (Muscovy) belongs to UKraine (Kyiv). This is why Muscovy was always a backwards country, it's full of backwards thinkers! :P
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  820. At the 16:00 min mark, the blonde, intellectually crippled, dim-wit, ranting about "neo-cons". Well if they listened to Dick Cheney, we would have still had the nuclear deterrent to guarantee our independence from those mad men in the Kremlin. - "In his memoirs and later interviews, Brent Scowcroft noted that then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney vigorously opposed the removal of nuclear weapons from the newly independent states at Russia’s periphery. Though most of their personal papers on the subject remain classified, a memo to the National Security Advisor from March 1992 demonstrated that these disputes did not disappear. National Security Council staffer David Gompert titled it “Why We Must be Adamant about De-nuclearizing Ukraine.” He noted three major counterarguments: Ukrainian nuclear weapons will not threaten the U.S. as Russian nuclear weapons do, for the simple reason that Ukraine, unlike Russia, is not a serious potential adversary. It might even prove advantageous to us to see Russian power checked—and Russian nuclear weapons deterred—by a Ukraine with a minimal deterrent. In any case, we hurt ourselves with the Ukrainians by insisting that they be stripped of nuclear weapons while we legitimize those of their powerful neighbor."
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  821. After watching this video Sal something jumped out at me that really put it into perspective how had the leave conditions are for the MSC mariners. I've lived in Ukraine for a. decade (Ukrainian wife) and something came to mind regarding the Soviet days. My wife's a teacher and she's on vacation now as it's the summer break here and I asked her, "In the Soviet days did the communists pay teachers for leave during the long summer vacation" and she said "Yes!". So how is that for a crazy difference, even the Soviet communists at least paid for leave but the MSC, nope! Maybe that might be a good thing to put to them when advocating for leave pay for MSC mariners Sal - "Hey man, the Soviet's paid for leave but you guys can't! Comon, let's get real here!" 💰🛳🚢💰
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  822. ruZZians are not "people" like you and I Preston, they beheaded three more Ukrainian POW's this week, is that what "people" do ? You earned a thumbs down again.
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  823. @ haha indeed! it seems they were just throwing anything into the armour they could get their hands on.
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  824. The clown show has begun. Tariff's on Russia, LMAO, yea that'll work well, seeing as Russia makes nothing the world wants to import except Vodka.
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  825. Steve is spot on - Merkel was the biggest Putin boot licker of all, but the "leaders of Western Europe" France and Germany as infested with Putin boot lickers and still are infested. Sarcozy and Merkel are pieces of garbage, I blame them for the homes my wife and I lost in Donbas just as much as I do Tsar Putin. 😐
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  826.  @deanejoyce5393  👍
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  827.  @hctim96  exactly, unlike that "poor Russian" Tashkent coward grifter on the last podcast that all the fools were praising and "feeling his pain", WTF pain, he lives the high life, he donates NOTHING to Ukraine and keeps all the money he grifts to eat at the "Breakfast Club" restaurant five days a week, when he could have come to Ukraine and joined the Russian Freedom battallion....just saying
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  828. What Mr McNair stated at the 7:35 min mark jumped out at me, regarding Africa - "...when we talk to China we get an airport, when the talk to the US e get a lecture..". I am not endorsing Xi's China, f**k his CCP China, but it illustrates a very important point. So... for two years here in Ukraine we've been getting lectures from the US administration about what we can and can't do, due to their "escalation management" BS, that has cost us a victory early on (by not giving us everything we have gotten now, back then). The longer this incrementalism went on the less chance we have had for a clear cut victory. That is obvious. That's the military side of things, but when it comes to economics and the re-build side of things,, oh boy are we on for a lot of lectures. They still won't just hand over the 300 billion odd of ruzzian money, that is clearly required as reparations for what they have done to us here. I am about to lose my home in Pokrovsk and all we are getting us more lectures on long range strikes, and whatever other gaslighting they can throw at us, due to their fear of a ruzzian defeat and the consequences that may ensue. What are they afraid of ? When the Soviet Union broke up, there we're 40,000 nuclear devices here (yes 40,000 it's not a typo, google it) and the wold community dealt with that ok. Why are they worried about a piddling 7,000 ruzzian nukes ? The world community will deal with that too. Don't give us a lecture, just give us what we. need to win. We love our American friends, we don't want ruzzia or China, we just want freedom, like our American friends enjoy.
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  829. I know a lot of pundits have nothing good to ay about the UN these days. recently the UN SecGen spoke about the valiant freedom fighters of East Timor, but did not mention us in Ukraine. That was rally ignorant of him. The security council is broken, it needs reform. Of course in Ukraine we think that there was an invalid process to give the USSR seat to Russia automatically as the successor state (capital was in Moscow or whatever etc). As someone who worked in the UN, I'd like to hear your concise thoughts on how to reform or fix it up and bring it into the 21st century as a useful forum Pyotr.
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  830.  @theglobalgambit  Cheers Pyotr, I only discovered you chan recently and am glad to have found it! As a relevant FYI for you, I found the exact part in the clip, I cannot paste inks as my comments get zapped for some reason, but if you search on YouTube for the name of the video at the end of this comment and go to the 48:30 min mark and watch from there for like 2 mins. Mr Kagan, makes a firm point of how this is miscommunicated in the mass media (It'll be the 4th one down in the search, make sure it's the one from 11 months ago) - Fred Kagan on Ukraine: Where Things Stand 11 months ago Conversations with Bill Kristol
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  831.  @godsend2297  oh yea, definitely, Jake does articulate that well, thanks for the reminder. I forgot to even mention him in the comment.
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  832. tak tak tak! duzhe dobre, djakuyu!
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  833. Female Tsar is "Tsarina", but with Catherine , who destroyed the Zaporozhian Cossack Sich, it's more apt just to call her a "Cunt" :P
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