Comments by "vk2ig" (@vk2ig) on "Vladimir Putin - KGB Agent" video.

@MaxRank Geography teaching in the USA has always been a joke. Otherwise, why would Americans have the following views of Australia: - it's next door to Germany (instead of being in the Southwest Pacific region) - its capital is Vienna (instead of Canberra) - it's small enough that you can set out from Sydney in the morning, drive to the Great Barrier Reef and Uluru for the day, and be back in Sydney in time for dinner (just try driving those distances and see how they go) The number of times we've sent US-made equipment back to USA for deeper-level repair and then it has got lost on the way back ... and the freight companies say the delay was because it was sent via Germany ... and they're prioritising the shipment for re-routing through Singapore then to Sydney. I've met some American families visiting Australia who said how wonderful it is, and it's a pity they didn't come five years ago - they were planning to but they'd gone to Hawaii the year before and the kids didn't want to have another holiday on an island, LOL! And then there's the time I was visiting Manchester (England) and this American couple were travelling to the airport. She wasn't too happy, and he was trying to cheer her up by saying "In a couple of hours we'll be in Austria and you'll see all the kangaroos and koalas and things they have there." Sometimes I wonder about that couple, and how their relationship went after they landed in Vienna ...
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@faithlesshound5621 KGB money and CCP money would be backing QAnon and Proud Boys. And possibly some other groups as well ... whoever is seen to be furthering those country's aims of destabilising the West even further than it already is.
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@nedludd7622 "Dialectical approach" is up there with "strawman" and "ad hominem" - terms thrown about by people who read a bit of philosophy.
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@Earhairy But Putin did do that. If Putin can hang on until the next US presidential election then he has it made. Donald Trump thinks the sun shines out of Vladimir's posterior, and when he gets re-elected he will reverse any sanctions the USA has imposed against Russia. After that, the sanctions imposed by the remainder of the West will collapse.
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@jackgammon4084 The proud moral hard-working Russians won't "see sense and sweep away Putin into the trash". Why? Because Putin controls the narrative. He has sold his people the "fascist Ukraine" and "US biological weapons lab" story and they've sucked it up ... just like the US president did to the Americans after 9-11 with the "WMDs in Iraq" story. The difference between Russia and the USA is in Russia there isn't a free press any more, there isn't access to other information sources. Don't expect the Russian people to solve the problem any time soon - the only problem they see is the Ukrainians and their Western allies.
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@ChairmanPaulieD I note in the news today there are stories about Republicans who are backing Putin. Donald reckoned he was a good guy, and thought his move of declaring parts of the Ukraine as autonomous regions was a great idea. So once Donald gets back into the White House you can expect him to reverse any sanctions the USA has imposed on Russia over the Ukraine incursion.
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@ZER0ZER0SE7EN China has eclipsed the USA as the world superpower. The USA cannot deploy its military for more than two weeks nowadays because China will just turn off the supply tap and all the USA's ships, tanks and planes will just stop. Westerners' greed for goods at ever cheaper prices has sold the USA's superpower status to China!
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@andypozuelos1204 It appears to be also the accuracy of the history being taught that Max Rank was concerned about. It's impossible to teach all of history, even the couple of thousand years of well-documented history. But whatever sample of history is taught should be accurate, at least. Given that the USA consists of 50 states, and the political views across those states range across the US political spectrum (compare and contrast California with Texas, for example), it's not surprising if there is a massive disparity in the history taught in schools across the USA.
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@andypozuelos1204 You make an interesting point where you cite the bias in history education in Japan, and state that it's inaccurate, at least to those in the West. This sort of bias exists in other school systems, e.g. ask anyone from France about what they're taught relating to the liberation of France in WW2. I think we agree that biases exist in history taught in schools in the USA, and the biases will vary between states. But per the Japanese and French situations - just to name two countries as an example, and noting that all history teaching is biased - this implies that there must be inaccuracies in American history teaching.
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