Comments by "George Carty" (@GCarty80) on "Russians Want to NUKE Themselves Now" video.

  1. If you wanted to wipe out semiconductors across a huge area (and especially satellites) wouldn't the way to do it be to set off a hydrogen bomb just above the Earth's atmosphere?
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  2. It was the Aral Sea that the Soviets turned into a wasteland (by diverting the incoming river water to irrigate cotton crops), not the Caspian Sea.
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  3. Slava Nacii 🇺🇦 Smert' Voroham 🇺🇦
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  4.  @EEX97623  1993 was also arguably the year in which the hope of Russia becoming a democracy died, as it was when Boris Yeltsin ordered the shelling of the Russian Parliament.
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  5. Wouldn't the USSR (and even the Western world) have still been using mostly vacuum-tube electronics when Tsar Bomba was detonated?
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  6.  @Brian-om2hh  Elections in modern Russia (unlike the USSR or Nazi Germany) don't literally only have one candidate: rather they have a few "controlled opposition" parties that just passively go along with the Kremlin's wishes.
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  7.  @lepidoptera9337  I suppose artillery shell production may be a possibility for reviving the economy of the Donbas, as it wasn't just the region which has suffered the most in this war, but was also a "rust belt" region with a tradition of heavy industry, whose economic grievances arguably helped cause the war by convincing some of its less-educated residents to turn traitor in 2014.
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  8.  @lepidoptera9337  Plus of course Iran (as a Shi'a theocracy) won't really care about the mostly-Sunni Palestinians -- they're just using them to their own ends.
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  9.  @nothandmade9686  It would have been fitting if "Revenge for Salisbury" had been written on the Storm Shadows sent to Ukraine.
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  10. Many of our staunchest Brexiteers have an obsession with World War II similar to that of the Russians: I wonder if the Kremlin backed Brexit because they believed (wrongly as it turned out) that these people would fall for Russian propaganda about "Nazi Ukraine"?
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  11.  @SpringIsBACK  Wasn't it not so much the Pax Americana as the Pax Atomica, with nuclear MAD preventing major powers fighting one another?
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  12. If Ukraine expels the invaders but Russia doesn't totally fall apart as a result, then I imagine the Ukrainians would be massively in demand with the NATO military leaderships, for all the lessons they can give on how to fight Russians.
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  13.  @Brian-om2hh 6 feet under hopefully!
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  14.  @timsullivan4566  Although Anatoly Karpov (who used to be Kasparov's arch-rival in chess) is now sitting in Putin's puppet parliament.
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