Comments by "George Carty" (@GCarty80) on "Why Do So Many Wealthy People Support Russia? - October Qu0026A" video.

  1. The closest Ukrainian equivalent of that quote (or perhaps more analogous to the Ben Franklin liberty vs. safety quote) is as follows: "Коли поміж хлібом і свободою народ обирає хліб, він зрештою втрачає все, в тому числі і хліб. Якщо народ обирає свободу, він матиме хліб, вирощений ним самим і ніким не відібраний." Translation: "When a people chooses bread between bread and freedom, it ultimately loses everything, including bread. If a people chooses freedom, it will have bread grown by itself and not taken away by anyone."
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  2. I ended up teaching myself how to sing the March of Ukrainian Nationalists.
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  3.  @beth7935  I guess Hangul is more difficult that Cyrillic, because Cyrillic and Latin share a common ancestor in Greek. About 15 years ago I did also use the "Muslim Kid School" videos to teach myself Arabic script.
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  4. Why do the CCP hate Tesla cars? (Other than the fact that they're not built by a Chinese company of course...)
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  5.  @tada8092  in Ukrainian of course, and yes I could write it out as well. Although I have found an English version of the song at https://youtu.be/n_ahV0akvYQ
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  6.  @0e32 Isn't it now the Hungarians more than the Turks who are playing silly-buggers w.r.t. Sweden's NATO application?
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  7. Aren't many Russian ICBMs liquid fuelled, meaning they would require more maintenance than the solid-fuel Minuteman missiles in the US arsenal?
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  8. At least one of the things that used to give China a huge amount of soft power (ie Zero Covid) ended up collapsing.
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  9. I'd think it was that ICBMs are so fast that they're almost impossible to shoot down, and are quicker to launch (and more accurate) than submarine-based ballistic missiles.
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  10.  @bungalowjuice7225  The missiles themselves are indeed very similar: the disadvantage in accuracy is because the location of a submarine isn't known as precisely as that of a fixed silo, while the disadvantage in speed of launch is due to the difficulty in communicating with a submerged submarine. SLBMs are ideal second-strike weapons but very poor first-strike weapons: this may be why the UK (whose small geographic area and dense population mean it would stand no chance in a nuclear war) chose a purely submarine-based nuclear deterrent.
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  11. Aren't billionaires as a class usually freaks, given that most normal people would retire if they managed to make a few million dollars, rather than carry on struggling to make even more money?
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  12. "then you show the clips of Ukrainian children playing and Russian children being trained for war.Why does that remind me of a scene in Prelude to War (the first of the famous Why We Fight series of World War II propaganda films)?
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