Comments by "George Carty" (@GCarty80) on "Is NATO Doing Enough for Ukraine?" video.

  1.  @geretstarseeker453  I'd say it was more a case of The Sea versus The Land: islands and peninsulas are easier to defend than inland territories, and navies foster democracy (look at how even uneducated thugs on board pirate ships evolved a rudimentary form of democracy) in a way which armies do not. * The Romans could "decimate" a wayward legion, but such harsh measures aren't an option at sea, as a ship's entire viability is in jeopardy if it loses 10% of its crew. * If an army captain's cruelty provokes a mutiny he can flee to his superiors, while a naval captain in a similar situation would better be a good swimmer. * If an army captain orders his troops to retreat without higher authorization, he can easily be punished by other captains or the general, while a disobedient naval captain can become a pirate. * The technical knowledge needed to operate ships means there's less scope for cronyism in navies than there is in armies.
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  2. It was originally the song of the Sich Riflemen, who were a Ukrainian contingent in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I.
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  3. The problem is that avoiding a nuclear war is still a higher priority than punishing Russian war crimes.
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  4. The Ukrainian army's anthem is a different song again, sometimes known as "We Were Born in a Great Hour". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgdANpB9PnY
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  5. I remember learning how to pronounce some unfamiliar consonant clusters when teaching myself to sing "Zrodylys my velykoyi hodyny".
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  6. Good example, given that Russia's attitude to treaties of any kind is much like the historical US attitude to treaties with the Native Americans.
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  7.  @JakeBroe  Should Russia be punished for its war with the loss of any of its own territories, just as Germany lost everything east of the Oder-Neisse Line after World War II?
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  8. It was the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian response to it that changed everything: effectively Ukraine before 2014 was a successor to the Ukrainian SSR, while Ukraine after 2014 was more like a successor to the putative Ukrainian State declared in June 1941.
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  9.  @jounik  When Greece and Turkey joined NATO Cyprus was still a British colony, and the RAF even today has a base on the island at Akrotiri.
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  10. Actually they're a Uralic people, other European examples of which are the Finns and Estonians.
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  11. Is that the current Carpathian Sich, or the original one in 1939?
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  12. I thought it was more that Ukrainian society was split between pro-Western and pro-Russian camps, with the latter largely disappearing only after Russia stole Crimea in 2014.
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  13.  @peterc.1419  Arguably West Germany also had border disputes with Poland and the USSR at the time: wasn't it still officially claiming the 1937 borders?
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