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  1. Mark, again you're 100% right about India. Modi and his regime like to shout out that "India is the World's Biggest Democracy!", every once in a while. ịŋðïæ that IS NOW the largest purchaser of ruZZian oil and gas in the World. @Joe Blogs presented data recently that since this idiotic rŮs War began, china's purchases of ruZZian oil and gas has leveled off to the same average % over time, whereas iNdia's purchases are up near 50% compared to pre War averages. india has profitted by purchasing ruZZian crude at HUUUUUGE discounts, filling up their reserve storage tanks and then refining the crude into value added petroleum by-products and rebranded them made in india and selling at retail prices for HUIUUUGE profits. The racist cast system, persecution of india's Muslim minority and toxic misogynist culture will be covered by others commenting. Thanks again Mark.
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  2. Thank you Mark! I agree with you 100%.
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  3. I agree Mark - time to use this bad money and do some good things.
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  4. Right on Mark! Stand strong Ukraine.
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  5. Geographically, Russia is practically land locked. The ports on the Baltic are now on a NATO lake On the Black, they are stymied by Turkey The West Pacific ports are 8 time zones removed from Moscow. They have been in perpetual barbaric wars with their neighbors for ever. It is truly sad in that the resource rich country is riddled with corruption that sucks the life from the people to favor a few.
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  6. Sending you lot of love from Ukraine 🫡
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  7. As a videographer, I love the composition in this video. Finally also almost properly exposed.
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  8. I'm hoping a coalition of European States will provide a border and a stabilizing security presence once a treaty is signed. France should jump at the chance at being relevant since they've been kicked out of Africa. Deploying French troops makes sense sense this conflict is in their backyard.
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  9. In the 1960's I had a history master at school who for some reason (it wasn't part of the curriculum ) set us a project for the year to produce a report on the history of Russia from its founding. No small task in the age before the internet but fortunately an age with a lot of libraries! Fascinating project which revealed a lot to me about why Russia is paranoid as a nation - they have been continuously hammered from the outside starting with the Tartars and Mongols whilst sitting on the outer edge of Western Civilisation which they envied and despised in equal measure. That creates a permanent internal tension which all to frequently is managed through external aggression rather than internal development, bully syndrome. They should be the richest country in the world with all the natural resources they sit on but it ends up being squandered on that external aggression.
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  10. I always look forward to Mark's vids.
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  11. Americans have no experience with the level of corruption in Russia. Every cop, soldier, official is not only open for business--it is how they make a living. The paltry salaries don't provide a living wage, so bribery and corruption are endemic--same is true in China.
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  12. Some of the potatoes in our house bought from the grocery store were getting old and growing roots. So, instead of throwing them in the trash I cut them up and placed them at the back of our small garden bed. This is the 3rd year volunteer crop. Not a very big crop, but amazing they keep growing year after year.
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  13. I grew up as a German. When I visited Eastern Europe for the first time, I was surprised that Russians were far more unpopular than Germans. In the past years, I learned to understand why.
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  14. If these funds are used to improve Ukraine's defense and economy the resulting collapse of the criminal Russian regime will, when the dust settles benefit ordinary Russians.
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  15. Thank you very much for this video! I'm Polish and I can say that you're saying the truth. Used to travel to Ruzzia before. 2018: restaurant outside Kursk - toilet outside in a wooden shack!:-)
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  16. DEFEND UKRANIAN SKIES!
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  17. I'm glad I stumbled on this channel and subscribed a while back. As a fellow Floridian myself, keep doing what you're doing, Mark, good stuff!
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  18. Mark, you should have a recommended reading list. Great video.
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  19. I agree completely. For example, there was no need for Modi to hug Putin so warmly. And: Trump said also "I'm very intelligent". And: Modi meditated for the press, which desecrates the whole purpose of meditation. And so on ...
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  20. Agreed good sir. They don’t stand a chance. There is too much dollar denominated debt and not to the US.
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  21. I've said for years that the russian Orthodox Church is actually an intelligence agency with funny hats....
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  22. HOA is a Home Owners Association. You definitely deserve more views. Your videos are not "slick" like the normal YouTube offerings, more like a conversation.
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  23. Thank you Mark, very interesting and informative as always.
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  24. I have never seen a single post about Ms Harris. You are the first. I am a Biden supporter, thanks for this
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  25. super artistic analogy and description of the current gog vs magog. 🤔You sir, are the real-life RICK, that we didn't know we needed !
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  26. Thank you Sir! Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦
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  27. I'm getting addicted to your lessons.
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  28. Russian Ruble is practically a meme coin these days. heck Im not surprised if the Russians will accept crypto tokens like DOGE and PEPE over the Russian ruble heck those two crypto tokens are worth more than the Russian ruble LOL
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  29. Dear Mark, Thank you for your analyses and your discussing your thoughts on world affairs, especially about Europe. I believe that negotiations about the Russian invasion without the removal of all Russian military from all the Ukrainian land, is of no value. Also the return of all the stolen children must be returned to Ukraine before any discussions on future negotiations. All data demonstrates that Russia is being severely damaged by Ukrainian attacks and the incompetence of Russian military choices are causing internal destruction. All data shows that Ukraine is going to control this war especially with the new F17s and Mirage jets should be able to aid Ukraine in controlling the skies. Thank you for your dedication to helping us to see what is happening. Keep safe and be blessed and stay well. Heroyam Slava. Slava Ukraini. Shalom.
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  30. Keep up the great work my friend and fighting the good fight 💙💛🇺🇦🤘
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  31. Dear Mark, I am a French economist for the time being in Warsaw. I would be delighted in meeting you over a coffee.
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  32. SLAVA UKRAINE!
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  33. Ive gotten into argument with a lot of indian people telling them their government is not just complacent but active in aiding the invasion. They deny deny deny, and link articles of things that are completely off topic. Will take a good leader to tell these people they have been misled.
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  34. So tired of Western talking heads looking at Russia from an investors viewpoint. Russia can move people and resources with the point of a gun. It is about power and nothing else.
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  35. Thank you sir for supporting Ukraine 💙💛 🙏🙏
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  36. Great video.❤ I’m 54, I work so hard to engage myself in someway of earning more income and stop depending on anyone. my family are happy once again and I can now afford anything for my family even with my Retirement. With a step of $50k and $17k weekly returns has been life changing, after so much struggles.
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  37. Thank you for this interesting video. God bless. Crimea is a homeland of Crimean Tatars, and a part of Ukraine and will always be Ukraine,
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  38. I love these videos. Keep em coming. Slava Ukraini
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  39. The economy is so strong they beg North Korea for help 😂😂😂
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  40. I been following Konstantine since before the war began in Ukraine. He gives a great inside perspective of the Russian economy and life in Russia. What I enjoy about your videos is that you demolish all of the economic misinformation Americans have been spoon fed by the Russians and being promoted on our very own news networks without any fact- checking or evidence. I have been to Russia and I’ve been to Ukraine and those are two different countries altogether. Saying that Ukraine and Russia are the same because they speak the same language is like saying Canada and the USA are really the same country because they speak the same language. It is completely ridiculous! I remember the first time I went to Moscow and commented how nice the road was going from the airport to the city and the driver said to me that it was the only road going to Moscow that was in this good condition because it was the airport road!🙂
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  41. 40% on defense is insane.
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  42. In Belgium, in the 60s, my retired neighbor was a 200% convinced communist: if you had the misfortune to engage in the slightest conversation with him, in the minutes that followed you knew that he was going to praise the USSR, according to him a sort of earthly paradise where everything was free, everything was better etc etc. At that time, this provoked not only skepticism but above all mockery. 60 years later, this kind of useful idiot still exists and it's depressing! The common denominator is continually verified: anti vax, anti US, pro-putin, gullible and most often poor educated. BTW, my wife is Estonian and told me about the queues in front of the bakery in the 80s ...
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  43. You are a good man mark. In a sea of Russian verbal diarrhoea, your warm words really do help. Keep yourself safe
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  44. Basically, I feel if Trump gets in, we're all pretty fucked up. Lol. Thanks, Mark.
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  45. Listening to you from Ukraine. People like you give us a glimpse of hope in this dark times. Thank you for your support!
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  46. Many thanks! It was a set up!
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  47. Happy to pay extra for LNG.
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  48. I have a horrible feeling that if Putin offered the US president elect a parade in Red Square and presented him with a tin medal "Hero of the Russian Federation" he would lift all sanctions against Russia. Especially if it included a military march past in his honour.
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  49. Good Morning Mark. From everything I see and read Russia is heading for an economic catastrophe (maybe is already there). Whilst I don't enjoy seeing people suffer I don't see anyway to remove the festering poison which is their ruling class other than an economic crash that makes them reform individually and as a society. Lets hope we stay the course (and help Ukraine too).
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  50. Thanks Mark. Appreciate your take on this. Keep up the great content.
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