Comments by "surely you joke, mein failüre" (@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531) on "Силиконовый занавес" channel.

  1. Here in the US we have many aligned with Putin. Far too many. Makes me want to summon the ghost of senator McCarthy and resurrect the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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  2.  @gameburn178  Trump cannot conceive that the US is a long-running enterprise, with many longstanding operational norms & goals, that he is only supposed to caretake for a few years. Instead, he's treating it like a bag of money you find lying in the road.
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  3. To be fair to Putin, he gets much help from Murdoch "news" channels and from some Republicans in the US.
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  4.  @betterdonotanswer  Can someone please ask Putin why he's holding Stephen Segal in reserve for something truly awful?
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  5. With all these foreigners going in an out of Mar-a-Lardo, and it being so close to the waterways .. it's not inconceivable that small-quantity radioactive compounds could find their way in.
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  6. Trump addressed Putin in the gentle tones you use for your boss. To Zelinskyy he was quite different.
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  7. Those troops are chaos agents.
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  8. What an amazing guest! She had fantastic insights into things in Russia. Please have her back again sometime?
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  9.  @oeokosko  That's something people don't appreciate: by the time 1947 rolled around, it was obvious to every surviving German that their outcomes were similar regardless of whether they'd voted for the funny mustache guy or not. Fascism is like that. It would affect everyone in the country.
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  10. DItto on the comments regarding soft power. The concept of friendly co-operation among separate equals (or rivals) is completely foreign to them. This is how & why they think of NATO as another Soviet-style top-down empire instead of an alliance among relative equals (if not equivalents). They think "NATO is taking territory" when in fact those countries choose on their own to join NATO, then apply, then go through a process that can take years, then must get the approval of all existing members before being allowed in. If this "west vs east" thing was like a high school class officers election, Russia would be accusing the other team of stealing "their" votes when instead they should be working on their appeal to the voters. In much of Russia, there is a solid wall of high fences facing the street, interrupted only by doors that allow entrance to private property. Otherwise everything is boarded up. Tells you a lot about their psychology.
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  11. Russia has a very poor track record when it comes to rebuilding. Look at the conditions that prevailed in eastern Europe in the early 90s when the Red tide receded. In many places, it still looked like WW2 finished only last year. They consistently impoverish their supply provinces, and their own rural areas aren't much better off either.
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  12. My dot mil sources said it's a snuff tape with a Russian girl.
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  13. That "eternal warfare" plan may have been workable for Russia as of 12 months ago, but the game has again changed: not only can Ukraine make its own long-range drone swarms for reaching deep into Russia to burn refineries and other things, but Ukraine now has access to longer-range precise western weapons that it's using to great effect in the near border regions. Under these circumstances, Russia will slowly become unworkable over time. Besides refineries, there are pipelines, dams, bridges, tunnels, power generation, manufacturing capacity of all kinds, river locks, military hospitals, and much more. This is the much slower, non-nuclear, non-carpet-bombing way to take a nation back to the stone age.
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  14. But but but but it worked for him back when he inherited a lot of money from Daddy. And it worked for him way back when he was captaining college sports teams while dodging the draft with those "bone spurs".
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  15. Konstantin - no one blames the Russian people. Should you guys throw off the wannabe tsar and begin holding free & fair elections again, we will welcome you back. Just found your fantastic channel and have been bingeing it. Much respect 👍
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  16.  @vegyesz89  Russia is also not respecting the NATO Russia founding act of 1997. In their defense, it's hard to grab some Lebensraum without breaking a few laws and agreements.
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  17. Also Vlad Vexler, 1420 Daniil's street interviews (if he's still doing those), Vasya in the Hay.
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  18. Part of this stems from the disparity in the way the fall of the USSR affected Russia vs how it affected the formerly independent nations who got taken over by Russian empire operating under the guise of the CCCP. Russia treated those places like its colonial fiefdom, sucking out money, resources, people, the smart ones, the pretty ones, and whole businesses alike whenever it wanted. Russia lived high on what it took from those places. After the USSR fell, those people got out from under the Soviet yoke and largely went on to return to being independent places. Russia however still misses the glory days of easy access to the resources of other nations. It wants all that back. Those places, however, seem to have little/no interest in living under the Russian bootheel again.
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  19. There's fash everywhere, sadly.
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  20. I've got American friends who are easily sucked into Russki Mir .. bringing them out of it is sometimes a bit of work.
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  21. Agree. And I'm American too. Our body politic needs a fever to get rid of a nasty virus.
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  22. I join you in this anger/disgust. It is as if all of the US lives in a giant high-rise in Dubai, and the richest residents (who have their own private elevators and helicopter pads) have convinced the dumbest 20% to cut the cables on the public elevators.
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  23. Russia will properly understand their war of aggression against Ukraine only when the blowback from it touches Russia within its territories. Learning things the hard way is their default setting :(
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  24. Awesome interview. Hearing the useful idiots described so clearly brought to mind one I hadn't thought of in awhile, the not-so-good-fiction author and cranky blogger James Howard Kunstler, whose blog is Clusterf*ck Nation. At some point in the past (not sure when) he fell in line with what Putin would like to have said here in America. Sad.
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  25. Not sure if events will wait for Russia to return things voluntarily. The bear is dripping blood, and everything in the sea will be smelling it.
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  26. I have a few words for president Biden: lead, follow, or get out of the way.
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  27. Yah .. and they will someday make fantastic allies and NATO partners.
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  28. Same. This remains to be some of the best thoughtful analysis I've found yet :)
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  29. Fantastic interview. Thank you for sharing. This is the insight that more in the west, particularly our leaders, need to be hearing. Some of them lack any sense of realpolitik.
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  30. "Societies that have not evolved in the past few hundred years" .. perfect. Cannot agree enough with the sentiment that Putin must be stopped in Ukraine (or Transnistria, or wherever his next attempted takeover will be) or else NATO will be facing a different kind of problem.
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  31. That totally unsustainable "meat wave" effort by Russia has got to be their version of "shock and awful", designed to bring the other side to the table.
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  32. Excellent interview! And I sincerely hope that Georgia can get moving before V. Putin decides to move his "empire building at gunpoint" operation to areas that are more difficult for the west to help.
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  33. Fantastic interview. Hope you have him back regularly for followup. He and Konstantin are excellent.
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  34. I have often wondered how many forms that Russian pressure takes, not just in economic ways but also cultural and social.
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  35. Seriously :( If this were 1939, a whole bunch of current US politicians would be members of the German-American Bund. They would be telling us to stay home and ignore Hitler. They would be saying to let Europe take care of itself. We see how well that turned out last time :(
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  36.  @SiliconCurtain  Guessing that Trump is revolted by the idea of playing by the rules when it costs you something that might advantage you.
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  37. I recall the news from the summer/fall of 2021, where citizens in Kyiv were volunteering to learn military skills before the impending attack. Lots of people older than 40 were taking up rifles and learning to shoot. Kudos on them for their bravery and willingness to fight.
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  38.  @mvjh2277  FYI that one Russian aircraft carrier is diesel-powered and not very reliable. It brings a fleet of ocean-going tugs everywhere because the powertrain keeps failing. With that ski-ramp takeoff system (because, apparently, even WW2-era catapults are too unimaginably tricky for Soviet engineers) the flight time and cargo capacity of any launched aircraft is rather minimal. And, in a conflict, the event log would include something like "F22 has entered the chat."
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  39. Watching Tucker morph into the next "Lord Haw-Haw" is quite scary.
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  40. America's current ruling class will be known by history as the Vichy Republicans.
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  41.  @terryhand  Correct. 45 said recently (early February 2024): "I would encourage them [meaning Russia] to do whatever the hell they want."
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  42.  @henriikkak2091  To be fair to Putin's [odd] way of seeing things .. didn't Poland "provoke" Nazi Germany by seeking a military alliance with the UK?
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  43.  @engliterra355  Sure, people miss the Russian occupation the same way they miss a heavy boot on their neck.
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  44. Getting NATO members to snipe at each other is probably why (one presumes) Putin told his associate Trump to be as insulting as possible to leaders of western-allied nations.
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  45. Trump "negotiated" that one too.
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  46. Ditto. These are some of the most thoughtful interviews on the subject.
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  47. Hello to Finland from the USA and welcome to NATO! You guys are legendary.
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  48. Don Poorleone doesn't have too much flying time left.
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  49.  @michaelwilson9921  Edit - had to get some numbers - according to the 1989 Soviet census, the total population of the USSR was 286,730,819 .. and according to the 2008 Russian census, the population of Russia was 142,737,196. Under the smothering guise of Marxism, Russia ran the USSR like a top-down empire for its own benefit. Resources, people, whole companies etc were all liable to be taken by the Russians. They took all the best and brightest and prettiest from the provinces to serve back in Russia. Losing the USSR was quite the blow to Russia whereas losing the Soviet boot on their neck was quite the boon to places like Poland, Ukraine, and other former SSR's. And they don't seem to be interested in going back to the bad old days either.
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  50. Russians generally don't appreciate people who know them for exactly who and what they are. Makes them uncomfortable. They prefer to be thought of as exotic foreigners rather than the people of a poor, corrupt country with little to no experience in democracy.
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