Comments by "Stephen Hill" (@stephenhill545) on "Силиконовый занавес" channel.

  1. True. The main problem is that their rulers make the people scared to control them, using this issue.
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  2. Wouldn't it be nice if Russia could be emotionally mature enough to behave like a normal country. Is it really too much to ask of them?
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  3.  @borovik8714  those that honor Bandera do it mostly because he fought against Stalin. If you know about the death famine, you would understand that. Ukrainians did join in the Holocaust, and so did poles, Hungarians, belorussians, Russians, Frenchmen, Dutchmen etc.
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  4. We have 2% inflation and 4% interest rates. Check out Russia, then get back after you've enlightened yourself.
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  5. ​ @jeffhicks8428  Not true. It was a popular uprising which lasted months and involved millions of people. It arose from the desire of Ukranians to be free of corruption.
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  6. Unfortunately, Germany, for instance, has what it terms a "pragmatic" approach, and will gladly sacrifice Ukrainian interests for greater access to the Chinese market. This narrow economic self-interest will mean the end for the indepence of 45 million Ukranians, and. France, Italy and Spain have helped hardly at all. So much for European solidarity. Tragic and monumental stupidity.
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  7. Our politicians sicken me. We are mostly decent people, and we want them to do something to stop this cruelty.
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  8. "There is a war in a distant country, whose people we know little about." Neville Chamberlain, speaking about Czechoslovakia.
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  9. Ireland belonged to the English/British crown for 800 years. We would not dream of invading her. So backward.
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  10. Enjoy your tax increases and currency devaluation. Soon phones will be too expensive to buy for you.
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  11. ​ @JohnCSmith-lp1qr move to russia John. You would love all the big Zs and world war 2 posters.
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  12. Free peoples tend to be richer, too. God's blessing to you.
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  13. The rejection of life as the pursuit of pleasure in favour of life as the pursuit of domination, fascism.
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  14. Maybe Moses is an isolationist.
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  15. ​ @Frank-kx6ky  I imagine there is much ideological cross-over between putinism and the ideology of apartheid, racism, exceptionalism, socially conservative, an elite group, the importance of internal security, ,but most importantly perhaps that advocates of the soviet empire, such as putin, and supporters of apartheid both experienced trauma from the collapse of their beloved systems
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  16. Isn't the hard truth, that the US Republican Party is now working for the other side?
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  17. It's the fear of modernity and iving in an age of rapid change which sends them scuttling for somebody who reciprocares their angst.
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  18. ​ @OneSkyWarrior people in the UK don't know who he is.
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  19. We needed a Kennedy, we got Jake Sullivan and Scholz with their deescalation theory.
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  20. Appeasement is cheaper in the short-term.
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  21. He is disgusted by whst is happening, rightly so. I understand this moral outrage because I feel the same.
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  22. The Falklands was attacked by the Argentine equivalent of Sadaam Hussain.
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  23. And are open being corrupted by those autocracies.
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  24.  @Owlr4ider  a military which it is beyond the means of the country to sustain in the field for an extended period of time due to its economic weakness, see Crimean war and world war one for evidence of this weakness. Maybe you know how a state can spend a third of its total revenue on the military for more than 3 years, without access to the capital markets, but I know of no previous example of this in history.
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  25. ​ @WillFinch-k4j he lacks moral clarity. Let's put it like that.
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  26. ​ @AkenValle  You are demonstrating that you do not understand basic logic. There is no connection between the two statements. Ask your educators for a refund.
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  27. He's talking about the USA.
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  28. ​ @thc6664 you don't, the advanceD countries speak good English, you not so much.
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  29. How can NATO function with Orban and Fico in it?
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  30. They are Europeans.
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  31. ​ @mbompenza7082 you're fantasising again.
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  32. The cowardice of these "leaders" is mind-boggling. Friedrikson and Kallas put them all to shame.
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  33. ​ @The_Savage_Wombat that always happens when western leaders engage in appeasement. It was exactly so in the spanish civil war, and the appeasers lost Spain to fascism.
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  34. Yes, i spoke to some German a short time ago. Der Krieg ist weit weg i think they said.
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  35. Ditto.
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  36. ​ @goenzoy712 Russia; population 145 million, NATO 1.5 billion. Sooooo.....
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  37. ​ @dannydetonator the USA.
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  38. ​ @Mariupol_is_Ukraine the USA
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  39. ​ @johnadam2885 sour grapes is not the emotion, it's more abhorance and horror at what Russia is doing in Ukraine.
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  40. Of course. Nobody can help where they are born. Be grateful you aren't torn apart like Konstantin has been.
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  41. Grandiosity; Plato did say, that leaders go mad after eight years.
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  42. Schyzo
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  43. I walked around my Russian city. Zs on public buildings and churches, flags lining main roads, soldiers everywhere, posters of heroes on every corner, bus shelters covered in pictures of z soldiers and world war 2 pictures, everywhere.
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  44. But you wanted to buy the leopards you bought from germany to give them Ukraine, so don't be too tough on yourselves. Good at heart. 😊
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  45. ​ @goenzoy712 The US had 425,000 casualties in ww2.
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  46. ​ @baldersn4474 They didn't believe in the failed policy of appeasing dictators.
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  47. You know that the nazis regarded Slavs as semi-human. Why would a slavic person be a nazi, or a Jewish person.
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  48. France's support has been measly. Denmark has contributed three times more in absolute terms. And as for Itsly and Spain, they act like there is no war.
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  49. ​ @PandemoniumMeltDown  you obviously don't know much about what Orban is up to. Or don't care.
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  50. Not a moron in the sense that he successfully taps into the fear of the rapid technological change which typifies our age, unfortunately.
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  51. Freezing the conflict means giving Putin the opportunity to carry on the colonisation of 25% of Ukraine. Land = people.
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  52. Borell is worse. The czech pm organised 800k shells in his free time. Why wasnt there a dept or just a team set up to do that.
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  53. ​ @johndavis2399 belorussia, 25% died. Poland 17%, ukraine 16% russia 12%, poland occupied for 6 years, ukraine 3 years, belorussia 3 years, russia 5% of territory for 3 years.
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  54. Why not blame the fascist imperialist state which is putin's russia? Why ignore their genocidal rhetoric and actions?
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  55. It's a tribute to the meritocratic values of the US military that Ben could rise so high. Respect from the UK.
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  56. Large parts of the west support Putin. Manuel Schwesig, Minister of Mecklenburg, visited Ukraine and came back saying Germany should help Ukraine all it could, and was hevily criticised in Mecklenburg for saying that.
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  57. Not the best pretext for occupying a country.
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  58. Ohio is no longer a bellweather. That's Pennsylvania these days.
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  59. They do like having meetings.
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  60. The weakness of having a country so far from Europe being so important to European defense, and that of the free world more generally. None of the disruptor powers are close to the US, so it does not feel the same sense of urgency.
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  61. We have them, in Europe's minor powers. The President of Georgia, Kalas, Meta Friedriksen in Denmark, who has given 3 x as much military aid as Macron.
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  62. Where's this military industrial complex the tin foil heads like to talk about when you need it?
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  63. USA, USA, 🇺🇸 ❤
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  64. Yes, everywhere you go in russia you see 1941-45 on posters, bus stops, buses etc. It's what happened in 1939-41 which Russians need to be taught about. That way, they might understand why eastern Europe joined nato.
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  65. ​ @georgine321 a lot of Russians will wish that person well.
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  66. Obsessive personality.
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  67. ​ @jonet5946 Putin's term ended in 2008. It would have been good for the world if he had respected the constitution. It also used to guarentee freedom of expression, until he changed it.
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  68. Not weak, just don't care enough, which is sad, because the majority of European citizens do.
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  69. ​ @pabis6817 but thanks for your support anyway. This European appreciates it.
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  70. They did that with the Minsk Accords.
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  71. ​@mjohns5944 who visits?
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  72. I don't find him the slightest likable. He oozes disingenuity.
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  73. They believe in might is right. Morality is not important to them.
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  74. Your friends will be joining the draft if we encourage Putin any more.
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  75. Why don't our stupid politicians listen to the people who know what they're talking about? History will be astounded.
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  76. And 48% of Americans like it. That is horrifying.
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  77. ​​ @raraavis7782 For Scholz, it's all about himself. Fortunately, he will cost the SPD support. Pistorius is very popular, but the pro-Putin circle around Stegner and Munzernich will block his candidature.
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  78. Orban wants a chunk of Ukranian territory. The Hungarian far right is as bad as the Russian one.
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  79. ​ @damarcusowens5511 You could apply this argument to world war 2 too. Yesterday D-day was commemorated. If it's about the money for you, Europe provides the US with an enormous market for her exports, but for most us D-Day means so much more than that. It gave millions and millions of people their freedom back.
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  80. ​ @domino20 We're in world war 4. For Putin, the cold war was ww3.
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  81. The betrayal of Czechoslovakia was even worse.
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  82. ​ @betterdonotanswer To fulfil their treaty obligations, French forces moved 20m into German territory, and then retreated immediately. Germany had 20 divisions defending the west, no armor at all. France was regarded as the strongest army in Europe. It had 90 divisions, including more tanks than Germany had, even though they were all attacking Poland.
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  83. Russia does not have infinite manpower. It has chronic labor shortages about twice the total population of Britain, a small country.
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  84. The question is; why do they fear Putin losing power,or the break-up of Russia? He's threatening us with nuclear anihilation, and Russua is invading its peaceful neighbors, and conducting hybrid war against us.
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  85. And we Scots. Good Ulstermen all.
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  86. Our foes do not seem to care about our nuclear arsenal and military capabilities.
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  87. ​ @ninemoonplanet the spirit of 1812 lives on. Love from the UK.
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  88. Germany is too amoral to follow this path, unfortunately. It is so hesitant to support Ukraine because the SPD wants to rebuild it's trading relationship with Putin as soon as this is feasible.
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  89. It's a macho culture, but macho is superficial. In reality, they are powerless.
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  90. Tschaikovski was LGBTQ.
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  91. I wouldn't want to be Kazakhstan or Georgia if Putin gets away with it.
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  92. They don't promote on merit but on loyalty to the regime.
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  93. Putin is not the father of the ukranian nation. Lenin recognised it already as a nation. A tiny minority wanted to be annexed by russia. 3.4% according to bologna uni study in 2015.
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  94. That's the point of being a dictatorship.
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  95. Colonislism preceded liberalism. They don't sit well together, and this tension was evident from the time of the American War of Independence. It was a civil war fought between Whigs and Tories in reality, on both sides of the Atlantic. Hence; Europe was able to transcend its colonial past with relative ease.
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  96. Bye bye X. I joined Bluesky, too.😊
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  97. Don't you need to stay in the party and reclaim it? It is the party of Lincoln after all.
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  98. ​ @JH-jx1hs successful societal models tend to spread. Call it influence if you will.
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  99. Peace for peace's sake does not bode well for the future.
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  100. Chamberlain believed negotiations would be conducted in good faith.
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  101. It's just a great stinking pile of hubris.
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  102. He calls it for what it is; our politicians are awfully amoral, shocking.
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  103. They overestimated the infrastructure. Bagration knew better.
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  104. ​ @ibrahimvestin1901 you're in nato. Whats the problem? Nobody attacks nato, yet.
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  105. ​ @gmw3083  our currency is very stable, inflation is 2.6%, interest rates 4%. How about you?
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  106. You could try reading research or reading books.
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  107. He underestimates Trump. Trump understands power.
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  108. Not in India's interest. China wants to expand westwards.
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  109. In Japan they put two pine branches outside the front door to keep the spirits happy.
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  110. You suffer from thinking, that Russia and Germany are big countries, and those inbetween are less important. This old colonial attitude towards eastern Europe can be seen in the contempt many Germans hold Poland in.
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  111. We got used to peace.
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  112. Poor we are not.
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  113. You shouldn't feel bad. Navalny said doing a little bit is good.
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  114. He was the anti-party candidate, Karpov represented the party. His victory mattered.
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  115. Influence, America's largest export market, security.
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  116. China did and does very well from globalisation, so why is it teaming up with Russia,?
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  117. Extremists don't like clever people.
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  118. ​you should listen more carefully. The guest is very insightful.
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  119. Not silent, he blamed Poland for provoking Germany by not handing over its territory to Hitler in the Carlson interview.
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  120. ​@digitalmusic4803 it was in 1953. Its 2024.
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  121. ​@Silver_Prussian how many people visited russia in 2023?
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  122. ​ @Silver_Prussian corruption. Not the free market. That works. You have a terrible corruption issue. It is jmpoverishing the majority of your population, but putin and co are super rich.
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  123. ​ @Silver_Prussian why are you so fcuking poor then??
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  124. ​ @Abulb99 freedom is everything, but you don't understand that.
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  125. Cowardice in truth.
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  126. Russia has the same sized economy as Texas.
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  127. ​​ @gungnir3926  not quite, a lot of wars are caused by rulers seeking to divert eyes from internal societal tensions, like Russia now.
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  128. Keith Kellogg​ @artmcteagle 
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  129. An ethical question.
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  130. Don't believe in collective guilt either.
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  131. I doubt Olaf Scolz has ever done anything rapidly in his entire life.
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  132. No, its governments are fighting each other for a share of trade with China.
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  133. Ireland occupies 100% of Scotland. The Scotti were Irish invaders who replaced the indigenous Picts between the 4th and 8th century. They never left. We gave 80% back, with an agreement to have a border poll.
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  134. Perhaps a listener who sympathises with Russia and North Korea could explain what model they are offering.
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  135. Watching your propagandists, I doubt you can see anything at all.
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  136. Julius Streicher was.
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  137. He's short of time now.
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  138. ​ @jmolofsson I've heard Kieswetter speaking on the subject. He seems to get it.
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  139. Around 17% I'm told. The olds can't speak it all.
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  140. The fact, that they allowed him to interview them says everything.
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  141. Funny. The actual nazis were into anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.
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  142. Disputed. Most etymologists think "Rus" comes from the old Norse word "rod", meaning "the rowing men", as spoken by vangarian Swedes.
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  143. It doesn't matter what it is for Russia. Its not their sovereign legal territory. The fact that they invaded it in 1795 is neither here nor there. It's just another historical footnote in thousands of footnotes from Europe's bloody history.
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  144. He has a psychic working for him who told him madelaine allbright was plotting to invade siberia.
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  145. Just sitting here surveying my lovely garden and wondering what it is like to live in a soviet era apartment, where the water might not run and the power cuts are weekly. Enjoy my humiliation.
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  146. They wear very smart stylish black uniforms.
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  147. World war I. was caused by states using war as a cure for internal social tensions. It ended with their collapse.
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  148. ​ user-wj6dt5bq3w Do you like the North Korean model then?
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  149. Watch Scholz hang on just long enough to sell Ukraine out, then sell himself as the man who saved Europe to his worryingly pro-Russian electorate. "Der Friedenskanzler."
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  150. Motivation from our cultural perspective.
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  151. ​ @geertstroy  It was different in Reagan's day. We felt the commonality.
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  152. Oh! Then you must be European at heart. We have been good allies for a long time now, so be nice to each other.
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  153. They were vulnerable in 1917, 1991, and 1941. The west helped them. The way putin talks, you would never know it.
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  154. Run by managers, who are afraid to face the horrid reality, that peace in Europe was only temporary
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  155.  @mebsrea  thank you for correcting me there. I thought the problem was Schroeder and his circle looking at Germany from the outside.
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  156.  @toby9999  Russia supported the leave campaign, which is why there were so many scaremongering anti immigration posts and ads, which you probably read. Russia likes to destabilise western societies where it can. Because it works.
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  157. Thd ukranians don't want to live ax zombified slaves, like 140 million Russians, afraid to take responsibility for their country.
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  158. Different to the history of King and Queens she means, the british empire and all those pink world maps.
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  159. Thd UK spends 6%, 2.2% of gdp.
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  160. They tried but lukashenko tortured them.
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  161. As your usual Russian imperial chauvanist, his goal is to humiliate us, because he felt humiliated by the collapse of the USSR.
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  162. ​ @karengiersing8547 we've got 14 million lunatics who think Trumpism should be our future and reject all those "woke" European enlightenment values.
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  163. Kamala was right. Putin is eating Trump for breakfast.
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  164. Putler just escalated.
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  165. What do you think those oil refineries do? They refine crude.
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  166. ​ @liameoin5416 scottish presbytirians
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  167. The archives tell us that nazi germany wanted a general European war, it didnt want bits of territory, it wanted to overthrow the international order. Hoping putin will stop isnt a policy.
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  168. Same phenonema everywhere, unscrupulous far-right authorianism offering populist solutions to disappointed and embittered people.
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  169. Fanatic is not an adjective which describes Ben. He is very measured and rational.
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  170. Russia is about to block youtube, September apparantly.
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  171. They are contemptible people, following their narrow self-interests while a European people is being murdered.
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  172. Freedom is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You can't blame them for wanting a better life for themselves and their kin. And it's much safer, of course.
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  173. Appeasement is alive and kicking
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  174. ​ @itsgoodforyou4235 history
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  175. Kaliningrad?
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  176. Yes, democracy doesn't always deliver the result we want, but the alternative is far worse. At least it will force Europe's major powers to confront the reality of their situation.
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  177. Merz could call for a constructive vote of no confidence.
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  178. European culture is distinguished by its belief in morality, that we know the difference between right and wrong.
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  179. You're right, but don't have us for it.
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  180. ​ @uberbeeg the French and British decided to dow Germany in tandem.
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  181.  @uberbeeg  yes, that's right.
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  182. It's what happens when your office is closest to an ailing president.
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  183. It's inter-connected. Russia and China are strategic partners, and Russia is also Irans strategic partner. China and Iran are the USA's chief global threats. Weakening Russia weakens China. And Europe, apart from being the US's friends, is also the USA's main market.
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  184. ​ @dailylifeofnobody819 nice to know that they want to commmunicate with normal peoples.
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  185. ​ @BalfourDeclaration1917 it is offensive. We have jacob rhys mogg and nadine dorries, they have mgt and co.
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  186. ​ @DeepFinger-SRT the master was lying as per usual.
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  187. They invaded Scotland, but that got airbrushed out of history. They were called Scots. Poor old Picts just ceased to exist.
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  188.  @ganazby  I'm antiimperislist too, have a nice day.
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  189.  @kenadams5504  absolutely agree with you. Anti imperialist too.
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  190. ​ @Davidt1066 it pumps money into eastern Europe because it is in its own interest, that these markets develop for its exports.
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  191. That communist experiment really went well. Chernobyl was the last straw as I recall.
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  192. God bless you Poland.
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  193. NATO has 3,500,000 soldiers, 24,000 warplanes, etc. etc. You sure aint fighting NATO.
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  194. Don't you mean the Russians?
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  195. Another young talent comes through. There are so many there.
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  196. And give the lie to the appeasers and "realists" fears.
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  197. ​ @Samo-tm3xr  the illiterate will not be drafted, don't worry.
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  198. ​ @philippealexis  thought experiment. Why would he have bases in Kaliningrad?
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  199. It was a choice. Finland is close to Russia, very democratic, very prosperous. But Finns aren't slavs, russia clearly has an issue with other slavs being happy.
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  200. What is JD Vance's analogy for this, having rejected 1930s appeasement as an analogy.
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  201. Did you? Why? Two to one, common knowledge.
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  202. They were suffering death by a thousand cuts under Sullivan and Biden. There had to be a change.
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  203. Talked to a Russian. He said the Union referendum in March 91 came out in support of keeping the USSR, so it was illegal for Yeltsin and Ukraine to leave it, so history had to be corrected and the USSR restored. He believed this sincerely. I pojnted out that the USSR was created by a coup d'etat, but so it was.
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  204. It's sad when all you have to say is, It's crappy here, I hope it's crappy where you are. It isn't, tough.
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  205. Yes, the far right and far left encompass about 25 to 35% of our populations, and Putin appeals to both.
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  206. You mean rags like the wall street journal and new York Times? Great journalism.
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  207. Jake and the realist school, the same school which dominated Europe's disasterous response to the rise of fascism in the 1930s, the same school which assumes the leaders are rational and will negotiate in good faith.
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  208. ​ @christinamuzzu6414 Reagan was accused of being a hawk, but his strategy of peace through strength proved itself.
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  209. How do you know? The data is suppressed.
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  210. It's deliberate. Our "leaders" would be happy if Ukraine gave up, and they cojkd buy cheap gas again, and so would many citizens of Europe. They don't care.
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  211. ​ @malcaniscsm5184 try st petersburg.
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  212. ​ @gmw3083  I'll swap you mine for Canadian dollars. That can be easily arranged.
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  213. Food prices are closely connected.
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  214. Austria Hungary wasn't autocratic. Every man had one vote and they had full democratic freedoms after 1875, 43 years before this happened in the UK.
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  215. The Chinese look a bit mankier.
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  216. Nestle; I live there, everywhere. Swiss, what ekse can I say. Amoral nation.
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  217. How was stalin a legitimate ruler? The bolsheviks carried out a coup detat in 1917.
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  218. How to explain the gap in development. a problem for Russians who have been taught to believe they are exceptional. Hence all ghd conspiratorial thinking I guess.
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  219. You are not an expert engineer, charged with a huge infrastructural project.
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  220. True. A Russian said to me, that we had never invented anything useful. I ran off a few, like toilets, toothbrushes, electric kettles, railways, TV, phones, tanks, footballs, shut them up😂
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  221. Its hard to comprehend the sheer brutalisation of russian society.
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  222. His wheel-barrel couldn't carry any more.
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  223. And the lies were....??
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  224. You lost us when you voted for Krasnov and his muppets.
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  225. The complacency of our governments is off the scale. There are thousands of regular North korean troops fighting on European soil for a country which does regard itself as European. Logic dictates, that Europe has been invaded by external foes, and our leaders squabble about how far Ukraine can fire its missiles.
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  226. The divorce rate in Russia is 73%, it's 45% in my Godless UK.
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  227. ​ @dushas9871 ignorance is bliss, ukraine fought an independence war at least twice before, 1709 and 1919.
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  228. Affirming that old idea, that propaganda is there to help people to deceive themselves.
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  229. ​ @ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available Americans speak English. It's what happens when empires colonise territories under their control.
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  230. ​ @klaasvakie It's surface fleet is better than Purin's.
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  231. He has a very big wheelbarrow.
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  232. ​ @toby9999 The realists said Britain should make peace with Hitler, allowing Hitler free rein to murder every human his twisted ideology said did not have the right to life.
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  233. ​ @toby9999 appeasement was propogated by realists. Enough said.
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  234. A great power nationalist who wants to be remembered as a gatherer of lands, and has a need to humiliate and destroy the world around him.
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  235. But it buys them.​ @goenzoy712 
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  236. Except the UK would respect the result if a border poll is triggered, and the vote would be fair.
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  237. I'm sure it wouldn't happen in a normal country. They probably built it badly, so they could rebuild it again.
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  238. Biden and Scholz will soon be history. Every cloud has a silver lining.
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  239. Just east of mariupol would be good. Harder for Russia to supply forces there.
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  240. There are some brilliant Russian authors, but there is no humanist influence there at all. No empathy at all.
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  241. Russians don't want happy fruitful lives, they are quite happy intimidating and murdering people in the smaller neighbouring countries.
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  242. ​ @mirekslechta7161 The German government budget is 1.6 Tr. dollars, the Russian one is 0.55 Trillion. It is a question of priorities, not resources.
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  243. ​ @tk80mufa5  to engender a brittle feeling of superiority based on their actual feeling of inferiority.
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  244. He promised a deal. To get a deal he will have to give Putin everything he wants. He will do this to keep his "promise". It will lead to another war of aggression on Russia's part, perhaps against NATO itself.
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  245. The russian govt preaches that the west hates russia, and doesn't acknowledge thd importance of russias role in ww2. I doubt it cares what we really think.
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  246. ​ @SiliconCurtain thd western allies consumed 60% of Germany resources, the Soviets accounted for 70% of its manpower, but I don't ghink ghd russian govt actually cares what people in ghe west think, because most Russians will never interact with westerners.
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  247. Not the Russians, a very naughty mouse.
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  248. ​ @hmmm2564  except he isn't.
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  249. ​ @giselameunier4788 which is why when a meeting was organised to discuss russian entry to NATO, Putin did a no show. He was sooooo bothered that he didn't show up.
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  250. The cold war never ended in the minds of some rather influential Russians.
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  251. He speaks normally.
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  252. Shoigu will be tried for organizing a genocide by the military.
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  253. Schalke; not exactly the best sponsor for a football club whose traditional support included Polish migrant coalminers.
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  254. Russia doesnt keep to the agreements. 18,000 Ukranian troops died during the Minsk "ceasefire".
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  255. It's more comfortable to be the good guys, and very human to want to be part of the majority. The kremlin understands psychology.
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  256. I've always suspected, that there are commercial interests deeply embedded in some key western governments, whose preferred option is to return to the pre-war arrangements, and to be able to say, we tried, but, alas, it didn't work out.
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  257. Surely quantitive easing will just further fuel inflation. Their main problem is, that there is too much money in the economy due to the huge salaries soldiers are receiving.
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  258. Belgium has the same law. Its a great idea. Democracy is designed to suppress extremes.
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  259. Snyder explains ukranian attitude to freedom; they got the renaissance and the concept of rights which came with it, russia got 300 years of mongol rule.
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  260. Enjoy your winter. And we'll enjoy ours.
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  261. Go.
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  262. The Lusitania sinking did not move America to action. Why would they care about a children's hospital in Kyiv?
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  263. ​ @ragingmonk6080 shakespeare wrote in middle english. You are not.
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  264. He's a lawyer. He thinks in terms of mitigating risks. It doesn't work that well with dictators who are obsessed with ninth century history.
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  265. He would have feared the consequences of Nazi Germany collapsing, or the Soviet Union.
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  266. You can't. Russians who support the war need the Putin narrative to feel superior and/or the victim, mostly both simultaneously. We are dealing with a traumatised society. Consequently; any facts you present which don't fit the narrative, such as Bucha or Lend Lease, will be rejected.
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  267. ​ @paulmicks7097 you're very angry Paul, is everything alright there?
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  268. ​ @SiliconCurtain death has become a virtue in itself, all very fascistic.
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