Comments by "Sam Miller" (@sammiller6631) on "Russia vs The West (THE TRUTH)" video.

  1.  @justincaver324  Detroit was the biggest city bankruptcy in national history. Detroit was so bad that it was made the example in movies like RoboCop.
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  2.  @instinct922  Ukraine is the heartland of the ancient Kyivan Rus' state. Kyiv is older than Moscow, but when the Mongols invaded, Kyiv resisted and were decimated. The Moscovy chose to submit to the Mongols and got wealthy from being tax collectors for the Mongols. So they claimed the Kyivan Rus' name for themselves to claim some of the Kyivan Rus' status for themselves, like any other typical rural backwater social climber putting on a new facade.
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  3.  @xlukas93  California is a conservative state with more guns than any other state besides Texas. It's only the large cities like Los Angeles that give it a different reputation.
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  4.  @instinct922  The Cossack Hetmanate in the 17th century marked on maps as "Ukraine, land of the Cossacks", but was partitioned between Russia and Poland, and ultimately absorbed by the Russian Empire. Following the Russian Revolution in 1917, the Ukrainian People's Republic was formed. The Bolsheviks consolidated control over much of the former Russian empire and established the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union when it was formed in 1922. All of this happened before WW2. Are you intentionally not looking hard enough?
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  5.  @MyPrideFlag  On the Internet, statistics are almost always made up. Go push your biased narrative somewhere else.
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  6.  @angelikaskoroszyn8495  There are plenty of ways of escaping suburbia. Each younger generation doesn't own as many cars as the previous generation. The number of young people who don't bother getting driver licenses at all is rising too.
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  7.  @instinct922  The language spoken in Kyiv for a thousand years is not the same as that spoken in Moscow. This is not new.
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  8.  @JS-qk6th  I'm not doomed for asking a question. So can you please stop avoiding answering the question I asked you?
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  9.  @sigmaputin6888  No, it's because you've never been to London. Are you chronically online?
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  10.  @JS-qk6th  How do you fix the problem? Please give us specific details, not vague judgmental chatter.
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  11.  @jeanclaudejunior  Why is the Holodomor more important than the mass graves of Izium? In Sept 2022, governor of Kharkiv region said: "Among the bodies that were exhumed today, 99 per cent showed signs of violent death. There are several bodies with their hands tied behind their backs, and one person is buried with a rope around his neck. Obviously, these people were tortured and executed. There are also children among the buried."
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  12.  @Los21x  How do you know where I'm from? Are you an all-seeing god now? Living in philly won't get me drafted to fight in a "special military operation" outside the country, unlike Russia.
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  13.  @rtmclean484  Your understanding of history is also disturbed, racist and twisted. How did your understanding get so bad?
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  14.  @chanchorengo13  the rest of the world are more concerned about Russian interventions. NATO started to protect from Soviet incursion and interference.
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  15.  @nob2243  Not any political or social scientist. Some still don't think Poland is fully Western because of its deeply conservative roots.
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  16.  @belstar1128  Because januz korwin is a single politician and one politician does not define a democratic country.
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  17.  @jeanclaudejunior  Why not focus on the modern day war? If Ukraine loses, the amount of Ukrainians purged in Russian pogroms could exceed those who died in the Holodomor.
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  18.  b-sannos  The news will always be filled with uncommon bad events. If it were common, it wouldn't stand out as news.
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  19.  @instinct922  yes
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  20.  @JS-qk6th  How so?
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  21.  @instinct922  The Crimean Tatars are claiming such. Crimean Tatars constituted the majority of Crimea's population from the time of ethnogenesis until the mid-19th century, and the largest ethnic population until the end of the 19th century. The Crimean Khanate was a Crimean Tatar state existing from 1441 - 1783, the longest-lived of the Turkic khanates, it was regarded as the direct heir to the Golden Horde. GKO Order No. 5859ss ordered the deportation of all Crimean Tatars as collective punishment for the claimed collaboration of some Crimean Tatars with Nazi Germany, but the deportation was part of the Soviet plan to gain access to the Dardanelles and acquire territory in Turkey. On 18–20 May 1944, NKVD agents went house to house collecting Crimean Tatars at gunpoint and forcing them to enter sealed-off cattle trains that would transfer them almost 3,200 kilometers to remote locations in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. During this mass eviction, the Soviet authorities confiscated around 80,000 houses, 500,000 cattle, 360,000 acres of land, and 40,000 tons of agricultural provisions. Besides 191,000 deported Crimean Tatars, the Soviet authorities also evicted 9,620 Armenians, 12,420 Bulgarians, and 15,040 Greeks from the peninsula. In 1774, Imperial Russia signed the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca (which had guaranteed non-interference of both Russia and the Ottoman Empire in the affairs of the Crimean Khanate). In 1783, Empress Catherine II violated that peace treaty and invaded Crimea. In 1994, Russia signed the Budapest Memorandum (which guaranteed "Respect the signatory's independence and sovereignty in the existing borders") with Ukraine. In 2014, Russia yet again invaded Crimea. Why does Moscovy keep repeating this cycle of lawless aggression over centuries? They keep repeating the same reasons without any evidence.
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  22.  @Silver_Prussian  Was the Katyn massacre "made by the locals" too? No, Izium is the same brutality that Russians showed at Katyn. Russians are viciously violent to their own kind with the informally accepted practice of Dedovshchina in the military. Dedovshchina in the Russian military involves violent and sometimes deadly physical and psychological abuse by second year recruits towards new recruits, involving extremely vicious form of bullying or torture, including sexual torture and anal rape. In 2019, according to the Russian military prosecutor office the situation with dedovshchina is getting worse: 51,000 military code violations and 1,521 male-on-male sexual assault cases. In the same year, Ramil Shamsutdinov shot 10 of his colleagues at a Gorny military base, 8 of them fatally. In court, he alleged that he was subjected to beatings and threats of anal rape. Many young men are killed or commit suicide every year because of dedovshchina. The New York Times reported that in 2006 at least 292 Russian soldiers were killed by dedovshchina (although the Russian military only admits that 16 soldiers were directly murdered by acts of dedovshchina and claims that the rest committed suicide). The Times states: "On Aug. 4, it was announced by the chief military prosecutor that there had been 3,500 reports of abuse already this year (2006), compared with 2,798 in 2005"
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  23.  @anonymoususer8895  Canada is just North US, the 51st State.
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  24.  @instinct922  What makes a Ukrainian? Being recognized as a country by Russia and other countries when they signed the 1991 Belovezha Accords dissolving the Soviet Union. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan signed to the 1991 Alma-Ata Protocols, formally establishing the former Soviet republics as independant countries. How many more agreements do you need establishing territorial sovereignity? How about the 1975 Helsinki Accords?
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  25.  @Silver_Prussian  Each state in the US is legally its own sovereign state due to the 10th Amendment and the Erie Doctrine. The US Federal has no authority to interfere with things that stay inside State borders. So you have to compare state by state.
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  26.  @اسكندرفكار  what's a Gorgain dictator?
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  27.  @Los21x  north Philadelphia hasn't changed my mind
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  28.  @instinct922  The right for the state to exist is the reason for the war, not the ethnicity. We established that Russia recognized Ukraine as a state by signing various agreements. A state can have many ethnicities in it. Ethnicity is not necessary for the function of the state. Do you believe ethnic conflict is somehow different from any other kind of social conflict? Ukrainian can be as simple as "those who accept the social contract that the government offers" and it can be forged in battle by the struggle for independance, like the British Colonists did during the American Revolution. I can tell you who a Ukrainian is if you tell me who an American is. "50 million armed people identifying on all levels as placeholder." is treating them like NPCs. "on all levels" is an over-generalization. Are you uncomfortable with ambiguity? Is all this about a compulsion to put a complex world in neat little boxes?
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  29.  @instinct922  That's the name of the continent but WHO are the Americans? If you can't explain the American ethnicity then it's hypocritical to ask others to define Ukrainian ethnicity for you. Maybe all ethnic conflict arises from the vague nature of ethnicity? Is all ethnicity made up?
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  30.  @instinct922  If you want to spread the truth, you need to be able to communicate it clearly. Why is Ukrainian not an ethnicity but Russian is? If someone is caught up in it, why would you be unwilling to help them understand?
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  31.  @kubikrubik9877  The Slavs aren't a monolith. Those in Ladoga are not the same people as those in Kiev. Or as the historian, F. Donald Logan put it "in 839, the Rus were Swedes; in 1043 the Rus were Slavs." Novgorod was settled by Varangians, Norse Vikings engaging in trade, piracy, and mercenary service. With the general decline of the Viking Age, the influx of Scandinavians stopped and Varangians were gradually assimilated by East Slavs by the late 11th century. Kiev was long settled by the Eastern Polans before the Varangians arrived, thus proto-Ukrainians existed before. That's why Russian is based on Old Church Slavonic and Ukrainian has more influence from the tribes local to the Ukrainian area like the Eastern Polans. Your list only shows how many centuries the proto-Russians were imperialist expansionist aggressors thus a threat to their neighbors.
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  32.  @kankiaho5522  Maybe they should put steel bars on their higher floor windows to keep so many Russians from falling out windows?
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  33.  @MrStolboy  If you can't point out why it's "so wrong", then it's not wrong. You're just lazy.
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  34.  @Los21x  Have you ever been to Russia? The US allows conscientious objector status to avoid being mobilised. Russia does not.
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  35.  @Los21x  Russia is the largest country in the world. Philly does not have radioactive zones like Chelyabinsk-40 near Lake Karachay, the most polluted place on Earth. Do you think Kensington compares to the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation?
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  36.  @Los21x  No one is flying explosive drones over Philly. There's nothing unique about a country starting with a revolution. The problem of "doesn’t mean a political body will try to take away those rights" ignores that those political bodies are not a thing unto itself, they're just Americans fighting for their own rights as they see it, like the right to feel safe at school or work by not allowing guns there or the right to keep fetuses safe. To other Americans, you are the political body out to get them.
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  37.  @Los21x  the city centre of Philly is like the centre of Moscow. The ghettos around Moscow are as bad if not worse than those in Philly.
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  38.  @Los21x  Why are you comparing a Capital to a non-Capital? Philly isn't even a state capital. More money pours into any capital, which leads to better services. Stop comparing apples to oranges. For a proper comparison, you need both Moscow vs a foreign Capital like London or Paris and a non-Capital like Philly vs Chelyabinsk or somewhere in Siberia like Kyzyl. Many people in Kyzyl and other parts of Tyva fall into debt because of the region's poor infrastructure and social services. At least Philly has roads that aren't destroyed by frost cycles and dust storms. Philly has regular bus and rail service. Kyzyl resident Chechek Saryglar got on the indebtedness treadmill in 2008. She paid half of her 20,000 ruble ($270) monthly salary to the bank. When she got behind, debt collectors would call day and night saying "We know where you live. We know your family. Go and sell a kidney."
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  39.  @Darkest_matter  Beijing does NOT represent china. That's lazy oversimplification. Ürümqi is nothing like Beijing is but both are still China. Why does the CCP want to engage in genocide to turn Ürümqi into a carbon copy of Beijing?
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  40.  @maskajunior2257  Is it true that Russians are the most violent people in the world? Why is dedovshchina so prominent in the Russian military?
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  41.  @jackmakila3776  Nah, it's the opposite. Washington DC is its own pocket universe. America isn't even one country. Each state is legally its own sovereign country for anything that stays inside state borders. Due to the 10th Amendment, Federal has no authority until something crosses state lines. Many states have their own second defense force (unconnected to the national guard) which answers only to the governor, not the Pentagon.
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  42.  @Sunshine-un5ww  Philadelphia also has a police force that drops bombs on its residents, like the MOVE bombing in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood. The Philadelphia Fire Department allowed the resulting fire to burn out of control, destroying 61 neighboring homes over two city blocks and leaving 250 people homeless.
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  43.  @nukeputin420  to be honest, DC is nothing like other US cities. New Orleans is nothing like Boston. Houston is nothing like Cleveland.
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  44.  @diplodocus6969  London was the chicken coop of cities? Have you been to Tokyo or Mumbai?
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  45.  @briannelson3830  Which Berlin? East or West?
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  46.  @Pidalin  How does Prague compare with Bratislava? They were still one country a few decades ago.
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  47.  @sigmaputin6888  Or you're not looking hard enough anywhere in London.
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  48.  @jaytbo42  I find it pretty distasteful that you use 'ppl' 'rly' and other lazy spellings. If lazy spelling is modern London culture, then London is losing its relevance. There's also that Brexit blunder also, but lazy thinking like that follows from lazy habits like spelling.
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  49.  @justaguy9224  Washington DC is not wealthier or more international than New York City. Wall Street is not in DC. Nor is Hollywood.
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  50.  @catalinpetrescu8488  No, that's the Darien Gap right now.
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  51.  @Ukraineaissance2014  the underground is a bus journey on tracks
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  52.  @adelemarietta1711  It doesn't apply to most countries in the world. Not if you're paying close attention rather than squinting to make everything fit into a lump for ease of thinking.
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  53.  @Alex-cq1zr  UK's internal politics of "choose one of these two very distinct parties: far right or less extreme far right" is an effect of having rigid social stratification that stems from having an aristocracy and monarchy for so long.
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  54.  @Rapture-nv5vj  Why does Central and Eastern Europe have so few minorities? Overachievers when it comes to ethnic cleansing?
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  55. @lanne9938 Poland is very conservative which is why people think it's not Western. Lots of Poles who think like Viktor Orbán.
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  56.  @AS-010o0  What are you talking about? Learn to spell correctly. Lazy typing ("r u") is a sign of lazy thinking.
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  57.  @Infodumptruck  but you do have to worry about extremists in Congress trying to annex you.
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  58.  @belstar1128  there are plenty of polish guys not like him
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  59. @lanne9938 Hungary is part of the EU and NATO. So how do you explain voters electing Viktor Orbán?
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  60. @lanne9938 No, Sweden is conservative. Hungry is leaning anti-democratic on it's way to electoral authoritarianism.
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