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About Hildegard's sneezing theory: I've been modelling for artists for nearly 20 years, and can attest that when you're doing a long pose for a portrait class, and no matter how many short breaks you take you're always going back to that same seated position, you indeed start feeling like the blood in your vessels is not awake and lively, but rather just lies there as if asleep... to think of it, those interminable hours of prayers in cold, dusty rooms can't have been that different from a portrait pose.
And in those situations, a sneeze is a gift! I honestly feel refreshed and energised afterwards, it becomes easier to keep my eyes open, sometimes the vertebras in my neck spontaneously crack and my neck hurts less as a result... AND it doesn't count as an actual break 😂 She obviously noticed this positive effect of sneezing, and in absence of the knowledge she would have needed to fully understand why a sneeze happens, she decided it must be the body's way of getting a person out of that lethargic state.
Thank you for the great video, what a fascinating woman. I love that she effectively went on strike to get her way - her freedom, in fact. If I find dried violets I'll try making that wine, and the spice snaps too, they sound like nice autumn treats. Have fun in Vienna 🤗
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Your reports never fail to completely capture my attention, as few other things do (I wish I could concentrate this hard on Ukrainian grammar, I'd be a fluent speaker by now). But as I listen, watch, and understand things I'd never really understood before, the names of all these little places, the roads connecting one to the other, the different landscapes, all keep snagging at my heart. I grew up in small towns where you may travel to the next town or village because they have a shop you don't have nearby, or your relatives live there, or you get a seasonal job, I commuted to school on the slow bus that stops at every little place to pick everybody up, hiked to the top of one of those hills for a summer picnic with my cousins. Many of my relatives still live in areas so similar to the ones described in these reports. I'm sure this isn't the sort of comment expected under a video like this one, and I keep trying to push these thoughts to the back of my mind and concentrate on the frontline update, which is after all what I'm here for (because, as everybody keeps saying, it's THE BEST). But I've decided to keep both sides of it on my mind from now on. Not least because I also grew up with WW2 stories from my grandparents and aunts: all the places that were full of life when I was a kid (and mostly still are - there's been a few earthquakes since) were absolute hellholes in the early to mid 1940s, with battles, summary executions, torture, terror, and yes, shelling by liberating forces. The scars remained for a long time - turns out I commuted to school over unexploded British ordnance for two years - but the places, as well as the people, somehow recovered. As will these towns and villages, hills, fields and forests.
Sooooorry I went on so long...! Дякую за вашу працю, слава Україні 💙💛
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Thank you for this video, it's good to hear everyone's point of view but the people I'm most impressed by are the ones who differentiate between phases of the war. I too believe that active, large-scale hostilities could realistically be over by the end of this year - meaning that reconstruction could begin, and at least some displaced people could go back home. But this war has, in many forms, been going on for years / decades / centuries (one of many reasons why I get so angry at those people who make it all about NATO), and it will take a long time to resolve all that. Also, russia will not sort itself out overnight, if ever: the country's heading into various civil conflicts, and since it has nuclear weapons what happens there, like what happens in the US, is everybody's problem. The person whose answer struck me the most is the woman who says "When every Ukrainian wipes out the russian in him." Internalised oppression is truly the hardest thing to eradicate. ❤🖤
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Thank you for this video, it's important to have public conversations about difficult topics. I think a similar video shot in the UK some time before the legalisation of same-sex civil partnerships would have yielded a similar sample: younger people overall more positive than the middle-aged and older - with the odd surprise with an older person who gets it - women much less likely to feel threatened by it than men.
There's someone who worries the children will suffer while completely oblivious to the fact that many children of LGBT parents are othered by society, and that's what hurts them, and there are a few people who are grudgingly "OK" with it as long as "it's not in their faces" - I would have liked those people to be asked follow-up questions (I always wonder what people mean by that, and to have any open manifestation of a sexual orientation or gender identity differing from the norm labelled as "propaganda" makes me nervous) but overall I think the neutral interviewing style really worked. As usual in these interviews, no one seemed afraid to express their opinion.
It does upset me a bit that social acceptance has to be tied to the EU and "moving West" rather than simply progress, the recognition and acceptance of human rights for all. Italy, for example, is still a deeply homophobic country (as well as corrupt, but that's another story), as is Poland, where, incidentally, women of any sexual orientation still have fewer rights than other European women. But I've been watching relevant content dating back to several years before the Revolution of Dignity, and Ukraine is definitely moving on.
Права людина понад усе! 💙💛
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I posted this above for Max to try again (this was not a good recipe, and he used the wrong pan - he should have used a sheet pan). Also, there was a error in the translation: castagnaccio actually needs no raising agent, but the lady who published the recipe meant bakind powder, not yeast!
1. Eyeball the whole thing. 2. Don't use milk and definitely no eggs 😱 just water and olive oil - more oil than in this recipe, to a thick pouring consistency. 3. Pinch of salt. No sugar, you won't miss it. 4. Stir in pine nuts and either a handful of raisins or some finely chopped apple, to taste. 5. Pour into a generously oiled sheet pan (don't forget the corners, it will stick) and decorate the top with sprigs of fresh rosemary. 6. Bake until cracks appear on the surface. 7. Try to hold back until it's cool enough to handle! 8. Cut with scissors. A portable, comforting, energy-bar-type cake, crispy round the edges, that will make your whole house smell heavenly all day.
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What a great interview, I like this guy a lot 😊
I'm glad he talked about the issue of dubbing vs. subtitles, and showing films in the original language: I feel qualified to comment on this as I studied subtitles at postgraduate level, and I've lived in the UK most of my life (the UK is a subtitling country) but grew up in Italy, which is a dubbing country and very proud and defensive of its highly developed dubbing industry. What he was saying there could have easily applied to Italy, especially how some people are upset at the decision to switch from dubbing to subtitling.
I'm sure it will be a big change on the Ukrainian arts and culture scene, but it will ultimately be for the best. Ukraine's traditions of dubbing, voiceover and voice acting will not be lost: they will still be needed for animation and anything aimed at young children, as well as documentaries. And reading Ukrainian subtitles will actually strengthen people's familiarity with the language, as well as increasing engagement with the content and people's foreign language skills (and not only English). Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to more Ukrainian-language content becoming available in the UK, and as someone who's learning Ukrainian, I would be upset if that content was dubbed!
Huge gratitude and respect to the Ukrainian people. Apologies for writing in English, my Ukrainian is still basic and I don't trust online translators for complex text. Переможете💙💛
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The Ukrainian people have my deepest respect and gratitude for preserving their language under these horrendous conditions. I've been learning Ukrainian for over two years now and it's an immense pleasure and privilege.
There is so much content on Ukrainian YouTube, varied, important, enjoyable. I have literally started doing Pilates in Ukrainian, I follow cooking channels, a channel dedicated to the Great Meadow (flooded by the soviet union to make the Kakhovska reservoir, drained by putin's criminal armed forces last year, currently regrowing a forest and wildlife habitat that has surprised everyone), people who blog about history, language, cinema, culture as well as politics and war. Every time we watch their content (and if we can, make a donation), we are supporting the Ukrainian language and nation. 💙💛
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Let's get this straight: the collective west owes Ukraine, not the other way round. If they'd been taken seriously by our countries, the US, UK and Germany first and foremost, in 2014 or even last year (or, you know, ever) this war would not have started. And it is not "their war", but russia's genocidal war against Ukraine, which should be rightly paid for in large part with russian assets and hopefully will be. But anyone in the US or any other country currently contributing military aid to the Ukrainian war effort, who somehow thinks they're going to "own" Ukraine when this is over, should get that stupid, offensive idea out of their heads right now. Ukrainians are fighting the war our cowardly countries have been beefing up to fight for decades. Turns out we're only good at kicking ass when the other guy is a lot smaller than us.
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You may be interested in this well-informed comment I read under Madyar's original video:
You probably don't know that it was the New York Times that published in 1933 a series of articles that were paid for by Moscow, that there was no famine in Ukraine, and that all this was the invention of the ill-wishers of the USSR (by that time, millions of people had already died of starvation!). During all this time, this newspaper has never apologized for its deliberate lies to the Ukrainian people/Ukrainian state. The newspaper's editors don't care how many Ukrainians the Russians kill, the main thing is that Moscow pays money for the "right" articles.
I asked the person whether there is or ever has been a campaign to get the paper to formally acknowledge this and apologise to the Ukrainian people (they haven't replied yet). I sincerely hope that US supporters of Ukraine will complain to the NYT about the latest article, and when they do, it would be good if they also referenced their 1933 pieces about the Holodomor... I don't believe that shaming this publication will improve it, but if it stops them from publishing similar disgusting and damaging things in future, it will be something. And if they have to publicly row back on their latest statements about Ukraine, so much the better.
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I agree with you. I've just come back from a massive pro-Palestine demo in London, which I attended with a Ukraine badge very visible on my bag. But I fully understand that Ukraine can't afford to speak up against Israel, what with so many all over the world still waiting for the slightest sign that could be interpreted as antisemitism, as well as russia's undeniable collusion with Hamas.
I'm just going to keep walking around London with both badges on me, and if that leads to difficult conversations, so be it. So far, I haven't heard a single Ukrainian voice calling for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and even in their extremely difficult circumstances, many Ukrainians appreciate the complexity of this situation. While it's understandable that in the days immediately following the attacks, Ukrainians would have empathised with Israelis, as news of the genocide keep coming back from Gaza I think that may be changing.
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@Memovox You disgust me.
Ukraine gave up its nuclear deterrent on the promise it would be protected by western countries in case its borders were threatened, but when that happened, in 2014, Western countries carried on empowering a genocidal psychopath by doing business with him. Even since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Zelensky's had to go on a charm offensive for every little bit of what his army needs to fight the war our countries have been beefing up for decades for. Meanwhile, some of us are sitting back and commenting on how slowly the counteroffensive is going, like we're bored or something.
Ukraine is fighting on behalf of all us, WE OWE THEM. Besides, they've always acknowledged the help they get from other countries - if they hadn't kept asking they wouldn't have even got what they got, while if they'd had it all last year, this war would be over by now. Wallace was way out of line with what he said at the summit, I'm glad he's on the way out but it won't happen soon enough. Слава Україні 💙💛
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@nebitno6955 Fair point - putin's trolls bring this up a lot but you don't seem to be a troll, I don't think you're using this argument to undermine support for Ukraine. Hence the tone and content of my reply.
When NATO attacks other countries it is not automatically alright, many of us who support Ukraine are not unquestioning fans of NATO and did lose A LOT of sleep over the bombing of Afghanistan and Iraq (I lost my voice too, on a number of occasions, yelling at demonstrations, not that it did much good). Nor do we support the policy of our countries (I'm not American myself) in relation to the occupation of Palestine, for example.
It's not about some people's lives mattering more than others. It's about "never again" (though to me that feels more like "NOT AGAIN...!" these days). The global support for Ukraine is objectively greater than for some of the other countries you mentioned but not because our media is "telling us to support Ukraine": there is simply more information out there, and Ukrainians, who have been living with an incubated version of this horror for years now, have had the time and means to develop their information front in a way that perhaps other countries had not.
Besides, this situation is much more straightforward than some of the others you mentioned: the Ukrainian government is aligned with the vast majority of the people it governs and is not a dictatorship, they have been invaded by a colonial power that refuses to recognise their independence and sovereignty, and this war is an undeniable attempt at genocide - unlike the NATO campaigns against Afhanistan and Iraq, shameful and horrifying as they were. So it's easier for people to be sure who to support even if they're on the outside and not very familiar with the cultures and history in question.
When I watch russian prisoner interviews on Lviv.Media and hear one of those guys say "This 'brotherly war' must be stopped" it makes me so angry... and not only because it's a way of treating Ukrainians as if they were basically russians: all wars are brotherly wars, we all suffer and bleed and grieve the same. That's also how I feel when I hear russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine described by western media as an "illegal war": a phrase I refuse to repeat, as I believe it is only used to protect the imaginary moral high ground over the wars in the Middle East.
Millions if not billions of people support Ukraine, there are bound to be very different viewpoints (some people on YT have passionately objected when I've made similar points in other comments). But I know I'm far from the only person who thinks and feels this way. Happy to continue the conversation if done respectfully.
Glory to Ukraine, death to all dictators! 🖤❤
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@nebitno6955 Thank you for a thoughtful reply, rare in these threads 🙂 I could tell from your original post you've had some really bad experiences, I am sorry about that. I disagree with a lot of what you wrote but that's OK, there are many different viewpoints on this situation.
I make a conscious effort to see this war from a Ukrainian viewpoint, and that shows me countries (and entities like NATO and the EU) that have a bunch of different reasons for wanting to oppose russia, as well as the means to do it. And russia is trying to obliterate Ukraine as a nation, they have tried before, they have made it really clear, there is no question about it. So Ukraine is naturally trying to activate as much motivation as possible from all the countries and entities that make up what we have taken to calling 'the West'. It's self-preservation.
Also, please look up the definition of genocide... russia is doing all those things in Ukraine right now, intentionally, deliberately. We all need to stop being coy about it. putin wants as few Ukrainians as possible on that territory, he wants the language, the culture, the nation gone. Some people have trouble seeing this - some people I know personally, even, mostly from the old protest movements - and I think it's because it interferes with the proxy war narrative they are committed to.
If this were primarily a proxy war, for all the reasons you describe, it would have started back in 2014 - the conditions were perfect for it then. But no, all these governments carried on doing business with putin, our politicians were seduced by the obscene wealth and power of these disgusting guys, and it was so much easier to decide that Ukrainians must brought it upon themselves or whatever.
I hope that most if not all of Ukraine's war debt will be repaid by russia, or what's left of it by the end of the war (I don't have an opinion on whether the rf should break up or not, but putin is doing a really good job of destroying his country). I really dislike to see western companies big and small salivate at the prospect of lucrative contracts - I got into a big YT comments fight about it only yesterday - but at least this time it's not their own governments reducing the country to rubble in the first place so they can make money rebuilding, as happened with the wars in the Middle East 😡
One more thing before I go: I really don't think Zelensky is a warmonger. I don't worship him at all - I try not to worship anyone and certainly not politicians - but he is the elected leader of a country under attack, and he is literally 'sticking to his guns' and doing everything he can to make sure that Ukraine gets out of this situation in one piece with a lasting prospect of peace, freedom and independence. Ukraine literally cannot lose this war: it can either win, or stop existing.
Take care mate, I wish you the best ☺
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@max_out_your_cc There's still a lot of affection and loyalty for Zaluzhnyy in Ukraine, and understandably so, but It's mostly a matter of branding for RfU, I think - his face became the "face of the channel" early on, just like the narrator's voice is the "voice of the channel", so that when RfU expanded to a whole team, they switched to an AI narrator set to his voice (which is why, sadly, the pronunciation of place names and other Ukrainian words became inconstistent earlier this year).
I too think you're trolling, btw, but when trolls give me the chance to make a point that needs making, I reply to them.
Україна назавжди💙💛
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I'm really glad to see that work is being done now to restore adequate water supply to those areas, which are suffering - at least in large part - because of the destruction of the dam last year. This is not just because I obviously want people to have access to the water they need as soon as possible, but also because this work being done now means that the baby forest growing once again in the Dnipro flood plain - the Great Meadow - will, hopefully, be preserved after occupying forces are kicked out of Ukrainian territory once and for all.
Anyone who hasn't looked into this yet, please do... though I don't know how much has been written about it in English, I've been following Ukrainian sources on this. Actually if the media of any country has been reporting on this, I would love to know. The unexpected regeneration of the Great Meadow, cradle of Cossack culture, flooded decades ago by the soviet union and emptied out again by an unthinkably stupid and brutal act by the latest incarnation of russian imperialism, is the living embodiment of post-traumatic growth.
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@istvanglock7445 It is whataboutism, I hear it a lot, and it's not about learning the history of slavery, it's about learning history. Children growing up in the US need to be thoroughly educated about the origin of their country, the enslavement of Africans forcibly transported across the ocean for that very purpose, and the racial superiority theories specially constructed to justify this practice, which sadly have a lot of traction to this day. Obfuscating the foundations of today's racial inequality makes it much harder to dismantle it. It is crucial for all US children to know that the descendants of the survivors are still in large part disadvantaged and discriminated against, and often actively victimised, as a direct consequence of these events and the beliefs which originated from them. "Naah-na-na-na-naah, look at the Ottomans"really, really won't do.
By all means do teach US children about slavery in other parts of the world at other times in history. Just remember to point out that this was not about "whites also getting enslaved" but about the Transatlantic slave trade being one of few, if not the only, to see people of one race enslaved by people of another, who came up with a whole theory of racial superiority to justify profiting from such an abhorrent practice. It was also one of the most recent and egregious occurrences in modern history, though I think Brazil ended slavery a decade or two after the US, and IS famously enslaved Yazidis as part of their genocidal campaign against them.
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Max!! This was an emotional one for me... partly because you made me think a lot about my grandmothers - who were both young mums in central Italy at the time you're describing, working round the clock and dodging the nazis while trying to keep their kids and antifascist husbands alive ❤ - but also because, having family in Tuscany, I grew up eating castagnaccio. I can assure you that it's lovely*: I don't think this was a good recipe (though it was, I agree, exquisitely written) but you did make it in the wrong pan... it needs a sheet pan, it's supposed to be a flat cake, like an unleavened focaccia. The yeast really confused me: I have *never in all my years heard of such a thing, and my grandmother learned to make this from her mother who learned it from her mother etc etc. I doubt you'll find it for sale in Italy at this time of year - it's a pretty seasonal thing - but I hope you'll make it again and let us know what you think! This is what you need to do:
1. Eyeball the whole thing. 2. Don't use milk and definitely no eggs 😱 just water and olive oil - more oil than in this recipe, to a thick pouring consistency. 3. Pinch of salt. No sugar, you won't miss it. 4. Stir in pine nuts and either a handful of raisins or some finely chopped apple, to taste. 5. Pour into a generously oiled sheet pan (don't forget the corners, it will stick) and decorate the top with sprigs of fresh rosemary. 6. Bake until cracks appear on the surface. 7. Try to hold back until it's cool enough to handle! 8. Cut with scissors. A portable, comforting, energy-bar-type cake, crispy round the edges, that will make your whole house smell heavenly all day.
Just like the lady who wrote the recipe, I have found some chestnut flour in the cupboard and I shall be making this soon! It doesn't keep forever though, it will go rancid if too old, so even if you fall in love with it as an ingredient, don't stockpile.
By the way, here's a little tip from my grandmother (1911 - 2008): when she was little, children whose families were too poor to regularly buy or make sweet treats would pack a copper thimble full of chestnut flour, and set it in the embers until it was toasted and crunchy. I've never tried that, but if you have access to a wood burner or fireplace you could ☺ Thanks again for the beautiful episode, have a great trip!
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Strangely for me, it's the opposite... but I'm probably an outlier, in that I didn't have a smartphone until late last year and I'm not on social media. I used to log into my laptop to make sure I didn't miss a work email - I'm a precarious worker and rely partly on last-minute work - then I'd get sucked into the news, then youtube, etc etc. Before I knew it I'd been sitting there for hours. But I don't like smartphones very much, I literally don't like holding mine in my hands and watching stuff on it, so I will quickly check email and news, send a couple of replies if I need to, then get up and do an exercise snack. I'm making it sound really good, it's not always this easy and throughout my life I've had huge problems getting out of bed (and also going to bed: I've recently accepted that I too have ADHD, and I don't find transitions easy): but it's definitely better now than it was pre-smartphone. The main reason I got one is that I wanted to wake up with Ukrainian radio, since I'm learning the language. So the first conscious thing I do every morning is try to make out as many words as possible, sometimes I'll even look up a few words before going into my emails. Maybe that's what your psychiatrist means by "healthy dopamine"? Thanks for sharing your experience, you made me think about mine 🤗
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@malaficus Yeah, we noticed. Except that russians are human too - if we keep calling them 'orcs', something I do myself sometimes, it's easy to forget that - and for the vast majority of them, motivation is zero. Even the ones who don't care about killing, don't want to die before their time. So this ever-replenishing killing machine that you're describing isn't working all that well. As for China, the possibility of them starting a war by invading Taiwan is real but has been made much less likely by Ukraine's fierce resistance to the russian invasion - while if Ukraine had caved in, that would have come in a matter of a few years.
But the bit of that comment that is most definitely pro-putin propaganda isn't about this, it's "which is why they are desperate for foreign intervention and escalation". It's straight out of the rashist playbook, when nobody buys the "evil Ukrainian nazi" stereotype just recast them as pathetic and useless and not worth investing in. Ukraine is fighting the war that NATO has been bulking up to fight for decades, with a tiny fraction of the resources: there is strength is knowing what you need and asking for it in no uncertain terms. Not to mention making do with what you get even though it's decisively less than what you need.
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Thank you, that's what I've been saying for... 4 years, I think, whenever this topic comes up. I love the fact that a mixed-race person (I'm in the UK, that's what we say) in a mixed-race marriage is running for the highest office in, let's face it, the most powerful country in the world. Obviously her policies, qualifications, experience and skills are what matters here, but I think her personal background gives her the chance to connect with so many people, see things from multiple points of view, and that is invaluable.
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@nickfielding5685 Crimea and the Donbas were occupied by proxy russian forces in 2014, as russians themselves have freely admitted since. I don't know how Zelensky would have broken the Budapest memorandum by recognising Kosovo, that literally makes no sense. Scotland is a nation in the UK that does have a strong independence movement, and I'm sure that once it does manage to achieve and declare independence, it will be recognised. Same with Wales.
The problem with Catalonia is that they declared independence after holding a referendum without the permission of the Spanish government, and sadly with the way things work in the world at present, that's not a good idea. Kindly tell us what the russian federation would do to any of its regions that decided to declare independence, for example Tatarstan or Ichkeria... oh, wait. Yeah.
*Palestine*, which very much exists, other commenter in this thread who I otherwise would have agreed with, is a nation that's been occupied by a terrorist fascist state for decades, with the full co-operation of a number of supposedly civilized countries including the US and the UK. In my unwavering support of Palestine I never for a single minute forget that the obliteration of Ukraine at the hands of russia would not help Palestinians one jot.
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@jgreen2015 Actually the Italian language has three single words for different shades of blue: 'blu' is a catch-all for a darker blue, 'azzurro' as you have described (a word much more commonly used than 'azure' in English), and 'celeste' for a paler shade, 'baby-blue' I suppose, also works when the sky is not so bright but still clear. My English is more fluent than my Italian and is definitely my dominant language, but whenever I hear people say 'sky-blue' part of my brain is always confused about which 'blue' they mean: azzurro? Celeste? Speaking of which, like everyone else I've seen lots of Ukraine flags over the past year, some new, some old and weathered, on my screen, irl... and the shade of blue seems to vary. Sometimes 'blu', other times 'azzurro' or even 'celeste': I haven't come across this variation with other national flags, I'm intrigued.
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@jgreen2015 Yes, I would say 'celeste' has a pastel quality, like one of those baby blankets 'for boys', or a clear sky at the end of the day, when it's still light but the brightness of the 'azzurro' has faded. I translate Italian into English, and translating colour can be tricky, so one thing I tend to do when not sure how to render something like this is an internet search of the word: if you want to see the difference between the hues defined by those three Italian words, just type them into a search engine, one at a time, and compare what comes up (I've just done that, adding the word 'colore' to narrow it down to colour-related results) ☺
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@gregtriplex5878 The mental gymnastics involved in writing this convoluted, ridiculous comment is the only impressive thing about it. Other than that, it's absolute drivel from start to finish.
Ukraine was colonised by the soviet union, just as it (and many other territories) had been colonised by the muscovite empire before it. Ukraine has always had its own distinct culture, history and LANGUAGE, that the muscovites in their various incarnations have tried again and again to suppress. These are basic historical facts.
"Divide and rule" is indeed a powerful weapon that's been employed by empires throughout history, all over the world, and it's exactly what putin has been trying to do to Ukraine since 2014. And considering how good he and his gang are at psyops, it is testament to the underlying strength of Ukrainian identity that they have not yet succeeded.
Finally, if the russian federation is, as you say, not "sovyet", why did it automatically inherit the soviet union's seat in the UN Security Council? putin himself has said repeatedly that he sees the end of the soviet union as the greatest tragedy of the 20th century, and is undeniably trying to bring back some sort of monstrous hybrid of the soviet union and muscovite empire. One of the ways he has got to this point has been to reinvent history to suit his rhetoric, and in that, he's been getting help from people like yourself.
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@guylabesseuille2716 Well it seems I have to explain a couple of things to you. When you post on a comment section, you are essentially addressing anyone who reads your comment. It is absolutely your right to give your opinion to the author of the videos, but if you are, as you seem to be, too fragile to handle how other people may perceive your opinion and/or the way you expressed it, try emailing the channel instead. Or your feedback will simply not be private.
Also, no one needs to your permission to say what they think about anything, including you and your feedback to a YT channel. Not to mention the fact that what you wrote touches, in the most pedestrian, uninformed way, on the issue of Ukrainian military losses, a figure the government has decided to keep secret until the cessation of hostilities, because doing so gives them an advantage in the deeply asymmetric conflict started by the russian federation. Obviously all reputable sources of information, like this channel, will follow suit.
Your initial comment was profoundly ignorant. Your response is just ridiculous.
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@devansa125 The funny thing is that nobody needs you to tell them that some Ukrainian soldiers often communicate in russian - we know . I've seen some battlefields videos, and also follow a number a number of military bloggers who do sometimes talk about language - some have Ukrainian as a first language, some russian, some habitually speak surzhyk, and switch from one to the other as the situation requires. In a crisis it makes sense to use one's easiest language, and which language that is depends on the person at that particular moment (for me, for example, my easiest language is my second, not my first).
You don't actually deserve this much typing - I'm writing this for anyone else who may come across this thread at some point. And in that spirit, I'll mention a language-related fact that happened in Ukraine a month or so ago: a well-know university lecturer, blogger and TV personality (Iryna Farion) lost her job after stating in an interview that any Ukrainian who still speaks russian, she does not consider to be Ukrainian; she singled out russian speakers in the armed forces. And while she did get some public support, overall Ukrainians didn't like that at all, and nor did the authorities and her employer. So much for the persecution of russian speakers in Ukraine.
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@devansa125 What rubbish. It is obvious to anyone paying even passing attention that there is no civil war in Ukraine, not even the one that putin & co have been trying to fuel for years. And no russian-speaking person is or ever will be a second class citizen of Ukraine, as long as they follow the law and use Ukrainian when required, i.e. when providing a service to others. Which they will be able to do, because most Ukrainians are bilingual. I myself have a russophone Ukrainian relative, who is really happy to see Ukrainian gaining more and more traction in the country.
The current aversion to the russian language in the wider population is completely understandable, considering it's the language of the attempted genocide. Reintegration of the occupied territories will be a challenge, but there are already people working on how to do this in whatever way is best for the country and the population.
No one - NO ONE - will miss the occupiers once they're gone. The collaborators will just follow them when they go, unless SBU gets to them first. It will take a while, but Ukraine will emerge from this latest attempt to destroy it, and transition into the bright future it is now fighting so hard for.
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I see your point, but my guess is that "settlement" is actually a good catch-all translation for the Ukrainian administrative term населений пункт, which translates literally as "inhabited point" and means "community of any size, in which people live". I translate from Italian, which has a similar term (centro abitato) and uses it a lot, with none of the implications you mention.
We speakers of regional varieties of English need to get used to their native language being used by many as a lingua franca, which entails using some words in a slightly different way or without some of the connotations that are instinctive to us. I agree that it takes some effort to do that, but it's good for our brains, as well for relations with people from other parts of the world... and after all, we have the immense privilege of being fluent in the dominant language of the world, if anyone's going to make an effort it should be us.
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@weedwacker1716 This is the best kind of reply one can ever expect on YouTube! Thanks ☺ I kept thinking about it after posting (we translators are hopeless language nerds), and the thing is, we often say "built-up area" at least in British English (not sure that's as common a term in the US), but that would definitely give listeners the wrong impression about what some Ukrainian settlements are actually like: many of the homes will be smallholdings, meaning that most of the buildings are not close together, or if they are, they'll have a shared yard that will actually be quite large and include vegetable plots, maybe a shared wood-fired oven. Some of the houses may be quite far from the others, but from an administrative point of view they'll belong to the same unit, which could not be described as "built up". I really understand why this guy and other Ukrainians reporting choose the word "settlement" as a relatively neutral term, and I think it's down to us to divest the word of the associations you rightly mentioned in your first comment - and also to keep informing ourselves and others so that our comprehension of Ukrainian realities keeps growing.
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@derinden15 If you support russia you are against Ukraine, you hypocrite - and don't think for a second anyone's buying your bs. russia is not at war with "the West", whatever that means - though some russians seem to be, in their heads.
As for NATO, which may be what you're actually talking about, russia isn't at war with them either: when a country's at war with NATO its cities get bombed to rubble before any of their boots hit the ground, I don't know if you were paying attention at the beginning of this century.
For all the good reasons much of the world has for hating "the West", russia is trumping them all - even in countries whose governments are currently giving russia the benefit of the doubt, many people are very clear who's doing what in this situation, and they don't like it. With the track record of countries like the US and the UK, it should have been so easy for russia to gain and keep the moral high ground... and they have failed at that immensely easy task. Spectacularly.
In short: committing genocide in one country to settle a more or less imaginary score with another part of the world is an indefensible strategy.
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@rgbforever4561 Again: I brought up 1420 because of the initial statement I was replying to, which was "If democracy was only 50/50 you would not have the courage to conduct these interviews" (it is at the top of the thread, but at this point I despair of people's ability to scroll up and down and read through comments before replying).
I used 1420 to show that some people do have the courage to conduct street interviews in a place like russia, where the balance of democracy - to borrow the language of many of these Ukrainian interviewees and picked up by the original commenter - must be hovering close to 0%. Basically, whether street interviews are conducted in any one country shouldn't be used as a measure of how democratic that country is. How people respond may be a more reliable indicator, but still anectodal.
I love 1420, as I do this channel, and I do draw inferences from these interviews, but I try to keep in mind that I can only trust those inferences to a point. When 1420 interviewed people in the streets of Minsk, the tone and content of many of those interviews was strikingly different, but still ... Belarus...
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@s0ycapitan Ukraine would be holding elections with millions of its adult citizens displaced, deported, captive, or stuck in the occupied territories, not to mention those fighting at the front. They would have to choose between running a huge number of polling stations in a large number of foreign countries, and holding their first-ever online elections while under constant attack from a genocidal mafia syndicate of massive proportions that happens to excel at cybercrime.
There is simply no way for Ukraine to hold a safe and fair election at this time, quite apart from the fact that their constitution prevents the dissolution of parliament while under martial law. If you so badly want this election to go ahead, go tell putin to immediately cease hostilities, withdraw his troops back to 1991 borders and return all captives, military and civilian, adults and children. I'm sure Ukraine could hold an election while negotiating reparations and the transfer of all war criminals to The Hague.
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@sigmaputin6888 Every time a pro-russian troll comes up with that line I want to ask - what would the rf do if some of the regions bordering Kazakhstan, say, suddenly filled with "little green men", armed to the teeth, declaring independence with a phoney referendum, killing every local person who disagrees with them and the armed forces and volunteers from other parts of the country who were trying to restore order? Would they say, "Oh, OK, keep it I suppose, let's still be friends...?"
Today I had the time to type that out.
By they way, anyone who hasn't watched it yet, Operator Starsky made a good video about this troll line last year, all fact-checked, it's on his channel have a look.
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Thank you Rachel. I watched the other video with you talking about this a few days ago, and I was even more terrified than any right-thinking US citizen could be, because I have no power to do anything about it (I'm a European migrant in the UK). I almost didn't click today, just to spare myself more pointless anxiety, but I'm glad I did, because I can see that you're going to keep shouting about this awful situation, empowering Americans to do something about it.
I know this is needs to be dealt with at a local level, but I really hope that a nationwide network of activists will soon emerge, to coordinate actions taken and inform one another, and the nation (and the world!) about outcomes and ongoing difficulties. And name and shame these people, who, if I got this right, are sworn officials so they must be openly violating their oaths! If there's no penalty for that, what's the point in making them??
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@instantparty8856 Since you clearly don't realise the difference, an internet search does not mean "research via social media", though certainly someone on social may link you to a source that you could then decide to investigate directly, if you wish to exercise your critical thinking capabilities. As for the subject at hand, the 2014-2022 phase of russia's war against Ukraine:
In the 33rd report of UN OHCHR From 1 August 2021 to 31 January 2022: since 2014 the conflict in Eastern Ukraine incurred deaths over 14,000 as reported by UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR. That is on both sides. Most killed were Ukrainian whether in Ukrainian government controlled or russian occupied areas.
UN list 14 April 2014 -- Jan 31 2022 Taking into account the 298 people on board Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 which was downed on 17 July 2014, the total civilian death toll of the conflict has reached at least 3,405. The rest were military combatants. A remarkably low civilian death ratio compared to many modern conflicts.
For the years 2014 to Jan 2022 Civilian deaths attributed to the conflict in each year were 2,084 , 854 ,112 ,117 ,55 ,27 ,26 ,27. From 1 August 2021 to 31 January 2022: "Thirty-two civilian casualties resulted from armed engagements. 3 killed (2 men and 1 woman) and 29 injured" 3 civilians killed resulted from armed engagements, 2 killed in territory controlled by self-proclaimed ‘republics’, and 1 in Government-controlled territory. 3 civilians died in mine or unexploded munitions incidents, 1 in territory controlled by self-proclaimed ‘republics’, 2 in Government controlled territory.
Other civilian casualties recorded during the reporting period resulted from the presence on a daily basis of armed actors among the civilian population(escalations of force incidents, road incidents with military, and killings of civilians by military outside of hostilities). 12 August 2021, three civilians were shot dead by an intoxicated member of armed groups near armed group-controlled Sakhanka and Uzhivka (Donetsk region). 9 December 2021, a woman was killed and two men injured when one of the men detonated a hand grenade during a domestic dispute in Government-controlled Zvirove (Donetsk region).
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Thank you! I was sure you had something like this in the works... and it was even better than what I was expecting 😊
I've been watching Ukrainian food videos for a while now, it's a great way to learn the language and find out more about the culture. Here are two of my favourite Ukrainian food channels, which I think both Max and his viewers would appreciate:
Authentic Food Around (mostly silent, traditional cooking in a farmhouse, very beautiful as well as informative videos), and its sister channel НАШІ БЕСАГИ (pronounced 'nashi besaky', which means 'our...saddlebag'...? - the bags they both carry over their shoulder in the picture, it makes sense when you see that. And if there's a word for it other than 'saddlebag' please let me know!).
НАШІ БЕСАГИ shows food preparation from all over the country (including the amazing volunteers making dried insta meals for the army) - there are interviews and a Ukrainian voiceover that you can normally set the subtitles for, though even without subs it's worth watching.
Finally, here's the lovely and very chatty Ukrainian TV chef Yevhen Klopotenko, making a traditional Christmas bread a few months ago (again, just set the subtitles - full recipe in English in the description box): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bKcYJPKe9c
Enjoy! Thanks again for the video, Max 💙💛
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@Inf1niteDreams No, it does not.
And tbh I'm fascinated not so much by the amoung of kremlin trolling under this video, but by the style of trolling: most comments here, like the one I'm replying to, are pushing the "nihilistic" strand of kremlin propaganda - "Nothing matters, there's no such thing as truth, no such thing as hope, you can't believe anyone anyway, you may as well let putin destroy Ukraine and the world...blah blah blah". "Competitive hopelessness", Timothy Snyder calls it, and he's so right.
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@KevinKenna-wv6qx Well, if Biden really was incapable of running for the most important job in the world, and incapable of seeing that, the people who, in your words, "forced him out" should be commended as patriots who did the best thing for the country.
If, as seems to be the case, he made his own decision about it - with some encouragement from a number of donors and democratic figures - and his team gave him the chance to do that and then supported him, they should be commended for being loyal to their president as well as committed to the country.
The thing I find really funny about maga trolls at the moment, is that whatever way you try to make Harris look bad, you're always paying her a compliment 😂
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@nickfielding5685 Ah well, if you're going to spam the whole comment section with this ridiculous comment, I'm going to spam your inbox with my reply... at least my spelling is better than yours:
@nickfielding5685 Crimea and the Donbas were occupied by proxy russian forces in 2014, as russians themselves have freely admitted since. I don't know how Zelensky would have broken the Budapest memorandum by recognising Kosovo, that literally makes no sense. Scotland is a nation in the UK that does have a strong independence movement, and I'm sure that once it does manage to achieve and declare independence, it will be recognised. Same with Wales.
The problem with Catalonia is that they declared independence after holding a referendum without the permission of the Spanish government, and sadly with the way things work in the world at present, that's not a good idea. Kindly tell us what the russian federation would do to any of its regions that decided to declare independence, for example Tatarstan or Ichkeria... oh, wait. Yeah.
Palestine is a nation that's been occupied by a terrorist fascist state for decades, aided and abetted by a number of supposedly civilized countries including the US and the UK. In my unwavering support of Palestine I never for a single minute forget that the obliteration of Ukraine at the hands of russia would not help Palestinians one jot.
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@nickfielding5685 Ah well, if you're going to spam the whole comment section with this ridiculous comment, I'm going to spam your inbox with my reply... at least my spelling is better than yours:
@nickfielding5685 Crimea and the Donbas were occupied by proxy russian forces in 2014, as russians themselves have freely admitted since. I don't know how Zelensky would have broken the Budapest memorandum by recognising Kosovo, that literally makes no sense. Scotland is a nation in the UK that does have a strong independence movement, and I'm sure that once it does manage to achieve and declare independence, it will be recognised. Same with Wales.
The problem with Catalonia is that they declared independence after holding a referendum without the permission of the Spanish government, and sadly with the way things work in the world at present, that's not a good idea. Kindly tell us what the russian federation would do to any of its regions that decided to declare independence, for example Tatarstan or Ichkeria... oh, wait. Yeah.
Palestine is a nation that's been occupied by a terrorist fascist state for decades, aided and abetted by a number of supposedly civilized countries including the US and the UK. In my unwavering support of Palestine I never for a single minute forget that the obliteration of Ukraine at the hands of russia would not help Palestinians one jot.
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@kempa0708 Thank you, I'm so sick of this lazy trolling narrative that Zelensky is warmonger when I know that he was the peaceful candidate in 2019... I also know for a fact that, as you say, no Western leader wanted this war. If anything, they contributed to it by not being tougher on putin and his people before last year.
Speaking for the UK, where I live, our vile politicians were completely seduced by the oligarchs' money (parked in London in vast quantities, in the form of luxury properties, for example) and by their own warped sense of being able to 'handle' these people. Watching this video, as well daily updates from the front and a number of Ukrainian bloggers, I'm also sick of our leaders who pat themselves and each other on the back for "helping" Ukraine, even though they sat on the material resources to end the invasion much sooner, saving lives and avoiding so much of the devastation that has taken place. Слава героям🖤❤
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@nickfielding5685 Ah well, if you're going to spam the whole comment section with this ridiculous comment, I'm going to spam your inbox with my reply... at least my spelling is better than yours:
@nickfielding5685 Crimea and the Donbas were occupied by proxy russian forces in 2014, as russians themselves have freely admitted since. I don't know how Zelensky would have broken the Budapest memorandum by recognising Kosovo, that literally makes no sense. Scotland is a nation in the UK that does have a strong independence movement, and I'm sure that once it does manage to achieve and declare independence, it will be recognised. Same with Wales.
The problem with Catalonia is that they declared independence after holding a referendum without the permission of the Spanish government, and sadly with the way things work in the world at present, that's not a good idea. Kindly tell us what the russian federation would do to any of its regions that decided to declare independence, for example Tatarstan or Ichkeria... oh, wait. Yeah.
Palestine is a nation that's been occupied by a terrorist fascist state for decades, aided and abetted by a number of supposedly civilized countries including the US and the UK. In my unwavering support of Palestine I never for a single minute forget that the obliteration of Ukraine at the hands of russia would not help Palestinians one jot.
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@Tim.Weaver I've been listening (from the UK) to Rachel Maddow talking about this... I think she'll keep raising it, interviewing different people and encouraging Americans to take and demand meaningful action to contain this threat in the run up to the election.
I do realise that this must be done at local level, because the problem is occurring at that level, but I really hope that in the coming weeks we'll see a nationwide netowork of activists in all the affected counties, communicating about how local issues are being dealt with.
Please Americans, don't take your foot off the pedal... You know all those movies and comics where Americans get to save the world? This is it, in real life, this is what you get to do this year (and beyond). Just don't forget that the threat is home-grown, rather than alien - and that's good in a way, because after you successfully contain it, you'll be able look at how it was created, and take steps to dismantle it at source.
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@MM-pv5tp ...and...? Has anyone ever pointed out to you that fully developed human beings are capable of caring about more than 1 thing at the same time? Has it occurred to you that many of us support Ukraine in this war BECAUSE we oppose colonialism and imperialism? The situation in Ukraine, complex as it is, is still relatively simple compared to some of the examples you made, therefore it's been easier for people to get behind even if they were unfamiliar with the background until last year. Besides, a resounding defeat for the rf will make this kind of thing less likely to happen in future, while if they come out of it with anything they can spin into some sort of victory, this kind of war will definitely happen again, in Ukraine and elsewhere, by the end of this decade. I didn't type all that for you, for all the figures and place names you threw at us you don't come across as someone who has an interest in reality, and you may well be one of Putin's professional gaslighters... I decided to reply for anyone else who may come across this thread.
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@mvs9122 Thanks for contradicting your own points as you make them ☺
Ukraine joining NATO could never have been an existential threat to the rf, BECAUSE the rf has nuclear weapons. Ukraine wanted and wants to join NATO because the rf had proved itself to be an existential threat to Ukraine. The only thing under threat from Ukraine's now inevitable membership of NATO is russian expansionism, and seriously, the rf has the biggest landmass in the world, they should look after it and the people who live there, instead of always be scheming to grab more from other countries.
As for your second point, Ukrainian is a bilingual (in fact multilingual) nation, and russian-speaking Ukrainians are a reality - which is probably why putin has been slaughtering and deporting them in huge numbers, leading to many russian-speaking Ukrainians to switch to Ukrainian as their main language and develop a deep-rooted hatred of everything russian.
As for russia being bigger and stronger, have a look at Michelangelo's David... or read "Puss in Boots"... And yes, the rf will indeed pay any price: it is plumbing the depths of depravity in a way few countries have over the course of human history, and will inevitably fragment in the near future. No one will have to break it up: they are crumbling from within, as a country and as a people. Rot will do that to any edifice.
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@nickfielding5685 Ah well, if you're going to spam the whole comment section with this ridiculous comment, I'm going to spam your inbox with my reply... at least my spelling is better than yours:
@nickfielding5685 Crimea and the Donbas were occupied by proxy russian forces in 2014, as russians themselves have freely admitted since. I don't know how Zelensky would have broken the Budapest memorandum by recognising Kosovo, that literally makes no sense. Scotland is a nation in the UK that does have a strong independence movement, and I'm sure that once it does manage to achieve and declare independence, it will be recognised. Same with Wales.
The problem with Catalonia is that they declared independence after holding a referendum without the permission of the Spanish government, and sadly with the way things work in the world at present, that's not a good idea. Kindly tell us what the russian federation would do to any of its regions that decided to declare independence, for example Tatarstan or Ichkeria... oh, wait. Yeah.
Palestine is a nation that's been occupied by a terrorist fascist state for decades, aided and abetted by a number of supposedly civilized countries including the US and the UK. In my unwavering support of Palestine I never for a single minute forget that the obliteration of Ukraine at the hands of russia would not help Palestinians one jot.
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@paulheald3099 Some people's knee-jerk defensive responses to the slightest criticism of capitalism are honestly amusing to me, maybe because I've never believed in either soviet communism nor capitalism as the "end of history". I do not value buildings more than I value people's lives, since it's people who design, make and use buildings, not the other way round: who cares if a country's buildings are tall, shiny and beautiful if countless people live in inescapable misery in their shadows?
I'm wondering if you've heard of the Grenfell fire: in June 2017, in what is the probably the richest area in one of the richest cities in the world - London - 72 people died and hundreds more were traumatised and made homeless when a social housing tower block went up in flames. It had been done up cheaply with flammable material used in many other residential buildings all over the country, which are now deemed unsafe. Fire safety measures were inadequate, and the residents' complaints had been repeatedly dismissed by the relevant authorities. So much for capitalism.
Capitalism really doesn't work much better than soviet communism ever did: it's just shinier on the outside, just like Grenfell Tower was before it burned. Settling for the - temporarily - lesser evil is just not good enough, we need to stop worshipping capitalism just like we want people to stop worshipping communism, and keep looking for alternatives that are genuinely better than both.
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@MissRed92837 I'm with you 100% and thank you for getting stuck into this thread, it's important to counter these comments. Just please let's all be careful not to say or print "the Ukraine"... it's a piece of outdated language originating from long-standing russian phrasing designed to reduce Ukraine to a region of russia.
For example, we don't say "the" Spain (Italy, France, etc...): in English, we reserve the article for collective country names like the United States of America, the russian federation, the United Arab Emirates. Since russian, like Ukrainian, has no articles, the original version of this linguistic strategy employs prepositions (the one that means "on" is offensive - the one that means "in" is the one that should be used).
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@halinaturutko7322 Thank you! I love talking about languages and accents with people who get it 🤗 I'm English-Italian bilingual - a childhood, rather than native, bilingual - and my voice does change from one language to the other.
As for russian and Ukrainian, thank you for your insight, I'm still training my ear as until last year I was completely new to this language group. I've read that Ukrainian doesn't have the "final devoicing" feature that russian has - a final "v" being pronounced as "f", for example - and in this speech I heard Zelensky pronounce a final hard "g" closer to "k", that's what had me wondering.
There is also to be said that - as far as I understand - russian, like English, is stress-timed, while Ukrainian is a syllable-timed language, like Italian and most of the romance languages. Maybe that's why it's so good for singing... after all, opera wasn't invented by the British ☺
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His family certainly were spirited out to russia overnight, but when I heard about that a few hours ago from a Ukrainian news report, it wasn't clear whether Lukashenko himself was on the plane - has there been another report since then I've missed?
Belarus aside for a second, I'm finding it hilarious how some people in this comment section - specifically in this thread - are still trying to make all this into a NATO/CIA plot 🤣We in the west really have trouble accepting that we're not the star in a movie, we always have to be the protagonist and we always want to win an Oscar... We would do well to remember it's also possible to win a supporting actor Oscar, or, you know, get to stand on the stage with the rest of the team as we all win "Best Film".
We don't have to be the puppet master every single time - and this time we certainly aren't - putin is the master of his own and his country's undoing (and nothing else), and Ukraine set that in motion by resisting, in the face of annihilation, when the west were predicting Kyiv would fall within days. Let's all start coping with that. Слава Україні💙💛
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@silverflight5777 You are a worthless troll, I'm only replying because this whole "slaves of NATO" thing, coming from the people who believe that Ukrainians should and in fact are slaves of russia, is just too much to hear sometimes...
What does it mean, in practice, to be slaves of NATO? None of the countries that are, voluntarily, part of NATO can be said to be enslaved in any conceivable sense of the word - meanwhile, we all know what it would be like for Ukraine to be enslaved to russia, and Ukrainians know it best of all, having already survived genocide, imprisonment, oppression, cultural erasure, invasion, and all sorts of psy-ops.
And I wrote all that as someone who is no way romantic about NATO or whatever your kind means by "the West", there is plenty to criticise and that's something I've been doing for a long time, with many other people who, crucially, have not been murdered or imprisoned or otherwise silenced.
Your arguments are simply empty, ridiculous and disgusting. Україна назавжди 💙💛
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@nickfielding5685 Ah well, if you're going to spam the whole comment section with this ridiculous comment, I'm going to spam your inbox with my reply... at least my spelling is better than yours:
@nickfielding5685 Crimea and the Donbas were occupied by proxy russian forces in 2014, as russians themselves have freely admitted since. I don't know how Zelensky would have broken the Budapest memorandum by recognising Kosovo, that literally makes no sense. Scotland is a nation in the UK that does have a strong independence movement, and I'm sure that once it does manage to achieve and declare independence, it will be recognised. Same with Wales.
The problem with Catalonia is that they declared independence after holding a referendum without the permission of the Spanish government, and sadly with the way things work in the world at present, that's not a good idea. Kindly tell us what the russian federation would do to any of its regions that decided to declare independence, for example Tatarstan or Ichkeria... oh, wait. Yeah.
Palestine is a nation that's been occupied by a terrorist fascist state for decades, aided and abetted by a number of supposedly civilized countries including the US and the UK. In my unwavering support of Palestine I never for a single minute forget that the obliteration of Ukraine at the hands of russia would not help Palestinians one jot.
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@FilleSoleil-lt1lg Ukraine is a huge country; Gaza is a small, very densely populated territory. Ukraine had been functioning as a state for over 30 years when the full-scale invasion started; Palestine hasn't been allowed to function as a state for how long...? What israel is currently doing to Gaza cannot be compared to what russia is doing to Ukraine: it's what russia did to Mariupol.
And while both russia and israel are undeniably committing genocide, they're doing it for different reasons: yes, they both adhere to the fascist doctrine of being "chosen people" taking back their "rightful lands", but while israel is intent on wiping out all Palestinians and settling all the land, russia wants to gain full control of Ukraine's resources, including those human resources that can be coerced and coopted and also military infrastructure etc, to use them in the next war: that way, they'll continue the genocide of Ukrainians while using them to kill others (kind of like they're doing now by recruiting a disproportionate number of non-ethnic russians from the eastern republics, and weaponising the bodies of migrants).
Apologies for the long reply - this is what I always want to say when I hear simplistic comparisons being Palestine and Ukraine, but I rarely get the chance.
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@nickfielding5685 Ah well, if you're going to spam the whole comment section with this ridiculous comment, I'm going to spam your inbox with my reply... at least my spelling is better than yours:
@nickfielding5685 Crimea and the Donbas were occupied by proxy russian forces in 2014, as russians themselves have freely admitted since. I don't know how Zelensky would have broken the Budapest memorandum by recognising Kosovo, that literally makes no sense. Scotland is a nation in the UK that does have a strong independence movement, and I'm sure that once it does manage to achieve and declare independence, it will be recognised. Same with Wales.
The problem with Catalonia is that they declared independence after holding a referendum without the permission of the Spanish government, and sadly with the way things work in the world at present, that's not a good idea. Kindly tell us what the russian federation would do to any of its regions that decided to declare independence, for example Tatarstan or Ichkeria... oh, wait. Yeah.
Palestine is a nation that's been occupied by a terrorist fascist state for decades, aided and abetted by a number of supposedly civilized countries including the US and the UK. In my unwavering support of Palestine I never for a single minute forget that the obliteration of Ukraine at the hands of russia would not help Palestinians one jot.
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@kacperzimowski4626 Ukraine has received a small fraction of the defense budget of most of its allies - defense budgets created over the decades in large part with russian aggression in mind. And as they were waiting for the most powerful of these countries to make up their minds about what and how much aid to send, russian forces had the opportunity to dig in, becoming much harder to eradicate. If Ukraine had got what its leaders asked for shortly after they started asking, all occupied territories may have been liberated by now, and there certainly would have been much less death, trauma and destruction.
In 2023, Ukrainian forces have used what they got from their allies to shoot down many of the missiles and drones fired at their civilian infrastructure and homes, hold and eventually breach a long and difficult frontline, and conduct a long and continuing series of successful attacks on military targets in the occupied territories and on russian territory. Your statement that "they didn't do anything with it" is typical of a pro-kremlin troll, so it you are not one of those, think about the way you're expressing.
I may be wrong, but I get the impression you're Polish... would you rather the russian federation reached the Ukrainian-Polish border? Then it will be Polish soldiers being killed and maimed while using those weapons that you seem to think are going to waste. Or maybe you're actually waiting for the rf to march in and restore some sort of soviet empire...?
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@suprememarcus Or maybe I do, and I refuse to use my children to justify my point because, as I've explained very clearly, I don't believe that being a parent gives anyone permission to force their views on others.
And how exactly does having children justify being aggressively homophobic and transphobic? A parent could just as easily say "As a parent, I find it intolerable to imagine my children being persecuted for their sexual orientation, unable to just be themselves, raise children of their own with the person they love one day, even unable to show affection to their partner in public without fear of being attacked. That's why I fight for LGBT rights".
Let's be clear: if one of your kids is queer, or trans, they just ARE and there's nothing you can do about it. You can choose to be a good parent and love them as they are, or you can choose to make them unhappy. And even if your kids are cisgendetef heterosexuals, raising them to be homophobic and transphobic automatically makes you a bad parent.
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As all trolls know - and that's probably what you are - no one, NO ONE was ever going to attack a country with a massive nuclear arsenal. The rf is the biggest danger to itself - problem is, it's also the biggest danger to a number of other countries. Why do you think Ukraine, and the Baltic countries, and now Finland and Sweden, have been so keen to join NATO? Which I've never been a great fan of, by the way, but it's just obvious that NATO didn't force itself on any of these countries. I can see that with an insane, entitled, criminal, huge neighbour like the rf, they would want to be friends with the biggest bully in the playground.
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A few years ago, when Ireland was preparing to vote in the referendum that would repeal the country's abortion ban, I heard one Irish woman being interviewed - not about that, but about the issue of the infamous "laundries" where young women were effectively imprisoned if they got pregnant "out of wedlock".
This woman's biological mother had been an inmate in such a place, her baby had been adopted. During the interview, the woman very clearly said she found it hard to think that if abortion had been legal in Ireland back then, perhaps she would have never been born: she found it especially hard because then, her own children would not exist either. She concluded by saying that she was voting to repeal the abortion ban, because, and I remember her voice saying the words, "It's not about me".
Long story short: DO NOT use adoption to justify your views on women's reproductive rights.
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@nickfielding5685 Ah well, if you're going to spam the whole comment section with this ridiculous comment, I'm going to spam your inbox with my reply... at least my spelling is better than yours:
@nickfielding5685 Crimea and the Donbas were occupied by proxy russian forces in 2014, as russians themselves have freely admitted since. I don't know how Zelensky would have broken the Budapest memorandum by recognising Kosovo, that literally makes no sense. Scotland is a nation in the UK that does have a strong independence movement, and I'm sure that once it does manage to achieve and declare independence, it will be recognised. Same with Wales.
The problem with Catalonia is that they declared independence after holding a referendum without the permission of the Spanish government, and sadly with the way things work in the world at present, that's not a good idea. Kindly tell us what the russian federation would do to any of its regions that decided to declare independence, for example Tatarstan or Ichkeria... oh, wait. Yeah.
Palestine is a nation that's been occupied by a terrorist fascist state for decades, aided and abetted by a number of supposedly civilized countries including the US and the UK. In my unwavering support of Palestine I never for a single minute forget that the obliteration of Ukraine at the hands of russia would not help Palestinians one jot.
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@iamoo Having experienced two languages switching place in my brain, I'm very interested in that process (I wonder if anyone has written anything about it but not having a name for it, it's hard to do a proper search). Ukrainian bilingualism seems to me even more interesting, because there are so many elements to it.
I understand your wish that russian were simply not a part of your heritage, but I think growing up with more than one language is always a potential advantage, because it creates space and specific tools in the brain that can then be devoted to other languages. Being fluent in both a syllable-timed and a stress-timed language, as you and I both are, is a particular advantage in further language learning.
I'm not interested in learning to speak russian but I've realised that if I want to one day be able to translate expressive text from Ukrainian, I'll need to have some understanding of it, and also of surzhyk. For now I just want to concentrate on Ukrainian, then once I've reached a decent intermediate stage I'll see how much russian I have.
I must admit I also quite like the idea of picking up a colonial language through the prism of the colonised language it's been attempting to wipe out for centuries... when I thought about it I realised how rare a situation this is, since most empires (British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, even Italian and German to a lesser extent) have been maritime empires, meaning that the colonised languages were very far from the European language that was imposed on them.
So sorry, I'm going on and on... I keep getting interrupted by other things and when I come back to this comment I write some more!! It's just really nice to correspond with you.
About switching to Ukrainian, I recently came across this YT video: ЯК ЛЕГКО ПЕРЕЙТИ НА УКРАЇНСЬКУ? Історії і поради тих, хто зміг which I haven't been able to watch yet because... it's not subtitled, and my Ukrainian just isn't there yet. Have you watched it? Or taken part in it? And have you read anything by Володимир Рафєєнко? I haven't yet but really want to - I heard Timothy Snyder talk about this author's decision to completely switch to Ukrainian (which had never been his writing language) during one of his Yale lectures last year: apparently when the author spoke at Yale he said "Не володієш мовою, мова володіє тобою" and those words took my breath away. That's exactly what English did to me when I was a child, and what Ukrainian is doing to me now.
YT comments section conversations can end at any moment, so if this is our last exchange I want to thank you again for taking the time to communicate with me. I'll always think of you when I come across those words you taught me 😊 I wish you and your country the very best. I can just begin to imagine how hard it must be right now but never forget that countless millions all over the world are with you - we won't forget, we won't get bored, we are with you all the way. 💙💛
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This is Madyar's full video. He rarely comments on anything other than the battlefield, and it's always worth listening when he does. He is highly respected in Ukraine and among the armed forces in particular, and I think his statement will have (probably already has, it was four days ago) a strong impact:
The New York Times, не перспективно так робити. (Eng СС)
Here's a comment to that video (from @bajanka6854), which really struck me because this is something I didn't know about the Holodomor - or the New York Times. Ukrainian original below.
"You probably don't know that it was the New York Times that published in 1933 a series of articles that were paid for by Moscow, that there was no famine in Ukraine, and that all this was the invention of the ill-wishers of the USSR (by that time, millions of people had already died of starvation!). During all this time, this newspaper has never apologized for its deliberate lies to the Ukrainian people/Ukrainian state. The newspaper's editors don't care how many Ukrainians the Russians kill, the main thing is that Moscow pays money for the "right" articles."
Ви мабуть не знаєте, що саме Нью-Йорк Таймс опубліковала у 1933 році серію статей, які були проплачені Москвою, що голоду в Україні немає і все це вигадкі недоброзичливців СРСР (на той час від голоду вже вмерли мілійони людей!). За весь цей час ця газетка ні разу не вибачилась за свою навмисну брехню перед українським народом/ українською державою. Редакції газетки все одно скільки українців вбьють росіяни, головне, щоб Москва платила гроші за "правильні" статті.
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Thanks, very concise summary of an achingly complicated topic. Is it from Umberto Eco's definition? (I think it was him)
I think that while every situation will inevitably be different and have its own unique characteristics, and some of the features you listed will be more or less prominent depending on circumstances, it is the combination of some of these features that should be a red flag for fascist tendencies in a society.
Ukraine for example is strongly promoting its language and culture both at home and abroad (understandably, considering they've been fighting against genocide on and off for a long time), however that comes along with a strong drive to change and outgrow many elements of that culture, and make positive connections with others. Weaponry has become incredibly important to Ukrainians, but that's happening at a time that more women than ever before are entering the armed forces and generally becoming prominent in the defense of the country.
Context is also important: from Ukraine's point of view, pacifism is indeed "trafficking with the enemy", but that's because they're defending themselves. And the rf is indeed both strong and weak: they have numbers, and they have nukes, and they are led by insane people following a twisted narrative that they are now unable to walk away from, which means they screw up a lot but are also incredibly dangerous.
Btw I fully appreciate that you're on the side of Ukraine... I just think it's important to make these points because that list could easily be used to prove that Ukraine is a fascist country (sadly, like many from the antiwar movement of 20+ years ago, I know a lot of people who oppose support for Ukraine and they're the most likely to make these arguments, I think).
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@nickfielding5685 Ah well, if you're going to spam the whole comment section with this ridiculous comment, I'm going to spam your inbox with my reply... at least my spelling is better than yours:
@nickfielding5685 Crimea and the Donbas were occupied by proxy russian forces in 2014, as russians themselves have freely admitted since. I don't know how Zelensky would have broken the Budapest memorandum by recognising Kosovo, that literally makes no sense. Scotland is a nation in the UK that does have a strong independence movement, and I'm sure that once it does manage to achieve and declare independence, it will be recognised. Same with Wales.
The problem with Catalonia is that they declared independence after holding a referendum without the permission of the Spanish government, and sadly with the way things work in the world at present, that's not a good idea. Kindly tell us what the russian federation would do to any of its regions that decided to declare independence, for example Tatarstan or Ichkeria... oh, wait. Yeah.
Palestine is a nation that's been occupied by a terrorist fascist state for decades, aided and abetted by a number of supposedly civilized countries including the US and the UK. In my unwavering support of Palestine I never for a single minute forget that the obliteration of Ukraine at the hands of russia would not help Palestinians one jot.
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@qwazse4 Arabic is indeed an imperialist language, no one has at any point in this thread claimed that English is the only one in existence. And English does spread by way of arts and culture, but in reality it is anglophone arts and culture that spread on the back of the imperialist English language - often, historically, at the expense of the cultural output of other nations and languages. Which is, incidentallly, what has been done to the Ukrainian language and cultural output over the centuries, through the russophone cultural output of "the temporary misunderstanding currently known as the russian federation" (to quote Sternenko, a prominent ukrainian blogger).
It will never bee too late to decolonise anglophone literature and arts, but more importantly, an automatically defensive stance about the imperialist function of the English language is holding many of us back from dissecting and neutralising the role of russian language and culture in enabling, promoting and to an extent foreshadowing the horrors currently being perpetrated by russia in Ukraine, with the overwhelmingly negative effects on the rest of the world.
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@peterj5083 Good point, but false equivalence. Jan 6th was an attempt at overthrowing the results of a free and fair election (as has been proven literally dozens of times, including by some judges appointed by the politician who would have benefited from that coup). The Revolution of Dignity was a spontaneous uprising that took place after the head of state proved he was putin's puppet by his last-minute refusal to sign the agreement he had been promising for years, which would have taken Ukranians a small but crucial step closer to Europe as many of them patently wanted. At that point Ukrainians had enough, they peacefully gathered in the Maidan and just refused to go away. They were brutalised. They stayed, and more people joined them. The police started shooting, and then the molotovs started to fly, and putin's puppet fled.
Presumably it's second, not the first, that we're all thinking of when we say that "russians should stand up to putin".
I'd never needed to put the above into words before and it took a while, so thank you for raising it. If you're interested in the Revolution of Dignity there's a brilliant lecture on YT, part of Timothy Snyder's The Making of Modern Ukraine series but delivered by Marci Shore, a guest lecturer who has researched those events and written a book about it. Just do a search on those terms, it will come up.
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@nickfielding5685 Ah well, if you're going to spam the whole comment section with this ridiculous comment, I'm going to spam your inbox with my reply... at least my spelling is better than yours:
@nickfielding5685 Crimea and the Donbas were occupied by proxy russian forces in 2014, as russians themselves have freely admitted since. I don't know how Zelensky would have broken the Budapest memorandum by recognising Kosovo, that literally makes no sense. Scotland is a nation in the UK that does have a strong independence movement, and I'm sure that once it does manage to achieve and declare independence, it will be recognised. Same with Wales.
The problem with Catalonia is that they declared independence after holding a referendum without the permission of the Spanish government, and sadly with the way things work in the world at present, that's not a good idea. Kindly tell us what the russian federation would do to any of its regions that decided to declare independence, for example Tatarstan or Ichkeria... oh, wait. Yeah.
Palestine is a nation that's been occupied by a terrorist fascist state for decades, aided and abetted by a number of supposedly civilized countries including the US and the UK. In my unwavering support of Palestine I never for a single minute forget that the obliteration of Ukraine at the hands of russia would not help Palestinians one jot.
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@drsa5856 It's russia's invasion of Ukraine that stopped me from wishing NATO would disband... I hate everything about that organisation but at this stage in history it is definitely the lesser evil, and I understand why Eastern European countries want to join it.
And why should other countries stop arming Ukraine, when Ukraine is simply defending itself from a totally unprovoked russian invasion? russia is the aggressor.
Ukraine joining NATO, or even just the EU which was originally all they wanted, would have never threatened the rf's security and territorial integrity - no one would have invested the rf, because 1, other governments were happy to do business with putin & co, an 2, because it's stuffed full of nukes. The problem was that, once free from russia's grip, Ukraine would have developed into a much better, happier, more civilised country than the rf, with a higher standard of living, and putin didn't want his people to see that and start getting ideas. And that is what will happen eventually anyway, the rf will end up even poorer and more miserable than they were before they started invading Ukraine in 2014, and all this death and destruction will have been for nothing.
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