Comments by "" (@martavdz4972) on "The Telegraph" channel.

  1. Just commenting for the algorithm, greetings from Czechia, I´m not going anywhere 🙂
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  2. There´s a thing called AdBlock
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  3. And as to your first question - that isn't related, it's just that several politicians who do that also happen to do things that help Russia. And specifically, Fico is called "pro-Russian" because he besically says so himself. Not everything he says has been translated from Slovak, but he's clearly pro-Russian. Unlike Turkey, Kazakhstan or India who put their countries' issues first - but they do that by playing both sides. They don't promote Russia's interests or repeat their talking points at every opportunity. So they aren't called pro-Russian.
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  4. The fact that they´re buying gasoline/petrol from Kazakhstan?
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  5.  @sergeybobkov951  Not Poland's or Finland's, and those would be the ones that matter. Also, unlike Ukraine, NATO has quite a lot of planes.
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  6. 8:55 Yeah, the Baltics were pretty confused by this. But Latvia was at least compensated by getting an Oscar. For the movie Flow, which depicts several different animals desperately trying - sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding - to cooperate and survive in a flood. Quite symbolic.
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  7. It says EUROPEAN UNION. Forgotten that Brexit happened, have we?
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  8. I recommend some books on Russian culture and mentality. This is a profound misunderstanding of how Russian minds work. They aren't defined by Putin, they're used to having a tzar who takes care of politics for them. They aren't defined by the tzar, they live their lives and the tzar is somewhere up there.
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  9. Half of those countries are NOT Slavic (Romania, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia), but nobody can explain that to Putin.
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  10. I'm giving peace a chance... and surprise surprise, I want the 40 million people whose lives are at stake INCLUDED in the peace talks. Two big countries calling each other about the basic existence of a third country is straight out of the times when there was a lot of tuberculosis and corsets around.
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  11. Latvia is actually closing TWO border checkpoints as a preventative measure, Vientuļi and Pededze. Pededze is pronounced PEH-DEH-DZEH, Vientuļi is pronounced VEE-YEN-TOO-LYI, means "Lonely Ones" in Latvian, probably a surname of a family that lived on a remote solitary farm in a forest. So the name speaks for itself, this really isn't a huge checkpoint that could take hundreds of people a day. It was like a joke on Russia's part, suggesting the people should be funnelled through the tiniest and remotest border checkpoint there is.
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  12.  @davidl.7317  As Francis said, those were just fringe voices. Just two politicians. Romania is generally OK with regard to Ukraine.
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  13. Good point. When someone is paranoid about something and does crazy things to prevent it, it´s much more likely to happen than if they hadn´t done anything and minded their own business. Self-fulfilling prophecy.
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  14. Couldn´t agree more. Whatever we think of EU and NATO - and they´re not perfect organizations - but they´re still organizations that connect and protect people, and they need to function effectively.
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  15. The Germans might have had a point... sort of. It might have been Glühwein, which loses a lot of the alcohol by the heating. I think it still contains some alcohol, but if heated for a long time, very little.
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  16. Thanks, that's good news. Also, liberal non-populist parties got the best result in history in Slovakia. So, there are some signs of change, they are just very slow. We'll see.
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  17. Desperate not to stay in Ukraine? When he's had the possibility to leave for 18 months, and hasn't done so yet? Even visited the frontline two days ago.
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  18. Absolutely, he comes from the same region as Estonian and Finnish politicians and it shows: he has the same ability to answer briefly and to the point. Each question gets a clear answer packed with information. This is what politicians should be like in interviews 🙂
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  19. I´m Czech and my Slovak friends say exactly the same. Fico is only supported by 20% of Slovaks, but that´s enough for him to get power and for Slovakia to get a bad name. At least rest assured that there are people who know that "Fico" doesn´t equal "all Slovaks." Hugs to our Slovak brothers! ❤✌
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  20.  @samsungtap4183  His video speeches in Ukrainian are very good, with good pronunciation. I'm a Slavic-language speaker with some knowledge of Russian and Ukrainian (I hear a lot of Ukrainian, as there are lots of refugees in my country) and I couldn't tell Zelensky wasn't a native speaker if I didn't know it. Don't know about spontaneous everyday conversations, though. He might be making some mistakes in those. Even if he is, his Ukrainian is probably getting better, just like his English is. He's had a lot of practice lately. Seems to me he isn't an excellent language learner, but a fairly good one.
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  21.  @rogerphelps9939  They are, in the north. They´re throwing everything at Avdiivka and succeeding in some places, although Avdiivka itself hasn´t fallen. Ukraine is making some progress in the south. It´s easier for Russians to make progress in the north because the frontline there is closer to their territory, so the logistics is easier there.
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  22. I hope this means Telegraph finally understands Trump is not the flagship of "Good Conservatives of the World, unite!", and will start paying attention to some actual remaining wise Conservatives.
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  23. Some of my comments stay visible, some get removed within literally a second, there's no way a human at The Telegraph is doing that. There seems to be no system to it. It's AI's weird system of evaluating words.
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  24. Yeah, I have a new respect for Scholz. Germany has also approved the 2024 budget and slightly reduced ecology spending in favour of Ukraine aid. I think there was a lot of negotiation behind close doors in Germany but in the end, Scholz proved he´s an actual leader who understands the situation in the world and thinks long-term. I´m Czech, i.e. half my country´s borders are with Germany, and this made my day. Or, more like my year 🙂
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  25. I hope we can. Only several days ago, I was offered work for a Conservative news magazine in my country, but I rejected it because it praised Trump. I have nothing against Conservatives, but he isn't Conservative, he's a disruptor. I didn't expect for my decision to be justified so fast.
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  26. I think he´s taking a belated Christmas vacation. He kept the podcast going between Christmas and New Year´s. Everyone deserves some time off, we don´t want Dom burnt out and exhausted, do we? 🙂
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  27. Same here from Czechia, the town of Tišnov in my case 🙂
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  28. I think he was interested in everything, which is why he did so many things and also interviewed so many people. He loved to discover the world.
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  29.  @paulwatson8809  No, I´ve been doing that, too.
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  30. I don't think they said anything like that in this particular video, though
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  31.  @JacrostheWHite  And when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia... but that´s just it, being Czech, part Jewish and knowing history this is such a great turn of events. Countries that actually learn from their mistakes ("mistakes" in quotation marks in Germany´s case) deserve huge respect. I´d call it maturity.
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  32. The guest literally says "far left" at 10:30 in the video.
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  33. Oh my, I can't watch this, she's so obviously exhausted and severely depressed, I just want to hug her...
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  34. As to the PM of Slovakia Robert Fico mentioned at 20:00, my Slovak friends (I'm Czech and we have joint Czech and Slovak discussion groups on Ukraine) generally think he won't sign any new defence contracts with Ukraine but the existing ones will continue. Slovakia is manufacturing "Zuzana" type howitzers and ammunition for Ukraine. There already are Slovak workers working on them and they wouldn't be happy if the new PM took their jobs from them. Fico is a populist, the last things he needs are jobs lost and less money for Slovakia.
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  35. Dom literally just said my country is giving the profit off interest rates to Ukraine and planning another ammunition "crowdfunding".
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  36. Commenting for the algorhithm, so that YouTube doesn't think Ukraine is forgotten 😄 Greetings from Czechia 🙂
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  37. We´re working on that. Slowly, but we are.
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  38.  @bhoffma3  "What exactly is the East complaining about?" It's the delayed problem of the Iron Curtain. It was very limiting, but it also provided safety. The Warsaw Pact nations were very homogenous and very safe. The East then wanted the travelling, the prosperity and the music, but didn't realize it would also mean less centralized industry, fewer stable jobs and less safety. These people were brought up to seek a state-guaranteed job in a factory and to work there for 45 years... and that's it. That was their world. I'm not judging them for that, I'm Czech and I know people like that here. It's the same problem in some other Warsaw Pact countries. The strong generations of the 1970's are losing their jobs and marriages and safety, and are getting increasingly stressed out from the world they weren't prepared for.
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  39. Except personal charisma doesn't matter at all. There must be a reason everyone is begging Stoltenberg to stay. He's actually tough because he suffers from a painful chronic disease, yet works 100% and never lets it show. He seemed rattled but he made very rational, calm decisions when Russia invaded Ukraine. He was the reason I calmed down for the first time after the invasion happened (my country is close to Ukraine). I was surprised when I learned he's a politician and not an experienced general.
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  40. It´s just Ukrainians who can judge that. From what I know, Ukrainians make a lot of jokes themselves. It´s human way of dealing with stress and misery. My country had the best humour under Communist oppression. IMHO this was one silly joke, but otherwise this reporting - apart from their questionable pronunciation of foreign words - is very respectable and professional.
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  41. He's neither Mongol, nor a general with military background. He's a construction engineer of part Russian, part Tuvin (Siberian) ancestry.
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  42.  @maneshipocrates  What a sensitive reply to someone who just said s/he is deeply ashamed. News flash: s/he probably alreay knows that.
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  43. Yep, I have friends in Lithuania and Latvia and they see it this way, too. It makes sense.
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  44. Yeah, it was quite telling that journalists and experts in the Baltics were NOT saying "What the heck is Ukraine doing? It´s absurd." Always trust the Baltics and Ukraine to know Russia the best.
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  45.  @nomen.nescio-i  The talk is about the PROFESSIONAL army, and they went into this knowing they might not make it. If not in Ukraine, then while saving people in a natural disaster, or anything, really. Also, this isn't a foreign conflict. If Ukraine loses, there will be tens of millions of refugees in Europe and possibly in the UK, Europe's markets will get much worse, that will influence your economy... lots of negative outcomes.
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  46. What's the deal with the calls for European unification suddenly? Rarely saw them last year, now they're everywhere. We've had FOUR THOUSAND YEARS of history prove to us that this isn't possible. The interests, lifestyles and mentalities are just too different.
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  47. He was. I'm just changing professions, was considering several career paths and after I read about David, I've chosen journalism.
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  48. Who said it was OK? They said Finland was afraid there would be an oil spill. How is that saying it's OK?
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  49. Likewise, but we need to act. Their objective is to boil our blood, so that we don't act.
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  50. There's a sister podcast called Battle Lines that has info and interviews on Gaza.
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