Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Силиконовый занавес"
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Same here. John should have her back to talk about the other issues she works with down the track. I've lived in Ukraine for alsmot a decade and a lot of the BS that well intentioned news and radio and podcadts really jumps out at me, becasue I know what's what, compared to someone who isnt from ehre. An example was today I listed to Geopilotics Decanted as it regularly features Miucheal Koffman who's very good with teh mil rundowns and the host Dimitri Alperovitch, whom I hav e a lot fo respect for, he means well and is not a propagandfist. but tofday he said that he thinks there is now ay Russia would do such a thing as blow up the fam and he thinks it wsa pobsbly sn scvcidernt ot a mistsake, he was totally excluding tyhe glaringly obvious suvh as, the stops being closed to fiull the fdam, wy ? That this conincided with tyhe offensive kicking off to thrart it....very siuspicious anfd he said the excuse all the Russian mouthpieces p'edlde now "why would Russia take out the Crimean water supply" it is not in their interests and makes no sense to tzke it out. BUt he fails to take into account their reckless modus operandi and also that, they KNOW they are going to loe Crimea and we wll reclai m it, and are factoring in that in their reasoning for wrecking the peninsula as much as possible for when we take it back. IT's toaly something that they would do and have demonstarted in Ukraine sincer day one. THey don't give a f**k about anzything, even their own men!!!......SO it was very dissappointing to ehar Dmitri go down the path of making excuses for RUssia! BUt thats ok, it wont turn me off listenign to Geoplitics Decanted. It's good stuff, esp co Koffman is a regular@ !
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That period when Buill was doing bvusiness in the Yeltsin years really was when Russia had the true Oligarchy, when they all banded to together to help Yeltsin beat Communist Party leader Zyuganov in 1996. I heard some commentator say only the other day, froget who now, maybe one of the retired Generals on TImes Radio or a Silicom Curttain preserntstion, that in defeating the communists in 1996, by hook or crook, we may have gotten something way worse. I tend to agree with that assesment. Another interesting thing about the Yeltson era, Iforget where I read this , possibly a boiography of Leonid Kravchuk (first President of a free Ukraine) that back then the Russian nationalists had plans to seize Crimea but Yeltsin put a stop to it, not because he cared about Ukraine so much, nut more because it would set a precident for the Chechens to leave Russia, "Hey if Crimea can leave Ukraine we can leave RUssia!" type of hypocrisy he wanted to avoid. Intertesting stuff!
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I typed this on linked-in half an hour ago, I may as well paste it here too. Ruzzia is ramping up, our Western friends need to "tamp up" too. I know our American friends are doing so with their production, but they do need to go harder. The big worry is the EU, that has way too many, to put it politely - "Putin boot lickers" - and people might think I am singling out Hungary or Slovakia for obvious reasons (Orban & Fico). Oh no, they're small fry in the "big game" of Putin boot licking within the EU, I am talking about Germany & France. They have huge numbers of anti-Ukrainian #vatnik officials that need to be dealt with. An example is, Angela Merkel thought she was on our side, and tried to act like she was, but really she was Europe's greatest #vatnik.
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@pipe_currency Indeed Brian, if you look at the big picture, which you would be ware of due to your stint here paralleling mine, the areas of infrastructure that were the responsibility of the government were. not that bad, i.e. the aforementioned roads, airports and train stations etc. If there was any neglect, it would have been maybe the privately owned (by the oligarchs) things like the mines, where they extracted as much obscene profits as they could, keeping in mind, all assets sold off quickly to the "nomenklatura" to break the Soviet system post 1990/91 and of course back then all the orders came from Moscow, whether it was Gorbachev or drunk Yeltsin, before the official dissolution in December 1991 with Gorbachev's resignation.
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@boblacks945 Honestly, never, in fact my wife and I and about 30 of her colleagues from her university in Donbas (where everyone spoke Russian) are refugee's in NW Ukraine and most of us still use Russian although everyone is trying to change. We have never been accosted or abused in that time here in Western Ukraine. The thing that some of the "traitors" in the east in Donbas made a big deal of was that you had to use Ukrainian when filling out government paperwork sometime post 2014, which is fair enough, ironically they'd help you to filll out this paperwork in Ukrainian whilst conversing Russian with you! This was the case I experienced when finalising my permanent residency paperwork which was completed in 2015 after a year and a bit. In fact by a co-incidence, only today Youtuber Jake Broe, a true friend of Ukraine, made a presentation where he featured the Japanese man who moved to Kharkiv to open a cafe serving 1,000 free meals to Ukrainians every day. If you go to the 29 min mark and watch from there you'll see it, the comment I made there explains the rest - "In that first "feel good" clip you can hear a lady quite clearly thank Mr Tsuchiko in Russian, (Spasibo Balshoe = Thank you very much) demonstrating that speaking Russian does not mean "is Russian", just like speaking English does not mean "is an Englander". English and Russian are simply both languages of Empire and conquest that's all. English being former in that sense, Russian, current."
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@j.k.1239 The same can be said of people speaking Ukrainian during 2014 onwards when Igor Girkin and his provacatuers agitated, you'd get the s**t beat out of you by an angry crowd if you even tried to utter anything in Ukrainian, Look I know some people, especially those who suffered directly Russian cruelty or lost someone, might be like that, it's never happened to any of us in West Ukraine as refugee's/IDP's. We still speak Russian amongst ourselves at restuarants or together but use Urkainian to speak to the waiters, in another situation like at a "magazin" (shop). We've never been hassled. Look back in 2014 even up untill this re-invasion the rule was, if you went to a restuarant, and you spoke Russian OR Ukrainian, the waiters would match whatever language you spoke. I think whoever was aksing that up there meant from that entire period 2014 onwards. I'd like to see those videos as a bunch could be staged, like the staged fake video of "Ukrainian soldiers" accosting a woman they pulled up in a car for speaking Russian, it turned out that was DNR guys staging a fake video to make us look bad here in Urkaine.
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I spent a lot of time arguing with ruZzians trolls how have "appropriated" Korolyov, like everything in their culture. They would claim he was "Russian" but in all his documents he would put for question "Natsionalnist" (Nationality), "Ukrayinets" (Ukrainian). I have visited the Korolyov home in Zhitomir where he was born and the museum across the road. (The ruZZians attacked the town, it's near Kyiv)). I recommend the book by James Harford "Korolev: How one man masterminded the Soviet drive to beat America to the moon" (because it was the Soviet period he uses the Russian transliterations for everything). At 6:45 Yaroslav mentions "wrong scissions by the Communist party", one major F up, Brezhnev's cancellation of the N1 manned lunar launch vehicle (Soviet "Saturn V") in 1974. They had 2 flight ready launch vehicles ready to go, on the pad, at Tyuratam (vehicle's 8L & 9L - L= "Luniy" - moon) that would have proven the concept, but they where ordered scrapped, after 4 launch failures. N1 had a large cluster of 30 engines in the first stage (Block A), smaller & cheaper than the 5 huge Rocketdyne F-1 Engines on the US Saturn V. It's no co-incidence Elon Musk's "Spaceship" launch vehicle uses a large cluster of 33 engines it its first stage. He's what you call in Russian "ochen skupoy chelovek" ("very stingy (or cheap) man", just like the Soviet Communist's cheapness). The "N" in N1 means "nossitel" = carrier. After victory here in this war I reckon you could pitch the idea of a Korolyov movie to President Zelensky;s TV production company and he'd do it as a serious thing after the burden of war leadership drains the comic out of him (Yaroslav should tweet the President on Twitter and plant the seed of the idea in him!!!). I could talk about Korolyov in detail all day, best SC episode for me ever!!!!
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Keir Giles actually mentioned the other day, on Pyotr Kurzin's channel, that Kursk has dropped of the news a bit, but that's not so bad, because it's become normalised, and then Mr Garner mentions how Putin said when asked about Kursk, "vse normalno, spokoyno!" - all is normal, it's calm/quiet!" - Keir Giles vindicated 💯. Finally, Mr Garner's Russian is very good, just those 3 words gave away, with his annunciation, he knows how to speak Russian, as does the host Jonathon.
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