Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Hoover Institution" channel.

  1. OH this is great, I am in three star heaven! Two of my favourite American Lieutenant General's on the same panel together. Their tireless advocation for Ukraine, going to bat for everyone here, is much appreciated.
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  2. I with HR on this one, not being FIRM with Tsar Putin all these years led to where we are now. I speak from experience, already lost a home to the Russians in Donbas and am an ITD with my wife in west Ukraine. If the US and our allies in the EU had armed us up "correctly" we could have beaten back these barbarians killing us and destroying our homes and lives. Where did Merkels "engagement" (appeasemnt) with Russia get us ? It got my home lost and made me homeless...
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  3. Glad to see that the third instalment of the "Five Questions for Stephen Kotkin series", looking forward to the fourth!
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  4. On Niall's point, confusing Macron for Mitterrand is no big deal for us here in Ukraine, but Trump's Anti-Ukrainian rhetoric is. I've seen the argument made that Trump would be a disaster for foreign policy far more than President Biden's cognitive faux pax's would be. I tend to agree.
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  5. GOD SAVE THE KING & GOD SAVE UKRAINE!
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  6. On aid wasted in Africa, President Kagame of Rwanda is a huge Arsenal FC fan in the EPL, and I think Stan Kroenke got $20 million from Rwanda to promote the country at the Emirates Stadium, but we joke online, he got aid money, who knows where that money came from!
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  7. I'm with H.R. on the provocativeness - essentially the Chinese went "nutso" over a kind of washed up old lady visiting Taiwan, the subsequent over-reaction making them look sorta foolish ?
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  8. hahahahahahah, yea HR does bear a resemblance to the infamous Colonel!!! Don't leave the fans hanging, release the full ep!
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  9. Very interesting that HR brings up that Moody Blues album and the inner man and AI and DeCasrtes. It reminded me straight away of the cult classic sci-fi movie "Dark Star" written by rookie John Carpenter of"The Thing" fame and Dan O'Bannon of "Alien" fame. This was not a mostly happy truimphpalist sci-fi movie like Star Wars or Star Trek, it was very dark in the thematic overtones and script. Anyway, at the end of the movie one of the astronauts tries to use Cartesian logic to get the AI planet destroyer bomb to defuse and go back into the bomb bay, after it has been activated but because of a malfunction is stuck before it launches. It turns that the astronaut finally convinces the bomb to go back into the bomb bay and think about it, using the aforementioned Cartesian logic about "how do you know what's actuallly real and really actual" so the bomb accepts, but then after a while the bomb, having learned Cartesian doubt, trusts only itself. It is convinced that only it exists, and that its sole purpose in life is to explode, and it does so after quoting Genesis - "Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light." and then BOOM!
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  10. J D Vance is a vile anti-Ukrainianite, at least VP Harris has our backs here in Ukraine. You earned yourselves a thumbs down.
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  11. Adding to Johns list of world game changing invetions such as the printing press, steam engine and computer, for me (and I have been a career IT guy) the mail (not email) is one of the most useful and world changing enventions ever, period. I still find it incredible you can put something in the mail and it will get anywhere on the planet mostly delivered. Antarctica, the sub-continent with it's billions, even low earth orbit (the ISS), Still an incedible thing to behold, is it not ?
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  12. Trump is not the "greatest danger to the world", but he is the greatest danger to us here in Ukraine along with Vladimir Putin.
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  13. I didn't know Niall was a gunners fan! COYG! Anyway, I have heard the great Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges disagree with the "Cold War v2" thesis. Back in the day the Cold War seemed to encompass h entire world, Soviet-bloc, NATO/US allies & non-aligned nations- of which in my ancestral home of Yugoslavia, Tito was a founding member after he broke with Stalin in 1948 and successfully left the Soviet-bloc (unlike Hungary 1956 & Czechoslovakia 1968). imho the v2 Cold war seems far less pronounced, it depends on the geopolitical area. China, yes, that's a cold war. Russia,, well for us here in Ukraine, it's not "cold". It has also gone way beyond "cold" for hte rest of Europe I think. Would it be asking too much to get the great General Hodges on to discuss or debate this with Niall and the panel ?
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