Comments by "Kate S" (@KateeAngel) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

  1.  @AG-vb6vv  and it has much bigger mortality rate then Western Europe. Had even before the covid and the war
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  2.  @reddix435  are you even for real? If you had any idea how life is in Russia, you would totally understand why people are quiet. Also those who were not quiet, were silenced pretty fast. It would stupid to assume that you far away would ever see their attempts to do anything right before they are beaten up and thrown into jail. If you lived here, you would understand what makes sense and what doesn't, even on some subconscious level. When any attempt to "not be silent" has a <1% chance of changing anything, and 99% chance of hurting yourself and your family, then I doubt you would not be silent. Westerners talk as if they seem to imagine protesting in Russia is the same as in the West - just go outside in a group and walk for an hour, then you can go pick your coffee
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  3. Actually bigger percentage of young people is the biggest predictor of civil wars etc. Older people tend to change anything in a less radical way
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  4. Actually Putin doesn't want Finland and doesn't care about NATO. NATO is only an excuse. He wants Ukraine specifically, for both economic and ideological reasons
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  5. Most of Russia is 90+% ethnic Russian. All other regions are few and far between. You either have regions where other ethnic groups make much less than 50% (even if the region is named after them) or the ones where you have multiple ethnic groups, so the whole number of ethnic groups is much bigger than number of regions. But if you take away all regions with 25+% ethnic minority population, most of Russia by territory and population will still stay together. And many regions which have large ethnic minority population are fully encircled in Russia anyway from all sidea
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  6. Those "colonies" in large also have 90+% Russian population. When will USA and Australia give its territory back to indigenous people? Unfortunately, never. Same with Siberia and other colonised places in Russia. For the same reason. Colonised local ethnicities are now in the minority
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  7. Yeah you forgot to ask them whether they want to unite with you
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  8. ​ @AB-uc5vj  who didn't get Bakhmut for 6 months despite recruiting 50 k inmates? That's right, Wagner group!
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  9.  @trevorroberts9584  well "a state" can mean many different things. It was a state, but its constituents were too, in a way. Same as constituents of the UK today are called "countries" even though in most of the world "country" means independent state. Also Russia today functions very different from British or even Russian empire of 19th century. And has very different population distribution, level of cohesion etc
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  10. Yes
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  11.  @trevorroberts9584  empire is a form of state dude
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  12.  Mr Shaci  yeah, the amount of money he stole from Russian treasury with the help of his oligarch friends is legendary indeed
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  13. You are wrong in explaining the reasons why they are marrying. It is usually the man who wants that his unofficial wife becomes official to not be left with nothing in case something happens to him. Unfortunately there is a trend to blame women for everything, in this case for being greedy, but the fact is not that. Men are adult people, they can make decisions themselves. If a man agreed to get mobilised it is first and foremost his fault, and if he didn't want to get married, he wouldn't
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  14. Equating us Russians with Putin's paid trolls is stupid and insulting
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  15. Actually there is no 100% correlation. All those endings exist in every Slavic country
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  16. ​ @besg5725  less hospitals is also not due to demographics, but due to Russian government financing healthcare badly and diverting money into the war and policing instead. Many healthcare professionals here have miserable salaries.
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  17. They start to deal with their own population decline though
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  18. There is also Iraq! 😂
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  19.  @ouroboros6666  Stalin had plan minimum and plan maximum. Maximum was to get all Finland, minimum to get some territories like in the original proposal to Mannerheim. In the end Stalin got slightly more than plan minimum
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  20. It exists on the global level and in many individual countries, Russia isn't one of them
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  21.  @Theorimlig  being Nordic isn't the same as having one culture. Culturally Finns are very different from Germanic Scandinavians. But Karelia and Murmansk are very unlikely to ever get independence out of all regions. They have a huge depopulation rate, emigration rate, very bad economy, apathetic old population. So my bet would be those would be one of the least likely regions to get independence.
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  22. Nope, since the 90s.
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  23. Tell that to CAR. They have plenty of resources too
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  24. All states and centralised power is wrong. We should live in anarchist egalitarian communities, but without borders. Unfortunately humanity won't be prepared to peacefully do so for the next 1000 years or so. But as long as centralised states and hierarchy of power exist, new "Putins" will pop up from time to time in different places
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  25. Why do you think so? Their women usually end up caring for them for the rest of their lives
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  26. That is just a name. Russia changed the name to FSB, yet nothing changed, or maybe it did change, but for the worse
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  27. No that would happen either way. Cause fascist governments like Putin's always try to brainwash the future generations, and get to as many of the kids as they can
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  28. ​ @GaryGraham-sx4pm  nope
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  29.  @reddix435  yeah if you judge by kremlin bots who are paid to spam every social media with their comments, then you would think 99% of Russians support Putin. No wonder the people here in the comments have very little empathy for what happens with us if Russia collapses fully. I personally see a lot of Russians who believe propaganda, but also a lot who don't. It is impossible to estimate the proportion however. I feel no pity to those who do support Putin, but if something worse happens, we will go down with them, so I hate those people who wish Russia to collapse too. Big f.. to them
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  30.  @Tribuneoftheplebs  well so far the right moment hasn't come. They are organising in a way they can, mostly in emigration, cause many people were lost due to being jailed. Look say at Ilya Yashin, who was regularly reporting on what is going on on his youtube channel and constantly expressing anti-war ideas until he too was put in prison cause refused to leave Russia. Many opposition leaders who emigrated focus on informing the Russian speaking internet users about the truth. In fact number of subscribers to their channels sky rocketed, so many people seem to need that independent information
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  31.  @reddix435  most of them you don't know about cause they don't care about changing your mind and produce their information in Russian, not in English. And the things like people blowing up and setting on fire conscription offices in Russia wouldn't be reported in Western media. They happen one by one. Why do you expect what you see to be the only thing that is happening? Are you in kindergarten? When something is out of your sight it doesn't exist anymore?
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  32.  @puraLusa  his inner circle will replace him at some point. Maybe even poison him to do so. They will stab him in the back the moment they see the opportunity. Miserable man has only miserable possible end
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  33. That is actually one of the more unlikely regions to secede from Russia. There are clear criteria that you can use to estimate the likelihood of certain regions doing so. And Karelia (plus Karelian Isthmus where I live, which isn't part of Republic of Karelia, but a part of Leningrad oblast) score very low on all of them
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  34. Most of people who have that many kids in Russia are alcoholics and others like that who only have kids to live on benefits, or religious fanatics. Kids in both groups hardly grow up well, and do become a net lose rather than net gain for social good, because they aren't well adjusted members of society. Unfortunately. Those kids are usually abused or neglected. No therapy is available for them. I don't want more kids to be in that terrible situation
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  35. ​ @TheJosephPrice nope. "Returning" somewhere where some of your ancestors supposedly lived 2000 years ago and kicking out everyone, who lived there in the meantime, is not anything that any sane pro-indigenous person would ever support. By this logic if you support Israel, why don't you support the idea of indigenous people doing something like that to whities in the Americas or Australia? Because you know it's BS. Or you have double standards. Also, guess who actually has been proven to be more genetically similar to ancient people of Israel/Palestine - Palestinians or Ashkenazi Israelis? I think you know the answer. Ashkenazi are much more European than Middle Eastern for centuries already
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  36. Nope, its problems are different in nature. They don't have as big of mortality rate as Russia did since the 90s.
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  37. December - 9 months after March lol
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  38. If you send a lot of people to die, many of them will die. Shocking, I know
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  39. Britain invaded half of the world in the past. Noone should forgive you, ever, then
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  40.  @Robert-xy4xi  most Ukrainian refugees will return after the war ends. That is how it works. The war is still there. The cities all over Ukraine are being bombed
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  41.  @antony6799  Putin can even barely keep the small percentage of Ukrainian territory he currently occupies, and he lost so much military equipment that he would have nothing to attack another, even the smallest country, with. Believe me I live in Russia very close to Finnish border, and most of troops and almost all working equipment which were stationed in local and regional military bases here, is now out in Ukraine being destroyed by HIMARS. Finland would have higher chances of success if they invaded, rather than if Putin invaded them. Also, it is not true that European countries would be in-fighting. The UK has left the EU, and they still support Ukraine as much as EU countries. Your assumption is weak
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  42. "lets return our lost territories" is exactly what drives Putin now. How can anyway say similar things while being against Putin is beyond me. It is my home too, ancestral including, starting in 1952 when my mom was born in Vyborg. You have no more right to it than we do,no matter in what state or where are the borders, I don't care about it. I just don't want regular people to be treated as second class citizens like Russian speakers were treated for.a long time in Estonia and Latvia ("non-citizens")
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  43.  @rhea7756  true, Russian speakers are 92% of population instead of 80%
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  44. These polls are horse sh*t Most people refuse to even talk about the situation. So yeah 81% out of 5-10% who don't refuse to answer, support Putin. Such a useful statistic
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  45. Russia also has a much higher mortality, smartass. That isthe issue. People here die much younger than in Japan or western Europe, and it has been so since the 90s
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  46. Most countries could operate with 5 times less population just like they did most of their history, if the population decline happens very slowly. But pro-natalists like to fear monger and call any even tiny population decline "we are dying out"
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  47. Their population started declining last year. Their birth rate is one of the lowest in the world Their efforts to increase it failed. Is that enough?
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  48. Many leaders of non-western countries including China already do hint to Putin that he better end this war. There were signs of this even months ago. But he won't listen cause for him it is the biggest project of his life - his attempt at "reuniting three east Slavic nations", he imagines himself as greater than Peter the great or something. Plus he knows that was the point of no return - no way he will be allowed to stay a free man if he loses the war and loses his power.
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  49.  @bobjoe8131  because all distinction between Europe and Asia are made up. All those European and Asian countries are Eurasian countries, because that is the actual landmass
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  50. Nope
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