Comments by "Anita K" (@Anita-k) on "Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics" channel.

& BTW on the topic of John Maersheimer ... Ukrainian voices like Operator Starsky despise Maersheimer, in their eyes he's just a "russia apologist", bc he's basically saying "oh, we/the West have sent confusing signals to poor putin and that's why he felt forced to k¡ll millions", as if putin/russia were these mentally challenged people/patients, who tend to take everything the wrong way by far too easily. Which just isn't true, Ukraine applied for NATO membership for the first time roughly in ~2008 (I believe) and Ukraine was rejected back then, so there were no "confusing western signals" to russia at all IMO. I'm actually dumbfounded, that Maersheimer is still allowed to teach his bs in US schools/universities. In 2022, I went through a very short phase of watching his content and partially sharing his opinions, but I ended up telling myself "nope no way, whatever he says doesn't justify at all russia first invading Crimea and then starting their full scale invasion of Ukraine ~1000+ days ago!" Admittedly Maersheimer is a very persuasive individual and of course I can see, why people fall for his arguments, bc he's a professor or something ... but his arguments only work on an audience, who's willing to fully trust his judgements, doesn't have any spare time to dig deeper into historic events and already tends to "two side" russia and Ukraine, referring to the 2 russian invasions of Ukraine, as if russia would need a specific reason for trying to rebuild their so called "lost empire". Maersheimer has mostly russian and pro-ru fans, bc they feel vindicated and united in their shared dislike for the West ... he doesn't seem to understand though, that his contrarian takes only work in the West with "free speech*", but his arguments certainly won't fly in russia proper, if he'd put himself out there to state: "it's mainly also russia's fault".🤦 * Whatever we in the West might define and understand as "free speech", which seems to be a very wishy washy thing all together and super hard to explain for most of us ... the russians mostly love "free speech", when it benefits them greatly, other than that they dislike it a lot and they made laws against it for people still living inside their country. Just look at the beef they've with Google/Youtube for quite some time now.
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Yeah it has to be hard to get trustworthy news in Hungary, I totally get it bc my daddy's an exile Hungarian who's fled to the West in 1956. & Bc he doesn't live there anymore, he also doesn't understand why so many Hungarians have voted for Orbán, he's literally ashamed and crying about it ... and after the 1st one and a half years of russia's invasion of Ukraine his sadness turned into illness last October and he just can't recover, he's 85 now and of course goes to the doctor but we're all a bit clueless and suspect it made him depressive that he doesn't understand his fellow people from his original home country anymore.
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@besarlim781 Not really, bc Ukraine didn't invade itself and would've loved to stay and trade peacefully. All op is saying is that we'd also win access to important minerals and need to support Ukraine.
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I always appreciate listening to your interesting discussions ... thank you so very much, Pyotr and Jake!
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Thank you for the warning! (However I'm sure different countries and people get different ads, like e.g. I also get many local ones and don't remember seeing an ad for a mini WiFi cam ... could be my fault though bc my brain turns off during ads anyways).
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This video is only a shorter clip, Pyotr took from their longer, 33+ minutes interview - that was uploaded ~1 day prior - you can easily find it by pressing/clicking on Pyotr's profile picture and/or his channel name, which brings you to his YouTube channel page and then look below "videos" there. The longer interview is directly below this clip, there're no other videos inbetween the two. (Pyotr also explains there, why he'll take short clips from their longer interview). 💙💛
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@theglobalgambit Audio was ok for me, not sure if you've fixed it later on but I really can't complain.
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@theglobalgambit PS. I'd love to hear your guest's take on bitcoin - if you two ever have this convo why bitcoin won't work as currency reserve, please record and upload it here - I've been sceptical about it for a while, so I'd really like to know. Thank you so very much, merry Christmas, have great holidays and a happy New Year.
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@teeong1645 I'm so sorry this happened to you, seriously!🤗 One would think, they* would be super selective choosing businesses they officially PARTNER WITH for ads and would also be more concerned about our safety, but it feels they aren't and it's all about greed. * G/YT Guess such cons have to impact some really influential people with huge social media followings first - meaning folks who can afford to make a real fuss about getting betrayed through ads - then they'll be forced to take actions. Not sure it'll play out like this but I hope it will.
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@teeong1645 I'm so sorry this happened to you, seriously!🤗 I really hope you can resolve this issue and that the damage to you isn't too high ... besides that I don't even know what to say bc my first reply attempt just disappeared a few secs ago. It said something along the lines of "this bs has to impact influential folks first, maybe then something will be done about it, at least I hope so." So much to "do no harm", (which, in case you've missed it, was once the Google+ motto several years ago).
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@teeong1645 I'm happy to hear you'll get a refund this time! This "site" belongs to Google btw.
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Wow I was surprised that the video was already nearly over when you mentioned a teaser for part 2 towards the end, it felt like I've only been watching for ~5 minutes, guess that's a good sign!
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