Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "The Icarus Project" channel.

  1. And many morrrrre! 🙂
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  2. Bad start: Inflation, in this case in Russia, emphatically does not mean, as you claim, that "the government is increasingly running out of cash." It's exactly, 180 degrees, the opposite: inflation occurs when the government creates more and more cash. In the classical 17th century Rule, "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." Too much money chasing too few goods. You may have a subjective truth: governments print more and more money because they feel as though they need it. They may believe what you say, that they're running out of cash. That's usually because they're spending too much, often for a particularly stupid war, as in Russia's case right now. But the feeling if false; the fact is they're swimming in cash. That's what inflation is. Too much cash.
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  3. Russia is what Canada was called a hundred years ago: a raiload in search of a country. The difference is, Canada had and has a loyal and productive population all across the middle. Russia has a Moslem Middle and a Mongol Tip, with the occasional little village of Muscovy bureaucrats here and there along the rails. Putin's stupid war against Ukraine, which he is very surprised to see himself losing, in just a personal, one-man effort to distract himself from the rality: Russia's prolem isn't just in all the old European "republics" the Soviets lost: it's everything east of the urals -- what the Tsars were able to amass only because the easterners couldn't take a cheap plane ride to civilization in the 1870s.
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  4. My wife and I crossed Siberia by train in 1972. The coaches were made in India, and an Indian student on the train told us that they were much better than the Indian coaches in use in India: they'd made better stuff for export than they made for themselves. The problem may be that they had all the train coaches they needed a generation ago. What are they going to do now, paper all their public toilets' walls with rupees?
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  5. Forget about Siberia: In the middle there are all those Muslim "Republics" who would much rather be getting cheques from the Gulf than paying taxes to Moscow. Ukraine is largely a matter of Putin distracting himself from his even bigger worries everywhere east of the Urals.
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  6.  @tomgreene7942  My wife and I crossed Russia and Siberia (No, they're not quite two different countries -- yet.) by plane to Novisibirsk and then the train several days to the coast, and we had the chance to chat with two of our guides. One, a young woman from Intourist, back in the west, took us around a museum and invited us to hate on photographs of ugly subhuman Chinese on its walls; she seemed genuinely puzzled that we didn't guy her shtick. The other, an older man who had served in the Army during WWII, but apparently without quite enough servitude, told us how much he loved life in Siberia. The pay -- back in Soviet days, anyway -- was high, and you could go hunting and put meat on the table just walking distance out of town. Best of all, he told us with a smile, "They can't send you to Siberia."
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  7. At 13:05, the word you're looking for is "beneficiaries," not "benefactors." The Russians you're talking about were the recipients of the benefactions.
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  8. A thief being said to have been caught "red handed" while Russia had had a Red government thirty years earlier is not a pun, intended or not. That it comes up at all, with no connection whatsoever to the thread of the story, is simply one more evidence that the narrator is a half-wit and Icarus has no editors.
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  9. This would be wonderful if true, but the claim is odd: income from weapons makes it easy to buy food. Where's the evidence for food shortages in North Korea?
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  10. You've managed to pronounce "Putin." Well done. It's a relief not being subjected to your usual Neanderthal grunt "pooh-hin." Now then, can you get a handle on that brih-unhn thingie? Just try putting the T back in "Britain," the way you did for "Putin." You can do it if you try! (Your yobbo pronunciation apart, your analysis is fine: well done and thank you...)
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  11. "Major military power"? Buncha damn pirates. The Church of England finally got around to taking protection from them damn Scandinavians out of the Book of Common Prayer only in 1957.
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  12. Icarus, The word you're looking for is "eight," ending in a T. That provincial "aye" doesn't hack it, fella.
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  13. The Russian leader's name is Putin, not Poo-in.
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  14. Putin: pu'-tin. With a T. Your "pooh-in" thing makes you sound like a half-wit.
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  15. people: pee-pul. not pee-ul. A second P in the middle. Your mispronunciations are genuinely unpleasant after the first one or two. Just stop it, OK?
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  16. Putin: pu-tin. Not your strangled pou-ghhin. Try it. It's the letter T. Maybe ask a friend to show you how if you can't figure it out...
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  17. Sorry, Fella, that T in Putin isn't silent, it's pronounced -- and mispronouncing the name of a person you're criticising is really, really infantile.
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  18.  @icarusproject  Nope: getting people's names right is a basic requirement of decency in reporting. Pleading your birthplace as an excuse for an insult is a cheap cheat. Admittedly the insult fades when you do it repeatedly and often. Then you just sort of fade out into sounding like a halfwit. It's a pity, because your report is overall pretty sound.
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  19. Putin: poo-tim. Not poo in. Lofty: loff-tee. Not loh fee. Get a friend to show you how the letter T works if you can't figure it out for yourselves.
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  20. This is interesting speculation, but it is 100% speculation. There isn't a relevant fact in the entire bundle, just pretty pictures and empty talk. The entire video has just one, pluasible but unverified, claim: There is grift around the edges of the Russian military, lots of small stuff stolen, therefore the entire nuclear weapons establishment is impotent. This is just hope and hype. It would be nice if it were true. Now let's see some evidence please.
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  21. The Russian oligarchs are going to destroy the marketable parts of that forestry very very quickly: China is building housing for its growing middle class, and Siberia is going to pay for it.
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  22. Importance -- with a T: im-pore-tance. Your impor-unce thingie is truly weird. Ditto for "important."
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  23. There are only two G's in "bringing." It's bring-ing, not bring-ging.
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  24.  @michaelmappin1830  Agreed. The fact is Russia has a few successes, e.g. Sputnik and nuclear weapons, but across the board they were incompetent under the Soviets. Under gangster capitalism they have had no reason to become good at weapons.
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  25. Inner action? Do you mean "interaction"? Ee chuther? I think you're trying to say "each other." Russher? "Russia" perhaps? Pooh-inn? You know it's "Putin": you get it right maybe two thirds of the time. The script is well written and intellligent. The slovenly reading is a damn shame.
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  26. Around 9:20: "...when guerillas crash into their platoons"??? Crashing into platoons is what tanks, not guerillas, try to do. Guerillas stay away from platoons, and tend to snipe at officers, set traps for tanks, and blow up supplies.
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  27. Putin, is pronounced poo'tin, with a t. You put your tongue just behind yur upper teeth and withdraw it while you expel your breath:T! There: not difficult. I know it feels more You-tooby to have a stoo-pid mispronunciation as part of your repetoire -- but you don't absolutely have to. Your poo-in thing is a bit too silly even for Youtube.
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