Comments by "Vaska Tumir" (@vaska1999) on "The New Atlas" channel.

  1. We need to start sending letters and emails to the Chilean embassy in Kiev, the US embassy in Kiev, the US State Department, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch demanding that they intervene without delay with the authorities in Ukraine to demand the immediate release of Gonzalo Lira
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  2. How can Thailand tolerate such violence and thuggery?! The sooner it kicks all NGOs out, the better. I hope the Thai monarchy acts without further delay to preserve the country's sovereignty from this "democracy" promoting opposition. Please take good care of yourself and your family, Brian. ❤️
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  3. I do follow the Duran guys, but as time passes, I find Brian's analysis less speculative and more straightforward, which I greatly appreciate.
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  4. Merry Christmas to Brian and the guests! Thank you all for the fantastic work you're doing. ❤️👏
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  5. I can't thank you enough for your indefatigable high-value work, Brian!
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  6. Greetings, gratitude, and best wishes from Canada!
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  7. May I note how stylish and debonaire Brian is today. 😍 A pleasure to watch as well as to listen to for the unrivalled quality of his analysis.
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  8. 41, not 10. The defence ministers of 41 NATO and Western-satellite countries meet monthly at a US military base in Germany to plot their ongoing participation in this war. Mother Russia will NOT be beaten. ❤️
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  9. A superb overview of the currently known situation in Syria, complete with a masterful backgrounder of the conflict there. Brian is simply brilliant!
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  10. Immense gratitude to and respect for Brian for producing these first-rate analyses for us!
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  11. The Duran guys are good, but the one is way too verbose and seemingly enamoured of his own voice and the other too much like infotainment, so I'm always overjoyed when I see you have a new video out Reliable, calm, objective, and to the point: a low bow to you, Brian, as Russians say to express the deepest of respects. 👏
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  12. Thank you, Brian, for your stellar, indefatigable work!
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  13. Consider also that before the war, there were already 4-5 million Ukrainians living and working in Russia to support their families back home. This is not counting the 2+ million refugees who fled to Russia since February 2022 or the millions who live in the four regions that have seceded from Ukraine and joined (or rejoined, since they were parts of Russia until Lenin gave them away) Russia.
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  14. Because they'd get bombed in retaliation. A far better option would be not to allow the likes of Samantha Powers and Victoria Nuland in in the first place.
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  15. 100%.
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  16. Brian, thank you for your superbly clear explanation of the real situation on the ground. I can now accept a temporary loss of Kherson, if it happens, with equanimity.
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  17. Yes.
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  18. They've already evacuated 115,000 civilians, out of 180,000, and Shoigu has given the order to evacuate EVERYONE who wants to leave.
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  19. Not even then. The last time Jews lived in the area of Golan Heights before Israel occupied it in 1967 was 2000 years ago. Russians have a history of continuous residence in the area called Novorossiya (the 4 regions that voted to rejoin Russia, plus the Odessa and Kharkov regions) for the simple reason that they were parts of Russia until just ten decades ago when Lenin annexed them to Russia's easternmost borderlands (the Ukraine) in order to create a new proletarian Soviet republic, thereby creating Ukraine as a country.
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  20. I'm still struggling with just how criminally corrupt the Filipino leadership is to turn down the Chine offer of 60:40 in favour of the Philippines for the US offer of 20:80 in favour of the IS! The politicians and civil servants who did this should be charged with treason.
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  21. A country of barely 150 million, and an economy ranked 6th in the world, is proving to be more than a match for a military alliance of roughly 800 million that accounts for 25%-30% of the global economic output. This may be impossible for the collective West to acknowledge let alone grasp, but the rest of the world is sniggering at it increasingly to its face. Witness the BRICS expansion and the developments in Africa.
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  22. We've become a country here in Canada that celebrates Nazis. Explains why during the previous decade we regularly voted against the UN resolution to condemn the glorification of Nazism and fascism. And why we have a Deputy Prime Minister who's an ardent fan of Stepan Bandera, a truly phychopathic Ukrainian Nazi collaborator. Both to absolutely no protest from the Canadian public.
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  23.  @jpnewman1688  Let's hope it doesn't come to that. What puzzles me is the suicidal passivity shown by the public in Europe.
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  24. How can that be legal?! It's clearly discrimination based on one's ethnicity.
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  25. Glad that you're a little better now, and many thanks for this update.
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  26. Go to the nearest Syrian embassy or consulate -- or phone them, if they're too far from where you live -- and ask how you can help. They're accepting donations in goods and money from private citizens, too.
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  27. The US has lost Turkey, Egypt, the Arab world in general, Africa, and has brought about unprecedentedly close relations between Russia and China (alliance in all but name).
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  28. You know the answer to that. It's obvious. In any case, NATO and other Western officials have stated repeatedly that Ukraine is fighting Russia for them, for NATO.
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  29.  @momokui  Indonesia has never really recovered from the genocide of its brightest and best the US directly supported. Obama's mother and stepfather took part in that atrocity.
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  30. True. Thailand's been terribly complacent for decades.
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  31. To further support Brian's meticulous analysis of the Ukrainian counter-offensive: Germany's minister of defence stated yesterday that Ukraine's current territorial gains will make no difference to the final outcome of this conflict.
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  32. Or open military bases in Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba...
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  33. YouTube now consistently fails to alert me to when you've posted a new video. I first noticed this concerning your channel, specifically, a few weeks ago.
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  34.  @СтаниславГрознов  In terms of moral support, Russia has the support of 75% of the world. Militarily, Russia is fighting the collective West pretty much on its own and WINNING. ❤️
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  35. Truth.
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  36. Not just the government of the day but the entire political class in the US.
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  37. ​ @AndyFromBeaverton  Crimea has NEVER had even 30% Ukrainian population.
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  38.  @zhangruyi3153  As soon as de-dollarization is complete.
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  39. There are a few thousand North Korean construction workers in Russia, yes, but they've been there for quite a number of years. Soldiers, though? No. NATO itself has already issued a statement that it can't confirm Ukrainian claims, i.e. a polite way of saying Kiev's lying.
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  40. The sooner the world ditches the dollar, the better for world peace. Btw, Brian's Buy Me a Coffee membership options start at $5 a month. Even people on a fixed income can afford that much.
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  41. How despicable of them. A racism they learned from their colonial masters, first Spain and then the US?
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  42. This will go on for a little longer, a decade or two perhaps, but not beyond that. For the simple reason that the US and its European satellites are being eclipsed economically by BRICS+ countries, whose combined economic production already exceeds that of the collective West. As the West continues its descent to proportionality, its influence in the UN will also decline. By the end of this century, the West will be economically as well as population-wise a marginal part of the world, as it should be. After all, it represents only 14% of humanity.
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  43. 😅
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  44. The EU is trying to put together a huge fund to use to try to procure ammo for Ukraine from all over the world. I don't know how realistic that plan is, but if it succeeds, Russia may end up facing something a lot more difficult than up till now. The decision to go slow in Ukraine could end up costing Russia a hell of a lot more than the alternative it chose not to take. I suspect that the people in Kremlin are still woefully hobbled by their own sentimental delusions about Ukraine as a brotherly nation.
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  45. Honourable and debonair! Thank you for all the work you do to keep us properly informed.
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  46. ​ @shenzhong2942 None are so blind as those who won't see.
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  47. Absurd?! It's a very common thing -- all of Europe's doing just that!
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  48. Russia's bleeding NATO dry, in fact.
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  49. I've been saying the same thing for the past two days. Ritter was right back in May and people need to apologize to him.
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  50. 😅
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  51. Thank you, Brian, for your tireless work of first-class geopolitical analysis.
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  52. ​​ @Samuel-hd3cp Losing 9,000 of your best trained and equipped forces for a PR stunt may be a tactical success but it's a strategic idiocy of mega proportions.
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  53. I remember him saying a few years ago that "Russia has many Putins" -- I'm sure he's already planning his succession with the usual care he brings to all his tasks.
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  54. Uncle Sam's been at it for decades, and all over the world.
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  55. Kiev's been lying, and spectacularly, from Day 1.
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  56. ​​ @comingviking It's about using civilians as human shields. Ukraine's been doing it from day 1. A war crime.
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  57. OMG!
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  58. What a great idea, product, and company! Really impressive. I particularly like that the founder actually cares about agricultural labour, too.
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  59. 41, not 30.
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  60. The real question is why. And how did they manage to do that?!
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  61. She's a member of the tribe, steeped in its ways.
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  62. 🎯
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  63. Privet from Serbia! ❤️
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  64. ​ @justsilas37  It may surprise you to learn that outside the collective West (a mere 14% of humanity), it's NATO that's seen as a paper tiger and Russia as the #1 military superpower today.
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  65. ​ @captainamericaamerica8090 Dima's married to a Ukrainian*nationalist' and it shows. He tries to be objective, but he frequently indulges in fantasies about Ukraine.
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  66. Too arrogant. Their overweening vanity made them underestimate Russia all along.
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  67. Exactly.
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  68. Brian, you're an international treasure! People from all around the world watch your videos and look forward to each new one. I don't think I can emphasize enough how valuable your painstakingly researched analyses are. Thank you for the work you do. Much appreciated!
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  69. ​ nasumaa83  Kiev is well outside Galicia. Ukraine's a nation that's been rotting from within for at least the past 30 years.
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  70. ​ @AizenSosuke_3d  The richest in natural resources and industrial capacity, both.
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  71. You're giving up your neutrality -- the absolute key to your security -- so as to serve as a first-time country in a future US war against Russia. You must have a very strong self-destruction drive not to be out in the streets, toppling this government and all the MPs who voted in favour of joining NATO.
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  72. ​@ytsertd333 Just ask them if they want to end up like Ukraine.
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  73. They, too?! What idiots! 😂
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  74.  @natalya793  Thankfully, Russia's jettisoning the idiotic Bologna agreement on education (the dimming down of the European education systems) and re-introducing its own previous approach.
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  75. Their own size? NATO-sphere has a population of roughly 800 million, Russia 148. Its members' combined economies are many times that of Russia. And NATO's getting humiliated (again -- even Afghani Taliban managed to beat NATO in the end).
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  76. ​ @iRelevant.47.system.boycott  That, and a lot of bare faced lying.
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  77. The US needs to fall apart into several regional sovereign countries.
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  78. ​ @andrebalsa203  There's no such plan now but Russia did propose a railway line going from Portugal all the way to Vladivostok, as both a trade and a peace initiative at once. The EU's war-mongering racists turned the idea down.
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  79. And after shelling the civilians in Donbass, which they continue to do day in and day out. A war crime a day.
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  80. Private (public) school education. Either that or an exceptional talent for languages (found in about 1% of the population).
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  81. 😅
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  82. Because it's Russian territory Lenin annexed to the borderlands to form a new nation, Ukraine. The Russians were ok with that until Kiev began assaulting the civilians of Donbass in 2014.
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  83. Because all of that is Russian territory which Lenin annexed to the Borderlands in order to firm a new Soviet Republic called the Ukraine. After the dissolution of the USSR, most Russians were ok with that until Kiev began shelling the civilians of Donbass, the overwhelming majority of whom are ethnic Russians, the descendants of the people whose land the communists had annexed to the Borderlands/Ukraine.
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  84. The political contexts of the two events are also markedly different. Vietnam was of no importance for the security of the USA, whereas what happens on or close to Russia's borders is clearly of extreme importance for its security interests. The public back home in Russia understand this very clearly and will only renew their demands to intensify the engagement in Ukraine.
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  85. It's sickening. 🤮
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  86. Another essential analysis of what's really going on in Myanmar! And as Brian remarks at the end, if anything, China's not doing enough to protect itself from Belt & Road subversion and attempted US "containment" from Myanmar. Reminiscent of Russia's (in hindsight counterproductive) 8-year patience and forbearance with Ukraine.
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  87. ​ @matthewfusaro2590  They had excellent satellite imagery of the depth of defenses the Russians have set up over the past 6-8 months, i.e. since their first troop mobilization (I'm calling it the first because I suspect we may see at least one more). So they knew things would be very different this time. I attribute what we're seeing to the absolute callousness on Zelensky's part and on the part of those of his Western enablers both in the US and the EU who really do want to fight this proxy war to the last Ukrainian. Some of these people are simply irrational in their ethnic hatred of Russia and the Russians..
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  88. ​ @bluechurch776  Except that Lavrov is so giddy with their talks in Rhyad, he's practically Americans "our partners" all over again. Here's an excerpt: “I believe the discussions were highly productive,” Lavrov said, adding, “Not only did we listen, but we genuinely heard each other.” He further stated that he had reason to believe the American side “now has a clearer understanding of Russia’s position,” as it had been “thoroughly detailed” using specific examples drawn from President Putin’s numerous statements.
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  89. A lot of Ukrainians understand it, too. That's why they're doing their very best to avoid conscription.
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  90. And by the sheer amount of production China does. In production terms, it's outranked the US and EU combined!
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  91. ​ @JohnDoe-zb5mt They have not yet reached the FIRST of Russian defense lines, that's how "good" they've been so far. Three months, and losses to the tune of 60,000 men, NOT to reach let alone breach just the first of several Russian defense lines is probably the worst any Western proxy force has ever performed. Ukraine was forced into this utterly disastrous offensive (nothing counter about it) by US neocons, notably Victoria Nuland and her family. I remember her bragging back in March how "we" had spent months training, equipping and preparing Ukrainian forces for a spring "counteroffensive" and how glorious it was going to be.
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  92. Shoigu announced it yesterday: 70,000 volunteers who will be added to the 300,000 reservists, 200,000 of whom are already in training.
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  93.  @ZOFIELHERRERA-wy3yo  You can scream "wrong" as much as you like, but it's just facts.
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  94. This will drag on for a while because the collective West is still egging on Kiev to fight and not to return to the negotiating table.
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  95. ​ @radicalmind5742  It was a political mistake on Putin's part: he thought, as it did seem plausible at the time, that a small expeditionary force, which is what the Russians originally started with, would serve to bring Ukraine to the negotiating table and make actual war unnecessary. And it almost worked: Ukraine did initial the peace agreement worked out in Turkey in March 2022.
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  96. ​ @cango5679  Zelensky won the 2019 elections on a platform promising the implementation of the Minsk Accords and the re-establishment of friendly relations with Russia. He got 70% of the vote (none of which came from Donbas, since the people of Donbas were deprived of their right to vote). It's reasonable to assume that many of those who'd expected the implementation of the Minsk Accords from Zelensky but got a bloody proxy war attrition with Russia no longer support him.
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  97. ​ @yxmichaelxyyxmichaelxy3074 And lost the war and his entire army in the end! 😂
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  98. The possibility of NATO directly intervening in Ukraine (beyond the proxy war parameters, that is) is what has been worrying me for months now. I think Russia's biggest mistake has been its decision not to finish this quickly, using it's overwhelming military power. There are reports now from the front that the Russian forces have been regularly ordered to stand down precisely when they are at the point of decisively routing the Ukrainian forces. iEarlGrey talks about it in a video he posted on Dec. 30 it 31.
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  99. First-rate analysis, as always. I can't emphasize enough the enormous respect I have for Brian and his unassailable integrity.
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  100. I very much hope you're right.
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  101. It's terrible watching it unfold before our eyes and not being able to do much about it.
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  102. 100% deserved. Brian should have an audience of millions, in fact!
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  103. Twitter or Facebook. I also can't recall which.
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  104. On my advice, my sister took the Sinovac rather than Pfizer shots in Belgrade, Serbia. She never had the slightest problems as a result. I took Pfizer shots here in Canada, only to end up with an erratic blood pressure and a wrecked immune system -- as well as two more rounds of covid-19.
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  105. In a word, the oligarchs.
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  106.  @BobWidlefish  I find it too hectic even at 1.5. 😅
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  107. I wish they would, but I'm afraid too many are brainwashed into believing those are their best/only options.
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  108. ​ @westbenchmancave  Ditto here.
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  109. ❤
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  110. And ever! ❤️
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  111. What Soviet or Russian threats?
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  112. It means preventing the other country from developing it's economy and prospering.
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  113. The weapons they've given to Ukraine are without exception their second best.
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  114. ​ @djalfordnz  I don't understand why they ever elected another member of the Marcos family mafia.
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  115. Thailand needs to throw out all of the Western funded NGOs still operating in the country
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  116.  @barrieroberts75  A massive California earthquake is a certainty. So is a huge earthquake in the Boston area. The only unknown is when.
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  117. The Forbes article literally makes no sense: why on earth would Ukraine need more tanks from its masters in the West if it's captured hundreds of Russian tanks?!
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  118. Their job is to tell Americans what to think. Truthfulness would be inimical to that goal.
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  119.  @JuanTorres-ny9ff  Of course it can! Don't be naïve.
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  120. There are miles long tunnels into and out of Bakhmut. Some of the Ukrainian forces may well have withdrawn from the city using those.
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  121. Brian shows you a study on these weapons done by the US Army itself, and you say you don't believe it. Ok.
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  122. I very much hope you're right.
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  123. Those are the servants of power, mere puppets, not the puppeteers. The ones in control are the oligarchs themselves.
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  124. A meaningless, totally cynical apology. They knew exactly whom and what they were celebrating.
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  125. US governments just carry out the will of their donors, the US corporations.
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  126. So why don't you tell us what Dominion's production numbers actually are?
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  127. The Islamic Republic is about 40 years old.
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  128. No problem, Brian. Great to see you have subtitles in Thai now. I don't speak or read the language, but it's really good that the Thais now have access to your geopolitical analyses.
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  129. As it de-dollarizes itself, I hope the world treats the collective West as it deserves to be treated. Treat others as you wish to be treated yourself, and, conversely, with 50% of mercy.
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  130. On top of which, he was lying as always, accusing Russia of what Ukraine's been doing.
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  131. Brian's videos about Thailand should be part of every highschool civics class in the kingdom.
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  132. Love and support from Canada.
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  133. ​ @vestasharp6861 They knew what they were during.
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  134. Good news, surely.
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  135. You obviously prefer to live in blissful ignorance since you take such umbrage at anyone analyzing Trump's campaign manifesto.
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  136. Israel victorious? What drugs are you on?! 😅
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  137. He's already discussed it in a number of his recent videos.
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  138. ​ @palawanjungledays3099  Only if it's completely lost its mind.
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  139. That small boy was gleefully shelling civilians for 8 years straight. Looks like a bully to me.
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  140. ​ mcnuffin1208 😂😂😂
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  141. Exactly.
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  142. ​ @boomengerinaldo6103  I'd be surprised if it wasn't, given that it's something done in other countries all over the world. But then, who knows what the "exceptionalists" do? 😜
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  143. Go directly to the Syrian embassy. Don't bother with the Red Cross.
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  144. What they're doing is just awful. As Mr Martyanov put it the other day, Russian forces are by now begging them to "Please, stop! We're sick of killing you!"
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  145. The effrontery, rather.
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  146. It's sheer madness. And the European population in their various countries is idiotically passive about preventing another major war on the subcontinent. We Europeans aren't as smart as we imagine ourselves to be...
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  147. Zelensky doesn't care for Ukrainian lives. It's that simple.
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  148. ​ @ОлекЛис  That's awful! 😢
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  149. They offered to surrender only once they were told nobody was coming to take their wounded and help them retreat. Abandoned by their own side, they sought Russian help for their wounded and surrendered as a unit. The wounded are now being given medical assistance by the Russians and the rest are being processed to determine if they'd been involved in any war crimes (standard Russian procedure).
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  150. Better that than its opposite.
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  151. ​ @oliviasukamto947  No. They know they're lying.
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  152. Perhaps not large, but NATO forces/officers are certainly present on the ground in Ukraine.
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  153. Me too.
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  154. Straight out of Western MSM.
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  155. I hope China, Russia, and the other BRICS and ASEAN countries, as well as Africa and South America, have people following Brian's videos, taking notes, and passing their summaries to the highers up.
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  156.  @pessi6185  It got pulled as it was streaming. I've never seen anything like it.
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  157. Armenia needs to formally ask the CSTO for military assistance. Like NATO, the CSTO is then obliged to consider the request and respond to it if legitimate.
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  158. It's not any kind of socialism, that's how. Just because you call something by a name doesn't make it so.
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  159. ​ @ohsweetmystery  Massive losses of soldiers.
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  160. Far, far worse.
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  161.  @onerxowns2202  Gerasimov will be the overall commander. Surovikin will now serve as one of Gerasimov's deputies, as well as the general in command of the air operations.
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  162. The lack of integrity in our post-secondary education, in what we choose to highlight and what to omit from our curricula, is one of the signs typical of civilizational decay. It's absolutely mind-boggling that one can go through graduate school in the humanities or social sciences without learning the real history and behaviour of one's own country. Not your fault, of course.
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  163. Likewise.
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  164. Amen.
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  165. All the US needs to do give up its pretensions to exceptionalism, dismantle its hundreds of military bases abroad, accept the rule of international law (which it itself helped draft), and join the rest of the human race, engage in fair competition and co-operation with others. It's really as simply as that.
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  166. The real story of the liberation of Bakhmut is yet to be told. Like everyone else, Russians fell for Prigozhin's admittedly masterful PR.
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  167. Yes, your numbers are more realistic.
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  168. The latter. Bulgaria doesn't have the industrial base 1/3 of that of Germany or even of the largely de-industrialized UK. It simply can't pull that off.
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  169. That's exactly the conclusion you're meant to reach.
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  170. ​ @GonzoJohnny  I don't see the Duran as propagandists, but I do agree that they're absurdly self-blinded about Trump. I also find their studied failure to speak up about the genocide in Palestine morally despicable. 🫤
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  171.  @OutragedPufferfish  Yes, Ukraine was a national Soviet Republic because Lenin made it into one by chopping off Russian territories (all of Novorossiya) and annexing them to the Borderlands (ukraina). Had it not been for Lenin's well-known anti-Russia animus and his ideologically driven program of encouraging all nationalisms except the Russian one, Ukraine would never have come into being at all.
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  172. You seriously saying the West has a quality advantage?! It's American and German tanks that are on display in Moscow as war trophies, not the other way round. The Brits had the sense to tell Ukrainians none of their tanks could be used on the battlefront. 😂
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  173. ​ mcnuffin1208 😂😂😂
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  174. Yes, please!
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  175. 👍😅
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  176. ​ @billybond4148  Perfectly healthy street food is so cheap in Asia that in Thailand, for instance, Thai people (except for those who live in villages) rarely if ever cook at home. An excellent system that supports the local economy and frees up people's time.
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  177. How would that be a fair trade? The territory Russia's taken is Russian lands the communists annexed to Ukraine without asking the people if they agreed to it. In contrast, the territory Ukrainians are running around in in Russia has never been Ukrainian.
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  178. ​ @innercynic2784 In this case, it does: they actually elected another member of the Marcos family mafia and are getting exactly what they deserve.
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  179. What did Filipinos expect when they elected -- gave power to -- yet another member of the Marcos family mafia? Prosperity and good relations with their neighbours? 😅
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  180. This is normal for the US, not a matter of a particular administration. The US has been stirring up, staging and provoking coups d'etat, wars, invasions, annexations, and regime change operations almost from its inception. Never stopped doing it in Latin America during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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  181. Or from the heads of the Korean minority living in Russia. 😅
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  182. ​ @IgorMuravyov-o5r  It's already happened. Russia has already defeated the collective West.
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  183. Google is fully controlled by the Deep State.
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  184.  @ewalker1057  That's awful. And unconscionable of the West.
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  185. ​ @calicocat8213  Zelensky got his UK citizenship from Boris Johnson back in 2022. I don't know if he has a third or even a fourth one, as his oligarch mentor Kolomoisky is said to do.
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  186. Yes, he is of Croatian ancestry.
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  187. He said no such thing.😂 Not even remotely.
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  188. Bad news, indeed. 😢 Thai courts should have dissolved these opposition parties regardless of Western support for them. Thailand needs to protect itself instead of giving way to blatant outside pressure.
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  189. Likewise.
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  190. Barring any unforeseen health problems, I also expect him to serve the next two terms, i.e. until 2036.
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  191. We know from officials on the US team who witnessed the giving of those assurances that the Russians are right, so why would I give credence to some former Russian minister who's lost all influence in Moscow and will tell the MSM what they want to hear rather than give credence to American officials who actually stand to lose from telling the truth inconvenient to the US?! 😅
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  192. Defend?! 😂
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  193. I wonder if the people who say such things actually believe them.
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  194. Armenia never applied for help from the CSTO in the first place!
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  195. 😅
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  196. It's not a matter of accountability, which would be impossible to enforce in a system such as ours, but the system itself that makes accountability a no go.
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  197. Another detailed, factual, brilliant analysis by Brian. Thank you so much for the work you do!
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  198. Shame on Canada for so, so much, including this.
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  199. No, they've not had enough time to create proper defenses around and in Artemovsk/Bakhmut.
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  200. If this winter turns to be relatively mild in Europe, as may very well be the case, that gambit won't work out for Russia.
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  201. 😂
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  202. Vaistinu se rodi! 🙂
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  203. That's awful! Thank you for cutting that paragraph from The Spectator.
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  204. How can it understand that when Putin has consistently let it escalate without dealing NATO any punishment?
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  205. Why should he start inventing things now? It is a war of attrition, whether you want to admit it or not.
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  206. Brian's analyzed it at length in a previous video.
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  207. There's no need to destroy Odessa's port. The Dardanelles are closed for the duration of the conflict, so Ukraine can't ship anything by sea without Russia's agreement.
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  208. It never was about Ukraine itself.
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  209. 100% so.
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  210. I listen to Brian's sober, factually based analysis and want to tear my hair out at Lavrov's giddyness in Rhyad. He's all but calling Americans "our partners" all over again. “I believe the discussions were highly productive,” Lavrov said, adding, “Not only did we listen, but we genuinely heard each other.” He further stated that he had reason to believe the American side “now has a clearer understanding of Russia’s position,” as it had been “thoroughly detailed” using specific examples drawn from President Putin’s numerous statements." I can only hope he means: the Americans have finally understood what's non-negotiable for us.
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  211. In your part of the world, yes.
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  212. Nobody does it better than Brian!
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  213. In short, the Tiger turned out to be inferior for the job it needed to do.
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  214. That's brilliant!
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  215. Brian, you're attracting quite a few Ukrobots these days. The order must have come to pepper your comments stream with their bs.
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  216. Unlimited? I doubt it. China is simply smart to resist provocations.
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  217. This was done by Cambodia, not Malaysia!
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  218. Very rare these days.
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  219. Exactly!
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  220. I agree. Something's seriously wrong with this SMO.
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  221. I agree. And yes, Putin's first degree is in law.
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  222. The Russians have been calling it an SMO from the very start.
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  223. Doesn't deserve wasting one's time on, does it?
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  224. Good thing you didn't. Ukrainians mostly just leave their dead to rot in the fields. Last Spring, Russian soldiers would take a break from fighting to dig improvised graves for the poor Ukrainians as Kiev and the Ukrainian army couldn't be bothered.
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  225. You're right about that last: except that the overwhelming majority of the population in those 4 regions see Russians as liberators and protectors, not as occupiers The analogy simply doesn't hold, but your point is a key reason why Russia doesn't want to take all of Ukraine.
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  226. ​ @FugueSt4te  You need to pay more attention to what's going on in Europe, as against what you think is going on. An example of what I mean: The average Brit is already skipping meals because he can't afford 3 meals a day anymore. In June, the number of Brits forced to skip meals had already reached 27%. By the end of last month, it had risen to over 50%.
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  227. They're openly arguing that they need to go to war with China asap, so I don't think they're at all concerned about finding excuses for ramping up ammo production.
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  228. I don't know the exact number but it was well over 1,000 tanks. It's also received a few hundred Soviet era tanks from other East European countries.
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  229. You mean his coverage of NATO's proxy war on Russia.
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  230. Putin.
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  231. ​​ @OO7sMom  Oh no! I pray for Thailand to escape the Empire's clutches! 🙏
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  232. It's a lot more cynical than that. They *know*.
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  233. Indeed!
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  234. The message being, we'll sacrifice our best trained and equipped reserves for a PR stunt. Very scary. 😂
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  235. Having to withdraw from the capital city of a region you just took cannot be construed as a victory. If this had been done by the Ukrainian side, we'd have no difficulty in seeing as the defeat it is. It may make good sense operationally, etc., but it's still a huge embarrassment, a considerable humiliation for Russia.
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  236. Well, that's what Kiev's calling them.
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  237. Integrity is the key difference, I think.
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  238. The late Stephen F Cohen did a much better job than his friend Mearsheimer, who remains a liberal hegemonist at heart. Cohen was America's greatest Russia scholar and one of the founders of the policy of detente, a man of enormous scholarly and political credibility, and he was completely sidelined and blackballed by US mass media in the last decade of his life for speaking out against the insanely irresponsible, war-mingering US/NATO policy re. Russia.
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  239. China lacks the means to project power abroad because it lacks the will to do so. If you want a fair, multipolar world order, China, you have to fight for it.
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  240. 880k, almost 900,000.
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  241. Well, not half the world. Just the 41 most developed nations, all of the collective West plus a few other US satellites. They represent about 18% of the world. In economic terms, considerably less than a half since China alone now outproduces the US and EU combined. The once mighty West is in irreversible decline both economically and militarily.
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  242. Well, this proxy war has already cost the US its hegemony and the West its credibility while boosting Russia's reputation all over the world (minus the Golden Billion, of course, but the world no longer cares what the entitled West thinks).
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  243. It would first have to declare a state of war. And no administration wants to declare war on Russia, which is why the US is using Ukraine as a proxy.
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  244. 😅
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  245. Horrific as those numbers are, they're probably very close to the actual figures. It's just awful.
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  246. Both o's in Otpor are pronounced as the o in the British pronunciation of "stop". (Neither is flattened to the US o in "cop" or "stop".)
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  247. ​ @KlaunFuhrer-du7fr  I don't know how things are arranged in your country, but in Ukraine the civilian population needs both electricity and gas.
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  248. That's sarcasm, right? I mean, take a look at how well the US has rebuilt Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention Libya, to whom it promised the world!
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  249. Prof. Michael Hudson explains the GDP scam best in one of his own YT videos, which are essential viewing if you want to understand the economics of the US empire (and its European satellites).
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  250. I'm sure that's very much on his mind these days. But why should he care? Boris Johnson gifted him with a UK passport, and he's robbed Ukraine blind -- as long as he gets out in time, life will be sweet for Zelensky until one of his Nazis catches up with him.
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  251. ​ @grisflyt I agree. The whole of Europe is genocide-complicit too.
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  252. It's the 10th in his part of the world. Brian's based in Thailand.
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  253. 😮
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  254. 😮
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  255. ​ @flyinpug3791  There are videos of Russian Far-East soldiers, yes, being pushed as NK forces by Ukrainian/Western propagandists, yes. It's easy to mislead people about this as most don't know about the 150 ethnic minorities in the RF.
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  256. I wouldn't compare the two: unlike the 2020 elections in the US, the Russian elections were fair and square.
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  257. Truth hurts, eh? 😜
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  258. And much more real, too.
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  259. And that same population is set to vote an even more pro-war set of idiots to power.
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  260. I think his father (or grandfather) is from Croatia.
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  261. Azerbaijan is incontrovertibly the aggressor, not just this time but the time before this.
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  262. In a nutshell, yes.
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  263. Poland, its political class, and the Baltic chihuahua states are straining at the leash to be allowed to start a Europe-wide war. One of the consequences of EU's crazy eastward expansion.
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  264. That was so when the UK and the States still had a strong manufacturing sector. Times have changed.
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  265. Not included in the KIA number.
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  266. Great glasses, looking great on you! 😍
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  267. A public (private) school in the UK.
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  268. Brian, there's a 4th possibility you missed regarding Prigozhin. Just a week or two ago, he said in an interview that Wagner's now losing up to 90 men a day and that with adequate amounts of ammo, this number would drop down to 20 or so. There's no reason to think that he was either lying or exaggerating or playing some political games. Russia lost about 27 million people in WW2, and one cannot overstate how much each human life means to the Russians, how much determined they are NOT to incur even one death/loss more than is inevitable. Prigozhin waited at least a week (more like two) for the RF army to react and supply Wagner with the ammo needed to minimized the loss of human life in its ranks. His video the other day was the gesture meant to shame the army bosses and force them to do the right thing. And it worked. RT reported about 18 hrs ago that Wagner will from now on be supplied with ALL the ammo it requests, it deems necessary. I don't know why Alexander Mercouris feels the need to call into question Prigozhin's motives and credibility, his good faith, but it behooves those of us who support Russia and are sympathetic to its cause to recognize (and not keep silent) about the corruption and nepotism in and the mistakes made by the Russian army.
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  269. Since 2008.
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  270. This is about trying to preserve Western hegemony, the world domination by the 14% of hunanity that makes up the Collective West: with the division of labour between the EU, hemming in Russia militarily, while the US prepares for a war against China. You and Ben Norton are the only independent analysts here who did not fall for Trump's theatre.
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  271. ​ @AFLOVEable  Most host countries don't pay for the US troops -- South Korea is an exception, contributing 44% of the cost of the troops.
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  272. ​ @chocomilo1628 They're now sending more of their soldiers to Kosovo, just to intimidate Serbia. Serbia itself, all of it, is just a NATO colony of course. 🫤
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  273. Russia ain't doing diddley squat to ruin anyone's economy. The pain and the destruction the West is experiencing are entirely self-inflicted. Hoisted by its own petard.
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  274. Another brilliant presentation of how the US funds and uses Islamic terrorists against its economic rivals. It's really no more than a mafia state.
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  275. You can always count on Brian Berletic for excellent, honest analysis of real data.
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  276. ​​ @Intel-i7-9700k  But the same holds for all of NATO. We know this from Petro Poroshenko, Alexei Arestovich, Angela Merkel, and François Hollande. The decline of the West is getting close to terminal.
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  277. The Danish analyst Weeb Union also does good daily updates on the developments across the battlefront. He's often more up-to-date than the Duran guys, whose forte is geopolitical analysis.
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  278. Given his public admission, my guess is the number of killed alone is now approaching half a million.
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  279. If anything, their standing has risen immeasurably.
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  280.  @kishanchali8752  I love Andrei Martyanov's videos and the analyses he provides on his blog. It doesn't, however, mean that I agree with him on everything. Putin's refusal to call a partial mobilization last Spring, and in June at the latest as his General Staff was urging him to do, has resulted in unnecessary loss of life and territory. The latter can be regained, but the lives of the Russian soldiers who died because their numbers were insufficient to the task, to borrow Scott Ritter's military phrase, are lost forever. This entire operation could have been finished by now had it not been for Putin's dithering and Shoigu's failure to stand up to his boss more forcefully.
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  281.  @tricsi95  Both Chechnya and South Ossetia are irrelevant in this context. One was an insurrection inside the Russian Federation itself and the other a swift and decisive military operation in a majority ethnic-Russian enclave in Georgia, which did not receive even 1/50th of foreign military and financial support Ukraine's enjoying. What matters are Putin's decisions regarding this SMO, and there's no question that Putin's been putting the brakes on things in Ukraine. His refusal to call a partial mobilization last Spring, as soon as Zelensky pulled out of the agreement reached in Istanbul and initialled by the Ukrainian delegation, or at the latest by June, when his own General Staff was urging him to it, is directly responsible for the unnecessary loss of Russian soldiers' lives over the past 4 and a half months, losses due to the fact that their numbers were seriously insufficient to the task. Scott Ritter raised the alarm about that last April/May and was vilified and ostracized by some of the YouTube channels we both seem to follow. Territory can be regained, but the Russian men who lost their lives because their commander-in-chief dithered and refused to give the necessary orders in time can never be brought back to life. I'm also concerned that with all the rumours about secret US-RF talks in Turkey, we may be looking at an agreement on Russia's part to freeze the conflict where it stands and leave Odessa to Ukraine, in return for Kiev's recognition that Crimea and the 4 easternmost regions belong to Russia in perpetuity. Should Putin approve such a deal, Russia's security problems will remain unaddressed because leaving Odessa to Kiev is a recipe for another war 10-20 years down the road. In his Q&A session at the Valdai Conference in Sochi held just a few weeks ago, Putin said that the fate of Odessa depends on what Ukraine does, indicating a willingness to barter it away. If such a willingness really does exist, the West will be given another chance to attack and destroy the Russian state, as its political leaders have told us is their real aim.
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  282. The meeting is being held today and Ukraine has nothing to show now that its vaunted counter-offensive has petered out into nothing.
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  283. How about respecting the sovereignty of other countries and not lecturing anyone on anything.
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  284. ​ @tayclift5322 Nice try.
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  285. That's exactly how the entire collective West thinks. They can't even hide it any more.
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  286. Why? You've been fine with us sheltering thousands of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators for decades now. For the past decade, we routinely voted against a UN condemnation of glorifying Nazism and fascism. So let's not pretend this is anything new. This is who we are.
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  287. ​ @mayamichelle6741  Brian the Debonair. 😍 His self-presentation shows respect for his viewers. Much appreciated.
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  288. They've been saying it's not happening all along, so my guess is that they will ignore it as long as possible -- and will then downplay its significance before moving to ignore it altogether.
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  289. It's only since I began to follow your analysis of what's been going on in Myanmar that I've managed to get a clear sense of who's who over there and what the apparently completely local, domestic, internal conflict has been about.
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  290. Fantastic research, Brian! Thank you for the work you do to bring truth out from under the pile of lies the West is burying it under.
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  291. There are also reliable Telegram channels like Slavyangrad to get around propaganda and censorship. Here in the West, the regular mass media have been pure (often hilariously ridiculous) propaganda 24/7. Absolutely useless.
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  292. Too many people are refusing to acknowledge that.
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  293. ​ @callthespread  Read the Amnesty International's report on Ukrainian use of civilians as human shields. Russia's done an incredible job of sparing the civilian population.
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  294. Yes, please! Leave the rest of alone, will you?!
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  295. ​ @jonpaul3868 Taiwan is not a state, and it's only a part of its political class who act as if they were a US colony. Taiwan is literally split 50%-50% on that.
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  296.  @yaelz6043  They were not the citizens of either Chile or the USA. People did write to the AI, though.
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  297. I think it's high time to begin questioning some of the patently irrational aspects of this SMO. Russia is not above criticism and should not be treated as if it were. I for one couldn't follow Brian's logic about those Dnieper bridges, for example, not the logic of Russian failure to take out the Ukrainian railway system. Without its railways, Ukraine could not transfer to the battle lines the military equipment it's been getting from the West, so taking out the railways should have been a high priority for the Russians for months now. There's NO rational reason or argument for letting Ukraine enjoy this advantage, and all references to what Putin said 9 months ago are worse than irrelevant now. They're a rationalisation for what is patently illogical -- i.e. the real reason must be something the Kremlin doesn't want to admit. Claims are now openly being made in Russian media that the Ukrainian railway system has been spared because it's being used by Russian oligarchs to keep exporting Russian uranium to the West! If there's even a grain of truth to these claims, there's something disturbingly rotten in the state of Russia that its civilian and/or military leadership would sacrifice Russian soldiers' lives to the interests of a handful of globalist oligarchs!
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  298. ?! 😂
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  299. I had no idea! That's actually scary, given the weaklings and idiots who're running Germany.
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  300. And lives.
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  301. Except that this time, the Russians have both technological quality and quantity on their side and its enemy (NATO) is way, way behind on either.
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  302.  @bertamaria-bender2889  Crazy. Smh. 😅
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  303. Should Russia betray the people of Odessa, who've been terrorized by Ukrainian Notsees for years and have been waiting to be liberated from Kiev ever since February 24, will constitute a scandal and a moral wrong of immense proportions. And letting NATO/US create a buffer zone in and around Odessa would amount to exactly such a betrayal. I've been very skeptical of the wisdom of Putin's soft-and-slow approach for some months now and am seriously disappointed that Kremlin has allowed things to get to this. Incomprehensible. Russia could have easily finished this months ago had the hard-liners been in charge.
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  304. I think Putin's forcing the slow pace.
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  305. Really? Like the alternative was better, saner, more informed, knowledgeable, and deeply concerned with the hood of the people? 😂
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  306. Keep telling yourself that.
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  307. Keep telling yourself that. 😅
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  308. ​ @johnbones261  What on Earth are you talking about?! After a week of fighting, Ukrainians are still 10 km from the first of the three main defense lines the Russians set up over the past six months.
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  309. ​ @cellP8  Try learning some history. There are several reputable historians who've written about Europe's hatred-envy of Russia.
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  310. ​ @ГульназРабах ❤
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  311. We'll see. Pompeo and Rubio, both of them in Trump's inner circle, make me think you're unduly optimistic.
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  312. Zelensky and his gang will milk this war for as long as there are live Ukrainian bodies to thrown before Russian artillery fire. The sad truth is that the Ukrainian army echelon is so corrupt that they're in on the grift themselves and will support this regime for as long as the West lets itself be milked by Ukraine.
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  313. It's verging on incomprehensible by now.
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  314. I'm not sure that the public at home would support that just yet.
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  315. Zelensky's scared of his own troops in Bakhmut, some of whom have promised in publicly posted videos to return to Kiev to deal with not just him but all of the Rada too
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  316. 😅
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  317. This seems to be the extent of your knowledge, poor you.
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  318. A mix, with the majority being poor Ukrainian recruits, most of whom never wanted to be there to begin with.
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  319. Why does that sound like a threat?
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  320. ​ @hairlessape5107 The British, too. Not to forget the Baltics and Croatia: all of whom celebrate their Nazi collaborator war criminals, so psychopathic that even the German Nazis found them "alarming".
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  321.  @beyondrecall9446  Nice to "meet" another Serb here! 🙂 I've lived in the West most of my life, but being originally from Belgrade (where I still have family and plan to retire to myself), I immediately got your reference to Batajnica.
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  322. Yes, they're idiots. There's no other word for them. Though traitors would do, too, I guess.
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  323. Russia should have been far more assertive towards the West 15 and 10 years ago. Paul Craig Roberts has repeatedly reiterated this on his blog: the only thing the West understands and respects is superior force.
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  324. So why is he wooing Trump and the US with all sorts of economic/commercial cooperation deals?
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  325. ​ @yxmichaelxyyxmichaelxy3074  So, to spite China, the American consumer will have to pay at least 25% more for items the US doesn't (and in many cases cannot) produce anymore?! Not a problem for the 0.1% who rule us, sure, but you'll know who's responsible when the inflation skyrockets again.
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  326. Why do Ukrainians project so much? A whole nation that has problems coming to terms with reality.
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  327. You've just described a high-functioning psychopath.
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  328. ​ @Mick-iv6mk 😂
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  329. They can't retake any of the four provinces that voted to rejoin Russia last September. And most of their Western enablers know that: it's only the crazies in the State Department who're dictating policy who can't acknowledge this and adjust themselves to reality.
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  330. I understand that Arestovich has since retracted his retraction. (I follow quite a few channels and cannot unfortunately recall the exact source of this info. 😟)
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  331. Derisory numbers in terms of the global ones. Nothing to do with any depopulation agenda. In any case, the world's population is set to plummet all by itself in the second half of this century.
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  332. ​ @bumble-g2j  The state. The Russian state.
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  333. There are times it's wise and necessary to build walls. Doesn't mean you can't build all sorts of other things at the same time.
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  334. I understand they have ammo stocked up for 39 years of continuous warfare.
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  335. Yes, he does. He's mentioned it in the past.
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  336. God bless and protect Russia! ❤​ @fitgirl8812 
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  337. Call me cruel and unfeeling, but it's the Filipinos themselves who chose to elect yet another member of the Marcos mafia family. They've made they bed and will now lie in it.
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  338. Unbelievable absurdities. 85% of the planet is laughing at the West and its "narratives".
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  339. Another brilliant exposé of Western media lies and slander.
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  340. @Johnny Rep Former Galicia can go to Poland. Let the Poles deal with the home of Ukrainian Nazism.
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  341.  @bigbasil1908  There's a big, bitter outcry about it in Russia.
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  342. Nah. They're just lying and treating us as idiots. Consciously, deliberately lying.
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  343. You're right, and that describes the entire power elite of the collective West.
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  344. Russia's getting ready for exactly that. The Russians are now producing more weapons and ammunition in one month than they did the whole of last year.
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  345. This will go on for as long as Zelensky and his gang stand to profit from grift.
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  346. Damn them, and damn their "non-govermental" shills! 😠
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  347. Alexander Mercouris thinks it was a part of the deal Erdogan struck with Zelensky in exchange for his commitment that Ukrainian ships won't try to destroy Turkey's pipeline.
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  348. The whole thing was a pipe dream of crazed State Department neocons from the beginning. The idea that Ukraine could defeat Russia under ANY circumstances was sheer delusion and all competent military analysts have known that all along.
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  349.  @hendrikvanleeuwen9110  True, but it's not just about feeding the American military-industrial complex. More important than that, from Washington's point of view, is to preserve what the US has already lost: full spectrum dominance over the whole planet.
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  350. ​​ @liljasere  What news network, you ask. You expect known liars to tell you the truth?! 😂
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  351. 😅
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  352. Not trying. Has bought it.
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  353. There have been over a dozen attempts at his life.
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  354. The US was materially and deeply involved in the 60s slaughter in Indonesia.
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  355. Just keep telling yourself that.
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  356. 😮
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  357. Zelensky is the creation of Kolomoisky, a Ukrainian Jewish oligarch who also funded the Azov and a number of other Nazi militias in Ukraine
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  358. I LOVE the sound of those SEA roosters! So cheerful and full of energy! 🙂
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  359. I've been getting my smartphones from AliExpress, where I also buy most of my clothing. A lot of the stuff there is second-rate, but there's plenty of quality clothing, luggage, household goods, even cosmetics and electronics on AliExpress. At reasonable prices. Thank you, China.
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  360. Turks have been greedy for Christian lands for centuries.
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  361. Why absurdity? We've knowingly, willingly been sheltering Ukrainian Nazi collaborators and war criminals for decades now. Our own Deputy Prime Minister is a known fan and follower of the notorious Stepan Bandera. We've been fine with all that, so why are we suddenly proclaiming ourselves outraged?
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  362. They aren't delusional. They're lying. They lie ALL the time, without a qualm.
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  363. Ukraine's been using civilians as human shields from the very start. Amnesty International even write a report about it last year and Zelensky went ballistic at them for daring reveal that ugly truth. Western media have successfully buried that story.
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  364. Lust for power and supremacy, fuelled by greed.
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  365. Sarcastic understatement, that's what Brian's little quip was.
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  366. China's already helping Iran. So is Russia. Both have flown in unknown amounts and kinds of goodies to Teheran.
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  367. ​@hughenadasilva5055 He often, even mostly, sits back and lets a lot of evil take place. If you want to call that God being in control, ok. I, for my part, pray ceaselessly that God be much more active in preventing and reigning in evil BEFORE it gets to harm human beings.
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  368. Yes, Ukrainians have been trying since Day 1 to get NATO to get directly involved and fight Russia for them. Article 5, however, doesn't automatically commit NATO to action. More to the point, the only NATO country that could do serious damage to Russia in any direct conflict is the US. The European members' armies (except for Turkey's) are basically a joke at this point. For the US, a conflict on the European continent would mean a huge logistical disadvantage vis á vis Russia, something both Pentagon and the White House are aware of.
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  369. But how many millions will die before God deigns to intervene?
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  370. 🎯
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  371. ​ @shenzhong2942  None are so blind as those who will not see. All of us who use YouTube on a daily basis know from personal experience how this platform applies censorship to both channels and to the audience comments.
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  372. Levan is a Georgian living in Russia.
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  373. Happy New Year, Brian! All the best to you and yours!
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  374. The last lot was on its way to dragging us into WW3, and even a nuclear war with Russia. I don't think Trump will go there.
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  375. Thank you for these details. It's clear that this was a DELIBERATE Ukrainian provocation intended to work as a false flag. Despicable.
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  376. Please remind me, which US neocon quipped a few years ago that if Israel didn't exist, we'd have to invent it.
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  377. You mean we write english, italian, german, american, swedish, etc.? 😜
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  378. I don't think that 100 billion from the US and I don't know how many more billions from the EU supports that suspicion. NATO just bit off more than it could chew when it pushed Ukraine into this proxy war with Russia.
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  379. That's exactly why I don't understand why the Filipinos voted another member of that political mafia family to power.
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  380. Yay! 🎉🙂
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  381. Taiwan is indeed free. As a part of China. Just like Massachusetts is free, as a part of the USA.
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  382. He's ridiculously poor on matters military. They aren't rotating troops but sending in some more to cover the retreating ones.
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  383. None of which begins to compare with the corruption and lies in the Ukrainian army and its civilian government. I mean this literally.
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  384. 😂
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  385. That's what Western imperialists always bank on, wherever they go: locals who will collaborate with them at the expense of their country and people.
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  386. 😂
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  387. Ukrainians are making sure they can't be identified. Probably on Pentagon or MI6 orders.
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  388. You don't know much, do you? For starters, you clearly don't understand how Russians fight and win wars, often by retreating hundreds of kilometres only to strike back and retake all of the territory they'd previously abandoned to preserve their forces. Military History 101.
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  389. German papers have reported a poll according to which 95% of Germans think this act of industrial terrorism was done by the USA.
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  390. The US and the EU created chaos in Ukraine and have destroyed it.
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  391. Why should Russia care if Poland gobbles up a piece of Western Ukraine?!
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  392.  @cringelord7542  You've been deceived by our MSM and our establishment "analysts", who are merely propagandists. Russia never intended to take Kiev in the first place: it stuck around there for a couple of months in what the military call a fixing operation, keeping the Ukrainian forces in that part of Ukraine from rushing down to Donbass, where the real action was and continues to be. The entire Russia-wants-to-take-Kiev-but-can't narrative was concocted by Pentagon and the 150 PR companies Kiev's paying to produce war propaganda on its behalf precisely to make the public think that brave Ukrainians repelled the Russian army, which is "really" a paper tiger. In reality, Russia is fighting 41 countries that are engaged in a proxy war against it in Ukraine, and it's winning. The public in the West has no clue about this, but the rest of the world, 75% of it in fact, are fully aware of what's going on.
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  393. That was merely the logical culmination of our decades' long policy of knowingly, willingly sheltering Ukrainian Nazi collaborators, war criminals thousands of whom we welcomed in 1945-47.
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  394. It's all already laid out in a Rand report of 2019. The US has been planning this proxy war against Russia for years.
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  395. China's insisting that it restrain itself.
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  396. Brian's right: the US would never have tolerated even 1/10th of what it's been doing to Russia. Putin and his crew have been far, far too conciliatory, something the West perceives not as the virtue of patience and peace-making but as a sign of weakness.
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  397. Germany's earned every ounce of contempt with which the world now views it. We all cut them slack, and so generously too, for 80 years now and the Germans turn around to finance and arm a Nazi state in Europe. Disgusting.
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  398. Touché! 😘
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  399. Russia can justify its SMO in Ukraine; there's NO justification for the American occupation of Syria.
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  400. They should ban all foreign-funded organizations!
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  401. Doubt it. They'll just send in Western "volunteers" to man them.
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  402. I very much appreciate Brian's respect for his audience and the stylishness he brings to it. 😍
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  403. Brian, do you think the US will eventually provoke a war with China? Or is this just more of the empire's chest beating?
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  404.  Fermati Chebellosei  Yep. Far too much speculating, quite a bit of which ends up being embarrassingly wrong. Case in point, the videos posted by both Alexanders separately in the last 15 hrs. Mercouris's video was so bad, so utterly off the mark as to be in the realm of fantasy -- several of us have advised him to take it down asap!
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  405. ​ @vikkimg5986  There are huge alternative markets out there: Europe, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, China itself. The US is just going to make itself so unattractive as a market that it will make itself irrelevant to the rest of the world. It will be able to continue to relie on trade with Canada (a market of just 40 million people) and Mexico, who, because of their geographic proximity to the US need it. The rest of the world? Not so much.
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  406. ​ @NOFX0890 Father stop them from ruining their own country and the lives of their compatriots.
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  407. ​ @heereandqueer_andpeggy7375 Let's not even ask how a part of Serbia with not a single Albanian toponym and not one Albanian cultural monument became 95% Albanian.
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  408. Instead of gracefully accepting the fact that it will never again be able to lord it over most of the world and embrace a policy of mutually beneficial co-operation with its economic and military peers as well as with the rest of the global community, the US is behaving in the exact same self-destructive way many other empires have done in their decline. Very stupid and totally unnecessary.
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  409. They did go overboard yesterday with that ridiculous forecast about Russia losing the entire Kherson Region, but I have to agree with them that Putin's shown himself to be a nearly disastrous war president. His refusal to call a partial mobilization back in June, against his General Staff's strong advice, is the single cause of all the problems Russian forces have had holding on to territory since the start of September. Let's hope Putin steps aside and lets the Russian General Staff do its work unhindered from now on.
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  410. Russia alone is outproducing the US+EU 3 to 1 as it is. The West has no chance of catching up in short and medium term. Impossible to make any firm long term predictions at this point except that the rest of the world will no longer accept being pushed around by the West.
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  411. Demilitarisation.
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  412.  @lococholo2857  A liar is calling me a liar for pointing out a truth he finds inconvenient.
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  413.  @lococholo2857  I've already acknowledged in a reply to someone else that I'd missed that, so go easy with that accusation of bias. You've either not seen my reply or YouTube's playing silly buggers and is not showing it.
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  414.  @lococholo2857  Apology accepted.
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  415. These policies warrant charging him and his ministers with treason.
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  416. 😮
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  417. The Monty Python world of Ukrainian nationalists and their supporters. I only feel sorry for the tens of thousands Ukrainian men who never wanted any part in killing Russians and whom Kiev has sent to their death on the battlefront.
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  418. What do the Czechs think about that? What's your sense of the public's feelings on this topic?
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  419. In the past 3 years, and according to the Western-dominated IMF and World Bank, the Russian economy has become #1 in Europe (displacing Germany's) and now also #4 globally, having displaced Japan from that position. It seems to me that Russia can keep this up for many a year to come.
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  420. Yep. Need to steal more of that Syrian oil, don't you know.
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  421. ​ @bck481  You wouldn't know what a press looks like if it but you on the nose.
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  422. They bit off more than they could chew with Afghani goat herders. Engineering this proxy war with Russia was the lunacy of imperial hubris.
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  423. Not so hilarious for the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men and tens of thousands of Russians who've lost their lives in this war so far.
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  424. What a wild claim: the Russian MoD has never cited any such figures.
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  425. Because the US doesn't care.
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  426. Their job is to lie to us, to manipulate our perception of reality.
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  427. ​ @nickl5658 Works fine as long as you're fighting Iraqis and Afghans.
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  428. I don't mourn Notsees. The forces that carried out the Kursk incursion are all Ukraine's best trained Notsee units.
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  429. An assertion with absolutely no evidence to back it up. Western and Ukrainian propaganda claims don't count as evidence, in case anyone's tempted to take them for such.
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  430. You mean, you should have been supporting Ukrainian Nazis since the 1950s, when you began doing so, culminating with a US-engineered coup in 2014.
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  431. With a phone call from Blinken, that's how.
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  432. Nah. Brian's more handsome.
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  433. Russia is single-handedly fighting all of NATO in Ukraine. I'm beginning to wonder if this approach of dragging things out is really wise.
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  434.  @hamidjafari5995  Why the rudeness?
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  435. Where did you get that number from?
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  436. ​ @larrousseyves9408  India is about to sign a defense agreement with Russia.
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  437. The first set of NATO heads and top generals were all Nazis, fresh from serving Hitler. I learned of this only 2-3 years ago
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  438. Larry Johnson says they're relying entirely on whatever the Ukrainians are telling them.
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  439. It's definitely one of those fundamental differences.
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  440.  @greybuckleton  They're in the process of considering it, then.
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  441. Bribes. The US routinely bribes the political leadership of its "allies" and "friends".
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  442. When did the Russians lay down those red lines? It seems to me they were invented by our politicians and our MSM the say way they invented the idea Russia would attempt to take Kiev in 2022.
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  443. The army can't find enough new recruits to replenish its numbers, let alone to grow them.
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  444. I doubt it. Pentagon knows better than it's letting on and so do the military in various EU countries, i.e. NATO. They're all perfectly well aware that at present, and with its arms tied behind their backs due to their SMO mode, the Russians are fighting NATO's proxy war in Ukraine and that what we're seeing there is something very different from how Russia wages a full-scale war.
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  445.  @BalkanMode  Perception problem? I doubt the Russians give a fig for how any of this plays in the Western MSM. What they know is that the West has accurately assessed the odds and does not date enter into a direct war with Russia -- a "perception" the rest of the world shares with them.
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  446.  @BalkanMode  You keep on invoking a mythical "surprise attack", completely forgetting that in sending its draft treaties to the US and NATO last December Russia had very clearly and openly warned it would take certain technical-military measures to protect its security interests if they failed to respond to those draft treaties adequately and without delay. Anyone with half a brain who'd been following NATO (US+EU) shenanigans in Ukraine since 2013 understood and knew what that warning meant. Both NATO and Kiev, regardless of their subsequent propaganda claims, knew perfectly well this meant a military confrontation in Ukraine. The Russians gave the collective West and its puppets in Kiev a couple of months to come to their senses and choose peace instead, and when it became clear they'd made a choice for war, Russia took action.
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  447. What a perverse set of values. The real waste are the lives of all those Ukrainian men who've died fighting a proxy war the US is too chicken to fight itself.
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  448. Putin is well aware of that and expects NATO to turn this into a wider war. He said as much in his speech today.
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  449. In his interview with Judge Napolitano yesterday, Col. Macgregor said that his sources in Odessa are reporting that Ukraine's now literally snatching men from the streets and the cafes of the city and taking them away to the front. What Kiev's doing is absolutely horrific -- and criminal. At least 150,000 Ukrainian men have lost their lives because Zelensky caved in to Western pressure last April instead of signing the peace agreement Ukraine and Russia had hammered out in Turkey.
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  450. The West is keeping most of its newer weapons for themselves. Their ammunition stocks are getting depleted, yes, but Germany, for example, still has about 300 Leopard 2 tanks in reserve.
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  451. Russia outproduces NATO 7:1, not 3:1, as CNN claims. The New York Times already told us this back in August 2023.
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  452. 😂😂😂
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  453. 😂😂😂
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  454.  @reinoud6377  Yes, we'll know the real numbers for both Ukraine and Russia only once the war is over.
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  455. That's how I approach their work, too.
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  456.  @davidbennett1697  The only war that could ever take place on US soil, apart from a civil war, would be a nuclear one. This proxy war in Ukraine isn't preventing anything; all it's doing is destroying Ukraine.
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  457. Russophobia is a mental disorder. Maybe a personality disorder, too.
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  458. About a third of the civilians (pro-Ukrainian) chose to remain in the city. Everyone who wanted to go with the Russian army was evacuated.
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  459. "I assume" is speculation. "I think" is analysis.
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  460. And then we gave shelter to thousands of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators at the end of WW2. That's the sort of people, the kind of nation we are.
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  461. 😂
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  462. Brian cites a Western source that admits that in a week's worth of fighting Ukraine's already lost 50% of the Leopard 2 tanks donated from all across Europe, without managing to get closer than 10 km to the FIRST defense line the Russians set up over the past 6 months, and there are people here saying, no, it's all good, Russia's losing, sit tight! You can pass such unbelievably idiotic drivel off on Ukrainian propaganda channels, but please stop embarrassing yourselves here. Unless, of course, you're paid to splatter the Internet with precisely such drivel and are "just following orders".
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  463. Brian's always debonair. 😊
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  464. Don't fall for that apology. They knew whom they were bringing in to celebrate. Our Deputy Prime Minister knew exactly who this war criminal was. Shame on us for giving shelter to thousands of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators for decades! This is who we are: the nation who willingly, knowingly protected thousands of Ukrainian war criminals for decades and then knowingly, willingly armed and trained their biological and ideological progeny in Ukraine since 2014.
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  465. ​ @longiron9647  Me, too.
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  466. ​ @milcotto4153 Ask YT. Their glitch, obviously.
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  467. The West's weakening itself. And not just Russia but the rest of the world too are watching the insanity unroll with amazement.
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  468. And you need to hold on to that attitude for good. The West is so corrupt, so terminally without integrity, that Russia should never again look up to it about anything at all.
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  469. Surely a significant weakness.
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  470.  @SerpentsHiss  The influence of his new American wife, maybe?
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  471. Mainly because as a sort-of-Jew (Zelensky's father is Jewish but his mother is not, so without a formal religious conversion to Judaism, he himself doesn't qualify as a Jew) he could serve as the best camouflage for the quintessentially Nazi nature of the West's project in Ukraine.
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  472. What army? It's the Wagner group that's fighting in Bakhmut. And the Ukrainians are dug in 75 m below the street level. That's some 250 feet down.
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  473. Ukraine hasn't*occupied* anything. It's made an incursion into the Kursk region, a military adventure even it's top general admitted just yesterday was a failure.
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  474. Thank you, Brian, for telling it as it is AND keeping your moral compass on. Both the US and Europe have used and abused Ukraine horribly, and almost entirely thanks to Ukrainian nationalists and its über-naive, racist urbanites, but there are now some among the independent analysts I've followed for the past 3 years who are suddenly claiming the US never had anything to do with this destruction of Ukraine and should wash its hands of it and hand the whole thing over to the Europeans. Sad to see such lack of ethics even outside the MSM.
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  475. And it doesn't. All of those territories were a part of Russia until Lenin annexed them to Ukraine to create a new nation.
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  476. ​ @hrep14  Yes, the Astana agreement was despicable. I'm neither Russian nor Syrian, and I'm furious with Putin for it.
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  477. ​ @ChucksSEADnDEAD  They were ethnic Russians, as are the other 80% of the people in those regions, which were a part of Russia itself until Lenin the Idiot annexed them to the borderlands to create Ukraine in the 1920s. In short, they weren't Russian citizens, only ethnic Russian Ukrainians.
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  478. Americans still can't come to terms with the fact that it was the Soviets who put the first man in space.
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  479. ​ @DannyKa-x8z  Europe disgusts me (and I'm a European).
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  480. Ukrainians have been doing that -- using video game footage as well as scenes from war movies and the coverage of other wars and claiming these were shot in Ukraine -- ever since the start of March! It's been well documented by now. A bunch of clowns, fooling the public with their BS.
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  481. The US has been interfering in other people's countries for two centuries now.
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  482. Google it. It's available online.
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  483. There was no US-led government overthrow anywhere in the Balkans in 1975.
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  484.  @loliatti7104  Please check it yourself: very easy to do with internet access, which you obviously have. The guy is simply lying.
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  485. Can the US actually pull this diabolical plan off? Can it succeed? What could put a spoke in the wheels of this wretchedly evil, selfish attempt to wreck the global economy?
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  486. ​ @calicocat8213 Not always. Strictly for a limited time only now.
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  487. Can't they use VPN software to mask where they're accessing this material from?
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  488. 😅
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  489.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  Show me the videos or even still photos of the ruins left after Russia supposedly bombarded Kiev.
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  490. Yes, it's free. Lend lease is pure fiction as everyone knows Ukraine will never repay a cent. Just today Ukraine started demanding a cut of the profits Western (mostly US) oil companies have made and are making as a result of the sanctions on Russia. You used them as a proxy army, with Ukrainians getting blown to pieces instead of Americans et al, so why shouldn't they feel entitled to at least a cut of the profits Western energy companies are making over the dead bodies of Ukrainian men?
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  491. The current Russia-Iran agreement has a secret clause on military cooperation. Like China, Russia has already flown in help to Teheran.
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  492. ​ @JohnWick-d1b2b  BRICS won't be able to survive as an economic alliance if lets Iran go down.
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  493. There will be no guerilla war in Russia's four new regions.
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  494. It's very unusual but not unique for a Slav to speak with an RP (received pronunciation) accent. He probably went to a boarding school in the UK.
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  495. ​ @josephvanwie6706  😢
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  496.  @nicolasolton  He has to keep saying that to calm down discontent at home. A lot of Russians want this done quickly, with no foot dragging, and are very angry with the leadership for dragging it out.
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  497. It's prestige and influence world-wide, yes. The Russian economy has only grown and continues to grow at the latest rate of 5.6%. Russian men continue to volunteer for the military at the rate of over 1,000 a day (380,000 volunteers signed up in 2023 alone). BRICS+ is growing by leaps and bounds, while all the sanctions the West has (illegally, btw) placed on Russia have boomeranged against them, resulting in galloping poverty all across the EU and North America. The soup kitchens in Canada and the US are stretched beyond limit, the number of homeless continues to rise, while Russians continue to enjoy a steadily improving standard of living. as their economy's overtaken Germany's to be the #1 economy in Europe. Yeah, they sure did extend Russia.
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  498. Did they really say that?! 😅
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  499. The BBC has been keeping track of Russian losses, going as far as to count funerals in Russia, etc., and they're inconsolable at the small number of Russian casualties they can confirm.
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  500. ​ @poros4588 Like they have a choice. Only when elections are fully taxpayer-funded, and only taxpayer-funded, and decent people can afford to run for office, will the electorate have a meaningful choice and can be held accountable.
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  501. I'd be surprised if at least half of the Ukrainian men currently scattered in several EU countries don't move outside EU's reach before Brussels gets the chance to round them up.
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  502. ​​ @urrywest  The US has largely de-industrialized itself (thank your corporations and their greed). Without the industrial strength it had until just 30 years ago, and in the face of continued de-dollarization, the American economy will not be able to do much. The US now even lacks the skilled labour force needed to turn things around. Trump is not talking about any of this, either because he thinks it would damage his chances of getting elected again, or because he has no intention of actually dealing with these systemic problems in any meaningful way.
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  503.  @Srbenda126  Brian is of Croatian extraction.
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  504. 😂
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  505. I doubt it. They're still lying and fabricating their "facts" about the situation on the battlefront, and I suspect the Biden administration will find a way to continue funnelling tens of billions of dollars to the most corrupt country in Europe.
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  506. You mean that no NATO country that decides to enter directly into a conflict with in Russia in Ukraine can count on Article 5 if Russia retaliates by invading it. Nice.
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  507. ​ @AugustusOmega That's the nonsense Americans and their satellites have been telling themselves for decades. It's simply not true. The world needs a democratic world order in which no country acts as the führer.
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