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. Greetings, gratitude, and best wishes from Canada!
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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Immense gratitude to and respect for Brian for producing these first-rate analyses for us!
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  10. 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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  11. Thank you, Brian, for your stellar, indefatigable work!
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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 100%.
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  15. 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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  16. Yes.
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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22.  @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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  23. How can that be legal?! It's clearly discrimination based on one's ethnicity.
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  24. Glad that you're a little better now, and many thanks for this update.
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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28.  @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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  29. True. Thailand's been terribly complacent for decades.
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  30. 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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  31. Or open military bases in Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba...
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  32. 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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  33.  @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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  34. Truth.
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  35. Not just the government of the day but the entire political class in the US.
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  36. ​ @AndyFromBeaverton  Crimea has NEVER had even 30% Ukrainian population.
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  37.  @zhangruyi3153  As soon as de-dollarization is complete.
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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40. How despicable of them. A racism they learned from their colonial masters, first Spain and then the US?
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  41. 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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  42. 😅
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  43. 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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  44. Honourable and debonair! Thank you for all the work you do to keep us properly informed.
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  45. ​ @shenzhong2942 None are so blind as those who won't see.
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  46. Absurd?! It's a very common thing -- all of Europe's doing just that!
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  47. Russia's bleeding NATO dry, in fact.
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  48. 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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  49. 😅
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  50. Thank you, Brian, for your tireless work of first-class geopolitical analysis.
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