Comments by "the other Andrew" (@theotherandrew5540) on "The Icarus Project" channel.

  1. And it has 2 foreign bases outside the homeland, while America has over 780 external military bases.
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  2. Sounds just like the American system skewed heavily to draft blacks into the Vietnam war.
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  3.  @paullangford8179 Created by Peter the great, in the 18th century, the age of empire building. Like the United States, it is one united country with a federal system, just with a little more centralised power. One of the principles differences is that Russia seeks to dominate just its bordering republics for legitimate security, having endured several invasions, while America has oceans as neighbours on its eastern and western borders, a weak country to the south and a friendly one to the north. Perhaps that’s why it tries to control the rest of the world, - paranoia?
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  4.  @cardboardking577 Are you jealous?
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  5.  @peterwarner553  Throwing insults at Russia needs to be balanced, especially as these insults usually come from I’ll informed Americans. There is no country which has no skeletons in its cupboard.
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  6.  @peterwarner553  Dear Peter, I lived in Russia for 15 years. They are wonderful warm people and the bureaucracy is sometimes difficult to negotiate. They are patient people, they know how to live with people they may not particularly like, and they help each other quite naturally (something I did NOT see in the US, where helping a stranger was so rare is was and still is a source of amazement). But don’t mess with Russians, when the patience expires, they’re not gentle. But for ordinary people, there is no brutality in daily life. Putin is popular because he restored self respect to the Russians after the squalid years of Yeltsin and the American attempt to exploit Russia, milk its recourses and destroy its economy. During the time I lived there 2006 - 2021 I witnessed astonishing prosperity including nation wide major upgrading of roads, railways, public transport, health facilities and a massive fall in petty corruption. It’s not perfect, the mafia still have a hold in Moscow, corruption still exists (do you know ANY country where there is no corruption?), the country is ruled by force, not law. Comparison with a similar sized country is valid. My impression of the US is that political corruption is the norm, as is gun violence - something almost unheard of in Russia. In the words of an American commentator, “America is a one party state, with two right wings.”
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