Comments by "Neil Clay" (@neilclay5835) on "Силиконовый занавес" channel.

  1. The passion you brought to this episode made it the best SB yet Jonathan. And I agree with all that you say here.
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  2. Touchable.
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  3. For all his claws, the bear is big and has soft spots that he can't protect. Slava Ukraini!
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  4. Jake's dulcet tones at the start of his videos are very reassuring. Had a bad day, watching the Vatniks twist the minds of yet more political operators in the world? Well, here's Jake to reassure you that you're not alone.
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  5. Anders always has a fascinating take.
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  6. Anna, being a figurehead of defiance and strength, all in her second language. She's quite a phenomenon.
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  7. Anna is a true force of nature.
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  8. Richard is a modern warrior with a huge heart and he is a tremendous credit to the human race. I hope that in all of this that he looks after himself, and takes time out to decompress. NAFO expansion is non-negotiable! Слава Україні!
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  9. Social media came at a fantastic time for Putin and the anti-democratic cronies. A perfect way to sidestep journalistic integrity and fact-checking; algorithms that feed on our strongest emotions. What more could they have wished for apart from a world clearly not ready for transformer AIs.
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  10. This currently little channel is an absolute gem. Bill is a stand up guy, I always enjoy hearing him speak.
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  11. Very fond of the Roarer. Best wishes to you both. Our leaders are deluding themselves.
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  12. I watch Anna daily. Her energy is incredible.
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  13. It would be completely understandable for Ukrainians to act without dignity, and shout at us westerners. Entirely understandable! Instead you have the incredible dignity of people like Anna and Starsky, really, we should be asking to join them and not the other way around.
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  14. Dynamo Danylchuk is in the building.
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  15. Pekka is an absolute super-star.
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  16. So glad to see the prof here.
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  17. Konstantin is a star.
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  18. Excellent. I saw this come up on Anna's Patreon. I'm glad that you're taking good OPSEC measures.
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  19. Fascinating interview, and his spirit is incredibly infectious 💙
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  20. Just wanted to say that I only have time for the first 15 mins or so of these unfortunately, and your summary at the beginning there was excellent and something that I will certainly look to watch regularly if that's part of what you're doing. Best wishes.
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  21. Ahh you have the venerable Mr Bulllough, fantastic.
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  22. Roaring John is a star.
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  23. As always, great stuff. Thanks.
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  24. I sometimes wonder if Putin's psychology is such, that he believes that anything that he himself doesn't care about, is a fiction / theatre that he can play both sides of. I hope that he is starting to cross some lines with this belief, lines that come back and have consequence for the stuff he does care about (regime security and magical thinking about his place in world history).
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  25. That was a stunning episode, in every way.
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  26. It makes one wonder if the original plan was to dissipate the population of Ukraine throughout the Russian Federation. Sounds nuts, but it's been fantastical thinking all along.
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  27. A remarkable woman.
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  28. "The singularity of power" - that's an excellent metaphor. An almost infinite density of wealth at a single small location .
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  29. I truly don't understand why my left-leaning friends are so resistant to watch content about the Ukraine invasion.They bounce out saying that they want to hear the Russian side. I am in a constant argument with them.
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  30. It is, it is so incredibly pathetic. Russia has the emotional intelligence of a three year old.
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  31. Another great episode.
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  32. I could have listened to this interview for hours. Fascinating to hear this conservative perspective.
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  33. What kind of person do you have to be to see a forever-war as an option for your own regime's stability, and then actively pursue that. It's so shocking. It's unsettling in and of itself because it re-frames what is possible in the modern world - which is clearly, partly, the point.
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  34. How do you get such incredibly high quality guests, Jonathan? Wads of cash? Kompromat? 🙂🙃
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  35. "Invent", rather than "Invest"?
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  36. I don't know why this channel doesn't grow faster, the content and guests are outstanding.
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  37. I'm very glad to hear that Vlad Vexler is being mentioned on other channels, I've been following him this last year and his content is also excellent. I can't see him linked here though - just mentioning that. Cheers!
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  38. It's a metaphor that's also often been applied to Boris Johnson here in the UK. 😆
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  39. I share the frustration described at the start of this interview. I can't even tell you. Vlad Vexler has his work cut out keeping me from popping.
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  40. One of the best interviews I've seen on this channel I think. Concise, powerfully argued. Spot on with her assessments. Politicians must start to listen!
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  41. Highest quality guest, as ever.
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  42. I'm on the left, I passionately support Ukraine. What Paul is saying here is absolutely bang on the money.
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  43. Three comments: - One does wonder what back-channel communications and assessments happen between powers. - You have had guests that have said that Patrushev may well be worse than Putin (e.g. Gustav yesterday). - I completely agree with you that Putin needs to be defeated soundly and taught a hard lesson - that it doesn't pay to invade other countries - a line being drawn as soon as possible.
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  44. Sweeney - thank God for the man. One of the real ones.
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  45. Sit down whilst I tell you that it was way back in 2007.
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  46. I have actually had to sit down with friends and look at our western democratic systems, and together bring them to an understanding as to why it is vital to protect them. To try to show them that dictatorships don't have the machinery that allows the people to have a say in anything. And these are intelligent people. And I have left wing friends who imagine dictatorship as a way out of the climate crisis - a strong man to stop us burning carbon. The fantasies abound. I am also so incredibly frustrated by all of this.
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  47. Brilliant, as ever.
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  48. Ridiculously under subscribed channel.
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  49. 4:11 Absolutely
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  50. Best wishes to you for the new year Jonathan.
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  51. Best wishes to you Jonathan.
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  52. Fascinating, and our media once again seemingly ignoring this entire realm.
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  53. I think the phrase is, "hard agree" - to all of that.
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  54. Brilliant, as ever.
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  55. Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine.
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  56. Ugh Charap 🤮
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  57.  @SiliconCurtain  Let's hope that ZPP isn't in that friggin mix
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  58. Something about that short interview that hit very hard
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  59. She's brilliant isn't she, Fiona. I could listen to her mull and think out loud so coherently for hours. Quite difficult to interview seamlessly on a video call I'm guessing, as she rekindles her idea and drops yet another gem of insight as she's ending a path of thought. Great interview.
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  60. 10/10 quality interview
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  61. I look forward to it!
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  62. Great interview thanks. I have a Russian friend who has always made the point that Ukraine was the original and that Russia the thief of the lands. Also, whilst I'm here it would be great if you could get Vlad Vexler on here.
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  63. Jonathan, were the images of the ships removed by a filter before this video was published? For example at 15:31 I was getting a different image entirely, it also happened just a couple of minutes later as well.
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  64. Last time I corrected what I thought was an error on a pro-Ukraine channel, I was flamed by a rando, out of the blue, really intensely. It was quite odd. There's a lot of psychologies out there, that's for sure.
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  65. Not wanting to sound too much like 1970's man, but these Ukrainian women, Anna; Kateryna here; others ... are true forces of nature. They're not going to stop. Russia is going to lose.
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  66. I am very worried that Europe is going to look at this aid package from the US as a chance to kick a real decision about Ukraine and Russia into the long grass. Again.
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  67. Vlad is incredible isn't he. I mean, here, right here is what we should be doing. But it feels like he is some magical bubble of stillness in the maelstrom of media, and I don't fully comprehend how he keeps from popping.
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  68. How did I miss Vlad on this channel. My two favourite English language channels coming together and I missed it face-palm 😜
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  69. How did we end up with a system in power in the west where the spoilt foolish egotistical haters are celebrated and put in charge. Oh wait, it's not just us.
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  70. Love both you guys x
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  71. The troll, he go poof into thin air. Bye bye
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  72.  @SiliconCurtain  I see what you're saying. Thanks for the reply.
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  73. My leftist ex-friends unquestioningly believe Chomsky. Their momentum in their beliefs despite the stacking evidence against them is staggering to me.
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  74. I think that the cost of living crisis is a particularly devious enemy, because it plays right into the short-termism thinking of western politicians. They are tempted by the belief that appeasement with Russia will push the issue beyond their tenure, otherwise they'll lose power.
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  75. As a software developer, my experience is that companies are suddenly resistant when engineers push for DevOps to be mutated into DevSecOps - it's so often seen as extra cost and a drag on deployment. Okay, for some use cases it's overkill - but actually very few. Most systems store private user data somewhere in some form. The thing that I am regularly shocked by is that there's still way too much low-hanging fruit for hackers in a lot of internet facing systems and APIs. Vulns that could have been patched out are left open just because sec is seen as a waste. It's a big threat to UK companies.
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  76.  @OsamaBinKevo  😆
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  77. Putin, also known as ... 😆
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  78.  @SiliconCurtain  Yeah. I would have no problem with their attitude if they actually were looking for balance and the real picture. Instead there is this cognitive bias against the west because it's been bad in the past, so it must be being bad again. Can drive me a little nuts.
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  79.  @SupportGoodHumans  You might want to see a doctor about your inner ears.
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  80. Today Vlad Vexler Chat was talking about the politicisation of the Russian space, and how Ukraine and the west could be doing that. It was another fascinating YT video, which seems to sit neatly with this one.
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  81. These casts are so under rated. I think people see the low video and audio quality and skip it tbh.
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  82. Does he mean Levitan the painter?
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  83.  @SiliconCurtain  Bizarre - but I guess that shouldn't surprise.
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  84.  @martavdz4972  I don't know. That's a good point.
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  85.  @MJGMJGMJG  In post 9/11 period - and also during parts of the Cold War, though I wasn't around for a lot of that - I would have agreed with you. But the left is stuck in that period, still pinning every bad thing on the US. But now we have Russia doing all the things the Kremlin has complained about the US doing. And worse. And with a truly criminal mafioso regime at the top which has pillaged the country and is now after the neighbours.
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  86. He's so good
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  87. The Defender's Dilemma was great, so I'll be getting this book as well.
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  88. I do wish you'd push for better video production quality Jonathan. I love your channel for the content, but it doesn't have the look. I'm quite sure that people therefore assume that it's a bit of a garden shed channel, and that it's not serious. You have exceptional guests, and I think you're great at what you do. I just want people who flick through the tubes to not swipe on.
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  89. Jesus H C, when are the B west going to wake up to what Russia has become. With a regime on this course, this is not going to just go away, and it's not "just staying in Ukraine" (as if that wasn't enough to get fully involved anyway). I am F 'ing frustrated by our dopey democratic representatives.
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  90. Better format for the algorithm.
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  91. Snap election in France!!
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  92. I'll happily be in the gang of anyone who has a model Thunderbird 2 on their bookshelf.
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  93. The Kremlin is well versed in this psychology that keeps the western citizens disengaged. That stuff was well researched of course. They will try and take Ukraine by boiling the frog. And a slow boil is dangerous to western democracies, how can you cohere a population against something so insidious, until it's on your doorstep and it's too late.
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  94. So much love to the roarer
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  95.  @carlgevers2557  😗
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