Comments by "Neil Clay" (@neilclay5835) on "Professor Gerdes Explains 🇺🇦 " channel.

  1. We can't know what it's in response to, and it kind of doesn't matter in some ways. Ukraine needs to act without fear, we need to support them completely in that endeavour.
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  2. I gave him some £ a few weeks ago, and his thank you note in return was so heartfelt and real. Quite a guy.
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  3. I read Heather Cox Richardson's Letter from an American newsletter, every day. She's originally a historian specialising in the GOP. As a Brit, I find it to be a fascinating piece. I'm a left leaning liberal who passionately supports Ukraine. Cox-Richardson has given me a respect for the "old right", as have you prof. Trump is an entirely different beast. And if he got into power, he'd just use the office to go after his political enemies and weaken, perhaps destroy, democratic institutions.
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  4. Anna is a force of nature. I've been her Patreon through a lot of this, her spirit is exceptional.
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  5. The short attention span of the mainstream media is terribly worrying. In the UK it's the same. It's absolutely shocking. And the information environment on the social media platforms is so dangerous. If Trump gets in I think we're in a heck of a lot of trouble. We might disagree politically prof, but we agree that having a forum in which we can argue which is based on truth and decency is vital. Trump ends that. Putin ends that.
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  6. You guys have really pulled me into this space, and I'm a huge supporter of Ukraine. You've certainly enabled that. Many thanks to you both!
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  7. I have the utmost respect for what you're doing for Ukraine professor. It's remarkable. As a left-leaning voter in the UK, I would like to make one political point. And that is that Reagan pushed for supply-side and trickle down economics, as did Thatcher here pretty much the same time. And the poorest were left high-and dry, whilst the richest got even richer. That was the staging for the loss of faith in democratic institutions in both our countries, ultimately I think it can be strongly argued that this - along with the 2008 financial crisis - led to Brexit over here, and Trump over there. Biden has worked hard to bring back a level of demand-side economics, however it's clear that his message that he is doing that is lost entirely in the turbulence of the US state of democracy. I think this is a terrible shame. Best regards to you.
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  8. The US met them in mid-Europe and drew a line. The US dropped a bomb in Japan, before they started moving into the Pacific. They were on the same side, but don't think for a second that this wasn't the US drawing a couple of lines in the sand against the Soviets. Europe could well now be all Soviet or ex-Soviet states now if they hadn't. European forces weren't a match for the Soviets, and nor were the Brits. As a Brit, I'm glad you helped. Years ago, on a bus in Canterbury in the UK, I was told by an American that it was solely due to the US that World War 2 was won. That is also a mistaken way of looking at the war.
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  9. People believed (incorrectly, imo, because I think it's completely staged) that Trump was an exceptional business magnate, and that the US would do well from having such a person at the helm. Boy has that visage tainted.
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  10. The Russian media has a very passive style in the sense of under dramatizing when it wants to play down a story. "Hey, this thing happened, some boats were near there, we do exporting, people said they heard things, oil comes in different types, this kind of thing is not unheard of, authorities say things ...".
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  11. I have a fair amount of experience of the long term effect of certain prescription medications. Trump is on some quite strong ones I think.
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  12. Good format.
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  13. I hope you have 2FA turned on prof.
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  14. Trump attacks the democratic institutions of the west which form the playing field of our politics. That affects Republicans and Democrats alike. It's a hack.
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  15. One wonders how Peter Zeihan sees these interconnections. I think he gave an important warning in his latest video, but it seemed fatalistic and under estimated the agility and out of box thinking of the Ukrainians
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  16. Nice one
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  17. Vat-nik, not van-tik. Just saying.
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  18. GUR drones, not GRU.
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  19. So Ukraine made Moskva into a submarine, and that turns out the be the safest means of transport for the Russians on the Black Sea.
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  20. Have you been in touch with Silicon Curtain? I'd hope that you guys could boost off each other. Both excellent channels. Cheers.
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  21. You can totally see Trump siding with Chevron.
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  22. Thanks for bringing him to my attention.
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  23. Add Silicon Curtain and I think that 's a full house for where I'm catching my feeds 😎
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  24. I'm very sorry fella. Look after yourself. Love from the UK
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  25. Interesting Jonathan's comment (from SiliconCurtain) that he sees the outline of a network of disruption around the world, leading back to Russia. It's what John Sweeney talks about as well when he discussed "struggle" (Борьба). I've just read The Defender's Dilemma by Elisabeth Braw, after her interview on Silicon Curtain. We really really need to wake up to how our democracies are being undermined through these means.
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  26. I think that in general, the politics here in the UK is a whole step further left than it is in other Western countries. The left wing are actually less likely to support Ukraine here than the right wing. People like Corbyn are of the mind that talks are always better, and have that in their minds as a solution. You can tell them until you're blue in the face that Putin will rearm and go again, but they'll stick to their passive position. The right-wing is 99% supportive of Ukraine. Even ones I'd consider to be really very right-wing like Jacob Rees-Mogg are supportive. There is the occasional character who goes against this, but not usually vocally and they often aren't politicians - just political influencers. People such as Aaron Banks come to mind here. Perhaps if the nation were to start to suffer as a direct consequence of support, then certain politicians would break rank - perhaps Liz Truss would be pushing to stop the support - she seems fairly bought into the populism of Trump, so maybe she'd move in that direction. But even here I'm not sure. Here, Ukraine doesn't feel that far away. Russia has long been the boogie man - during the Cold War. The working class here will often tell you that they think that Europe did something that was partly to blame for the war - but that's primarily a function of the inculcated hate of the EU which was whipped up by Brexit. I don't know. If the thumb screws tighten then perhaps things change. But until then I really can't see it. However, all of that said. None of them actually have a plan or a vision for Ukraine or Russia. It's always "as long as it takes". IMO, if that doesn't change then things get less stable for our democracies - even here. Churchill figures are somewhat lacking currently. Even our next likely PM - Starmer - is woolly on this front.
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  27. The move of the Kremlin's propagandists from a post-modern form of propaganda (flooding the information space with garbage, and contradiction) to a Soviet style of propaganda (this alternate reality is the real one, we require you to believe it), is both fascinating and worrying. And the more I find out about it, the more I realise that the propagandists have convinced themselves of this messaging as well now. In the past, they would be caught, making a contradictory off-mic comment which shows that they knew it was unreal. However, it seems that fear has driven them to believe it. It's a strange psychology. A very visible example being Dmitry Medvedev.
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  28. In democracy, we're supposed to have a good idea of what someone will do before we vote. Just shows how not doing that is so normalised by the populists.
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  29. Bringing flowers to Prigozhin. Wow. Just shows the disinformation bubble that they live in. Nice guy that Prigozhin, I think the hammer was for pressing flowers.
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  30. 💙💛
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  31. Heartily agreed.
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  32.  @Professor-Gerdes  Yeah, from Europe/UK, that's really clear. MAGA doesn't respect the venue of democratic politics, it will burn it to the ground if it suits it to do so. There is no decency in that.
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  33.  @Cryptantha  Yeah, exceptional quality newsletter. Cheers.
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