Youtube comments of (@vladimirbrovkin4052).

  1. exactly
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  2. good summary of what happenned
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  3. As a matter of fact, he was my teacher at Princeton. I will always remember him fondly.
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  4. I should have, sorry
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  5. very useful insight
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  6. I knew George Kennan quite well. This was in the 1970s when I worked as a research assistant at Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies. He was a great Man and he knew and understood Russia as very few do today.
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  7. true, thank you
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  8. no, not crazy, they think they are number one and that blinds them. Pride and arrogance leads to collapse
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  9. Sweeden made a big mistake by joining NATO. Sweden was special, now it is like everybody else.
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  10. I am very touched by your comment. Thank you so much
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  11. Yes, thank you, I should have mentioned that, Wagner in Africa
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  12. You summarized it brilliantly. excellent!!
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  13. true
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  14. I am sohappy to hear that. Tell your parents my heart aches when I think of Ukraine. NATO pushed it to self-destruction
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  15. good term purpose driven, I like it
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  16. For the same reason why GB and France went to war with Russia in 1853 and occupied Crimea. Nothing changed. They still want to weaken Russia, as they did then. They fear Russia. Russia is too big and too strong, so one has to chop off a piece and make it a part of NATO. That is the purpose of the current war.
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  17. very interesting
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  18. Nothing, except that we were both born in Leningrad. I think he is one of the greatest rulers of Russia certainly since Alexander II.
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  19. exactly thank you
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  20. Philosopher Dugin and Dostoevsky thought along the lines you described here. There are also those like Hunson the economist who believe that the West Catholicism split from original Christianity and distorted it beyond recognition and that is the source of the Western narcisism and disdain to the Orthodox East.
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  21. thank you very much. I have had this channels for at least 5 years, but somehow it never caught a big audience. Anyway thank you for your kind words. I shall continue on a weekly basis/
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  22. that is called being conservative
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  23. That does not matter. NATO cannot do anything to Russia
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  24. They do not actually hate America. More like they are disappointed in what it turned out to be like after so many hopes were dashed
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  25. well put
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  26. Yes, that is true, but the US cannot fight Russia now. Trump has other priorities, so he will have to cut a deal the best he can.
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  27. quite likely. Netanyahu thinks himself a Napoleon. He may end up as he did.
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  28. Thank you for your comment. It seems the British American and French elites live in some kind of fantasy world pretending that they are World Powers like they were at the end of the 19th century. There was a chance to build a united Europe including Russia in the 1990s. Instead they chose to expand NATO, invade Afghanistan, then Iraq and so on.
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  29. A wise leader is the one who reacts not to the challenges of the past but of the future. East European countries had a legitimate grievance over Soviet domination and Stalinist terror. But the Russian people suffred from the Soviet Stalinist rule just as much. In the 1990s all post Soviet states were in the Partnership for Peace, which was supposed to replace NATO and Warsauer Pact. The historic opportunity to turn the page and start a new era of common European home was missed citing PAST grievances. Moreover some East European countries were forced to join NATO bu bribing their leaders, such as Montenegro. And finally Russia did not have any objection to any country going its own way with one condition its choice should not pose a military threat to Russia. That principle applies to the US policy as well. If a country in Western Hemisphere wants to join Russia as a military ally, and welcome Russian bases on its territory the US has been ready to stop it by any means.
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  30. You got it absolutely right. The Bolsheviks were scared and that is why they were so ruthless
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  31. I knew George Kennan personnaly. He was a great man. Thank you for your excellent summary
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  32. Exactly.
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  33. The US has never learnt its lesson with Ben Laden. They created him to fight the soviets. They got the pay back. Now they are doing the same.
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  34. excellent summary
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  35. thank you for your comment
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  36. Если вы находитесь в России, вы можете купить мою единственную книгу, изданную в России: «Великая октябрьская катастрофа», доступную с Litres. Ozon and Blue berries
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  37. People don't seem to realize the gravity of the situation
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  38. thank you for your comment
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  39. thank you
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  40. I once wrote an article Vladimir the savior!
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  41. If you want to check out opposition press read communist papers if you want pro-western liberal press check out Ekho Moskvy radio station. available online. As for birth rates, they are better now than in the 1990s and everywhere in Europe and in US they are down, in Italy it is a catastrophe with all the free press 1.3 births per woman. As for free press the Russians will tell you that there is more free discussion in Russia than in the US where any deviation from the woke culture is punishable. Try to discuss some hot issues like criticizing BLM or Trump!
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  42. well said
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  43. interesting
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  44. shasibo
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  45. yes
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  46. exactly
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  47. thank you
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  48. It depends, If you are asking in regard to Soviet history schools of thought, I have fought against so-called Revisionists who I thought whitewashed Stalinism. But at the same time, I am against all those who dismiss all Soviet experience as totally negative. I like the seek the truth school of thought.
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  49. I was born in Leningrad
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  50. true
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  51. I love that show
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  52. Many of the Baltic leaders after 1991 came from the West, descendants of the emigrees
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  53. thank you for your analysis. May I respond please. 1 They did not lose any Ukrainians not those in the East of the country who greet the Russians as liberators. Just look at the people in Avdeevka and mariupol and other eras that are now Russia. 2 yes The two in NATO now but the entire existance of NATO is now put into question because if NATO decides to go to war against Russia, it will split apart as there will be a dosen countries who would refuse to have anything at all to do with it. 3 I do not know where you go a million people lost. Russia has acquired 5 million new citizens in Donbas. 4. the relationship with China cannot be better than it is now. China needs Russia as a raw materials depot and as a transit to Europe its market that has eclipsed that of the US. 5 Central Asia and Caucassus. Exactly the opposite is unfolding now. Hundreds of Thousands of central Asians seek employment in Russia. These countries realize that there futue is in explouting their geographical position between China and Russia. The US has no chance to succeed there. 6 Reforms. If you heard Putin's report to the Federal Assembly a couple of days ago you must realize that that is the most comprehensive plan of action for Russia one can think of. 7. The West is furious that Russia is winning but cannot do anything because for the first time in history Russia does not care about the West.
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  54. good point
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  55. I doubt too, but what choice do they have? To continue pouring money into a lost cause? Or to send in ground troops? They will be beaten too To cut a deal now and blame Biden is the best scenario for Trump.
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  56. Thank you so much. When I was a student in Germany in the 1980s I never encountered such hostility to Russia as now. Thank you for your explanation
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  57. But they are. The French soldiers are not any volunteers as announced by President macron. French soldiers in Ukraine are French military personnel. That is an act of war in international law
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  58. thank you
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  59. This is my son. I shall introduce him next time
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  60. very easily. Stop suppressing those who want change. such as Afd in G-ny and Marine Le Pen in France
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  61. thanks
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  62. You have posted a brilliant commentary on the state of English society. Similar problems plague France and Germany and Italy. Declining birthrate among the whites is the underlying problem. That is partly linked to liberal rejection of Christianity and of family values. Paradoxically it may well be that the Muslims are in fact the healthiest part of society because THEY DO BELIVE IN GOD. Seeking war with Russia is suicidal for Britain and for the US. Their military capabilities are inferior to Russia. The fact that the Russian show restraint against Ukrainians does not mean that they would show the same restraint if fighting the British.
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  63. exactly
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  64. could well be true, especially if it is by storm shadow missile
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  65. Thank you for your excellent, informative analysis. I agree 100%. Want to add that Putin has been working hard to encourage birth rates with all kinds in financial incentives. Also there is a large in-migration from former Soviet central Asian republics and North Korea and Syria and Turkey.
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  66. thank you for the suggestion. i may
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  67. well said
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  68. Indeed it is strange that ten years ago they all called Putin a friend or a partner and then slowly turned into war seekers.
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  69. слава
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  70. At that time he was building his political popularity.
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  71. It is the arrogance, and the assumed superiority that led the US into a dead-end.
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  72. Glad you think so!
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  73. I agree most who wanted to say something were silenced as pro-Putin spies
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  74. You see by 2050 they will have half of todays small population. They will have to either accept africans or Turks or open up to Russia. They probably would rather accept the Turks and Arabs
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  75. Black Rock is going to lose its money in Ukraine. You summary is exactly to the point, thanks
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  76. yes you are right, the 2008 decision set the stage, the 2014 coup started the shooting and the 2022 serious shooting
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  77. You may call it propaganda if you want but American experts in weaponry all confirm that Russian aircraft, missiles and tanks are superb.
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  78. very true
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  79. Truly they do not have the money for 2% let alone 5%.France is all in debt same Germany same Britain
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  80. of course Russia is in the war. But do you want peace or escalate until we all die?
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  81. especially in Odessa
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  82. history repeats itself
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  83. thank you
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  84. Stalin got Ukraine a seat in the UN, so the USSR got three seats, one for Ukraine one for Belarus and one for USSR. As for the rules, Ukraine had a right to secede from the USSR but Donbas has a right to secede from Ukraine.
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  85. Yes you are probably right. But there is one little detail about Kiev. The Orthodox church lavra is there, sacred for those who consider themselves Orthodox. The Kiev regime was persecuting the monks there and many Russians condider it there duty now to establish control over Kiev, which was not the case in feb 2022.
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  86. Many thanks!
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  87. Thank you kindly
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  88. thank you
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  89. Total mobilization plus Russian patriotism plus Stalin's industrialization = war victory. As I said, Russia culture regenerated itself in the next two generations as children of the Communist upstarts grew up and went to university as yours truly.
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  90. It is too early to make judgments on Syria. As for Rumania it shows the real fake nature of the so called democracy in Europe.
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  91. The West and specifically the US was praparing Maindan seizure of power for several years.
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  92. you mean Zekensky, not those families wholost their loved ones?
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  93. They have Russian nukes on their territory. I do not think they have control over those without Russian consent.
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  94. Yes, the capitalists paid for Mussolini, because they feared the Bolsheviks, but Mussolini is much more complex than being a stooge for the capitalists. He was a socialist in a sense. He wanted to create a fusion between the working class and the corporatist state. corporatist not in the sense of power of capitalist corporations, but corporatist in the sense of bodies of social groups and state institutions for the benefit of the state or nation which was the same thing for him.
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  95. thank you
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  96. I shall look into it
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  97. well said
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  98. good point. They do still now
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  99. absolutely right
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  100. They are playing with fire that may explode into their face
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  101. Yes I indeed I belived in early 2022 that the invasion was not going to happen. Now we know what we did not know then, namely that in December 2021 and January 2022 the US began massive shipments of arms to Ukraine. They also encouraged Zelensky to increase artillery shelling of Donetsk. Putin realized that the war was inevitable but he made a big mistake that he allowed Biden to present the fight as if he Putin started it by invading Ukraine. He should have waited for Zelensky start a formal assault on Donbas and then ...
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  102. ??? half-baked?
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  103. I do not think so. Putin's greatest achievement is that he taught russians to love russia again. There will be a new generation of patriots. One thing he announce recently is that those who fought at the front will be promoted to government service after the war. One thing though that makes some worry and me too, is that Putin reacts very calmly and with great restraint. The west does not understand that someone else may be much more unrestrained.
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  104. Do you mean Zelensky?
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  105. and to Iran
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  106. well said
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  107. thanks
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  108. interesting perspective
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  109. Neither China nor Russia have imposed any sanctions on any country ever. What makes you think that they suddenly would act like the US does?
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  110. both
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  111. not rich at all. No one really measured by any coherent standard. The purpose was to divide the peasant community to induce the conflict between those labeled rich and those who might be loyal and assumed to be poor.
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  112. That is probably where it is going
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  113. It is easy to say and claim that the US will not tolerate this or that but the reality is that China has a larger GDP than the USA and Russia is at least an equal to the US militarily
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  114. Short answer is both. Slavic Rus tribes came down into the Dnepr river basin from Carpathian mountains. But the Varangian Prince Riurik was invited to rule them. That is the origin of Russian statehood.
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  115. yes
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  116. There is no disagreement between us. You comments just make the story a little more precise and I agree completely
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  117. exactly
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  118. spasibo Vam
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  119. More details are coming out all the time. Money was given to Syrian commanders to let them thru. No one expected that it would work and so quickly. For some strange reason Assad refused Putin's offer to rearm his army
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  120. It did in the US in the 1960s and 1970s.
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  121. thank you
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  122. I would be honored to converse with Mr. Mercouris. I watch his show every day.
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  123. Check the previous video I discussed the Crimean war. You are right.
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  124. Yes in the Soviet Union Jews were considered as a Nationality marked in passport like Russian, Latvian, Georgian, Ukrainian etc
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  125. At first I thought to cut it out but then I figured it provides a touch of reality of a classroom.
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  126. true
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  127. When I saw rat you were born in Leningrad what a coincidence me too and came to the US in mid-1970s me too. And on top of it all my views are very similar to yours. How nice to meet a person like that. My videos on Russsin hitory are on youtube too.
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  128. happy to hear that
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  129. The differences between the Russians and Ukrainians are no more than between Alabama and Massachusetts
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  130. It is not a blitz but it is a war Russia is winning and NATO is losing
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  131. that is true. But I hope not forever, as the empire overstretched...
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  132. happy to hear that
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  133. thank you
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  134. thank you
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  135. yes most took history as irrelevant
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  136. If they switched off that is their choice. What Putin said that the Western media did not cover was the Russian side to the story. in a fair court one has to listen to two sides. That is what was missing before the interview
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  137. The Russians always considered the Czecks as a friend nation. Strange that today their president is the champion of anti-Russian crusade.
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  138. He wont be in the oval office again
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  139. He alsways threatens as a start f negotiations. The point it he does not have anything up his sleeve that Biden did not have. What can he do? Drop more bombs on Gaza? Send US troops to occupy Gaza? For that he would need the Congress? To bomb Iran is too risky, what if they destroy American bases in the Middle East. Trump's priority is the Deep state not Iran
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  140. вы правы If you are in Russia, one of my books is published in Russia in Russian. You can get it at ozon.ru. Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа
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  141. I 'll try to do a short outline of maidan events soon.
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  142. bolshoe spasibo
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  143. exactly so
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  144. Je sui en sud de France
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  145. This is a great question. Best is to ask them. My guess is that they preferred to keep the money and shut up. Putin had dirt on all and any of them
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  146. Putin knows it
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  147. happy to hear that
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  148. Me too!
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  149. thank you for your comment. Indeed she was in favor of claiming that the West had a right to order Russia what to do.
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  150. Yes well said
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  151. I am so happy to hear that. Can you put those words in Amazon readers' review section?
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  152. why? Did he hill 10 million peasants? Did he kille any political opponents? Why you liberals dislike him so much? Is it because he deprived you all of your apartments in London? or Miami?
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  153. yes and French and German
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  154. thank you for your comment
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  155. The best deal for Ukrainian people now is to accept Putin's conditions and return to peace.
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  156. I am on the pay roll of the US social security administration, a retired professor and nobody else
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  157. the show must go on even though the ship is sinking, like on a Titanic
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  158. Exactly right. The atmosphere at the Russian Research Center (Davis center) at Harvard changed. It used to be about the democracy in Russia in the 1990s , now it is worse than during the height of the Cold War.
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  159. Boris and Gleb were innocent children slain by boyars, but Navalny enjoyed insulting the authorities. he got a kick out of being with the crowds denouncing authorities
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  160. spasibo vam
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  161. glad to try
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  162. Of course there is no legal basis. The Third Rome is a dream, is a claim, is an affirmation of importance, it is identity search in Constantinople, it is quest of legitimacy.
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  163. this is an act of terrorism, revenge a sign of helpnessness, blind rage of a losing side.
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  164. He calls himself like that and Israeli newspapers call him that!
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  165. Peace and Donbas remain Russian
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  166. not censorship as such but many did not like what they called my anticommunist bias
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  167. Some did get lost. There were no computers then and Russian names are quite similar. So some Ivanov or Petrov could have moved to another city and find a simple job and be unnoticed. My grandfather told me that he had a gut feeling in 1936 that things were getting dangerous. He gave up his position as a teaching faculty and said he wanted to study more applied to graduate school moved to Leningrad and became unnoticeable living in a dormitory. He survived, many he had worked with were exposed as enemies of the people and perished.
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  168. It did not work well in consumer goods but it worked just fine in Soviet tanks Mig aircraft, ballistic missiles etc.
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  169. exactly so. And even now he still has a chance to lose just 4 provinces rather than 8. He refuses.
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  170. yes
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  171. I deal more extensively with these issues in my book: From Lenin to Putin
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  172. exactly right
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  173. thank you
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  174. I would love to but I cannot invite myself. I listen to them almost every day
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  175. zdorovo spasibo!
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  176. at least in his patience, cool head and rational choices
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  177. To be against US current policy does not equate with being anti-West. In fact what Biden is doing is ruining the US and the West and NATO.
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  178. If you have any questions, I shall be happy to answer
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  179. That's a great idea! I suppose I should ask the publisher?
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  180. good point
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  181. As a counter to missiles in Rumania and Pl Russia has stationed retribution missiles in Atlantic ocean to be used in case of a US first strike.
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  182. I cannot repeat what talk show guests in moscow propose to do with Zele
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  183. yes you are right on a much smaller scale it did start under Lenin
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  184. I assure you I am not a bot. I am a real person, born in Russia, lived most of my life, the last fifty years in the US as well as in Germany, France, Morocco. Harvard Professor Jeffrey Sacks, my former colleague, shares my views. Check out his videos., as well as Colonel McGregor, Scott Ritter, and many others.
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  185. spasibo vam
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  186. I am not in the prediction business. but Belarus seems to be very close to Russia. They are Belo-RUSSIANS. They and the Russians are like Bavarians and Berliners, different but both Germans.
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  187. If you check my War in Ukraine playlist and Russian History playlist you will find many videos on this subject. The first one from the very beginning is the Origins of Rus and many others.
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  188. exactly
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  189. thank you
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  190. that is so!
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  191. Thank you for sharing. I love hearing personal stories like yours. It makes History truly alive.
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  192. he himself does
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  193. thank you
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  194. It is hard to answer your question accurately because it all depends where and when. In the 1920s universities were excellent as many pre rev profs were still there. Secondary schools in countryside were terrible and primitive for lack of teachers who were underpaid and abused as petty bourgeois intelligentsia types. But in the 1960s and 1970s schools were quit good and some elite ones simply excellent, Math and science were just among the top in the world. Humanities were staffed with party hacks and imbeciles. This is an excellent topic to make a video
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  195. Lenin destroyed all Russian political parties, banned factions inside his own party, split the Bolshevik party several times anf falcified vote results several times. For more detail, see my books: The mensheviks after October, Behind the front Lines of the Civil War; Russia After Lenin. I spent years of my life studying all that. As for Putin, he is the Russian ruler for so long because he managed to maneuver his way between the Westernizers and the nationalists for 20 years. The press critizises him in ways that were unimaginale under Lenin. He himself changed his mind about the way this war should run and he has and still has supporters and opponents for a variety of approaches. Yes the scale of Western supply of arms was a surprise to him. He is determined to overcome that. We shall see.
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  196. better morale, better arms, better generals, better everything
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  197. well said!
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  198. The train has departed
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  199. glad you liked it
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  200. exactly
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  201. you raised many good points however it was the Central Asian republics that voted to preserve the USSR as well as Ukraine in a referendum
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  202. All communists are still active. None in jail. Those that are in jail like Kara mursa (I know him) took money from the west for their "democracy "projects.
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  203. In one of my articles I wrote "Vladimir the Savior"
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  204. There are many good books. I'll start with mine: Behind the Frontlines of the Civil War; and Russia After Lenin; then Andrea Graziosi, Great Soviet Peasant War; Robert Tucker: Stalin. The classic about the Red Terror is Melgunov: Red Terror
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  205. So nice of you
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  206. May be. But the issue is more complicated than that. Ukraine in its current borders includes millions of ethnic Russians. As long as it had a government friendly to Russia with open borders nobody cared. When you have a gov that wants NATO membership I assure you 95% of Russians will not accept this. Just imagine Puerto Rico or Texas declaring independence and joining Russian military alliance.
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  207. Hold on Serbia, you have true friends
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  208. Nothing will happen. The US has given as much as it wanted to already. This will only mean that Trump will forget his domestic agenda and lose to neocons.
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  209. thank you
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  210. it aint a dem-cy
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  211. true
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  212. I am honored
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  213. happy to try
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  214. happy to hear that
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  215. Thank you, that is exactly so. He was convinced he could get away with annexing South Ossetia
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  216. I agree. just quiet retirement
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  217. interesting view
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  218. spasibo
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  219. no, not doomed,just a new system of security for all
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  220. Yes, the homeless in SF could have used those 163 million
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  221. thank you for your story, fascinating.As for gays, they are not persecuted in Russia for being gay. They just cannot stage gay parades, they cannot recruit kids in schools, but they csn live their private lives as they wish
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  222. DearSusan: When two sides fight, most western pundits root for Ukraine because they were told that it was a victim of aggression. The truth is that they could have chosen to be neutral like Austria, but they chose to join NATO and force Donbas to be part of Ukraine. Their choices led to war. From this stand point Russia is the victim of NATO aggression. If you try to follow some Ukrainian commentators who saved their lives and ran away to Russia, they root for Russian victory to save Ukraine from Zelensky and the Americans.
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  223. No I do not. Israel is on the course of self-destruction.
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  224. it depends what you call education. literacy meant capacity to read and write but what to read was the choice of the party. It was to read communist propaganda ONLY. That is not education.
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  225. yes
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  226. glad to try
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  227. thank you so much
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  228. Thank you. They certainly thought they could win. As late as September Zelensky was seriously talking of a victory plan. You are right, how many millions wound up in off shore accounts
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  229. My pleasure!
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  230. thank you so much
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  231. Happy to hear that
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  232. thank you very much
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  233. thank you
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  234. we will
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  235. the statistics I cited is from the official report of Minister of Defense Shoigu to Putin at the end of december. I douby that he is lying. Besides in June 2023 stats were published on the number of tanks and moto infantry vehicles od Western aide source detroyed. If I recall correctly it was more than 400 tanks at that time. The figure of 100000. dead is from the Ukrainian stats cited in Rada (parliament)
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  236. A much more detailed series on the Russian Civil War is coming soon
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  237. What a revealing compilation of quotes. It should e sent to every RADA member in Ukraine, to every newspaper in Ukraine. Thank you
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  238. spasibo vam. This is my native city
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  239. It is hard to define the current system of Government in Russia. It is definitely authoritarian and yet based on social approval. That makes it a democracy, for Putin has more support than Biden or Macron or Merkel's party. But these are misleading arguments. The main point is that the Russians love to have a father figure, like the Tsar or as they loved Stalin, who was tough cruel but still loved. The next big point. They Russians detest free for all democracy of the 1990s, brought by the Americans. And the final point they detest identity politics, privileges based on nationality or race, LGBT culture. They say American went Soviet when we quit it.
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  240. From what you describe it sounds like a Russia electronic suppression system
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  241. I am sure he does. This is his last term. He believes GOd spared his life for something BIG
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  242. That is not a show. He does that usually once a year, sometime in December. And when he does, it i broadcast by nearly all channels. It usually lasts for 4 hours or so the callers are from different parts of the country
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  243. They stole their riches from the Russian people when the Soviet Union collapsed
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  244. thanks
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  245. true
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  246. exactly right
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  247. ne vnuk a syn
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  248. almost hard to believe now that Bush called him a friend
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  249. For me what is important is not necessarily that every four years someone has to be elected but that the one who is elected does a good job. So far Putin has done better than any of his predecessors after Alexander II.
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  250. absolutely right. That is why Putin did not roll back privatisation
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  251. As long as Finland is just a member it does not make any difference for Russia. If they decide to station IS bases in there, then, those bases will become targets. Also just recently Russia decided in response to Finland's move to create a new North West army corps about 500.000.
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  252. thank you for your very interesting comments. Estonia is somewhat different from the three and is performing better than the other two. The reference to ghettoes is mainly in regard to poor Russian neighborhoods in Riga I saw myself.As to deportations, there are books about it. It is hard to summarize everything in severalminutes. But on the wholethe deportations before the war in 1940 were class based and after the war nazi affiliation based.
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  253. What I meant is that the Germans never could even contemplate offensive operations on the Eastern front. General Guderian advised Hitler even before Kursk to go into total defense mode, but Hitler refused. Of course Stalingrad was the turning point.
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  254. merci beaucoup!
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  255. spasibo vam
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  256. glad to hear it
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  257. Just forget that these people are Marxists or Socialists. These are just names. In fact these are in today's politics socially conservative people and in foreign policy actively nationalist, more pushy than Putin.
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  258. Thank you for your insight. That may well be. But it seems that Putin will not agree to keeping the current regime in Kiev in power. By neutral Ukraine he means a government in Kiev that will be neutral not yesmen of Washington
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  259. At the time they tried they had 200.000. troops committed to the opeation. They did not pan to occupy ll of Ukraine. The move to Kieve was to get the Ukrainians to negotiate. All that is now history. Now the war aim is to win the war and change Ukrainian government and annex Russian speaking areas. We shall see if The can pull it off. They have 800.000. now and aare planning to increase the army to a million and a half. That is official.
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  260. yes true. Remember Ukraine was a part of the USSR. They have the same engineers as Russia
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  261. thank you for your analysis. I agree, But it is for the reasons you listed that the Russians will not allow a terrorist state exit on its border. What I would have recommended if Putin asked me for an advice, is to integrate provinces east of Kiev including Kiev as a part of the RF, as for West Ukraine I would have made a RU protectorate, i.e. self rule and no foreign policy of any kind, no army, control over police, and education and a closed border with Russia
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  262. thank you for your comment
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  263. yes probably so
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  264. There is a slight difference between Dems and Biden and Trum and Trumpists
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  265. Putin: You may become a party in war
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  266. thank you very much
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  267. welcome
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  268. They won't. They want to have an international treaty on security
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  269. thank you
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  270. check out my book in Russian and in Russia: Velikaya Oktiabrskaya Katastrofa, available on Litres.ru, Ozon.ru, Wildberries.ru
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  271. committing genocide? Can you explain? That is a serious accusation. As for invading neighbors, it was NATO that equiped and supplied the Ukraine army to invade Donbas and to shell Russian cities now. So it is exactly the other way around and it is Biden and Nataniaho that are committing genocie in Gaza and the west pretends not to notice.
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  272. Yes but not in Russia, but in Poland. In Russia kulaks were simply prosperous farmers
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  273. In fact a great task is to compare the similarities and the differences among the ones you listed
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  274. this is my son, I shall introduce him next time
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  275. Glad to hear that!
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  276. Yeah thanks
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  277. spasibo
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  278. Much appreciated
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  279. fully agree
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  280. The Cossacks are as Russian as can be @adam.insanoff 
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  281. S Novym Godom vas takzhe
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  282. It is not only my view that Stalin ordered Kirov killed. Robert Tucker in his monumental biography of Stalin provides step by step description of how it was done and who did it. The only new piece of evidence that I found that Tucker did not mention is that Kirov in his speech at the 17th party congress said that he hoped that the old guard oppositionists would be reintegrated into the party as old comrades who had realized that they had been mistaken. he received stormy applause. Stalin's plan were quite different. Kotkin wrote this way to please the so called Revisionists who many of them whitewashed Stalin in many of their books. I fought against them for years.
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  283. thank you very much
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  284. You have too many good questions Kursk at this point is the second priority. 2. Artillery shelling of civilian apartments cannot be intercepted. So Ukrainians have been shelling Belgorod. Same with cheap low flying drones they can hit an apartment building anywhere. That is called terrorism. 3. Ammunition storage is an easy target as it is flammable. The Russians have obliterated many such facilities in Ukraine. 4. Kharkov was not meant to be taken precisely because Putin declared that that would cause too many civilian casualties. What I think is going to happen is that it is going to be cut off and surrounded without bombing it as the Americans have a habit of doing. 5 Russian drones do not target civilian locations. If a hotel was hit it is because there were NATO officers there. 6Dripro dam was destroyed by Ukrainians to trap Russia troops around. That is why they were withdrawn from Kherson. 7. Tanks do get blown up by drones. Russians have destroyed several hundred just in 2024. Combat is combat you lose some but if you gain your objectives in the process, it is worth it. 8 motor bikes are a new great tactical invention in modern warfare. They are more efficient than walking. Some do get hit but as far as I know Ukrainian know forces are in retreat now 9 attack helicopters are used but modern warfare is changing because the satellites provide intelligence in real time. Everything is seen. One has to take that into account 10. Russian army is not stationary. it is advancing on the broad front of 1000 km a line longer than the entire France. 11. Russia is fighting not a Ukrainian army but ukr army plus tens of thousands western NATO forces disguised, Poles Germans, French, American Georgian and others. PLUS 200 billion or of military hardware from ALL NATO countries. That is why it took so long. Actually not that long 12 Black sea fleet. In modern warfare it is easy to destroy any vessel with enough drones and missiles. So bif ships were moved out of the way. This is what all powers did always. In Galipoly the British and French immediately withdrew from battle their best ships once the first ones ran into mines. US aircraft carriers are sitting ducks waiting to be blown up as easily as cruiser Moskva was. 13 Interviewing POWs is stupid. They will always say anything to save heir skin. 14 Odessa and Kharkov are still to come, dont worry 15 When will the Russian army win the war and topple Zelensky. I think it will happen in the next few months, 6 months the longest
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  285. Good question. The answer is that Putin did not believe he would have to fight such a war. He underestimated the resolve of the europeans and the resolve of Ukraine government. At the beginning of the war Putin made an appeal to Ukrainian army. He must have thought that many would just join the Russians. This did not happen. The Donbas people like Strelkoff still blame him for the suffering of Donbas and that he was willing to sell it out to Ukraine for another deal in Istambul. In the end he did change the army and launched mobilization and volunteer movement and arms production. He stood up to united West and now at least he is winning. And there is nothing Macron can do about it.
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  286. It all depends on how the Dems feel about the outcome of elections. if they are confident they win, there is no war; if they feel they lose, they might start one to get people rally to the flag
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  287. In both cases the West is trying to split Slavic peoples to make them more subservient
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  288. They do. They fight in the territory populated by THE RUSSIANS and therefore they want to reduce civilian casualties
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  289. thank you
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  290. You captured it very well. I can add that the Russians face the challenge and go to work, without boasting, we are this we are that, exceptional nation, number one, no, just work and fight
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  291. Animal Farm got it just right
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  292. There was no statesman at that time who could be considered an antithesis to Stalin. They were all cowards, except Martimyan Riutin who defiantly opposed Stalin but I do not think he could have managed to run the country.
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  293. I will do a video on these two very different subjects.
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  294. well said
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  295. thank you, it may get all resolved this year
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  296. thank you
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  297. Thabk you for your comment. I 'll try to answer some of your points. 1. Stalin did not intend any reforms you are implying. He chose the party, he made the party the way he wanted. he chose imbeciles like Khrushchev (not Beria) because they were obedient. Voroshilov, Budenyi, Kalinin were all idiots. The Constitution hupla was propaganda for the Western consumption at a time when he wanted to build national fronts against fascism and tried to come across as civilized. At that same time the murders went on and on. During the war is an entirely different matter. Its is true that he relied on his generals because he di not know what to do. He was completely out of it all for a week after 22 June. He was afraid they were going to remove him as he screwed up so bad being caught unprepared and ignoring all the tips he got that the germans were goin go to attack. So yes, Zhukov and others did a good job. Beria was an able administrator and a mass murderer at the same time. he administered the Gulag empire. he has committed crimes against Humanity. he presided over an apparatus of mass murder and millions in the camps. And your praize him for his administrative talents. My main thesis in this video is that you can not build a country and a union of republics based on coersion and force. Stalin tried and failed. One one could say, you are not going to kill me if i chose another party, Com Party was dead and lost. That is what happened in 1989 in E Europe and in USSR in 1991
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  298. thank you I shall try
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  299. Thank you for your assessment. One thingk that happenned in Russia is a wave of patriotism and support for a very tough response
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  300. yes of course, this is one of the big reasons many Russians want to march all the way to Kiev and to "free" as they say the Lavra, a holy place.
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  301. Putin has signalled that he is ready to sign peace with security guarantees. That means no NATO in Ukraine at the very least
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  302. yes
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  303. thank you for your comment
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  304. I disagree, Russia has excellent defense from missiles but not so excellent against the drones. But they are getting better. Military installation are well protected but civilian housing is not and that is what the Ukr targets. As for Iran Russia will not violate nuclear proliferation treaty but it will provide excellent antimissile and antiaircraft defense.
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  305. That is exactly right. What they are after are Russian resources
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  306. Patience is an asset of a statesman
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  307. From Odessa east to Kharkov is Novorossiya, i.e. area populated by the Russians. From Odessa North to Kiev central Ukraine in todays terms until 1917 called Malorossiya i.e. small Russia or Core Russia. From Kiev westwards. West Ukraine and behind the mountains Galicia, belonged to Austria-Hungary up to 1918, the epicenter of Bandera nationalism that based its hatred of the Moscali, i.e. Muscovites ie. Russians and of the Poles and of the Jews as a matter of first priority.
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  308. true
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  309. As to the whole world, this is a Western view only. China, India, Brics, Africa, anf lots of Latin America silently back Russia, plus Hungary and Slovakia and Serbia in Europe.
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  310. you repeat the western narrative. The GDP data is all wrong. Russia is the fifth largest economy in the world and has surpassed Germany. Ukrainian and Russians especially in centraland eastern Ukraine are one peole fightin each other as the US states did once. Both EU and US are in errevocable debt.
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  311. yes looks that way
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  312. Because this is a presentation on the Red Terror. If you interested in the White Terror I invite you to read relevant chapters in my book: Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War.
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  313. First about the military: The situation on the ground is exactly the opposite of what you are saying. British tanks Challenger is 62 tons and it sinks in the muddy fields of Ukraine/Russia. F16s are outdated and F35 is riddled with problems and is outrageously expensive at 135 mil a piece whereas Su 35 Su 34 and SU 57 are much better and cheaper at 35 mil a piece. Russian tanks are superior. That is not my opinion but that of military specialists at numerous military weaponry shows and fairs such as in Thailand. Armata is too sophisticated and expensive to launch a mass production. It is a tank that can act on the battlefield after nuclear explostion. That is an overkill for a war now in southern Russia. Russia outproduces collective West in shells many times over and only by the end of 2025 the US and EU will procuce half of what Russian produces today. Most impotantly Russia has supersonic missiles Kinzhal and many others that can hit any target in Ukraine or anywhere before it is detected. Now about nations and nationalities. Strictly speaking in terms of International law, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is a domestic dispute between two former Soviet Republics. In November 1991 the presidents of Russia Ukraine and Belarus signed a document that dissolved the USSR. Theoretically they could assemble in the same place tomorrow and sign another document recreating their Union. In other words the dissolution of the USSR was not an act of International Treaty. Russian Ukrainian border is not a result of an International treaty. It is a border between two Soviet Republics within the USSR. Russia accepted that border until the 2014 coup d'etat designed to drag Ukraine into NATO, i.e. make it a US army base. That blew into NATO face in Feb2022.
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  314. Yes I did. But now we know that Russian intelligence found out that Us led Ukraine was planning an invasion of Donbas in early March. Remember Putin once said: If the fight is unavoidable we strike first.
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  315. PhD means Doctor of Philosophy, that is a title awarded to those who receive a doctorate degree. Mine was in History from Princeton University in 1984/
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  316. true but he repeats the same thing
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  317. Obviously you know a lot about Russian history. So I shall answer some of your points. 1. Denikin was not defeated by a bunch of Ukrainian peasnts but his offensive collapsed due to reasons I have described here and in my book. 2.We do not know and we cannot know what kind of regime Denikin would have established we only know what he had on the ground. It was a chaotic regime, bribery corruption, bands no military dictatorship, That was more like Kolchak. I do not put any preference as to who I prefer should have won. 4. It bothers me that he pile up all kinds of insuklts on Russia and the Russians. What i show id the tragedy of the civil war and the atrocities committed by the Whites and Cossacks and \Reds
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  318. well you cannot intercept them all
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  319. so glad to hear that
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  320. Shows the true personality of Lenin and Sverdlov
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  321. Welcome!
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  322. Yes this is exactly what Putin meant to say.
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  323. It seems that the French like to use the Poles to fight Russia. if I remeber correctly, out of 600K troops of the Grand Armee Napoleon led to Moscow, 200K were Poles, 200K other allies i.e. Germans, and ony 200K were French
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  324. thank you
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  325. I hope you are right
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  326. Those who pay order the music
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  327. Trump hates the deep state. He knows he would have been in jail for life if he had lost the election
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  328. I reply to that Kotkin cannot possibly know what the absence of hundreds of commanders in 1941 really meant. It is absurd to say that the impact of the purge is exaggerated. The Germans took 3 million POWs, covered 1000 kilometers from the border to outskirts of Moscow, defeated the Red Army and after those catastrophic losses in 1941 you have to be a madman to assert that destruction of Red Army command had no substantial impact. Kotkin is a revisionist like many today who white wash Stalinism anyway they can.
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  329. good point
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  330. This is a tricky question. Russian government is interested in keeping good relations with the government of South Africa, So if the SA government wanted to get rid of their white farmers, I think the Russians would galdly take them as they are clearly an asset to any country.
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  331. welcome aboard
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  332. Do you think he was better than Denikin? If so why?
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  333. I disagree. I think that many countries realize that admitting Ukraine into NATO automatically means NATO has to defend Ukraine's borders, which means war with Russia. Is Italy ready to join a war with Russia? Is Spain, Portugal, Greece, Hungary, Slovakia? France? Germany? Only the Britts and the Poles and only at the level of governments not people.
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  334. thank you
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  335. He does, especially Medvedev (former President)
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  336. Usually those who get money from abroad do ot find support at home.
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  337. They have a right to choose what they want. Did it contribute to their security? I think not. Why? Because there was no Russian army stationed acros the Finnish border and now there will be. There were no targets on their territories and now there will be. What did they gain. Most importantly, they could have stayed out of a conflict in Europe if there were one. Now they will be drawn into any conflict. Was that a good move? If I were a swede I'd say no.
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  338. The average duration of a listener is 8 minutes, that is why I try to limit my videos to 15 -17 minutes
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  339. This may well be so, good point
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  340. Yes I have seen that on ABC and on Russian TV. It was presented that the Ukrainian occupiers offered to the local Russian population to volunteer to be evacuated to Ukraine. In International law removal of civilians across the border is a war crime
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  341. Look most of Russian Communists at the time of Lenin and Stalin had no idea what Marxism meant. They never read any Marx. They believed what Agitprop told them. As for contemporary Communists they have little to do with those under STALIN AND THEY likewise never read Marx. They defend religion, family and private property. Amazing!!!
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  342. yes you r right
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  343. Trump cannot bribe everybody
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  344. Yes it was and only in the 1400s it slowly regained its statehood.
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  345. unclear
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  346. happy to hear that, another expression is paper tiger
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  347. that is true. Are you refering to Zelensky?
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  348. One cannot generalize like that but farmers in Ukraine did not like the city folks. Jews and Russian administration lived in the cities. the cities was where you pay taxes ans pay to the merchants who were Jews. Therefore if there was any resentment of the city folks it translated into resentment of the Moscovites as they called the Russians and the Jews.
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  349. No, he shot all the generals in 1937 and those that remained learnt their lesson.
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  350. that is a good idea
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  351. of course they spoke Ukrainian Belorussian and Lithuanian
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  352. They are happy that soon all of Donbas will be theirs!
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  353. thank you
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  354. vas takzhe
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  355. thank you
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  356. At that time he talked of European values and efficient government
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  357. happy to try, neighbor, I was born in Leningrad
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  358. thanks
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  359. great comment
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  360. yes that is true. But it is included in Novorossiya now as a part of the lands that are Russian but given to Ukraine
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  361. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  362. Where did Stalin violate Marxism? Just about in everything. Marx cared about liberating workers, Stalin screwed them as hard as he could calling himself the leader of the liberated masses. Marx talked about class struggle, Stalin's understanding of class struggle was to shoot anyone who dared to voice an opinion. And the list goes on.
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  363. I am a Russian American
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  364. I feel sorry that you chose to identify with those who want to expand NATO to Ukraine. As to who is doing poorly in this war, we shall see by the summer.
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  365. exactly. The response is coming
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  366. thank you very much. The task Putin faced was even more complicated than that of Ivan or peter. These two were autocrats which means that could do whatever they pleased. Putin did it by changing the law or the rules of the game. but still the rules were there and he managed to create his system without any war or breaking the law.
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  367. thank you
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  368. thank you
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  369. you can Russia has changed a lot
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  370. true, it was the meeting in June, a preparatory one
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  371. During the Russian empire Nakhichivan was a part of Yerevan gubernia. Donbas was the land of Don Cossacks who would have been astonished if someone told them they were Ukrainian.
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  372. complex issue but mostly because so many Jews joined the Bolsheviks
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  373. may be Yiddish
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  374. it is a pleasure to read your words
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  375. No The first zionist congress defined jews as a nation that needed its homeland. In the Soviet Union there was a line in passport :nationality. In it written russian, georgian, latvian jewish etc
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  376. Yes you are right. They are talking about making a bomb from Plutonium extracted from nuclear power reactors
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  377. thank you very much. My next video will be on Putin and his career
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  378. dont watch it
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  379. This is a complex question. If you want a detailed answer, I recommend my article: Moving Money, Making Money, and Parking Money Overseas: Front Companies in Offshore Jurisdictions - Vladimir Brovkin Here is the link to this issue on line. Once you open it go to vol.9 number 1. https://demokratizatsiya.pub/archives.php#volume-6
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  380. This is exactly what I tried to say
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  381. exactly
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  382. so happy to hear that
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  383. Thank you for the reference. I wrote a book on the Russian Civil War: Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War. Political Parties and Social Movements in Russian 1917 -1921 (Princeton University Press 1984) By the way as you noted Odessa at that time was referred to as the South of Russia.
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  384. good point
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  385. thank you for your interesting comment
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  386. The question of popularity is a difficult one. The women protests for their rights do not mean they all are pro-Western and anti-regime. Not at all. The fact is that Iran (check Wikipedia) has one of the strongest armies in the region. Israel has more airplanes and missiles but these are useless when one has good anti-missile defense. The exchange rate is meaningless. So what does it show. The US has 35trillion debt and growing. Does that effect military might? Not immediately, just long term
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  387. very interesting observation about our debate whether the US will be able to re-industrialize
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  388. that seems to be the case
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  389. I hope you are right
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  390. they are 10 to 15 km deep and 10 to 15 wide
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  391. I agree.
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  392. The Volga Germans were not singled out as a group during the Civil War, but that area was a scene of many uprisings of peasants against Bolshevik requisitions. The Volga Germans must have been labeled kulaks as they were hardworking and relatively prosperous.
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  393. The comparisons are difficult because similarities may be profound or superficial. French Jacobines unleashed the reign of Terror because they were scared. They vented their frustration at their powerlessness at the poor imprisoned and defenseless aristocracy. The comparison is more apt with the Bolsheviks in Russia in 1918. As for contemporary America, the radical fringe groups that feel threatened may be potentially dangerous if they ever come to power.
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  394. Glad it was helpful!
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  395. The kulak were peasants and they were not interested to take over the party. They hated it. The real question you are asking if someone who supported NEP came to power, would the country be able to resist Hitler's invasion. The answer is definitely yes. Moreover, I share the view of those who think that Russia won the war not thanks to Stalin but despite Stalin. In other words without him it would have been easier and quicker.
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  396. May well be true. The Communists certainly did not fear God when they did all the killing.
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  397. not only that but interrupting American president and calling Vice president by the first name.!!!
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  398. I know that millions of people could have stayed home. They did not. They could have voted for communists or new people. They did not. So, where is the proof that it was rigged?
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  399. thank you
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  400. Because they thought they had Ukraine in their pocket, but alas did not work out this way
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  401. Yes, and they hope to launch an airliner with China to compete with Airbus and Boing
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  402. Ukraine was not a founding member of the UN. The Soviet Union was. Stalin asked for 15 seats at the UN but was given three for Russia, Ukraine and Belarus all constituent parts of the USSR. When the USSR collapsed Russia and Ukraine had a treaty according to which they will have open borders, friendship, no alliances directed against each other, and be members of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Ukraine broke all of the above: she left the CIS, closed the border, banned the Russian language and wrote its in its constitution that it was to join NATO. Its government was seized in a coup d'etat, which Crimea and Donbas refused to recognize. The constituent parts of Ukraine broke off on their own accord. Ukraine wants to win them back militarily relying on NATO arms. Russia wants to provide assistance to Ethnic Russian areas and prevent Ukraine from NATO membership. Just imagine if Texas split from the US and sought an alliance with Mexico and Russia. Would the US fight?
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  403. very interesting
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  404. the analysis is totally based on an american formula. this is in fact not an analysis but a school teacher report as to whether somethign fits his preconceived formula.
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  405. In 1989 there were rallies in Moscow: For your freedom and Ours. The Russian Dem movement demanded freedom for Estonia. So they got their independence because the Dem movement came to power in Russia. So first thing they di was to ask to join NATO. Now they want to station US troops. This may lead to war, big war.
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  406. What do you mean by Anarchism? Like in Spain in 1930s? Or in Italy?
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  407. Yes you are right. But some people believe that Trump will accept Putin's formula
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  408. of course what do you expect?
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  409. Wonderful comment. Thank you. I am too of that post-war generation.
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  410. specifically on cannibalism I do not know but millions died of starvation.
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  411. thank you
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  412. Yes of course it does but it has no right to invite US secret labs on its soil or host NATO exercises or write in its constitution that it wants to be in NATO. Imagine if Mexico hosted Russian military bases.
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  413. They will
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  414. I think it is to send a message to Tallinn and others like that, that they are too small and vulnerable to host US missiles.
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  415. The Soviet Union did not annex Eastern Poland but liberated Belorussians and Ukrainians from Polish conquest
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  416. Arestovich says Zele will be tried for treason
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  417. I hope you are right
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  418. yes and that Putin hoped he would sign peace in March.
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  419. true
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  420. If you check my European History playlist I do have two videos one on US occupation of Germany plus paperclips and one on Russian occupation of Germany.
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  421. check my video on the Baltic republics
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  422. Yes, Shoigu went to Iran some months ago. They do not publicize exactly what they discussed r delivered. Just words of cooperation. But it is quite certain that S400 are there.
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  423. Thank you so much. I am touched
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  424. No, the people never thought of rebelling against Stalin. Everyone was so afraid to just think that let alone act on it. Besides there was a cult of Stalin.
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  425. How about tribunal for Zele for kidnapping Russian citizens in Kursk?
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  426. very accurate description of the situation. Thank you
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  427. They are building an alternatiove economic order immune to US sanctions
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  428. this video is just a teaser, promoting my new book. I deal with expansion of NATO in dozens of videos
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  429. nothing to say. All their narratives are discredited
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  430. north Korea alliance happenned
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  431. My father as a teenager lived through the siege of Leningrad during the war
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  432. Everything changes. Hungary, Slovakia and almost Austria are in open rebellion against brussels bureaucracy. If AFD wins, Germany will be in rebellion too. If Le Pen wins France will join the rebellion against the EU globalist bosses. If by that time the war ends with Russian victory the EU will just have to swallow it. They have no other option. They have no army, no money and no unity. Nothing.
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  433. most likely
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  434. thank you
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  435. I amnot a military specialist, but I think you project your wishful thinking onto reality. Russia is not going to lose. That is for sure. As to winning and how much I advise you to watch colonel McGregor and not CNN.
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  436. thank you so much
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  437. That all may be but I do not think any of that has any significance at all. It does not matter in the least of there were Bulgarians or Jews or Germans among his men. What matters is his politics and what he did and what he did not do. He did not support Ukrainian nationalists, even thou contemporary Ukrainian historians portray him as a Ukrainian patriot which he was not. He fought with the Reds and then turned against them, just as the Kronstadt sailors did two years later. Similar to all Cossacks he was a local man, defending his regions from anyone Reds or Whites.
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  438. I used this chair in all my videos of 2024. Merry Christmas
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  439. Liberal values are: tolerance, acceptance, rule of law, fair elections, free speech free assembly. So: students get beaten up, free assembly; journalists get fired and imprisonned, Tucker and Assange, here goes free speech; free elections: a candidate is put on trial for sex liason whereas the President's son is off limits; there goes independent judiciary; elections: some claim they were altered. Putin was elcted by 87% of electorate. All opinion polls show he is genuinly popular. That is called democracy, and on top of it all, women are still called women and they are courted and loved.
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  440. Thank you. Russo Japanese war is a fascinating topic. I should do a video on it.
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  441. well said
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  442. You are so kind
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  443. You are absolutely right. Looking at Putin during the press conference I have an impression that he is quite certain that the West will NOT agree to his peace plant and that means forward to Kiev!
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  444. He was but now he says things similar to mine
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  445. thank you ,I try
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  446. compare Lviv and Kharkov
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  447. thank u
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  448. You confuse two periods. Western investors grabbed assets for cheap in the 1990s. Under Putin, Western investments went for projects the government wanted.
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  449. glad to try
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  450. there is a video on why the US elites hate Putin. Check a few back, recently. As to his achievements, good idea will do
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  451. Mainstream media has long ago stopped being trustworthy
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  452. Gruss Gott!
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  453. Russia offered to Ukraine a compromise called MInks accords. i.e. autonomy for Donbas within Ukraine. They refused. the result is war. The banned the Russian language in Russian lands. Who would accept that?
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  454. I hope he did
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  455. Thank you for your comment. I basically agree with you. On person to person level the French and the Germans get along just fine. But in almosy every town in France there are stories of the war and of resistance and of collaboration. The memories die hard.
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  456. That would be great. My email: Vbrovkin51@gmail.com
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  457. You are welcome! This is just the beginning. You've got to start at the beginning
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  458. I dot not think Holocaust denial laws are useful. They violate freedom of speech.
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  459. спасибо покупайте мою книгу еслт вы в россии Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа в Blue Berries, Ozon, Litres
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  460. Let us put it the way it was. It was not Stalin who helped USA to defeat Hitler but the other way around. It was the USA that helped Russia to defeat Hitler\s Germany. The Russians did it in their own. America was busy fighting Japan.
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  461. interest accrues
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  462. happy to hear that
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  463. That was when Crimea chose to return to Russia after the Americans orchestrated a coup d'etat in Kiev
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  464. Thanks, will do!
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  465. You got it right. Putin is trying to kick NATO hard
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  466. He does react when he hears the word Trump
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  467. thank you
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  468. yES THIS ALL SOUNDS VERY TRUE. I have a Russian History with Dr. Brovkin channel and in it there is a video on Stalinism and on Russian and on American occupation of Germany. You might be interested in that.
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  469. I shall thanks
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  470. more like Bolsheviks rather than Jacobins
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  471. you ask a question that cannot be answered in a few sentences. The debate you have a link to is quite good in highlighting the differences between the Russians and Ukrainians on their conflict.
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  472. thank you i am touched
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  473. sounds true
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  474. If the FSB determines that there was Ukrainian hand in this, then there will be serious consequences
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  475. pathetic
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  476. I agree
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  477. thank you
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  478. Nicholas II was a very good person, loved his family, religious, kind, indecisive, procrastinating, a bad leader bad Tsar
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  479. yes that is so
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  480. Good question. No, I have never red any statements on religion and church in menshevik SR literature. But, they were neither hostile nor friendly to the church. It seems their policy would have been that religion is a private matter not a matter of state intepherence.
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  481. I do believe that Putin has his men to watch over both Prigozhin and Shoigu.
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  482. Wow, thank you!
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  483. yes true
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  484. Spies and informers everywhere. Any frank conversation is overheard and then you r gone
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  485. That often happens especiallyafter the fall of the Communist regime. Often the formerCommunists become ardent nationalists
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  486. thank you somuch
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  487. Working on it!
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  488. Yes you are right, the term nationality in the West is used as a synonym to citizen of a country. But in the Soviet Union the term nationality was used as identifying ethnicity in the passport, such a Ukrainian, Russian, Latvian Jewish, etc.
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  489. But I did in this video
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  490. I try
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  491. Glory to Ukraine, yes down with NATO stooges
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  492. failed too
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  493. ask the same question about american elites
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  494. I think it depends on Moldova does. If it ivites US bases Russia would not let it.
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  495. спасибо. хочу вам сообщить что у меня вышла одна книга в России Великая Октябрьская катастрофа можно купить в ozon.ru
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  496. That is true, but there is a new generation now and people forget easily the bad and remember the good.
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  497. interesting
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  498. thank you
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  499. why?
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  500. Wow, thank you!
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  501. yes exactly
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  502. thank so so much. Happy to hear that
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  503. I fully agree
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  504. thank you for your comment
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  505. thank you
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  506. If you are in Russia, one of my books is published in Russia in Russian. You can get it at ozon.ru. Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа
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  507. If you are in Russia, one of my books is published in Russia in Russian. You can get it at ozon.ru. Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа
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  508. Absolutely right. I can add that the US army established links with Sicilian mafia through the New York italian mafia and made a del with them to support US troops when they landed in sicily
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  509. thank you
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  510. Some security does not need to have US bases. Does Austria feel less secure by being neutral. No the way Baltics acts is to stick it to the Russians as revenge. You see we have a big protector now. That is the message. The West should not forget that WW1 strated when a small country wanted to insult a big power.
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  511. No. Anastasia was not there at the time of the murder. She escaped with some young Cheka guy. She made it to the West but her aunts refused to acknowledge her identity. It was the question of money. The description you refer to is not the best. I have a more detailed one.
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  512. great analogy. I tend to think of Ukraine as a junior brother who got seduced but onece robbed a prodical son will come home
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  513. I am retired and I live in France, and I used to teach Soviet History at Harvard University. I am Russian by ethnicity, American in citizenship, Orthodox in religion, I am straight and I love my wife and I detest woke pseudo culture.
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  514. thank you
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  515. I congratulate you on knowing Russian literature, most people have never heard about any of those writers.
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  516. For many years the opinion polls in Ukr showed overwhelmingmajorities againstmembership in NATO. Yet they wrote it into ukr consitution without any referendum
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  517. It is a not a matter of trust. It is going to be a treaty
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  518. Parallels are difficult to make because similarities may lead to different outcomes. All my books are available on Amazon.com book section
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  519. that is a short great summary
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  520. Glad it was helpful! I hope you will watch a bunch of other videos I posted on the Russian Civil War. They are pretty much in chronological order.
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  521. Ukraine never had nuclear weapons. These were Soviet nuclear weapons. Budapest memorandum was based on Ukraine constitution which guaranteed neutral status. NATO membership was a clear violation from the very beginning
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  522. He needs to continue his show to stay alive
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  523. thank you
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  524. Unless there is an implosion of the Ukrainian state and or freedom for all parties to vote whichever way they want. I bet in this case Odessa would vote to join Russia.
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  525. exactly. people of Montenegro were never asked if they wanted to be in NATO. Their leaders just joined probably after a very persuasive package of aide (a form of bribe)
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  526. yes pretty much but it was not called kulak system it was just normal farmers trying to make money
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  527. Ukraine was not a founding state of the UN, the USSR was. Stalin wanted 15 seats but was given three. He could have kept three in the name of the USSR but he chose to have Ukraine and Berosussian Soviet Socialist republics as UN members. In 1991 Ukraine Belorussian SSR and Rus Republic left the USSR and created a Commonwealth of Independent States. They signed a treaty recognizing the existing borders but also pledged open borders, friendship and not to join military blocs against each other. Ukraine had a coup d'etat in 2014 and broke all of these agreements. It left the Commonwealth, banned Russian language, and wrote in its constitution that it wants to join NATO. Under these conditions, the new Ukrainian governemt lacked legitimacy. There was no referendum on NATO membeship but there was a referendum on leaving Ukraine in Crimea Donbass. Why do you consider Ukraine leaving the USSR WITHOUT a referendum is legitimate but Crimea and Donbas leaving Ukraine WITH REFERENDUM not legitimate. Clearly if one was legitimate the other was legitimate too. Moreover declared aim to join NATO which implied military bases of the US is a legitimate casus belli and a legitimate self-defence of Russia against NATO aggression against the territory that used to be USSR.
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  528. They are aware of it. They will insist on an International treaty like Austria treaty which is holding
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  529. thank you
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  530. During the Civil War, Russian Peasants or farmers were individual land holding agriculturalists. They deserted en mass from the Red Army and formed detachments called Green to guard their grain from Bolshevik requisitions. In my book I call this Green movement and I call it the Real Civil War, as it involved more people, more casualties, more destruction than the official front line civil war between the Red and the White armies.
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  531. All those who speak Russia as a native language are Russian. They may be citizens of Ukraine but they are Russian. Keep dreaming about Crimea. It is Russian and going to stay Russia and no NATO missiles will get it back
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  532. thank you
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  533. there was no enforcement, hence endless quarrels
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  534. The whites were not protonazies. Nonsence. They were more like General Franco in Spain a military conservative dictatorship
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  535. Welcome!
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  536. One can have another dimension to consider. Does a nation have a plan of development? an idea that guides them? It seems the US does not, not longer than 4 years, not in other terms than making money.
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  537. As time goes by, the bad things are forgotten and the good things are remembered. Right now the Russians are passing through a stage of immense pride in their victory in WWII especially in the context when Ukrainian and Latvian governments sponsor marches of the SS divisions veterans. In this context Stalin is remembered as the leader and commander in chief in WWII. I personally believe that Russia won in spite of Stalin not thanks to Stalin
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  538. yes, there can be. The West is trying to lure Serbia into NATO so they are careful.
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  539. Russian real GDP is about 9 trillion which is a third of the US
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  540. It is a very complicated matter. But briefly Lenin hated private property to the absurd. Not Marx for him it was natural but he believed that the development of capitalism will make property common. If Marx was told that people who would later call themselves Marxist would execute peasants for having a cow as property he would answer that these people were crazy.
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  541. It was for four hundred years. You cannot deny that
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  542. What could more redicilous than threaten China over Taiwan and Russia over Ukraine at the same time?
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  543. I am surprised by your super confidence. Iran does not need Russian army. They have their own of one million men. Iran needs air defense and that Russia can and will provide. Israel does not have the men for a ground operation in Iran or Iraq or even in Syria. Israel can hide behind American back and strike by air. That is all Israel can do And Russia can and will prevent this.
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  544. It is too early to answer this question, but the world and our lives will be very different when it is over. We have to rethink our consumerism, our egotism, self-centeredness. We have to communicate differently and travel differently. We have to produce at home and not ship everything from overseas. This virus poses a fundamental question : Is the system based on profit seeking capable to find a solution, or, as is obvious, the salvation may be in a principle that a government is a servant of the people, of all the people, not just those who can pay.
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  545. That is a symbol on the front cover of my book featured in this video
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  546. It started with 2008 invitation to join NATO
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  547. Hope so!
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  548. I agree, I cited this example as a comparison
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  549. What you described sounds like the system in the 1960s and not in collective farms known as Kolkhoz but the system in state farms known as Sovkhoz. In those the workers wee merely workers, not farmers. They did what they were told and had no interest in production. The attack on kulaks was in 1928 and went on to famine of 1932. You can read on the origins of tat attack in my book Russia after Lenin, then Robert Conquest: The Harvest of Sorrow and or Graziozi, on the Peasant war/
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  550. Easy: Just open up google comparison. I did Abrams and T 90 Also watch the international arms show in Thailand. They called T90 " the Cadillac of tanks" The criteria are speed, fire power, and cost
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  551. It is very rewarding to hear words like yours.
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  552. danke
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  553. The point is it is irrational. Ukraine was seized by a bunch of Bandera neo-nazies who hate the Moscovites as they call the Russians more than anything. They are driven by hatred to do irrational things. Zelensky is not one of them but he decided to be their leader because of he resisted they would have killed him
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  554. Not without fundamental economic reforms. he worries too much about the market what he should do is launch re-industrialization
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  555. yes right on
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  556. all true, but EU recovery cannot happen without cheap energy; 2. European population s getting old and migrants destabilize many countries.3. European industry is old and getting older. Old Europe is in decay, the Orient is on the rise once more.
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  557. The US gov as u know funds the entire ukr army. Thye funded right wing nationalist groups back as early as 1990s @hre2044 
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  558. EU is a sinking ship. Join Shanghai econ org instead
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  559. Do not confuse party leaders and the second generation soviet enginiers
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  560. Eastern part of Poland was not really Poland but Orthodox Christian Russia or Belorussia
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  561. It is really up to these countries to choose to join or not to join. The only difference is tht they were not a target before joining and they will become a target in case of war. How that adds to their security I do not understand.
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  562. Thanks for listening
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  563. glad to try
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  564. thanks you
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  565. The more guilty the Liberal mind feels the more arrogant the new Bolsheviks will become until their establish their dictatorship of the proletariat.
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  566. This is an interesting perspective. Hungary may have its Hungarian minority, but as far as I know there is no Polish minority any more
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  567. some money bribes were involved, to top generals and people in the field
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  568. My today's video is my answer to you: 1. Putin did offer peace in March 2022 and Ukraine encouraged by Boris Johnson walked away. As for Finnland and Sweden joining NATO, it is their sovereign choice. They were not a part of the Soviet Union they were not a part of Russia for four hundred years, as Ukraine was, they were not a source of Russian civilization as Ukraine was. They are not Russian Orthodox as Ukrainians are. What they get by NATO membership is that Russian missiles will target them in case of war, whereas if they were neutral they would not face any army or any missiles.
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  569. I am not paid by anyone. I am a free person a retired professor. There is no such thing as Ukraine in 13th century. It was called a Russian voevodstvo. Crimea was Russia and was conquered from the Turks by Catherine II. In 1917 and before Crimea Odessa and Khrkov and all left bank of Dnepr was called Novorossiya, new Russia. I have documents from the proceedings of the Cossacks Assembly of the Don, they did not define themselves as Ukrainian, but as Russia. What is called Ukraine now was called Malorossiya which is incorrectly translated as small Russia which is fact meant CoreRussia, like Klein Deutschland or Petite Pologn for core Germany and core Poland. As for friendly relations I worked in Kharkov in 1999 and 2000. At that time there were friendly relations between Russia and Ukraine. There was an open border. Every morning a train from Kieve came to Moscow with Ukrainian farmers bringing all kinds of stuff to sell and go back to Kieve the next day. All that changed with a coup d'etat called Maidan, set up by CIA under the guise of help and demcy promotion. Putin tried very hard to make a compromise in Minsk accords. Ukrain could have had Donbas with autonomy. They refused. Now they lost it forever. If they persist being a tool of NATO against Russia, they will lose it all. There is nothing racint about my reasoning. My mother war born in Ukraine. For some reason you hate Putin, but he is goung to be known as a person who unified Russia and Ukraine again and taught NATO a lesson.
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  570. thank you
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  571. thank you
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  572. Russia did not start it. It started with the coup d'etat in Kiev in 2014 made by the CIA.Right after that NATO membership in the Constitution and Donbas says No we dont want to and Crimea says , we are Russians and we go home. And so they start shelling Donetsk for 8 years and killing thousands of people and nobody cared
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  573. Cesar personnel carrier showed itself miserably in Ukraien, Abrams tanks are too heavy and visible at night, no good, Challenger tanks sink on mud in Ukraine. Russian tanks, missiles and fighter jets are superior. You are just blindly following what you are told. Just check military data
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  574. of the 60bil. more than half says in the USA, the other half is for some military hardware at least a third will be stolen
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  575. The nukes in this case are irrelevant. Nobody would use the nukes in Europe.
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  576. Control of the narrative
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  577. I hope you will read it
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  578. thank you
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  579. thank you. i heard Russian recordings of foreigner fighters in Donbas speaking Polish, German, English, French and some other language i do not understand.
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  580. Any answer to this question will be speculative. However Stalin did change after her death. He did become more cruel and rough. Still this event did not change his views or hid politics or his approach to his perceived and real opponents.
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  581. Many thanks!
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  582. true
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  583. YOU PROBABLY CAN. Just make a visit to Russian consulate.
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  584. Merci Vous pouvez me ecrire
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  585. soglasen
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  586. true
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  587. welcome
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  588. He did not invade the Ukraine. It was NATO who took over Ukraine and Putin is ejecting them from it.
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  589. I thought the Germans learnt their lesson to be pacifists.
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  590. good point
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  591. If you speak on behalf of the FSB, thank you otherwise how can u know?
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  592. The sad realty for you is that the best thing that can happen to Ukraine is to accept very generous terms of Putin. Otherwise more Russian speaking provinces will reunite with Russia. Whichever names you call me it is a fact that Donbas split from Ukraine on its own and Russia came to its aid and that is what is called "aggression" in fact brotherly help.
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  593. It is so rewarding to hear such words. I can do longer but average listening time is 8 minutes. People do not have the time to listen So I try to stick to 15
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  594. I watch Russian TV, Ukrainian TV, French TV, American TV EVERY DAY
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  595. You are right and in this sense sanctions were a blessing in disguise as they forced the Russians to do things themselves
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  596. You are right. But no one likes to be humiliated. Russia was ignored and humiliated.
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  597. No , Israelis always boast they destroyed everything. They did not. Iran had enough early warning capability and more.
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  598. yes may be, back in 7th century
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  599. It is a symbol of state power
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  600. Hold on Serbia. Do Not join EU, they will destroy you quietly
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  601. Thanks, will do!
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  602. The retribution came in 1929 ina so called dekulakization, mass murder
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  603. true, than you
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  604. Thank you for your comment. To bring change to a country one has to know it, respect it, and certainly not occupy it first. Yesterday I heard a discussion as to why the Russians succeeded in their intervention in Syria and the Americans did not in Afghanistan. The argument was that the Russians did not impose their will on the Syrians but helped them in something they themselves wanted.
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  605. exactly
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  606. all true
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  607. Did you receive answers to these questions. I hope I gave them.
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  608. They do but the European powers have NEVER worked out a system of leadership. Everyone is fearful of Germany. Britain still suspects anyone on the continent to be supreme, France is envious of Germany and incapable to replace it as a powerhouse. They Germans are subservient to the US and unable to lead Europe. Italy is in a total mess and a catastrophic decline of population. Eastern Europe lives in bad memories of the Soviet domination instead of looking to the future. Europe will remain nothing until they work out a system of genuine respect and cooperation.
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  609. Yes, the Germans had one chance to seize Moscow if: 1. they had started the offensive not on 22 June but on 22 April, 2. if Guderian's army center drove straight to Moscow, 3. if Hitler did not give Stalin western Belorussia in 1939, then the Germans would have had a border 50 km west of Minsk, i.e. 400 km from the border to Moscow. In 1941 the distance from the border to Moscow was 1000. km more than double.
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  610. The Russians were the only ones that bombed the advancing rebel forces. Is that a sign of a deal? I doubt.
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  611. Yes the first post-war generation did not want to talk about it, the second was ashamed of it, the third generations began to hate Russia for it.
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  612. glad you liked it
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  613. at least acknowledge what they did
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  614. true
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  615. many reasons. Huge frontline for one reason. coming winter as another. Denikin knew he had to either take Moscow before winter or have a fortified line over huge territory. That could have been done over several months prior, but he did not do it as the front line was constantly changing. He should have though.
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  616. Nothing happened. I worked in Morrocco in a high school. I lived inFlorida and now in France. That s about it.
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  617. most welcome
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  618. thanks
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  619. exactly.
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  620. Appreciate that
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  621. I like your comment and basically I agree with you. One can add lots of examples to prove your point. The revolutionaries of 1848 and of 1870 in France were executed on the spot . History is full of examples of mass murder committed by the kings and Popes. But still, any civilized man cannot accept as something acceptable when a crazed mass of scared mobs rush into French prisons and kill undiscriminately those arrested for being suspect arustocrats, or the mass muder of officers and priests by the bolsheviks in 1918. That is just as revolting.
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  622. Very welcome
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  623. thanks
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  624. most welcome
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  625. Glad it was helpful!
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  626. yes, exactly, moreover he has a law passed that bans any negotiations with Putin
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  627. dont forget that you are reading a novel based on facts but not history
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  628. thank you
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  629. I agree
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  630. yes, exactly. The Americans had been preparing this since 2004
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  631. yes and thru USAID bribery of Ukr media
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  632. glad to try
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  633. thank you glad to try
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  634. I did that video right after I read this comment of yours
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  635. welcome aboard. Happy to have you!
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  636. for all those who want to hear the original source
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  637. The origin of 1939 pact is in Polish Soviet War of 1920. Lenin gave away half of Belarus to Poland.
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  638. yes but why cant they be friends and good neibors without Nato
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  639. thank you
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  640. exactly! Power! Ego! Narcisism!
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  641. guns and more guns can only mean more war. I am sure though Zelensky is not going to take Moscow or force Putin to accept loss of crimea.
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  642. Attempts of the West to disintegrate Russia have led to 85% support of Putin. The Russian people are as united as never before to repulse what they believe is NATO aggression.
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  643. US missiles and NATO missiles is the same thing. In Poland and Rumania it is US missiles as NATO missiles.
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  644. well said
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  645. Did you know about killing unarmed civilians? Did any western media source report that?
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  646. The stolen elections of 1996 are particularly disgusting because the Western advisors were participants and cheer leaders. The knew Yeltsyn stole elections and were happy about it because he was their puppet.
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  647. tochno
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  648. agree!
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  649. good point
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  650. Because he has few options and he wants to believe that EU will help and he will hold out some more.
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  651. welcome
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  652. You listen to CNN too much. The reality is quite different. Russia is winning the war and on the verge of collapse is Zelensky's regime in Kiev
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  653. sorry
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  654. I know my history very well. I have been studying it for fifty years. Peasants were hiarding grain because Stalin was willing to pay them 85 kopecks a pud, thich is about three times lowere than under the Czar or barely covers production cost. It was sheer robbery designed as the ideology suggested to squuese money out of the peasants to finance industrialization. Recent studies suggest that better results would have been achieved if NEP continued and peasants kept increasing production and creating new wealth. If we look at Russian agriculture since the collapse of the Soviet system, it showed a remakable recovery. Today Russia is the biggest exporter of grain the the world surpassing the USA. This proves that if Stalin had not attacked the peasants, Russia would have produced anouth grain to finance industrialization. Stalin attacked peasants for political purposes . if you are really interested in the subject, read my book, Russia After Lenin, Politics, Culture Society. (available on Amazon)
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  655. welcome aboard
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  656. They are the origin of all, those who call themselves Russian, Belorussian and Ukrainian. The are the descendants of the core Rus.
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  657. good point
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  658. you cannot fake eighty million votes. Impossible.
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  659. thank you parallels
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  660. God bless you too
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  661. I agree
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  662. They can get along and they did under Nixon and Reagan. There was respect and attempt to recognize the differences and live and let live. Then after the USSR collapsed, the US saw itself as the sole superpower to rule the world.
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  663. thank you. I am retired, writing a new book, no teaching
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  664. I do think that Putin is by far the most moderate of them all
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  665. glad to try thank you
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  666. I do not know, but may be. They hated the Communists
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  667. I appreciate that
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  668. exactly
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  669. thank you
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  670. glad to hear that
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  671. exactly right. It was first and foremost a competency crisis.
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  672. They do, and electric power grid is what makes military factories run. When a few civilians are injured or even killed that is because the remnants of missiles are falling down on to residential districts. Whereas Zelensky regime deliberately shoots into Belgorod and Donetsk and Kursk to Kill civilians as an official policy with the aim to raise discontent in Russia against Putin. I hope you know that but if you take your news from CNN you will never know that
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  673. What promises?
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  674. As you see here, it started way before Stalin
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  675. exactly
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  676. these are all Russian speaking and Russian populated areas
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  677. the answer is very simple The Revolution was a desaster that cost Russia millions upon millions of lives
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  678. a friend of the people of Donbas
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  679. You are absolutely right. The crimes of the Bolsheviks are horrendous. BUT you are blind not to see that MILLIONS of Russians were dragged to Siberian camps. In fact in proportion to pupulation, the Russians suffered more from the Communist Bolshevik onslaught. Why do youblame the Russians for the crimes of the Communists.
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  680. yes I did. thank you. They look alike dont they
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  681. If you read the first chapter of my book: The Mensheviks After October, you will find the most detailed day be day record of the political struggle from 24 october 1917 to October 1918. Lots of info about Left SRs and SRs and all other factions. Since Left SRs and simply SRs had joint lists in elections to Const.Assembly, it is difficult, to see how many belonged to each faction. However, if the CA was not disbanded, the SRs of Chernov would have had a majority to form a government together with the KaDets Constitutional democrats EVEN if Left SRS joined the Bolsheviks.
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  682. I shall check
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  683. Well said
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  684. true, but they need Russian gas and they give the weapons, so...
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  685. thank you
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  686. may be
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  687. thanks
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  688. People tend to believe official story. Those who were under Communism never believe the official story
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  689. Glad you enjoy it!
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  690. Coming up soon.
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  691. Thank you very much!
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  692. yes likely
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  693. The masses want bread and circus, as always, thank you
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  694. Awesome, thank you!
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  695. pozhaluista
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  696. May be
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  697. glad to hear that
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  698. very much. I am familiar with that. USA is suoreme over others. That was the main idea
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  699. thanks
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  700. well put
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  701. may be
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  702. well said thank you
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  703. So happy to hear that
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  704.  @mhorram  thank you!!!
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  705. good point
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  706. Yes you are absolutely right. Putin had been cultivating relations with China and India and Brics for years earlier. Smart!
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  707. I should. The blue-yellow flag is an Austrian invention
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  708. Thank you. I wish I had your advice earlier.
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  709. welcome
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  710. You got it right. Military prodution, technology, organization, leadership all these things will matter a great deal.
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  711. Putin has patience, which sometimes is mistook for weakness
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  712. yes agree
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  713. Nuland with her cookies anf F europe
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  714. It is still there. Russian business with India is booming.
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  715. This is exactly what I heard from the Russian officers who served in Syria
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  716. thank you
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  717. Happy new year
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  718. pozhaluista
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  719. thank you
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  720. Your comment about S400 junk shows you know little about Russian military capabilities. You make it sound as if Israel owns US high tech military companies. Israel may own the American establishment , so what? The fact is Israel cannot sustain any military confrontation with anyone that requires real fighting on the ground. It cannot even control Gaza after a year of non-stop bombing. In a war with Iran, as I said, the very existence of Israel will be out on the line.
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  721. yes it seems so
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  722. thank you
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  723. thanks
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  724. welcome aboard
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  725. you tube priorities
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  726. Glad you think so!
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  727. This trend is grasping Europe too.
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  728. Welcome aboard!
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  729. true
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  730. exactly, you cannot eat services
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  731. I have just watched a vide by Krainer I think who argues like you that it is a trap, that the order was given to melt away
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  732. thanks
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  733. welcome
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  734. Look Khazars have nothing to do with modern Russia or Ukraine. If you mean the Jews, then yes their role in Russian/Ukrainian history is very important, especially in Bolshevism.
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  735. good point
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  736. thank you
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  737. thank you
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  738. what do you do now? Thank you for your kind words. It is for words like yours that makes the joy of working
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  739. Yes absolutely. They strated taking food from peasants and set them off in anger
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  740. exactly Biden wants war
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  741. sources are hard to put into a narrative in audio. My goal is to present a view different from that broadcast in hundredds of western media outlets that seem bent of blackening Russia
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  742. thank you
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  743. glad to try
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  744. You're welcome!
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  745. About Kharkov. Yes Mannstein did a brilliant maneuver and struck in between the two Russian armies and retook Kharkov. However, looking at the bigger picture, the German retreat in spring 1943 was nothing short of a disaster. In January they were still in Stalingrad and by May they were thrown back more than a thousand kilometers. In three months they lost what it took them a year to gain. As for advancement to Baku, yes they could have done it but I doubt that that would have brought them closer to victory.
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  746. that is a real danger if they hit one of those
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  747. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  748. Nobody won the Cold War. It is still on.
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  749. Thanks for listening
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  750. I do not think he had any ties with the CIA, but he was getting financial suport from the USA. How exactly I do not know but I do know that millions ofdollars were spent on so called Democracy building in Russia, especially in the late 1990s. I worked with those funds too. One way or anther all the info gathered wound up in the CIA
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  751. Hold on Serbia!
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  752. So nice of you
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  753. most welcome
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  754. unfortunately
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  755. they will
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  756. no not soviet. I studied history at Georgetown University and at Princeton University and at Tuebinge University and in Amsterdam and then at Harvard. Sorry I was too yung when I left the USSR
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  757. what is official? Who pays them? Who sent them? Answer Biden Answer Macron. That makes it official.
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  758. I am very touched by your comments. Thank you. Here is the list of my books. Russia After Lenin; Behind the Frontlines of the Civil War. Political Parties and Socil Movements in Russia; Dear Comrades, Mensheviks Reports, The Mensheviks after October. Also I have a new book forthcoming at the end of this year: From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin: Russia in Search of Her Identity.
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  759. What Molotov said makes no difference. He said what was expected from him
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  760. May be, but the people in Europe are so far away from wanting to fight Russia. Nowhere close to it. They have so many of their own problems. I doubt the EU leaders will prevail in their warmongering. Some countries will say as they do begin to say: This is not our war. We have nothing to do with it., such as Italy, Hungary, Spain, Ireland, Slovakia, Austria and others.
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  761. Thanks for listening
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  762. good issue to discuss
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  763. unfortunately
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  764. Putin is beginning to think what is going to happen when he is gone. he is promoting war veterans to positions of authority all over the government. If he dies, one of his closest associates will take over. Who exactly is not clear yet
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  765. touching words thank you
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  766. True. Agree completely. The more the US escalates, the weaker NATO becomes, because it is obvious that the US is bluffing. Nobody in Europe, not even in Poland wants a real war with Russia. The close is Russia to Kiev, the weaker NATO is.
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  767. You are very welcome
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  768. come on, dont believe all that nonsense invested by western fake press
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  769. thnks
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  770. You are absolutely right. In fact the Russians are furious at Trump when he said that Russia HELPED the US win WW2. They believe they did it. In fact Trump should be better informed about basic things or else he risks not being taken seriously.
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  771. Yes I agree.
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  772. Kursk One had no chance of success. Stalin ordered to build 300 km deep lines of defense. Guderian urged Hitler to do the same but Hitler ordered an advance instead. he was obsessed with advance. So he lost
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  773. thank you
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  774. exactly
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  775. Most welcome
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  776. quite possible
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  777. Yes, Russia has reached self-sufficiency in agriculture and increased its grain exports.
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  778. How about relations with Hungary, Slovakia, even Bulgaria? It is not a matter of cultivation. No matter what one does to please Poland, they still are not happy. Stalin gave them half of East Prussia and Silesia and what is the result. Poland hates itself for not being a super power as tit once was in16th century. They hate Russia because they envy Russia. It is injured pride, ambition, vanity, denyal of reality, dream world of Grandeur and other sins
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  779. It is a shame that Biden instead of helping people in burnt out California or flooded NC sends billions to Zelensky and his thiefs
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  780. Yes he is going to say we could have won if my plan was accepted but Biden said no.
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  781. true
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  782. me too
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  783. Working on it!
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  784. which is destroying America.
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  785. You confuse the story by references to 10th century. The facts are that in Easyern Europe there were Cathlics and Orthodox. The Catholoc Poland conquered the Rus lands that were a part of Belorussia Lithuania they were orthodox not Catholics. That is why Putin showed to Tucket a letter from Bogdan Khmelnitsky that asked the Russian Tsar to protect them Orthodox against the Polish oppressors. You would not argue that Vilnus is Poland will you? Or that Koeningsberg is Poland. Why not. Because these people are not Poles. Whereas in Donbas the people are as Russian as in Moscow and so in Odessa and in Kharkov.
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  786. so happy to hear that
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  787. If you consider that aliens live in what you believe is your own land.
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  788. spasibo vam
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  789. Good point. I think Putin has learnt that lesson the hard way
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  790. Well said!
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  791. The prblem with your data is that it is in dollars. The value of the dollar has little to do with GDP. Dollars value has plummeted because of inflation it is distorted because it islinked to the price of oil. Per capita earnings in dollars is misleading and totally falso data. PPP purchasing power is closer to reality but even that distorts the picture because the value of what is bought differs from country to country. By PPP of IMF Russia's GDP is N.4 in the world after US, China,and Japan.
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  792. Let us go back to the facts: Before 1914 all of Poland was part of the Russia empire. In 1920 independent Poland went to war against Bolshevik Russia. The treaty marked the border that had not existed for two hundred years. That border gave Poland Berarus population. How do we know that they were Belorussian? because they were Orthodox, not Catholic. And in the interwar Poland the Polisg gov. called them Tutoshnye, which translates as people from here, from this locality. In a division of Polish State in 1939 deal, Stalin got those lands back to Russia. The Poles call it division of Poland. Srictly speaking they are right. It was a division of the Polish State BUT the lands Stalin got were not Polish. They were Polish for only 20 years. They were populated by Belorussians and Ukrainians i.e. by the Orthodox peasants, brothers of the Russians.
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  793. ya rad
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  794. you put it just right
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  795. Perhaps a better way to look at it as a pay back by the Africans to the French
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  796. you are late by 30 yeras. Mafia with nukes was in 1994 not now
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  797. They are definitely trying to escalate to give an excuse to Biden to do something drastic before he goes. Kursk is slowly being recovered. Russia data are that 40K UKR soldiers died there.
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  798. If it is a business, it is not doing well, all in debt.
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  799. depends what you want to know. If you want to calculate profits then yes, if you want to calculate what is produced...
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  800. true
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  801. Check out the playlist World War One and the Russian Revolution. Several themes continue in a number of videos, basically on the events in the West and in Russia
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  802. It is just amazing hoe people can be driven by pride and hatred. These are sins. The Poles are supposed to be catholics. You are burning with hatred for past injustices. Yes there were many you are right. But where will hatred take you? To a new war? Is that the solution? If Russia is decimated by nuclear bamb, Poland will die too. We are neignbors!
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  803. and the planes turned back without any explanation
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  804. Since I was born in Leningrad, USSR, I grew up in the city that always looked at the Finns ans Swedes as our friends and neighbors.
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  805. What is the reaction of the English public?
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  806. Concentration of troops IS NOT enough to occupy Ukraine. It is to be ready in case the hot heads in Ukraine decide attack Donbas. Russia wants not just a piece of Ukraine, but a treaty of no expansion of NATO and security guarantees. Putin would be satisfied if Ukraine was neutral like Austria or Finnland with good relations with Russia and the West with its UNCHANGEd borders and autonomy for Donbas. The US does not want any of this for the reasons I outlined.
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  807. almost, but he really is more concerned with US national interest
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  808. Good to hear
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  809. the club of the excluded
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  810. Happy new year!
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  811. exactly
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  812. It is growing
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  813. Iran has a one objective to be able to defend itself against Israel. It seems they have done a great deal to achieve that
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  814. If you do notlike it do not listen
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  815. Glad it was helpful!
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  816. The entire 2023 was taken by relaunching the industry to rurn our those shells and missiles and tanks
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  817. yes you are right except that lithuanian state was a joint venture with the belorussians who were probably at least half of population
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  818. thank you
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  819. pleased to hear that
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  820. yes true
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  821. excellent script. You must be a playwright
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  822. I thought the implications are spelled out clearly
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  823. welcome aboard
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  824. Yes I do.
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  825. As a matter of fact Russia did want to join NATO. Yeltsin raised the issue in 1996. The US did not want them there. The old habit dictated the policy course: to keep Russia out and down.
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  826. most likely this is what is coming next
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  827. What do you disagree about? Did I say Stalin did not know economics? Did he understand Marx? I say no.
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  828. yea
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  829. Good question. It was summertime the crop was planted under g German occupation, i.e. no Bolsheviks, i.e. free markets. So there was plenty on the markets. Trade was not banned as under the Bolsheviks. So initially the Whites did not have any shortages. But as they went deeper into Central Russia, their supply system did not catch up with the offensive and yes they took food grain from peasants, often giving promissory notes to pay later.
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  830. Thank you for your comment. I can add that Stalin added it to the territory of Azerbaijan because the Bolsheviks wanted to have some sort of industrial base of support and that was in baku and that is why they enlarged territories where they had anything, something to rely upon. They did the same thing in Ukraine. They added Kharkov, a Russian industril city to Ukraine to control it.
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  831. there will be new leaders
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  832. more than 80 million people voted for him. As for murdered in prison, dont believe what you hear. Most likely he died of a clot in his blood.
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  833. Yesteryear my house was worth 100K today its is say 300K. Did it produce wealth? Was something created.No, just the dollar becaemthree times less worthy. All these trillions of dollars of GDP is a mirage. When will you understand.Of vakue are only the real things. These American does not produce anymore, at least not as it used to. Financial assets may disappear as a mirage. China has built a commodity based economy that is already bigger that that of the US. Russia produces more artilleary shells than all NATO combined. Wake up. The age of american superiority has ENDED
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  834. thank you
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  835. The Ukrainians will do that
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  836. I know about Sherman's march. Sherman did not try to exterminate a part of the population. As for the trail of tears. I agree that was a crime against Humanity a genocide. but here again they did not slaughter thousands of Indians, by mass executions they just marched them to death. Comparison is good/
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  837. when zelensky was a actor all his shows upto 2019 were in russian
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  838. likely
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  839. Heads will roll. Putin transferred authority of defense to FSB from the general staff. that is for start
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  840. The last tsar Nicholas II was the first really religious Tsar, truly Orthodox, deeply devout man, regardless of his Germanic blood line
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  841. Welcome!
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  842. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  843. Welcome aboard!
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  844. Hope you enjoy it!
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  845. Why you in Europa failed to included Russia when if was free from Communism? Why do you hate Russia just for being Russian. You are racist
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  846. That is not the real issue. The real issue is that the steel industry is outdated, it is 100 years old. It needs to be dumped and rebuilt a new.
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  847. Yes I saw it great stuff
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  848. happy to try
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  849. NATO pays for everything including salaries of government employees, the army, everything. Sometimes I think Putin is doing it deliberately to bankrupt the West. To keep fighting they need 10 billion a month
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  850. Я очень рад и могу добавить, что у меня есть одна книга, изданная в России: «Великая октябрьская катастрофа». Она доступна на сайте Litres.ru, Ozon.ru, Wildberries.ru
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  851. Thank you, more to come on dekulakization
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  852. They are going to lose all their money in Ukraine.
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  853. so happy to hear that thank you
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  854. I think Bukharin had no chance. Stalin was in control of the GPU for many years by then.
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  855. Biden has just sent him 7 billion US dollars
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  856. I'll try
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  857. Thank you for your reasoning. I agree but the new tends are going on in Germany the rise of AfD and Sara. They may come to power, not now but later. By that time it may be too late
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  858. You are very welcome
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  859. yes, I agree
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  860. I used to live there, thanks
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  861. Of course, they spoke Ukrainian and or Belorussian
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  862. glad to try
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  863. most welcome
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  864. glad to try
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  865. former soviet elites, party and KGB officials, who were managers under the soviet regime and became owners under capitalism
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  866. spasibo
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  867. cause the west makes him a big deal
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  868. We shall see. Poland in 1939 did not crave for war with Germany.
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  869. Is bavaria a part of Germany? Is Texas a part of America?
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  870. that is world market price. but the cost to the Russian government is about ten times less
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  871. That is exactly right. The US policy is sefldefeating
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  872. EU project was hijacked by unelected bureaucracy
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  873. exactly
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  874. thank you
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  875. I doubt it. the real driver of Terror was Comrade Lenin, a cynical fanatical terrorist in power.
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  876. If the Russians get to Western Ukraine, the issue of Hungarian minority will come up and it could be in favor of Urban
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  877. What Putin meant was that the collapse of the SU generated many new wars, torn apart families, such as Armenia vs. Azerbaijan, Dnestr vs Moldova, Georgia vs. ossetiya, georgia vs. Abkhasia, Russia vs Ukraine, is just the latest installment about borders, ethnicities, identities, belonging to whom? It is foolish to blame Putin for all that.
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  878. No, Kornilov tried to save the disintegrating army, Today Russian army is in the best shape it has ever been.
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  879. welcome
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  880. Sorry, it is hard to find pictures that match, sometimes there are none
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  881. Macron asked Putin to withdraw troops from around Kiev to facilitate peace talks in March 2022. Putin said OK. Then the Zelesky foks walked out of talks. What many people say now they should have taken Kiev first and then negotiated.Perhaps that is what they will do this time
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  882. Our pleasure!
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  883.  @josephjohnson9805  I have nothing against left-leaning or right-leaning people. I like open debate and I do not like when someone tries to monopolize an ability to express views. In other words, I like liberty, freedom of thought, and speech, which also is not present in the contemporary USA
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  884. that is his style
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  885. Wonderful! If you have any questions, be happy to..
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  886. You can order it from Routledge.com or Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble. They also have an electronic copy. Welcome aboard
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  887. thank you
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  888. thank you so much. I am trying to hear all sources and all sides
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  889. Going to Donets with troops will mean a big war
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  890. good point
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  891. Merci. If you look at my playlist Russia under Yeltsyn and Putin you will find a video on how Putin handled the oligarchs. Also it is in my book From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin
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  892. I completely agree with you. The amazing thing is that they adapted themselves and the industry in a few months to outproduce militarily their opponents.
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  893. most welcome
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  894. Yes absolutely right. Stalin in retrospect is perceived as the leader of VICTORY. In fact as a historian I may say that victory was almost despite Stalin than thanks to Stalin. He scrwwed up badly especially in the beginning of the war
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  895. Glad it was helpful!
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  896. thank u
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  897. yes it may, but are the french or Poles ready to lose 300.000 soldiers as Ukrainians did? For what? so that Ukraine be in NATO and have Russian speaking Donbas? To die for that? Who is that crazy?
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  898. thanks
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  899. I wonder too. Merkel went to talk to Biden and she got him to publicly agree to Nordstream 2. And yet, it was blown up anyway and the Germans said nothing. Amazing!
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  900. thank you
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  901. пожалуйста
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  902. exactly
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  903. Yes that is exactly what happened
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  904. Exactly
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  905. most welcome
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  906. it did
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  907. It would take a long timetoasnwer each of those questions. Magnitsky was killed noton Putin's orders but by somecorrupt men he was dangerous to, same for Nemtsov. Navalmy was definitely not Putin because he dropped dead the next day after Putin Tucker interview. Why spoil the message. Next day Biden knew it was Putin's order. IT looked like a M16-CIA op. Kara-Murxa was getting money from the west. He is alive. He called for the overthrow of the gov. In the US people wound upin jail for marching on capotol hiill. Tey were insurgents we are told.
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  908. exactly
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  909. happy to try
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  910. I know thanks
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  911. Glad you liked it!
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  912. true
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  913. Stalin recognized Israel because it was fighting the British imperialism at the time.
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  914. welcome. If you are in Russia you can buy one of my books availaable on ozon.ru. it is called: великаяя октябрьская катастрофа
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  915. yes when I was in Sofia especially at the A Nevsky cathedral I felt right at home.
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  916. no, the invaders
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  917. thank you
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  918. good reasoning
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  919. exactly
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  920. what a waste
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  921. EXACTLY well said
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  922. thank you
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  923. Yes you are right. But in the early 2000s Putin wanted to establish good relations with the Europeans. He was called a friend not just by Bush but also by Chirac, Berlusconi, and Schroeder. The US establishment feared to lose Europe as a major trade partner, to be replaced by Russia. Hence all the plans to wreck Russia and detach it from Europe And the plan worked.
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  924. Exactly
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  925. Yes attacks on prosperous peasants began under Lenin. However it was not a matter of just the ukrainian peasants it was a class approach against all peasants . There was no division then between Russian or Ukrainian or any other peasants. Anybody defined as a kulak was subject to grain confiscation. In 1928 Stalin decided to attack the kulaks for political not economic reasons. For details see my book Russia After Lenin (on Amazon)
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  926. thank you for your comment
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  927. все првильно если вы в россии то хочу вам сообщитьчто одна из моих кгиг издана в россии ее можно купить на Ozon.ru она называется Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа
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  928. No, I do not think he said so. He meant the Bamdera followers did. This is the guy who massacred pollish residents known as Volyn' massacre
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  929. Glad it was helpful!
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  930. welcome abard
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  931. thank you so very much
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  932. True
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  933. Of course you are right. Russia will never hit Ukraine with nukes. Nonsense. Russia regards Ukraine as its own territory that has been a part of Russia for 400 years, so why hit your own?
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  934. exactly right
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  935. It is not their land. This is Donbas populated by Russians and was a part of Russia throughout its history except for the last 30 years.
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  936. sorry
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  937. can well be
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  938. Good example on the Serbs and Croatians
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  939. What you describe is yesterday not today. Where did the Telegraph owner chose to live? In DUBAI not Paris. Where do the Russians go on vacations now ? To Thailand and Turkey and China and Maldives and Egypt and Latin America, no more to Nice
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  940. to split Russia and create an-antiRussia
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  941. They did not and starved in 1930-1933. Millions died. Those that survived had to obey to survive
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  942. thank you
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  943. It has been Russian throughout its history, except for the last 33 years
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  944. Many Jews joined the Bolsheviks because under the old regime Jews had all kinds of restrictions including where they could live and what they could own and where to study etc
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  945. thank you for your detaied comment. In 2003 it was the US that invaded a country of Iraq, before that was Afghanistan. Putin in 2007 was reacting to the US aggression. The unipolar world he referred to was a worl the US was trying to maintained that was in fact beginning to assert its independence from the US hegemony. Putin did not invade Georgia. Saakashvilly in vaded Osetiya and Russia pushed him back and stopped. They could have easily advanced to Tbilisi and installed a puppet gov but they did not . They stopped. As for compromises in Ukraine. Do you remember Minsk accords. For years Poutin was saying there was no alternative to Minsk accords. The West ignored him and continued to arm Ukraine, encoraging it to take Donbas by force. Enough is enough. NATO wanted force, they are getting a force imposed solution.
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  946. Hope you enjoyed it!
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  947. because I like palm trees
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  948. Those wo equate Russia to barbarian communists I shall tell you that the Russians suffered from the Barbarian communists MORE than any other nation. Why did you easily forgive the Germans what they did to you in ww2 and you refuse the forgive the Russians who were victims of Stalin just as much as you were???
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  949. I do not know the details but one way to follow the money i.e. money for the production of his revealatory films
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  950. Welcome aboard. People generally believe what sounds believable. The image of poor Ukraine a victim of aggression is convincing, unless one knows that the Ukraine project was concocted by the CIA to provoke a war so that the two neighbor countries were killing each other and the Americans eat popcorn and enjoy the show.
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  951. exactly
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  952. I know. Putin is going to make sure they get nothing
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  953. the democratic movement in Ukraine was hijacked by the Bendera folks
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  954. happy to hear that
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  955. welcome
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  956. I do not understand your question. Do you mean how Marx can fir into Stalinist economy? Marx would have defined Stalinist economy as Statist Monopoly production system with peasants in the position of serfs and workers as exploited underpaid proletariat.
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  957. spasibo
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  958. Eastern Ukraine has been eastern Ukraine only thanks to Lenin and Stalin in fact the people who live their have never been Ukrainian. They are Russian never spoke Ukrainian and have always lived in Russia then USSR. Why the borders established by lenin are valid today?
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  959. good idea
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  960. It is a chicken and egg dispute what comes first, the imperial ambition generated by the unaccountable deep state or the other way around.
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  961. Many thanks!
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  962. good idea. Trump should make an audit of all the money stolen or wasted
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  963. thanks
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  964. I was in South west Germany. Your point about the big east west divide in Germany is important. Things indeed may change if Trump dumps Germany
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  965. yes that is true, but the nationalists never had a majority in Ukraine. They seized power in 2014 and keep it by violence and reprisals. In free elections, anything is possible including that Odessa and Kharkov secede or that west Ukraine decides to ceside, we shall see. I agree they will never accept loss
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  966. glad to try
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  967. people never like to admit they did something wrong
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  968. Thank you for your very apt analysis. It explains the hatred of the Banderovites towards Russia. It is a deeply seated inferiority complex, it is envy, it is desire to be a great power like Russia. We must remember though that this is not a majority view among Ukrainians. Some of them wish to be a part of Russia as they have been from the times of Kievan Rus. As for Poland, your thoughts likewise explain why Poland wants so much to replace Germany as the leader of Europe. It wants to be equal to France to GB and superior to Ru.
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  969. Yes, that is so
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  970. Because this is the mainstream, unfortunately today in the USA
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  971. The Whites would not have coordinated anything with the Poles as they did not with Peliura. For them Poland was a Russian province.
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  972. There is no other than Russian energy supply. The rest is too far and or too expensive. I do not understand what they are doing. They are losing to China as it is
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  973. This is a great idea. I should make some videos on contemporary Russia. I wrote an article called Vladimir the Savior, that shows my take on these things. Russia has never had it as good as it has it now. Putin is the best ruler since Alexander II. He has made Russia Great Again.
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  974. exactly to the point
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  975. quite an important addition
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  976. in a way they already have. The US cannot finance two wars in a long run. We add a trillion to our debt every 3 months
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  977. Yu summed it up just right
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  978. thank you
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  979. YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. One has to be careful with names. It was Ottoman Syria. However, European Jews talked about returning to Palestine not Ottoman Syria.
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  980. I recommend it now. Much cheaper to live, great schools, med service. no guns,no drugs, no weardos
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  981. welcome aboard
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  982. That is the thing to watch. How will trump react if the Turks try to take over the Kurds in Syria?
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  983. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  984. so happy to hear that
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  985. I do not know about nationalism but it seems highly likely that the people in France and in Germany are going to protest as they already do against the ever rising cost of energy which they could get for cheap from Russia. The logical conclusion is stop the war, cancel sanctions and return to normal trade. If they do not choose to do that, their industry will move to US and small businesses that can't move will collapse and with them their economy.
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  986. I have an even more detailed discussion in my book: From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin (London Routledge 2023)
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  987. He did not
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  988. The question here is who is using whom? And who is the boss? Time will show
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  989. many billions
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  990. well summed up
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  991. Was there any proof presented that there was torture? None, just pictures of empty cells. This is not serious. If you want to make that kind of ac accusation then there must be an international committee of inquiry with real testimony. Only then I shall believe it. At this point this is just sensationalism to gram attention
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  992. Exactly. Their companies have been doing it for decades in Latin America
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  993. Thanks for the tip
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  994. These were the open frontier areas in the 1600s and the Cossacks from the north were moving south. The Cossacks organized themselves as autonomous military settlements with their own self-rule government called the Cossack assembly. There were two main ones: The Don Cossacks and the Zaporozhie Cossacks. Then Catherine II annexed those territories to Russian empire and gave charters to the Cossacks to keep their lands and their government. These lands were NOT a part of what was then called Ukraine, which covered the territories around Kiev that belonged to Poland until 1658. At that date the leader of those territories asked the Russian Tsar Alexey to protect them from the Catholic Poles and include them into Russia.
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  995. I advise you to read the book, you will see no hatred, but struggle of the russian people for democracy dignity humanity. the 1990s were the worst years for the russians in the 20th century
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  996. true
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  997. thank you
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  998. Thank you for your questions. As for Yeltsyn, His goal was to overthrow Gorbachev, in institutional terms the Central Power. If he could do it by becoming the President of the USSR, he probably would not go for a split. But the easiest and quickest way to grab power at least over Russia, was to make a deal with Ukraine and Belarus. So yes he violated the will of the people expressed in April referendum to preserve the USSR. As for Lenin and Trotsky you ask a very difficult question. It is very hard to project into the future over 20 or 30 years. All we can do is analyze his actions and choices over 7 years he was in control. So in 1921 1922 he was very concerned about corruption and institutional set up ( see my video Lenin and his Party) but his solutions (How to Reorganize RabKrin) show he did not know what to do. The Party became so large and so complex with many competing agencies that he did not know how to handle it. As Putin recently aptly commented Lenin as a Revolutionary and not a statesman. He did not know how to govern. His entire rule was one experiment after another with sometimes catastrophic consequences such as famine of 1921. But he was open to practical common sense solutions. He was brave enough to drop unsustainable idiocy of war communism and go for NEP. This shows that he was not doctrinaire. He was open to new approaches. So what would he do confronted with the reality of 1928 when peasants are winning local elections, displacing the local party but at the same time doubling output every two years? Would he do what Stalin did? Kill the party and replace it with his personal executioners? Or would he be a Den Xio Ping? Keep the power and let private enterprise work for him. Frankly I do not know. But his excitement about Hammer, of Occidental Petroleum, suggests that he would not be opposed to Foreign investment. Do not forget that in Russia under NEP, one could buy a Caterpillar tractor and a Peugeot car. Trade with Germany flourished. NEP could have continued and in that case Russia's GDP would not be inferior to the one achieved by Stalin.
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  999. Awesome! Thank you!
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  1000. always happy to hear your praise
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  1001. Yes, of course. You mean to do a video presentation?
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  1002. I hope they will not detroy the Earth simply because they are losing power. Thank you for your analysis. very accurate. I agree
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  1003. you have to realize that western countries do not to make eastern european countries their competitors. The smartest thing would be to use both for your own benefit
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  1004. and before 1658, these provinces were under Polish rule for several centuries because Russia was recovering from the Mongol conquest and from 8th century until 1250 Kieven Rus was the origin f the Russian nation. We are the same people, same origin, same religion, same language that developed in different ways
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  1005. how about defunding the police? Abortion for all no questions asked? Free immigration; citizenship for illegal migrants; raising minimum wage again; taxing the rich? That is the leftist agenda
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  1006. It is too early to say. We shall see what the investigation shows
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  1007. think so too
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  1008. Ukraine is a heroic country but it was kidnapped by NATO which is using it for its own goals. Poor Ukraine
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  1009. нет не коллективный а конкретно рерманский генеральный штаб Если вас интересует та эпоха я опубликовал книгу в россии называется Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа можно купить на Ozon.ru
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  1010. Vladimir is a typical Russian name. The name did not stop anyone from accusing me of being virulently anti-Communist in the old days. By your logic, I should have been labeled pro-communist just because of a Russian name. To judge a person based on his race or nationality or name seems like unfair. Judge me on the basis of my arguments and views.
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  1011. Russia did not loan anything to Ukraine, it is more like taking your own when it becomes clear that they want to sell it to americans and EU
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  1012. Thank you for such a deep and profound response. There is nothing to disagree. You got it just right especially about the parallels with the current trends. As for the meaning of Socialism, I discussed it at length in my book on the Civil War. The point is that the meaning of a political words kept changing all the time. People used the words but meant different things by it. Hatred of private enterprise is not really Socialism it is Leninism. The Socialists meaning Social Democrats in Europe and Mensheviks in Russia had no hatred of private enterprise. Also they never meant that state property is socialism. Moreover, Friendrich Engels in his book AntiDuering, wrote that Socialism is not state ownership of the means of production , as he put it then we would have to admit that Prussian state railways were an example of Socialism. It was obviously not. So Socialism before Lenin's distortion was meant fair distribution of surplus value, or liberation of the working class from the exploitation by the capitalist. No one argued to destroy capitalists or capitalism, one had to make it fair. Lenin was an extremist and he defined Socialism as destroying capitalists and capitalism. In my book I go over how different people understood the word socialism. In 1917 in the summer Trotsky talked of Socialism as a government accountable to the parliament, which ostensibly the Provisional Gov was not. 2 years later he spoke of Socialism as iron battalions of Labor Armies marching under the orders of the Com Party. A peasant in 1919 a Communist defined Socialism like that: I am your Tsar and God and I can do with you whatever I want. So Socialism meant anything at all for different folks. It all depended on their culture political culture, old habits etc. Stalin invented all kinds of new definitions all boiling down to unquestioned obedience and dictatorship. Your key idea is very true: Once one creates an enemy image, such as class enemy or White slave owner, one is on the way of sliding down to mass murder and genocide.
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  1013. most likely so
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  1014. Their hostility is strange. Russia under Putin is not like the USSR under Stalin. They act on grievances of 100 years ago
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  1015. Glad it was helpful!
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  1016. yes, true
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  1017. thank you
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  1018. why?
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  1019. The US establishment is conditioned to think that it is superior to anyone. there will be a rude awakening
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  1020. To continue, one has to have: popular support, strong militaries, capacity to produce a lot of arms, and political will. NATO does not have any of those.
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  1021. Yes, I do agree with you. But things are always different in different circumstances. For example the Maoists could have prevailed after Mao's death and Den Xsio Ping would not have had a chance to launch his reforms of market economics that made China Great. By the way Den lived in Russia in the 1920s and admired NEP. So if Lenin lived longer and if NEP had continued longer a different combination of forces could have formed within the CP. The murder of millions was so extreme that even in the Stalinist CP there was serious opposition by 1933, which is why Stalin launched a crusade against the so called Old Bolsheviks.
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  1022. No I would not because in 1991 many Russians 200.000. demo was shouting in Moscow FOR YOUR LIBERTY AND OURS! In other words these republics got their independence in a joint struggle with the RUSSIAN proggressives against the Communist dictatorship. Why on Earth you are nor accusing the Russians. These were the Communists remmber not the Russians. Besides among the Communists there were many who were, you guesssed it Latvians. Latsis, the head of the Cheka. So your fears of Russia, your banning of Russian schools is despicable.
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  1023. Ukraine is a Polish name meaning at the edge. Before 1917 that area was called Small Russia Malorossiya. That term did not mean small in terms of size, it mean the core Russia just as there was Klein Deutschland and Gross Deutschland (Core Germany and Great Germany) or Petite Pologne and Grand Pologne. So yes Malorossia was a territory around Kiev to the Austrian border but Odessa and Kharkov was Novorossiya New Russia. As for Donbas it had no links to Malorossiay at all. These were the lands of the Don Cossacks.
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  1024. Netanyahu just got it into his head that Iran posed a danger? Why? It is not clear
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  1025. this is all stopped now. These videos were recorded actually in the classroom. The newer ones I do at home with much better equipment.
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  1026. thank you
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  1027. we shall see but his first appointments on Ukraine do not look good for peace
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  1028. glad to try
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  1029. Are you willing to spend another 300 billion on arming Ukraine so that they "may" just may win back Russian speaking territory that refused to be under neo-Nazi regime? And since the first 300 billion was not enough, are you certain that the next 300 billion would suffice to push back the Russians from their historic lands? And what if you lose? Are you ready for that?
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  1030. Thank you too!
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  1031. thanks
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  1032. The authenticity of the bodies was disputed. Credible evidence exists that Anastasia may have escaped as she was not in Ekaterinburg at the time of murder
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  1033. true
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  1034. You are too harsh on the Cossacks. They did their best. I would tend to blame the Whites for the tragic split with the Cossacks which contributed greatly to the demise of both.
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  1035. What you say is what Zelensky dreams of. If he had agreed to let Donbas and Crimea decide for themselves, there'd be no war. Now he lost together with NATO
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  1036. thank you
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  1037. glad you liked it
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  1038. Do you mean to say that the Jews did stab Germany in the back?
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  1039. lands in the East are Russian, Belorussian or Ukrainian Orthodox. You will not consider Vilnius Polish will you?
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  1040. welcome
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  1041. exactly right
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  1042. Glad it was helpful!
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  1043. exactly! Vladimir the Great
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  1044. It will not pay back anything
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  1045. well said
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  1046. The historical fact is that in the summer of 1917, Nicholas asked officially for an asalym in Britain, and they refused him entry. Then the Bolsheviks murdered him a year later. To some extent the Brits are particlly to blame, for if they had granted him entry, he would have survived
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  1047. Yes, you are right. They were conditioned to fear the so called political right, i.e. the generals and the army. What happened is that power was seized by the so called Left, ie. terrorists relying on hungry angry masses.
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  1048. peace is in sight
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  1049. yes I do
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  1050. exactly
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  1051. thank you I try
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  1052. Thank you kindly
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  1053. You are free to listen to your favorite Western propaganda outlets. They are at every corner.
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  1054. the worst was the war in Algeria
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  1055. and yet, France and Germany it seems resolved the dispute over Alsace Loraine
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  1056. I argue in that video that to win over the Russians the west would need hundreds if not thousands of tanks. They do not have them.
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  1057. thanks
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  1058. Hereis another factor. American military companies get huge profits out of the war. This feeds their greed even more. As a result they pimp up the prices for taanks, missiles, aircraft. As a result the war becomes prohibitively expensive and in the long run unsustainable. A few days ago ukrainians used ten ATACM missiles to hit Crimea bridge. All ten were shot down. How many million did it cost. Answer 10 million in one day with no result
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  1059. very good analogy
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  1060. glad to try
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  1061. I agree
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  1062. Nazies is an exaggeration. What is meant is that their hero was a 100% nazi, Stepan Bandera who wrote a letter to Hitler committing himself to serve the German nazies against the Jews, Russians and Communists. Bandera is a hero for Zelenskuy and rulig circles in Ukraine today. That makes them neo-Nazies.
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  1063. Same to you!
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  1064. Bandera types assited Nazies during WW2 killing Jews, Poles and Russians
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  1065. most welcome
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  1066. good idea
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  1067. spasibo
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  1068. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  1069. this is the wish of those who hate russia
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  1070. good point
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  1071. s for peter, here again you simplify. Westernization of Russia generated a unique culture, not western and not eastern but unique, superb. Dostoevsky is Russian philosopher unlike any other. Russian absorption of Western culture did not make Russia Western but superior, unique. Saint Petersburg in 1900 was a cultural center similar equal or better than Paris, Berlin, Vienna.
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  1072. thank you for your input. True I do not have any website. All my books are available on Amazon. Many articles are available on Academis.edu. Perhaps I should create a facebook page with links to various things I did or published. Thank you
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  1073. more to follow. A struggle for power has begun
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  1074. These all all great questions and frankly I do not know all the answers. I do know where he fought not from him but from the Ministry of Defence website. It is really great. You put in the name and other info. Bang you see the whole record of that person which regiment, where it fought, how it progressed. But it does not say more than the rank. He was definitely not in NKVD but he was a party member. He was wounded and he told me he lied in the field as though he was dead but someone found him and pulled him to safety.
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  1075. thank you, I am puzzled why the Germans want to hurt themselves
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  1076. You are so welcome
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  1077. great
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  1078. thaank you for your comment
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  1079. welcome on board
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  1080. I hope
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  1081. Thanks!
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  1082. No she shot him because he started Red Terror
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  1083. It is not just a matter of wages. When I taught in Morocco I canculated that to have the same lifestyle that I had in Morrocco in Florida I would have to have 150.000 a year, just to have the same house, food, transport restaurants, vacations. This proves that life in the West is very costly and in some countries you can live like a king on much less money
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  1084. thank you very much
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  1085. If you are in Russia, one of my books is published in Russia in Russian. You can get it at ozon.ru. Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа
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  1086. thanks
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  1087. Yes, but the production levels have grown several times since then and it is difficult to calculate the actual value of what is produced.
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  1088. thanks
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  1089. Thank you. In fact the current situation around Ukraine is so intriguing that I think of making a video discussing the latest moves on a chess board.
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  1090. The President of France does have the authority to send in the troops anywhere. But he does not have the authority to engage them in fighting. That is why he is sayinf they would help, train, monitor etc. I should add that the French public is much more involved in politics than for example in the US. They do respond vigorously. To sell the idea that Russia is an enemy worth fighting againt in France will be difficult. Of all countries in Europe, the French know Russian culture and history more than others. To support Ukrainian refugee is one thing, to go fight Russia is quite another.
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  1091. Very welcome
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  1092. I have not read the book but I know the argument well. Stalin had nothing against the Jews as a people or as a religion. He had many jewsm in fact ethnic jews not religious j ews in his government and party. Yet in 1951 he was led to believe that the Jewish doctors wanted to poison him. His anomosity sttarted when the Socialit government of newly formed Israel which was supposed to continue to fight british impwerialismm which they did up to 1948, turned around and became ardent supporters of the USA. That turned Stalin against isarel and the jews and the Joint Committee and those in Russia who expressed any interest in or sympathy to any of the above.
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  1093. I just did.
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  1094. glad to try
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  1095. welcome
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  1096. yes true
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  1097. welcome.pleasure
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  1098. Welcome!
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  1099. thanks
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  1100. Good question. Marxism is about liberation of workers from capitalist exploitation. Leninism is about using the workers to seize power for the party.
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  1101. He changed his tune a little. A few months ago he as many neocons kept talking about Ukr. victory, now thy changed the tune to adapt to Trump and talk about making Ukr strong to negotiate.
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  1102. welcome
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  1103. This is called vanity, narcisism, arrogance, seeking grandeur, all of them old vices. This is mine and I wont let you have it. No, its mine!
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  1104. thank you
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  1105. especilly if they actually sent troops to Ukraine
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  1106. Hold on Serbia, dont enter eu
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  1107. Yes you are right. For many years Donbas activists blamed Putin for betraying them in 2014. Now he admits himself that he made a mistake when he believed that Minsk accords were serious. So Putin changed. He used to be for friendship with France and Germany above helping Donbas. Now he turned against the entire West completely.
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  1108. thanks
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  1109. check out who owns most of the land in Ukrainetoday!
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  1110. spasibo
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  1111. very perceptive
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  1112. In our age no one corol the media. You can say what ever you want on Telegram. He is just plain popular. Is that hard to believe? The way the British media portrays Putin is appalling. It looks like you copy of the nasty words used in Kiev.
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  1113. glad to hear that
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  1114. I think so too 2030. Hard to say who, but definitely a patriot like him
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  1115. exactly right
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  1116. exactly
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  1117. exactly
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  1118. good insight
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  1119. thank you for your comment
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  1120. thnak you very much
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  1121. legally no
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  1122. thank you
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  1123. thanks
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  1124. welcome
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  1125. That is why Putin in one of his speeches recently said: The feast of the vampires is coming to the end
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  1126. yes exactly
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  1127. true
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  1128. Our pleasure!
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  1129. Much appreciated!In the book I discuss Gorbachev and collapse of the USSR in great detail
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  1130. It all depends on what you think Russia should be doing.
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  1131. Lukashenko is sitting on the fence. If he joins it is only when he is completely sure that the end of Ukraine's regime is near
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  1132. I have just watch his video. Thank you. This is an interesting theory. It is too early to say. May be. We shall see
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  1133. No, I say Britain first got France on its side with Entente Cordial, then accepted its old foe Russia because Franc and Russia became allies thanks to the efforts of Alexander III, and then confronted Germany. Britain did not actually start the war, Serbia did, but Britain was happy to deliver to Germany a crushing blow.
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  1134. exactly
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  1135. That is exactly what I meant to say. Thank you
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  1136. I think that is exactly what is going to happen. Trump does not care whether Odessa remains Ukraine or not.
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  1137. they think they can get away with just threats
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  1138. thank you very much Serbia
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  1139. True, it is a bluff
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  1140. true
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  1141. watch the front line
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  1142. agreed
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  1143. merci
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  1144. Yes it is true, and there is no end in sight.
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  1145. Glad it was helpful!
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  1146. I'll work on it
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  1147. thanks
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  1148. very nice of you. Thank you for kind words
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  1149. Thanks for listening
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  1150. No not true. Putin and Russia did not invade Ukraine. They came to the rescue of Russian people who wound up in a country seized by NATO by a coup d'etat. It was not Putin by the Crimean parliament and then the local assemblies in Donetsk and Lugansk that pleaded for help. Putin accepted Crimea but rejected Donetsk-Lugansk. For 8 years they were bombed shelled and killed but YOu the west did not care. Putin kept repeating Minsk accords Minsk accords. He did everything so that Ukraine could keep those provinces. Kiev refused and encouraged by London Washington preferred to attack and go to war and accuse Putin of an invasion. A brilliant operation. THAT IS THE TRUTH
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  1151. true
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  1152. a great selection thanks
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  1153. distortion
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  1154. spasibo
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  1155. That is what Vivek wants. Who knows je might become Vice-Pres
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  1156. thank you for your insight
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  1157. thanks for sharing
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  1158. I wonder why he hates Russia so much?
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  1159. yes
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  1160. It sounds like he is trying very hard to look tough to avoid being labelled a Putin proxy.
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  1161. I am honored to be in the company with Scott Ritter
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  1162. thank you for mentioning all that. I could not cover all that in one video. But if you check my videos on the 1990s there are three, I do discuss Yougoslavaia and Putin and primakov
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  1163. exactly right
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  1164. thank you for your comment
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  1165. well said
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  1166. you are right
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  1167. thank you
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  1168. thanks
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  1169. Check my video on the Baltic states the past and the future
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  1170. glad to hear that
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  1171. most welcome
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  1172. Thank you very much!
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  1173. welcome
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  1174. So nice of you
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  1175. privet, if you are in Russia check out y book: Velikaya Oktiabrskaya Katastrofa in Litres.ru, Ozon.ru
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  1176. Thank you for this idea. I shall look into it. Frankly have never done it
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  1177. S rozhdestvom vas!
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  1178. thanks
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  1179. The Soviets were nothing more than city and village councils elected by the electorate. In practice they were administrative structures that fulfilled orders from the City Party Secretary, orders in production targets, on educational programs, on road construction and millions of other details of day to day government. The elections were closely supervised by the Party. Only candidates vetted by the party were allowed to run.
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  1180. One thing does not contradict the other. Khrushchev was an uneducated upstart but at the same time he put an end to Stalin's GULAG and brought hundreds of thousands home.
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  1181. happy to try
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  1182. thank you
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  1183. true
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  1184. see on that my next video
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  1185. not true.
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  1186. may be
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  1187. thank you for your comment
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  1188. thank you for your comment
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  1189. I do not suggest that Prigozhin is working for Ukraine. But what he does is profitable for Ukraine. Moreover, chaos in Moscow is the desired goal of the Kiev regime and their London advisers. Whether Prigozhin realized it or not a military rebellion in Moscow is to the benefir of Ukraine and NATO.
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  1190. You for got that about half of Siberia is in permafrost area. Basically it is uninhabitable. But there is a lot of oil and gas. It so happened that the Rus slaves, the eastern most slaves, not the Poles, settled in the area that was an endless plain. After Chen gis Khan descendants broke up their state into small warring statelets, the Russians kept moving east conquering the conquerors. As for Chechnya, I am in favor of granting independence to them.
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  1191. Very welcome
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  1192. You are very welcome
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  1193. That is true but in terms of culture Tsarist Russia was one of the cultural capitals of the world, equal to London and Paris and Berlin and Vienna.
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  1194. Wow, thank you! Why do Americans prefer not to discuss real issues in society
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  1195. thank you
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  1196. thank you
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  1197. Of course not. What the Reds did was mass murder
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  1198. yes, true
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  1199. Stalin did do horrible things, that is true, as for Mao he got a little crazy during the so called cultural revolution and persecution of the dissidents but, his overall impact on China and the world I believe is positive.
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  1200. that si a very good point.
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  1201. Aid to Russia? When was that? in 1943? or in 1993? As to undermining Russia, this was the official goal during the cold war. And this resumed once Putin took over from Yeltsin.
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  1202. Thanks again!
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  1203. yep
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  1204. thank you
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  1205. Do not worry. At this point it does not look like nukes are on the agenda.
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  1206. thank you
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  1207. may be
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  1208. Glad you liked it!
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  1209. My today's video is exactly about that
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  1210. possible
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  1211. true, but they do respect power
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  1212. my pleasure
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  1213. thanks you
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  1214. exactly
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  1215. The invasion hppened because in jan 23 US started massive shipments of arms to Ukraine and they broke the ceasfire on 20 February. They created a situation when the Donbas people had to return fire. If being owned by US corporations qualifies as being free, then I do not know what is free. Ukr gov sold everything of value to its west patrons. that is a yoke.
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  1216. This is exactly so. Russia has found markets for its oil and gas and the EU buys it from India and the Indians pocket the profits.
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  1217. happy to hear that
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  1218. Yes, they all have a stake in war
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  1219. yes
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  1220. thank you
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  1221. but it did not happen
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  1222. In every French town, there are memories about occupation, resistance and collaboration
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  1223. I agree with you all the way. The point however is that it was NATO or USA or both that came to Ukraine with its rules and secret labs and imposed its will via a coup d'etat and since then Donbas has been trying to resist and Russia could not afford to look the other way. Putin ignored them for 8 years but then had to intervene.
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  1224. I hope you are right
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  1225. you can have two or three
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  1226. I once wrote an article the sovietization of America
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  1227. any one of those is possible.
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  1228. thank you
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  1229. yes
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  1230. Glad you liked it. Thank you
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  1231. thank you
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  1232. Welcome!
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  1233. thank you
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  1234. you have got your enemies wrong. NATO is destroyibg Ukraine not Putin. Ukraine could have lived in peace if they decided to be neutral. But right sector hated the moskali so much they they wanted to use NATO, in the end NATO used them and many of them are dead. Irony of history
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  1235. true
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  1236. Thank very much for this interesting reminder. If you are interested in the question of the rise and fall of empires I recommend one of the best theories on the subject written in 1300s by an arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun
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  1237. I wonder what you mean by the word "accident". Nicholas II was murdered on Lenin's orders
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  1238. welcome
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  1239. just like the soviets did Agitprop
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  1240. He certainly is or was the Wests's weapon but he revealed himself and that means it is over.
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  1241. we shall see
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  1242. that is true in my book Lenin-Putin I discuss what I call the parting of the ways between Europe and Russia
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  1243. thank you
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  1244. that is how it was
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  1245. true
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  1246. old habits
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  1247. You got it right.
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  1248. yes well said
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  1249. Russia was weak in the 1990s. But it was yeltsyn who capitulated at the priscina airport
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  1250. s rozhdestvom!
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  1251. thanks
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  1252. spasibo
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  1253. Thank you for your input. To continue your reasoning, we are in a situation now that to continue the fighting to keep the goods is going to cost more than its is worth. Trump is not willing to spend another 300 billion to regain something that may be be regained. So you cut your loses and move on.
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  1254. thank you
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  1255. thank you
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  1256. Trump and Biden-Harris
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  1257. He is dreaming
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  1258. excellent comment. Small Russia has a connotation of small rather than big, whereas the more accurate meaning is not the size but the place of origin, core in the sense that that is where it all started, the core. I saw maps of the 19th cenruty where one can see Klein Deutschland and Gross Deutschland, Petite Pologne and Grand Pologne, Malorossiya and Great Russia, the same principle is used.
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  1259. That is not a history of Ukraine. Makhno considered himself Russian and fought againt Ukrainian nationalist
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  1260. thanks
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  1261. I am sorry I have to correct you The territories that Stalin got from Poland in 1939 were not Polish. They were and have always been populated by Byelorussians and Ukrainians. Poland received them in a war with Soviet Russia in 1920. Before WW1, the entire Poland was part of the Russian empire. So it was not that a part of Poland was annexed but it was a return of Belorussian and Ukrainian land to Ukraine and Belorussian soviet republics.
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  1262. Thank you for such a knowledgeable answer. It is interesting that everyone sees different things in the same text. I may be wrong but when I think of Meslier and his ideas, what strikes me most about him and his difference from just about everybody else is not criticism of corruption of the church. That was more Voltaire’s preoccupation. Meslier was concerned not so much with the Church as with Jesus and his teaching. In fact what makes him almost unique is that he criticized not just contradictions in Christianity, of which there are many but Jesus himself. If I understand correctly, what he meant was that Jesus wanted from his flowers something that was contrary to Human Nature in his understanding of Human Nature. Meslier thought that Jesus created a kind of an ideal model of a perfect Christian that went against Human needs, such as poverty, chastity and obedience. Who would want to be starving and live in a desert and abstain from recreation. His followers early monks did it but Merlier thought that that was contrary to Human nature. Moreover, I think he asks For What? For what are these sacrifices? He though that Jesus set up a moral standard that was too high for a Man to follow.
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  1263. In case escalation happens Russian troops will occupy all of Ukraine. That's it. The US will not send a US army to fight in Ukraine.
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  1264. thank you
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  1265. true
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  1266. You may continue to live in your illusion of American military superiority. Just check what the specialists say, check out what Avantguarde missile can do. Check Yars, check the Abrams tank compared to T90, compare price inflated problem ridden F35 to SU 57 and so on.
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  1267. welcome
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  1268. I hope nobody uses them because then it is the end of our civilization
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  1269. I want to do a video on Trump Iran. In short the US has no military capacity or desire to fight Iran. It will lose its ships and bases in the Middle East.
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  1270. wow thank you
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  1271. do
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  1272. why funny?
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  1273. exactly
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  1274. This is a very complex issue. The US gives Israel a black check to do whatever it wants backing it in any case. This is not the case with Ukraine, because Russia can strike back and the US does not want to fight for Ukraine just to provide weapons, no more. This formula means that Russia will win. It also means that israel will create more enemies than it can handle. Killing people does not endear one to bystanders. They begin to think Oh this is a murder.
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  1275. It is a Russian city, that's why
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  1276. thanks
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  1277. I do not but I should make one.
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  1278. The way you reason if called racist. That is how the French talk to Alregians. Get out to your country. In the USA, one can have a choice between an English language service or a Spanish language service ANYWHERE.
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  1279. Here is a link to one article: Fragmentation of Suthority and Privatization of state: https://demokratizatsiya.pub/archives/06-3_brovkin.pdf or you can enter Democratizatiya journal on Google open the main page then seek archives then go to 1998 and 1999 and find my articles on corruption, privatization, etc,
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  1280. Nobody has calculated yet to what extent migrants are an asset or not
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  1281. I want to remind you that Poland took Belorussian lands in 1920, and in 1939 Stalin took back what was Russian orthodox population. As you know old Finnish border was in Belo-ostrov which today is a neighborhood in Saint Petersburg. So Stalin offered three times bigger territory to Finland to cede a piece next to Leningrad. The Finns refused and the war came. The Finns fought heroically and killed close to a million Russians and in the end ceded the territory without getting three times bigger piece in the north. After the war the Finns had good and prosperous trade with the Soviet Union. Thousands of Finish tourists came to my home town of Leningrad every weekend. Nobody threatened Finland. Your decision to join NATO is the biggest mistake in your history.
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  1282. probably
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  1283. Bandera is a war criminal. He offered to support Hitler in the infamous letter dated 30 June 1941. His followers were the ones who were doing the dirty work for the nazies in occupied Ukraine, killiong the jews the Communists the Russians and some Poles
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  1284. exactly
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  1285. Glad it was helpful!
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  1286. Thanks for listening
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  1287. exactly
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  1288. You may believe whatever you want.
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  1289. agreed
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  1290. I agree with you completely and let me assure you the love to Europe is gone. I wrote about it in the last chapter of my book From Lenin to Putin. I call it the parting of the ways between Russia and Europe.
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  1291. many, just check my playlist War in Ukraine
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  1292. great summary
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  1293. Welcome!
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  1294. thank you
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  1295. Partly you are right but the point is that militarily Russia is equal or stronger than the US right now. thanks to supersonic missile breakthrough. If you are interested in this topic check out Martymyanov or the Saker
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  1296. thank you
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  1297. thank you
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  1298. Thank you for your excellent argument. A couple of suggestions under the rubric They Won't let him! 1 On Kim and T; words and smiles aside Trump could not offer de-nuclearization of the peninsula because They - the deep state - wont let him. The US will not leave its bases in S Korea voluntarily. So the deal broke down. The empire wants to disarm others but not to disarm itself. Same with Ukraine. They will not let him reverse US policy of over ten years - i.e. Ukraine in NATO. Even if he agrees, Russia will have no guarantee that 4 years later another pres will not walk away from the treaty. It was Tr who walked away from medium range missiles treaty. The only guarantee of Ukraine not in any military coalition against Russia is total control over entire Ukraine by the Russian army. That is the predominant view in Russia today. Even Putin will have a hard time going against that view.
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  1299. in towns and villages won back byt Russia life is turning to normal. Look at Mariupol. It is pretty valuable mud, factories arable land, populated by the Russians in the east of Dnepr
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  1300. true
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  1301. yes true
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  1302. I thank you for your insight. The only addition I make is that most Ukrainians have no grudge against Russia. The power in Ukraine was usurped by the nationalist Bandera types who banned, expelled, killed everyone who dared to say anything good about Russia.
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  1303. I have just heard her today and she said that her two chanels were liquidated and that she is only on strana.ua now. She was off the air for 2 weeks. I fins her broadcasts the best on domestic Ukrainian politics
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  1304. Did you notice he insulted Vance bu a swear word in Russian
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  1305. No I do not disavow anything. If you read my book, Behind the Front Lines, you will see what I write about the Cheka and some of its agents including the jews
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  1306. why?
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  1307. pure racism and aparteid regime
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  1308. welcome
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  1309. Yes Ziuganov probably won the Presidential elections
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  1310. welcome
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  1311. most likely
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  1312. yes absolutely right. In fact Robert Conquest in his book The Harvest of Sorrow did have a chapter on Kazakh famine
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  1313. No, no. Russia is so tired of dictatorships. The only comparison that comes to mind is the way China did it. But Russian CP was totally incapable to any business activity. Another good example is Yugoslavia. Nobody looks at it because it split up. But under Tito there was small business allowed for years and their transition to market economy was much smoother. The same could be said of the Czech republic.
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  1314. glad to try
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  1315. thanks
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  1316. You see the past is the past. Do the Poles hate Germans? Prpbably not because Germany is not a nazi reich. So why hate Russia now It is not the Soviet Union. As for war in Ukraine watch my videos
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  1317. Wow, thank you!
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  1318. and more control by those who remain in the shadow and pull the strings
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  1319. Our pleasure!
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  1320. thank you
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  1321. I hope so
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  1322. thank you
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  1323. thank you so much
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  1324. If you are in Russia and are interested in my work, you cфn buy one book I have published in Russia avalable on ozon.ru: великая октябрьская катастрофа
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  1325. You ask a whole lot of questions that would take a Soviet Politics course to answer. Some of the answers are in my books especially on early Soviet power, elections, parties, formation of the Soviet system. On Stalin the best is Stalin by Tucker, where he shows that Supreme Soviet, Central Committee Politburo the courts all that meant absolutely nothing. No power. These were tools in administration, control dispensation of privileges and collection of taxes. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Soviets are beginning to play the role of local city governments in change of roads, schools, bridges, hospitals, services and the party is gradually losing it administrative function. One of my articles, The Communist Party Secretaries, an Endangered Species published in 1989 correctly foresaw that the CP is becoming irrelevant. The Congress of People's Deputies was the first truly freely elected body since the Constituent Assembly of 1917. It was free but also had no experience or structure to act as a Parliament so it quickly degenerated into special interest groups controlled by mafia bosses. It got worse in the 1990s. Duma seats were up for sale to those who pay more, as in some so called Democracies in the West today. The beginning of something we can call elements of legal order, real courts, real autonomous local government begins with President Putin with his campaign to centralize power, throw out corrupt local mafia bosses that he had led in early 2000s. Today for the first time since Alexander II, Russia is beginning to have a legal system, independent courts, and elected Parliament. Duma does debate the laws, does legislate and does reflect the current balance of power in the country.
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  1326. The Russians remember that
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  1327. gorod gde ya rodilsia, spasibo
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  1328. great
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  1329. the most important I think is the first one
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  1330. interesting observation
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  1331. I would love to join, but I do not interact with anyone directly. I listen to analysis of many people critics and supporters of all sides. Some channels I watch every day
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  1332. very apt!
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  1333. yes I agree
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  1334. true
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  1335. well said
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  1336. He is not the only one. That is the standard mainstream way of talking about Russia
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  1337. если вы в россии то хочу вам сообщитьчто одна из моих кгиг издана в россии ее можно купить на Ozon.ru она называется Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа
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  1338. good insight
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  1339. Probably so at least in Italian case
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  1340. ha ha
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  1341. yes
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  1342. true
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  1343. well said
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  1344. thanks
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  1345. You see, noone is asking the Baltics tojoin Russia.Russia does not need them What is needed is peace neutrality, no threats on both sides and normalneiborly relations,open borders and trade. As for the future of Germany and sweeden, look at the pictures of nogo areas in Sweeden. Germany is on the way down, economically, politically and demographically. It is turning into an extension of Turkey. The question for the Baltics is: do you want to be dictated to by Brussels how many africans you must take? Or you join a Eurasian economic union with Russia and China. where noone tells you what to do.
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  1346. thank you
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  1347. well said
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  1348. I think Putin does not want to break relations with the US but rather to improve them. It may happen if Trump is elected. As for sales it is nothing personal just business. Money. Russia needs those. France is buying Russian uranium and training Ukraine's soldiers.
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  1349. God bless Syria
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  1350. thank you
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  1351. well said
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  1352. sorry, I mispronounced it. You caught it. Sorry, obviously what I meant was that the nazi bandera was killing the Poles.
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  1353. Thank you for your comments. You obviously know a great deal about the situation on the eve of the French revolution. My impression is that Louis XVI was weak as Nicholas II. He had a chance, and I do not think he used it. His biggest problem was the Parliament of Paris, which incited people against the king and guarded its privileges. He had to turn the tables on them and unite with the third estate against the aristocracy. he did not have the guts to do it. if he had, he could have survived.
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  1354. true, but they might get burnt
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  1355. thank you
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  1356. thanks
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  1357. you put it exactly right
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  1358. The fact that you refer to the nationality of Soviet leaders shows that you do not understand the nature of Communist regimes. Nationality had NOTHING TODO with their decisions, actions, NOTHING. They were all Communists,members of the party and that determined everything. If you told Trotsky he was a jew, he would have felt insulted.
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  1359. are you VVP?
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  1360. Russia is not a dictatorship. 87 milllion voted dont be redicculous to say there wasa gun pointed at the head of every one of them. There are nooilgarchs in Russia. There are former oligarchs like Deripaska but none who can dictate policy to the president. I thought you guys believe in freespeech. As soon as you don't like it, label him propagandist. You have not gone far from KGB with these tactics
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  1361. He did give his manuscript to Diderot. But he was not looking for an audience. he put on paper his thoughts as a way of thinking. In fact, the atmosphere in France was such that he would have found an audience of those who if not agree with him outright would have been willing to listen. Anti-clerical mood was sweeping France.
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  1362. the plan was to expand American power in what was to be THE AMERICAN CENTURY.
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  1363. спасибо
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  1364. You're very welcome!
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  1365. most welcome
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  1366. I agree completely
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  1367. thank you
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  1368. I have already replied but somehow it isnot here. Go to Moscow you will love it, one of the most exciting places to ive
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  1369. good luck
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  1370. that is the historical lesson from the Soviet experience that the West refuses to learn
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  1371. truly i dont know
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  1372. I would refuse a position in Biden admin
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  1373. glad to hear that
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  1374. Thank you so much 😀
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  1375. welcome aboard
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  1376. Thanks, will do!
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  1377. If you want to focus on Soviet economics under Brezhnev, here is the simple fact. Stalin killed Soviet agriculture. It was inherently inefficient and producing losses and not enough grain. So Brezhnev had to buy grain from USA. As for industry the military sector worked fine because it did not matter how much things cost. Consumer goods sector was primitive because it was based on fulfilling the plan rather than on demand.
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  1378. gracias
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  1379. If the governments of the Baltic republics are foolish enough to host NATO bases are become targets especially if hostilities between NATO and Russia break out. Other than that Russia does not need the Baltics. But reports that Russian minority was deprived of voting rights in Estonia does offend a lot of people.
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  1380. glad you like it
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  1381. Not, really. The closest around him to a reasonable perspective are Vance, Kennedy, Musk, and Carlson Tucker.
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  1382. thanks
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  1383. thank you
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  1384. hard to say. but it could have happenned
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  1385. exactly
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  1386. exactly. In fact Zelensky's Kiev reminds me of Saigon, same mess and corruption and ... collapse
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  1387. thank you
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  1388. spasibo
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  1389. spasibo
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  1390. It is no longer a matter of debt. Netanyahu is destroying Israel
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  1391. My pleasure
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  1392. You were right then and right now
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  1393. good
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  1394. Scott Ritter says he loves the US and is ready to die for his country, yet he is very critical of the US policy. True I am Russian, but I lived most of my life in America and I love it too. I suppose I am both.
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  1395. I amjust reporting what I hear
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  1396. good point
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  1397. no. poorest country got 150 billion worth of military hardware from nato
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  1398. The question is if Trump succeeds in launching industrial production
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  1399. We will!
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  1400. There was famine in all of Russia not just in its part in Ukraine
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  1401. What you describe is a free world in name only. The system that could have established security for all would be not NATO expansion but a system of collective security coming out of the Helsinki treaty on European security with established mechanism for conflict resolution about border changes. The US took advantage of Russia's weakness to practice "what was yours is now ours". Ukraine could have had a free and independent existence if it had observed its commitment of 1991 to be neutral and un-affiliated with any military alliance.
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  1402. I have a video on Soviet Finnish war, you might be interested
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  1403. well said
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  1404. thank you
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  1405. true
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  1406. may be. more likely liberal, acceptance of all, dictatorship of minorities etc.
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  1407. both dictators looking for enemies
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  1408. thank you
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  1409. EU is seized by Russia haters.
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  1410. funny, but true
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  1411. may be in world markets but in production costs is what matters here
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  1412. exactly
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  1413. Hatred instead of solidarity, reliance on NATO instead of neutrality, hostility instead of good neignborliness. These were the choices made my Baltic leaders after 1991.
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  1414. It seems athat the Russians are doing what you say. Full steam ahead.
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  1415. My pleasure
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  1416. Glad it was helpful!
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  1417. It does, but with time as they consolidate power over Syria they are not going to be friends of Israel. That is to put it mildly. The more the Israelies destroy the more enemies they generate. They just can't understand that. Muslim brotherhood can come to power in Egypt and in Jordan supported by the Saudies and then Israel may be doomed.
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  1418. thank you
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  1419. welcome
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  1420. good summary
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  1421. Yes true, but they learnt to do things better than anyone could expect
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  1422. how true
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  1423. You are absolutely right. Putin thinks long term. He wants to keep a possibility open for the future of good relations with Ukraine some time down the road, ideally the same kind as with Belarus. He could have invaded in 2014 defending the legitimate President. He could have recognized Donbass as an independent state long time ago. He does not do that. why? Because he wants to keep the doors open for a reconciliation. Zelensky like Pooshenko are prisoners of the Bandera folks, the right wing, the nationalists from West Ukraine. Good idea to make a video on domestic Ukrainian politics.
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  1424. thanks for your comment
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  1425. Big changes are coming. BRICS is about to launch a non-western non-swift trade exchange platform out of reach of US sanctions. They are moving to a new currency based on Gold. De-dollarization of world trade will follow and with it the decline of the US free income
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  1426. we shall see
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  1427. true
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  1428. You're welcome!
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  1429. happy to hear that
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  1430. the latter point is total rubbish. As for why, it is not only because of opposition to woke presudo culture. It is because Putin is for great Russia and so is the patriarch. However, Ukrainians are orthodox too. So the patriarch regards this war as a civil war that should stop.
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  1431. agree
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  1432. thank you
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  1433. It will use local forces and local militias, do not forget all these territories were a part of the Soviet Union and the people there are Russian
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  1434. Glad it was helpful!
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  1435. some people believe it was the brits
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  1436. welcome
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  1437. glad you liked it
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  1438. And yet Biden spent 300 billion sending weapons that killed a whole lot of Russian soldiers. Too late to turn away.
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  1439. These are very complex issues. Ukrainian sick nationalism of Bandera variety is a relatively new phenomenon and it may pass. Remember in 1914 when Russian troops entered Lvov for a short time they were greeted as liberators and the local population considered themselves a Russian.
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  1440. They were convinced that there was no other alternative. The world is changing fast. They will soon realize that there are or will be alternatives
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  1441. thank you for your lengthy summary
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  1442. thank you
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  1443. thank you
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  1444. You are very welcome
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  1445. thank you
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  1446. Some of these things do not depend on Trump. There are other big players, China, India, Russia.
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  1447. The reason it is important is that we have to understand what moves people, their ambition or greed or desire to lead or desire to destroy or what was it.
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  1448. Yes, true, Russia and Germany can complement each other and together trade with China. One does not exclude the other
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  1449. thank you. I agree. EU leaders exposed themselves as participants in the war. Europe is splitting. I doubt Trump will get along with these war hawks either.
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  1450. he is unique his style in unrepeatable. He was a communist and a Soviet patriot but his poetry is truly unlike any other
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  1451. The Bandera followers have been in a small minority but they hijacked the state. Both Poroshenko and Zelensky did pretty much what those folks wanted. First thing the West has to do is insist that there is true freedom of speech and campaigning for any elections to be valid.MY sense is that in these conditions a candidate who stands for neutrality and good relations with both east and west would win.
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  1452. who is not?
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  1453. pozhaluista
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  1454. Glad to hear that!
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  1455. Thank you! Cheers!
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  1456. Thank you so much
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  1457. well said
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  1458. totally agree
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  1459. It seems like Israel is messing up all its neighbors. not the other way around. If Israel attacks Iran...
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  1460. good point
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  1461. спасибо за совет
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  1462. Facts are facts. The President of Ukraine was overthrown, you can call it a revolution but it was a violent change of government. Putin was notin KGB but in foreign intelligence. George Bush senior used to be CIA chief, but do you distrust him because of CIA crimes?You may call bs wahtever you want but the facts are facts and you refuse to recognize them
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  1463. true
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  1464. probably
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  1465. I am so happy to hear these words I shall try harder.
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  1466. spasibo
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  1467. very likely you are right
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  1468. no he blew a chance he had
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  1469. thank you
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  1470. My understanding is that the Generals many of them and the patriotic commentators politely disagree with Putin at this point. They want to go faster and deeper and harder. Putin does not let him. The conclusion can be that Putin will have a hard time to sign what is called dogovorniyak or disgusting peace terms. Corruption in the army may be connected with the purge because Putin must have known about side deals of Shoigu and hid men but did not touch them. He usually begins to remove them when politics is involved. Read my chapter on Khodarkovsky
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  1471. true,but public image differes from reality
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  1472. so glad you like them
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  1473. unfortunately
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  1474. you summed up the essence. thanks
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  1475. pride, self-confidence, fear, arrogance and other sins
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  1476. I agree
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  1477. can well be true
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  1478. Yes crypto currency is on and it is one of the tools Russian banks are using but they do not hurry to explain how it works. Welcome aboard, glad you joined
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  1479. dangerous game
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  1480. thank you
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  1481. Glad you liked it!
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  1482. most welcome
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  1483. more to come
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  1484. may be
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  1485. To understand Trump bear in mind, he is fighting those who tried to kill him
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  1486. Old habits die hard, thank you
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  1487. Bad move. He aligned himself with the Dems and hawks
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  1488. thank you
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  1489. so pleased to hear that
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  1490. You should send this advice to Peskov
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  1491. that is all exactly right
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  1492. yes it will, probably this year
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  1493. or pride or envy
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  1494. You are right. But changes are brewing in western countries. AfG is beginning to win in Germany. Traditional atlanticist parties are discredited. UK is in terminal decline. They cannot even pretend to be anything close to a great power. Its economic and demographic trends will make it a third world country in a generation. France is in perpetual crisis with a President who thinks he is Napoleon, disregarding the parliament. Southern Europe including Austria is moving towards cooperation with Russia. The US has the shackles of 35 trillion debt
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  1495. Yes indeed. It was a game of power for them, any means are OK
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  1496. It is quite difficult to travel to Russia these days, but I do discuss some of these issues with one podcaster from Russia in Russia. If you know any other contacts I'd love to.
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  1497. ignorance coming out of narcissism. Americans are convinced that they are an exceptional nation above others. Why bother trying to understand someone inferior?
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  1498. Thank you for your comment. One of my grandfathers fought with the Red Army and finished the war in Vienna and the other spent it in besieged Leningrad starving
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  1499. Many thanks!
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  1500. welcome
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  1501. because Putin made Russia Gret again and the US elite is envious
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  1502. thanks
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  1503. It sure is
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  1504. exactly my point
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  1505. Yes he did, so what?
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  1506. I agree with you completely. The current model is nothing more than the better version of the concert of great powers of the 19th century which was still based on the right of might. A better system a moral system should be the one when a community of nations is a true community based on respect of others and on legitimate rights of the weak, a system based on law not dictatorship of predators,
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  1507. Glad you think so!
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  1508. very interesting and original discourse thankyou
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  1509. Zelensky does not decide anything. He is a tool of others
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  1510. I completely agree with you. Moreover I do not think they will let him win
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  1511. The East Europeans equate Russia with Soviet Communist and are afraid of Russia, even though, they need not be
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  1512. за правду
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  1513. rise of the oligarchs is a domestic affair. Sachs did not anticipate that
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  1514. you r welcome
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  1515. Bien will not let Zele sigh peace
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  1516. very well paid
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  1517. You are right as far as the Ukrainian state is concerned. I am refering to popular attutudes, the way simple Ukrainians at least some of them act in current circumstances.
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  1518. true
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  1519. welcome aboard
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  1520. yes exactly
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  1521. this timethe result will be not what they expected
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  1522. You go into a extremely detailed ethnic detail. In fact it is much more simple. The division that was decisive at that time was based on religion. All these people were ethnically the same Poles Ruthenian, Belorussians. They were all east slves. Thse that accepted Catholicism becale Poles and thos that accepted Orthodoxy became Russian. Some orthodox wound up under Catholivs control and then in 1854 they rebelled against the Catholics in favor of the Orthodox. That 's it.
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  1523. very interesting data
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  1524. There were no Whites yet. The street fighting at the end of October (old style calendar) was between defenders of Provisional Government, specifically students of the military schools i.e. future officers of the army and the Bolshevik sailors. In Moscow these too were armed units of the Provisional Government, which in arty terms means SRs and Mensheviks
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  1525. спасибо
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  1526. Most welcome
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  1527. yes, true, but his data on corruption is interesting
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  1528. thanks
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  1529. read the dicuments published after Maidan They cannot enforce it but they try. I saw myself regulations requiring city officials in Odessa to conduct business in Ukrainian a foreign language to them, They were born speaking Russian
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  1530. glad to try
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  1531. thank you
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  1532. What is wrong with this statement:everthing. It is insulting to the Russian people.It is racist in that it implies that the Russians are inhuman and are slaughering people, which they never did to others. As to fighting the war supposedly helped to crete that sounds like a Polish lie. So: 27 millin were victims of NAZI aggresssion. The Soviet Union took the brunt of NAZI invasion. Millions of Russian soldiers dies fighting every village and every kilometer from the border to Stalingrad and then to Berlin. As for victims of Stalin Bolshevik dictatorship the Russian people were the victinms of an internationalist Communist conspiracy, most of whom were not Russian but jewish, Polish, Latvians, Germans and others. By the way one of the greatest butchers of the Bolsheviks was a Pole Dzerzhinsky. As for starting the war. In 1939 Soviet Russia took back the Belorussian territories lost to Poland in a war of 1920. And to top off the cake Polish Foreign Minister in 1939 offered to Hitler a joint offensive against the Bolsheviks in Moscow but Hitler refused.
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  1533. humans are mean especially when they are frightened
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  1534. Russia did not invade Ukraine. It came to the aide of two provinces that declared independence like Kosovo.
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  1535. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  1536. I follow him almost daily
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  1537. Yes all of it was true. The Soviet economy was losing money especially the agriculture. to cover up the deficit they sold oil. Collapse of oil price hurt them badly. As to who subsidized whom is difficult to say, because prices were not real prices but something the gov. used to calculate exchange of commodities.
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  1538. thank you
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  1539. happy to try
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  1540. Not true. Zelensky was elected promising to implement them and then changed his mind and cancelled them. That started the war
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  1541. yes true
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  1542. This is totally misleading. In the US you have to pay 1000 dollars for a medical test, in Russia it is free. and so on. American wealth is inflated beyond any reason. Here is France to go to the doctor you pay 30 euros and in the US several hundred
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  1543. thanks
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  1544. Check my list earlir. I have many videos on every phaze of the revolution and civil war. Also check my books on the Russian civil war (Behind the Fronlines of the Civil War (princeton 1984)
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  1545. yes
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  1546. how accurate
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  1547. exactly. To improve relations with Russia NATO has to stop expansion. Is trump ready to do that? I doubt
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  1548. what I am worried about is that on the way out he may set up some nuclear explosion and blame the Russians
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  1549. Thanks for that!
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  1550. right
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  1551. I appreciate that
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  1552. Thanks a ton
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  1553. Glad you like them!
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  1554. I shall try to be regalar
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  1555. Glad you think so!
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  1556. I partly agree with you that there is corruption, and recently there were many high ranking generals arrested and charged. However, the fact that there is public discussion of the issue suggests that there is freedom of speech. As to the mood of the country, there is never been such a rise in patriotism as is now, shown in all opinion polls.
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  1557. well said
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  1558. Thanks for listening
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  1559. give me proof. remember innocent until proven guilty.
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  1560. You may label propaganda anything you disagree with. That is fine. But the propaganda is coming from the mainstream western media
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  1561. well put
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  1562. Yes it is a real industrial power according to IMF number ffour in the world
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  1563. that is where things may be going
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  1564. unhinged? brutals dictator? You must be confusing him with Biden. The Russia people have never lived better than now. Western what you call demcy meant theft, corruption, poverty, stolen elections and the rule of mafia. that was unde yeltsyn the darling of the west. Putin reversed all of the above. That is why h is labeled brutal dictator. The more they label him, the more it shows they have nothinh to say in their emptiness.
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  1565. Glad it was helpful!
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  1566. Not funny for Neo-Cons in the US
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  1567. interesting comment thank you
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  1568. you ask good questions. I'ss try toasnwer. Why would the Northern states takeover bancrupt non-industrial states with hostile whites and poor blacks. Yet they did. why because it was there country too. Here is the answer
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  1569. very interesting
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  1570. reunification? When were they one country? Under the Turks?
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  1571. they already are
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  1572. there is, pretty so0n
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  1573. He might try, but Putin is an experienced politician
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  1574. thank you
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  1575. thank you so much
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  1576. They do not own anything in Russia. These days are gone
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  1577. Yes I know I was in Montenegro many times
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  1578. Agree
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  1579. welcome aboard
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  1580. thank you
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  1581. Perhaps, but the meaning is clear, why stop the offensive when it is going on and when a part of Donetsk province has not been taken over?
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  1582. I hope you are right
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  1583. thank you
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  1584. thank you
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  1585. may be
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  1586. That is exactly why I expressed my skepticism. good point
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  1587. that would be coup
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  1588. well said
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  1589. true
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  1590. Your analysis makes a lot of sense. However, what matters today is what one makes of this line of reasoning. The obvious conclusion is that Stalin was making plans to strike germany therefore Hitler was justified in striking first. That is a political conclusion. The truth is that in 1940 1941 all major powers were involved in planning how to get more or to stop potential advesaries. GB +Fr planned to strike at Baku in 1941. The British wished for a long and exhausitive war between Germany and USSR. The Poles were exploring a possibility to join Germany in a joint venture against Russia. Hiteler offered Stalin a joint venture to strike at India and so on it goes. Stalin was a player in an international geo-politics game, no better or worse than any other.
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  1591. It would have to be an international treaty including most great powers including China
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  1592. There was no legal syste, under the soviet regime
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  1593. good point. As I said Russia is tired being told what to do
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  1594. It is no longer a war of attrition.
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  1595. you can get my book, it is onthe screen on amazon.com or at the publisher website Rutledge
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  1596. thank you
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  1597. Russia did not invade Ukraine. Russia came to the resque of Donbas a territory that has been Russian since 18th century
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  1598. happy to hear that
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  1599. China has begun cultivating markets in Africa and Asia and Latin America just in case the US market shrinks
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  1600. yes
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  1601. thank you
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  1602. yes it was targeting simple Russian peasants simply because they wanted to own their cow. sheer ideological madness
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  1603. thank you
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  1604. The Americans want the knowhow want the engineers but they do not want any company to compete with them not aerobus not Antonov nobody
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  1605. do you mean Russia and US and Canada and Norway? Tunnel is a great idea
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  1606. thank you for your comment
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  1607. The Russians can get him anywhere
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  1608. true
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  1609. glad to hear that
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  1610. thanks you
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  1611. thank you
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  1612. that is true, and that is why Dr.Doctorow suggested Gerasimov will be fired
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  1613. yes
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  1614. thank you for your story, wonderful experience
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  1615. For freedom and liberty on money he got from CIA?
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  1616. If you read it attentively that agreement was based on the 1991 constitution of Ukraine that proclaimed it a bloc free and neutral country. Today it is written in the constitution that Ukraine must be in NATO. That is a violation of the original constitution and of the Budapest memorandum.
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  1617. well said
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  1618. Please readmyhistory of Russia for the last 100 years covering lenin ans Stalin and all the others FromLenin to Putin. Russia in Search of Its Identity. link is in the description. or just goto Amazon andmy name
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  1619. well said
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  1620. seems like this is happening right now
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  1621. sorry
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  1622. welcome
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  1623. good idea
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  1624. enjoy, thank you
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  1625. most welcome
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  1626. exactly, but he was i Liev and he did speak
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  1627. You confuse the Russian empire and the USSR. Under the Russian empire the Baltic provinces were governed by the descendants of the german knights. They were all loyal subjects of the Tsar and many of them were distinguished Tsarist officials such as Sergey Witte and others. As for peasants, they never expressed any discontent for being in the Russian empire. The Finns for example did nt want to leave the Russian empire and only left after the Bolsheviks took over. You never learnt to distinguish the Russian from the Soviet.
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  1628. that is all true but it isanother world now. Moscow has all of the aabove and more.It is nolonger seductive
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  1629. They were friends in the mid 19th century and under Bismark.
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  1630. You're welcome!
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  1631. so nice of you, thank you
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  1632. Especially the Brits who act as though they are stillthe British Empire
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  1633. Glad you like them!
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  1634. correct, remember domino theory
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  1635. exactly
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  1636. well said
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  1637. They certainly hated the peasants.
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  1638. thank you so much
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  1639. You are right there should be referenda on self determination, but not voluntary deportation as in Nagorno Karaback
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  1640. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  1641. this is your view, I have a different one. Just listen what language they speak in Odessa as opposed to Lvov
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  1642. Yes, the front was stretched over a vast territory and supply lines were overextended. He had to either take Moscow before winter of fall back onto well defended line which he did not have as he had expanded too fact.
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  1643. thank you
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  1644. Look you are entitled to your opinion. Yes it is a grab of land populated by the Russians who have been Russian throughout their entire history. They would up in Ukrainian Soviet Socialist republic because Lenin in 1922 decided to add some Russian workers to Ukraine peasants. Are you saying that the borders set by Lenin are sacred for ever and ever?
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  1645. thanks
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  1646. thank you
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  1647. I saw the discussion on Academia thank you. What is tour question about the NRVD
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  1648. When I first saw these documents in Hoover Institution archives, I ran to the Directors and argued This Has to be published. Nobody knows this. They agreed. Is not it curious that these people believed themselves to be Marxist and they also believed that Lenin had nothing to do with Marxism but just used it as he would use anything and anybody to get power and vent his hatred.
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  1649. Alexandra did not escape. That is certain. Anastasia may have escaped. There is good evidence for that. If you are interested in this subject I can find a source that claims he survived. As for the bones, there is so much controversy as to what these bones actually were. They needed some bones to make them saints.
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  1650. truly historic
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  1651. I completely agree with your analysis. Moreover, in my previous video on Ramstein Vladivostok I said that for Putin BRICS success is the priority number one now. I think the Russians have not decided yet where they will stop, at Dnepr or in Kiev.
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  1652. thanks
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  1653. They could have said, we buy cheaper from the Russians, Simply business. But they preferred to swallow and sht up. So it is their choice, spineless then spineless now
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  1654. Polish attitudes as you describe are RACIST
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  1655. may be
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  1656. thank you
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  1657. thanks
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  1658. happy to hear this
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  1659. Look if you read the documents on collectivization you will realize that that famine was man made. There are many good books on the subject, including mine: Russia after Lenin, or Robert Conquest: The Harvest of Sorrow
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  1660. Putin is experienced enough to know
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  1661. thanks
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  1662. Thank you for your assessment. Concerning the won't stop in Ukraine. This is a familiar scare srow. Remember how they screamed that after Vietnam, the commies are going to take over all of Asia? Did they?
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  1663. glad to hear it
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  1664. This is where things are probably going
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  1665. thank you
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  1666. Glad you enjoy it!
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  1667. Glad you think so!
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  1668. Not any war weakens a country. The WW2 propelled American industry to new heights. This war has forced the Russians to produce everything themselves and the results are extraordinary. Yes the Russians are richer now and live better now and have full employment now. The sooner the war ends the better so that all this energy could be directed to civilian production
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  1669. They are conducting an offensive war on Russian territory
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  1670. Glad you think so!
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  1671. Sometimes one hears the voice of reason.
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  1672. there is always conflict, that is human nature
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  1673. thank you fr your comment
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  1674. very true
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  1675. THANK YOU
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  1676. true
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  1677. that is exactly right
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  1678. thank you for your analysis
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  1679. Don't forget Zele helped Dems to impeach Trump
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  1680. that confirms my reasoning
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  1681. hiopefully without the nuclear exchange
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  1682. Than you so much for kind words. Merry Christmas to you too.
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  1683. may be not
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  1684. I am an observer and explainer
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  1685. yes, that is a good point.The annexation will not make national debt disappear
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  1686. You see the objective reality is that the US was for globalization when it meant that US was taking over the global markets. Now the US is going into a defensive posture, isolationist, more closed off fearful of China. That makes it possible for Europeans and for Germany to rearrange its policies and governments. Marine le Pen says exactly the same things AfD does
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  1687. name calling is easy, to provide a solid argument is difficult. Why don't you try
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  1688. You are very welcome. Glad to see your comment again.
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  1689. may be
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  1690. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  1691. 1. Russia will not break with China. 2. Russia's allies are Iran, North Korea, South Arica and all the others in BRICS. Then there are many countries who are not allies not friends but good partners, like India, Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, Algeria and the list goes on into dozens.
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  1692. most welcome
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  1693. thanks
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  1694. Many thanks!
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  1695. Glad it was helpful!
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  1696. true
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  1697. glad to hear that
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  1698. thank you
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  1699. So nice of you
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  1700. and agricultural land
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  1701. glad to try
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  1702. It all depends of the politicl context. Compared to the Left SRs and Anarchists and Mensheviks and Bolsheviks, the SRS in spring 1918 would appear as center-right.
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  1703. There may have been a Tatar settlement there but the modern city of Odessa was founded by Count Rechelieu at the service of Catherine the Great
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  1704. This is exactly right. By this logic, Russia did not invade Ukraine but provided help to the republics that refused to obey to the Gov. in Kiev
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  1705. good point
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  1706. There is no unity over basic issues, and not only on Ukraine
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  1707. thank you
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  1708. he stole zero you repeat western nonsense
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  1709. No, the revolution was way on the way already. Probably lives were saved when this crazy zealot was killed.
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  1710. thank you
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  1711. My central argument is not about economics. It is that despite stupidity and incompetence of Soviet leaders, there was a cultural rebirth of Russian society. There was no stagnation in culture, in education, in science, and in spiritual development.
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  1712. Glad you think so!
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  1713. У меня в россии вышла одна из моих книг Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа доступна через Ozon.ru
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  1714. They say what they are expected to , to please their bosses in the pentagon and State Dept
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  1715. thanks
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  1716. The problem is that People who wanted NATO protection responded to the Past not the Present. Russia in the 1990s was not a threat to anyone. The Soviet regime was gone, try to understand that word GONE, forever. This was the time to start a new community of European nations. instead they grasped at old grievances. Did NATO provide any security. No it brought a war. Let's hope it will not degenerate into a ww3.
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  1717. well put
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  1718. true
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  1719. happy to try
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  1720. you see respecting Navalny does not equal opposition to Putin
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  1721. thank you
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  1722. So nice of you
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  1723. yes they are
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  1724. I do not know I guess because you dont like it and measure it by what it sounds like
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  1725. Are there Canadians in Ukraine? Has it ever been discussed in Canada?
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  1726. That may well be true, but so far China has not acted like this
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  1727. EU has declining population too.
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  1728. Thank you for your comment. The fact though is that average length people watch a video is 5 minutes. So I try to stick to 15.
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  1729. happy to hear that
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  1730. thank you for such valuable detailed knowledge
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  1731. Things may be different than what they appear to be
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  1732. yes, true, amazing
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  1733. You are so welcome. I am happy to hear that
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  1734. Yes but there was saying in the 1980s, send youkid to study in Parisand he will become aCommunist, send him to Moscow and he will be anti-Communist. Studying in the west does not make thempro-western
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  1735. You are welcome!
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  1736. its missiles?
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  1737. so what. How much does one pay for an apartment? for a doctor? for a restaurant or food in supermarket?
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  1738. thank you
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  1739. yes exactly
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  1740. spasibo
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  1741. this is probably beginning to happen in German states elections
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  1742. In 1612 who occupied Moscow? Was not it Poland?
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  1743. Polish state dissolved not because of the Russians but because of its constitution. You should not blamethe Russians for your own failures.
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  1744. Please tell me specific facts I lied about. You do not and cannot have any. You have zoological hatred of the Russians I do not know why? Poland was a part of Russian empire. So Italy was a part of Ausrian empire and so were the Ukrainina and Czechs and Slovaks and Rumanians. Do you hate the Austrians as much as you do the Russians. Where did you get that nonsense about sadism?
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  1745. I must disappoint you. Moscow state is not going to be dismatled. Many tried before, including Poland. They all failed. The US and its obedient vassals lwill fail this time around too.
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  1746. I never thought that there really are people who reason like you. That is amazing. A Pole driven by hatred, dreaming to restore a Poland that controlled Russia and Lithuania and Ukraine and East Prussia. The problem with mentality like yours is that it is an example of envy, of injured pride, of nostalgia for past glory that is gone forever for you. You are burning with hatred because Russia became a Great Power and Poland was divided up because of the stupidity of itsown constitution, based again on pride and veto power for anyone. Pride is what ruined Poland not Russia. Pride and envy continue to poison Poland even today.
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  1747. well said
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  1748. Yes it is possible, but the Western media forgets to mention that those who critisize the Ministry of Defense or even Putin himself do so from the position of what they call Angry patriots. They want to conduct the war better, harder and win compteley by taking Kiev. The Western medi loves anyone who criticizes Putinm forgetting that they are more nationalitic and hard-line than Putin.
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  1749. exactly, but elections are coming... up
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  1750. collectivization was not a reform. It was subjugation in themost brutal form and not of the Ukrainians but of all peasants
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  1751. happy to hear that
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  1752. thank you
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  1753. glad to try
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  1754. we shall see
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  1755. well said
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  1756. Hold on Mexico, you will have a difficult neighbor to deal with.
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  1757. The difference is that Finnland after WW2 was wise enough to become neutral and have excellent trade relations with the SU, a win win for both. Lately they decided to join NATO, sofoolish. All they gained was that they had no missiles targeted at them and now they do.
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  1758. true, thank you for watching. I recognize your logo
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  1759. true
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  1760. when you use the word the Russians you immediately substitute facts, not Russians but Soviets, Stalinista, communists from whom the Russians suffered just as much or more
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  1761. true
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  1762. There are many programs in Russian language.
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  1763. most welcome. Glad you like it
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  1764. You're welcome!
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  1765. yes, that is so
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  1766. thank you
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  1767. no not eternal. The Russians have leant to live with the moslems much better than the West.
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  1768. Sooner of later the neocon elites will realize that they cannot dictate their will to the rest of the world. It is no longer 1950s.
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  1769. Glad you like them!
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  1770. and announce new elections!
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  1771. You're welcome!
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  1772. Thanks for watching!
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  1773. Я понимаю ваши опасения, но позвольте мне ответить на некоторые из них. России нужно продавать все, что она может продать. Вам нужно платить армии, пенсионерам и детям. Внешняя торговля — это то, чего Запад хотел лишить Россию. Но России нужны эти доходы для победы. По поводу коррупции вы, возможно, правы, но это не дело рук Путина. Она существовала до него и будет существовать после него. Начинать массовые аресты неразумно, так как это разрушит экономику. Объявить войну легко, но закончить ее трудно, так что какая разница, называется она SVO или нет? Вы должны понимать, что в России всего 150 миллионов человек, а в НАТО 700 000 человек, а экономика в 10 раз больше. Если Россия выстоит и победит, это само по себе станет величайшим достижением, во многом благодаря Путину.
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  1774. Of course not. A change is in order, we shall see f he can manage it
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  1775. BoJo is a yesterday's joke
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  1776. My pleasure!
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  1777. Yes in the 1990s, the American advisers behaved like they were teaching some imbeciles what to do. I knew many of these top advisers personally.
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  1778. Awesome, thank you!
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  1779. Most welcome
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  1780. spasibo
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  1781. very insightful comment. Thank you. I agree.
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  1782. Yes, but on the other hand, the Donbas problem and the Taiwan problem are similar. These are provinces that would up on the other side. Russia wants to reclaim its Russian provinces and China wants to return her Chinese province. As for territorial integrity of Ukraine, the borders of 1991 were the borders of the Soviet Union, and the entire Ukraine was a part of the USSR. So when they banned the Russian language and decided to join NATO in violation of the 1996 Budapest memorandum that they stay a neutral country, the Russian provinces decided to return to Russia, which is their right.
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  1783. GOOD QUESTIONS BUT THE ANSWERS ARE QUITE OBVIOUS. Many in Britain sympathized with the Germans smashing the communists. samein France. The US was just wait and see. much more preoccupied with Japan all along
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  1784. Yes, he may indeed be one
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  1785. what do you mean by "working"? You mean destroying Russian economy. That has not worked. Russian economy today is bigger and stronger than before sanctions. Any businesses the West abandonned have been bought by either Russian or Chinese or Indian firms. Sanctions have provoked Russia to seek self-sufficiency and make a pivot to Asia. The real loser here is the West
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  1786. pleased to hear that
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  1787. Just one more time: Novorossiya , the land from Odessa east was Russia since Catherine II, not Ukraine, populated by the Russians who speak Russian are Russian and not Russian Ukrainians. That is why Russia wants to take it back
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  1788. thank you
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  1789. Al, that is true but he has to tackle so many problems in the US that he does not have many options to confront Russia with.
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  1790. exactly right
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  1791. Good questions. If the Baltic republics fear Russia. What can the Russians do? Especially when they try to do everything to discredit Russia and set the entire Europe against Russia. Just ignore them and that is what Putin is doing. The strange thing is that in the 1980s the Soviet Union did have plans to invade West Europe and despite that the image of It in the west was quite positive, cultural exchanges were going on trade, tourism etc. Now that Russia doe not have such plans and wants to have normal relations with Europe, the West demonizes Russia Why?
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  1792. he keeps changing his position
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  1793. but they do propose that in that article!!!
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  1794. Tomahawk is difficult to transport and make operational in Russia in large numbers and one needs large numbers to be effective. That would mean an open war with Russia. For that one needs a vote in congress. Putin said they are watching ready to destroy any of those new missiles as soon as they enter Ukraine
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  1795. bien venue
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  1796. This is a fascinating topic. you are right. But to find the answer as to why they were expelled, one would need to check out the archives. I suspect they were involved in some behind the scene intrigues, may be political may be financial.
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  1797. welcome
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  1798. You are so welcome
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  1799. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  1800. Glad to hear that
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  1801. thank you
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  1802. good point
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  1803. Very interesting view. This may be what Putin wants but he is a realist and the tone of his speech suggests bot a belligerent but rather an accommodationist approach. He was trying hard to convince the Germans to change their obstruction and he would resume gas deliveries. He is not like Medvedev issueing threats. So it seems once No Nato IN uKRAINE IS ACCOMPLISHED he may well be satisfied provided there is a new general security treaty.
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  1804. spasibo
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  1805. thank you
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  1806. You’re welcome 😊
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  1807. Holodomor means death by hunger. One of the facts of History that Russian peasants in central Russia were dying just as much as in Ukraine. It was an attack on peasants not on Ukrainians. It was a crime of the Communist party not by the Russians as calimed by todays leaders of Bandera movement
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  1808. We shall see
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  1809. Thank you so much for sharing this view. I am happy to hear all that
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  1810. thank you for you detailed comment, thought provoking
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  1811. true
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  1812. that is true. But the fact that Poland occupied those lands in the middle ages does not make them Polich. OK you had Wilna but tell that to a Lithuanisn. This is the land of Lithuanians. People in Medievl Poland were still Orthodox Russians even thou they were under Polish rule. Exactly by the same logic, Poland remained Poland within the Russian enpire in the 19th century. So Belorussian lands populated by Orthodox russins were taken over by Catholic Poland. When Stalin had the chance he took it back
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  1813. exactly
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  1814. Many thanks!
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  1815. thank you
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  1816. I'll try
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  1817. Old habits die hard
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  1818. exactly, seemy next video about that
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  1819. very true
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  1820. true
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  1821. good point
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  1822. glad to try
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  1823. I see your point, but the people in US and EU do not want a war. The French went up in arms because of the pension reform. What will they do when French soldiers are on the front with the Russians and there are casulties?
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  1824. rebellions do happen. There is one going on right now in Washington DC
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  1825. You are right. It was in Ukrainian declaration of independence
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  1826. thanks
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  1827. Thank you!
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  1828. About foreign troops. It is one thing if they fight on what is considered Ukrainian territory i.e. Donbas. It is another thing if they fight on internationally recognized Russian territory. So if a French soldier with French passport and French army pay in a French military vehicle is fighting in Ukraine - that is an act of war by France against Russia by International law. Do not forget it was the Chechen units who took several key towns before Bakhmut. The tone of discussion in Russia has changed. Now virtually everybody advocates marching on to Kiev and no negotiations. That was not so two months ago. Zelensky mobilized Russian opinion, made a great service to Putin
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  1829. yes exactly he is in a panic mode
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  1830. a willing colony. They can always say enough is enough. They could have in the 1990s but they missed the chance.
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  1831. thank you
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  1832. thank you
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  1833. thank you
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  1834. My pleasure!
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  1835. Do does she represent? On million Estonians? Or pro-American lobby? Or EU bureaucrats elected by no one?
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  1836. I do not think so. They were fed all kinds of nonsense since Skripal scandal
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  1837. Glad you think so!
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  1838. thank you
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  1839. true
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  1840. совершенно верно
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  1841. true
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  1842. thank you
    2
  1843. rad chto vam ponravilos
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  1844. well said
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  1845. thank you for your comment
    2
  1846. I agree, thank you
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  1847. Let's give Trump a chance
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  1848. exactly right
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  1849. I disagree with you. Look at Kazan skyline. The orthodox church and a mosque say together side by side. This has been a tradition of Russia and exclusively Russia. That unique side by side existed only in Russia without rivalry or religious strife, unlike Syria, or Lebanon where side by side often degenerated into abuse
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  1850. thank you
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  1851. glad to try
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  1852. No, I do not have a copy. It was zoomed and therefore probably recorded. But I have no record of it
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  1853. since 1992
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  1854. Because that would mean world war three. Putin wants to win the war humiliate the west and avoid the general war at the same time. I think he will be able to do that.
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  1855. exactly
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  1856. your list is wrong. People in Donbas are Russian, stealing the wealth is Blackrock stealing Ukrainian assets. kidnapping children is a lie which was in fact evacuating children from the war zone. Wake up man! You listen to CNN too much
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  1857. Russia did not invade anybody. It provided help to the people of Donbas who wanted to return home to Russia after the NATO gang seized power in Kiev.
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  1858. Glad it was helpful!
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  1859. exactly
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  1860. Thank you for your excellent historical overview. The details you know are impressive. I can add that Once I attended an exposition in Washington on Lincoln and one part of it dealt with his relations with Alexander II. I was surprised to see the ltters and all kinds of memorabilia, gifts, portraits sent etc that proved that these two were good friends.
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  1861. Danke sehr
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  1862. 900 US soldiers? Is that a force? If they leave would not the Turks take over and a real war begin between the Turks and the Kurds?
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  1863. I my video on Ukrainian identity I describe Ukraine of the 1990s and early 2000s It was and still is a corrupt oligarchy where the President and his friends and buddies and relatives take over major banks and industries and then another President comes in and takes it all over and gives it to his friends and buddies. That is Ukraine all the way from 1991 to the Present
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  1864. What he meant probably was Israeli successes in Syria and Lebanon
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  1865. In this regard the new party called new People is quite promising.
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  1866. exactly!
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  1867. This is hard to pin point one reason. The weapns establishment is totally unaccountable, no audits, unlimited supply of money, Revolving door between military compnies and Gov. Look at Austin. They are making money not weapons
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  1868. yes he is desperate. He acted as if he was very nervous during the conference.
    2
  1869. thanks for your insight
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  1870. Very interesting. A day will come when Biden activities in Ukraine will be revisited
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  1871. My view on this is: How did they know about imminent attack? Did they have links with the terrorist? What kind of links? Why did they not make a warning rather than cll on their citizens to leave?
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  1872. Wow, thank you!
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  1873. yes, you are right
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  1874. I suppose you mean Kotkin
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  1875. true
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  1876. Britain and France were enemies for most of its history, hundreds of years. Now they seem to be allies. Russia and China have a lot in common to hold on together
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  1877. amazon.com or direcly from the publisher routledge
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  1878. thank you for your comment
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  1879. My pleasure!
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  1880. As for killing opposition, that refers to Ukraine. As for 55 countries, they all put together contribute less several times than the US. It is a war of the US against Russia, using poor Ukraine
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  1881. yes indeed
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  1882. thank you
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  1883. This is my next video
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  1884. welcome
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  1885. thank you
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  1886. exactly
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  1887. thank you
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  1888. That is certainly true. I read the docs myself
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  1889. That is exactly the feeling in Russia today. But then, the Austrian treaty is still holding. Sooner of later One would have to do a new treaty.
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  1890. thank you for this info
    2
  1891. yes, true, thank you
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  1892. It looka like they are going todetroy Trump before elections
    2
  1893. I dis cuss all thee issues in my books check out Behind the front lines of the civil war
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  1894. True
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  1895. thank you
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  1896. Thank you. NATO obviously is stronger in GDP and in military might. But at this is true only in abstract terms. The UK military force is pitiful, the French have no money for anything struggling to pass a budget, the German economy is collapsing and so is their army. I cannot imagine Italians or Spanish to fight Russia. As for those who want, the 8 million and decreasing Baltic countries, and the Poles, their capacity is about equal to Belarus. So in fact Russia is stronger militarily than NATO. And if it is attacked, it will go nuclear... To top it all, Russian military hardware in some areas is superior to NATOs. such as SU57, such as Oreshnik missises, such as S500, such as T90 tanks and many other items.
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  1897. true
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  1898. great!
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  1899. I am sorry Peter. I do not agree with you. Germany did attack Belgium first, but this is a response to being surrounded by Rassia and France. Check out military plans made in the French general Staff by 1912. They planned for a to front war against Germany. As to the end of the war< Ludendorf reported to the Kaiser that war cannot be won. That does not mean lost. Germany ended fighting not defeated but persuaded hoping for a good ending promised in 14 points. It was deceived. That is not my opinion but that of Woodrow Wilson
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  1900. many reasons
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  1901. I could not agree more with your comment
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  1902. thank you for your comment
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  1903. exactly
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  1904. You may be right. We shall see
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  1905. I do I speak fluent French, Fluent German and I can read Polish (because it is a slavic language and it is so close to Russian)
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  1906. welcome
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  1907. to try to turn it into a permanent one and stop Russian advance
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  1908. it is core RussIA
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  1909. thanks
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  1910. yes you are right
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  1911. Don't forget for 8 years Putin has been repeating :"There is no alternative to Minsk accords". He wanted to leave Donbas to Ukraine with open border to Russia and autonomy. The Ukrainians refused. That is their choice. Now it is a part of Russia
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  1912. Sorry, but Russia had no plans to invade France or Britain. You are right they wanted to use the Turks to lock Russia out of the Mediterannian so that they could expand their empires in the Middle East, which id exactly what they did.
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  1913. Glad it was helpful!
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  1914. Yes, it seems that the hype about imminent invasion serves the purpose to portray Biden as the savior of Ukraine and boost his rating.
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  1915. According to Colonel MacGregor, many generals want to make money and a good paying consultancy in one of military companies with a huge salary.
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  1916. I doubt very much that Russia would use nuclear weapon especially on Ukraine which it considers its own territory. As Medvedev explained Russia will use it if it begins to lose in a conventional war, which is unlikely.
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  1917. You keep on dreaming. Good luck
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  1918. hypers0nic
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  1919. that is a very long view
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  1920. You're welcome!
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  1921. Gorbachev failed to keep the country together and allowed corrupt local mafias to wreck it
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  1922. true
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  1923. true
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  1924. As far as I know the majority is against Putin.
    2
  1925. interesting thought
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  1926. agree
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  1927. Check out articles of Pepe Escobar, that was his idea, Germany in BRICS, out of NATO
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  1928. exactly
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  1929. Trump keeps saying that Putin would not have dared to Invade Ukraine had he been president. What nonsense. The so called invasion was a set up by the USA by bombing Donbas until Russia had to step in.
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  1930. Once it is over, restauration begins
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  1931. The Poles have an ambivalent attitude towards the Ukrainians. They want to take Lvov, but they want to have a small and manageable number of Ukrainians in Poland, not too many, and certainly as obedient and subservient. Not as a power rival for the US money armaments etc.
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  1932. true!
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  1933. What is always misrepresented is that the famine WAS NOTagainst Ukraininas but against peasants Russian and Ukrainians peasants because Stalin considered them kulaks. Why are you so blind and blame the Russians rather than the Communists and Stalin personally. Russian peasants died just as many as ukrainian
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  1934. welcome
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  1935. You are very welcome
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  1936. that is quite possible
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  1937. Yes, thanks
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  1938. I think and write in English, use French in the streets and shops, speak Russian to my wife and English to my son.Watch TV in English French German and Russian
    2
  1939. welcome
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  1940. watch several ones
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  1941. Thanks for listening
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  1942. welcome
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  1943. Current law in Ukrain banns russian language as a state language wjereas in Crimea both languages are official
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  1944. I was in such a hurry to do the video that I forgot to connect the microphone, sorry.
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  1945. exactly
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  1946. true
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  1947. yes hope
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  1948. You are right. I dealt with this issue in Ramstein video, the previous one, a new stab in the back theory.
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  1949. especially Rutte, Callas, and co.
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  1950. spasibo za utochnenie
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  1951. What happens in Moldova depends a lot on what happens in Ukraine
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  1952. thanks
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  1953. that is happening
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  1954. agreed
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  1955. well said
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  1956. Glad it was helpful!
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  1957. I hope it will goaway.Look at the French and the Germans they reconciled over Alsace Elsass. Ruthenians is the people from where all of the Russians, Belorussians,and Ukrainians stem from. We all have one root.
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  1958. Exactly, no money, no understanding, no leadership rivalry, indifference of some
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  1959. That is a long story. Basically he recruited criminals in prisons to serve 6 months at the front and receive freedom at the end. They fight incredibly well. may have become heroes. They are well funded. They have their own methods and command, more flexible and innovative than regular units. They have taken Solidar and nor closing in on Bakhmut.
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  1960. No, the historic shift has occurred. UK is nothing. US and EU are less attractive to Turkey than China and Brics.
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  1961. well summarized
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  1962. France will react to macron, I hope sooner than later
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  1963. exactly right
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  1964. welcome aboard
    2
  1965. well said
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  1966. well said
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  1967. exactly
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  1968. The problem is with your words: We are stronger, faster more advanced. This is no longer true. China is in economics and Russia is in military and weaponry. Believe it or not the US is losing, largely due to its arrogance and corruption of its elites
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  1969. thank you
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  1970. thank you
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  1971. Yes, you are right. The ones who were there first always want to keep their privileges. Nobody likes to share with their advantages with newcomers. That is just so.
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  1972. welcome
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  1973. I can assure you I can criticize anybody
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  1974. glad to try
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  1975. a Wake up call is coming
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  1976. thank you
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  1977. It will take some time. The Roman empire was collapsing 200 years
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  1978. happy to hear that
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  1979. The West has already lost to China.
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  1980. Do you mean Putin's Russia?
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  1981. I heard that some drones are launched from inside Russia. That is why they are hard to intercept when they fly low. As to when it will end? answer: when Russia wins. Hopefully this year
    2
  1982. In his latest interview Putin said that they the Russians did not initiate any action in Africa. They the a African leaders made deals with Wagner group to kick the French, just as a business project
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  1983. exactly
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  1984. thank you
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  1985. yes agreed
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  1986. agreed
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  1987. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  1988. thank you I shall try.
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  1989. It appears this way, but appearances are not reality
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  1990. thank you for your explanation
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  1991. Jeffrey Sacks of Columbia and I think along the same lines
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  1992. glad to hear that
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  1993. thank you very much. write me if you have any comments or criticism of the book please
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  1994. Yes I know, but the Russians say no peace keepers without their assent. That means those sent will be a legitimate target.
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  1995. My pleasure!
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  1996. nothing surprising in thqt
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  1997. excellent point
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  1998. No it will not collapse,because of China. In the past there was notechnologocal alternative to germany, now there is. Russia can export oil to Chona and benefit from chinese imports
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  1999. agreed
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  2000. my pleasure
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  2001. I am touched thank you
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  2002. It does but a place and time of its choosing. That is smart
    2
  2003. Yes, but China had to experience a brutal Japanese occupation
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  2004. if these are your values you must be against the sexual perversion as s state ideology, against open rejection of freedom of speech, censorship and promotion of the one politically correct view -- all things practiced in washington today
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  2005. thank you
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  2006. on both sides
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  2007. More to come!
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  2008. By international law it is not a military target. A military base is, the bridge is not
    2
  2009. yes state directed industrialization in 19th century in 20th century and in 21 century, a Russian way
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  2010. I shall continue thank you
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  2011. thank you
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  2012. a show must go on. except that the war is not a show
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  2013. glad to try
    2
  2014. You see, the problem is not that they were wrong. They adjusted their knowledge to speak what they thought was POLITICALLY CORRECT. They voiced the "party line". They sold themselves to the ruling elite. They forgot how to dare to say their views.
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  2015. exactly
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  2016. thank you
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  2017. Glad you enjoyed it
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  2018. My pleasure!
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  2019. Thank you! Cheers!
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  2020. I hope Trump realizes that
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  2021. yes true
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  2022. exactly
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  2023. most welcome
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  2024. exactly
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  2025. thanks
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  2026. Appreciate that
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  2027. Glad you liked it!
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  2028. true
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  2029. that was is nato reason d'etre
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  2030. back to concert of superpowers. You prefer threats of war instead?
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  2031. i'll try
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  2032. probablu toosk
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  2033. exactly
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  2034. thank you
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  2035. that is one the actions discussed in Russian media
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  2036. thanks
    2
  2037. very interesting observation
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  2038. In that case he will run into an obstacle called Turkey which also wants to grab Syrian oil
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  2039. true
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  2040. the battles on the front are fresh that is true. But one thing is when armies fight each other, it is another when civilians are murdered incold blood. People in Mariupol are happy the Russians came to Donbas.
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  2041. So nice of you
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  2042. perceptive comment
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  2043. thank you for your perceptive comment. I can quote Putin in his speech a couple of weeks ago. The feast of the vampires is coming to the end.
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  2044. welcome
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  2045. Most likely
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  2046. It is an excellent book. It touches on very serious issues of WHY the west is in decline. Yes NATO has been a useless institution since 1991. The American supremacists have been trying to revive it and strengthen it playing on the old fears of the Poles and Finns, but these have nothing to do with today's world.
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  2047. They resigned their seats in the Council of Ministers or Council of People's Commissars. But they remained as members of parliament or Central Executive Committee of Soviets. They as mensheviks were expelled in July and most importantly their legitimately elected deputies to the fifth congress of soviets theoretically the supreme legislative institution were all arrested and imprisoned on 6 Jult 1918 ostasibly because they Left SRs killed ambassador Mirbach. This is like Reichtag fire. The Bks accused Left SRs as a party and arrested all the entire party was made illegal. I call it a coup d'etat
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  2048. I shall discuss that
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  2049. My pleasure
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  2050. good point
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  2051. thank you
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  2052. I do not understabd what you mean by advesaries. If you mean an opposition party, there are two. The new People and the Communists
    2
  2053. the war is a convenient background for theft especially of equipment that comes from abroad; you report lost in battle, in fact sold at black market
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  2054. thank you for your comment. good explanation
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  2055. I have nothing to say. If you believe that Russia is the USSR you are blind
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  2056. that is right
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  2057. together with the Poles
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  2058. Some Marxists do cherish Democracy meaning representative government based on elections, these were Social Democrats in Germany, Socialist Party in France, Communist Party in Italy and Mensheviks in Russia. The Bolsheviks or Communists in Russia did not shared this view. They wanted dictatorship of the proletariat but what they meant is the dictatorship of the vanguard of the proletariat which means their own dictatorship over all parties and classes.
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  2059. good point
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  2060. most welcome
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  2061. glad to hear that
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  2062. yes!!!
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  2063. Glad it was helpful!
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  2064. Black Hundreds were against the Jews. The current nationalists are not antisemites. They want Russia to prevail in a war over NATO expansion.
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  2065. I agree with your assessment.
    2
  2066. Yes that is correct. Putin did that. I write about that too in my book
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  2067. If he manages to do all the things you list, he will become a Great president. The question is whether he will succeed.
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  2068. good analogy.
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  2069. used to be different long time ago
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  2070. I started listening to Popov, thank you for the link. I quit after 5 minutes. This guy is a Bolshevik, he thinks Mensheviks were traitors of the working class, agents of the bourgeoisie. He sounds straight out of the CheKa, or NKVD, the same dogmas, the same intolerance, the same stupidity. It is amazing that these people never change, nd are still around.
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  2071. I never said anything about the country, I said about elites, the ruling class, the deep state, the Nuland and co.
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  2072. He is good showman but a bad military leader
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  2073. A great oppotunity to unite europe was missed. Responsible are those whowanted to unify europe as a part of nato
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  2074. welccome
    2
  2075. The US wants to hold Russia as a scare crow in order to keep Europe under control and have bases there.
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  2076. who says salaries count for anything. Let me give you an example. I lived and worked in Morocco. I put together all the perks I was getting at my school and it turned out that to have all that in the US would have required 120.000 dollars a year, whereas in Morocco I was getting only 35K plus all the perks with the job. On that money you can live as a king because average salary is 300 $ a month.
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  2077. exactly thank you
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  2078. wow! glad to hear that!
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  2079. Thank you, I will
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  2080. thank you
    2
  2081. Why does nobody in Congress raise the War Powers Act?
    2
  2082. sorry I meant F16
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  2083. true! thanks!
    2
  2084. thank you
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  2085. thank you for your comment
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  2086. Many did
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  2087. exactly
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  2088. stupid hope
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  2089. Shariya law will be imposed, no question about it with the help of American tax payers money
    2
  2090. Most welcome
    2
  2091. Biden Blinken and Co are the aggressor!
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  2092. Nobody pays me anything.
    2
  2093. thank you
    2
  2094. Glad you enjoyed it
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  2095. not for long
    2
  2096. yes you are right
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  2097. Merci beaucoup C'est important por moi entendre ca
    2
  2098. yes, the Brits are in it as well
    2
  2099. Also Professor Jeffrey Sachs, and Colonel McGregor, and Scott Ritter and yours truly
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  2100. thank you
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  2101. thank you
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  2102. with all the hot topics of today there is not time to get back to a thousand years ago history
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  2103. It wont. No way
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  2104. thank you
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  2105. well said
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  2106. why? It it more wise to be dependent on the US? or the arabs?
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  2107. good point
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  2108. very true
    2
  2109. You have in reverse. It was germany that sent 3,5 million army to invade Russia. Then they got kicked in Stalingrad and retreated 900 km in two months and decided to make a last effort to win at KURSK. They failed and rolled non-stop all the way to berlin
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  2110. thank you. very helpful
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  2111. probably in London
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  2112. So let him
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  2113. We shall see
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  2114. Russia trades with China, India, all ofBRICS countries and lost of African and Latin American ones.Exclusion from SWIFT leads tolooking for ways to circumvent the dollar. It seems BRICS is moving in the direction to create an alternative trading mechanism
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  2115. good questions. he cannot act on behalf the court. But he can ask EU to do whatever. Zelensky will do what Trump asks him he has no choice
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  2116. Modern economists made calculations that if Stalin continued on the course of NEP he would have hadMORE grain for export . His decision was political to smash kulaks. See my book Russia After Lenin
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  2117. yes!!!
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  2118. yes, I agree. Bush said many contradictory things. He also called Putin a friend
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  2119. thank you
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  2120. good idea
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  2121. yes, that is true. What is not legitimate is shooting unarmed civilians and not in some kind of bomb attack but in front of you on the road. What is not legitimate is raping women in an occupied territory. What is not legitimate is executing POWs
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  2122. thank you
    2
  2123. well said
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  2124. The Italians could have had the guts to say to the americans, keep your fleet elsewhere, many decades ago.
    2
  2125. Is that a crime?
    2
  2126. Glad you enjoyed it!
    2
  2127. exactly
    2
  2128. that is right
    2
  2129. resources without technology are useless
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  2130. merci
    2
  2131. That might well be the plan. But Putin is a strategist, he thinks ahead and he will be cautious not to go too far, Why should he? The army is advancing every day.
    2
  2132. Yes I heard him, and his idea that Trump did not mention arming Ukraine as as option, which he did threaten to do before elections. A deal is still possible.
    2
  2133. yes
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  2134. thank you so much
    2
  2135. welcome
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  2136. At some point the Ukrainian front may collapse, as they run out of men
    2
  2137. Wilson screwed up both the negotiations and with the Senate, that refused to ratify the treaty.
    2
  2138. so happy to hear that
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  2139. I have it. Please look up the playlist: Russia under the Bolshevik regime. or Soviet History. I have a very popular video Attack on the Kulaks explained and on Lenin and his Party and on the civil war. Many videos based on my books
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  2140. You are right it is naive on my part. But human nature is to hope for a better outcome
    2
  2141. Welcome! Wow! What are you doing now?
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  2142. I my conversation with the professor host in Germany I told him that Chechnya is prospering now and Chechens are fighting for Russia now in Ukraine and that the vast majority believes that the interests of Chechnya are served best by being a part of Russia.
    2
  2143. most welcome
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  2144. Government in exile in London?
    2
  2145. well said
    2
  2146. happy to hear I am heard
    2
  2147. Why?
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  2148. welcome
    2
  2149. exactly so
    2
  2150. thanks
    2
  2151. thank you. that is why I am doinf it
    2
  2152. They they did to local Soviets but no parties were admitted other than the Communist
    2
  2153. There are people in America who want peace and respect of other nations. I hope they will prevail.
    2
  2154. we''ll see
    2
  2155. The break is for a very long time. I discuss it in my book From Lenin to Putin
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  2156. glad to try
    2
  2157. glad to try
    2
  2158. No they had elections and the ultranationalists lost and the pro EU nationalists won and Tust became Prime Minister.
    2
  2159. true
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  2160. I agree completely
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  2161. Not only. Another cause of inflation is that salaries have risen but commodities are scares dur to sanctions. So that lack of supply with high demand leads to rising prices and inflation. What you did not mention is that the real driver of GDP is a dramatic increase of actual commodity production in heavy industry, metallurgy, machines, armaments and supplies for the army.
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  2162. Grazie
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  2163. Hope you enjoy it!
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  2164. interesting comment. all you say is true, but they do not see the big picture
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  2165. Thank you. Two corrections. There was no battle for Kiev Russia lost. Putin ordered to withdraw troops from around Kiev as a gesture of good will upon the request of Macron. Kharkov is another matter. 200K Russian soldiers faced 600K Ukrainian after mobilization. That is right a Putin mistake that cost three years of fighting and they still have not reached the positions they held in 2022. Europe CANNOT, does not have either the armaments or the money to give even if they wanted to.
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  2166. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  2167. True
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  2168. Happy holidays!
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  2169. may be
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  2170. interesting
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  2171. excellent explanation
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  2172. exactly
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  2173. He might or he will succumb to the deep state
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  2174. Sorry I do know Polish History. You just do not want to recongmize that Wilno is actually Vilnus, that Brest is in Belorussia and Lvov is Ukraine. You still think you own it as well as Danzig and Breaslau. In the middle Ages Poland took over lands around what was called Petite Pologn. In 1606 you were close to taking over Russia. But then your system of government made poland ungovernable and the slide down began. Of course you Poles never blame yourselves, it is mush easier to blame the Russians. That is your history.
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  2175. I am am many : born in the Soviet Union, citizen of the USA, culturally European, especially French and German, lived in France, Germany, Holland, Britain, Morocco, travelled all over in every country of Europe. I love Ukraine just as much as Russia or France or Germany. I think we are all one
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  2176. thank you
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  2177. My pleasure
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  2178. The Mensheviks After October
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  2179. well put
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  2180. In his recent sppech Putin said:The feast of vampires is coming to an end."
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  2181. totally agree
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  2182. Red Terror started because the Bolsheviks lost elections first to the Constituent Assembly and then to the Soviets and did not want to let mensheviks and SRs take over by the rules that they themselves established. The SRs started to fight for Constituent Assembly the Bolsheviks responded by red Terror. if you want to know how it all started, please spend more than 15 minutes and read my book The Mensheviks After October.
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  2183. Much appreciated!
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  2184. may be
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  2185. Putin will decide
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  2186. true
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  2187. that is so!!!
    2
  2188. Israel? They want the US to fight their war against Iran
    2
  2189. thank you
    2
  2190. Yes, to keep Germany down, Russia out and the US in, as Churchill put it.
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  2191. soon
    2
  2192. Why lying? The fact is that those Moldovans who live in Moldova voted over 50% against. That is a fact. The FOR vote came up only thanks to the foreign residents
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  2193. thank you
    2
  2194. true
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  2195. thank you
    2
  2196. So glad to hear from you. welcome aboard
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  2197. I do not want to argue with you as it is useless. here are the facts: foreigners are in Kursk provinces, Ukrainians have been taking hostages and forcibly taking people into Ukraine; theft, vandalism, violence including sexual violence was reported.
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  2198. in its current form under its current gov.
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  2199. yes exactly
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  2200. may be
    2
  2201. Not directly. Mostly it was an independent rebellion
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  2202. Antonov was an SR member but the SR party was not directly involved @wendongcui2746 
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  2203. thank you for your great summary
    2
  2204. exactly
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  2205. Glad you liked it!
    2
  2206. Yes that is what I mean
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  2207. exactly
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  2208. Definitely not. Khazars accepted Judaism just as other peoples accepted Christianity later much later or Islam
    2
  2209. your analysis is right on.
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  2210. what is your idea?
    2
  2211. spasibo
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  2212. You put it so eloquently. AGGREE
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  2213. thank you
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  2214. I read a specialist's comparison of F35 and SU 35. On some parameters SU35 is found better. Russian supersonic missiles have no US counterpart. Russian submarines are as good as American. Russia does not need any aircrft carriers because it does not need to threaten any global south countries. Russian army on the ground is superior to the US in terms of training, experience, weaponry, numbers.
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  2215. Check out the history facts. How many years in the last three hundred did Donbas belong to Ukraine?
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  2216. Yes his analysis is quite possible. He is wrong on one score though. It was not the war in Afghanistan that wrecked the Soviet Union
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  2217. thank you
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  2218. thank you
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  2219. thank you. Merci
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  2220. funny
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  2221. glad to hear that
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  2222. thank you for your profound thoughts
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  2223. I tried and it did not work
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  2224. You are so welcome
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  2225. into a part of Russia
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  2226. yes that is true, but US soldiers are being killed and captured. It is just no one knows or talks about it as they are private volunteers.
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  2227. of course
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  2228. Can you cite at least one convincing example of a war crime? There are none. Russia does not need financing from China, just trade.
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  2229. glad to try
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  2230. yes
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  2231. exactly right
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  2232. good point.
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  2233. Great questions. Older generation of people are divided almost equally, some detest the Communist rule, these are usually urban and better educated, others cherish the Communist rule, mostly because they associate it with victory in WW2 and with relatively good times in the 1970a and 1980s as opposed to lawless hard times in the 1990s. Young people do not know much about Communism and do not care.
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  2234. happy to hear that
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  2235. He will, if need be
    2
  2236. But Hamas did
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  2237. no idea
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  2238. Trump advisers are from different camps.
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  2239. true
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  2240. thanks
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  2241. thank you
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  2242. glad to try
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  2243. That is Paul's interpretation. Early Christians, those who went after jesus, never thought that he came to sacrifice himself. He came to teach them how to live not how to die.
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  2244. I have a lot in writing but focused on the Russian side, world war one, Russian revolution, civil war, Lenin in Power, Stalin in power and so one. It is covered in y latest book: From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin, Russia in Search of Its Identity (Routledge London 2024) available from Routledge and Amazon
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  2245. Many thanks!
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  2246. Fir the last thousand years lands east of Poland were called Russia
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  2247. Many people have suggested that
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  2248. the Reality is worse for Zelensky than I dare to say
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  2249. thank you interesting observation
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  2250. happy to try
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  2251. welcome
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  2252. I do not know about schools but in British scholarly literature plenty is covered
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  2253. What a wonderful summary of the way things are. Thank you
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  2254. glad to try
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  2255. You are very welcome
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  2256. very sad
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  2257. both versions are possible.
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  2258. unless theUkrainian frontline collapses
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  2259. thank you
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  2260. Russia's strategy is Putin's strategy and he does not reveal his game plan.
    2
  2261. thank you
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  2262. happy to try
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  2263. So is it just a show?
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  2264. Desperate people do irrational things
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  2265. You listen to CNN too much. Like most in the West you underestimate Russia. Its economy is number 4 today after US China India. Moreover the US economy consists of 60% services which means putting same money into a different pocket. real Russian GDP is about 8 trillion. and even that is probably smaller than it is if measured at prices in real money not dollars.
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  2266. They got the guns from rebellious sailors and soldiers in mutiny
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  2267. Glad it helped!
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  2268. may be
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  2269. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  2270. Not in this video. But you are right the role of Iran in this war and in the overall situation is critical
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  2271. exactly
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  2272. You may go ahead and repeat tales about Russian invasion like for 70 years they kept talking about Soviet invasion.
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  2273. glad to hear it
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  2274. Danke
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  2275. thank you
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  2276. you got it right
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  2277. t is not Ukraine does does not want to be with Russia its is the regime that seized power in 2014. As part of my job I used to trael to Ukraine a lot like every two or three months. I saw many people. Nobody I saw wanted to join NATO. All public opinion polls joiwed the opposite. Ukraine was hyjacked by pro-NATO US installed regime. You comveniently forhet that up to 2014 Ukraine had good relations with Russia and open borders as was prescribed after the collapse of the USSR. You voice the opinions of US propagandam you voice US imperialism that had gotten an asset and wants to keep it at any cost
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  2278. You're very welcome!
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  2279. The neocons their their friends. They will lose this time
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  2280. I wish I could hear their accents. That would clarify who they are
    2
  2281. In reality it was not like he quit one party and joinced the other. No. In reality there were many Social Democratic organizations and factions, quite loose in mambership and organization. They all called themselves SOCIAL DEMOCRATS, some defensistsm other revolutionary defensist, some internationalists, some Potresovites sone Plelkhanovites etc. So Trotsky did not quit per se and did not join per se anthing or anybody, he just joined Lenin's group when the masses he loved to speak to, were turning increasingly radical. He loved to speak to the masses. That is why the Lenin faction took him and used him.
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  2282. great summary
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  2283. Always
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  2284. let's hope peace will come soon
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  2285. thank you
    2
  2286. welcome
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  2287. does that negate their astonishing economic progress?
    2
  2288. exactly
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  2289. Very insightful comment. One can add that now the wave is coming back to haunt them, the wave of people from former colonies...
    2
  2290. very perceptive, thank you. I still have a hunch that He and Putin will strike a deal
    2
  2291. actually I have proof. Watch next video
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  2292. No, they do not anymore. I listen to their debates every day. No more.
    2
  2293. a clown abandoned by all
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  2294. well said
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  2295. vrai
    2
  2296. thanks
    2
  2297. If he makes it alive
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  2298. yes, that is probably the plan
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  2299. My pleasure!
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  2300. thank you
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  2301. That is why I wrote an article Vladimir the Savior, some years ago published in UNZ review
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  2302. It is almost done
    2
  2303. true
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  2304. glad to try
    2
  2305. yes, true, and 2million a piece
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  2306. And not only Greece, how about the same wreckage in former Yougoslavia, Romania, look at the slowly dying Baltic countries where all the young and talented left
    2
  2307. That fact alone proves it was not Putin. Why spoin your interview on the next day
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  2308. welcome
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  2309. The way you formulate the question suggests that you imply that everyone everywhere will behave as the West did. There is no basis for such an assertion, not yet anyway.
    2
  2310. They did when there was USSR
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  2311. not funny
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  2312. good point
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  2313. I shall try
    2
  2314. glad to try
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  2315. thank you
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  2316. Actually they have begun. Jean Luc Melenchon has already spoke against Macron's crazy idea
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  2317. yes
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  2318. danke
    2
  2319. I have not heard yet
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  2320. Glad you think so!
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  2321. Its is funny that the Americans want to promote their contribution in every situation. The answer to your question is No, Italian events could not possibly have any effect at all because the Russians troops outnumbered the Germans by that date ten to one. They had more tanks, more artillery and more aircraft. Guderian advised Hitler at a meeting in Ukraine, when Hitler actually came to the Eastern front, to abandon any offensive operations and concentrate on building a defensive line somewhere in Belorussia. Hitler grossly overestimated German capabilities and Russian industrial potential and mobilizational capacity. Hitler foolishly dismissed the Generals' view and paid the price later.
    2
  2322. they were, they still write to me
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  2323. No, just an ego ride
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  2324. thanks
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  2325. welcome
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  2326. Thank you for your insights. Russia will not allow any banderovite gov. in Ukraine. The closer is the Russian army to the Polish border the more peaceful will become the Polish government. All the money the West spent on Ukraine is lost.
    2
  2327. interesting idea
    2
  2328. you put it very well
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  2329. exactly
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  2330. they were but they were atheist
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  2331. Great to hear!
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  2332. thank you
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  2333. Yes I know, but h follows orders
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  2334. good point
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  2335. i described it in my book. it was through crooked sstate auctions
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  2336. I wrote four books on Vladimir the first as you call him. The Mensheviks After October; Behind the Frontlines of the civil War; Dear Comrades, the Bolsheviks in Russian Society and Russia After Lenin and finally just this year from Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin
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  2337. welcome
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  2338. I watched an interview with Dan Rather recently. He was asked Was the story true? He answered Of course it was.
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  2339. This is difficult because of the currency issue, standard of living issue, transparency issue and several others.
    2
  2340. very perceptive
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  2341. Wow, thanks!
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  2342. absolutely right. In fact he may be the one to replace Zele
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  2343. Yes I have, all fifty five volumes
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  2344. thank you for your comment. Instead of NATO one can create collective security treaty
    2
  2345. thank you
    2
  2346. thanks
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  2347. Exactly right. thank you
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  2348. I ll try
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  2349. You're welcome
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  2350. we shall see. Putin is an experienced diplomat
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  2351. thank you
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  2352. oni lgut
    2
  2353. thank you for your comment
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  2354. thank you
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  2355. thank you
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  2356. nobody is oppressed. You repeat CIA lies
    2
  2357. great to hear that
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  2358. Agree with most of what you say especially about trends in the US. On Marxism it is a mistake to think that Marx thought that STATE ownership was better than private one. Quite the contrary. In antiDuering Engels wrote that Socialism is NOT when means of production belong the the state as German railroads. The point of Socialism was liberation of Labor and not state ownership. What is liberation? Over that Socialists argued for decades but Social Democrats in Germany said that FAIR compensation under private and efficient ownership was liberation from exploitation. So by that analogy you were not exploited.
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  2359. true, but I rely on the real military experts who know how to compare
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  2360. yes
    2
  2361. thank you
    2
  2362. Glad it was helpful!
    2
  2363. thank you for an excellent summary
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  2364. That is the key point. As soon as the casualties rise, the public at home will ask what for? So that NATO can include Ukraine? So that Ukraine has Crimea or Donbas? So that Putin is taught a lesson? Not with my blood or my family's!
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  2365. Dear Peter. I am delighted that you read my book. Keep reading the chapter on Stalin's terror will captivate you too
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  2366. most welcome
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  2367. I agree with you absolutely, but as you know there were millions of people who actually believed that Lenin sincerely fought against capitalist exploitation.
    2
  2368. I appreciate that!
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  2369. thank you Serbia, you shall prevail!!!
    2
  2370. true, thank you
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  2371. I was born in the USSR
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  2372. why is this a question that you want to know?
    2
  2373. Putin understands all of the above. I am sure.
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  2374. You are right that in the middle ages, the Germans germanized slavs in central europe.
    2
  2375. How about Blackrock
    2
  2376. welcome
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  2377. I hope they wont
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  2378. OK I will, thanks
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  2379. most welcome
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  2380. that is all true except nobody asked the people what they want. Countries join NATO without any referenda.
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  2381. thank you so much. I value your comments
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  2382. thank you very much. What did you not like in the last few pages?
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  2383. true
    2
  2384. What quality? the quality of a train that can go 400 km an hour? The French and the Germans have trains that run 250 km an hour not 400. The US has none.
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  2385. agree
    2
  2386. no, Russia and Ukraine are parts of each other. one history, one blood, one religion.
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  2387. thank you
    2
  2388. that is exactly right. Agreed
    2
  2389. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  2390. very true
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  2391. thank you
    2
  2392. true
    2
  2393. welcome aboard
    2
  2394. you are right
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  2395. The Russians will not negotiate with Zele
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  2396. I do not know the details but I am sure it will not change the it plans
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  2397. Soviet peasants did not own any land. The state i.e. government owned all the land. Under the Czar, the peasant commune owned some land as its own, but the Bolsheviks nationalized all the land. So it was a war on the peasants.
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  2398. More to say. I found out once in archives that the Germans made ingredients for gas for Auswitz in Basel Switserland
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  2399. thank you
    2
  2400. welcome
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  2401. apparatchiks
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  2402. true
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  2403. welcome aboard
    2
  2404. thanks
    2
  2405. I am sorry the name is Victor Davis Hanson the economist. As for Jewish Israeli lobby, I do not think it is specifically anti-Russian. They want iron clad guarantee of US support of Israel no matter what, they want US supremacy over any country and that is where the Russians come as an obstacle. plus defense of Syria, plus influence in the Arab world, plus friendship with Iran, all that goes against the interests of the Israel lobby in the US
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  2406. Coal and iron ore are in Donbas which translates from Russian as Don river basin of coal and iron ore and other minerals. This was one of the major industrial areas in the Russian empire and in the Soviet Union. There is only agricultural land west of the Dnepr river
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  2407. You forgot that they lived with Soviet borders and it did not bother them then that Crimea was Russian
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  2408. You are probably right. But Putin has something up his sleeve. First he is not going nuclear. he may hit something of NATO property by regular means, such as destroying US satellites with no human life lost. What is going to happen in October is the economic response. Brics summit, new bank, new payment system, new exchange mechanism, Good bye sanctions. And then victory however he decides to define it.
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  2409. You're welcome!
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  2410. my pleasure
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  2411. thank you
    2
  2412. merci
    2
  2413. thank you
    2
  2414. thank you for your input
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  2415. exactly
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  2416. It was almost the same in Russia under yeltsyn
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  2417. Everybody want a piece of Syria. Vultures!! including the US
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  2418. EXACTLY RIGHT
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  2419. not the way France is today
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  2420. WillAfrica become a battlefield? What about Mexico, Brasil? they too?
    2
  2421. Moreover some leaders of the Cheka were Latvians, like Peters and Latsys
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  2422. welcome
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  2423. thank you for your comment
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  2424. I am just using the official term. I know it sounds a little rude but that is the term used in official discourse.
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  2425. Much appreciated
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  2426. My pleasure!
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  2427. Glad you think so!
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  2428. glad to try
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  2429. No Russia has surpassed Germany and Japan this year
    2
  2430. glad to try
    2
  2431. or if he is overthrown by his own generals
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  2432. The US gov will lose the Ukraine war or have to escalate to nuclear. I doubt they chose the second because in that case they die
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  2433. you said it
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  2434. I think that for Putin a legally binding treaty is more important than territory. So the occupation of the entire Ukraine is only the last resort, only in case the West takes the position of Rutte, no recognition of anything, arming Ukraine, war to victory over Putin. In that case Russia has no choice but to advance to Polish border. But if Trump is serious about a deal and a treaty, it is still possible
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  2435. yes
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  2436. yes
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  2437. thank you for a historical analogy
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  2438. thank you for your comment
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  2439. yes, you are right about all that. But 5 billion is nothing compared with hundreds of billions in trade with China or EU
    2
  2440. your position is very close to mine
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  2441. thank you
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  2442. If there is proof that he was poisonned who do the german authorities refuse to produce it. THERE IS NO PROOF
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  2443. thank you for your comment
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  2444. true
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  2445. thank you for your comment
    2
  2446. thank you
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  2447. good points. We are on the eve of great changes
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  2448. I will
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  2449. thank you for your comment. In fact I was gave a lecture where I argued that Lenin was in fact a Socialist Revolutionary and not a Marxist.
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  2450. Glad you liked it!
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  2451. I have a detailed answer in my book: From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin. Russia in Search of Its Identity. The cover is in this video. You can buy it on Amazon or on Routledge website. To prevail over oligarchs was very difficult and it took Putin several years : patience,persistance, firmness, compromise, carrot and stick - thewe were his tools
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  2452. Zele wants to create a show, he is a showman to make it look like the whoe world supports Ukraine. He is going to be disappointed. Everybody understands that to talk peace you have to have both parties, not one.
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  2453. yes true
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  2454. interesting insight
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  2455. The Problem with UK for almost a century is that they think as if they are a great power whereas in fact they are just an island on the outskirts of Europe.
    2
  2456. I am not quite sure what you mean, like who stayed where to do what?
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  2457. thanks for the exact date
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  2458. So glad!
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  2459. Biden is asleep and Harris does not know where Pokrovsk is.
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  2460. Thank you.
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  2461. ukraine only lost from association with EU and us. the country was robbed by western companies who took over. AS FOR Stalin s crimes you are right, but russia today aint stalins
    2
  2462. thank you for your comment
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  2463. спасибо за идею у меня вышла книга по русски в россии Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа можно купить на Litres.ru, Wild Berries,Ozon.ru
    2
  2464. harsh but true
    2
  2465. The key to it all is NATO. Any Russian leader would not accept nato in ukraine or any other soviet republic
    2
  2466. It has been suggested that Navalny just had heart failure without anybody's help.
    2
  2467. glad to hear that
    2
  2468. Of course I do. A couple of days ago, Canadian Prime Minister celebrated the life og one of them who served in an SS division.
    2
  2469. Thank you for your analysis. The answer is simple half of Ukraine is Russian people from Kharkov to Odessa. The Russian administration there would not require any occupation force. As for West of Kiev, all you need to do is seal the border with Poland and Rumania. That's it. NATO is barred from Ukraine.
    2
  2470. Happy Easter too
    2
  2471. I believe they re doing all of the above
    2
  2472. thank you
    2
  2473. Sorry I did not, he is very prolific
    2
  2474. I am so glad, welcome aboard
    2
  2475. I have never said Russia wants to be imperial, for Ukraine has been a part of Russia for hundreds of years.
    2
  2476. exactly right
    2
  2477. Putin will not bite into that
    2
  2478. Yes because the liberals assume everybody should be decent and nice like they think they are and so they close their eyes when something incecent ig going on and prefer to avoid it.
    2
  2479. Here is a link to my article on Vladimir the Savior https://www.unz.com/article/vladimir-the-savior/?highlight=brovkin
    2
  2480. here is the link to the article Vladimir the Savior https://www.unz.com/article/vladimir-the-savior/?highlight=brovkin
    2
  2481. pozhaluista!
    2
  2482. yes that is so and they will face the consequencies
    2
  2483. thank you
    2
  2484. They are not evil, they are arrogant, self-centered, narcissist, disdainful toward others, always assuming they are better
    2
  2485. da
    2
  2486. they probably will not.
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  2487. Почему вы называете это агрессией? Как я уже сказал, это была не агрессия, а оборонительная акция.
    2
  2488. perceptive observation
    2
  2489. true
    2
  2490. Happy to hear that!
    2
  2491. the neighbor is not that tity. The fron line is 1000 km which is longer than entire France from North sea to the mediterranian. Plus 150 billion worth of military hardware supplied by the West, plus intelligence provided by the west, space spying
    2
  2492. Thank you too!
    2
  2493. thanks
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  2494. may be
    2
  2495. It is a difficult question. But let me try. First why Stalin did attack the kulaks. It is NOT to move to so called Socialism or to collectivize agriculture as a keep repeating in my books and videos. It is to crush any idea of resistance to his authority. It was to crush their electoral power in rural soviets, it was to crush the party-kulak smychka, linkage. Lenin had different priorities. Lenin to an extent could live with opposition as long as his policy prevailed. He actually enjoyed arguing with them. He tried a tough approach in civil war years and when he saw it lead to devastation and famine he as a realist stepped back and went into NEP. So it is quite feasible that had he lived longer, he could have continued NEP. Moreover, since in economics NEP was an extraordinary success why abandon it if there is no immediate threat to Communist party power. Bukharin is in a similar vein except that he was a weak person and he did not say loud as he should have that percentage of peasants forced into state controlled serfdom like institutions had nothing to do with construction of Socialism. he did not say that. He let Stalinist definition prevail and his difference with Stalin boiled down to harsh or not harsh methods
    2
  2496. Yes Russia and Iran decided to just stop supports
    2
  2497. I meant there was no actual fighting in Bulgaria
    2
  2498. Stalin's crimes have NOTHING to do with today's Russia
    2
  2499. that is easy. Because the British do not want anyone to dominate the continent. That is why they fought the French and then the Germans and now ther Russians.
    2
  2500. Thank you
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  2501. thank you
    2
  2502. true
    2
  2503. Oreshnik makes the nukes outdated.
    2
  2504. Absolutely right
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  2505. It depends what you call being good. Do you know that a third of today's Poland used to be Germany and who gave those lands to Poland? It was Comrade Stalin. So he wanted to have an obedient satellite in return, right? Would not Poland want the same? As for Czechoslovakia, did not Stalin offer to protect it from Nazi Germany in 1938? Poland refused to let Soviet troops through, right? As for Romania, did not they participate with Hitler in the battle of Stalingrad? Did not they occupy Odessa? What do you expect Russia to do? Obviously they were satellites after the war. Being in NATO means only one thing being a target for Russian missiles. a much better strategy is to be neutral as Austria.
    2
  2506. You are right. He may decide to come. Only this time he will be watched closely. I doubt Putin will allow any independent armed groups any more.
    2
  2507. must be crazy
    2
  2508. that proves the propaganda nature of Western media
    2
  2509. welcome
    2
  2510. All true. He was going to run for President on the platform of seeking peace with Russia.
    2
  2511. I am cautiously optimistic. Trump will be busy restructuring America. Europeans have no money, no unity, no army, nothing but words. They will come to their senses. Putin does no need all of Ukraine. A compromise may indeed be worked out
    2
  2512. I know. The problem for Altaicists is that 1. It is less and less attractive as the power of the USA wanes, debt grows, and the East rises. Moreover isolationist narcissist USA is not an attractive model.
    2
  2513. danke sehr. Ich bin froh dass es gibt die Leute in Deutschland die verstehen
    2
  2514. thank you for your input
    2
  2515. I do not think it was a great idea
    2
  2516. I do too
    2
  2517. thank u
    2
  2518. thank you
    2
  2519. exactly right, thank you for your insight
    2
  2520. yes you are right
    2
  2521. thank you
    2
  2522. true
    2
  2523. true
    2
  2524. Quite possible
    2
  2525. Yes he changed his position many times
    2
  2526. I am sorry I do not share this view for the simple reason that he killed millions of innocent Russians
    2
  2527. welcome
    2
  2528. good point
    2
  2529. glad to hear that
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  2530. no
    2
  2531. Thanks for watching!
    2
  2532. You're welcome
    2
  2533. thank you for your comment
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  2534. No. If you are interested Read my book: The Mensheviks Adter October. Cornell U Press 1984 available on Amazon. There I go over events of 1917 1918 in great detail and yes show it to your teacher.
    2
  2535. completely agree with you. They are on the decline but pretend that they are still the center of the world. They are late by 125 years
    2
  2536. yes
    2
  2537. Most welcome
    2
  2538. Yes, but the data on corruption and sale of war material is amazing
    2
  2539. thank you
    2
  2540. thanks
    2
  2541. Putin says the Russians will know what they do.
    2
  2542. I love France and I hope France and Russia will be friends and Allies as they were most of the 20th century.
    2
  2543. interesting idea
    2
  2544. thank you for you thoughtful discussion. I can undestand your opposition to war. It pains me too to see so many young lives on both sides wasted. But I blame not Putin for this, but PLNANNERS IN WASHINGTON and their puppets in Kiev
    2
  2545. exactly
    2
  2546. Check out Robert Tucker, book called Stalin. He spent years of his life. Stalin was behind Kirov murder whether you like to admit it or not
    2
  2547. danke sehr
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  2548. You are absolutely right. What has changed though is that if you look at Shanghai, Dubai, Singapore, Moscow, compared to New York, San Francisco, London with its third world poverty stricken suburbs, Paris with its poor outskirts, you will realize the world has changed and there is no return to Western domination any more.
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  2549. thank you for your thoughtful comment. by the way in my latest book from Lenin to Putin I discuss the 1990s as well as other topics and of course the Putin years.
    2
  2550. It sounds strange that you use the term pro-Russian. I am just as pro-Russian as pro-Ukrainian I feel sorry for every Ukrainian soldier's loss as for the Russian ones. It is all set up in London and Washington and Ramstein. I am pro-peace and anti-NATO war.
    2
  2551. well we have seen what happened. Victory in election with the help of foreign votes!!!
    2
  2552. welcome
    2
  2553. no, they should get rid of Zelensky and join Russia, come home
    2
  2554. explain why?
    2
  2555. and on top of it he is senile and overweight
    2
  2556. well said
    2
  2557. My pleasure!
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  2558. excellent summary. Thank you.
    2
  2559. thank you, I shall try
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  2560. My pleasure
    2
  2561. The USD is not a fortress its power depends on economic performance. Its dollar's decline now comes not from China so much as from the US debt
    2
  2562. interesting
    2
  2563. I usually welcome free speech and free opinion for everybody. One thing that is tolerated is insults. For me whose parents lived through the siege of Leningrad the word fascist is an insult. So if any insults are made one more time I shall delete your comments
    2
  2564. happy to try
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  2565. As soon as someone appears who says things the establishment does not like, he has to be smeared Putin agent, paid by Gasprom. So let's put the record straight. Nobody pays me except US social security administration, my money I paid them for 3 decades. OK.?
    2
  2566. EU bureaucracy, unelected
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  2567. welcome
    2
  2568. No truth at all.The strongest army in Europe, thousands of tanks, hypersonic missiles, electronic suppression, drones revolution etc etc
    2
  2569. interesting quote
    2
  2570. thank you
    2
  2571. I left the USSR in 1975 legally for Israel, then came to the US.
    2
  2572. many people think so
    2
  2573. That may well be true, yet they were expelled from Spain, just as much as Moores
    2
  2574. I touched upon these issues in my video wny the us establishment hates Putin
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  2575. thank you for your comment
    2
  2576. I did
    2
  2577. Thanks for listening
    2
  2578. good point.
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  2579. The answer to this question is in the skill of diplomacy. After all that happened, sanctions, missiles, I do not think the Russians are in the mood to be buddies, but for starters, a normal working relationship is possible and it would be a big step forward.
    2
  2580. thank you
    2
  2581. Interesting idea about the correlation of army size and success. Yet I must add that when you talk about a front line of 1000 km, size does matter. The front line today is longer than the entire France from North Sea to the Mediterranian. Size does matter
    2
  2582. You are so welcome
    2
  2583. thank you
    2
  2584. true
    2
  2585. sounds funny
    2
  2586. OF COURSE
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  2587. pleasure
    2
  2588. happy to hear that
    2
  2589. true
    2
  2590. thank you
    2
  2591. that's your take on it. I find lots of fascinating articles there
    2
  2592. good point
    2
  2593. thank you
    2
  2594. so glad to hear it
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  2595. exactly
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  2596. spasibo
    2
  2597. that is a difficult one. I guess to keep power, for they hope they will keep it which I doubt
    2
  2598. You see the Ukr elite would not allow any peace candidate to run. Then they will destroy anti-war bulletins and declare one of their own a winner.
    2
  2599. You see people like Kotkin like to be given Fellowships, grants, invitations, publications conferences. To get all that they have to say what is expected of them, i.e. denigrate Russia. It started in 2014
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  2600. thank you
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  2601. ochen rad
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  2602. why cant they get it?
    2
  2603. i hope so
    2
  2604. exactly
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  2605. As far as I know there was no grievances
    2
  2606. You are very welcome
    2
  2607. Macron remebers the past. He is trying to revamp his sinking rating and pretend that he is leading.
    2
  2608. thank you
    2
  2609. land locked??
    2
  2610. it is worth the effort for audience like you
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  2611. thank you
    2
  2612. thank you
    2
  2613. may be
    2
  2614. deja vu
    2
  2615. so happy to hear it
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  2616. You are right but the USA does not have the industry or the money to keep the empire. China's GDP is already higher. Russia cannot be stopped in Ukraine wit all the billions the US has given away. BRICS bypasses America and its IMF and other cats. That is a new reality.
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  2617. How many countries did they US bomb since 1945, ll in the name of democracy. Russia is not USSR
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  2618. On what basis are u calling him Stalin? Did he kille 1 million people in one year and 5 in the dlllowing five years? As for KGB, he was in foreign intelligence, so what?
    2
  2619. thank you for your input
    2
  2620. not just him but the mainstream media narrative on Russia
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  2621. good quote
    2
  2622. no rebuilding. They want to stop China at any cost even if the cost is destroyed Europe
    2
  2623. some33 years ago it was all the USSR and before that the Russian Empire and before that these lands were called wild field in Polish maps and were settled by Russian Cossacks. In fact in those days there was no difference between Russian Cossacks and Ukrainian Cossacks because the word Ukraine meant the land at the edge. It had no ethnic component. They were all orthodox peasants as opposed to Catholic Poles and Muslim Turks.
    2
  2624. Thanks for the visit
    2
  2625. well said
    2
  2626. welcome
    2
  2627. glad to try
    2
  2628. Welcome aboard!
    2
  2629. I hope Trump and Putin will work out a deal
    2
  2630. exactly, Serbia should join BRICS
    2
  2631. Glad you liked it!
    2
  2632. thank you
    2
  2633. Let them study the impact. May be that would bring them to their senses
    2
  2634. Glad it was helpful!
    2
  2635. thank you
    2
  2636. Since then I have been using a microphone. Recent videos should be better quality. Thank you
    2
  2637. true
    2
  2638. Appreciate that
    2
  2639. Yes you are right. Lenin was a terrorist from the very beginning
    2
  2640. They are used in Ukraine like Kinzhal
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  2641. exactly right
    2
  2642. Probably Russian tanks in Kiev at some point
    2
  2643. that would not have solved the problem of NATO expansion
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  2644. probably
    2
  2645. but they cannot
    2
  2646. good idea
    2
  2647. UN charter says minorities have a right of self determination. Donbas has that right just as Slovakia and Montenegro and Kosovo. Why was it OK for them to secede and not for Donbas? Budapest memorandum was based on Ukr constitution that said then NEUTRAL status not NATO.
    2
  2648. thank you
    2
  2649. Thank you kindly!
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  2650. well said. One has to accept reality
    2
  2651. We shall see
    2
  2652. Glad you enjoyed it!
    2
  2653. thank you
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  2654. My pleasure!
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  2655. I agree with everything you said. Very sad. I feel sorry for all the fallen Ukrainians and Russians. As for my book in Russian it is available only in Russia at the platform Litres.ru.
    2
  2656. because the paramilitary formations are on the loose. No one controls them. They are free to make anyone disappear and no one will ask questions
    2
  2657. Great summary, concise, brief and to the point. Bravo!
    2
  2658. I agree but you see people like this understand sheer force. Russia today has sheer force both in conventional weapons and in hypersonic ones.
    2
  2659. exactly
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  2660. Much appreciated!
    2
  2661. thanks
    2
  2662. Glad you enjoyed it
    2
  2663. That is what Erdogan wants
    2
  2664. You're very welcome!
    2
  2665. You do not know history. For four hundred years Ukraine and Russia have been one nation, no different than Bavarians and Saxons both German
    2
  2666. No, the fact is that the US oil companies CANNOT produce fracking oil with profit if the price falls below 60$ a barrel. Russia can make profit if it is more than 20$ a barrel.
    2
  2667. great analogy, thank you
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  2668. I am surprised he openly discussed that
    2
  2669. Absolutely right. That is what I said in the video. There is no anger against the regine, there is anger that the wat drags on without a decisive victory
    2
  2670. It is moving slowly because the Russians do not bomb cities like Americans did in Germany and Japan. They try to spare civilians who are proclaimed Russian citizens in four provinces. They have not blown up the bridges across Dnepr and so on. They conduct the war in a totally novel way.
    2
  2671. You touched upon very important issues. I should do a video on Russian -Chinese relations. Briefly at the moment both are united ina mutually shared goal to oppose US dominance in Asia with Russia willingly taking the role of a junior partner of China. Russia is only 150 million and China is a billion and a half ten times bigger in population and in the GDP. Russia has oil and China needs all of it it can get. The two economis are complementary.
    2
  2672. Odessa people come out to the streets nowadays and sing songs in Russian language. That is an act of civil courage in today's Ukraine.
    2
  2673. true
    2
  2674. Always welcome
    2
  2675. In 1938 it was ONLY the Soviet Union that was ready to defend Czechoslovakia
    2
  2676. same thing says Colonel McGregor
    2
  2677. thank you
    2
  2678. The US has to handle its 35 trillion debt first.
    2
  2679. I do not think they do. The swedes are scared. The Finns just remembered 1940.
    2
  2680. happy to hear it
    2
  2681. happy to hear that
    2
  2682. I rely on American military specialists. They compare f35 and su35 and say su35 has better maneuvers etc RUSSIAN tanks are way superior to Abraham inall respect, the us has nothing comparable to avant-garde missile or poseidon missiles
    2
  2683. I shall try
    2
  2684. you summed it up well thanks
    2
  2685. sorry I do not have my usual equipment
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  2686. Interesting comment. Let me remind you that up until 1991 Ukraine has been a part of Russia for 400 years and before that it was occupied by Poland as Russia was occupied by the M0ngols and before that Kievan Rus was the origin of the Russian nation, i.e. Kiev and Moscow are the same people. the US has no legal claim to Greenland. If the people of Canada vote to join the US, that is fine, it would be legal but would trump welcome millions of voters who are liberal woke and potentially vote for Dem party? As for Taiwan it is legally a part of China.
    2
  2687. Yes, you are right. It is just another group, very similar to the ones they oppose. But sometimes just a change of personnel invigorates the system, but sometimes it leads the system to collapse as was the case with Gorbachev.
    2
  2688. Yes would be nice to know, how much they all pocketed on that war.
    2
  2689. Yes but remember how the French could not accept that Alsace Loraine was taken over by Germany. I remember reading the French press of the time. The Germans cut off a part of France. This could never be accepted and so on. But in fact the people in Alsace spoke German, yet the French considered it a part of France. So let me tell you Ukraine has much more to do with the Russian nation that the Germans in Alsace with France. If you the French fought two wars to get it back, the Russians fight one too.
    2
  2690. Afghanistan made the cost of occupation too expensive and the Americans decided it aint worth it. In Ukraine they still think it is worth it but the Russians are going to push them to the wall
    2
  2691. thanks
    2
  2692. Look up in google Sarmat Avantguard, Kinzhal missiles
    2
  2693. Thank you! 😃
    2
  2694. exactly. This may lead them to self-destruction
    2
  2695. Yes we saw it all with Kim
    2
  2696. Usually people want to forget inconvenient truths and concentrate on their achievements
    2
  2697. one in 1905 and the second 1917
    2
  2698. yes that is so
    2
  2699. interesting perspective
    2
  2700. It is a good idea to compare the two. Putin's problems were somewhat different. It was the collapse of state power and total corruption. Trump faces state power being used against him, by the entrenched bureaucracy.\Putin had to build state apparatus from scratch Trump has to destroy one first
    2
  2701. thank you. That means CONSERVATIVE
    2
  2702. The territories you call annexed have always had Russian population. Life in mariupol is getting better all the time. Pensions people receive, the same as all other Russians are higher than those unpaid by Zelensky's gov. Safety and peace would come when the west stopps supplying cluster bombs against the people of Donbas
    2
  2703. These are not the lands of Ukraine. These are lands that have always had Russian population. Check the borders of Ukrainian People's republic in 1918. The Ukrainians themselves never claimed Donbas as part of Ukraine. Lenin just gave it to them to control them thru Russian workers. Read my book
    2
  2704. Two types of executioners: the first are the angry mobs who massacred aristocracy held in prisons when the Austrians marched on Paris. The second type were executioners who worked the guillotine machine, after a short so called trial in the provinces. I do not know if they were hooded.
    2
  2705. true
    2
  2706. thank you, me too
    2
  2707. good image accurate
    2
  2708. true
    2
  2709. She was a victm of Soviet Potemkin villages. Please read my book Russia After Lenin. It describes what was really going on with Russian peasants
    2
  2710. that is absolutely correct. but let us not forget that the head of the Cheka was Dzerzhinsky, a Pole and his deputy Peters, a Latvian and another one Latsys, a Latvian. So how can one say "the Russians"?
    2
  2711. Sorry, just scroll back a little. You'ss see my interview on my book: From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin
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  2712. That is what some people in his entourage recommend. But Russia and China need each other. So it wont work.
    2
  2713. in its current borders.
    2
  2714. yes but up to a point. Several NATO countries have already openly said they were not going to be a part of a war against Russia. If they push it to far, NATO will break apart.
    2
  2715. thank you
    2
  2716. glad to try
    2
  2717. Yu see in tenth century there was no such concept as Ukraine. It was called Kievan Rus. So in the century there was Ukrainian history there was a history of Rus or Russia. The concept and the word Ukraine was a Polish word to describe lands on the periphery of the Polish state, lands at the edge.
    2
  2718. well said
    2
  2719. thank you
    2
  2720. very good idea I will, soon
    2
  2721. I believe I read somewhere that the Russians have a weapon that disables all electronics, and the object just becomes what you say metal junk
    2
  2722. The honors of accomplishing that feat go to president Putin. He strengthened the power of the state first, then got rid of the oligarchs and then turned the attitudes of the elites slowly towards national interests. He made the Russians discover patriotism.
    2
  2723. welcome
    2
  2724. thanks
    2
  2725. The more the west believe as you do that it is a victory parade for Ukraine thge more likley it is that they lose. But it is really they, by they I mean the USA.
    2
  2726. Israel will not dare on its own but Trump has other priorities for now
    2
  2727. happy to hear that
    2
  2728. agree
    2
  2729. Thank you, I will
    2
  2730. thank you as always
    2
  2731. thank you
    2
  2732. exactly
    2
  2733. thank you
    2
  2734. may be u r right
    2
  2735. merci
    2
  2736. You're very welcome!
    2
  2737. Exactly.
    2
  2738. Logic! Why would the Russians bomb the nuclear power station they control? For what purpose? Moreover this is not the first time and for the previous times the Russians provided evidence to International Committee and they refused to acknowledge it. Someone is pulling the strings
    2
  2739. exactly, cause they fear China but they are much more dependent on China than on Russia. They can live without Russian oil and gas with difficulty, but they cannot live without almost everything else that China supplies
    2
  2740. The Syrian regime was bankrupt, had no money, was squeezed by sanctions and by lack of oil controlled by the Americans. Who could manage better? We shall see
    2
  2741. The Ukranian gov may accept the territorial loss if the alternative is loss of all Ukraine. The US military establishment knows that at this point Russian army has an advantage over the US. Russia has hypersonic intercontinental missiles that can hit any target anywhere before it is discovered. Listen to Colonel McGregor
    2
  2742. It was a derogatory term and they were the product of NEP. But they were not really anything but peasants one step ahead of the mass, a little more energetic and more entrepreneurial. The Bolsheviks hated them for their desire to be richer than the next door guy.
    2
  2743. if you think so
    2
  2744. may be
    2
  2745. I have a plaay list Russian History. There is a segment on Russian Turkish wars and the Balkans
    2
  2746. That is perhaps why they want to distract the attention by war and blame it all on Putin
    2
  2747. thanks
    2
  2748. thank you
    2
  2749. Jim Wells I think is his name a former American officer voiced the concerns you mention.
    2
  2750. thank you
    2
  2751. thank you for your comment
    2
  2752. Russia was weak in 2006
    2
  2753. He did
    2
  2754. thank you
    2
  2755. NATO is not ready. The entire French, British and Polish armies are smaller than the Russian army is today. Moreover the population in these countries do not want to fight Russia. What for?
    2
  2756. that is right
    2
  2757. Before WWI the Bolks had a lot of donors some were Russian some German as for American I only know that was the case in 1920s but it was an oil concession
    2
  2758. happy to try
    2
  2759. They are deleted if you use bad language or swear. On what basis is your claim that elections were rigged. 80 million votes cannot be fake.
    2
  2760. Short term Israel gains in Syria, but every gain here may mean loss elsewhere.
    2
  2761. my pleasure
    2
  2762. This can well happen. spasibo
    2
  2763. Never say never. Trump may help to start a big change. Besides, Germany will not just quietly die. The moment will come when the people will vote the rascals out.
    2
  2764. glad to try
    2
  2765. Try Routledge directly. Open their website and search mu name it is much chaper directly from the publisher
    2
  2766. In fact some Russian politicians propose exactly that. I suppose they hold on to this option if the US puts its missiles in Ukraine.
    2
  2767. thank you for your thoughts
    2
  2768. Wow, thank you
    2
  2769. I think so
    2
  2770. You have probably never been to Russia or know very little about the country and people. You repeat all the vile propaganda of CIA Radio Libery and others with vested interest to malign Russi
    2
  2771. What you say id just mere rhetoric from CNN and others who are in DemParty pocket. Republicans do not care about Ukraine, that is true. They care about the Mexican border and the Globalist Leberal Woke agenda which they oppose.
    2
  2772. fake coalition
    2
  2773. yes you r right
    2
  2774. Thank you! Will do!
    2
  2775. Glad you enjoyed it
    2
  2776. why?
    2
  2777. Glad you think so!
    2
  2778. completely right
    2
  2779. thank you very much for your kind words. I shall check the Moscow battle piece.
    2
  2780. thak you
    2
  2781. thank you
    2
  2782. Yes, that is if Trump is successful.
    2
  2783. thank you
    2
  2784. thank you
    2
  2785. Nikolaevich, spasibo
    2
  2786. interesting view. My view is the more the globalist EU tries to continue to prolong the war, the more they will lose, i.e. Ukraine, EU unity, NATO and may be even the EU itself which may break apart
    2
  2787. because you have to respect fallen soldiers
    2
  2788. thank you. Meslier is amazing, for he dared to criticize not just the church or the Pope but Christianity itself
    2
  2789. Glad it was helpful!
    2
  2790. The number killed is not half a million. No way. At this point Russia gained 8 million from Donbas. Also birth rates are on the rise, unlike France Italy Germany where the situation is close to catastrophic. Russia also has a huge reservoir of migrants from former Soviet republics in Central Asia plus from North Korea, China, Syria, Turkey. And there is labor shortage so they all can find jobs. So the population outlook does not look as bad as you say
    2
  2791. I might
    2
  2792. thank you
    2
  2793. peace!!!
    2
  2794. glad to try
    2
  2795. I hope you r right
    2
  2796. good words
    2
  2797. most welcome
    2
  2798. I wonder why
    2
  2799. happy new year to you too.
    2
  2800. true
    2
  2801. Hi might, just because he may understand that at this point, the two other kings have grown to be mighty powerful
    2
  2802. Blocking the access to the black see is not catastrophic for Russia, not any more. Because, it has access to the Atlantic nobody can block via Murmansk, and to the Pacific ocean via Vladivostok and to Indian ocean via Iran.
    2
  2803. glad to try
    2
  2804. no, tht is one of the things
    2
  2805. please to meet you
    2
  2806. thanks
    2
  2807. Zele will be gone in a few months
    2
  2808. true
    2
  2809. exactly
    2
  2810. thank you for your comment
    2
  2811. Not necessarily break-up EU but reform it so that each country could govern itself without dictates from Brussels or Washington.
    2
  2812. Japan had nothing to respond with. Russia does
    2
  2813. true
    2
  2814. Trotsky was an amazing personality and it is understandable that one can get excited about his life and work.
    2
  2815. Absolutely. The Dem Party if it wants to survive has to investigate the ouster of Bernia, the rigging of primaries in favor of Biden and of course the election results affair in 2020
    2
  2816. Always welcome
    2
  2817. good point
    2
  2818. no they buy US F35
    2
  2819. More to come!
    2
  2820. thanks
    2
  2821. Welcome
    2
  2822. Cheka-many Jews but alsoLatvians, Poles
    2
  2823. I remember reading something about his wealth
    2
  2824. thanks you
    2
  2825. merci!!!
    2
  2826. У меня есть одна книга, изданная в России. Она называется: Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа. Она доступна на Wildberries.ru; Ozon.ru; Litres.ru
    2
  2827. Я так счастлив иметь русскую аудиторию
    2
  2828.  @ACR909  You ignore the factor of NATO. Russia is fighting NATO in Ukraine. Russia lived in peace with Ukraine for 25 years after the USSR until the CIA coup d'etat put Benderovites in power who banned Russian language and wrote into the Constitution that they want NATO This means US bases. THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE. By the way nobody pays me.
    2
  2829.  @ACR909  why do you assume that anything the Kremlin says is untrue. Sometimes they do say the truth
    2
  2830. This islike sayiing abandone your land and free it to NATO.
    2
  2831.  @ACR909  The US is using the Ukrainians to fight Russia.
    2
  2832. thanks
    2
  2833. Glad it was helpful!
    2
  2834. thank you, try directly from Routledge
    2
  2835. Glad you enjoy it! merci
    2
  2836. thank you
    2
  2837. Russia has become a capitalist economy. And its GDP counted by parity stands at the fourth in the world. As to 2% in elections, that is somewhat misleading. In the cities the Kadets won 25 % in elections to the Constituent Assembly in November 1917. That is more (in the cities) than any other party. The SRs won because the peasants voted for them and they the peasants were the absolute majority of the population. The Bolsheviks got 15% only thanks to the votes in the army, tired of the war. I discuss all that in my book: The Mensheviks after October in great detail.
    2
  2838. thank you
    2
  2839. well said
    2
  2840. There is no evidence to suggest that as soon as the US departs the Europeans will start fighting each other. NONE
    2
  2841. welcome
    2
  2842. thanks
    2
  2843. thank you
    2
  2844. thank you
    2
  2845. happy to hear that
    2
  2846. History always repeats itself.
    2
  2847. Putin ti to play along and put the break on dismantling the dollar, for now
    2
  2848. Glad you enjoyed it
    2
  2849. they were
    2
  2850. You’re welcome 😊
    2
  2851. thank you fr your comment
    2
  2852. glad you liked it
    2
  2853. thank you
    2
  2854. Yes, your reasoning makes perfect sense, but Russia can sell its oil even if the price is 12 dollars a barrel and make a profit as the cost of production is 10. The US cannot lower the oil price much because below 60 dollars a barrel the fracking oil becomes unprofitable. Moreover, Russia-China oil trade goes regardless of world prices which have been set for many years ahead. Iran has economic and military ties with China and Russia and its future is secure.
    2
  2855. lots of good questions
    2
  2856. welcome
    2
  2857. good idea
    2
  2858. The similarity with Stalin's Russia is that Stalin wanted to have slave labor instead of independent peasants, the US government and the US economy depends on cheap almost free Mexican labor.
    2
  2859. young men thrown into battle
    2
  2860. Vas takzhe
    2
  2861. Glad it was helpful!
    2
  2862. so happy to hear that
    2
  2863. most welcome
    2
  2864. This is just an ambition. We do not know yet if Trump succeeds. Much is against his plans
    2
  2865. glad to try
    2
  2866. Russia will not ever use nuclear on Ukraine. This is all western propaganda. Ukraine is for Russia a part of Russia
    2
  2867. well put
    2
  2868. exactly right
    2
  2869. probably
    2
  2870. well said
    2
  2871. good point
    2
  2872. thank you
    2
  2873. yes WW1 armistice was signed after the Germans already agreed to Wilson's 14 points as a basis of negotiations.
    2
  2874. great comment. thanks
    2
  2875. thaank you
    2
  2876. Turkey has an American military base. Does it change anything in Turkey's diplomacy? Aspirations? Policies? I doubt it.
    2
  2877. there was one
    2
  2878. Much appreciated!
    2
  2879. They do it all the time
    2
  2880. That is a possible scenario
    2
  2881. Done!
    2
  2882. In 1997 there was no Russian occupation anywhere and yet they decided to expand NATO.
    2
  2883. Russia di not annex Crimea. Crimea has always been Russian when the Bandera followes seized power in Kiev, Crimea sent a delegation to Moscow and asked to rejoin Russia after 98% voted for it.
    2
  2884. glad to try
    2
  2885. thank you very much
    2
  2886. Сегодня у вас нет этого, а завтра у вас будет это. Вы знаете, что большинство чипов в США поставляются из Тайваня, и этот список можно продолжать. Гордитесь тем, что у вас есть, и не жалуйтесь на то, чего у вас нет, и всегда думайте, как было в 1995 году
    2
  2887. It seems like the Germans joined the party.
    2
  2888. It is too late. China is the manufacturing powerhouse one never expected it to be. Russia is back and it is going to become a magnet attracting the former republics of the SU. The best the US can do is stay competitive and focus of developing western hemisphere
    2
  2889. gracias
    2
  2890. I hope it will not come to ww3
    2
  2891. You are welcome
    2
  2892. thank you
    2
  2893. thank you so much
    2
  2894. thank you.
    2
  2895. thank you
    2
  2896. I live in France, and I see people struggling to make ends meet, I see Marseille a war zone of drug trade and gang wars, I see France unable to make a budget, I see Germany falling into a non-industrial state, I see London turning into a third world pot hole. Do you call it progress? As for Russia, It never had as good as now.
    2
  2897. thank you
    2
  2898. exactly
    2
  2899. may be I am naive. I just see what Russia is today compared to 2000.
    2
  2900. soglasen
    2
  2901. thanks true
    2
  2902. Pavel Miliukov said in 1916: Is it stupidity or treason? still applicable today.
    2
  2903. If you need sources on dekulakization check my book From Lenin to Putin and also Russia After Lenin. Lots of sources on all these decisions
    2
  2904. not less free than the american
    2
  2905. true
    2
  2906. agree completely, thanks
    2
  2907. yes I agree
    2
  2908. they wont like it
    2
  2909. welcome aboard
    2
  2910. yes true
    2
  2911. thank you wise thoughts
    2
  2912. the status qou was changed when the US took over Ukraine in 2014, despite wisom of many americans not to do it. Russia is going to take it back and restore the equillibrium. As for who is going to exhaust itself, we shall see, it can well be that nato will break up in this useless effort to exhaust Russia
    2
  2913. I do not think Meslier was interested in how to improve human condition. He went from critique of the Church, something that was in vogue doing, to the critique of Christianity as such as religion and of the holiest of the holy of jesus himself. That was abd still is extraordinary, especially given the fact that he was a Catholic priest.
    2
  2914. I watch many reports from Ukraine and they are not duped. They are silenced andmany wait for the arrival of the Russian army
    2
  2915. all true
    2
  2916. yes, time is ripe.
    2
  2917. history repeats
    2
  2918. thank you so much
    2
  2919. Even now when I read the description of the murder I shudder.
    2
  2920. I do not think it is a matter of who leaves the current EU. It just has to be what it was supposed to be a common market, what it became is a dictatorship of unelected globalist elites
    2
  2921. that is why Putin says that sighing anything with him is worthless
    2
  2922. What I say could have been said a month ago.
    2
  2923. That is exactly right. And that is why that will not happen. Canadians would tip the balance in dem liberals woke favor.
    2
  2924. Thank you but I am nowhere near Connecticut
    2
  2925. The nation was there.His father started the modernization Tsar Alexey. Peter was not afraid tolearn and toimitate
    2
  2926. I hope so too, but the three I mentioned seem to want more war.
    2
  2927. glad to try
    2
  2928. thank you
    2
  2929. Glad you liked it!
    2
  2930. the way to go
    2
  2931. good insight
    2
  2932. yes his first organization NASHI was very nationalistic
    2
  2933. may be
    2
  2934. The biggest conclusion about the Romania is that the corrupt EU leaders are scared of democracy and are overturning people's choice.
    2
  2935. interesting idea
    2
  2936. true
    2
  2937. good point
    2
  2938. very perceptive
    2
  2939. welcome
    2
  2940. I am planning to create a video exactly on that subkect, wait a little it is on the list
    2
  2941. That was the aim from the very beginning
    2
  2942. Glad it was helpful!
    2
  2943. thanks
    2
  2944. People always want more and wind up with less
    2
  2945. I know thank you
    2
  2946. Zele should have listenned
    2
  2947. very good point
    2
  2948. Common people are thrown into trenches. The question is WHO benefits
    2
  2949. очень рад. покупайте мою книгу в России на русском Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа на Litres.ru; Ozon.ru; Wildberries.ru
    2
  2950. Thank you so much for such a thoughtful response. To answer your question as to why they did not revolt, I think it was because they were all guilty of some misdeeds and Putin had something on them, just as with the oligarchs. If they resist he would pull that out on them and they go to jail. I do not remember if I mentioned it in the video but I checked how many governors were imprisoned under Putin. The answer is ten and those are from among those that he appointed. Presumably at the time he took over, there were almost all, that could be charged.
    2
  2951. may be
    2
  2952. Glad it was helpful!
    2
  2953. glad to try
    2
  2954. ni that is correct
    2
  2955. Wow, thank you!
    2
  2956. The Israeli lobby in the US wants the US to focus on the Middle East and from that point of view the expenditures on Ukraine is a distraction.
    2
  2957. Russia has a much larger economy than the official stats measured in US dollars show. One example F35 fighter jet costs 135 million US dollars, Russian SU35 fighter jet equal o r superior in performance costs 35 million on world maeket and 13 million in production cost. And that goes for just about everything. Goods and services measured in rubles and then calculated in dollars show a much smaller economy than it actually is. Russia is the worlds largest producer of Grain, oil (next to US), weapons, steel, aluminum etc etc. It has just about all the resources one needs, can feed itself, has a high tech and machines of all kinds produced at home. By some calculations it has surpassed germany's economy this year. For a country of 150 mil people, that is a pretty good performance. Russia is the only country in the world that can destroy the US. That makes it a Great Power.
    2
  2958. these are experts discussing things
    2
  2959. Glad you think so!
    2
  2960. You like most people rely on what the official line is on what Marx said or meant. It was only in 1848 that he called for a revolution. But 1948 WAS the year of revolution. He wrote das Kapital precisely because it was more complex than seizing power. Lenin had NOTHING to do with Marxism. That is the main point of my reasoning.
    2
  2961. glad to hear that
    2
  2962. Absolutely right. Moreover Provisional Government could have and should have done so. They procrastinated and then it was too late
    2
  2963. each wants a piece of Syria
    2
  2964. thank you Good and short wave to express the idea
    2
  2965. Да!
    2
  2966. that is the point
    2
  2967. me too
    2
  2968. yes, exactly.
    2
  2969. glad to try
    2
  2970. I am sorry, of course it was not fun especially the battle of Smolensk
    2
  2971. I do not know. Anything is possible. I do not know him
    2
  2972. glad to try
    2
  2973. spasibo!!!
    2
  2974. welcome
    2
  2975. That is true. I spent my childhood in St. Petersburg and I do not know any other city on earth that has: two opera houses, Philharmonic, Capella, small philharmonic -- all those for classical music; then 25 drama theaters, several contemporary music and dozens of venues for entertainment music, jazz, rock etc. All of those give performances every day and a different one
    2
  2976. exactly to the point
    2
  2977. It says in the video 1997 noy 1097
    2
  2978. exactly
    2
  2979. true
    2
  2980. thank you for your comment
    2
  2981. thank you. Putin is one of the most experienced and wise leaders of our times
    2
  2982. thank you
    2
  2983. Glad you think so!
    2
  2984. the swamp refers to a bureaucracy that is out of control. Can one establish control? Accountability? Financial accountability? Probably yes. If not, the USA is doomed.
    2
  2985. yes I know with the raids on concert halls
    2
  2986. I agree almost completely with what you said. However, do not forget that Trump has been saying lately that Putin would not have dared to invade Ukraine had he been president. That implies he wants to make Putin fear the US. That is a wrong approach. Russia will not fear anyone. Talking down to Russia with threats and deals do as I say or else won't work.
    2
  2987. welcome aboard
    2
  2988. exactly
    2
  2989. Glad it was helpful!
    2
  2990. may be so
    2
  2991. and a bill
    2
  2992. true
    2
  2993. she was one of the architects
    2
  2994. Good point.
    2
  2995. thank you
    2
  2996. yep
    2
  2997. good point
    2
  2998. glad to try
    2
  2999. exactly
    2
  3000. gracias
    1
  3001. welcome
    1
  3002. Glad you enjoy it!
    1
  3003. biden, zele nataYahoo
    1
  3004. thank you for your comment. In terms of technology and science, I think you are mistaked. There are many fields that the Russians are equal or ahead. Industry is growing like mushrooms after the rain. Industrial output is larger than Germany's. Most impotantly Russian GDP is actual goods not selling derivatives from derivatives from banking so called services.
    1
  3005. thank you
    1
  3006. true
    1
  3007. thanks
    1
  3008. thank you for yout comment well, that is a little too harsh
    1
  3009. It all depends on how Trump and Zele responds. Odessa may become Russian if Zelensky regime is overthrown in a coup or revolution and West Ukraine secedes from Ukraine as a hotbed of banderovites
    1
  3010. It used to be such, 30 years ago
    1
  3011. happy to try
    1
  3012. may be
    1
  3013. I know all that. The issue at hand was whether the USA is capable of a new technological breakthrough. If it is not, it is finished. Musk has created something, whereas his competition are dinosaurs.
    1
  3014. No worries
    1
  3015. well said
    1
  3016. and swastikas
    1
  3017. Wrong strategy. Putin is reaady to make a deal with the west. His cussessor probably will not.
    1
  3018. this is a long term view. I am more concrned with after 1991
    1
  3019. They are given Russian citizenship automatically, and pensions and all the rest
    1
  3020. why did the Germans keep NATO after the Russians withdrew from DDR? Not enough stamina to tell the Ams gohome
    1
  3021. That is a good question. The story you hear here is not much known
    1
  3022. thank you for your comment
    1
  3023. original thought
    1
  3024. Our pleasure!
    1
  3025. can well be
    1
  3026. yes true
    1
  3027. yrue
    1
  3028. Yes that is precise
    1
  3029. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  3030. Yes, probably true
    1
  3031. Any time!
    1
  3032. Thanks!
    1
  3033. the regime? like Putin regime? But they claim to believe in Democracy. 87% of Russian electorate voted for him!
    1
  3034. thank you
    1
  3035. I agree completely
    1
  3036. agreed
    1
  3037. you are right there is room for improvement
    1
  3038. You are entitled to you opinion, but look at the map. Who is advancing?
    1
  3039. thanks for your comment. Very interesting. But Today I read a post by Strelkov on telegram. He is in jail and yet he can post anything on telegram. What kind of censorship is that?
    1
  3040. thank you
    1
  3041. true
    1
  3042. good idea
    1
  3043. As I said: the Soviet basis
    1
  3044. Than you for your brilliant analytical comment. Very impressive and deep
    1
  3045. yes, its all about the resources
    1
  3046. thank you
    1
  3047. thank you
    1
  3048. thank you for your comment
    1
  3049. thank you for yout comment
    1
  3050. why so?
    1
  3051. interesting
    1
  3052. thank you
    1
  3053. Welcome!
    1
  3054. glad youliked it
    1
  3055. tak i budet
    1
  3056. Glad you liked it!
    1
  3057. yes that is so true
    1
  3058. happy to hear that
    1
  3059. welcome
    1
  3060. I did not say no freedom of apeech.I say serious violations in the freedom of speech that nobody seems to notice.As for freedom of speech in Russia, I repeat there are all kinds of criticism and even insults in socil media Telegram channels all the time. An yes 87% of Russians voted for Putin. Biden would never get that much
    1
  3061. Would the US allow foreign agents run for elections?
    1
  3062. What does it prove?
    1
  3063. contain Russia? Is that possible?
    1
  3064. welcome
    1
  3065. the word is beginning to spread
    1
  3066. If Romania plays it right it may be able to return to itself territory lost in 1945
    1
  3067. thank you for your perceptive comment
    1
  3068. thank you
    1
  3069. good question.
    1
  3070. happy tohear that
    1
  3071. Many thanks!
    1
  3072. this is all exactly as you put it
    1
  3073. I doubt about stalin killing hundreds of thousands of Poles. When? How? Do you deportations of"bourgeoisie? He did the same to Russias peasants as well. 4 million were deported to the north. As for eatern lands were have always been populated by orthodox peasants in reality by Belorussians and Russians you Poles called ukraina.
    1
  3074. yes agree
    1
  3075. Yes I have and its is true that another part of the plan is to march across Belarus corner towards Kursk Nuclear facility, the ultimate objective for the Ukrainians. To widen the war is something Zelensky wants. But Putin does not and that means it won't happen. If Ukr force attacks, they'll be repulsed. Poland does not want to be involved, or so it seems.
    1
  3076. This is so becaue the politically correct view in the US and West is to demonize Putin and Russia. During the cald war, they demonized the evil empire. They need an enemy. If there are none, they will create one
    1
  3077. I still believe that the West Europeans are clever enough to understand that a change of course is imminent and necessary
    1
  3078. Can you specify what exactly you object to?
    1
  3079. thank you
    1
  3080. good point
    1
  3081. welcome
    1
  3082. good point
    1
  3083. no, but you can spend yuan' anywhere in the world
    1
  3084. true
    1
  3085. You summarized it brilliantly
    1
  3086. exactly
    1
  3087. Let's be specific. What exactly is my lie?
    1
  3088. interesting
    1
  3089. very simple Just agree to no expansion of nato
    1
  3090. thank you
    1
  3091. spasibo vam
    1
  3092. most welcome
    1
  3093. It seems he has not worked out a plan for Ukr yet.
    1
  3094. exactly
    1
  3095. ochen rad spasibo
    1
  3096. May be, but probably Trump still wants a deal
    1
  3097. true
    1
  3098. Sorry but the lands east of Brest are belorussian, orthodox and were always Russian exacept when the Poles took these lands when Russia was occupied by the Mongols. It is simple Orthodox population means Russian, Catholic population means Polish.
    1
  3099. interesting point
    1
  3100. good joke
    1
  3101. happy to hear that
    1
  3102. Everything you say is historically accurate. But if you ask anybody in Russia today, the only war that exists in national memory is the Great patriotic war and not WW2. Because Germany attacked Russia and it took a fight costing millions to push them back. As for the question as to who did what before 1941, that is another matter altogether. The British were planning to attack the Soviet Union in 1940. Poland attacked Soviet Russia in 1920 and shopped off half of Belorus and called it Poland including Vilno which is Vilnius today. From the point of view of Belorussians I talked to, Stalin just took back what was Russian anyway.
    1
  3103. true
    1
  3104. I agree, that is a bog problem for Russia
    1
  3105. You are right but the fact is that the people in France, germany italy Spain Greece and so on DO NOT want a war with Russia. in a year Macron will be out of office. Moreover, EU is so far behind Russia militarily that it will takes many years until they may or may not catch up.
    1
  3106. probably
    1
  3107. thank you. I am trying
    1
  3108. the last time I checked around 45 dollars, however there is a kindle edition or electronic edition or discounts offered by Barnes and Noble or Amazon or Routledge itself. Trump's interview is indeed a first acknowledgment of the multipolar world. But Trump things that Canada belongs to his polar. I wonder if Quebec will declare independence in case English speaking provinces opt to join the USA?
    1
  3109. thank you for your comment
    1
  3110. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  3111. this will not happen because it is not Ukraine it is Donbas
    1
  3112. уezz
    1
  3113. true
    1
  3114. Yes and as a result Odessa and Kharkov will reunite with Russia
    1
  3115. thank you
    1
  3116. true
    1
  3117. do they?
    1
  3118. You are welcome!
    1
  3119. well put
    1
  3120. May be
    1
  3121. spasibo vam
    1
  3122. glad to try
    1
  3123. So happy to hear that. On Amazon book's page one can write a few words of a review.
    1
  3124. true
    1
  3125. glad to try
    1
  3126. thank you
    1
  3127. exactly right, totally agree
    1
  3128. thanks
    1
  3129. Your argument echoes well that of Prof Hanson, a great econimist
    1
  3130. well put
    1
  3131. mais ils avons Poutin
    1
  3132. Look Europe 20 years ago was saying Putin is a friend and America an aggressor in Iraq.
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  3133. Thank you for this very valuable information. However, this information does not go against my key argument that she is the epidemy of the deep state, a career climber who used her gender and race to climb up the ladder and who uses it every day now. She does speak about abortion non-stop. She has no children, she is on record to defund the police She keeps talking about equality, equity, promoting the minorities, supporting the lgpt whatever. the whole leftist agenda
    1
  3134. You are very welcome
    1
  3135. welcome
    1
  3136. exactly
    1
  3137. what is orki
    1
  3138. we shall see
    1
  3139. thank you for yout comment
    1
  3140. Thanks for listening
    1
  3141. we shall see soon
    1
  3142. A national identity that has at its core emphasis on its difference from a very similar nation inevitably winds up in a nationalist hysteria. That is what hppenned to Ukraine. I never studied Ukrainian but I understand about 80% of the speech. Most of its history Ukraine to Russia was like Bavaria to Germany. It was distinct but only in terms of a distinct province of a German nation.
    1
  3143. True
    1
  3144. So nice of you
    1
  3145. thank you
    1
  3146. thank you
    1
  3147. yes
    1
  3148. The dollar is 35 trillion in debt and growing and so far no one knows how to stop it. the way things are going it is going to implode one day
    1
  3149. thank you for your comment
    1
  3150. happy to hear that
    1
  3151. Yes I have the data from Ukrainian sources, they claim to have killed 100000 Soviet persons
    1
  3152. thank you for yout comment
    1
  3153. President Eisenhower farewell address: A warning about the military industrial complex has come to pass too.
    1
  3154. glad to try
    1
  3155. interesting
    1
  3156. thank you
    1
  3157. Thank you 🙂
    1
  3158. It seems Trump wants to avoid all these wars
    1
  3159. Good point
    1
  3160. thank you for your comment
    1
  3161. yes, that is the Putin policy
    1
  3162. you are not informedabout the way this war is fought.
    1
  3163. most welcome
    1
  3164. indeed!
    1
  3165. da
    1
  3166. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  3167. good point
    1
  3168. thank you
    1
  3169. pathetic
    1
  3170. exactly
    1
  3171. thanks
    1
  3172. exactly
    1
  3173. well said
    1
  3174. thank you
    1
  3175. thank you
    1
  3176. Agree wholeheatedly. He cannot restore order in Marseille, torn apart by criminal gangs, cant provide sufficient number of doctors for people to avoid traveling three hours to see a doctor after waiting for three months. Pathetic!
    1
  3177. I heard it os 60$ for fracking oil
    1
  3178. there is no authority of any kind in Kieve just thieves and crooks and foreign stooges
    1
  3179. true
    1
  3180. Sorry, no one threatens the US with nukes. What Putin said Russia has nukes IN CASE it is attacked. Well the same logic is used by the US. The dollar was destroyed by the US when they seized other people's money held in dollars
    1
  3181. True, new leaders are going to appear
    1
  3182. One of my books is available in Russia, published in Russia: Velikaya Oktiabrskaya katastrofa. available at Lit.res.ru; Ozon.ru, wildberries.ru
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  3183. I do not think so. Putin might in fact prefer Kamala, because she has no understanding or experience in foreign affairs.
    1
  3184. спасибо
    1
  3185. thank you
    1
  3186. very true
    1
  3187. yes you are probably right
    1
  3188. Check out the official archives based count in 1937 alone 800,000, eight hundred thousand people were executed. You prefer to be blind not to acknowledge that
    1
  3189. On that score I agree, Radek, Yagoda and Trotsky are guilty as criminals and murderers
    1
  3190. Exactly
    1
  3191. thank you
    1
  3192. That is all true, but there are military men in the US who now what can be done and what cannot be done.
    1
  3193. good question. the bank is there, central bank. As for danger one never knows, probably not as long as Putin is in control
    1
  3194. merci
    1
  3195. You are welcome!
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  3196. Russia is not the continuation of the Soviet Union because Communist party is not in power. Capitalism with human face is on. Republics have gone their own ways. Collecties farma are no more. It is a democracy. That is why. As for trials of Staliist criminals, Adenauer in Germany chose the same. Americans hid and welcomed thousands of nazies. The rationale in Germany and in Russia was the same: to avoid the civil war, the division of society. For the same reason the southern confederates were forgiven 10 years after the civil war
    1
  3197. why? there are facts. Try to dispute those: arms production, number of tanks, number of aircraft, number of missiles, their range, number of systems and their quality; number of personnel carriers, number of artillery and shells. As far as I know in all of those Russia beats NATO
    1
  3198. That is not clear yet
    1
  3199. could be but the millions Zele has is a fact
    1
  3200. Thank you for kind words. I may do it but now I am working on a series about Putin
    1
  3201. That is exactly what is happening. Russia has more to offer to Africa than nuclear missiles, how about nuclear power stations, grain exports, as to Ethiopia, all kinds of machines as to Algeria and South Africa. Russia has a lot of friends in Africa
    1
  3202. sounds like it
    1
  3203. Yes, many people blame Gorbachev. In my latest video Putin blamed Lenin.
    1
  3204. Why?
    1
  3205. You are very welcome
    1
  3206. well said
    1
  3207. true, thank you
    1
  3208. I mean to say that yes in 1920, the majority of the Russian population was up in arms against the soviet regime. I mean that in 1930 the majority ofpeasants were up in arms against the soviet regime. I mean that in 1945 the vast majority supported Stalin's regime.
    1
  3209. Good reasoning, yet Trump does not need Ukraine for his domestic plans
    1
  3210. well said thank you
    1
  3211. it is simplified but the heart of the matter is bureaucracy getting out of control
    1
  3212. Finnland is stupid now. They prospered from Russian business when they were neutral, now they have no business and missiles targeted at them just in case. Did NATO add to their security or subtracted from it?
    1
  3213. I think these are good questions to discuss, I shall try
    1
  3214. yep
    1
  3215. thanks
    1
  3216. because he is responsible for absence of defense at Kursk border
    1
  3217. thanks
    1
  3218. thank you
    1
  3219. thank you
    1
  3220. pretty good forecast
    1
  3221. welcome aboard
    1
  3222. exactly
    1
  3223. How many years would he have gotten in the USA if he called for the overthrow of the Biden regime and did not recognize the authority of a crooked court and if he received money from Russia for "democracy building"?
    1
  3224. yes
    1
  3225. thank you
    1
  3226. probably
    1
  3227. I am working for myself, a retired prof. Nobody else. I live on Social Security pension. Totally transparent
    1
  3228. true
    1
  3229. yes true
    1
  3230. may well be
    1
  3231. yes, may be, but he does not want to ne a mere instrument in the hands of Netanyahu
    1
  3232. yes it is,especially the part of bribing oligarchs to turn them agaainst Putin
    1
  3233. thank you for sharing your thoughts, Nuland?
    1
  3234. My pleasure!
    1
  3235. there are many like you, you are not in the demparty establishment
    1
  3236. welcome
    1
  3237. thank you for your input
    1
  3238. thank you
    1
  3239. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  3240. thanks
    1
  3241. glad to try
    1
  3242. Welcome aboard!
    1
  3243. Putin shows a remarkable restraint. Some Russian commentators advocate cutting the communications cables to Britain, that would cost billions. One can also blow up BP pipelines.
    1
  3244. true
    1
  3245. good idea
    1
  3246. Glad to hear that
    1
  3247. Check the data from IMF. According to IMF Russia has surpassed germany as number four in the world
    1
  3248. yes true
    1
  3249. good ideas
    1
  3250. exactly
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  3251. gracias
    1
  3252. Yes true.
    1
  3253. true
    1
  3254. exactly
    1
  3255. thank you
    1
  3256. thank you
    1
  3257. that is true
    1
  3258. u r welcome
    1
  3259. sounds right
    1
  3260. and then the US economy will collapse. Believe it or not, the US economy cannot live without Chinese imports worth half a trillion a year
    1
  3261. exactly
    1
  3262. exactly
    1
  3263. why would Russia not be in peace?
    1
  3264. well said
    1
  3265. Yes, thank you
    1
  3266. excellent analogy
    1
  3267. true
    1
  3268. probablly
    1
  3269. could be
    1
  3270. thanks
    1
  3271. which texts?
    1
  3272. Power seeking
    1
  3273. harsh measures
    1
  3274. Very welcome
    1
  3275. happy to try
    1
  3276. Thanks again!
    1
  3277. I shall check it out and let you know
    1
  3278. Awesome, thank you!
    1
  3279. very true
    1
  3280. thank you for your very perceptive and thought provoking comment. Fantastic summary
    1
  3281. exactly
    1
  3282. that is why marching into Kursk was so stupid
    1
  3283. may be
    1
  3284. interesting view
    1
  3285. yes
    1
  3286. thank you agreed
    1
  3287. exactly
    1
  3288. Welcome
    1
  3289. May be she did not. May be the docs I saw were fake. But you would not contest the fact that hundreds of millions of US dollars are unaccounted for. Even Western sources admit that Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries.
    1
  3290. Nikolaevich. You are absolutely right. The African empire was the main source of pride for the French. But today the French are more worried about arab immigration there are 5 million arabs in the country. Success of Wagner in Africa really got macron furious but helpless, hence the rhetoric about sending troops. By the way of you are in Russia, I have one book published in Russian and in Russia, avalable on ozon.ru. It is called: великая октябрьская катастрофа
    1
  3291. true
    1
  3292. thanks
    1
  3293. I think so too
    1
  3294. thank you
    1
  3295. thank you for your comment
    1
  3296. thqnk you
    1
  3297. thank you for your comment
    1
  3298. Thank you kindly
    1
  3299. Thanks
    1
  3300. interestin observation
    1
  3301. merci c'est vrai
    1
  3302. thank you
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  3303. wow what an interesting story. If I am correct the people in Austrian Ukraine at that time were pro-Russia as fellow Orthodox surrounded by catholics
    1
  3304. thank you
    1
  3305. You are a pessimist. Yesltsyn came as a reformer, turned out to be a corrupt drunkard
    1
  3306. No.
    1
  3307. welcome
    1
  3308. thank you
    1
  3309. It is insame to do all that over Ukraine borders
    1
  3310. why?
    1
  3311. welcome aboard
    1
  3312. well put idea
    1
  3313. good idea
    1
  3314. well said
    1
  3315. that is indeed the problem
    1
  3316. Some observers fear war under Trump as he is driven by his ego
    1
  3317. very interesting, congratulations
    1
  3318. Glad you enjoy it!
    1
  3319. Wow, thank you!
    1
  3320. glad to try
    1
  3321. They were not naive. They took billions of dollars out of Russia and put them in western banks. They could not care less about Russia, only money was their interest
    1
  3322. true
    1
  3323. good point
    1
  3324. thank you
    1
  3325. Glad you liked it!
    1
  3326. As far as I know Hassan was bribed by Mu'aviya. Moreover Ali believed in the proper election procedure as he wrote to Mu'aviya and so he could not have wanted to name a successor. The successor had to be elected by the ulema.
    1
  3327. Thank you for these knowledgeable details
    1
  3328. yes
    1
  3329. Look if you do not like what I say nobody forces you to watch or listen Have you forgotten about the first amendment, of freedom of speech. Did not the West boast that they was a true VALUE of the western world?
    1
  3330. very interesting approach
    1
  3331. I shall try
    1
  3332. I am sorry you think so. Putin is wise but he made several crucial mistakes, one of them was to allow the Maidan coup d'etat to stand.
    1
  3333. the mothers should blame those who sent them to fight for nato
    1
  3334. your bias is amazing
    1
  3335. yep
    1
  3336. So many lives lost. Black rock will never see its assets stolen from Ukrainian people
    1
  3337. true, thank you
    1
  3338. I am sorry this is the first time I hear someone say that the Constituent Assembly had no legitimacy. The events that preceded the convocation do not make legitimacy. Elections do. Moreover the fact is and that is the real fact that you must know that Lenin seized power by claiming that the Soviet Congress WOULD GUARANTEE convocation of CA. He lied.
    1
  3339. The Russian generals think so.
    1
  3340. we shall see
    1
  3341. good point
    1
  3342. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  3343. lands in the east have always been populated by Orthodox russians even at the rime of Rech Pospolita, when they belonged to Lithiania. In what today is West Ukraine you had Russkoe voevodstvo, i.e. a province you the Poles called Russian.
    1
  3344. what reason?
    1
  3345. thanks
    1
  3346. true
    1
  3347. We shall see, I hope this year we shall come to PEACE
    1
  3348. pozhaluista
    1
  3349. thank you for your comment
    1
  3350. probably you are right
    1
  3351. No during the Soviet Times, the Soviet Union believed it was a Marxist state showing the way to the Future to the decadent West. No Russia does not care about the West. It sees it as lost, decadent perverted, corrupt and lost in its own lies
    1
  3352. thank you
    1
  3353. yes true
    1
  3354. I'll try
    1
  3355. Morality must be seen in historical context. So we cannot really compare the Crusaders and the Jacobins as they lived 700 years apart. I agree with you that jacobin terror was largely a result of fear that they would be slaughtered if the Austrians had taken Paris. But by the morality standards of the time, slaughter of innocents in Paris jails, was nothing short of unprecedented brutality, comparable with Lenin's slaughter of aristocracy in Russian Red Terror of September 1918. As for McCarthyism and the Red Scare of 1919, these were flagrant violations of American Constitution, this was legalized lawlessness, that the elites got away with.
    1
  3356. true
    1
  3357. thank you for your comment
    1
  3358. moder audience will not go for a long lecture
    1
  3359. exactly
    1
  3360. thank you for yout comment
    1
  3361. No, it is two camps around trump, Musk vs Waltz
    1
  3362. Of course not, but once the fight for power in the inner circle begins, the whole edifice will collapse
    1
  3363. glad to try
    1
  3364. thank you
    1
  3365. China?
    1
  3366. true
    1
  3367. They want to
    1
  3368. For the last 50 years a US citizen
    1
  3369. Glad you think so!
    1
  3370. true
    1
  3371. As Trump said, a great salesman
    1
  3372. glad to try
    1
  3373. yes probably
    1
  3374. prego
    1
  3375. In the playlist Russian Revolution and Civil War I have two videos on the execution of the Tsar. Another one on the mystery of what happened to Anastasia, the youngest daughter of the Tsar. It may well be that she really survived. As to who killed the Tsar. Lenin did. As for 110 million, no. that is an inflated figure.
    1
  3376. Putin and Lavrov are trying very hard to stay friends with Turkey. If things go right, Turkey may join BRICS.
    1
  3377. half of it stays in the USA, some will line the pockets of some officials Zelensky's friends, some will arrive. No amount of hardware can win the war. It is won or lost by the morale in society and army
    1
  3378. May be but the ball is rolling
    1
  3379. yes, that is a part of it too
    1
  3380. welcome
    1
  3381. Actually there were more educated people in Russia in 1920 than in 1950. Russians are smart and culture does regenerate in the second and third generations.
    1
  3382. So nice of you
    1
  3383. It has an economic alliance
    1
  3384. true
    1
  3385. It will
    1
  3386. я тоже надеюсь
    1
  3387. may be
    1
  3388. it was agood interview
    1
  3389. Your comment shows you put labels on anyone who is against neocon for ever wars is a Russian troll How about those: Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia U, Prof Mershmeyer of Chicago U, Judge Napolitano, Scott Ritter, US marines, Are they all Russian trolls?
    1
  3390. More to come!
    1
  3391. thank you
    1
  3392. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  3393. thank you, agree
    1
  3394. what exactly about bolshevism
    1
  3395. very apt observations
    1
  3396. thank you for your comment
    1
  3397. Good point!
    1
  3398. good point
    1
  3399. good point
    1
  3400. glad to try
    1
  3401. Thank you for your comment. Millions of people in the US have no health insurance and more than 50% of the labor force lives on less that 32000 dollars a years which barely is enough especially in cities with high housing cost.
    1
  3402. thanks
    1
  3403. thank you
    1
  3404. I read that whole lot of Swedes died in Poltava
    1
  3405. Thank you kindly
    1
  3406. You are very welcome
    1
  3407. thank you
    1
  3408. I did in another video on the 1990s
    1
  3409. thankyou
    1
  3410. I agree with him, great historian
    1
  3411. see my today's video on Vladivostok Rahmstein
    1
  3412. I hope you will enjoy UNZ review
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  3413. I do not think so. Do not judge Ukraine by what the current regime i saying. The Ukrainian people have voted against NATO time in again. Now nobody asks them anymore.
    1
  3414. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  3415. I agree that Russia will not take this offer if it were an offer, which it is not, just a paper. You are right that only the comprehensive Treaty may be the basis of a deal. It all depends what will happen in the next six months. If there is a continued stalemate, it is one situation, if Russia retakes big part of or all Ukraine, that is another. we shall see.
    1
  3416. I am not against gay culture. I am against it being taught in schools. It is and must remain a private matter not a matter of state propaganda. Practice whatever you want in your bedroom but do not impose it on my children. That is my take on it.
    1
  3417. sorry
    1
  3418. exactly
    1
  3419. good point
    1
  3420. My pleasure
    1
  3421. Glad you enjoyed it
    1
  3422. true
    1
  3423. They are too arrogant to think that they may lose
    1
  3424. i appreciate that
    1
  3425. thank you
    1
  3426. can be
    1
  3427. yes
    1
  3428. lots of lies
    1
  3429. No way! Putin is not going for any minsk anymore
    1
  3430. The problem is that even of one has the cheapest and the best, it is hard to break into the so called free market, because it is not free. It is controlled and manipulated
    1
  3431. exactly
    1
  3432. Glad you think so!
    1
  3433. yes
    1
  3434. victory and peace after that
    1
  3435. thank you for your comment
    1
  3436. Absolutely right.
    1
  3437. exactly, that is the answer
    1
  3438. very true
    1
  3439. thanks
    1
  3440. merci
    1
  3441. thanks
    1
  3442. good point
    1
  3443. The British have always built their foreign policy on the onjective that nobody should document the continent.
    1
  3444. thank you
    1
  3445. glad to try
    1
  3446. may be
    1
  3447. truly I do not know. I am surprised myself
    1
  3448. Sorry about that
    1
  3449. thank you
    1
  3450. thank you
    1
  3451. I try
    1
  3452. it is exhaustable
    1
  3453. Most welcome
    1
  3454. good point
    1
  3455. welcome
    1
  3456. thanks
    1
  3457. welcome aboard. Did you listen to my podcast on Lenin with Tom Woods
    1
  3458. thank you
    1
  3459. Elections in Romania demonstrate that Romania lost its independence. It is manipulated by Brussels bureaucracy. Democracy is a sham, no dem-cy at all. Dictatorship of EU bureaucrats whom no one elected. Romania would be better off leaving NATO leaving EU and joining BRICS and Shanghai Econ org.
    1
  3460. happy to try
    1
  3461. well said
    1
  3462. Comrade Stalin!!
    1
  3463. thanks
    1
  3464. Glad you enjoyed it
    1
  3465. exactly
    1
  3466. sevel commentators suggested it was the Brits
    1
  3467. I do not know
    1
  3468. you are right. It is just a government
    1
  3469. well said
    1
  3470. true
    1
  3471. Danke. Warum kann Deutschland nicht sagen NEIN zu Amerikaner?
    1
  3472. All true.I know albats personally and I now how this bunch thinks
    1
  3473. Thanks for watching!
    1
  3474. the rumor has it in Kiev!!!
    1
  3475. well said
    1
  3476. happy to hear that
    1
  3477. like what?
    1
  3478. true
    1
  3479. thank you
    1
  3480. thank you
    1
  3481. that is the thinking in Kiev
    1
  3482. what exactly do you mean?
    1
  3483. exactly
    1
  3484. so what? It was in Canada that the parliament gave a standing ovation to a NAZI criminal who fought with Hitler in WW2
    1
  3485. glad to try
    1
  3486. You are so welcome
    1
  3487. da
    1
  3488. So happy to hear that
    1
  3489. welcome
    1
  3490. yes, you are right. Russia is not going to fall into a trap of Minsk 3 againt
    1
  3491. welcome
    1
  3492. I think so too.
    1
  3493. a way tocover up a bribe
    1
  3494. could well be
    1
  3495. thank you
    1
  3496. thank you. Peace will come, may be even this year.
    1
  3497. My pleasure!
    1
  3498. Most Russians view Odessa and Kharkov as simply Russia.
    1
  3499. That is what I argued
    1
  3500. You sound like a judge in Stalin's court. If you read my book on the civil war i describe pogroms of the jews. Also you should know that there were Ukrainina Zaporozhie Cossacks and Russian Don Cossacks. Who do you think was doing the pogroms of the Jews: Answer the Ukranian Cossacks. Same about NAZI collaborators, the biggest group were the Bandera Ukrainians not Don Cossacks. As for historical atrocities, there were many. Are you as angry against Bandera who slaughtered Polish women and children? Bolshevik mass murder of Cossacks not for their actions but for who they were was a crime against Humanity.
    1
  3501. You sound like you are driven by hatred. That is a bad sign
    1
  3502. How do you kmow what Putin approves and what not? Why do you generalize for centuries... Foeever... sadists... This all sounds like sound bites not serious discussion. You want serious, name dates places specific actions and not generalities.
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  3503. thank you
    1
  3504. Yes of course it belonged to Rech Pospolita but Wilna or Vilnus belonged you too yet it was Lithuanian, and Brest was populated by Belorussians. Borders are not the same as people who lived there. Lokk at Austri-Hungary. It fell apart so did Mediaval Rech Pospolita
    1
  3505. Welcome!
    1
  3506. why?
    1
  3507. thank you for your comment.
    1
  3508. who?
    1
  3509. your tone is that of snug superiority teaching Russians what to do. Your data is wrong calculated in worthless dollars. The real GDP is more than that of Germany. Also US GDP is so called services which is moving money from one pocket to another. Russian GDP is way undeestimated in worthless US dollars and consists of real goods, metal, oil, gas, weapons, grain, machines, sold in world markets some of them have no replacement no matter how much the US supposedly defender of free markets in facts controls markets threatens countries to stop buying Russian like a big bully but so far has not been able to produce tanks than can compete with the Russian ones.
    1
  3510. why are you so worried where I live. I went to Russia dozens of times.
    1
  3511. so happy to hear that
    1
  3512. The Soviet Union would have been much stronger it Stalin did not kill 14 million people by the time the war started. The country could have won the war losing about ten million twice as the Germans. The losses were all due to the stupidity of Stalin and his men
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  3513. Those who talk about International law have lost all credibility since the mass murder in Gaza sponsored by the West.
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  3514. Exactly his signature is worth nothing but if Trump signs a treaty with Russia that NO expansion of NATO will take place. That is a binding document.
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  3515. exactly
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  3516. You're very welcome
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  3517. thanks
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  3518. exactly right
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  3519. Thanks for watching!
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  3520. very true
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  3521. if you are in Russia, you can buy my one and only book published in Russia available on Ozon.ru:Великая Октябрьская катастрофа
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  3522. Yes glory to Ukraine. The West has sold you out and you would have been much better off if you have not tried to join NATO.
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  3523. thank you
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  3524. thanks
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  3525. welcome aboard
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  3526. glad to try
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  3527. People of Donbas are grandsons of the Don Cossacks, who considered themselves Russian
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  3528. thank you
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  3529. I talk to people all the time and in every French town they do remember the occupation and collaboration and resistance.
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  3530. In our town in the south of France they tellme stories of German occupation and executions and the partisans resistance and collaboration
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  3531. this is in the newest video posted today 22 march
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  3532. You are very welcome
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  3533. I love long term historical perspective
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  3534. Great suggestion!
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  3535. merci a vous
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  3536. thanks
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  3537. I agree
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  3538. exactly
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  3539. There will not be a wedge. but a triangle relationship, manage a trois as the French say
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  3540. thanks you
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  3541. You see the Russians love to critisize their government. They traditionally do not trust it. Some of the things you say are true. However, how different are the Russian millionaires in government from the American ones who legally bribe gov officials by donating them money for so called election campaign? Putin is the best ruler Russia had since Alexander 2. Is it a democracy byt western standards? Probably not. But who needs western standards? No any more
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  3542. yes you are right, it would have taken a lot of time to go over all his previous convictions
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  3543. welcome happy you joined
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  3544. So nice of you
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  3545. thank you so much and for the video too
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  3546. This is a great summary of how it all happenned
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  3547. barely
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  3548. interesting insight
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  3549. I hope more people will understand this
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  3550. exactly right
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  3551. glad to try
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  3552. that is a likely scenario
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  3553. congratuations
    1
  3554. thanks
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  3555. thank you
    1
  3556. well said thank you
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  3557. Thank you for your comment. It seems like you are late by about 20 years. Russia does not need western technology any more. It has its own and what it does not have it can get in China. They days of Western dominance in technology are gone. The US dominance is over. It lost its production capacity to China. Demography is a problem in Russia but so is the case in the rest of Europe and with the white population in the US. At least Russia is doing something to address the problem. The war will be over soon with Russian victory. The entry of Finland and Sweden does not change anything in strategic terms. NATO is a paper tiger. When you look specifically at major countries you will see that they are in budget deficit and there is no money for any significant increase in military spending. As for the US its military is the most corrupt in the world wasting billions for outdated programs. Russia has superior armaments in almost every category. So things look not as bleak as what you described for Russia
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  3558. most welcome
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  3559. true
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  3560. Hold on Serbia! Marry Christmas!
    1
  3561. welcome
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  3562. true
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  3563. true
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  3564. they did, true
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  3565. thanks
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  3566. yes true
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  3567. thanks
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  3568. exactly
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  3569. Read my book in Russian available at Wildberries.com Великая октябрьская катастрофа
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  3570. well said
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  3571. My pleasure
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  3572. more wepons. more everything
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  3573. may be
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  3574. yes, these are valid points
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  3575. I di not understand your comment. Rubbish" Like what?
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  3576. thank you
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  3577. It is worse. The Soviets hated the West but they thought they were better and ahead. The cancel culture activists are like the Bolsheviks convinced they are better and ahead, but they are a sign of a break with morality, with religion with decency, with the family. They are a sign of the decline of Western liberal civilization. They are leading the west to self-destruction.
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  3578. funny
    1
  3579. that is the problem. EU is sucking out all the youth and all the talent from these countries
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  3580. welcome
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  3581. why neither will win?
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  3582. thank you
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  3583. yes true
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  3584. may be
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  3585. Thank you for your insightful knowledgeable historical comment
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  3586. We may come to that.
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  3587. no not parqnoid
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  3588. Iam back online
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  3589. thank you
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  3590. are you serious? The generals are going to ignore her as they did trump
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  3591. exactly right
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  3592. true
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  3593. some day some agreement would have to be made
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  3594. merci
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  3595. glad to try
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  3596. It is not a matter of being worse. It is a cost benefit analysis. Is Ukraine worth investing another 250 billion? To gain what? There are other priorities one may miss chasing after Ukraine, such as the middle east, China, India competition.
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  3597. welcome
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  3598. and then Salaheddin will come and destroy the King of Jerusalem
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  3599. That is your view, That is fine with me. I say what I think. If that sounds to you like propaganda, well what can I say. your judgment. Russian soldiers do want to fight. Hundreds of thousanmds volunteered. Russia produces more artillery than the combined west check statistics. N Koreans have stockpile available right away, that is why Russia bought it. The US is buying artillerry around the world to support their klients in Kiev.
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  3600. Putin will never nuke Ukraine. That is Russia. Why would he make uninhabitable the land he consideres a part of Russia?
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  3601. good point
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  3602. that was in 1919
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  3603. thank you
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  3604. I cannot go personal
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  3605. They are going to lose it all
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  3606. Russia has shown to others to respect one's own heritage and culture and stop imitating the West.
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  3607. glad to try
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  3608. Happy New Year to you too!!
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  3609. You’re welcome 😊
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  3610. welcome
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  3611. good point
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  3612. yes very reasonable
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  3613. thank you
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  3614. good point thank you, very perceptive
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  3615. yes
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  3616. well said
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  3617. thank you
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  3618. true
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  3619. I happen to disagree with you. National memory is very important. Every family in Russia remembers the war, which means ww2. In Morocco where I lived everyone remembers the French colonial rule. In Iran everyone remembers the bloody rule of the Shah and so it goes. In France where I live, I heard dozens of stories about resistance and collaboration. These events are not on everybody's mind every day. But they do color people's perceptions and identities.
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  3620. interesting observation
    1
  3621. glad to try
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  3622. Kee up what USA? subverting other countries? setting up puppet governments? Invading Iraq, Afghanistan? Gaza? What else? It is a suicidal course, remeber that USA
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  3623. thank youuu for your comment. There is more and more evidence coming out every day about the corruption, embezzlement, and outright theft of American aide to Ukraine.
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  3624. there are probably succession plans
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  3625. merci
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  3626. a parody on what? On CNN? May be
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  3627. thanks
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  3628. thank you
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  3629. thank you
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  3630. I am on the side of truth, facts, impartial analysis.
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  3631. who?
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  3632. I hope so
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  3633. may be
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  3634. thank you for your comment, lots of data, good ideas, very impressive knowledge
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  3635. Yes it was two hundred fifty thousand
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  3636. interesting
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  3637. good questions
    1
  3638. the past does matter, it shapes the present
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  3639. welcome
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  3640. thanks
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  3641. interesting comparison
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  3642. thank you
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  3643. exactly right
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  3644. true
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  3645. yes, interesting
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  3646. thank you
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  3647. sorry
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  3648. glad to try
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  3649. thank you for your comment
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  3650. most welcome
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  3651. I shall. I was traveling with no computer and no internet
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  3652. it would be much cheaper
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  3653. They will not be. First because they do not want to, second because they will not agree what they will have to agree
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  3654. danke
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  3655. excatly
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  3656. true
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  3657. No, that plan presumes Western control. The new world is NOT controlled by the West
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  3658. thank you
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  3659. thanks
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  3660. Russia did not invade anybody. Russia was provoked into militaru operation because NATO was taking over Ukraine and was building bases there/
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  3661. Choice of residence has nothing to do with objective political reality. Hundreds of thousands of Americans live in France and so do I. Before the Bolsheviks Dostoevsky used to hang out in Baden Baden and yet noone coud accuse himof abandoning Russia. As for who can outproduce whom it is not a matter of money or hardware. With all the hardware wasted the US could not defeat Afghanistan or subdue Iraq or defeat Vietnam. The problem with US military might is that a lot of it is stolen or wasted thru the subcontractors, high prices, lack of accountability etc. Russian army is lean and mean. You'll see this year who will win.
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  3662. thank you
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  3663. can well be. By that time, where will the Russian army be?
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  3664. most welcome
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  3665. great summary of what happened
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  3666. thank you
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  3667. yes you are right.
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  3668. thank you
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  3669. Thank you very much
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  3670. pride, vanity, desire to be superior
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  3671. thank you
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  3672. nobody object to Ukraine prospering with whomever but not with us nato on its territory
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  3673. wise words
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  3674. all true, yes
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  3675. Russia did not fail at Kiev. Putin explained that Intermediaries, presumably the Germans and the French advised him to withdraw from Kiev as a gesture of good will, because as he put it, they told him that one cannot negotiate with a gun pointed at one's head. Another important point is that the Russians had only 200.000. troops in June 2022. Once the Ukraine mobilized, they had 600.000. So that caused the Russians to withdraw from around Kharkov. They have still not reached the line they held in June 2022. The Ukrainians began to believe they could win then
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  3676. Glad you think so!
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  3677. thanks
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  3678. good comparison
    1
  3679. good point
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  3680. I applaud. Moreover the US needs Russia in its competition with China.
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  3681. thank you for your comment
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  3682. thanks
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  3683. good point
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  3684. most welcome
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  3685. check my video Lukashenko's advice to Zelensky
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  3686. you repeat the westen narrative. Ukraine was a part of Russia or Russia was a part of Ukraine for four hundred years. This is one people in religion, culture, and language, which has the same root. Poland took over the lands of Kieven Rus because central Russia was occupied by the Mongols for 300 years. But the origin of Russia is in Kieve. We are the same people. As for the rest of Europe, remember the domino theory in Vietnam. Now they use it again to scre people. Its nonsense.
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  3687. welcome
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  3688. That is right, every NATO country has to agree to a new member. Well Hungary has already said No.
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  3689. may be
    1
  3690. good summary of his transition.
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  3691. may be
    1
  3692. well said. Thank you.
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  3693. That may happen. Unfortunately
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  3694. That is one scenario but there is another one. Uk is almost bankrupt, France abandoned Democracy and cannot pass a budget without a decree. Macron is finished. New elections will bring either a left or a right opposition not globalists. EU as a rule of unelected bureaucrats cannot last. In fours years it may have collapsed or reformed. After Trump there may be Vance for another eight years. The globalists have nothing to offer. Its all de ja vu.
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  3695. most welcome
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  3696. thank you
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  3697. That is true, but they kept saying for days that Ukraine was advancing and winning, which is not the same thing
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  3698. Thank you! Cheers!
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  3699. thank you for yout comment
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  3700. yes, but it willplay a role in economics
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  3701. He did it to appear to be important, which he is not
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  3702. thank you
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  3703. yes I agree
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  3704. Not totalitarian, they do not control much. Just corruption and theft
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  3705. may well be so
    1
  3706. because no one had more votes. 40% in a Western democracy is a lot
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  3707. war crimes are committed by biden and natanyahoo
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  3708. Is Scott Ritter a traitor too? And Judge Napolitano, and Colonel McGregor. Anybody who resists US endless wars is a Traitor? Is that your view?
    1
  3709. good question?
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  3710. welcome
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  3711. thank you for your comment. This is a huge topic. There were many opinions expressed by viewers of my earlier videos as to why the pro-Israeli lobby in the US hates Russia.
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  3712. Nobody knows what is going to happen. We shall see.
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  3713. In an ideal world, that is the way it should be but in the real world we live in the globalist elites have been taking over country after country. Look how they are twisting the hands f Hungary
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  3714. Can you please specifcy one lie, just one. What did I say that you consider a lie?
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  3715. exactly, that is his role
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  3716. merci
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  3717. thank you
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  3718. Russia did not invade a foreign country. Ukraine and Russia signed a n agrement of walking out of the Soviet Union. They were one country for 400 years. The relationship between Ukraine and Russia is the same as the relationship of the USA and Texas, i.e. no business of foreign powers. Russia and Ukraine are one country.
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  3719. true
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  3720. Very interesting. In fact he was not the only one. many Baltic germanic and Prussian nobles served the Czar, including Sergey Witte
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  3721. It depends on further actions
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  3722. true
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  3723. right to secede!
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  3724. thank you for your comment
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  3725. Thank you too
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  3726. My pleasure!
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  3727. not only
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  3728. Glad you like them!
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  3729. watch the newest on Putin
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  3730. why?
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  3731. That is why trump is ready to talk peace, because Russia is winning
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  3732. Mais pourquoi les gens acceptent-ils tout cela ?
    1
  3733. glad to try
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  3734. true
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  3735. thank you Peter I shall do my best
    1
  3736. well said
    1
  3737. thank you
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  3738. The US and the collective West likewise believe that the only good system is the one based on Western individualistic model and private enterprise. As for freedom there question Have you ever been a member of the CP is still on the books. So what kind of freedom is that when one cannot announce that he is a Communist? So American capitalism is a dictatorship of another kind.
    1
  3739. yes, true
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  3740. welcome. I try to do what I can
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  3741. thank you
    1
  3742. exactly
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  3743. May be but please admit of all Western countries the British are the most active in providing aid to Ukraine. The British intelligence works closely with Ukrainians It is plausible that they had several plots on the way to destabilize Russia from within. Please recall a few weeks ago some self-proclaimed opposition group supposedly made up of Russians well armed with tanks entered Russia from Ukraine and declared they are are front to overthrow Putin. I bet you 100% that is made in Kieve and London.
    1
  3744. good idea
    1
  3745. Colonel McGovern made the same point
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  3746. thank you
    1
  3747. it is coming
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  3748. true
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  3749. I do not think Russia is into it. But the fact is that China is already today an economic Giant
    1
  3750. thank you, very true
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  3751. exactly
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  3752. true
    1
  3753. My pleasure!
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  3754. why do the American refuse to discus internal problems?
    1
  3755. thank you
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  3756. thank you. It appears that he died from a clot in blood
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  3757. it is either on Amazon.com or Routledge publisher website https://www.amazon.com/s?k=vladimir+n.+brovkin&crid=Z04A4JN8C50V&sprefix=vladimir+brovkin%2Caps%2C544&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_2_16
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  3758. the greater it is the greater is the chance of collapse
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  3759. Will they dare?
    1
  3760. that is true, but to me a marine or a US army is the same thing.
    1
  3761. I do not think he pretended. He tgought and thought about what he read and he came to unexpected conclusions. Martin Luther did a similr thing. He thought and thought about the Bible and then came to a conclusion that the Church had to be reformed.
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  3762. I once wrote an article called: Vladimir the Savior in UNZ review. You may find it on their website
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  3763. It is useless to argue what is better. I rely on international armaments fair data
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  3764. thank you
    1
  3765. happy to try
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  3766. Stalin was the worst mass murderer in History. 5 year plan was a desaster. The SU achieved its industrialization despite Stalin not thanks to Stalin. Read my book. From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin. available on Amazon
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  3767. welcome
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  3768. welcome
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  3769. so nice to hear that
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  3770. exactly
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  3771. welcome
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  3772. glad totry
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  3773. most welcome
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  3774. great question. short answer. Central Asian republics need Russia. Now they try to get the best deal maneuvering between Russia and China
    1
  3775. They never had plan B. They thought they would beat Russia with their weapons and sanctions
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  3776. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  3777. I am trying
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  3778. and offices of CNN, ABC, CBS, BBC, Fr1, ZDF, ARD and so on
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  3779. thank you
    1
  3780. thanks for your insight
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  3781. glad to hear that
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  3782. No one thretenned to nuke the west. As for setting up little dictatorship the soviets learnt that craft from the USA. baban republics, Papa doc, Pinochet, Panama Noriega, coup s etat in Iran 1953 should I continue the list of US special ops?
    1
  3783. welcome
    1
  3784. act of succession is a law that defines who and in what order of Henry VIII children is going to inherit the throne.
    1
  3785. welcome
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  3786. welcome aboard.
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  3787. glad to try
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  3788. So nice of you
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  3789. Some Russian journalists are beginning to talk about Russian tanks in Warsau.
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  3790. Awesome, thank you!
    1
  3791. Keep on dreaming
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  3792. Oh? that would sound better for the French
    1
  3793. strange is not it?
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  3794. thank you
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  3795. thank you
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  3796. both sides? I have not seen any on the Russian side
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  3797. thanks, a great and knowledgeable comment.on crimea, i read documents of December 2013 of the Supreme soviet of crimea,they decided to send a delegation to duma saing that if nationalists take power they will seek secession.Before any russian troops
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  3798. No one will survive the nuclear war
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  3799. Yes I would love to organize such a seminar.Where should I begin? I hope you know that i have several playlists: Russia under the Bolshevik Regime, Soviet history; Russia under Yeltsin and Putin, Russian history, European history etc. But the live seminar is great with live questions and answers. If you have any practical advice write me am email, my First name initial and last name as one word then 51 and then gmail
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  3800. well said
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  3801. Thank you kindly!
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  3802. exactly. refusing to accept defeat leads to a greater defeat
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  3803. spasibo
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  3804. true
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  3805. dont know, but he had health issues before
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  3806. Any time!
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  3807. welcome
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  3808. Check out the book by Rober Conquest, (British) The Harves of Sorrow. He writes about the Kazakhs and Ukrainians. I am sorry to say that but Russian peasants died in hundreds of thousands. Check my book listed here chapter on collectivization I have documets from Stalin to Sibburo CP on how many kulaks were deported from which provinces. Holodomor is a part of the big picture affecting peasants of the Soviet Union. Do not forget Ukraine s a part of the USSR
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  3809. good point
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  3810. thank you
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  3811. thank you
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  3812. of course it won't work
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  3813. thank you for your comment. Real Power comes from voluntary acceptance not thru imposition of force
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  3814. thank you
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  3815. this is a good explanation
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  3816. glad to try
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  3817. In a free democracy, the president asks the parliament as to whether to start a war with another country. Sending troops is an act of war. Do the French people want to go to war against Russia? I believe not! Do you?
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  3818. agree
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  3819. thank you
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  3820. true
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  3821. thanks
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  3822. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  3823. No, the US was and is allied to all sorts of dictators. If Russia can gain whatever it needs from N.Korea, in an honest deal, why not?
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  3824. thank you
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  3825. Your data does not take into account that the West has provided military equipment worth 150 billion. 2. In 2022 Russia did not have a war aim to occupy Ukraine or to take Kiev. Its war aim was to force Ukraine to sign a peace treaty. As is well known they signed and then Boris came to Kiev and persuaded them to keep on fighting promising unlimited support. The US has never fought a war with an equal adversary on a front on 1200 kilometers, not even in WW2. In 2022 Russian army in Ukraine was 200K now it is 700K. And it is winning. The US army is in disarray. Check out Colonel McGregor. I can continue but better check my video The State of the Russian army.
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  3826. wow. interesting thought
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  3827. Yes you are right. There is a link in description to my article: Making money, moving money, parking money overseas
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  3828. what is mam?
    1
  3829. exactly
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  3830. yes, quite accurate thank you
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  3831. He seems to have abandoned this idea in view of domestic problems
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  3832. That is true, but Renaissance of what? What is reborn? Its is Greek and Roman culture, i.e. pre-Christian. Also Renaissance restored individual capacity to think rather than to repeat the dogmas of the church. That made possible the rise of the protestant movement.
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  3833. not go to war, but provide means for self-defense
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  3834. thank you
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  3835. thank you
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  3836. Me too
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  3837. thanks
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  3838. can you explain what exactly you mean by Putin lunacy?
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  3839. Wow, thank you
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  3840. yes true
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  3841. not Ukraine but Zelensky regime
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  3842. welcome
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  3843. true
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  3844. yes you are right
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  3845. ten? we have two economic blocs and three military equals
    1
  3846. Probably Biden has not have 4,5 hours in four years
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  3847. Original Zionists were simply people who wanted to return to the Holy Land. The meaning of the term has changed since then. Today those who claim to be Zionists are probably best defined as Israeli imperialists who dream of the Great Israel from Jordan to Euphrates.
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  3848. I agree completely with your reasoning. Moreover, sanctions will not on Iran. They will only strengthen Iran's dependence on China and Russia.
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  3849. Harris is a Bolshevik
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  3850. interesting view
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  3851. Keep on dreaming!
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  3852. welcome
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  3853. Ukraine is not foreign territory. It was a part of Russia for 400 years. Ukraine could have kept its independence had it stayed neutral/ Would the US accept Russian bases in Cuba?
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  3854. glad to try
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  3855. I think Putin spoke about it for the first time at the Munich security conference in 2007
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  3856. I do not know whether you mean now or in 1998?
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  3857. I am now in Vienna!
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  3858. welcome
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  3859. thank you
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  3860. exactly correct
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  3861. It is a youtube algorithm
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  3862. funny
    1
  3863. true
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  3864. i doubt it
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  3865. welcome
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  3866. thank you
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  3867. They want toscare the people exactly as they did in Vietnam. if Vietnam falls, the domino effect will begin. They said. All lies. Same thing now.
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  3868. of course
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  3869. yes true, he has not articulated any plans at all.
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  3870. Propaganda of what? What do you specifically call propaganda? Come on ask me a question!!
    1
  3871. yes
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  3872. I am not a specialist on the subject, but the related stories on Ali, his correspondence with the governor of Syria, the story of Aisha and many other docs prove that there was Mohammad
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  3873. Discredited regimes can prolong their lives but cannot survive, eventually they fall
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  3874. thanks
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  3875. He could have in June, but now after Kursk it is too late
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  3876. they should think about this prospect. Perhaps then we will not have gay marches celebration their pervertion
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  3877. glad to hear that
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  3878. thank you
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  3879. you are absolutely right. The biggest problem in BRICS is rivalry between China and India that the US is trying to exploit
    1
  3880. Nobody would have died if Zele agreed to peace March 2022
    1
  3881. I am sorry but I do not understand your objection. Russia fights against NATO expansion to Ukraine, 2. Russia supports the self determination of the Russian provinces in Ukraine. It is that simple
    1
  3882. Total nonsence
    1
  3883. true
    1
  3884. thank you
    1
  3885. Glad you like them!
    1
  3886. may be
    1
  3887. That is smart. Why fight if you can get it by negotiating?
    1
  3888. thank you
    1
  3889. glad to try
    1
  3890. yes true
    1
  3891. It looks like you want to intreview me. Call me record it andput it on youtube so that everybody hears the answers
    1
  3892. thank you for your imput
    1
  3893. good oint
    1
  3894. thank you for your input
    1
  3895. This is one of the nest books on the subject. I love it
    1
  3896. thank you for your comment
    1
  3897. true
    1
  3898. great question
    1
  3899. yes you are right
    1
  3900. Europe has to change
    1
  3901. Yes, true. I knew personally many leaders of the Baltic democratic fronts. They were dumped and replaced by emigres hostile to anything Russian from the very beginning. They took the turn towards NATO which was the cause of all the troubles to come
    1
  3902. thank you for your comment
    1
  3903. thank you
    1
  3904. Not true. In fact the Russians have shown horrible dcs on Ukr crimes against civilians in Kursk
    1
  3905. he will
    1
  3906. Willi Brandt? danke
    1
  3907. well put
    1
  3908. very sad, so many lives ruined, destroyed
    1
  3909. true
    1
  3910. Excellent questions. There are discussions on that in Russia. Many ideas, such as divide Zakarpatie between Hunrary, Slovakia, Poland, Rumania and Russia, another make it an independent state controlled satellite, another let it be NATO if they want in exchange for something else, like stopping all sanctions. etc etc
    1
  3911. thank you for your comment
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  3912. thank you
    1
  3913. thank you
    1
  3914. exactly
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  3915. thank you
    1
  3916. thank you.
    1
  3917. thanks brother
    1
  3918. glad to try
    1
  3919. I am planning to make a video on that subject
    1
  3920. of course not
    1
  3921. You are right. Why is it so difficut to accept someone different?
    1
  3922. yes,you may be right, too many unknowns at this time
    1
  3923. sorry
    1
  3924. Probably you are right but Russia is not Greenland or Panama. Putin is not going to give him that which is Russian
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  3925. You see the Russians do not want to fight the way the Americans do, throw napalm bombs and kill millions as they did in Vietnam. Ukraine people are brothers, mistaken and misled but still brothers. Civilian targets are not there. Cities are not bombed. Russian army has to win without destroying the cities. So they move slowly but they move
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  3926. exactly
    1
  3927. true
    1
  3928. what is de election?
    1
  3929. true sorry
    1
  3930. thank you for your comment
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  3931. спасибо вам читайте мою книгу она на Wild Berries, Ozon, LitRes
    1
  3932. I appreciate that
    1
  3933. true
    1
  3934. Cessna aircraft is still a mosquito
    1
  3935. Check my colleague from Harvard Jeffrey Sachs. Is he speaking for Putin too? It seems that you love freedom of speech so much that whenever you hear someone who thinks differently, your reaction is that is Putin.
    1
  3936. no more. The left of Dem party cheers war on Russia
    1
  3937. thank you
    1
  3938. Yes perhaps, but why compare him to Roman emperors and not to his contemporaries or simply to European monarchs of his age. His position was not the first subject of the state but the first servant of the state as opposed to L,etat c,est moi. This separation of the person of the monarch from the state is revolutionary. It implies equality with other servants of the state. It implies humble nature of the king.
    1
  3939. we shall see how it plays out soon
    1
  3940. thank you for your comment. As for the capacities of US military check out what Colonel McGregor is saying
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  3941. I remove all comments that contain insults or swearing. If you have an issue to discuss, go ahead pose a question or an opinion, but not insults. The insult your president made in Washington will cost him a lot.
    1
  3942. true
    1
  3943. true
    1
  3944. probably Yurii Podoliaka, the one I cite who ran away from Ukraine when warned by friends that the nationalists were going to kill him
    1
  3945. thank you
    1
  3946. true
    1
  3947. Corruption is pervasive. The West does not care about Ukraine or corruption it is just using Ukraine. Trump is just boasting. That is in his nature.
    1
  3948. thanks
    1
  3949. not for long
    1
  3950. May be. He is too unpredictablle and narcisistic
    1
  3951. True that has been the pattern
    1
  3952. Thanks, will do!
    1
  3953. interesting point
    1
  3954. well said
    1
  3955. who says it is fiasco. Exactly the opposite NATO and Biden are in fiasco. How many billions are they going to add to their national debt to satisfy their ego?
    1
  3956. As I said I wish I could hear their accent to tell who they are
    1
  3957. I saw it myself. I believe it was earlier than 1999 but sometime in the 1990s.
    1
  3958. true
    1
  3959. Yes, but only partly so and reluctantly.
    1
  3960. welcome
    1
  3961. welcome
    1
  3962. What you say is exactly what is being said in the German Bundestag by the leaders of the AFD party.
    1
  3963. I know this paper. self-centred arrogance. USA ueber alles
    1
  3964. Welcome aboard!
    1
  3965. I agree with your analysis completely
    1
  3966. As a matter of fact, on one of Russian channels I heard myself Polish intercepted conversation
    1
  3967. some republicans too
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  3968. This is the example everybody cites ad infinitum. How about France taking back Alsace Loraine? How about Lincoln who went to conquer the south once it declared independence as it had a right to do, just like Ukraine? Is Lincoln a Hitler?
    1
  3969. Oh yes, the days when the west rught everybody about human rights are gone forever. Where are the human rights in GAZA? Is it human right that naked men are walking in the streets in their ridiculous parades. Where are the rights of children that are force- fed lgpdq whatever propaganda? Where re the rights of unborn children who are murdered in so called abortions?
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  3970. depends who is allowed to run
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  3971. spasibo vam
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  3972. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  3973. Is Israel attacks Iran, Israel risks its very survival. One has to be stupid not to understand that.
    1
  3974. glad to hear that
    1
  3975. He did not kill any. They just try to demonize him. No evidence at all. In our western culture incocent until proven guilty. Where is a shred of evidence. As for riches, again no substance at all, a pack of lies.
    1
  3976. yes it looks like
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  3977. You are right. they probably hated the commies then too. I meant that Nixon came to Moscow and tried to make a deal and it worked
    1
  3978. thanks
    1
  3979. my pleasure
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  3980. most welcome
    1
  3981. true thanks
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  3982. The concept Ukraine appeared in 17th century in Poland. To speak about Ukraine as a separate nation is about the same as to speak about Bavaria as a separate nation. Malorossiya as it was called was and is a branch of Russian nation. Crimea was not occupied it chose to rejoin Russia
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  3983. much appreciated. Born Leningrad 1951, came to US 1975, then Georgetown Princeton Berkeley PhD 1984, Harvard prof 1990-1991-8, American University Prof 1998-2000, Urals University Prof 2001-2005. American School Marrakech 2009-2019. 2019-nor retired. That;s briefly
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  3984. Thanks!
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  3985. Moscow is watching all that I am sure
    1
  3986. yes, check a couple of my recent videos on Trump
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  3987. why exactly on Stalin's purges. may I ask?
    1
  3988. well summed up
    1
  3989. true
    1
  3990. Never say always. It looks like the Chinese are already ahead in GDP.
    1
  3991. yes that is true but Zelensky has no money for already several years. His gov is paid for by donations of EU and US
    1
  3992. thank you for your comment
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  3993. thank you
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  3994. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  3995. There were no checks and balances. The party i.e. Lenin decides everything.
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  3996. thank you
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  3997. pozhaluista
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  3998. true
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  3999. true
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  4000. Russia does not want to invade anybody futher west than Ukraine. Moreover as it become a genuine sperpower it will act as a magnet with whom to dobusiness is more advantageous than with the US. That is already the case for Germany. Latvia has lost most of its shipping business with Russia. One day these countries will think again: where do they gain more with the west or with the east. Time works for Russia
    1
  4001. interesting insight
    1
  4002. Yes I do.
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  4003. good point
    1
  4004. thank you
    1
  4005. you just confirm that Russia and Ukraine are one people and one country
    1
  4006. glad to hear it
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  4007. that is well may be true
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  4008. welcome aboard
    1
  4009. good point
    1
  4010. welcome aboard
    1
  4011. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  4012. Thank you kindly!
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  4013. You are right but Putin made it very clear that if western missiles go into Russia, the production facilities of these missiles become a target wherever they are
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  4014. is nazi Germany aand today s Germany the same
    1
  4015. Thanks and welcome
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  4016. My pleasure
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  4017. irrelevant for what?
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  4018. He will
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  4019. exactly
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  4020. true
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  4021. very interesting
    1
  4022. yes sad
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  4023. He probably will because Zele is not going to give up power, unless he is overthrown
    1
  4024. thank you
    1
  4025. thanks
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  4026. I know thank you, we'll see
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  4027. no they were not. They were normal peasants who did not want to surrender their grain for nothing
    1
  4028. as a matter of fact, read the commentaries. many people do, cause Nuland is one
    1
  4029. spasibo vam
    1
  4030. I follow him, he is great
    1
  4031. Why did Chechnya from fighting Russia turned to joining Russia? Because Kadyrov realized it would be better for Chechnya. May be the Baltika will realize that one day too.
    1
  4032. that is exactly so
    1
  4033. that is a strange statement
    1
  4034. yes as the Japanese used to do before them
    1
  4035. Thanks for listening
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  4036. The US is not in the position to replace Putin. They tried several times as they are used to control and replace other countries leaders. Not so with Russia
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  4037. Is Klein Deutchland small Germany or Core Germany? Is Petite Pologn small poland of Core Poland. I have seen the maps with those nameson it.Small is a wrong translation it ismeant core.
    1
  4038. Now she said no offensive weapons to Ukraine
    1
  4039. Not yet as a full story but there is a brief overview
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  4040. Thank you for your comment. You forgot to mention 3 factors, 1, In December 2021 Putin addressed a what I called an ultimatum to the West, urging them to negotiate a security for all. Rejected by the West Putin warned about military technical means. 2. In December 2021 January 2022 massive shipments of military hardware to Ukraine from the US took place. 3. In mid-February Ukraine started unprovoked massive bombardment of Donbas, deliberately provoking the Russians to respond and when they did accused them of aggression. It was a carefully orchestrated operation designed to blame Russia
    1
  4041. Glad to hear it
    1
  4042. true
    1
  4043. about what?
    1
  4044. Now Chechnya is prosperous and Chechens are fighting for Russia
    1
  4045. Little will change is Putin is gone. Perhaps the next Pres will be more tough
    1
  4046. merci a vous
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  4047. thank you
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  4048. I hope so too!
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  4049. Yes, that is true, the end of the world
    1
  4050. exactly
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  4051. thank you for your thoughts. It seems to me that Putin is trying to do exactly what you are siggesting. More talk of Russia as a civilization of not russkiiy but Rossiisky multi nationaland multi-confessional state.
    1
  4052. go to Amazon, put in my name and they all are there. Thank you
    1
  4053. valuable insight thank you
    1
  4054. thank you
    1
  4055. well said
    1
  4056. It is too cold
    1
  4057. we shall see. This time he is more prepared to tackle the neocons
    1
  4058. You're welcome
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  4059. good point
    1
  4060. Please, communism died in 1991. Post-Communist Russia is not Stalinist. Don't look back, but forward
    1
  4061. a tough lesson
    1
  4062. gld to try
    1
  4063. jailed?
    1
  4064. Danke
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  4065. All 100% was a part of the USSR and before that of the Russian Empire for 400 years and before that it was where Russian nation began in Kiev Russ. I do not think the US began in Mexico
    1
  4066. yes true
    1
  4067. It does not
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  4068. They may as hi tech folks
    1
  4069. true, but Putin knows this and the front is moving westward
    1
  4070. я опубликовал книгу в россии называется Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа можно купить на Ozon.ru
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  4071. no proof
    1
  4072. thank you for your comment
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  4073. thank you
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  4074. thanks
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  4075. may be
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  4076. You touched upon so many important questions. Someof themI dealwith in my AP European History list. Yes the Brits and US wanted to stop Germany scared of its advance, hence WW1, blaming the serbs was just an excuse. Same reasoning to stop the Soviets, scared of their success and victory. Same thing now, how can the West speak of rules based order when Israel kills as many as it wants without any sactions
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  4077. you must have watched a fabrication, it is the ukrainians that are looting local shops not Russians
    1
  4078. may be
    1
  4079. thank you I shall
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  4080. yes exactly
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  4081. Security guarantee means willingness to fight a war against Russia. For what? So that Ukraine winns back four Russian speaking provinces it got from the Soviet Union by decrees of Lenin and Stalin. Is that a good enough reason to risk a nuclear war? Who advocates this must be crazy!!!
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  4082. thanks
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  4083. very good point, but not the entire society but the ruling elite
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  4084. thank you
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  4085. thank you
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  4086. good idea
    1
  4087. thank you
    1
  4088. It is a pleasure to hear you. thank you
    1
  4089. welcome
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  4090. thank you
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  4091. He cannot be trusted based on his past record
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  4092. and then what: war?
    1
  4093. thank you
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  4094. I know it is hard for some people to hear, but in 1920 Poland won for it self a big chunk of Belarus and if the red Army did not push them back they would have kept Kiev as part of Poland.
    1
  4095. well said. thank you
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  4096. spasibo za kommentarii
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  4097. OK lets sort it out. Russia provided military aid to the two split away from Ukraine republics in 2014 and then after years of trying to work out a compromise entered there territory to defend them. Where is aggression? Strictly speaking there are no Russian troops in Ukraine just in disputed territory of Donbas.
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  4098. I am sure you see the difference between the NAZIes and the Germans. So you must see the difference between the Russians and the Stalinist Bolsheviks. Please find and see my two videos: Soviet occupation of Germany and American occupation of Germany. You will see who stole more. Also remeber what the Nazies did to the Russians in 1941-44. My family lived through the seige in Leningrad. Hundreds of thousands dies of hunger. Should I blame the Germans or the Nazies?
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  4099. I am sorry but I did not come across Konstantin Filipovsky.
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  4100. exactly. They got along with mass murderer Stalin just fine and called him uncle Joe. when they needed Russia
    1
  4101. absolutely right
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  4102. thank you
    1
  4103. you are right
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  4104. true
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  4105. pozhaluista
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  4106. true
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  4107. where is the terror?
    1
  4108. thaank you for your comment
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  4109. thank you
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  4110. yes true
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  4111. sanctions will be a part of the peace deal I hope
    1
  4112. Putin is not a dictator. That is CNN propaganda. He is elected over and over as Roosevelt was.
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  4113. I thought of that but do not forget that today it is possible to determine precisely where a physical object was made
    1
  4114. quite likely
    1
  4115. welcome
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  4116. why? Muslems ate least do not promote gay marriage
    1
  4117. Who deprived Syria of oil revenue?
    1
  4118. thank you
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  4119. thank you so much
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  4120. Thanks 😄
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  4121. this all be be decided soon
    1
  4122. thank you
    1
  4123. welcome
    1
  4124. thank you for your comment
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  4125. Yes that but also the precedent that was set when the US froze Russisn 300 billion and Venezualan holdings. What would prevent them from taking my money too? They must have thought.
    1
  4126. thank you
    1
  4127. interesting
    1
  4128. My business is History I am a professor of History and I have been minding this for the last fifty years. What is your business?
    1
  4129. welcome
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  4130. true story is Stalin's onslaught on the peasantry of the USSR
    1
  4131. welcome
    1
  4132. yes a tragedy
    1
  4133. Putin said so yesterday
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  4134. sorry
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  4135. thank you
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  4136. thank you
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  4137. true
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  4138. This time the US is not in the position to confront Russia in Russia.
    1
  4139. thank you
    1
  4140. thanks
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  4141. thank you
    1
  4142. true
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  4143. welcome
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  4144. well said
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  4145. I do not think Putin wants geopolitical hostility to the US. It is rivalry not hostility.
    1
  4146. Yes, we shall see if he has it
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  4147. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  4148. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  4149. thank you
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  4150. thank you for your comment
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  4151. true
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  4152. Yes and list the names of top ten Bolsheviks. What will you discover? what similirity?
    1
  4153. My pleasure!
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  4154. glad to hear that
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  4155. May be. It is unlikely.
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  4156. Hold on Serbia! You will prevail !!!
    1
  4157. Glad you liked it!
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  4158. the denouement is near
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  4159. true
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  4160. That is probably so, but to say this I need the prooof not guesswork
    1
  4161. true
    1
  4162. that is true. but it seems a deal is coming up with Putin on ENERGY!!!
    1
  4163. Excellent!
    1
  4164. a bunch of lies, primitive propaganda
    1
  4165.  @MinaPopova-u1m  do not waorry the russians are NOT going nuclear
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  4166. thank you fr your comment
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  4167. Macron- Africa loss, Putin to Blame; Poland, lost Glory from sea to sea, Putin toblame; Germany - how to please American masters: Putin to blame
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  4168. it is competent and it is winnnig
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  4169. glad to try
    1
  4170. thank you
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  4171. interesting idea
    1
  4172. Many thanks!
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  4173. Thank you! Cheers!
    1
  4174. so nice to hear that
    1
  4175. fear, arrogance and injured pride
    1
  4176. You're very welcome!
    1
  4177. thank you
    1
  4178. well said
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  4179. You're welcome!
    1
  4180. thanks
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  4181. true
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  4182. Wow, thank you!
    1
  4183. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  4184. do you mean a balance of power?
    1
  4185. thank you
    1
  4186. why should it? Will the US give up Hawaii?
    1
  4187. exactly
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  4188. thanks
    1
  4189. exactly
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  4190. true
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  4191. thank you
    1
  4192. thanks
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  4193. may be
    1
  4194. You are so welcome
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  4195. I did not forget
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  4196. No at Harvard I taught Russian Soviet History. As for your point I do think that if Louis XVI demanded that the Church and Nobility pay taxes like everybody else, there would not have been a revolution. He just lacked courage and vision.
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  4197. your words simply mean you do not like what I say. That is fine. But for the sake of a proper discussion of issues, what exactly do you onject to?
    1
  4198. correct thank you
    1
  4199. yes true
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  4200. thank you
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  4201. this may happen indeed. They more they raise the stakes, the harder will be the fall
    1
  4202. glad to try
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  4203. I did not know that
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  4204. thank you
    1
  4205. like what?
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  4206. Russia will not give up Iran. That may indeed become a problem with Trump
    1
  4207. thank you
    1
  4208. Yes Makhno was crucial
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  4209. I agree with almost everything you say but the people have not spoken yet.If there are truly free elections in Ukraine, Odessa will vote to join Russia.
    1
  4210. IT is!
    1
  4211. true, good idea
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  4212. she probably meant Ukrainian soldiers who normally do not collect the dead
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  4213. How r u? Happy to hear from u.
    1
  4214. well said
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  4215. You are so welcome
    1
  4216. yes indeed. it is coming soon
    1
  4217. well said
    1
  4218. Do not worry. I have confidence in Putin
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  4219. The literature on Bolshevik Menshevik devide you can start with my book: The Mensheviks After October Cornell University Press available on Amazon. As to the documents of the time explaining why Bolsheviks were not Marxist or broke with Marxism and their regime was not either Marxist or Socialist see my book of documents Dear Comrades: Menshevik Reports on the Bolshevik Revolution and Civil War. Hoover Press available on their website and Amazon.
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  4220. very true
    1
  4221. Putin, I call him Vladimir the Savior of Russia. I suppose you would prefer Russia on her knees, defeated and humiliated. Well we have seen that in the 1990s.
    1
  4222. thank you for your story
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  4223. thank you
    1
  4224. great summary
    1
  4225. no, check mybooks
    1
  4226. glad to try
    1
  4227. exactly
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  4228. yes an most of the time unelected by anyone
    1
  4229. exactly right, colonel McGregor spoke about it
    1
  4230. thanks
    1
  4231. My video is not about the latest terrorist act
    1
  4232. No
    1
  4233. thank you
    1
  4234. merci
    1
  4235. exactly!
    1
  4236. I hope you are right
    1
  4237. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  4238. thank you for your comment
    1
  4239. true
    1
  4240. good point
    1
  4241. thanks
    1
  4242. true
    1
  4243. That was in the classroom. Soorry
    1
  4244. More to comr
    1
  4245. Read the biography of Struve by Richard Pipes
    1
  4246. BIBI?
    1
  4247. with a slight difference
    1
  4248. happy to try
    1
  4249. Russia is the bridge between East and West
    1
  4250. In 1990 the Russian people deposed the Communist regime and proclaimed independence for themselves and for Estonians Latvians and Lithuanians. 30 years later these countries want to destroy Russia and provoke NATO into attacking Russia. What should be the Russian response?
    1
  4251. true
    1
  4252. Dont worry. Putin will do both, keep old allies and create a new one
    1
  4253. Not agent, no just got financing from some "democracy" NGO
    1
  4254. Who? Would not it be his University?
    1
  4255. spasibo. DA Da DA!
    1
  4256. It is becausethe americans said what was yours is now ours.
    1
  4257. true
    1
  4258. good point
    1
  4259. Not true. Putin and Xi created RIC
    1
  4260. they will learn their lesson soon
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  4261. gracia
    1
  4262. well said
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  4263. they must have been Rusity i.e. Orthodox peasants in Carpathian Rus, that belonged to Austria -Hungary
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  4264. This is hard to say because you are right one cannot trust official ratings. However, by secondary evidence from local sources, by the number of volunteers, I have an impressions that the urban educated elites do not like Putin, especially the intellectuals, the bankers and oligarchs, but the common folks in small towns, in the Urals and Siberia, they are now in a patriotic upbeat mood, as have not been the case for decades. They do believe that NATO wants to seize Russian lands for their bases like in Crimea. As for being weak, it is too early to say. Let's wait and see how the campaign goes in 2023.
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  4265. spasibo vam
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  4266. true
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  4267. You are right Russia and Ukraine are one people. Let's hold common general elections. Zelensky is afraid to hold his own elections that are die 31 march 2024. He cancelled them
    1
  4268. thank you so much
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  4269. exactly
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  4270. Many thanks!
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  4271. I am sorry to ruin your facts but there was no US or British invasion. What there was was an American force sent to Arkhangelsk to help the Czeck legion guard Siberian railroad. IT NEVER came into military confrontation with any Russian force. The second US force was in Vladivostok that was a blessing for Russia because the Americans made it impossible for Japan to seize that territory.
    1
  4272. what do you disagree with?
    1
  4273. I think you are right. but it is hard to compare misery
    1
  4274. The trials were staged. Vyshinsky did what Stalin told him. They were old buddies as they sat in prison together.
    1
  4275. check out Colonel Macgregor assessment of US military
    1
  4276. Putin knows it
    1
  4277. How about ABC interview with the American mercenary? Is that Russian propaganda too? How bout Financial Times report that unarmed Russian border guards were executed without any cause? Is that Russian propaganda too? Or Financial times is probably on the pay of Putin, right?
    1
  4278. well said
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  4279. если вас интересует эта тема, купите и прочитайте мою книгу: Великая октябрьская катастрофа, доступную на Litres.ru;Wildberries.ru, Ozon.ru
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  4280. may be
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  4281. who knows?
    1
  4282. welcome aboard
    1
  4283. unfortunately that is so
    1
  4284. Thanks for listening
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  4285. Thank you for your comment. If you are interested in the Russian Revolution, read a couple of my books on it: the first: The Mensheviks October October: Socialist Opposition and the dilemmaof Soviet Power Cornell U press) The sesond: Behind the front lines of the civil war. Political Parties and Social Movements in Russia. 1918-1922 Princeton U Press both on Amazon
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  4286. most of its budget goesintothe pockets of endless number ofbureaucrats consultants,bases around the world i.e. wasted
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  4287. too bad you hate Russia. I can understand if you do not like Putin or even hate him, but why hate Russia?
    1
  4288. Yes I am. I was awarded Doctor of Philosophe in History from Princeton University 1984. Check it out
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  4289. thank you and check out my history playlists such as Russia under the Communist regime and Russian history and Russia under Yeltsin and Putin. Welcome!!!
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  4290. like a ghost
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  4291. perhaps.
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  4292. true
    1
  4293. You are very welcome
    1
  4294. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  4295. Glad it was helpful!
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  4296. If we look deeply into reindustrialization issue, we shall see that it is simplistic to expect that one you get rid of regulations and lower the taxes, everything will be just fine. No, you need excellent affordable engineers, you need infrastructure, you need qualified personnel at every level. Does the US have it all?
    1
  4297. so happy to hear that
    1
  4298. theoretically no, but they can make all kinds of exceptions
    1
  4299. stage free elections with all opposition parties participating.
    1
  4300. exactly
    1
  4301. thank you for your comment
    1
  4302. exactly
    1
  4303. thank you
    1
  4304. This is such a complex question. Jews who were socialists were not considered Jews by the Jewish religious community. So the the religious Jews Trotsky or Kaplan were not Jews at all. But for all others they were Jews by nationality or ethnicity which was the same thing
    1
  4305. You are the victim of CNN propaganda
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  4306. not true. Russia in 1913 was a highly developed industrial power number 5 in the world. St Petersburg was one of the cultural capitals of Europe EQUAL to Paris Berlin Vienna and London
    1
  4307. I shall make a video on Russian Polish war of 1920. That is when Poland got the belorussian and Ukrainian land
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  4308. спасибо чем вы занимаетесь, у меня в россии вышла книга на русском языке Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа онв есть на OZON.RU
    1
  4309. thank you
    1
  4310. Welcome aboard!
    1
  4311. thank you
    1
  4312. thank you
    1
  4313. thank you
    1
  4314. exactly right
    1
  4315. IMF in the latest report put Russian economy bigger than Germany's the fifth in the world
    1
  4316. Yes you are right of course 1922
    1
  4317. thank you
    1
  4318. thank you very much.
    1
  4319. true
    1
  4320. I deliberately use the old spelling Kiev not Kyiv
    1
  4321. exactly
    1
  4322. intetesting idea
    1
  4323. thank you
    1
  4324. true
    1
  4325. not much power left, 36 trillion debt
    1
  4326. glad to try
    1
  4327. so pleased o hear that
    1
  4328. good point
    1
  4329. thaank you for your comment
    1
  4330. probably so
    1
  4331. Europe has no energy to develop. You will buy either from the Americans at high price or from Russia or yourmindustry will fold
    1
  4332. What is clear about russian coverage is that they have no reporting on any military operations in Kursk region. I suppose they want it to be secret
    1
  4333. both points are exactly right
    1
  4334. Russia is not asking any permission. Whatever the West does or does not do Russia is going to develop its potential. It does not depend on the West anymore.
    1
  4335. why not a commonwelath
    1
  4336. Same to you!
    1
  4337. This is the neo-cons' choice
    1
  4338. stay cool
    1
  4339. thank you
    1
  4340. no, neither side wants it
    1
  4341. correct
    1
  4342. well said
    1
  4343. why pushing out NATO client state out is fascism?
    1
  4344. thank you
    1
  4345. May be but as I said there was a time when they spoke of community of responsibility for peace. Now they prepare for war with Russia.
    1
  4346. thank you very much
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  4347. precisely
    1
  4348. thanks
    1
  4349. glad to hear it
    1
  4350. thank you for your comment
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  4351. absolutely
    1
  4352. Because Diderot came to St.Petersburg at the invitation of Catherine II
    1
  4353. true
    1
  4354. читайте мою книгу изданную в россии Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа можно купить в Ozon.ru
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  4355. thank you
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  4356. thank you
    1
  4357. Glad you enjoyed it
    1
  4358. Thank you kindly
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  4359. Trotsky did not write about collapse of the Soviet Union
    1
  4360. micron wants to send it to ukraine, supposedly to defend it.
    1
  4361. glad to try
    1
  4362. How about Slovakia, Hungary Czechch republic Austria, they are all landlocked
    1
  4363. because I tried to focus on history not today's situation
    1
  4364. thanks exactly
    1
  4365. most welcome
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  4366. Veru good you mention all these people. I knew some of them personally. One common mistake is that whatever happened to anyone ever anywhere, to blame is Putin. That is redicolous. As if no one else could have done something without asking Putin's permission. A lot of journalists were ordered killed by those who feared their revelations. Nemtsov was killed by some of his business associates. It would not occur to you to assume that Epstein was killed on Biden's orders. Of course not. Yet no meaningful explanation as to whosdone it ever came out. Probably by those who feared he knew too much. By the same reasoning why do you put the blame on someone without any shread of proof? I am not paid by anyone. If need be I can show my bank accounts
    1
  4367. true
    1
  4368. short answer because Europe is dominated by neocon globalists, also because paranoid east europeans fear a big Russia bear. If you fear something that is not proof that fear is real, it may well be your psychological condition.
    1
  4369. Glad you enjoyed it
    1
  4370. true
    1
  4371. It was crushed. Famine of 1920 is the direct result of peasants refusing to sow
    1
  4372. thaank you for your comment
    1
  4373. yes true right on
    1
  4374. good idea
    1
  4375. true, for now
    1
  4376. thank you I will
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  4377. Я рад это слышать. Если вам нравится история, одна из моих книг издана в России. Это: Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа. Его можно приобрести в следующих магазинах: Ozon.ru; Litres.ru, Wilberies.ru
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  4378. He did but in its worst form sefdom took under Catherine II
    1
  4379. yes I know
    1
  4380. wrong theory. the people in donbas have always been russian, and in crimea russian onthe coast and tatar in the interior
    1
  4381. yes true
    1
  4382. He lives in Russia because he would have been killed in Kiev. If Putin wanted to he could have sent Russian army to defend Yanukovych as a legitimate President. He did not. So your argument falls apart.
    1
  4383. thank you for the update. All the way to Pekin
    1
  4384. yes pathetic
    1
  4385. Let us see how many votes they will get
    1
  4386. thank you
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  4387. They are all available on Amazon or Routledge.com website or Barnes and Noble, just put my name, happy to hear it,thank you
    1
  4388. good poit
    1
  4389. exactly
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  4390. Yes, I should discuss Dugin's thought
    1
  4391. He might think so but it may not happen so
    1
  4392. You are welcome!
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  4393. poor the us. They were the first to build the bomb were they. They were the first to use it on the japs didnot they? Poor things
    1
  4394. yes a PR campaign. Zelensky is a showman. I mean that was his career before elections
    1
  4395. welcome aboard
    1
  4396. Good question. I think that as long as Putin rules, he will try to restore good relations with germany, but other top candidates for a top job do not have such ideas. If Medvedev were in power, a much more energetic response would come.
    1
  4397. unfortunately that is true
    1
  4398. They won't let him
    1
  4399. exactly
    1
  4400. happy to hear that
    1
  4401. thank you
    1
  4402. It is not a book it is his speech at Valday Club meeting 2021 check it out on Youtube
    1
  4403. thank you very much
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  4404. Thnk you so much for your comment. I am so glad my message reaches a far awy Africa
    1
  4405. true
    1
  4406. thanks
    1
  4407. he is too old
    1
  4408. No, I do not think so. Trotsky was very tough with the Cossacks and peasant deserters during the Civil War but he thrived in debate, he loved talented people, he was not opposed to new ideas, he was not paranoid about his personal inadequacy, he probably would not have destroyed the Communist Party three times over.
    1
  4409. true I read that
    1
  4410. excellent reasoning
    1
  4411. no
    1
  4412. in 1992
    1
  4413. Glad you think so!
    1
  4414. thank you
    1
  4415. Noboby pays me. Why do you suspect that if someone says things you do not like, that means Putin pays. That is so primitive. Don't yoy get it some people think differently than Msnbc. I thought thaat in the west we have values of Liberty and Freedom of speech. Why can't you accept my right to think myself as I wish
    1
  4416. That is true and I agree, not question it was a Communist takeover. However let us not forget, that after WW1 the British and the French took over all of middle east under so called mandat system to govern "as they see fit." So Stalin acted as the Great Powers were accustommed to. You win you take
    1
  4417. So nice of you
    1
  4418. patience and resilience
    1
  4419. You're welcome!
    1
  4420. Trump wants to scare the Palestinians and scare them enough to sign a deal. He is not going to start a war, not for now any way
    1
  4421. many studies show that soviet agriculture was devastated by collectivization
    1
  4422. true
    1
  4423. I am touched
    1
  4424. horrible
    1
  4425. There were were no millions Poles. There were 140.000. I know exactly how many and its is in my book in the chapter on Stalin's terror. You forget that post-Communist Russia is post Communist exactly as Post-Communist Poland is different from the regime of Polish Communists. Don't push it all on the Russians. They siffered from Stalin ten times more than the Poles. At the time when 140.000 Poles were shipped to the Gulag, 4 million Russian peasants were murdered too. Russia is not the Soviet Union!!!
    1
  4426. Wow, what a coincidence?
    1
  4427. thank you
    1
  4428. thank you
    1
  4429. exactly
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  4430. so did I
    1
  4431. thank you for your comment
    1
  4432. US is bankrupt, EU close to it too
    1
  4433. true
    1
  4434. thank you very much
    1
  4435. The latter seems to be in the making
    1
  4436. Thank you too!
    1
  4437. may be
    1
  4438. welcome aboard!! glad you joined
    1
  4439. happy to hear that
    1
  4440. true
    1
  4441. Thanks for watching!
    1
  4442. well said
    1
  4443. exactly
    1
  4444. interesting perspective
    1
  4445. It is not the matter of who is bad or good, it is a matter where one is going. America is going towards Bolshevism defined as profound transformation of identities, and social order. Russia is becoming aware if its non-Western identity in opposition to the West, first time since Czar Alexiy
    1
  4446. thank you
    1
  4447. welcome
    1
  4448. thaank you for your comment
    1
  4449. we shall see
    1
  4450. When people are enlightenned by a powerfu; idea, they are willing to kill for it.
    1
  4451. thanks
    1
  4452. Russia did not invade Ukraine. You got your facts wrong.
    1
  4453. thank you I'll try
    1
  4454. may be
    1
  4455. good question.
    1
  4456. Welcome aboard!
    1
  4457. NKVD was in another age
    1
  4458. most likely
    1
  4459. You're welcome!
    1
  4460. can well be
    1
  4461. thank you
    1
  4462. Happy New Year to you too
    1
  4463. well said
    1
  4464. thank you
    1
  4465. Or it may be grounds to try Biden and Blinken and Austin and the entire Biden gang for theft and embezzlement.
    1
  4466. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  4467. I read somewhere that Russia is hitting targets in Ukraine from the Caspian sea. That is a reminder the the Americans that the distance these missiles can reach is 1.5 thousand km. The last time they used those was in Syria in 2015. That makes the US vessels vulnerable if need be.
    1
  4468. It may
    1
  4469. yes exactly
    1
  4470. People seldom change their views
    1
  4471. who killed him?
    1
  4472. good point
    1
  4473. As far as I know Lusitania did carry war materiel, which made Geman demand for a search legitimate
    1
  4474. at this time both are possible
    1
  4475. very true
    1
  4476. it is pride, narcisism
    1
  4477. interesting view
    1
  4478. may be
    1
  4479. Ukraine and Russia were one in the Soviet Union. Everything the Russians knew the Ukrainians knew too
    1
  4480. Cuba is under US embargo. poverty there is aUsProduct. Certainly soviet cars are no good but the Chinese are fine cheaper and better than the American ones.
    1
  4481. thank you
    1
  4482. thanks
    1
  4483. all of the above, plus change in France after Micron
    1
  4484. true
    1
  4485. They do!
    1
  4486. you can either order it from Routledge publisher London on line or you can order it through Amazon.com
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  4487. This is all talk. This could never happen
    1
  4488. As incredible as it may sound the workers did not support the Bolsheviks. Read my book The ensheviks After October. As to who supported them I devoted years of my life researching the answer. It is in my book Russia After Lenin.The short answer is - the newly recruited promotees whom Stalin used to conquer the countryside. The Bolshevik experiment is proof that Lenin was right that a small band of revolutionaries can conquer any country given the conditions of dissolution of the previous system.
    1
  4489. exactly
    1
  4490. thanks
    1
  4491. thank you
    1
  4492. glad to try
    1
  4493. frantic, desperate, panicky. His days are numbered
    1
  4494. exactly
    1
  4495. So nice of you
    1
  4496. or three clowns
    1
  4497. thanks
    1
  4498. thank you
    1
  4499. Stalin had a plan that if and when France and Germany went to war against each other, he would wait until they exhaust each other and then he would move. The British were planning to invade Azerbaijan and take over the oil fields in 1940. They all had plans to invade somewhere.
    1
  4500. very profound and disturbing abalysis, thank you
    1
  4501. Because he has to make sure nobody in the republican party accuses him of playing up to Putin
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  4502. My pleasure!
    1
  4503. exactly
    1
  4504. agree
    1
  4505. most welcome
    1
  4506. does it matter?
    1
  4507. true
    1
  4508. Russia was the first to offer aide to the US
    1
  4509. good point
    1
  4510. He was a hero too
    1
  4511. American universities used to be the best in the world
    1
  4512. thank you for your comment
    1
  4513. exactly
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  4514. thank you
    1
  4515. I shall thanks
    1
  4516. Some people are arrogant and that makes them blind
    1
  4517. yes it is at gmail, first name initial and last name and fifty one at
    1
  4518. yes thank you
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  4519. probably not
    1
  4520. interesting comparison
    1
  4521. true
    1
  4522. may be but why now?
    1
  4523. glad to try
    1
  4524. welcome
    1
  4525. absolutely right. A historic shift is on the way
    1
  4526. true
    1
  4527. Ot top of that all of them except Germany are totally in debt
    1
  4528. You are very welcome
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  4529. Check out Jeffrey Sacks, a born and raised American Historian at Columbia, Prof. Mershmeyer, prof Hanson. Will you label them all as Russian propagandists. We all say similar things. You are just so intollerant that as soon as something is different from your narrative you have to label it Russian propaganda. You've lost the capacity to relate to others.You are stuck in your self-delusion.
    1
  4530. that is true
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  4531. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  4532. true
    1
  4533. Yes, any deals require new elections in Ukraine
    1
  4534. you are wrong the surzhok dialect they speak in central ukraine is a version of RUSSIAN, has nothing to do with the dialict in Lvov
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  4535. I am glad to hear that. Congratulations!
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  4536. Great Russian writer
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  4537. i try
    1
  4538. glad to try
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  4539. interesting theory
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  4540. It takes so long to fight Zele regime because the US put in 160 billion worth of harware. 2. Putin nationalized 70% of industry because the oligarchs prbaly following Kotkin's advice, were bribed by the CIA to depose Putin. As for statisticson Russia GPD the real numbers are not what they appear to be. The US GDP is mostly services, that means counting money from one pocket to another. Russia GPD is actual production of goods which are couted in dollars and that deminisges their value by a factor of at leat three, because thedolar was worth 30 rubles. By IMF purchase parity calculatios Russian GDP is higher than Germany making it 4th in the world after US Chian, Japan. But even that is not accurate. The US economy is an inflated buddle ridden with debt
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  4541. he did
    1
  4542. The word Ukraine has its origin in a Polish name for the territory at the edge , kraina, kray, ukraina all of those designante a land at the edge. At the edge of what? answer of Poland. These were the lands that were Orthodox and wanted to split from Catholic Poland and join its original base of Muscovy. So they sent a delegation asking the Russian Czar Alexiy to protect them in 1654. Putin gave a file of these docs to Tucket Carlson. The south of Russia was called Novorossiya, or New Russia these were the lands of Odessa, Crimea, Don Cossacks - all of them had nothing to do with lands on the edge of Poland. The Malorossiiya was the name for original core Russia lands around Kiev. Until 1917 there was no Ukraine there was Malorossiya, or CoreRussia. The Bolsheviks revived a Polish name Ukraine, just to be different from the Czars.
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  4543. da vy pravy
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  4544. Good question. Yesterday I listened to a military situation report of a British reporter. It was so detailed and knowledgeable that shows they follow and they know what is going on in a minute detail. However the Brits and the Americans are cheering Zelensky to go one. Why? They want to inflict as much damage to Russia as Possible and as long as possible.
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  4545. thank you
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  4546. my pleasure to try
    1
  4547. welcome
    1
  4548. exactly
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  4549. Thanks for coming
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  4550. Sorry to say but you do not know the activities of US agencies of USAiD, democracy institutes and many others who were working for regime change in Russia, specifically to establish a pro-western gov in Russia as they did in Ukraine in 2014.
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  4551. a great summary of Russian history
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  4552. Glad you think so!
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  4553. thanks
    1
  4554. exactly
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  4555. true
    1
  4556. glad you liked it
    1
  4557. excellent summary
    1
  4558. could be
    1
  4559. yes
    1
  4560. exactly
    1
  4561. may be
    1
  4562. thank you for your comment
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  4563. exactly right but Putin's patience it seems is run out. We shall see
    1
  4564. My pleasure!
    1
  4565. exactly
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  4566. thank you that is important
    1
  4567. thank you
    1
  4568. interesting perspective
    1
  4569. So he is right in provoking war with Russia? Is that what you wnt?
    1
  4570. that is the view of the Russian generals, at least those I watched
    1
  4571. so far the bloody nose is in Kiev
    1
  4572. good point
    1
  4573. true
    1
  4574. welcome
    1
  4575. I do not know about easily but thay had a chance and they chose not to
    1
  4576. agree
    1
  4577. I think you are absolutely correct.
    1
  4578. true
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  4579. The topic of the future of Ukraine is a separate topic i want to focus but yes one of the scenarios being discussed is to return Hungarian, Rumanian ns Slovakian territories in West Ukraine to these respective countries. The poles could have has Lvov if they were not anti-Russian
    1
  4580. good answer
    1
  4581. Thanks, will do!
    1
  4582. The Russian are convinced that that is the case.
    1
  4583. That is your greatest mistake. Not RUssia, but the Soviets, the Communists,the Bolsheviks. You distinguish between the Germans and the Nazies do you? So why do you pin on the russians what Stalin did? Dont you know that Stalin killed more Russians than people of any other nationality? Or is it that you don't care about the Russians, you care only about your own, whoever they are. If you want the latest research data on Stalinterror read my new book: From Lenin to Putin.
    1
  4584. good point
    1
  4585. exactly
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  4586. probably
    1
  4587. glad to hear that
    1
  4588. Good question, frankly I do not know.
    1
  4589. I heard the figured half a million
    1
  4590. yes, true
    1
  4591. As far as I know vote manipulation in Germany is not as ramant as elsewhere. So AfD is growing and opinion polls show thay are number 2 in most places and number one in some eastern provinces
    1
  4592. You expect blind obedience to those who pay? I am a free man to have my own view. If you do not like it that is your choice but let me have mine without labels.
    1
  4593. true
    1
  4594. exactly
    1
  4595. thank you
    1
  4596. thank you
    1
  4597. They won't. that is the point. It is just talk
    1
  4598. yes it seems the way things are going Ukraine or rather Zele regime is doomed
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  4599. thank you for your opinion. The what you call "bluff" master is winning the war against a million strong Ukrainian army fully armed and equipped and sustained by NATO with the price tag of 250 billion dollars already spent. Do you know any other army that can do that?
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  4600. I do not know ezacly. but I heard a recording of how he talked to the female judge. If he talked like that in the US he would have gotten probably life without parol. "don't recognize your authority? whole system ...overthro,... etc etc/
    1
  4601. true
    1
  4602. exactly
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  4603. Danke sehr
    1
  4604. absolutely right
    1
  4605. amazing changes
    1
  4606. exactly
    1
  4607. yes that is correct
    1
  4608. Alas DeGaule's policies are long since gone
    1
  4609. I hope not if they are wise
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  4610. Why NATO expansion nonsense? Yesterday they were opening a new NATO base in Poland. How about if Russia opened a base in Cuba? I hope you would not object. The East European counties live in the past memories. Russia is not the Soviet Union. Russia does not need them There is nothing there one may want. My objective is to counter Mainstream American narrative by providing a different perspective. You do not like it but I hope you still believe in the freedom of speech. As for Putin war criminal it is the West that is throwing tens of thousands of poor Ukrainians into trenches to die. A real war criminal is Nataniahu and Biden
    1
  4611. which one do you mean?
    1
  4612. Yes clearly, the question is whether he will be doing something independently. Remember Teddy Roosevelt was supposed to do what he was told by the big biz yet he disobeyed.
    1
  4613. thank you
    1
  4614. You can add all the BRICS countries and half of Africa and Latin America.
    1
  4615. that is true
    1
  4616. Just get it into your head Russia and Ukraine were one for 400 years. Its is one people and one nation. Yeltsyn split the USSR despite a referendum to say together as one country.
    1
  4617. what may appear as indecision is in fact a decision
    1
  4618. thank you
    1
  4619. may be true
    1
  4620. up to Romanian border
    1
  4621. exactly. People paid by CIA USAID
    1
  4622. thank you
    1
  4623. exactly
    1
  4624. how so?
    1
  4625. me too
    1
  4626. check the news, yesterday the Chinese announced their new AI superior the the Western one.
    1
  4627. thanks
    1
  4628. thank you so much
    1
  4629. tey are winning
    1
  4630. welcome
    1
  4631. glad to try
    1
  4632. great summary
    1
  4633. Glad you enjoyed it
    1
  4634. That is exactly what I was trying to say
    1
  4635. so nice of you
    1
  4636. Good morning!
    1
  4637. Ukrainian anything is destroyed. They have only replaced western hardware. As to why it takes so much time, the answer is they had to destroy billions of dollars worth of western weapons. Do some research, how many tanks, armored vehicles aircraft patriot missile systems have been destroyed? Do you know that the frontline is longer than the entire France from North sea to the Mediterranean? So it takes time but the Russians are getting there faster and faster every month. The end i.e. victory is in sight. North Koreans are in the Far East period.
    1
  4638. thank you
    1
  4639. yes exactly, he is one of them, generals
    1
  4640. who says they are evil? Western media? No surprise!
    1
  4641. enjoy, write your thoughts
    1
  4642. true
    1
  4643. I doubt that Azerbaijan would fulfill the social contract as they put Karabakh under seige for 9 months and people were starving, had no elecrcity etc. As for Ukraine, they shelled supposedly their own city Donetsk for 8 years and killed 14.000 people BEFORE Feb 2022. They banned the Russian language and made criminal offense to call themselves who they were the Russians. That is the recent history of Donbas.
    1
  4644. thank you
    1
  4645. Remember the times when Bush called Putin a friend?
    1
  4646. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  4647. true
    1
  4648. glad to try
    1
  4649. As for Lemberg it would have been better to leave it with Poland after the war.
    1
  4650. thank you
    1
  4651. thank you
    1
  4652. not the best
    1
  4653. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  4654. may be
    1
  4655. I truly hope peace can be reached this year
    1
  4656. humility is a word unknown in DC
    1
  4657. glad you liked it
    1
  4658. You're welcome!
    1
  4659. welcome
    1
  4660. good point
    1
  4661. thank you for your comment
    1
  4662. Of course, but on what terms, that is the question
    1
  4663. true
    1
  4664. i hope you are right
    1
  4665. may be
    1
  4666. No. That would be unwise.
    1
  4667. thank you for your comment
    1
  4668. Is transparent and traceable the same thing?
    1
  4669. I have a playlist personal narratives. If you can contact her, we can record her personal narrative and put it in the playlist
    1
  4670. thank you
    1
  4671. sadly but true
    1
  4672. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  4673. this was just talk
    1
  4674. I have most of them in English
    1
  4675. thank you
    1
  4676. That is true. Big problem. Traditional in that it is Orthodox and against woke so called culture
    1
  4677. exactly
    1
  4678. ukraine
    1
  4679. You ll see within a year which scenario becomes reality
    1
  4680. interesting point
    1
  4681. thank you
    1
  4682. it takes 32 to tango
    1
  4683. true
    1
  4684. EU will one day realize that its economy will be better off in trade with China than the US, trade with Russia than the US, different political parties may come to power. Hawks in Britain Poland and Baltic may find themselves in minority.
    1
  4685. glad to hear that
    1
  4686. In my next video after that I cited ABC news who interviewed an American mercenary in Kursk
    1
  4687. What matters is not how many times one runs but whether the people approve it or not. Angela Merkel ruled for 16 years. She would have been elected for another term and that would hae made 20. Roosvelt ruled four terms and died in office. It was legal and democratic because the Russian people 87% elected him. And one more thing, Putin has made Russia Great Again.He made Russians realize that they can be proud of their own country instead of looking up to Europe or thr West. He rebuilt the economy, the army, the standard of living, the social services , reduced povery dramatically, created equality ofopportunity, strangthenned private property and the rule of law, created the best mother care in the world, certainly better than in the USA where women dont know what to do if they get pregnant and how to tell their employers. Just remember Putin will come down in history as Putin The Great.
    1
  4688. Danke schon, Ich bin froh dass auch in Deutschland die Leute hoeren mich!
    1
  4689. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  4690. Wow, thanks!
    1
  4691. thank you
    1
  4692. thank you for your input
    1
  4693. yes true
    1
  4694. thank you for your comment
    1
  4695. This is exactly the point I made in my previous video on the Baltic countries. Thank you
    1
  4696. thank you
    1
  4697. thank you very much
    1
  4698. exactly
    1
  4699. Always welcome
    1
  4700. yes it is true, moreover there was american investment in IG Farben, the producer of gas for Auswitz
    1
  4701. could not agree more.
    1
  4702. true
    1
  4703. You watch CNN or Euronews too much. Wakeup to reality
    1
  4704. very interesting obsevation
    1
  4705. can well be
    1
  4706. Glad you liked it!
    1
  4707. thank you
    1
  4708. If Russia is attacked and begins to lose, it will use nuclear weapons. And that means....
    1
  4709. it did not work out that way
    1
  4710. yes
    1
  4711. as long as the Germans let them have Ramstein
    1
  4712. thank you for this very interesting fact. Do you know where this was published. I have other similar testimonies
    1
  4713. thank you
    1
  4714. interesting point.They tried Kazakhstan and it did not work. Baltics if they tried there is much easier to overrun than ukraine. From the border to Tallin is like wjhat a hundred km.
    1
  4715. that was one of the most brilliant ages in the history of the world
    1
  4716. yes that is true
    1
  4717. Most welcome 😊
    1
  4718. Thank you for your input. I hope I am wrong, but it seems that they will not let Trump win.
    1
  4719. thak you for your insightful comments. Don't forget Putin defended Minsk accords longer than it made sense. There was no aggression, there was defense of Russian people in Donbas.
    1
  4720. thank you
    1
  4721. dreams of prevailing over Russia
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  4722. most welcome
    1
  4723. thank you
    1
  4724. thank you for your comment
    1
  4725. yes, that is true, but if they fulfill the orders and o what they are told, it does not matter.
    1
  4726. yes
    1
  4727. We shall see, but there is no plan just talk
    1
  4728. Thanks for sharing!
    1
  4729. well said
    1
  4730. at what point?
    1
  4731. we shall see
    1
  4732. You are most welcome
    1
  4733. interesting view
    1
  4734. Glad you enjoyed it
    1
  4735. seems like we agree
    1
  4736. glad to try
    1
  4737. thanks
    1
  4738. I do not think it will come to real fighting. Macron just wants to appear as if France has some influence in Europe. That is all. posturing
    1
  4739. like what?
    1
  4740. they are still discussing what to do. I shall address this topic soon
    1
  4741. kan sein. danke
    1
  4742. thank you for your insight
    1
  4743. makes sense
    1
  4744. thanks
    1
  4745. спасибо вам
    1
  4746. thank you
    1
  4747. thank you
    1
  4748. thank you
    1
  4749. may be
    1
  4750. Sorry, you are mistaken. Russian army in on the roll now. No shortage of anything. The slow advance is ONLY because Putin wants to MINIMIZE casualties
    1
  4751. true, thanks
    1
  4752. I'll try
    1
  4753. glad to try
    1
  4754. true
    1
  4755. glad to try
    1
  4756. excellent summary
    1
  4757. I saw it on TV
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  4758. many think so
    1
  4759. spasibo
    1
  4760. happy to hear it
    1
  4761. He just says what is expected of him.
    1
  4762. where did you hear the the Poles and the French are fighting in Kursk province?
    1
  4763. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  4764. thank you
    1
  4765. very pleased
    1
  4766. и тем не менее он их получал
    1
  4767. I have just seen latest opinion polls from Germany in some lands especially in the East Alice is on top of all. In Western parts Merz does
    1
  4768. Thank you so much
    1
  4769. thank you for your comment
    1
  4770. very true
    1
  4771. I'll try. Thank you
    1
  4772. Da
    1
  4773. May be you are right. Macron has been always dreaming of being the leader of Europe
    1
  4774. thanks
    1
  4775. Putin did not attack Ukraine. NATO took over Ukraine, established secret prisons and labs there and was building a military base. Putin put an end to it. As for Communism, Russia was a victim of Communism. Millions died at the hands of Bolshevik murderers. Don'e you get it: the Russians suffered more from Communism than any other country.
    1
  4776. so happy to hear that.
    1
  4777. me too
    1
  4778. Glad you like them!
    1
  4779. merci a vous
    1
  4780. thank you
    1
  4781. good point
    1
  4782. very true
    1
  4783. Appreciate it!
    1
  4784. exactly
    1
  4785. thanks
    1
  4786. exactly
    1
  4787. be specific what is fake, Oh its the Dutch F16s
    1
  4788. true
    1
  4789. interesting observation
    1
  4790. The USSR was not exploiting Africa. Remember Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow
    1
  4791. welcome
    1
  4792. Hope you enjoy it!
    1
  4793. All talk, empty threats
    1
  4794. glad to hear that
    1
  4795. Glad to hear that!
    1
  4796. Ecatly I wrote once an article titled Vladimir the Savior
    1
  4797. right. What wins wars are precision missiles.
    1
  4798. Much appreciated!
    1
  4799. Coming soon!
    1
  4800. exactly right
    1
  4801. deep meaning
    1
  4802. exactly
    1
  4803. true
    1
  4804. thank you for your comment
    1
  4805. perhaps
    1
  4806. It sounds like you think that I am defending them. No I am just trying to explain why so many of them were in rev. movement. For your information. In Soviet passports there was a nationality item. Everyone was identified as a Russian or Ukrainian of whatever including jewish as nationality i.e. ethnicity
    1
  4807. exactly
    1
  4808. thanks
    1
  4809. thank you
    1
  4810. yes
    1
  4811. thank you so much
    1
  4812. yes and it found it
    1
  4813. There are crooks anywhere
    1
  4814. Yes, exactly
    1
  4815. exactly
    1
  4816. What trueth did I hide from you? I do not understand. be specific.
    1
  4817. thank you
    1
  4818. who are the fascists?
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  4819. Even if I am not there to tell you things there are AMerican scholars who say the same things. Check my coleague a former Harvard Professor like me Jeffrey Sacks. He says the same thing or more biting. Check out Scott Ritter, MacGregor, program Judging Freedom and others. As for me out of my 73 years 50 I lived in the USA. So you cant label me as a Putin bot. I just happen to think they way I do.
    1
  4820. yes, good point
    1
  4821. exactly
    1
  4822. exactly
    1
  4823. exactly
    1
  4824. good analogy
    1
  4825. yes of course
    1
  4826. Please beware that lands east of Poland are Belorussian and Ukrainian , orthodox that Poland grabbed in a Polish Soviet war of 1920.
    1
  4827. thank you
    1
  4828. thank you
    1
  4829. thank you fr your comment
    1
  4830. thank you
    1
  4831. yes pretty much
    1
  4832. exactly
    1
  4833. hope so
    1
  4834. well said
    1
  4835. The fact though is that China's success is unparallel in human history
    1
  4836. true. They seem to have shut down any discussion of where troops are
    1
  4837. true
    1
  4838. true
    1
  4839. spasibo
    1
  4840. exactly.
    1
  4841. welcome aboard
    1
  4842. thank you
    1
  4843. welcome as always
    1
  4844. thank you
    1
  4845. thank you very much. Hold on Serbia! The West never broke your will
    1
  4846. good point
    1
  4847. well said
    1
  4848. thank you, Merry Christmas to you too
    1
  4849. welcome aboard
    1
  4850. good point
    1
  4851. For some reason you hate him. but hate leads to treason
    1
  4852. thank you
    1
  4853. thank you
    1
  4854. that is exactly right. In my book, I discuss the bombing of Yugoslavia and Primakov's reaction and his friendship with Putin. See: From Lenin to Putin
    1
  4855. spasibo
    1
  4856. It is funny. Each time we do not like soth we say oh its propaganda.
    1
  4857. Because there would be another Zelensky. The problem with political situation in Ukraine is that the right wing nationalists the Benderovites would not allow any compromise with Russia. They would rather die or ruin all Ukraine. Hatred guides them not reason
    1
  4858. glad to try
    1
  4859. keep dreaming
    1
  4860. No, in the Far East they pay scales are much higher than in Moscow. The dollar amounts are not everything. You should count how much they pay for energy, for rent, for medicine, for education and for food. Obviously that would change the overall picture.
    1
  4861. I have just checked. Teacher's pay in Ekaterinburg is 1000.dollars a month
    1
  4862. thank you
    1
  4863. Americans were fed a self glory illusion that the US military is equal to none. But the US never fought a war with an equal since Japan. So check my video the State of the Russian Army, check the videos of the specialists comparing F35 and SU 57, compare Patriots missiles and Oreshnik in terms of speed maneuver etc, check comparison between Abraham tank and T90 or Armata. Check out the capabilities of Russia S400 and S500 and of intercontinental missiles that go with the speed of 10 machs. At this point Russian army is equal or superior to the American one.
    1
  4864. ask them
    1
  4865. I think you see force in today's bombs
    1
  4866. Probably so, but I do not think Finland is of any concern for Russian security, more likely Lithuania and access to kaliningrad.
    1
  4867. It is arrogance and narcissism.
    1
  4868. exactly
    1
  4869. Yes check Google
    1
  4870. thank u 4 your analysis
    1
  4871. my apologies. Finnland was a special case all along
    1
  4872. Glad you liked it!
    1
  4873. glad to try
    1
  4874. Thanks for listening
    1
  4875. thank you so much
    1
  4876. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  4877. I am afraid it is not just Zele, it is the entire ruling gang
    1
  4878. I hope not
    1
  4879. that lesson is learnt. In fact Putin reminded the meeting of businessmen that their money is safer in Russia
    1
  4880. So nice of you
    1
  4881. yes, that is known
    1
  4882. Recently, at the end of 2024 Putin himself publicly wondered whether Russia should have started SVO earlier. The fight would have been easier and the victory quicker. Some military specialists say that Russia simply did not have the capacity to confront the West in 2014. Even in 2022 Russia started the SVO with only 200K troops. They did not envision a long war, just a military operation to force Zelensky to respect the Minsk accords. It is the US and Britain that CHOSE for Ukraine to fight expecting to win. Well, in the end they lose and their proxies in Kiev.
    1
  4883. thank you
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  4884. i did, for five years i served as a visiting professor in russia.isaw and experienced life as it is for regular russians
    1
  4885. very perceptive. I have just returned from Germany and they still think that Russia cannot live without Western technology. They got stuck in the 20th century
    1
  4886. My pleasure!
    1
  4887. They may say whatever they want but....
    1
  4888. What have you gotten instead, American gas for 50 % higher price and total dependence on the USA, is that not colonial status?
    1
  4889. thanks
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  4890. privet
    1
  4891. I am not at home hence a pause. As for bombs the US wants them refuses peace
    1
  4892. thank you very much. I think they will
    1
  4893. If you want facts, look what has happenned in the Baltics since so called independence? The Baltics have lost its most valuable resourcem young people who are all in the West. The population is declining. The projection is that Lithania will lose 46 % of it population by 2100. Small countries they had the same rights in the Soviet Union as Russia. They had a right of exit and the Russians honored that right. Dont forget that in 1989-90 huge crowds in Moscow were chanting For Your Freedom and OUrs. You have turned yourselves into minor vassals of the US and EU. You have forfeited your future. Soon you will remeber the times in the USSR as golden years when you preserved your language and culture.
    1
  4894. Well, Russian armies are advancing in the meantime
    1
  4895. There are many Ukrainian politicians, in Russia who are hiding from Zelensky. I watch them on TV
    1
  4896. good point
    1
  4897. true
    1
  4898. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  4899. thank you
    1
  4900. So nice of you
    1
  4901. interesting observation
    1
  4902. yes
    1
  4903. They should put the blame where it belongs BIDEN
    1
  4904. Thank you too!
    1
  4905. Yermack is clearly one of those on the list who may replace Zelensky but so far he has been saying the same as his boss. That message does not carry one very far
    1
  4906. only to get up and give a knockdown
    1
  4907. I beg to disagree. Peter opened Russia to the West, nut the Russians remained Russian and learnt from the West, borrowed ideas from the West, and still remained true to themselves in the end.
    1
  4908. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  4909. me too
    1
  4910. good point
    1
  4911. you just summed up the situation, thanks
    1
  4912. welcome
    1
  4913. my pleasure
    1
  4914. Thanks for listening
    1
  4915. thank yoi
    1
  4916. correct
    1
  4917. the ultimate outcome was never in doubt, but it does take time to overcome 200 billion worth of armaments
    1
  4918. glad to hear that
    1
  4919. You R right. They will learn soon
    1
  4920. pozhaluista
    1
  4921. they do but the world is watching Gaza in awe
    1
  4922. I always taught my students to be thinking critically and distrust the official propaganda
    1
  4923. true
    1
  4924. yes
    1
  4925. thanks
    1
  4926. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  4927. spasibo
    1
  4928. exactly
    1
  4929. donor? of what?
    1
  4930. true
    1
  4931. great summary
    1
  4932. true
    1
  4933. thank you
    1
  4934. spasibo za vash kommentarii
    1
  4935. That is also one of the taboo topics in Germany.
    1
  4936. it could be funny but it is sad
    1
  4937. Tver people republic does not exist. You got mixed up.
    1
  4938. exactly
    1
  4939. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  4940. that is all true
    1
  4941. what is rediculous?
    1
  4942. thank you
    1
  4943. thank you very much
    1
  4944. I wonder
    1
  4945. Check my playlists on Russia Under the Communist Regime, Russia under Yeltsin and Putin, the Ukraine war and others
    1
  4946. thank you
    1
  4947. thanks for a suggestion
    1
  4948. probably
    1
  4949. or SBU
    1
  4950. You're welcome!
    1
  4951. thank you
    1
  4952. happy to try
    1
  4953. well said
    1
  4954. That is true, but the idea of Deutchland has been there for at least 1500 years.
    1
  4955. most welcome
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  4956. Thanks, will do!
    1
  4957. No, I do not think they will, even though, some crazies do want to
    1
  4958. welcome
    1
  4959. pretty good summary thanks
    1
  4960. He wants to stay relevant
    1
  4961. thank you so much
    1
  4962. Putin does too. But Odessa is not in the Gulf of America
    1
  4963. I wrote 4 books on the Russian revolution and civil war: Check it out on Amazon. Mensheviks after October. and: Behind the Front lines of the Civil war: and Dear Comrades, Menshevik Reports and Russia After Lenin
    1
  4964. glad to try
    1
  4965. very good point
    1
  4966. thank you
    1
  4967. interesting view
    1
  4968. Or whether the Russian army rolls into Kiev or whether Ukrainian generals throw him out and take power to seek peace
    1
  4969. thank you for your comment
    1
  4970. not really
    1
  4971. that is true, Putin said so.
    1
  4972. interesting view
    1
  4973. most welcome
    1
  4974. Can you name me one treaty Russia broke?
    1
  4975. You are very welcome
    1
  4976. probably
    1
  4977. most welcome
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  4978. by what
    1
  4979. I worked in Ukraine in 2000 and already then the nationalist circles were panning for NATO membership. I knew people at the US embassy and Ukrainian politicians, at that time pro-NATO people were in minority, but the plan was officially announced in 2008 by the NATO summit.
    1
  4980. thank you
    1
  4981. thank you
    1
  4982. I am sorry I do not believe any of this. 1990s were chaotic timesandits is easy to see ahand of Moscow in any assacination. Buth there were plenty of thugs on the loose in those days.
    1
  4983. that is one of the reasons
    1
  4984. thank you, well said
    1
  4985. thankshaks
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  4986. Hi Wardalynn How are you. Drop me a line at gmail my name and first initial and fifty one after that
    1
  4987. yes
    1
  4988. true
    1
  4989. Unfortunately you are right. One day the US elites will realize they need Russia as a counterbalance to China. but it will be too late by then
    1
  4990. they's actually will get about 10 bil. That is what they need to cover expenses for One MONth
    1
  4991. Great quote, but Russia is not the same today as under Stalin and Lenin. Russia has nothing against Polish Freedom. Russia may object to having American bases in Poland that threaten Russia
    1
  4992. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  4993. It may or may not. The US is committed to defend Israel not to destroy Iran.
    1
  4994. welcome
    1
  4995. thanks for advice. I shall try it.
    1
  4996. Glad you enjoyed it
    1
  4997. well said
    1
  4998. That is a good comment. perceptive
    1
  4999. thank you
    1
  5000. welcome
    1
  5001. thank you
    1
  5002. thanks
    1
  5003. Please understand that Stalin did THE SAME to Russian peasants.
    1
  5004. As of today the EU is splitting in several ways, the north and the south, the imperialist unelected EU bureaucracy in Brussels and the elected governments. I do not see EU as converging, the opposite is true It is splitting as time goes on.
    1
  5005. the russians 24/7
    1
  5006. thank you for your perceptive comment
    1
  5007. These are just words. The US cannot live without Chinese exports
    1
  5008. most welcome
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  5009. Ok so what? Putin does no trust him either. Is the solution in war?
    1
  5010. Your reasoning follows the standard that Russia must be like the West. Well Russia is different. That does not imply worse. It is different.
    1
  5011. happy to hear that
    1
  5012. I agree
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  5013. Russia was set up. In jan 2022 huge shipments of arms to Ukraine went on. They were prearing an assault on Donetsk. They broke the ceasefire and accused Putin of starting the war, actually a brilliant operation, to convince the whole world that Russia was an aggressor.
    1
  5014. thank you
    1
  5015. thank you for your input
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  5016. Then Russia will win not over Ukraine but over NATO in Ukraine. Trump will change nothing.
    1
  5017. yes, but for therich 15%
    1
  5018. true they do
    1
  5019. I remember when reading De Custine's book, he complained a lot about bed bugs in Russia. he even carried his own bed to escape them. The funny thing is that nowadays French hotels have an invasion of bedbugs
    1
  5020. thank you I try
    1
  5021. interesting
    1
  5022. same as why Britain wants to fight Russia today: GEOPOLITICS, weaken Russia, block entry into the Mediterranean
    1
  5023. thank you
    1
  5024. sad
    1
  5025. thank you
    1
  5026. thank you
    1
  5027. thanks
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  5028. Yes that would have been a better option. Stalin messed up in many areas
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  5029. thank you so much for such a thoughtful and profound comment. Could not agree more.
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  5030. People become good neighbors not because they learn politesse but because their neighbors have guns or have a much stronger economy. Trump knows that the US cannot even if it wanted to win in Ukraine. That would require sending a US army and even then they may be beaten. Same thing in Taiwan. The US cannot stop China, by contrast no one will stop the US from taking over or buying Greenland. One does not have to be polite with the weak ones.
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  5031. labeling is not dignified. If you have simething substantive to object, do so.
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  5032. Concerning internationally recognized borders. The border bwteeen Russia and Ukraine was never demarkated. It is a border between two Soviet republics. It is not a border of an international treaty. Just a Budapest memorandum. Its other provisions have been broken by Ukraine.
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  5033. welcome
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  5034. thank you
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  5035. very insightful comment. Thank you
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  5036. welcome
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  5037. not only in the west
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  5038. thank you for your input. I agree that aside from Azov, these are not neo-Nazies and I say so in my book in a section discussinf this war.
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  5039. why "mythical"? Are you saying there is no discrimination against Russian population in Riga?
    1
  5040. If the alternative is Russian troops in Lvov, will the US senate ratify a peace treaty preserving Ukraine in whatever borders as an independent country?
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  5041. so happy to hear that
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  5042. I agree the US standard of living is higher in America. I never claimed that the Russians are richer. I claim that compared to the poverty and collapse of the 1990s, Russia is back to a normal country. Today the Russians live better than they had ever before
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  5043. Democracy is when the people elect their leader and respect hi. They showed that by their vote a couple of weeks ago in 87% for Putin. If that is not democracy, then what is?
    1
  5044. good idea
    1
  5045. thank you for your comment
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  5046. thank you
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  5047. I am using Diderot's rendition of Meslier
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  5048. He stalls you are right. Everybody is demanding a tough answer
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  5049. thank you
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  5050. thank you
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  5051. thank you
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  5052. do not hurry with conclusions
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  5053. who do you think is eroding minority rights and in which country? What rights? to do what? What do you mean by women's rights? Is it a right to work or a right to have a child with guaranteed child care? Or abortion right? Answers to these questions will define everything
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  5054. thank you
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  5055. get your pop corn and enjoy the show
    1
  5056. true
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  5057. most welcome
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  5058. You are very welcome
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  5059. I agree and I feel sorry for the Ukrainian people. They are being used as cannon fodder by NATO (US)
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  5060. thanks
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  5061. Nobody sponsors me. I am independent retiree. That is why I do not have to fear to lose my job as so many others. I can be free and say what I believe is the truth
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  5062. exactly right
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  5063. Colonel McGregor thinks so too
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  5064. welcome
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  5065. welcome
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  5066. thanks
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  5067. You are very welcome
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  5068. thank you
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  5069. true
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  5070. you have a pretty accurate summary
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  5071. not true. Ukrainian oligarchs were not Russian they were Ukrainian or controlled bu the US
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  5072. I hope you are right
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  5073. the terrorist component is in that the Ukrainians speak Russian like the Russians, and some groups penetrated deep into Russia doing all kinds of causing havoc activity. At the same time it was an invasion since several brigades with heavy armor were deployed
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  5074. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  5075. true
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  5076. thank you for yout comment
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  5077. thank you
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  5078. My pleasure!
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  5079. we shall see soon
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  5080. Thanks!
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  5081. a gamble he lost
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  5082. I think you are right.
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  5083. thank you
    1
  5084. about what?
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  5085. You're welcome
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  5086. Yes there is hardly any difference between the Russians and Ukrainians its like Bavaria and Saxony both parts of Germany
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  5087. Largely it is the military industrial base built in Soviet times and then resurrected and perfected under Putin
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  5088. welcome
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  5089. thanks i shall
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  5090. Thank you kindly
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  5091. Your use of this expression KGB agent suggests your hostile attitude or lack of knowledge. Putin was not a KGB agent but an intelligence officer in Germany. Holodomor is a distortion because Russian peasants suffered just as much as Ukrainian ones suffered not from the Russians but from the Bolsheviks, Stalinists, communists. Remember Russia is not communist any more. You would not accuse the Germans today that they are nazies, would you? It is a different country different time. So why do you use memories of the past to blacken Russia of today?
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  5092. abortion is a problem because it is a heritage of Soviet liberal system of divorce at first request.
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  5093. спасибо
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  5094. sounds racist
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  5095. well said, traitors to their own people.
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  5096. thanks
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  5097. I am sure Putin and the Russian General Staff are aware of all that. As for 800 billion, they can print whatever amount they want. That does not produce weapons and does not produce technologically advanced missiles like Oreshnik or Kinzhal or Sarmat.
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  5098. I never said life was a nightmare. I never said a vile empire. Why are you attributing tome words I never said?
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  5099. true, there are only 5% Russians in Lithuania
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  5100. thanks
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  5101. true
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  5102. merci
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  5103. I meant there was no actual fighting on its territory
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  5104. good point
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  5105. I hope so. thank you
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  5106. thank you for your detailed comment. The idea of Israel cooperating with Jihadists does not make sense.
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  5107. whatever, I was labeled so many times
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  5108. that won't work.
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  5109. Mr Khrushchev, the Communist party chair of the USSR transferred Crimea to Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic, a part of the USSR. This transfer has no validity in international law. Before that starting with mid 18th century Crimea was Russian, populated by the Russians.
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  5110. Interesting scenario. but Russia will not be dictated to. Trump thinks he is some kind of a God to tell the whole world what to do, not to Russia, not any more.
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  5111. you are right. Official position of Turkish gov it never happened. Too bad
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  5112. exactly right
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  5113. because he wanted to rely on workers in Kharkov, so he moved the capital to Kharkov and added Russian workers to Ukraine to control it
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  5114. thank you
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  5115. Glad it was helpful!
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  5116. we shall see
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  5117. I agree
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  5118. exactly
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  5119. thank you
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  5120. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  5121. thank you for your comment
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  5122. thank you for your comment
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  5123. true
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  5124. exactly right
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  5125. Putin will not give up Iran. It is geography and mutual interest. There is nothing Trump can do about it.
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  5126. thank you for your comment
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  5127. thanks you
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  5128. It was not the Afghan war. Thanks you for your question. I have recorded a video as a response to it and I shall post it in a day or two.
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  5129. И извините, вот как это началось. В декабре 2021 года США начали размещать огромное количество оружия на Украине, а в начале февраля они начали бомбить Донбасс. Их план состоял в том, чтобы спровоцировать ответ Путина. Опять же, никакой российской агрессии не было. План состоял в том, чтобы сделать невозможным для Путина не ответить. Как только он это сделал, они обвинили его в агрессии. Доказательством того, что я прав, является то, что в марте 2022 года Путин предложил мирный план, по сути, Минск-3. Он был отклонен, потому что Запад предпочел войну. Так что это война НАТО против России. Просыпайся, молодой человек And I'm sorry, this is how it started. In December 2021, the United States began deploying huge amounts of weapons to Ukraine and in early February they began bombing the Donbass. Their plan was to provoke Putin's response. Once again, their was no Russian aggression. The plan was to make it impossible for Putin not to respond. Once he did they accused him of aggression. The proof that I am right is that in March 2022, Putin offered a peace plan essentially Minsk 3. It was refused because the west preferred war. So this is a war of NATO against Russia. Wake up, young man
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  5130. land is the east is Belorussiya, Lithuania and Ukraine which is called Malorossiya
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  5131. glad to try
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  5132. true
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  5133. sorry
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  5134. true
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  5135. yes true
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  5136. thank you
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  5137. Many thanks!
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  5138. true
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  5139. merci a vous
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  5140. true
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  5141. thank you for your comment
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  5142. Yes , true
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  5143. thanks
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  5144. Yes, that is true. but, with the current prices Pentagon charges, there simply is not enough money to catch up with the Chinese and the Russians.
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  5145. or go to London
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  5146. true, well said
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  5147. true
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  5148. well said
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  5149. Each time they tell me how bad the Soviets were I tell them Stalin did the same or much worse to the Soviet people too. We all suffered from communists. Byn the way there were Polish communists too. Dzerzhinsky ont of the greatest murderes of all was a Pole.
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  5150. good point
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  5151. true
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  5152. interesting story and experience
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  5153. почему
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  5154. true
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  5155. As I said no nuclear strikes in Ukraine, absurd.
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  5156. What exactly did Putin distort about WW2?
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  5157. censorship!!!
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  5158. welcome
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  5159. interesting insight
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  5160. Let us hope
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  5161. Glad it was helpful!
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  5162. No , you do not know history. There was a Russian-Lithuanisn state in which the Russians or Belorussians played a dominant role and then that Poles took it over. Moreoever earlier there was a Russkoe voevodstvo in Poland. So The Poles took over Orthodox Population and tried to polonize it. They did the same with Lithianians. But Vilnius is not Wilna and Belarus is not Poland and Lvov is Ukraine not Poland. So study history
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  5163. There are powerful forces in France and Germany that resent US dominance
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  5164. thank you
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  5165. Yes read my book The Mensheviks After October
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  5166. probably. It is also a hypersonic missile that can hit anything anywhere even without a nuclear warhead before it is discovered.
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  5167. You are right. Both Rubia and Waltz are on record saying very insulting things about Putin just a short while ago.
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  5168. thank you
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  5169. I worked in the Russian Research Center at Harvard and our neighbor was the Ukraine Institute which he now heads. This is a place where anything ukrainian is good and anything russian is bad. ukrainians are europeans and russians areasiatic mongols, uncuvulized tribe, ukraine is a bastion of dem-cy and russia is of course dictatorship. all that is of course total nonsence
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  5170. all that you list is true, but what counts is who wins in the end.
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  5171. if only that was possible
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  5172. Bucha is a fake staged by zelensky
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  5173. какие
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  5174. and what march into Moscow and install Washington's puppet gov?
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  5175. Try: Simonov, The Dear and the Alive Zhivye i mertvye
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  5176. Sorry the Dead and the Alive
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  5177. probably
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  5178. whose successor?
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  5179. probably true
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  5180. thank you
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  5181. thank you
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  5182. Glad you enjoyed it
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  5183. ???
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  5184. good point
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  5185. You're welcome!
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  5186. perhaps. Of the 3, Pokand is particularly anti_Russian
    1
  5187. you imply certain things, but are shy to verbalize hazars
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  5188. good idea
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  5189. true
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  5190. Try to order it directly from Routledge, London
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  5191. thank you for your comment
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  5192. good point
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  5193. thank you
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  5194. most welcome
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  5195. thanks
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  5196. true
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  5197. interesting observation
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  5198. well said
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  5199. thank you
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  5200. You are welcome
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  5201. thank you
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  5202. thank you I will
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  5203. thank you
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  5204. If the US broke up into fifty states.....
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  5205. thank you
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  5206. sorry you di not like it
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  5207. thank you for your comment
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  5208. there was no such term Ukrainian in these lands. That is a Polish term. The people on the Don called themselves cossacks not Ukrainian, moreover at that time not nationality was the key but religion. All Orthodox identified with Russia as opposed to Muslems i.e. Turks or Catholics, i.e. Poles.
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  5209. glad to try
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  5210. Glad it was helpful!
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  5211. Yes, true, but they cant fail to see that factories are closing and crime is rising and go-t does nothing
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  5212. wont work
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  5213. thank you
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  5214. spasibo vam
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  5215. mist welcome
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  5216. thanks
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  5217. Kiev is where Russian civilization started. It is home
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  5218. Danke. All they can do is pin labels. They have nothing substantive to add.
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  5219. welcome
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  5220. I argue along the same lines in my book From Lenin to Putin
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  5221. thank you
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  5222. spasibo vam
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  5223. I can deny that. In January 2022 US armed Ukraine neo-Nazies Azov battalion opened fire on Donetsk city daily. The purpose was to make Russia respond and then accuse it of invasion. Please understand the people in Donbas are Russian not Ukrainian, have always been Russian. They refused to belong to Ukraine when Orthodox religion was under attack and when the Russian language was banned in official discourse in favor of a Ukrainian language which they considered a regional dialect of Russian. So it aint that simple.
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  5224. help the banks not the people
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  5225. so happy to hear that
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  5226. welcome aboard
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  5227. Since 2014 one could hear only bad things about Russia in the US
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  5228. spasibo
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  5229. glad to try
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  5230. Thank you kindly!
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  5231. why?
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  5232. Makes me happy to hear that!!
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  5233. I thinkyou drastically overestimate western air power. The US power isgood to fight Iran or Iraq but not Russia or China
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  5234. thank you for your data
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  5235. pleased to try
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  5236. EU leaders want war but have no army and no money to fight. They like Israel want the US to do all the funding and the fighting. But Trump does not want to pay for it all.
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  5237. thank yoy
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  5238. Putin always said Russia will use them ONLY if attacked
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  5239. no they dont
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  5240. First I am not claiming to be a Professor I was a Harvard Professor of Soviet History. The Russians cover their side of the story and the Western media, such as CNN, ABC, Fr1 BBC all they do is show how Ukraine is supposedly winning. I hope you watched this video to the end where I refer to alternative Western analysts I like.
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  5241. thank you very much. glad to try
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  5242. interesting way to look at it
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  5243. to Ukraine in order to prevent Russian victory, i.e. to confront whom? the Ukrainians? or the Russians?
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  5244. yes, truly amazing
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  5245. exactly
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  5246. yeas, that is so
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  5247. too far fetched
    1
  5248. yes exactly
    1
  5249. Putin is for Christ and those western leaders who promote woke culture are anti-Christian
    1
  5250. true
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  5251. The Maidan revolution against corruption and for democracy was hi-jecked by neo-Nazi Bandera type nationalists, driven by hatred
    1
  5252. To u 2
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  5253. thank you for your input
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  5254. because the americans would not let them
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  5255. By those who spread their propaganda
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  5256. true
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  5257. exactly
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  5258. If Russian territory is attacked, Putin has the obligation to defend it. His logic is probably that there is disputed territory and Russia proper territory. That is where the red lines are
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  5259. I hope you are right, but the deep state will not allow him. As for Iran, he is more belligerent than any other
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  5260. thank you
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  5261. true
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  5262. very interesting thank you
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  5263. could well be
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  5264. I just raise questions, the answers are not clear yet.
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  5265. thank you
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  5266. Merry Christmas to you too. Thank you
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  5267. that is so
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  5268. thank you very much
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  5269. thank you
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  5270. The foreign country you refer to was a part of Russia for 400 years and before that the Poles conquered it and before than it was Kievan Rus whose grand Duke moved the capital to Moscow. Russia and Ukraine is one, historically religiously and ethnicaally, and culturally. As for ww2, belorussians are orthodox and Russian not catholic and Polish. The fact that you owned them does not make them part of Poland.
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  5271. thank you
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  5272. thanks
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  5273. well said
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  5274. thank you for your comment
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  5275. well said
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  5276. thnk you I did not know it
    1
  5277. yes I do
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  5278. wake up we are not in 1937
    1
  5279. yes exactly
    1
  5280. Thanks for listening
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  5281. merci
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  5282. again long term view
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  5283. So nice of you
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  5284. S-400 are against real missiles like storm shadow or ATACM
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  5285. any speech is fine with me
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  5286. The Russian generals want to go all the way. Putin so far said that Russia needs just the four provinces plus neutrality. We shall see
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  5287. You are right, but there are always more chances for peace and less chances for peace. As Christians we should always give a chance to peace however small
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  5288. exactly
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  5289. true
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  5290. true
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  5291. they did, we'll see this time around.
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  5292. good topic Wagner, Putin portraits in the streets down with Macron!!
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  5293. that is a huge topic. There was no such thing as a european kingdom in middle ages. It was a bunch of warring principalities far weaker than the Ottoman empire. China was too far away
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  5294. Corruption under yeltsyn was much worse than under the Soviets
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  5295. They may sooner or later
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  5296. It is also possible that Zekensky falls and a new gov will negotiate
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  5297. No, not at all.
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  5298. thank you
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  5299. welcome aboard
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  5300. well said.
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  5301. thank you
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  5302. You are absolutely right about Japan. They just submitted instead of rebelling. They could have resisted American sabotage, instead they just capitulated as in 1945. China is a much bigger economy. It is too big to stop or subvert as in the 19th century. So this time around the inheritors of the Roman empire are going to lose competition to the Orient.
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  5303. Putin predicted that in spring 2025 the "masters" of Zelensky will replace him. That may well happen because he Zelensky is beginning to bite the hand that is feeding him. I am still hopeful that Putin and Trump may work it out
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  5304. yes, true, Trump repeated at inauguration that the US is exceptional, just like Hilary
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  5305. exactly
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  5306. I love debate. So what facts did I omit or distorted. Before accusing somebody of propaganda, be secific what do you disagree with?
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  5307. Yes I agree and I hope he will not change his stance
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  5308. Yes that is so.
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  5309. good point
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  5310. why evil? any proof?
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  5311. thank you
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  5312. interesting to follow
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  5313. Thank you I shall check it out
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  5314. true
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  5315. thank you
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  5316. true
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  5317. glad to hear that
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  5318. when one is desperate, one is ready for anything
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  5319. Glad you like them!
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  5320. more important is not to be dragged into a nuclear war
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  5321. Ukrainians and BoJo have been dreaming about it for three years and yet the realty is the opposite. Russian army today is the strongest in Europe.
    1
  5322. glad to hear that
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  5323. interesting point
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  5324. Welcome!
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  5325. I do too live in France
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  5326. My pleasure!
    1
  5327. the gulf states may have secret sympathy to sunnies
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  5328. true
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  5329. good point
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  5330. Not exactly, the proletariat Marx knew was not the kind of proletariat Lenin saw in Russia. Case open
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  5331. No it will not. Russian budget gets only 30% from oil exports. And if the price falls too low American companies will go bankrupt first well before state run Russian ones.
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  5332. yes, what happenned to germany? Strange apathy?
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  5333. thank you
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  5334. exactly
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  5335. Thanks for listening
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  5336. sorry
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  5337. that is exactly the point. Yes 1984 realized
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  5338. true
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  5339. interesting
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  5340. thank you
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  5341. exactly
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  5342. Is Macron not a manipulator, how he managed to manipulate elections and ignore the results. What about Scholtz, not a manipulator? AfD won and they manage to keep it out of power. What about Biden? Is he not a manipulator? How much did he earn in Ukraine or rather his son when he was I cite :a point man on Ukraine" under Obama?
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  5343. true
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  5344. interesting idea. But it seems Trump is serious about shaking DC up
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  5345. Both!
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  5346. why
    1
  5347. very perceptive analysis
    1
  5348. You are most welcome
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  5349. welcome aboard
    1
  5350. Why do tens of thousands British own houses in France and no Germans?
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  5351. That is the hope
    1
  5352. you are most welcome
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  5353. yes lots of money stashed in the west
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  5354. welcome
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  5355. thank you
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  5356. thank you
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  5357. exactly
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  5358. Glad it was helpful!
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  5359. да я против большевизма сталинизма и превращения власти советов вл власть чекистов
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  5360. thank you
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  5361. welcome
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  5362. Arestovich gave interesting details on corruption and theft
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  5363. Glad you enjoyed it
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  5364. Thank you for your comments Basically I agree but what Trump has discovered that the Generals who are supposed to obey the Commander in chief ignored his orders. Also the CIA was not authorized by Congress to funnel money to various NGOs who prepared a coup d'etat in Ukraine and in many other countries starting from Iran in 1953. These are just a few examples where so called independent bureaucracy went out of control to pursue their own agendas or agendas on those who remained in the shadow. Who killed Kennedy? Who killed MLK? the answer: the deep state hirelings
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  5365. thanks
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  5366. The latest revelation in the prisoner exchange is that Navalny was on the list to be let go as a part of the deal. That proves he WAS NOT killed by the authorities. He either died by himself or was killed to discredit Putin
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  5367. Any time
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  5368. Many thanks!
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  5369. welcome
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  5370. You may be right. It may happen again.
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  5371. ???
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  5372. Yes I know. He held out as long as he could
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  5373. The winner is not the one who shouts the loudest but who acts patiently the smartest
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  5374. It is land grab by the US and NATO. Russia is returning to itself something that was a part of Russia for 400 years
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  5375. thanks
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  5376. that is a good point
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  5377. much appreciated, thank you
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  5378. no, this is not going to happen because financial sector is firmly in the hands of the state and not some foreign banks
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  5379. very true
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  5380. That is what it is all about
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  5381. Thank you very much. Pleased to hear that
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  5382. true
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  5383. Thank you, I am familiar with these thinkers
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  5384. most welcome
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  5385. He won't, not yet
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  5386. thank you
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  5387. thank you
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  5388. many people say that
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  5389. It is useless to message anything to Harris. She will go someone else to explain it to her
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  5390. plausible theory, but I am inclined to think that it was a clot in his blood
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  5391. good summary
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  5392. yes
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  5393. I agree of course.
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  5394. Yes, true
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  5395. Why cannot people understand that there is nothing in the Baltics that Russia needs. Why conquer a piece of land of no value?
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  5396. I am going to post a video soon on economic data on China. You will see that the US has already lost the competition
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  5397. or blind belief in self superiority to some russkies
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  5398. Because Armenia invited France and US to handle their problems
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  5399. He wants to keep the illusion going to get more money.
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  5400. Glad you liked it!
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  5401. thank you
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  5402. thanks
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  5403. This will change when Australians realize that they will gain more by joining the neighborhood they live in rather than the bankrupt Britain
    1
  5404. You are very welcome
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  5405. thank you
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  5406. thank you
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  5407. thank you
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  5408. No I do not. In my list find a video on the Red Terror, one of the most popular. I have one on Stalinist terror and on Ukrainian famine and why stalin killed the kulaks JUST check it out!!!
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  5409. probably
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  5410. welcome
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  5411. You're welcome
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  5412. that was communism not russia
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  5413. thank you
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  5414. Did I ever say that Breslau is in Ukraine?
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  5415. Putin signed Minsk autonomy accords. Zelensky tore it up
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  5416. thank you for your comment
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  5417. thank you
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  5418. When all of Donbas is returned to Russia, there are not so many resources left, just agricultural land, nothing else
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  5419. unfortunately
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  5420. thank you
    1
  5421. you see the choice is just between Biden and Trump. No other choice in that system was possible.
    1
  5422. Not only the West, in the Un there are many from non-West
    1
  5423. well said
    1
  5424. thank you
    1
  5425. The Russian response we shall see at BRICS meeting in Kazan: a new payment system
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  5426. thank you for your comment
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  5427. welcome
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  5428. thank you
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  5429. Because they is a theory suggested here in some comments that he was killed by the British intelligence. They must have been doing a very serious autopsy and blood analysis to see if there was any trace of anything. Even if they found something, they would not reveal it publicly.
    1
  5430. interesting view of things
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  5431. yes true
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  5432. they do not want to stop, morebillions more weapons, like Bob Dylan song To the Masters of War
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  5433. thank you
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  5434. sorry if I misspelled
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  5435. yes, true
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  5436. many comments are in this direction
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  5437. can well be
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  5438. Yes, Trotsky's record during the civil war does not promise anything but endless executions
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  5439. Turkiye is not an enemy of Russia or of Iran. It is a partner but it has its priorities which means the Kurds, who constitute about a third of Turkish population and who are in all bordering countries, Syria, Iraq and Iran. That makes the Turks worried. Iran and Russia know about this problem and can instrumentalize it if the Turks turn aggressive.
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  5440. thank you
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  5441. You are confused. You got mixed up between the Soviets Communists Bolsheviks and the Russians who were victims to the above just as the East Europeans. Moreover the Austrians and Germans owned all of Eastern Europeans and there is no hatred, is there?
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  5442. exactly
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  5443. I agree with you. Check my video Putin on Lenin. In it I discuss Putin's views on Lenin, nothing positive
    1
  5444. capitalism comes in different forms
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  5445. most welcome
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  5446. да, у меня есть одна книга, изданная в России: «Великая октябрьская катастрофа», доступная на сайте Wildberries.ru, Litres.ru, and Ozon.ru
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  5447. thanks
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  5448. when I hear words Russian propaganda , I know you do not like this view point. OK, fair enough? What is yours? To keep on fighting?
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  5449. Kornilov demarche was an attempt to stop the wave of anarchy amid the collapse of state authority. Prigozhin's march was an attempt to force Putin to fire Shoigu. No similarity
    1
  5450. You are welcome
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  5451. good quote
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  5452. No Putin does not want a different military alliance, he wants to diffuse the existing ones
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  5453. exactly
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  5454. The Russian economy has grown 3 per cent per year. New factories are being bult all the time. A new system for currency exchange is being created to bypass SWIFT. A country that does have serious economic problems is Deutchland
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  5455. The Baltic leaders do not want any assault. They are scared. If they were smart they would try to establish good relations with Russia instead of poking the bear, who ight just snap back
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  5456. Thanks for listening
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  5457. most welcome
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  5458. thn you for your input
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  5459. Sorry I have not read it
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  5460. thirty thousand to be exact
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  5461. glad to hear that
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  5462. thank you
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  5463. Glad it was helpful!
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  5464. thank you for your perceptive commentary. Iam with those whose priority to have no NATO in central europe whatever the borders
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  5465. Not clear who is supporting what?
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  5466. welcome
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  5467. most welcome
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  5468. true!
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  5469. Ukraine is not a country. It has been a part of Russia for 400 years. Lenin in 1922 and Stalin in 1945 gave to Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic territories like Donbas that were never Ukrainian even on the maps of Ukrainian nationalists then. So when the Soviet Union collapsed the Ukraine wound up with huge territories that were no Ukrainian. People there considered themselves Russian, spoke Russian and were Russian Orthodox.When Bandera nationalist from Western Ukraine seized power in 2014 some of these territories chose to proclaim independence? Putin worked hard to make a compromise called Minsk accords. Ukraine rejected any compromise and got US weapons to force Donbas back. Russia depended the split away republics> IS THAT WHAT YOY CALL AGGRESSION?
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  5470. I advise you read Karl Marx: British Rule in India
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  5471. thanks
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  5472. To steal? billionaires? You must be repeating CNN? WHERE IS THE PROOF?
    1
  5473. That is true, I remember watching that.
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  5474. most people do notknow it
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  5475. danke
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  5476. Yes but I thought the students think independently. What a disappointment
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  5477. may be
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  5478. thanks
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  5479. the source is Olesya Medvedeva. She has a daily report on Ukraine
    1
  5480. welcome
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  5481. The problem with American thinking is that they measure everything in dollars. Wars are not won by fancy weapons alone.
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  5482. sicher, und auch Deutsch
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  5483. yes that is happening.
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  5484. welcome
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  5485. If you think FSB is horrible, I advise you to read State Dept report on human rights in Ukraine: truly horrible: disappearances, torture, executions, sexual abuse etc etc
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  5486. several other viewers have suggested that also
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  5487. yes
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  5488. The Maoists do but most people do not because Marx though of the libertion of the working class, Mao was the leader of the peasant movement.
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  5489. I do not have any grandchildren yet
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  5490. spasibo vam
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  5491. that is another interesting analogy
    1
  5492. not Russian boot but Soviet boot, so the Russian people were under the Communist boot too!!!
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  5493. This may be a beginning of a new world order
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  5494. This is also a problem in Russia. The only thing that makes me hope that the Russians will be able to cope is that the majority of migrants are from central Asia, i.e. republics of the former Soviet Union, which makes them easier to integrate
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  5495. specifically about what?
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  5496. I hope you r right
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  5497. True
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  5498. Well said!
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  5499. you got it right
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  5500. Do you have something substantive to object? You sound as if anything that come from Moscow is a lie by definition. If that is how you think, that is called prejudice to put it mildly or outright racist
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  5501. Awesome, thank you!
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  5502. The debate is how soon the West is going to drop him
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  5503. welcome
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  5504. Everything you say is right but I do not understand which country you mean? There is a saying better late than never
    1
  5505. well said
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  5506. thank you
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  5507. we shall see
    1
  5508. thank you for yout comment
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  5509. true
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  5510. The serfs were sefs not slaves. Sellinghumans was abolished in Russia in 1812. You raise too many important issues to answer each one of them. I wrote a book of 400 pages deling in great detail with the issues you raise. Behind the frontlines of the civil wat. Political parties and social movements in Russia. The whites lost for many reasons: here are some. They broke with even those anti-Bolsheviks waho could have been their allies such as SRs, Petliura of Ukraine, and even the Cossacks. They destested all leftists and that narrowed their social base. You are TOTALLY wrong when you assume that Russian peasants supported the Reds. They did not. One of my greatest discoveries and contributions of my book was evidence that the Bolshevik war with the peasant rebels was larger by far than their war with the Whites. Trotsky may not have had any military education but the Bolsheviks were masters of mobilization and propaganda. They managed to force enough soldiers to hold the front and win, plus there were many who joined the Bks because they expected to benefit from that regime.
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  5511. thank you so much
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  5512. that is simplified
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  5513. true
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  5514. it is time for them to hear other sources
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  5515. French society would not go for a war with Russia
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  5516. good observation
    1
  5517. exactly
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  5518. I answered many of these questions in many of my videos. Check the War in Ukraine playlist. Briefly Putin did all he could to sustain Minsk accords. For years he kept repeating there is no alternative to Minsk accords. Then when intelligence reports showed that Ukraine armed by the USA was preparing an assault on Donbas, he decided to act first
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  5519. Do you think that all opinion polls that give Putin over 80% support lie?
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  5520. well said
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  5521. thank you
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  5522. what is the difference?
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  5523. The real aggression is that of NATO into Ukraine and stationing their missiles in Poland and Rumania and Germany. These countries are being used by US imperialism.
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  5524. happy to hear that
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  5525. thank you. You know you can buy my book if you are in Russia. It is called Velikaya Oktiabrskaya Katastrofe, availabe at Wildberries.ru; and Litres.ru
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  5526. thank you
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  5527. He promised peace when elected
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  5528. glad to try
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  5529. I though you believe in the freedom of speech.
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  5530. interesting
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  5531. все правильно
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  5532. thank you
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  5533. Glad you liked it!
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  5534. thank you for your detailed comment Good points
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  5535. I hope you are right too
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  5536. thanks for your input
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  5537. Do you have something specific to object to?
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  5538. welcome aboard
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  5539. thank you
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  5540. Zele is desperate to stay relevant, alas his time is up soon
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  5541. danke
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  5542. May be after the war, who knows?
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  5543. East Europeans "freed" themselves right into the bondage of EU bureaucrats
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  5544. thank you
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  5545. I assure you Putin is one of if not the most experienced leader and he knows what he s doing. The territory is Kursk oblast the Ukr forces control shrinks every day with catastrophic casualties. The Ukr army is in tatters, rolling back to Dnepr. The end is near, it is a matter of several months at most.
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  5546. I hope they are not suicidal
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  5547. yes the bases all over and the deep pockets of generals and consultants
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  5548. glad to try
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  5549. thank you
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  5550. thank you
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  5551. yes exactly
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  5552. My grandfather was 15 when the civil war ended. His father was a miller. He either owned or worked at the mill in a small Ukrainian town. They all tried to pass on as workers. As such he went to rabfak workers' faculties, i.e. courses for administrative personnel. As for Lenin, I recommend you find Richard Pipes The Real Lenin. He found many interesting details on his personality which you summed up pretty well. he was a professional factionist who lived on stolen money.
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  5553. glad to try
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  5554. thank you for sharing. November?
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  5555. Glad it was helpful!
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  5556. yes, but the trends are worse in the Baltics than ellsewhere in EU
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  5557. true
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  5558. a scenario which is quite possible
    1
  5559. historical memory of being a great power once in 1400
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  5560. Soon thy are going to publish the list of BRICS partners
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  5561. welcome
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  5562. that is strange
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  5563. I have a better idea, lets rename Atlantic ocean into American bay, and the Pacific ocean Trump sea.
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  5564. well said
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  5565. Nobody knows. It may be soon or it may be six months
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  5566. If the US takes over Greenland, NATO is finished
    1
  5567. yes that is true
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  5568. I will
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  5569. thank you
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  5570. Ukraine was a part of Russia for 400 years and then Kievan rus a thousand years ago is the origin of both brother nations. The West wants to split one brother nation fron the other and include it in NATO. Suppose Scottland split from UK and joined a Russian alliance. Or suppose Texas split from the US and joined a Russia alliance and Russia wouldd supply it with cluster bombs to bomb Louisiana. That is a correct view of events
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  5571. This is a huge topic. In a nutshell, he and his regime was corrupt like Russia in the 1990s. A good revolution was hi-jacked by bad people, financed by the US and Soros.
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  5572. no just the gov
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  5573. exactly
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  5574. what is wront with that. May be the world will be a safer place?
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  5575. I am trying.
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  5576. I do not call him that. I watch him every day
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  5577. The US and EU have stolen 300 billion of Russian assets in their banks. Cheer robbery! Who would trust western banks after that?
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  5578. thank you for yout comment
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  5579. exactly
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  5580. so glad to hear this
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  5581. well put
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  5582. true
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  5583. true
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  5584. most welcome
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  5585. yes but then comes peace and a new beginning
    1
  5586. yes
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  5587. welcome
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  5588. posmotrim
    1
  5589. true, thanks
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  5590. The subject did not come up. But you are right it is interesting to know. American students seem to be against the slaughter.
    1
  5591. thank you
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  5592. thanks
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  5593. could not agree more
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  5594. No. a drankard and traitor
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  5595. thank you
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  5596. true
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  5597. I am happy you like it
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  5598. true
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  5599. thank you for your comment
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  5600. thank you for your comment. Of course you are right
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  5601. true, but Huntington predicted break-up of Ukraine
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  5602. This word is a Ukrainian word that consists of two roots, holod which is golod in Russian it means hunger and mor which is the same in many languages which means death. so you have death from hunger
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  5603. Stella, thank you always remember you
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  5604. Why do you think so?
    1
  5605. yes
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  5606. My personal idea if Putin asked my advice would be to offer to Romania and to Hungary a deal: you get out of NATO and you get territories Stalin took from you back.
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  5607. merci
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  5608. merci
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  5609. All these educated people came in the second and third generations. Not in the 1930s but in the 1950s and 60ies and 70ies. These were the sons and daughters of the proletarian upstarts
    1
  5610. nit clear?
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  5611. true
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  5612. spasibo
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  5613. true
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  5614. not exactly they but people like them
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  5615. thank you
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  5616. happy to hear that
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  5617. thanks
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  5618. thank you
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  5619. Putin will dictate peace terms
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  5620. so happy to hear that
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  5621. glad to try pozhaluista
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  5622. yes, probably so, the succession???
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  5623. very true
    1
  5624. And yet there are people in America who genuinely want good relations with Russia.
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  5625. Interesting view, but Rutte is a European warmonger, Von der Lein is European German former war minister, warmonger, Duda, and the list goes on. Why is that that for 400 years Europe was in accord that Ukraine is Russia and after the USSR they decided it is not and should not be. The Russians do not tell the French that people in Alsace speak or spoke German, and in Perpignan it used to be Catalonia
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  5626. good explanation
    1
  5627. beautiful poem
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  5628. Putin fiasco? You mean Gerasimov failure? That was on day one. Let's see where we are on day 30.
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  5629. thanks
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  5630. I am sure that Putin is aware of all these points you mention. thanks
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  5631. funny
    1
  5632. you see there are no btutal ways and no fake elections. You waych cnn too much. dot believe western media
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  5633. Glad it was helpful!
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  5634. The Russians do not want to take Germany. But the Germans themselves will shut down US bases if the US decudes to fight Russia with its own troops cause the Germans do not want to be destroyed.
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  5635. more influential than Putin??? I doubt that
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  5636. glad to try
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  5637. thank you so much. Glad to try!
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  5638. exactly
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  5639. What a disappointment Meloni is. So many fake promises!!!
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  5640. can well be, we shall see. You see the American generals know the real capabilities of the Russian army
    1
  5641. interesting point
    1
  5642. spasibo
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  5643. thanks
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  5644. we are just in the second month. You aint seen nothing yet.
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  5645. thanks you for your input
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  5646. those care who want the war to end
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  5647. welcome pozhalusta
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  5648. yes
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  5649. thank you kindly
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  5650. Russia is ready to defend itself whatever and whoever the advesary
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  5651. The two have different origins. The American neocons hate Russia as I explained earlier in my video because they dreamed of the American century and treated Russia as a defeated party in Cold War. They believed Russia was a gas station pretending to be a country and acted accordingly, a nobody who could be ignored and American empire expanded. The European Neocons come from two sources, one is radical liberals, imperialists, woke sex identity types atheists and the other source are those who hated Russia out of envy (poles) or because they felt oppressed by Russia or the Bolsheviks at some point in history Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Poland etc. They gained a majority in European parliament and in terms of a total number of countries in the EU because they have one vote like Estonia with one vote and one million population the same as one vote of Germany with 80mi, population. So they determined the EU agenda by about 2008.
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  5652. He can still announce that she will be sec of state
    1
  5653. She founded the academy of sciences
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  5654. Right now that is the case. Let us hope that Trump brings decent people in
    1
  5655. great summary of the situation. thank you
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  5656. They have switched the pipelines to China and India
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  5657. Meslier I think meant that the moral standard Christ set up was unattainable because of human nature
    1
  5658. France is in a mess and its president is desperately trying to survive despite lost elections. He keeps acting as if France was a great power which it has not been since 1914.
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  5659. yes I agree
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  5660. Yes hatred of Russia wa bred in the US during the cold war. Even when Communism was no longer the system, the habit of hating Russia remained. That is unfortunately true
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  5661. We shall see. May be
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  5662. thank you for your comment
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  5663. Those who are scared always demonize their opponents. The beast is dangerous not because he is strong, but when he is scared.
    1
  5664. spasibo
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  5665. thank you
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  5666. You're very welcome
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  5667. good point
    1
  5668. well said
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  5669. You're very welcome!
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  5670. pozhaluista
    1
  5671. and Mossad!
    1
  5672. and arrogance and pride and narcissism
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  5673. I hope you are right
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  5674. How could the Russians fight when the Syrian army did not?
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  5675. That is true, but keeping an empire requires to let go of some pieces concentrating on the more important ones. Now Trump feels rightly or wrongly that the treat is from China, not Russia. So Ukraine will be abandoned so that the empire gets into serious rivalry with China. Remember the Romans had to abandon Britain to focus on the Germanic tribes
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  5676. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  5677. yes true
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  5678. I agree with you thanks
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  5679. sorry
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  5680. he did
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  5681. well said
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  5682. This is not something impossible, as strange as it may sound today
    1
  5683. I hope you are right. I am afraid he make try nuclear blackmail
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  5684. thank you
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  5685. thank you
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  5686. Den Xiao Ping changed the course of China, he attacked the old bureaucracy, he adopted a different model, in that sense Trump is trying to do a similar thing. Gorbachev wanted the save th old model and in the process lost everything
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  5687. thank you fr your comment
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  5688. Thanks a lot
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  5689. glad to try
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  5690. thank you
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  5691. yes that is one of the reasons
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  5692. that is the key. thank you
    1
  5693. interesting
    1
  5694. Glad you liked it
    1
  5695. B52 is outdated
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  5696. true,
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  5697. interesting testimony. If you have some papers of that period somehistorical journal may be interested in publishing
    1
  5698. exactly
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  5699. absolutely right
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  5700. yes!!
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  5701. You're welcome
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  5702. exactly
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  5703. thank you it is available directly from Routledge London website
    1
  5704. thank you
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  5705. thank you
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  5706. thank you
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  5707. true
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  5708. I was wondering for a long time why the German leaders have become so spineless. Where are the types like Willi Brandt?
    1
  5709. thank you
    1
  5710. well said
    1
  5711. thank you
    1
  5712. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  5713. true
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  5714. exactly. No negotiations with Zelensky.
    1
  5715. good choice
    1
  5716. very true
    1
  5717. dont be so pessimistic.
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  5718. agree completely, thank you
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  5719. happy to hear it
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  5720. thank you very much. Happy New Year!
    1
  5721. thank you
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  5722. Any time
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  5723. glad to try
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  5724. good idea
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  5725. My argument is that Netanyahu endangers the survival of Israel
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  5726. thank you
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  5727. thanks
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  5728. money from the west
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  5729. I believe it has been there for a while
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  5730. No. I wrote all my books except one in English. However I published one book in Russian and in Russia. It is available only in Russia. If you are there or can get it from there, here it is: Velikaya Oktiabrskaya Katastrofa available from Litres. ru; Ozon.ru; Wildberries.ru. Where are you? If you are outside Russia, I can help you get it. Write to me a email.
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  5731. do you have any proof?
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  5732. I know that. I meant that there was no actual fighting there
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  5733. thank you. It is a very dangerous moment now!!
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  5734. true
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  5735. Putin says he does not care who it is as long as he is legitimate to sigh a treaty
    1
  5736. well said
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  5737. gracias
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  5738. Many thanks!
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  5739. you are absolutely right
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  5740. yes true
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  5741. true but the Austria treaty still holds
    1
  5742. You are right. Russia is not interested in hegemony but in security.
    1
  5743. most welcome
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  5744. well said
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  5745. too bad
    1
  5746. well said
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  5747. Check out the homeless in California, or Bronx in New York or the slums in Philadelphia. Once you ser that you will realize that there is nothing like that in Russia
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  5748. Stalin murdered 17 million Russians too. He did give you half of East Prussia and Danzig and Silesia
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  5749. they do not wanr to dominate anyone but they do not want to have nato expand endlessly with their bases
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  5750. welcome
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  5751. Much appreciated
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  5752. Putin has all the defense he needs. China and India cannot be overwhelmed These days are over. The Chinese fleet is approaching the might of the US. Its GDP is greater than that of the US and its population is 5 times greater. Its continental army is ten times larger. US claims of superiority are those of a paper tiger
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  5753. I'd love to, but how to approach him? Can you suggest it to him in a comment?
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  5754. you an get a pdf copy from Routledge
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  5755. I'll try to improve that
    1
  5756. I watch France24
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  5757. spasibo
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  5758. Zele has already sold it to Starmer
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  5759. thank you
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  5760. good point, some of hid close friends are the establishment
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  5761. exactly right as you put it in your first sentence Kill as many as it takes!
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  5762. No, Stalin os rehabilitated not in his capacity as a murderer but in his capacity as a war leader.
    1
  5763. happy to hear that
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  5764. well said
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  5765. on amazon.com
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  5766. thank you for your comment
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  5767. yes that is correct
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  5768. thank you for your comment. very interesting observations. Putin has more power over Russian banks and industry than any US president ever had
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  5769. I will try my best
    1
  5770. thank you
    1
  5771. This may indeed be where things are going.
    1
  5772. Thank you for your comments. You focus on the detailsm but the reason we are interested in Fatimid Egypt is because it was a remarkable political system based on tolerance and acceptance of others including other religions. That is a lesson to some Muslims today.
    1
  5773. You're welcome
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  5774. Unfortunately this is probably just the beginning
    1
  5775. or Biden
    1
  5776. true
    1
  5777. exactly
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  5778. good question
    1
  5779. thank you
    1
  5780. Their leader at the time was Viktor Chernov, the chair of the Constituent Assembly. In historical perspective, they did not have one intellectual leader like Karl Marx, but several Russian thinkers who crystallized two mail ideas: opposition to Autocracy and glorification of the Great Russian People narod. Amon those thinkers one can list Kropotkin, Tolstoy, Berdyev, Dostoevsky, Tkachev, Bakunin and many others. Each of those in one way or another praised Russian unique non-Western path, supreme Russian soul, separate understanding of the nature of state power Vlast' and the role of autocracy.
    1
  5781. welcome
    1
  5782. Yes, that is true, but I think it was shortly after the Bolshevik takeover
    1
  5783. true
    1
  5784. Let's give him a chance to make peace
    1
  5785. As I argued my sense is that the last thing on the mind of the Frenh nation is sending troops against Russia, or any war for that matter.
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  5786. thaank you for your comment
    1
  5787. thank you
    1
  5788. well put
    1
  5789. yes
    1
  5790. Thank you so much
    1
  5791. I listen to Scott every day.
    1
  5792. Israel was inciting the US to go to war against Iran since 2003
    1
  5793. interesting
    1
  5794. Most welcome. Why did the EU turn anti-Russian
    1
  5795. Ostsee is a german word. Do you prefer German?
    1
  5796. agree completely. Except that Russia will not use nukes except if attacked by nukes.
    1
  5797. It would be interesting to see if EU will defend its sovereign territory or just capitulate.
    1
  5798. to accomplish what? to keep Donbas that does not want you?
    1
  5799. спасибо
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  5800. happy to hear that
    1
  5801. welcome
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  5802. не Путин ф нато со своими лабораториями и базами Неужели вы думали что Россия будет это терпеть?
    1
  5803. usually this kind of response comes from insecurity
    1
  5804. yes, exactly
    1
  5805. exactly right
    1
  5806. I agree but it seems you underestmate Russian military advances. SU 35 and SU 57 are equal or better jets than F35. Russian submarines have the same or equal capacity. Avateguard intercontinental missile is superior to anything the US has. Aircraft carriers are yesterday's weapons. Can be blown up in ten minutes. US ground forces are not what they used to be. In fact some specialist say in a ground combat, the Russians would prevail.
    1
  5807. yet he is the one that gives orders until November
    1
  5808. little green men were at home in Crimea, a Russian territory since Catherine II.
    1
  5809. You see the Russians do not see these lands as part of Ukraine. It is Donbas populated by the Russians who voted to secede from Ukraine in 2014. Russia chose to defend their choice.
    1
  5810. apt aomparison
    1
  5811. Glad you enjoyed it
    1
  5812. Yes, I agree but it was the globalist atlanticist elites in EU that have imperialist agenda in the Balkans. They split up Yougoslavia, they expanded EU and NATO
    1
  5813. thank you
    1
  5814. yes, sorry.
    1
  5815. thank you
    1
  5816. And his chief of general Staff Syrsky is a Russian, declared officially as a traitor
    1
  5817. Thank you kindly
    1
  5818. most welcome
    1
  5819. Golden age is a strange word. What is meant is in culture of Weimar Germany
    1
  5820. great summary
    1
  5821. thanks
    1
  5822. thanks
    1
  5823. that is the one I meant, in Kursk
    1
  5824. great summary thak you
    1
  5825. thank you
    1
  5826. and to enjoy power over others
    1
  5827. Many thanks!
    1
  5828. exactly to the point
    1
  5829. Yes it is part of the reason. The US choked them. Now we shall see if the new Ben Laden gets out of control
    1
  5830. My pleasure 😊
    1
  5831. thank you for your insightful comment
    1
  5832. merci
    1
  5833. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  5834. They are not evil, they just have been ruling the world for a very long time and cannot get used to the idea, that some do not want to obey their dictates any more.
    1
  5835. good observation
    1
  5836. new territories? Ukraine was Russia for centuries!! Greenland was never American or British
    1
  5837. interesting observation
    1
  5838. not yet
    1
  5839. well summed up
    1
  5840. welcome
    1
  5841. you mean Zelensky
    1
  5842. exactly so thank you
    1
  5843. yes probably
    1
  5844. exactly so
    1
  5845. welcome
    1
  5846. good point
    1
  5847. Yes you can open Routledge website and put my namein in search bar and buy directly from Routledge in London
    1
  5848. probably if they stick together
    1
  5849. well said
    1
  5850. thank you
    1
  5851. thank you
    1
  5852. Ok may be
    1
  5853. true
    1
  5854. If he does, Iran will respond in ways that will surprise the Israelis and their backers inside the beltway
    1
  5855. exactly, feel the same
    1
  5856. thank for your input
    1
  5857. I do in my other videos. This one is about the new three. Check out my Attack on Kulaks explained or any other vid on Stalin
    1
  5858. why stranger.
    1
  5859. thank you
    1
  5860. glad to try
    1
  5861. Is returning the land inhabited by the Russians for the last 400 years except the latest 30, qualifies for imperial ambition.
    1
  5862. thank you
    1
  5863. Thant is exactly what I was trying to say, thank you
    1
  5864. join in subscribe!
    1
  5865. thank you
    1
  5866. Just Imagine, Russian satellites gather military info and pass it on to Cuba and then Cuba with Russian missiles shoots at US targets. This is what the US is doing now using Ukraine. Trump is not a puppet, you got confused, Ukraine is an attack dog of the USofA
    1
  5867. yes
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  5868. Sorry Sir, not what Russia has done to Ukraine but what NATO has done to Ukraine, i.e. use it as a cannon fodder for a war with Russia, over what over two provinces that voted to secede from Ukraine. They want to lead the war until they get the borders of 1991. But there are Russian people who live there. Is that a lie? Crimea was Russian in 1853 when the Brits attacked it. Is that a lie? Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine in 1954. Why is that for even and ever? Borders change. Kosovo split from Serbis the West celebrated that. Why cant Crimea split from Ukraine? Explain what exactly did I lie?
    1
  5869. welcome
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  5870. agree!!
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  5871. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  5872. Of course it is a struggle for power among Great Powers exactly as a hundred years ago
    1
  5873. I am going to, of course
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  5874. Why would they then ban use of Russian language?
    1
  5875. There are many things not mentioned by Western media. Chech out what Budanov says. he is the State secutiry guy in Ukraine. Plenty of threats to get rid of the Russkies.
    1
  5876. the CIA and the Turks for their own reasons.
    1
  5877. so happy to hear that
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  5878. exactly
    1
  5879. good point thank you
    1
  5880. all the things you say are about the USSR not Russia
    1
  5881. there wasnone of thet aggression in 1997. Russia was officially a friend yet NATO expanded anyway. What excuse will you invent for 1997?
    1
  5882. agree
    1
  5883. I respect your skepticism, but Space X does have a whole lot of satellites in orbit; it is more efficient than NASA; tesla does produce good cars, far better than the dinosaurs (Ford GM Chrysler). The question is whether Musk model can be or will be applied to the rest of industry.
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  5884. hardly
    1
  5885. Putin is doing exactly that despite numerous provocations
    1
  5886. That is the conclusion of many Russian observers, even though Erdogan says now he had nothing to do with it all. Lies!
    1
  5887. thank you
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  5888. If you are Russia, you can get my one book published in Russia: Velikaya Oktiabrskaya Katastrofa, available at Litres.ru; and Wildberries.ru.
    1
  5889. Merry Christmas!
    1
  5890. exactly
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  5891. interesting
    1
  5892. yes exactly so
    1
  5893. Yermak!?
    1
  5894. yes true
    1
  5895. amazing thanks
    1
  5896. yes, the book ison Amazon or Routledge website
    1
  5897. may be
    1
  5898. true
    1
  5899. true
    1
  5900. yes it was
    1
  5901. yes that's about it.
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  5902. Democracy in the US is not a matter of statistical error. It is an outcome mapitulated by the computers to get into office anyone the party machine nominates. And even when someone like Maga gets in beating the odds, the machine does not let him do anything and then is trying to destroy him for just trying.
    1
  5903. He lost credibility even with his western sponsors. His days are numbered
    1
  5904. Look I studied the materialsabout Chechen deportations. They were panished en-mass for a few real collaborators.
    1
  5905. Why not from me.If you read my book FromLenin to Putin I have a chapter on post-war deportations and on the UPA in Western Ukraine and on many other issues
    1
  5906. thank you
    1
  5907. exactly
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  5908. They do not have 800K troops. They would have a hard time to send 80K. They have no money, no shells, no annunition. It will take years to reach Russian levels of all that
    1
  5909. true
    1
  5910. Once they try it, it will be too late for Israel
    1
  5911. Well said!
    1
  5912. good point
    1
  5913. only the British
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  5914. I am sorry I omotted Grosman. It is a great book. There are many others that were great too. I could not write about them all. In an overall history I mentioned only those that marked a trend or depicted the mood of the nattion
    1
  5915. thank you
    1
  5916. welcome aboard
    1
  5917. thank you for yout comment
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  5918. exactly
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  5919. thank you
    1
  5920. may be quite possible
    1
  5921. thank you
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  5922. true
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  5923. thank you
    1
  5924. thank you, in USA and in France also so
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  5925. no check out other videos
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  5926. I want to make a video on that. Briefly: France fears Russian influence in Africa; Germany fears Russian economic might and influence in the Balkans, Poland has historic envy of Russia because Polish state collapsed in the 18th century and the Russian state went higher and higher and absorbed Poland. The Baltic republics fear the Russian empire , so does Finland and Sweden.
    1
  5927. exactly
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  5928. You see Putin destroyed the mafis rule of the 1990s.
    1
  5929. true
    1
  5930. Check my video on Navalny's death. It seems he died of a clot. Putin did imprison him, yes he took money from the US. Would not they imprison somebody in the US if he took money from Russia?
    1
  5931. thanks for info
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  5932. and not only secret service but many other services
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  5933. interesting facts
    1
  5934. I shall look him up. Thanks
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  5935. Thank you kindly!
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  5936. This figured in the Kamenev Zinoviev trial in 1935 and then in 1936 and then in Tukhachevsky so called trial of 1937, a story made up by Stalin of some kind of Trotsky meeting with some oppositionist in Oslo, and the intermediaries were the Germans. It was all cooked up by the NKVD. You can read Trotsky's own exposition of this in his comments about the show trials or read in great detail: Robert Tucker, Stalin book.
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  5937. Glad to hear that!
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  5938. most welcome
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  5939. My pleasure!
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  5940. Much appreciated
    1
  5941. Inflation makes Russian ruble chaper but the production increases
    1
  5942. It depends on what trends prevail.
    1
  5943. true
    1
  5944. exactly. He is his own worst enemy. Just shut up and listen
    1
  5945. danke fuer Ihre Kommentar
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  5946. that's what it is about
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  5947. that is not true. a band of land 20 km in depth and 10-15 in length. It is not lost, occupied
    1
  5948. happy to hear that
    1
  5949. well said
    1
  5950. Immigration is necessary but since Reagan, they have been talking but never doing, work visas, or controlled immigration, instead of open borders a la biden
    1
  5951. interesting point
    1
  5952. He was wrong. Capturing territory turned out to be more important. If he did not stop Guderian in Smolensk, he probably could have captured Moscow by November.
    1
  5953. Yes I know
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  5954. yep
    1
  5955. thank you for your comment
    1
  5956. why take it down? why not live and share and compete?
    1
  5957. Exactlyright. Alternative for Germany party is the only one whoused the termyou use, that is an economic suicide
    1
  5958. that is true. But listen to his talking about Iran and his unrestrained support for Netanyahu
    1
  5959. You got it right.There are things about Stalin that Kotkin does not understand. He is too biased, too negative. His vision is blurred from the very beginning.
    1
  5960. who knows?
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  5961. Our pleasure!
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  5962. most welcome
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  5963. exactly
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  5964. danke sehr.
    1
  5965. Just open amazon books and put in my name. they are all there
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  5966. merci anshallah
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  5967. good point
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  5968. The Russians have assembled a big file of war crimes committed by Zele troops and by foreign mercenaries. As for Crimea and Donbas, the people there will decide not Zele or his western protectors.
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  5969. At that time there was no Socialist Revolutionaries, but there was a people's Will terrorist organization a fore-runner of the SRs
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  5970. The problem is that Europe is as divided as never before.
    1
  5971. soglasen
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  5972. they did not. The Russians kept good feeling for america for many decades especially the generation of the war, precisely because they remebered american aide
    1
  5973. what is that?
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  5974. I know Anna very well. As to Elwood I have not read the book you mention
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  5975. because it took Russia about a year to relaunch its own military hardware production
    1
  5976. may be
    1
  5977. good point
    1
  5978. Well said
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  5979. Your reasoning is not quite right. Donbas is Russia and has always been such. These people refused to obey a government created by the coup d'etat that declared Russian language banned and NATO membership written into the constitution. So they said without us. The Ukrainian new pr0-NATO gov. began killing them and bombing them for 8 years until Putin said enough is enough. That was described in the West as Russian aggression, in fact defense of Donbas.
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  5980. good point
    1
  5981. spasibo
    1
  5982. thanks
    1
  5983. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  5984. true
    1
  5985. interesting ideas
    1
  5986. thank you
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  5987. Your mistake is that you think that Russia spends all her forces on the war in Ukraine. No, that is not the case. Russian generals urged Putin to deliver a quick and decisive blow, he preferred a slow and steady advance with minimal casualties of soldiers and civilian population. As for help of North Koreans, that is a false narrative of the Western media. They do not fight at all, they are in the Far East training and learning missile technology. As for Russian military strength: The US has NEVER conducted a war on a front of 1200 kilometers, funded by 50 countries who spent 250 billion total on military equipment.
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  5988. You see the problem in your argument is that Russia did not invade its neighbor. The US prepared and launched an attack on Donbas in Jan 2022 and Russia could not just sit and do nothing when being shot at. You bout into US propaganda
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  5989. Our pleasure!
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  5990. You mean Iranian allies
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  5991. thank you for your knowledgeable explanation
    1
  5992. yes
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  5993. We shall see this year
    1
  5994. So why is this show of Fr+G+Pl?
    1
  5995. glad to try, thank you
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  5996. I have great chapter on this and new archival documents in my recent book From Lenin to Putin
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  5997. thank you
    1
  5998. interesting view. Indeed full circle.
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  5999. NATO membership of any country neighboring Russia is Russia's business just like if Cuba or Mexico decided to join a Russian military alliance, USA would consider it its business.
    1
  6000. thank you for your comment
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  6001. thank you
    1
  6002. thank you
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  6003. I do not think Russia is blaming Assad. Your reasoning makes a lot of sense. Assad had very few options. And yet in 2015 he showed much more enthusiasm in holding on and fighting. Now he folded in ten days. Now the vultures will tear poor Syria apart
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  6004. true
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  6005. Welcome!
    1
  6006. thanks
    1
  6007. you raised important points thank you
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  6008. glad to try
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  6009. Interesting comment. But look at the record of the USA. Starting with the genocide of the Indians, then brutal slavery unprecedented in world history, then how many wars since 1945: Korea, Vietnam, coup d'etat in Iran 1953, multiple coup d'etat in Latin America, overthrow of Aliende in Chili 1973, and then overthrow of Noriega Panama, then Iraq 1991, then Afghanistan, then Iraq again, oh I forgot the Cuban missile crisis. It seems that with a record like that one would think the country is crazy, messianic self-proclamed, narcisist empire.
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  6010. thank you for sharing
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  6011. yeah that is what they say
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  6012. or that the drones were all intercepted
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  6013. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  6014. This exaggerates the role of Ukraine. Russia is a Great Power with or without Ukraine. Zbig saw everything from Polish perspective.
    1
  6015. glad to try
    1
  6016. great words, thank you
    1
  6017. interesting view
    1
  6018. so nice of you
    1
  6019. exactly my point
    1
  6020. glad to try
    1
  6021. thank you
    1
  6022. thanks
    1
  6023. true
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  6024. thank you
    1
  6025. they do
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  6026. I hope it will not come to that
    1
  6027. thaank you for your comment
    1
  6028. thank you
    1
  6029. agreed
    1
  6030. yes true
    1
  6031. thanks
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  6032. and losing population
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  6033. thank you
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  6034. welcome
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  6035. thaank you
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  6036. hardly
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  6037. I do not see what you disagree with. Yes they did take over because they i.e. the leaders were always trying to stay one step ahead of the radical masses. You slaughter inmates in prisons, OK we shall slaughter aristocracy for you, as long as we are in charge. Rospespiere is a damagogue and a coward.
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  6038. thank you
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  6039. You are very welcome
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  6040. thanks
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  6041. Good point, but on the other hand it is irresponsible to jump to a general war over minor stuff. This time the warning was passed not only through the online interview but through the intelligence channels as well and the UN Security Council
    1
  6042. well said
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  6043. Very welcome
    1
  6044. Yes Trotsky ordered quite a lot of killings, especially nasty was the murder of Cossacks but believe me the one to push for more was Lenin/
    1
  6045. interesting point
    1
  6046. well said
    1
  6047. thank you
    1
  6048. exactly
    1
  6049. thank you
    1
  6050. yes
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  6051. thank you
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  6052. what nonsense
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  6053. good point
    1
  6054. I fo not know what is frs
    1
  6055. thank you
    1
  6056. exactly right. It is time to stand up for your interests
    1
  6057. that is probably what is coming
    1
  6058. thaank you for your comment
    1
  6059. thank you
    1
  6060. thank you for your comment
    1
  6061. with great difficulty, there is just one supply route.
    1
  6062. Welcome aboard!
    1
  6063. Do you mean NATO?
    1
  6064. exactly
    1
  6065. thanks
    1
  6066. true
    1
  6067. sad but true
    1
  6068. exactly
    1
  6069. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  6070. No they were not considered rogue, just a strike force -boevaya druzhina, in 1905 the SRs were very much into terrorism
    1
  6071. thank you so much
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  6072. Most welcome
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  6073. glad to try
    1
  6074. I'll check it out!
    1
  6075. glad to try
    1
  6076. Good question. and i agree with your hint
    1
  6077. there will not be Russian collapse. Just watch out thet there is no collapse of the US if elections go sour
    1
  6078. that is one way of looking at it
    1
  6079. welcome
    1
  6080. thanks
    1
  6081. some things it is too late, other things may still be done
    1
  6082. I agree 100% with your narrative. You presented it beautifully.
    1
  6083. They vote by their feet. Trying to escape or hide
    1
  6084. this is exactly as you summed up
    1
  6085. Trump may well walk away. First the Russians will take the rest of Donetsk province, i.e. Slavyansk, and then if there is no deal, they'll go for kharkov and Odessa.
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  6086. Russia tried to join humanity in the 1990s. The West said thank you for your concessions. What was yours is now ours and you should obey our rules. Russia said I thought you meant we are going to be equal. Yes, said the West, equal under our leadership i.e. rule. The comes Putin and says, no we will not obey. We have our pride and dignity. Vladimir the Savior as I wrote in one of my articles.
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  6087. It is a thrill that he seeks, soon to be over
    1
  6088. many people suggest that
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  6089. thank you
    1
  6090. modern russia is not communist
    1
  6091. thank you
    1
  6092. slava
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  6093. spasibo читайте мою книгу Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа available on blueberries.ru, Litres.ru
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  6094. I agree with you completely
    1
  6095. true, thank you
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  6096. most welcome
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  6097. exactly
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  6098. most welcome
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  6099. Many thanks!
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  6100. me too
    1
  6101. yes
    1
  6102. yes
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  6103. Thank you too!
    1
  6104. I agree with your reasoning
    1
  6105. most welcome
    1
  6106. yes that was the plan for Kursk
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  6107. I also think that a historic chance to unite Russia and Europe into what Willy Brandt called a community of responsibility verantwortungs gemeindschaft was lost or detroyed by the Americans who were set on expanding NATO i.e. their control over Europe. When will the Europeans realize that they are being used
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  6108. No, he does not. he wants to sell oil and gas
    1
  6109. I certainly did not want to insult Ritter just that I am not familiar with American military branches. To be marines and US army is much the same thing. J'habite dans le sud de France
    1
  6110. true
    1
  6111. Minsk accords offered exactly what you say. Ukrainians rejected those, hence the war
    1
  6112. You are very welcome
    1
  6113. thank you
    1
  6114. yes good read
    1
  6115. I do not make maps sorry.
    1
  6116. I think so too
    1
  6117. thank you
    1
  6118. yes, true
    1
  6119. insecurity or arrogance?
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  6120. they are not evil but arrogant
    1
  6121. that is still a hope
    1
  6122. I did but lots of things remain obscure
    1
  6123. thanks
    1
  6124. In fact for many decades, even during the cold war, many common Russians kept very wam feelings towards America, because their fathers told them that in the trenches of world war 2, they ate amarican canned meat, rather then starve. They remembered it with gratitude
    1
  6125. good point
    1
  6126. Russia is not a dictatorship despite the claims of western media. Macron or Biden cant even dream of getting 87% of the vote
    1
  6127. interesting view
    1
  6128. exactly
    1
  6129. thanks
    1
  6130. Thank you for your extentive comment. I share your fears. Sikorsky sounds definitely like Macron building up a coalition against Russia. Moreover, when Putin says that if Polish troops enter Ukraine, they will stay there forever. I wonder what he means. Is he inviting the Poles to take over Western Ukraine? If so for what purpose? Frankly I do not know. But it seems these folks are not going to sit idly until the Russians take over Lvov.
    1
  6131. thank you
    1
  6132. glad to hear that
    1
  6133. exactly
    1
  6134. agree
    1
  6135. Removal of Zelensky is a real possibility in the next few months. He has got too many opponents now even among those who used to be his men
    1
  6136. true
    1
  6137. most welcome
    1
  6138. yes
    1
  6139. Thanks a lot!
    1
  6140. thank you
    1
  6141. I share your view completely, thanks
    1
  6142. exactly right
    1
  6143. Our pleasure!
    1
  6144. thank you
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  6145. Not so simple. Turkey's priority are the Kurds. They fear them and want to control them. This priority does not in itself go against Russia or Iran. I think Turkey is still on course of joining BRICS, i.e, work together with Russia, Iran China
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  6146. probably
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  6147. most welcome
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  6148. that may well be true. Russia has already installed them in Belarus and Kaliningrad
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  6149. thank you for your explanation
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  6150. good point
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  6151. ues of course hypersonic
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  6152. thank you for sharing your thoughts, I agree
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  6153. pretty much as you say
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  6154. thank you
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  6155. yes he did, but the west did not want friends it wanted servants and slaves
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  6156. yes as simple as that
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  6157. welcome
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  6158. agree with all except the last point. The American people are not evil. The establishment in DC is
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  6159. true
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  6160. memories shape the present
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  6161. My pleasure!
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  6162. Molotov was one of the educated old Bolsheviks, not young upstarts
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  6163. true
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  6164. My pleasure!
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  6165. da
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  6166. Thank you kindly!
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  6167. may be
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  6168. welcome aboard
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  6169. Can you name at least oeb killed. I do not know any. Navalny died of a clot in blood. No hypersonic missiles were shot down. It is technically impossible. Do not beleve the claims of kiev. as for propagando, this word is used by people who label facts they do not like as such.
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  6170. very interesting thank you
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  6171. thank you
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  6172. yes
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  6173. thank you
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  6174. I recommend my book: Behind the Frontlines of the Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movements in Russia (Princeton U Press)
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  6175. glad to try
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  6176. thnk you
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  6177. arrogance blinds them
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  6178. I wonder why the Swiss?
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  6179. well said
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  6180. samoderzhavie doesnot mean a form of tyranny. It means autocracy. Most of British conservative philosophy has been in favor of autocracy, not republic. BesidesAristotle wrote that democracy could be a worst kind of tyranny.
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  6181. thank you for your opinion
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  6182. true. Russia also demonstrates to all those eager to spend millions on US hardware that it does not work
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  6183. Do you see the difference of Communist Stalinist Russia and contemporary Russia. If you do not see the difference you are blind!!!!
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  6184. Give him a chance
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  6185. Nobody is paying. Why do you assume that if someone disagrres with you iymust be somebody is paying.This is such an american mentality. Can you imagine that someone thinks for oneself without aany payment. East European countries such as Montenegrowas bribed to join NATO. Others reacted to the past not present. NATO is atool of US foreign policy against Russia
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  6186. thank you
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  6187. welcome
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  6188. Wow, thanks
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  6189. welcome
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  6190. happy to hear that
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  6191. thank you
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  6192. welcome
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  6193. Happy to help!
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  6194. Always welcome
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  6195. thaank you for your comment
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  6196. I do not know
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  6197. very interesting
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  6198. well said
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  6199. Of course they are significant but not more significant than the differences between the Swabs and North Germans or the Oxitan peopleand the Norther French
    1
  6200. interesting
    1
  6201. Yes it is a magnificent palace of Catherine the Great. probably more beautiful than Versaille
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  6202. You are right. It may appear that the Russians are slow to respond. In fact they do rather than talk. In just two days they destroyed two patriot missile systems in Ukraine. The Kursk incursion will be over soon. The Donbas front is breaking up and by the end of the year they are going to have 800.000. troops in Ukraine. And now they are set to march on to Kiev
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  6203. pariah? only in US and its so called allies. The rest of the world, asia, africa, latin america they love russia and putin
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  6204. thank you
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  6205. Dass ist so, danke
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  6206. thank you
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  6207. sorry for you, you are blind
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  6208. allof the above applied to all of the USSR, but you are wrong about Ukrainian language, nit only it wasnot banned but it was for ed uoon Russian language areas as well
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  6209. This is such a touching story. Thank you. How did she wind up in the US?
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  6210. ups sorry
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  6211. In this light the greatest danger is AI
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  6212. like what
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  6213. Thanks for watching!
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  6214. Yes it seems that EU leaders want more war more arms more fighting
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  6215. People and countries sleep and then wake up
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  6216. thank you
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  6217. So nice of you
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  6218. He did not invade anybody. That is the trick. NATO took over Ukraine armed them and sent them to conquer Donbas. When the Russians responded they were accused of an invation. A perfect setup
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  6219. I am back
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  6220. You're welcome!
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  6221. thanks
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  6222. interesting view
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  6223. thank you so much for your comment. I love coming to the Baltics and have been doing it since childhood
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  6224. most welcome
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  6225. I live in France
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  6226. I do not know, but in Putin's place would you prefer a clever US president or a stupid one?
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  6227. interesting revelation
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  6228. I doubt it is the strongest, it is too corrupt
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  6229. interesting perspective. Probably the israeli lobby will throw biden out as they want to destroy Gaza for ever
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  6230. who knows
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  6231. I listen to Colonel McGregor and his views on the state of the US army echos yours.
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  6232. That is true, but at least he is saying some things that are critical whreas Bden'Harris do not say anything that makes any sense at all
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  6233. thaank you for your comment
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  6234. thank you
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  6235. interesting facts thank you
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  6236. completely agree
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  6237. thank you
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  6238. spasibo vam
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  6239. I know I often refer to Scott Ritter, Prof Mershmayer, Jeffrey Sacks, Judge Napoletano and others
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  6240. thank you
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  6241. Most welcome 😊
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  6242. very true
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  6243. true
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  6244. Thank you kindly
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  6245. well said
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  6246. Yes they can, but what for? So that Ukraine has Russian provinces? How does that help France?
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  6247. da
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  6248. That is the plan: to outsmart Trump and to get him into a trap
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  6249. thank your comment
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  6250. I do not know. I have no contact with immigrants from Russia and have never had any.
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  6251. spasibo.Я очень рад и могу добавить, что у меня есть одна книга, изданная в России: «Великая октябрьская катастрофа». Она доступна на сайте Wildberries.ru; Ozon.ru;Litres.ru
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  6252. Of course I read it. I also read the entire collection of Lenin and Stalin writings. All fifty volumes each.
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  6253. I hope not
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  6254. You can start with mine: Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movements in Russia Princeton U Press 1994. Also good are Orlando Figes People's Tragedy. My teacher: Richard Pipes; Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime
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  6255. interesting comparison
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  6256. welcome
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  6257. thank you
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  6258. true
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  6259. Do you have proof on nemtsov murder? Direct orders? How do you know? One of the comments here suggested that it was British intel that killed Navalny in order to pin it on Putin
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  6260. God bless you
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  6261. very true
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  6262. as for stupid, I am afraid you are wrong or envious or both
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  6263. SPASIBO
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  6264. true
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  6265. true, but what is the alternative? Harris? Biden? Sanders? Clinton? Come on!
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  6266. interesting point about the legal framework. Ramaswamy was saying exactly the same thing.
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  6267. mey be
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  6268. The more money Zele and his cronies receive, the more corrupt they become, the more money is stolen and the less effective they become. This is the same story as in Vietnam. Americans just never learn
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  6269. exactly right. In Russia Crimea, Ukrainian language is an official language one can choose
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  6270. thank you
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  6271. Thank you too!
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  6272. merci
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  6273. He might be replaced by one of his closest men
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  6274. true
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  6275. that is a question that could be raised by the American side.
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  6276. Of course not unkess the minority is oppressed and Russian schools are closed and disallowed as in Latvia
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  6277. thank you
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  6278. there weret any
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  6279. thank you for yout comment
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  6280. yes but only when the state dept ordered them all out of Russia
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  6281. Your view is very broad. Mine is focused on US elites after 1991.
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  6282. true
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  6283. Je l'ai entendu non loin de Dijon. Au midi de la France, dans de nombreuses villes et villages, j'ai entendu des histoires d'occupation et de résistance. En fait, j'ai une vidéo sur une résistance dans un village français basée sur ces histoires. Vous pouvez facilement le trouver dans European Hstory avec le Dr Brovkin
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  6284. true
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  6285. Not only Kursk
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  6286. except that if Ukraine was declared neutral in Dec2021 there would not have been this war!
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  6287. Wow, thank you!
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  6288. I'll check
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  6289. Le's hope wisom and reason will prevail and peace is concluded
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  6290. who do you mean?
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  6291. keep dreaming
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  6292. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  6293. thank you
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  6294. thanks
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  6295. exactly
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  6296. Deja vu. It is true. This was already done once and then forgotten
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  6297. your reasoning gives hope that today's belligerent elites will be voted out
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  6298. thanks
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  6299. most welcome
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  6300. true
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  6301. Putin will outsmart them
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  6302. thank you
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  6303. Why does he hate Russia so much?
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  6304. could not agree more
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  6305. thank you
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  6306. Thanks for listening
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  6307. whatever, but they both are branches of the same tree
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  6308. Probably so thanks
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  6309. Ukr media was paid for by USAID
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  6310. means a lot to me. thank u
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  6311. may be
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  6312. Yes he changed his narrative
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  6313. thank you for your comment. Yes I am going against the current. US media started demonizing Putin from 2007 when he gave a speech in Munich criticising american foreign policy.
    1
  6314. will he win? Will they let him? I doubt
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  6315. this came up from the Ukrainian delegation chief in Istambul negotiations.
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  6316. yes, exactly
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  6317. Hold On Serbia, better days are coming soon.
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  6318. thank you
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  6319. welcome
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  6320. thank you very much
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  6321. thank you
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  6322. In my book I discuss in great detail how Putin was chosen. Read: From Lenin to Putin
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  6323. check out economist Hanson
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  6324. thank you
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  6325. Thanks for watching!
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  6326. thank you
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  6327. great definition
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  6328. explain what exactly you disagree with, otherwise it is labeling
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  6329. That is true. But if they were wise they could have saved at least a part of Ukraine as an independent country. By their actions they push Russia to take it all
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  6330. You are welcome!
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  6331. how about novels my Erick Maria Remark or paintings by Otto Dix
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  6332. thank you
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  6333. good point
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  6334. it will all be done before November
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  6335. Merci
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  6336. well said
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  6337. Glad you think so!
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  6338. Try directly from Routledge. They have discounts.
    1
  6339. thank you Prague
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  6340. My pleasure
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  6341. what is it you do not believe?
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  6342. My pleasure!
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  6343. wrong translation it means core Russia like KleinDeutschland means not small germany but core Germany
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  6344. my son
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  6345. You are welcome!
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  6346. missionaries? Russian? That is absurd. The Religion of most Ukrainian is Russian orthodox, but Poroshenko stages a church split and now Zele's gov. is harrassing monks in Kiev. trying to evect them from a monastery they had for a thousand years. You call that democracy???
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  6347. welcome
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  6348. thank you, glad to hear that
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  6349. Our pleasure!
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  6350. apt analysis As for Iraq war I argue the same point. Check my video Why the US elites hate Russia?
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  6351. good point
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  6352. He is not dictator. He has not attacked Ukraine. NATO attacked Russia. Corruption is rampant in Ukraine not Russia. Arresting Putin would not change anything. Someone with his agenda would replace him. Russia will prevail over NATO aggression
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  6353. very insightful comment. Thank you. Agree 100%
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  6354. thank you so much
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  6355. I reply to all questions except those that have insults and labels attached
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  6356. Thanks for listening
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  6357. thank you for your perceptive comment
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  6358. good analogy
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  6359. glad to try
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  6360. very wise thoughts thank you
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  6361. there is fee press and lots of criticism of the government and of Putin. What is not tolerated is taking money from CIA
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  6362. You summed it up very well. But that is a legal side of things. I know that in December 2021 and Jan 2022 the US launched a massive supply of weapons to Ukraine. The prepared an attack on Donbass and blamed the war on the Russians.
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  6363. Did CNN say that? Or Blinken?
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  6364. true
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  6365. Glad you enjoy it!
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  6366. glad to try
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  6367. He failed miserably in elections and in manipulating election results.
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  6368. exactly
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  6369. They are
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  6370. well said
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  6371. thank you for thank you for your thoughts
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  6372. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  6373. thanks
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  6374. good insight
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  6375. for sure
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  6376. thank you
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  6377. thank you
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  6378. Islam is a very complicated topic
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  6379. glad to try
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  6380. I have several hundred
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  6381. No, not at all. I have great respect for everything Ukrainian. We have to understand what people mean ehen they say Ukrainian. They mean different sometimes opposite things/
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  6382. I you say your are losing no one will give money, only if you win
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  6383. It was not always. In 2022 the Russians abandoned Liman and Kherson etc. It took time to rearm etc
    1
  6384. You're welcome!
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  6385. thank you
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  6386. thank you
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  6387. It is a matter of what transliteration system tou use.
    1
  6388. why? Jewish?
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  6389. true
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  6390. may be
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  6391. Ukrainian society is on the verge of rebellion against the war. Draft dodging is en mass. Fifty countries is only on paper. In fact not in any country including Uk Fr Pl the majority of population does not want to go to war against Russia. They pay the money and even that is in decline. What may happen even this year is a collapse of Ukr front and fast advance on to Kiev.
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  6392. I agree I worked in those circles at that time too. They all could not overcome the reality that communist russia was gone. They just kept same old habits and attitudes
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  6393. best wishes to u 2
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  6394. good point
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  6395. good point thanks
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  6396. Much of what you say can be a part of negotiations, ecept one issue: no NATO in Ukraine in any shape of form ever
    1
  6397. OK Budapest memorandum was based on Ukr Constitution of 1991 stat guaranteed Ukraine's bloc free status and neutrality. One they chose to join NATO, all agreements on borders are off. The four provinces are populated by the Russians, who had been with Russia for centuries. Putin tried to make a compromise called Minsk accords, so that they remain in Ukraine de jure but get autonomy and special status, open border with Russia economic cooperation etc.Ukraine rejected those, next step is what the West called "aggression" in fact Russian recognition of these republics and military aid.
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  6398. well said
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  6399. thank you you must have heard or read about those times
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  6400. sbasibo, soglasen
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  6401. thanks
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  6402. thanks for sharing
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  6403. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  6404. welcome
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  6405. very thoughtful analysis. Most likely that Trump will not be able to relaunch a systemic change. At leat 20 years have been lost on a wrong path
    1
  6406. thank you
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  6407. thank you
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  6408. in EU
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  6409. I still think a deal is likely
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  6410. up to Odessa and Romanian border
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  6411. In fact they do not have their own correspondents on the ground. They use the same ones for different channels
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  6412. happy to try
    1
  6413. yes of course promoting the disadvantaged is only the excuse. The real reason is to destroy the traditional culture
    1
  6414. exactly
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  6415. Thanks for listening
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  6416. thank you
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  6417. may be
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  6418. So nice of you
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  6419. good idea. I wonder how many millions of those 60 bil willbe stolen
    1
  6420. thank you
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  6421. thank you
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  6422. happy to try
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  6423. There were collaborationists in France and in Ukraine and in Poland
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  6424. Welcome!
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  6425. I know but the images I get are from Google images and I do not know how to improve them.
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  6426. Thank you. You obviously know so much of Russian History.
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  6427. grazie
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  6428. happy to hear that
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  6429. good point
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  6430. What you repeat is CVV propaganda. There is far less corruption than before Putin. No aggression against neighboring countries instead there is aggression by NATO against Russia using Ukraine as a tool; as for suppression of medialook at yourself: whte is Tucker Carlson, where is Dan Rather, where is Trumps's meda access? You call ot free speech? You forgot what free speech is by calling anyone who disagrees a Russian spy. You sound like the KGB used to be. You changed places.
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  6431. thank you so much
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  6432. It has little to do with religion. Land grab,
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  6433. good point
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  6434. thank you
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  6435. Russia is not out of ammunition. Russia produces more ammunition than the entire NATO combines. Iskandar missile cannot be intercepted by any means whatsoever.
    1
  6436. absolutely not, impossible.
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  6437. well said
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  6438. Well it is not hollow since the US installed missiles in Poland and Pomanis and has built the biggest base in Kosovo and had labs in Ukraine and is building a new huge base in Pomania. No responsible politicians could ignore that
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  6439. What kind of society? Steeped in tradition, value family, motherhood children, respect for various religions, respect for ethnic minorities. patriotic, militarily strong, based on social justice
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  6440. The EU will not put troops because they know these will be destroyed. Ukraine will probably capitulate simply because the current establishment will rather die than deal with the Russians. Trump will most likely offer an olive branch simply because the US is not in the position to fight Russia by conventional weapons even it it wanted to. If not deal is done, which is likely then the Russians will proceed to Kiev
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  6441. exactly right
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  6442. I read this book and used it extensively in my book on the civil war: Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War Political Parties and Social Movements in Russia (Princeton U Press 1989)
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  6443. It seems that you just confirmed my point.
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  6444. Hungary?
    1
  6445. that is good line of inquary. Before the war 30 ruble was equal to 1 dollar,now it is 100 rubles toone dollar. That means that in dollars it would appear that there is 3 times less output than it actually is.
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  6446. true
    1
  6447. For 400 years Ukraine was a part of Russia. Before that it was occupied by Poland and before that it was the capital of all Russia.
    1
  6448. do you mean that Russia attacked the US? when was that?
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  6449. most welcome
    1
  6450. thank you for your comment
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  6451. well said
    1
  6452. may be, thanks
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  6453. Everything you say on US slaves is correct. Many of them lived better than the workers in Manchester in 1840s who were not slaves but died at age 40. As to open border, The Dems want to have latino majorities in Texas, Arizona and Nevada they hope they would have a lock on both houses and presidency.
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  6454. exactly
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  6455. well said. thank you
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  6456. exactly
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  6457. That is all true but the dominance is coming to an end in economics. China is sellig off its treasury bonds every day. BRICS is preparing to launch a joint exchange currency. THAT spells the doomsday for the US more than Russian missiles
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  6458. true
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  6459. Thanks for the sub!
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  6460. France's troubles are not all made in America. The French must rethink their political system, their demography, their immigration policies, their role in Europe, their deindustrialization, but alas, there is no serious attempt to do that
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  6461. Many thanks!
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  6462. thank you
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  6463. welcome aboard
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  6464. grateful
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  6465. I'll improve
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  6466. что конкретно вы считаете ложью
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  6467. I wish it were possible
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  6468. good point
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  6469. well said
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  6470. well said
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  6471. The Soviet empire collapsed in 1991. The west decided what was yours is now ours. Russia said no way. hence the war
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  6472. I do not think anything will collapse. The change will occur slowly. Little by Little major countries are selling off Treasury bills. Europe and Australia are already huge partners of China in import-export operations. East Europe is also engaged with Russia and China. Africa has more Chinese investment than American. Slowly step by step the American influence will shrink.
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  6473. Russia no onger destroys its industry to be compatible with the west
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  6474. thank you
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  6475. exactly
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  6476. exactly
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  6477. yes good point
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  6478. Did you know that Alexabder II had a personal friendship with Lincoln?
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  6479. Obviously in a 15 minute presentation I cannot relate what I have discussed in several books. As for the beginning of red Terror specifically, read my book The Mensheviks After October. It shows that in spring 1918 the mensheviks won elections to the majority of city soviets and the Bolsheviks disbanded these soviets and broke the law they themselves passed. The next step was armed rebellions in many Russian cities against usurpers. One of those succeeded in Samara and a Committee of Constituent Assembly government was formed. It is fearing the advance of Socialist government forces in August 1918 that Lenin started Red Terror. I have his telegram to Nizhnii Novgorod dated 20 august 1918 Act without restraint. Create concentration camps for mensheviks SR unreliables etc. That is how Red Terror started. then they proceeded to murder aristocracy, officers etc etc.
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  6480. ask Biden
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  6481. It is not about the land, the war is to have NO nato bases
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  6482. You summed it up very well thank you
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  6483. thank you
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  6484. very apt comment. Declared intent does not mean reality.
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  6485. You are just projecting your fears. Russia does nt need to invade europe. There is nothing valuable there
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  6486. thaank you for your comment
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  6487. Yes, I agree
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  6488. Yes the war has begun in 2014. Plans to take over Ukraine date back to 1999.
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  6489. thanks
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  6490. sorry
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  6491. good idea
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  6492. well said
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  6493. So nice of you
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  6494. No, they do not. For the first time in 400 years Russia does not want to be like the West.
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  6495. Tsars are not worshipped to. They are evaluated as to their performance. Le's evaluate Biden's
    1
  6496. thank you
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  6497. true
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  6498. thank you for your excellent and informative summary. I agree with everything you say
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  6499. You see it is not so simple. Navalby broke parol deliberately, he insulted the female judge deliberately. He got 19 years not because he was a political opponent but because he claimed to deny the entire system of government and called for its overthrow. No how many years did the Jan6 "rebels" get?
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  6500. exactly
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  6501. can well be true
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  6502. nobody lilled him. blood clot
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  6503. exactly
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  6504. exactly right
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  6505. that is what I meant
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  6506. thanks
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  6507. Welcome!
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  6508. thank you, true
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  6509. true
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  6510. Sounds very sad but true, alas!
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  6511. thank you. The SRs were probably the most important political party in Russia at that time.
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  6512. If you check my War in Ukraine list I have many other videos I did in the past where I explain all the stages of the war and its history in great detail. Thank you
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  6513. Thank you for your words of caustion. Frankly for Polish elites to encourage US to go to war against Russia is sheer madness, it is suicidal.
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  6514. may be
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  6515. thank you
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  6516. In Russia the Tsar is a father figure, the Russians say batuishka tsar which translates father Tsar. That is what I meant.
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  6517. may be
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  6518. that's funny
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  6519. Thank you kindly
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  6520. welcome
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  6521. thank you
    1
  6522. corruption
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  6523. most welcome
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  6524. I can give you a list of tyrants and dictators who have been ad still are US allies
    1
  6525. good point
    1
  6526. i'll try
    1
  6527. Glad you liked it
    1
  6528. Thanks for sharing!
    1
  6529. Ima not censoring anyone
    1
  6530. He would lose
    1
  6531. thanks
    1
  6532. true
    1
  6533. thank you for a very knowledgeable analysis. The Russians are NOT going to use Sarmat on Ukraine. Why make land you consider your own, uninhabitable? Patience and steady advance, that is what to expect
    1
  6534. good point
    1
  6535. one can look at it this way thank you
    1
  6536. thank you for your perceptive analysis
    1
  6537. Welcome
    1
  6538. thank you
    1
  6539. yes, I hope so
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  6540. Because a Russia split over many parts would have sparked unpredictable wars, with uncontrollable nuclear weapons. Remember a movie about some gemeral starting a rebellion and having nukes. That is what they were afraid of. They preferred to play it safe, espacially since yeltsyn was in their pocket
    1
  6541. thank you
    1
  6542. spasibo vam
    1
  6543. power and money, -exactly!
    1
  6544. exactly
    1
  6545. bolshoe spasibo
    1
  6546. Wonderful!
    1
  6547. happy you like it
    1
  6548. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  6549. thank you for your comment. In fact my overall conclusion in my book is along those lines
    1
  6550. thank you
    1
  6551. All that may be coming except the Pl Baltic part. Russia does not need that burden
    1
  6552. thank you
    1
  6553. open amazon.com books and put my name it will come up
    1
  6554. thanks
    1
  6555. good point
    1
  6556. I think you know very little about Chinese, Indian and Islam civilizations. The West has always perceived itself as the center of the civilized world. There was a time when it was not and there is coming a time when it will not be.
    1
  6557. Glad you think so!
    1
  6558. he is
    1
  6559. He who pays orders the music
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  6560. No not hundreds of thousands. Less but he also sent 5 million russians peasants to Gulag and he also executed one million Russian party and state officials in 1937 alone. Putin is not Stalin. Face the future, not the past
    1
  6561. can well be so
    1
  6562. hope not
    1
  6563. thank you
    1
  6564. whose lies
    1
  6565. most welcome
    1
  6566. thanks
    1
  6567. four hours and the questions were grouped
    1
  6568. true
    1
  6569. yes you have identified all the major facts
    1
  6570. Appreciate it
    1
  6571. May be, but it is possible.
    1
  6572. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  6573. agree
    1
  6574. why enemies
    1
  6575. Merci
    1
  6576. I simply raised questions, no assertions
    1
  6577. Children are afraid of darkness but darkness has nothing to do with it.
    1
  6578. You are right. That is an omission.
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  6579. Of course he did not want to hurt Russia. he was a professional rebel, it is a psychological type that always aspires to be in the center of attention of the crowds and try toexcite them. He got a kick out of makig trouble. That was his essence
    1
  6580. thank you for an excellent summary
    1
  6581. I do not think I deleted anything. The terrorist attacks in these provinces are simply to distract the people from the fact that zelensky's armies are in full retreat
    1
  6582. yes
    1
  6583. quite possible
    1
  6584. yes true
    1
  6585. Thank you for your though provoking comment. Very acute observations on the trajectory of US elites and priorities.
    1
  6586. that is true
    1
  6587. Danke. Warum die Deutschen sagen nicht NEIN zu Americanische basen?
    1
  6588. more bad things
    1
  6589. So happy to hear that
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  6590. ethnocide? I want to ask you who are the people in Donbas? Are they Russian or Ukrainian? Do they speak Russian? Are they Russian Orthodox? When, was it not in 1922 that Lenin gave those lands to Ukrainian soviet socialist republic? Was not it Ukrainian army armed by Americans in American uniforms that shelled Donbas for 8 years, killing 14000 people. May be you should call that ethnocide?
    1
  6591. There are too many things to object to. read my book From Lenin to Putin. I discuss the collapse of the USSR among many other bthings
    1
  6592. exactly
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  6593. may be u r right
    1
  6594. You are welcome!
    1
  6595. I should thanks
    1
  6596. Glad you think so!
    1
  6597. The Jews in Israel, or the Jews in US or the Jews in Russia?
    1
  6598. glad yo try
    1
  6599. yes
    1
  6600. yes, one should abandone the rhetoric and reconcile, who knows may be we shall see that with trump
    1
  6601. Hope you enjoy it!
    1
  6602. I follow Scott Ritter all the time
    1
  6603. welcome
    1
  6604. спасибо если вы в россии купите мою книгу Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа она продается на Ozon.ru
    1
  6605. true. I have tensions with some of my old friends
    1
  6606. that is exactly my argument
    1
  6607. you are welcoe
    1
  6608. So nice of you
    1
  6609. not now
    1
  6610. welcome
    1
  6611. this is one way of looking at it
    1
  6612. It was McCain
    1
  6613. check the description of the video
    1
  6614. ???
    1
  6615. good point
    1
  6616. Unfortunately American academics got too much dependent of state grants and RAND and CIA finncing and that led them to serice the establishment
    1
  6617. yes, sorry
    1
  6618. thank you
    1
  6619. exactly
    1
  6620. true
    1
  6621. you r so welcome
    1
  6622. yes your experience is quite common
    1
  6623. thank you for your thought provoking comment.I agree with almost everything you say.
    1
  6624. These were different Jacobins. The American ones basically shared the ideals of the French revolution but did not support Robespiere's terror
    1
  6625. You are very welcome
    1
  6626. may be. Trump will fight back
    1
  6627. thank you for your input
    1
  6628. he is sharp
    1
  6629. You got it all wrong. Russia did not annex Crimea. I followed these events day by day. When coup d'etatt happened in Kiev at the end of 2013, Crimean reginal parliament sent a delegation to Russia to Duma and pleaded with them to take them under their protection because they feared reprisals from the Banderovites who had burnt 72 people alive in Odessa in trade union building for being pro-Russian. So the Duma forced Putin who hesitated at first to go for a referendum which shoed 90 per cent vote to join Russia. Also I hope you know that Ukraine Socialist Republic received Crimea as a gift in 1954 by Khrushchev without any referendum. So it was an administrative border that had no status in International relations.
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  6630. thaank you for your comment
    1
  6631. well said
    1
  6632. thank you for watching
    1
  6633. probably
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  6634. читайте мою книгу изданную в России Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа можно купить в Litres.ru, wildberries.ru; Ozon.ru
    1
  6635. yes
    1
  6636. well said
    1
  6637. The Russians know it
    1
  6638. merci danke
    1
  6639. may be only in the Lvov area
    1
  6640. well said
    1
  6641. thank you
    1
  6642. yes i know
    1
  6643. unique
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  6644. Kamala? A war leader? a joke!!!
    1
  6645. I agree with your assessment ,but the US and Russia and soon China are nuclear powers and therefore it is essential for mankind to survive to cooperate at least in arms control to preserve peace.
    1
  6646. thank you
    1
  6647. interesting comment
    1
  6648. Americans hired them and used them
    1
  6649. No the life of Ukrainians is not worth anything to the West. They want to inflict as much damage to Russia as they can. And true they do not care about Africa.
    1
  6650. He may he could not have done it yet. For that he has to take Kherson first
    1
  6651. interesting analogy
    1
  6652. exactly
    1
  6653. very glad to hear that
    1
  6654. thank you
    1
  6655. glad to hear that
    1
  6656. thank you
    1
  6657. true
    1
  6658. thank you for your observation
    1
  6659. true
    1
  6660. you repeat western narrative.in 1997 russia was not a threat to anyone and nato decided to expand.
    1
  6661. Interesting analysis
    1
  6662. so happy to hear that
    1
  6663. yes may be
    1
  6664. well summed up
    1
  6665. yes
    1
  6666. Please understand Hypersonic missiles CANNOT be intercepted
    1
  6667. may be
    1
  6668. Yes its is a trap for Trump
    1
  6669. yes, my point
    1
  6670. true
    1
  6671. True
    1
  6672. gal to try
    1
  6673. true
    1
  6674. Except that Russia can live with US bases in Syria but not with those in Ukraine
    1
  6675. may be
    1
  6676. I will. I live in France
    1
  6677. thank you, Z is pathetic
    1
  6678. Exactly, Kennedy has no chance
    1
  6679. thanks
    1
  6680. thanks
    1
  6681. desperation, anything goes
    1
  6682. true
    1
  6683. thank you
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  6684. Thank you so much 😀
    1
  6685. It could have been Ok if it stayed as it was in 1991, a multicultural multiethnic society before Banderovite takeover
    1
  6686. thank you
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  6687. thank you for yout comment
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  6688. not true paid by noone
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  6689. thank you for your opinion, I wonder why?
    1
  6690. danke schoen
    1
  6691. yes it is convenient for all
    1
  6692. how about Iran or China?
    1
  6693. spasibo vam
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  6694. thank you fr your comment. 1. Oligarchs do not control Russia, not any more. 2 Ukraine walked out of the Minsk accords which guaranteed Donbas for Ukraine of they accepted autonomy. That is only autonomy. No they refused that, why? cause Boris J offered them whatever it takes to fight. And they foolishly agreed. Now, they reap the benefits of their chosen policy.
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  6695. exactly. All they want is to trap Tramp so that America comes to their rescue when they engineer a Russian assault
    1
  6696. true
    1
  6697. You're welcome!
    1
  6698. may be
    1
  6699. true
    1
  6700. it is a pleasure to hear that
    1
  6701. Welcome!
    1
  6702. A century ago, most Ukrainians would not have identified as Ukranians and most Russians would not have said they were Russians. The idea that Russia abused Ukrainin as absurd . A century ago they all would have said they were Orthodox peasants from their province.
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  6703. why? What exactly do you disagree with?
    1
  6704. yes true, but how far will trump be willing to go?
    1
  6705. Thank you kindly!
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  6706. Merci
    1
  6707. will they?
    1
  6708. that was in 1917
    1
  6709. Glad you enjoyed it
    1
  6710. yes true
    1
  6711. exactly
    1
  6712. true. No new currency, just links and bridges between friends
    1
  6713. exactly
    1
  6714. thank you
    1
  6715. thank you
    1
  6716. Few people heard about cossacks and even fewer cared what was done to them
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  6717. In HRE, the orthodox peasants were ruled by their Catholic masters, i.e. Belorussian and Ukrainina pewsants were ruled by Polish masters In 1654 they tebelled against the Poles and asked Russian Tsar protection.
    1
  6718. most welcome
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  6719. That is all true, but let us not forget that FRG in the 1970sand 1980s was a very socialistic country with the kind of social services unknown in the USA
    1
  6720. we shall see soon. a great change is coming
    1
  6721. true
    1
  6722. So nice of you
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  6723. this is madness, over what? over Ukraine borders? crazy!
    1
  6724. thank you
    1
  6725. exactly
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  6726. or London
    1
  6727. I agree
    1
  6728. unfortunately
    1
  6729. that remnant is advancing to Pokrovsk and just took Ugledar
    1
  6730. welcome
    1
  6731. welcome
    1
  6732. thank you for your comment
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  6733. exactly to the point
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  6734. thank you
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  6735. thankyou
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  6736. I doubt it
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  6737. Not so simple. Ukraine pledged to be neutral in 1991 when it wrote in its constitution that it wants to join NTO all commitments are off. Imagine if Texas split from the USA as it has a right to do as it joined the US by a treaty as Ukraine joined the USSR with a right to secede. Ok then Texas writes in its constitution that it wants a military alliance with Russia and Russia supplies it with missiles to shoot deep into the US. HOW WOUD YOU RESPOND? HOW WOLD THE US RESPOND/
    1
  6738. Democracy in America isjust a term they grew up with but forgot what it really means
    1
  6739. especially the cul de sac
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  6740. true
    1
  6741. well said
    1
  6742. Wow, thank you
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  6743. Thank you kindly!
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  6744. probably not
    1
  6745. true
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  6746. true
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  6747. exactly right
    1
  6748. exactly right
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  6749. you repeat the official story. Sorry it aint so. The Americans armedUkraine and set them up to use them to provoke Russia. They broke ceasfire on 20 February forcing Putin to shoot back and then declared himthe aggressor. A perfecly devious det-up
    1
  6750. true
    1
  6751. It is hard to find those pictures in Western media
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  6752. thank you for the info about your gradparents but the facts are that collectivization did happen and 4 million peasants were killed or exiled to Siberia, dekulakization did happen and hundres of thousands were shot. This is documented. Famile was largely the result of these events.
    1
  6753. You are very welcome
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  6754. exactly
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  6755. and the capacities of the Russian missiles
    1
  6756. ?
    1
  6757. glad you like it Check my playlists
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  6758. thank you
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  6759. It depends on who is in power in germany. If Afd wins which is unlikely, things could change
    1
  6760. well said
    1
  6761. true
    1
  6762. that is right
    1
  6763. Glad you enjoyed it
    1
  6764. glad to try
    1
  6765. hard to say.the clash between the globalists and the consrvatives is brewing/If one side decides that the elections were stolen, serious trouble lies ahead. The debt will explode the economy some day
    1
  6766. The FSB will get him wherever he goes
    1
  6767. on what terms?
    1
  6768. this is not true. jews in ukraine come from central Europe, they are the same as in Poland Hungary Lithuania etc, Ashkenazi jews
    1
  6769. may be
    1
  6770. thanks
    1
  6771. because Communism for the Chinese was a way just one way out of many towards modernization
    1
  6772. will be
    1
  6773. well said
    1
  6774. yes, it is a giant of the future
    1
  6775. It is not a matter of land owership but of land holding. Before 1917 peasants had communal land. Stalin notonly took the land but the right to produce and sell. He made peasants into serves again, even worse as they no right to move or leave or ask for any compensation for their labor. That is not socialism that is perverstion of socialsm. Thatis Stalinism
    1
  6776. no, look at Brics and the number of countries who lined up to join
    1
  6777. Glad you like them!
    1
  6778. true
    1
  6779. Thank you! Cheers!
    1
  6780. thank you
    1
  6781. Thanks and welcome
    1
  6782. thank you
    1
  6783. thank you
    1
  6784. No, it is all connected. The US deliberately torpedoed Minsk accords on autonomy of Donbas and pushed the Ukraine to shell Donetsk endlessly forcing Putin to defend Donbas. The invasion was set up. The proof is that 2 months later Putin offered essentially the same autonomy accords and Ukraine signed but The US and UK persuaded Zelensky to walk away and fight.
    1
  6785. thank you
    1
  6786. no, in Kiev
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  6787. They never planned joining. This is a long story. In the early 1990s the US came up with the idea called Partnership for Peace as a bridge for all post com countries to join Nato including Russia. By nato they meant american leadership not cooperation of equals. They Russians first considered and then refused. Is that clear now?
    1
  6788. very perceptive, thank you
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  6789. thank you
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  6790. Hypersonic missile is a scientific achievement, few are capable of. Using your logic one can say the West cannot say anything without the words sanctions, more sanctions, arrest warrant, expulsion, demands, money confiscation etc etc
    1
  6791. apparently you dont know telegram channels. You can get any criticism you want. I also advise you to check Communist Party nespapers and you will see a lot of criticism. Those who get money from CIA must register as foreign agents the same law as in the US
    1
  6792. thank you
    1
  6793. well put
    1
  6794. thank you. I knew Kissinger's view on that
    1
  6795. thank you
    1
  6796. Suicidal! Generating hatred of neighbors, hiding behind US shield, killing diplomats and generals, this is suicidal. What if the shield is no longer there?
    1
  6797. That is true but in Czeck republic and Poland uncompetitive Soviet era enterprises were made to be competitive in the Baltics they just dismantled them.
    1
  6798. true thanks
    1
  6799. too early to judge
    1
  6800. thank you
    1
  6801. that is exactly what i argued
    1
  6802. That is impossible. It was not just Khrushchev, Zhukov, the winner of Berlin had feelings about Stalin even stronger than Khrushchev. Read my book from Lenin to Putin.
    1
  6803. Our pleasure!
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  6804. i hope they are not that crazy
    1
  6805. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  6806. exactly.
    1
  6807. thank you
    1
  6808. good to know
    1
  6809. They do not realize it is not 1994
    1
  6810. The demographic trends are the worst for Lithuania, bad for Latvia and not so bad for Estonia. All three would have fared much better if they restored normal trade and normal tourism with Russia
    1
  6811. thank you for your perspective. well said
    1
  6812. well said!
    1
  6813. All I meant was that Frica is not going to participate in a war, therefore they will benefit. Anyone who DOES NOT fight benefits
    1
  6814. No electric consumption per capita will not show economic performance because some people sit in front of something using electricity all day long and may produce nothing
    1
  6815. well said
    1
  6816. may be not a civil war but a serious split of EU
    1
  6817. Alexander which?
    1
  6818. yes we know all that. but I mean there was no actual fighting on Spanish soil
    1
  6819. danke
    1
  6820. Glad you enjoy it!
    1
  6821. yes but they also speak at other platforms
    1
  6822. thank you
    1
  6823. Actually it should not go to the government
    1
  6824. well said.
    1
  6825. thanks
    1
  6826. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  6827. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  6828. EU, UK, plus domestic nationalists.
    1
  6829. thank you for your comment
    1
  6830. Same to you!
    1
  6831. yes everybody should remember this
    1
  6832. Even if a French regiment id deployed in Odessa, it will not change the course of the war
    1
  6833. thank you
    1
  6834. It seems Zele is mimicking Natan
    1
  6835. thank you
    1
  6836. a lot of history
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  6837. To understand why Navalny got such a long term, just listen to his insults of the judge. In America he would have gotten life without parol
    1
  6838. Bitcoin is one of the "currencies" that is being used in bloc-chain transactions
    1
  6839. adviser to Zelensky
    1
  6840. Sorry it is F16
    1
  6841. no China BRICS
    1
  6842. exactly
    1
  6843. thank you
    1
  6844. thanks for correction
    1
  6845. Glad you like them!
    1
  6846. excellent summary
    1
  6847. yes that is disturbing
    1
  6848. well said
    1
  6849. why dark ages?
    1
  6850. that is the figure cited
    1
  6851. you areright I am working on it in a new VCDC
    1
  6852. welcome
    1
  6853. exactly
    1
  6854. exactly right
    1
  6855. Russia does not attack anybody in the West. Russia does not need anything from the West, Russia does not need the West. All it needs can be obtained bought exchanged in the East
    1
  6856. you are right Assumptions may be wrong.
    1
  6857. Glad you liked it!
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  6858. good question. Some people in Donbas do not like Putin precisely because he belived Hollande and Merkel and signed Minsk instead of helping them right awy
    1
  6859. My colors are facts, analysis and observation.
    1
  6860. Would you say that the US is also a one party dictatorship or a two party dictatorship?
    1
  6861. steals from them? like what? the Russians have never lived better in their entire history. Imprison whom? those who get paid by CIA. poison whom? Where is the proof. just because someone said so. In the west we hold someone innocent until proven guilty. Where is any shred of proof. There is none just screaminfg of western media, nothing else.
    1
  6862. thank you
    1
  6863. This is possible but no one will survive this attack. Russia will strike back and the world will cease to exist
    1
  6864. one way of putting it
    1
  6865. true
    1
  6866. It has. The Russians are collecting all the data and all the names and they count how many Poles and the French they killed.
    1
  6867. Yes I heard that but he did not mention war powers act
    1
  6868. Just imagine Russia giving missiles to Cuba and then Cuba shooting at DC? How about that scenario?
    1
  6869. right
    1
  6870. thank you, glad to try
    1
  6871. thank you
    1
  6872. true
    1
  6873. We shall se but it may be this year
    1
  6874. would be interesting to see if they split from Canada first?
    1
  6875. most welcome
    1
  6876. Welcome!
    1
  6877. very perceptive, than you. I think Putin does not want to go that far, but people around him do.
    1
  6878. I think Putin means something like the Austria neutrality treaty that holds still
    1
  6879. true
    1
  6880. good point
    1
  6881. not sure Russia would lose. If the fight is on the ground, Russian army is the strongest
    1
  6882. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  6883. i appreciate your comment
    1
  6884. you got it right
    1
  6885. there is a huge literature on the jewish factor in the Russian revolution
    1
  6886. welcome
    1
  6887. exactly
    1
  6888. yes u r right
    1
  6889. thank you
    1
  6890. well said
    1
  6891. Regime changes by the CIA are fake revolutions. They are cleverly engineered seizure of power, not more
    1
  6892. thanks
    1
  6893. Glad you liked it!
    1
  6894. Ethiopia never adopted Communism. As for China it is the Communist party tht is now in power and it has led China to be the equal of the US
    1
  6895. thank you
    1
  6896. welcome aboard. Welcome
    1
  6897. true
    1
  6898. thank you
    1
  6899. thank you very much
    1
  6900. You're welcome!
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  6901. could not agree with you more. thank you. BUT his data on 40% stolen aid is incredible
    1
  6902. Good idea
    1
  6903. Thanks and welcome
    1
  6904. I an touched thank you
    1
  6905. very true
    1
  6906. thank you
    1
  6907. true
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  6908. thank you, just right
    1
  6909. they pretend that they are not, but in fact they are
    1
  6910. spasibo vam
    1
  6911. glad to try
    1
  6912. exactly
    1
  6913. thanks
    1
  6914. This is what may happen but it will not stop hodtility or end sanctions. Putin wants to end sanctions and make a deal in a treaty that would last
    1
  6915. well said
    1
  6916. democracy? where? n a place where journalists get fired from major TV channels, when presidential candidates are threatened with jail time? when candidates get paid by sponsored without any limit? When money decides how much you can say and to whom? Do you call that democracy?
    1
  6917. to hold on as long as possible
    1
  6918. true
    1
  6919. yes exactly sorry
    1
  6920. You're welcome!
    1
  6921. hope so
    1
  6922. happy to hear that
    1
  6923. true
    1
  6924. that may well be true
    1
  6925. I watch live footage in various Telegram channels. ABC CNN France 1 - they are the ones they lie everyday
    1
  6926. sad but true
    1
  6927. You are very welcome
    1
  6928. He is not a traitor, he is just overambitious fighter. he got used to winning and he fancies that he was better than anyone else.
    1
  6929. I hope you are right
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  6930. true
    1
  6931. interesting thought. I received a letter once from an American priest. He moved to Russia permanently. Is not that revealing?
    1
  6932. Thanks a lot!
    1
  6933. glad to try
    1
  6934. may be
    1
  6935. Sanctions do hurt. I never said they dont. Russia has learned to cope but that does not mean they do not hurt. Moreover a thing to consider for the US is whether the movement from the dollar payment system is something the US wants to continue with as a result of sanctions on Russia
    1
  6936. Funny, you always wonder about money who pays, how much. Imagine that no one pays. I speak my voice my views and nobody pays me? Probably it is hard to believe for someone who is paid and does not say anything other than for pay.
    1
  6937. glad to try
    1
  6938. exactly right thanks
    1
  6939. great quote
    1
  6940. yes
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  6941. thank you for yout comment
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  6942. thanks
    1
  6943. thanks
    1
  6944. Nobody asked them. They were drafted.
    1
  6945. Yes I know, thanks
    1
  6946. thanks
    1
  6947. true
    1
  6948. really?
    1
  6949. There is not going to be a declaration of war. American society is sick and tired of fore-ever wars and certainly not with Russia
    1
  6950. thank you. I do not know
    1
  6951. yes
    1
  6952. I listen to Scott every day.
    1
  6953. Yes they did just as the Red army.
    1
  6954. For some strange reason Trump does not like Iran
    1
  6955. true
    1
  6956. There was an option to fulfill the Minsk accords. he was elected promising he would. Donbas would have stayed Ukrainian with open border and separate status for Donbas. He rejected it, now he is going to lose it he has lost it already.
    1
  6957. You see it is hard for a Westerner to accept this but China has surpassed the West in technology. Only Musk can compete with China in electric cars not GM not Toyota and Not VW
    1
  6958. big time. Poroshenko has a villa in southern Spain
    1
  6959. I have a more detailed video about the Greens in the playlist.
    1
  6960. No not Ukraie, but Zelensky gov. Ukraine will be fine with Russia
    1
  6961. very interesting, thank you
    1
  6962. yes, sorry
    1
  6963. happy to hear that
    1
  6964. It would be nice of Serbia joined BRICS
    1
  6965. I heard that block chain technology may indeed be used
    1
  6966. thanks for your comment
    1
  6967. thanks
    1
  6968. thank you
    1
  6969. meaning?
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  6970. Happy to hear that!
    1
  6971. that is the truth
    1
  6972. great insight
    1
  6973. probably true
    1
  6974. It is not stealing grain, it is depriving the war adversary from gaining funds.
    1
  6975. I completely agree with your assessment but Trump is giving a blank cheque to Netanyahu. He ignores and does not care how many people die in Gaza. He is picking a fight with Iran. He boasted that he brought Iran to its knees by forbidding China to buy Iran oil. What right does he have to tell China where to buy its oil? Same old American imperial talk!
    1
  6976. true
    1
  6977. really?
    1
  6978. with victory
    1
  6979. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  6980. we shall see the outcome soon
    1
  6981. thank you
    1
  6982. I appreciate
    1
  6983. exactly
    1
  6984. Glad you think so!
    1
  6985. exactly right
    1
  6986. thank you
    1
  6987. thank you for your insight
    1
  6988. true
    1
  6989. When I entered an Orthodox church in Athens, I was surprised to see and feel as if I was in Russia
    1
  6990. well said
    1
  6991. thank you.
    1
  6992. thank you
    1
  6993. About British funding the third Reich I knew as for the Bolsheviks, I have only seen docs that the Germans did
    1
  6994. yes good point
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  6995. thank you for yout comment
    1
  6996. thank you
    1
  6997. Glad it was helpful!
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  6998. they are going to leave in a couple of days.
    1
  6999. glad to try
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  7000. und handel mit china
    1
  7001. spasibo
    1
  7002. That is exactly my point
    1
  7003. I agree completely
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  7004. Denazification means the NAZI murderers of WW2 are brought to justice. Instead in Canada they are applauded to by the parliament and in Ukraine they stage rallies with Bandera portraits.Let's be clear Bandera is a leader of a NAZI party willingly collaborating with Hitlers mass murder in Ukraine, the murder of Jews, Russians and Poles.
    1
  7005. thank you
    1
  7006. It all depends on what Trump is up to
    1
  7007. could not agree more
    1
  7008. if you interested you can find one of my books published in Russia. Check wild berries, or Ozon, or Litres
    1
  7009. thank you
    1
  7010. Wow, thank you
    1
  7011. happy to hear this
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  7012. no way
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  7013. Ukraine is a Polish term for what used to be called Kieven Rus
    1
  7014. thank you for your comment
    1
  7015. He's got some cash stashed in, I am sure
    1
  7016. may be
    1
  7017. The fact that Zelensky made public the info on Budanov's company corruption is a sign he is preparing Budanov's exit
    1
  7018. thank you agree
    1
  7019. patience and cool head will prevail
    1
  7020. its the glasses
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  7021. You are right. Any sign of support for Ukrainian regime causes immediate reaction of the authorities in Russia. That is not right. However, the reason that we have such a reaction is because people like Kotkin encourahe CIA to fund such people. Also remember the ultimate liberal Woodrow Wilson. How did the US police respond to just speaking German in WW!? Bethoven was prohibited. As for my credentials I am an American for the last 50 out of 72 years. In 1974 Nixon wanted to establish normal relations with the USSR and Red China, in 2024 Biden wants to destroy both.
    1
  7022. because chemical industry in Basel produced gas for Auswitz
    1
  7023. It was not easy but circumstances push people to work harder
    1
  7024. I have a video on BRICS
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  7025. thank you
    1
  7026. My pleasure!
    1
  7027. true
    1
  7028. interesting opinion
    1
  7029. So nice of you
    1
  7030. interesting insight
    1
  7031. Glad you liked it!
    1
  7032. He did not say that. Russia does not need Europe. There is nothing there but hostile population. Why bother. The pivot has shifted to Asia. That is where there is trade, technology, capital, resources, development., not if the corner of Eurasia called European Union
    1
  7033. thank you
    1
  7034. can you specify what I invented
    1
  7035. It was not a rotten thing, but it was a poor thing. robbed by the US of oil and grain and by sanctions.
    1
  7036. I agree with you. the Bolsheviks destroyed an industrial empire and then rebuilt it with slave labor
    1
  7037. They want Odessa and Kharkov, lands and cities populated by the Russians since 18th century.
    1
  7038. yes true, welcome
    1
  7039. Riutin was rehabilitated and his book was published. I found it online. The ballot was taken but seized by Stalin's men
    1
  7040. Thank you! Cheers!
    1
  7041. I still hope once they meet, they'll make a deal
    1
  7042. true
    1
  7043. thank you for your comment
    1
  7044. glad you liked it
    1
  7045. glad to hear it
    1
  7046. Guderian was frustrated with Hitler
    1
  7047. In that case, Colonel McGregor, Jeffrey Sacks, Judge Napoletano, Ray McCovern (former CIA) Scott Ritter - we are all Moscow Radio. May be you are repeating CIA narrative
    1
  7048. exactly
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  7049. Thank you for this very interesting observation. I testified before the House Banking Committee in 199 about financial schemes of the Russian oligarchs. So what you mention is familiar to me
    1
  7050. exactly
    1
  7051. India buys Russian gas and sells it to France makes a lot of money and Macron blames the "war in Ukraine" for his refusal to buy Russian gas. In the end India is getting richer and France poorer
    1
  7052. interesting observation
    1
  7053. Most people are too lazy to look for information instead of eating what they are fed
    1
  7054. May be not everything went to plan especially in 2022 but now victory is nor far off
    1
  7055. Happy new year!
    1
  7056. most people know little about it.
    1
  7057. Happy new year!
    1
  7058. No, Russia has gains, real ones
    1
  7059. we shall see
    1
  7060. true
    1
  7061. This is a wonderful summary of what has been going on. THANK YOU
    1
  7062. glad to try
    1
  7063. interesting comparison
    1
  7064. true
    1
  7065. thank you
    1
  7066. Putin is playing with fire in his own backyard which is easier than across the ocean
    1
  7067. good point
    1
  7068. interesting comment
    1
  7069. true
    1
  7070. I hope too. thank you
    1
  7071. good point
    1
  7072. agree
    1
  7073. thanks
    1
  7074. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  7075. true
    1
  7076. I'll learn
    1
  7077. true demography is a big problem. Let me ask you? Where do the migrants to Russia come from? Answer: from central Asia, former Soviet republics. They used to be in one and the same country 30 years ago. They speak Russian and will integrate easily.
    1
  7078. thank you for your comment
    1
  7079. thank you
    1
  7080. I do not understand what you mean by reference to a warm winter clothes
    1
  7081. yes right
    1
  7082. Putin said yes with nuances. The ball is now in Trump's hands
    1
  7083. thank you very much
    1
  7084. can well be
    1
  7085. the same reason a proud nation that does not want to take orders
    1
  7086. thank you
    1
  7087. thank you
    1
  7088. thanks
    1
  7089. You are right to be skeptical but these days there are satellites and they show things in real time
    1
  7090. reasonable
    1
  7091. Why insult people whose view you do not like?
    1
  7092. thank you
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  7093. what was the criticism to discuss good idea. Ss for the book try a used copy or a PdF format
    1
  7094. I'll try
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  7095. thank you. I shall try. The bombing of Yougoslavia had an inderect influence on Putin coming to power. It increased the influence of Prime Minister Primakov, who turned his plane in mid-air on route to Washington in protest. When he landed he was greeted as a hero. He promoted Putin to head FSB, and he recommended Putin to Yeltsyn.
    1
  7096. I was born in the USSR. My mother is Jewish, father Russian. In 1975 I left the Soviet Union, came to America, entered grad school, then PhD at Princeton, then post-docs, one at Berkley, then job offer from Harvard. Then editor of a journal, then teaching as an American Prof in Russia as a guest Professor, then several years in Houston, then 10 years teaching at an American school in Morrocco. The retirement. That's it briefly. What about your story?
    1
  7097. thanks
    1
  7098. thank you for your comment
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  7099. Anything we do not like we tend to call propaganda. It is a way of dismissing it outright. Ask yourself may be you are the victim of Western propaganda that convinced you that NATO expansion into Ukraine is a "Putin war" Yes it is a Putin war against NATO and Biden and all those who pretend they defend Ukraine, but in fact pursue their expansionist agenda.
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  7100. most welcome
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  7101. As I told you last time Su35 is superior or equal to F35. That is not my opinion it is based on comparing capabilities of the two . As for tanks Abrams is no where near T90. Again just read the comparisons widely available. You just do not want to admit that anybody could be superior to the US
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  7102. exactly
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  7103. glad to try
    1
  7104. Do not forget the people who live in Donbas are RUSSIANS and have always lived there and have always been Russian.Lenin gave those territories to Ukraine. Is what Lenin did a sacred deed? For you? Are you a Leninist?
    1
  7105. What we see now is HISTORY in the making. A new world is emerging.
    1
  7106. I am going to post a special presentation on Putin
    1
  7107. Glad you enjoyed it
    1
  7108. the lossoflife is terrible for both. That perhaps is the most tragic byproduct of that war. The US is not in any hurry to end it because as you say bith sides killing Russians is OK with US
    1
  7109. ?????
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  7110. good point thank you
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  7111. happy to hear that
    1
  7112. exactly right
    1
  7113. Glad you like them!
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  7114. thanks
    1
  7115. thank you
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  7116. thank you, I hope you will like it
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  7117. You see, Trump was impeached for quid pro quo supposedly in Ukraine Hunter Biden affair. But Hunter was not tried and Biden's corrupt deal of 2012 - 2-16 period are uninvestigated still
    1
  7118. Pride, Arrogance, desire to command to enjoy when other obey.
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  7119. thank you
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  7120. like which ones?
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  7121. I think so too
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  7122. exactly right
    1
  7123. I have another video on the origin of Rus in Russian History playlist
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  7124. Unfortunately I do not have the sources with me now. I did this video when I lived in Morocco and all the materials are now left behind. What I do remember is that the story was about the negotiations between the Crusaders and the Fatimid caliph about a possible alliance against either the Turks or Salahadin.
    1
  7125. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  7126. This was discussed in July 1943
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  7127. may be
    1
  7128. merci a vous
    1
  7129. interesting view
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  7130. exactly
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  7131. thank you
    1
  7132. I shall fix that
    1
  7133. I agree but it seems that the leaders of EU are at war with Russia, for confiscating assets in the banks is an act of war.
    1
  7134. Glad you enjoyed it!
    1
  7135. welcome. I try
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  7136. exactly
    1
  7137. thanks
    1
  7138. there are so many things we just do not know. Those who claim they do probably dont
    1
  7139. thanks
    1
  7140. Thank you kindly
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  7141. true
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  7142. exactly
    1
  7143. Lukashenko speaks for himself
    1
  7144. thank you for your comment
    1
  7145. Much appreciated!
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  7146. You're welcome
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  7147. thanks
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  7148. You are wrong. and you shall see the end of the war this year and then we ll discuss
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  7149. Putin is not a friend of Bibi or of Kissinger. Dugin is not a neo-Nazi and Putin is nota billionaire. He does not need money. That is not his mission in life. You have heard all kinds of roumours and ennuendo. Multi-polar world has one one purpose, to have more than one country who can purssue its interests, without taking orders from the US or NATO.
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  7150. The US establishment did not hate NAZI Germany. They did business with them just fine up to 1941
    1
  7151. true
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  7152. welcome
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  7153. merci danke
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  7154. exactly
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  7155. happy you liked it
    1
  7156. true
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  7157. thank you for your comment
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  7158. true, in reality its is more complex but the overall chief priority of China is to maintain and expand its trade because its economy is based on exports. For trade to go one needs peace.
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  7159. yes sorry
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  7160. first they say it is weka and has already lost, then they say w russia will conquer all of europe. nonsense
    1
  7161. spasibo
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  7162. thank you
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  7163. merci a vous
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  7164. what do you mean?
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  7165. exactly
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  7166. very true, thanks
    1
  7167. DA
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  7168. Why are there American mercenaries in Russia? And Poles and Germans and French? And 200 billion worth of Western mainly American hardware? All of that is OVERCOME. Russia is advancing!!!
    1
  7169. Thank you that is a serious scholarly article bravo. I agree compteley
    1
  7170. yes
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  7171. very true
    1
  7172. thank you
    1
  7173. thanks
    1
  7174. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  7175. true
    1
  7176. exactly
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  7177. The US elites hoped that Russia was finished as a power to reckon with in the 1990s. But Putin brought it back from the dead. What a surprise. They refuse to believe it.
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  7178. merci. I recently read a book describing the visit of Nich0las II to France in 1902 if I am not mistaken. I could not believe how much the French praised Russia then, their culture and values all in common. That is what they said then a glorious alliance. And now it is painful to see how the French President is sending weapons to fight Russia.
    1
  7179. yes, agree
    1
  7180. good points
    1
  7181. That is a good idea to hire Indian workers. There is a labor shortage in Russia now
    1
  7182. This is a matter of judgment
    1
  7183. You're welcome!
    1
  7184. good point
    1
  7185. excellent
    1
  7186. I hope they are not planning but the fact that they are discussing that in normal scholarly journal is pathetic
    1
  7187. thank you
    1
  7188. you mean the hewbres?
    1
  7189. I agree. I still think they will make a deal
    1
  7190. glad to hear it
    1
  7191. yes Tucket could have been better prepared
    1
  7192. thank you for your comment
    1
  7193. Thanks and welcome
    1
  7194. thanks
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  7195. je sui en France
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  7196. thank you
    1
  7197. Mu impression is that under Mai they copied the Soviets but as of Deng Xio Ping, their system of recruitment changed dramatically. It is ore competitive and merit based. Their education system especially in math and science is superb.
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  7198. Yes, that is true, but they do not make policy.
    1
  7199. true
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  7200. Once can expect something like that until Jan21
    1
  7201. Glad it was helpful!
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  7202. yes true
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  7203. true
    1
  7204. very substantial comment
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  7205. me too
    1
  7206. Are you a Bandera supporter?
    1
  7207. welcome
    1
  7208. thank you
    1
  7209. true
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  7210. There was a coup. The next day after the deal was signed guaranteed by Germany and France, Yanukovych had to run for his life as the Maydan folks took over Kiev. That is called a coup or a revolution if you like it better. The French were selling carriers to Russia because they were not privy to US plans to take over Ukraine. As for Banderovites, dont tell me who is and who is not a Banderovite. My mother was born in Ukraine and Bandera folks during the war were the first ones to capture the Communists and the jews and deliver them to Nazis. TODAY they march in Kiev with banners of Bandera. To me this means they are Banderovites.
    1
  7211. close to 18 per cent. That however, does no seem to slow down the economy where as in the US a rate of 6% has pretty much shut down the new housing construction
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  7212. Are asking my opinion or my judgment?
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  7213. happy to hear that
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  7214. thanks
    1
  7215. that is true
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  7216. let's be patient
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  7217. My pleasure!
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  7218. Yes thank you for your comment. I agree. But what is amazing is that American leaders did not used to be as arrogant and haughty in the 1960s 1970s 1980s and 1990s as hey are today. They used to deal and make compromises, now they issue orders and threats.
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  7219. so is harris
    1
  7220. Thanks for watching
    1
  7221. well said
    1
  7222. in both for different reasons
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  7223. that is their stupid choice.
    1
  7224. no
    1
  7225. exactly
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  7226. Welcome
    1
  7227. Eastern Poland was not Poland but parts of Lithuania and of Belarus!
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  7228. если вы в россии то хочу вам сообщитьчто одна из моих кгиг издана в россии ее можно купить на Ozon.ru она называется Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа
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  7229. thank you
    1
  7230. You are most welcome
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  7231. Good point. Zelensky has to face elections first
    1
  7232. So nice of you
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  7233. He does, you see Russia is not an economic competitor of the US, EU and China are.
    1
  7234. yes it is new
    1
  7235. Yes but I read somewhere that Panama canal is too narrow and that unnamed investors are planning to build a new canal in Nicaragua
    1
  7236. gracia
    1
  7237. exactly
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  7238. true
    1
  7239. thanks
    1
  7240. thank you
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  7241. of course not
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  7242. Did he survive?
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  7243. Stalin's crimes are beyond any comparison. But can you name specifically what are those of Putin?
    1
  7244. I hope not, they are advancing daily
    1
  7245. thank you
    1
  7246. Putin has shown restraint and wisdom and patience. His trump card is that the Western populations do not want escalation and do not want any war with Russia especially since they are not attacked. Some French politicians are talking about leaving NATO, Meloni spoke about leaving NATO AFd spoke of leaving NATO. These ideas are gaining ground.
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  7247. What I say is so evident so obvious that soo everybody will see it
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  7248. exactly
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  7249. good point
    1
  7250. population decline yes, but the flight of the young people from 18-to32 is in the Baltics
    1
  7251. so glad to try, thank you
    1
  7252. thank you
    1
  7253. interesting point
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  7254. we shall see if they let him
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  7255. I hope not
    1
  7256. exactly
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  7257. true
    1
  7258. yes you are right
    1
  7259. thanks
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  7260. Thanks!
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  7261. I live abroad. Now I am in Vienna. Where do you want me to go.
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  7262. No, here I disagree one should seek security for all post communist countries not just for estonia latvia etc. If everybody's security was the goal, there would be not expansio of nato against Russia but a new architecture of security for all. All the us did was expand its power on the fears of the PAST. not present
    1
  7263. yes true
    1
  7264. more like a gamble
    1
  7265. not only
    1
  7266. hatred is a bad advisor.
    1
  7267. It confirmed the Ukrainian neutrality as proclaimed in Ukrainian independence declaration
    1
  7268. true
    1
  7269. good question
    1
  7270. well said
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  7271. me too
    1
  7272. Putin signed Minsk but Ukrainian gov. signed and then refused to honor it. The US built up and armed Ukr, army to launch a war in Donbas.
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  7273. that is already happening cant you see with biden's emig policy
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  7274. may be
    1
  7275. thanks
    1
  7276. если хотите на русском то купите мою книгу на ozon.ru великая октябрьская катастрофа
    1
  7277. Ukraine is a territory of orthodox Russian people of the South
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  7278. You're welcome
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  7279. What exactly do you onject to?
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  7280. thank you
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  7281. because they were afrain of the Soviet aggression. But they forgot that in 1991 Communism ENDED.
    1
  7282. thank you
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  7283. good point
    1
  7284. thank you
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  7285. Meri I'habite la bas
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  7286. thank you
    1
  7287. interesting
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  7288. Strange things about the Poles, at least some of them. They always dream of when Russia will fall apart. Remember it will not. As for capitalism, you talk as a school master, Remember Russia has its own form of capitalism and it doesnot have to comply with US or Polish standards. In 1920 it was the Poles who invaded Ukraine and Lithuania and kept Vilnius pretending it was part of Polabd, ths same about half of Belorus. The Poles have a grandeur syndrom sickness that prevents them from seeing their neignbors in rational ways.
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  7289. I know all that, but the times are changing. AfD is growing.
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  7290. exactly
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  7291. There always was Ukraine and its neighbors. That is a projection backward. There was a time when there was no Ukraine. They were called Rus then. Ukraine meant geographical space at the edge of Polish held lands populated by Orthodox Russians. The very notion of nationality did not exist then. Ukraine as an entity appeared in opposition the Poles and sought protection from Tsar Alexis.
    1
  7292. interesting observation thank you
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  7293. yes he is the commander in chief
    1
  7294. deliberate lies to sustain their waisted money flow
    1
  7295. I watch opposition channels all the time,just to be informed what they say. Obviously the official TV channels are all pro-government, but there are other TV channels that are run by circles close to Navalny, ot Ukraine or whoever.
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  7296. The weaker Britain becomes the more hostile to Russia it gets
    1
  7297. yes exactly
    1
  7298. well said
    1
  7299. yes
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  7300. Welcome!
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  7301. good point.
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  7302. may be
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  7303. thank you for your comment
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  7304. probably true but not any.
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  7305. Thank you for such a thoughtful answer. I agree with you completely on the dangers we face today. USA reminds me of Russia in 1917.Some small factions are usurping politics guided by hatred and revenge. As for Socialism, it must be seen in historical perspective. Marx wrote Das Kapital basing his research on England of the 1850s when workers indeed had no rights and worked 12 hours etc, etc. He was preoccupied with what was wrong with Capitalism rather than with Socialism. He did not describe it as a system except that monopolies and joint stock companies will grow and become public by distributing ownership. Eduard Bernstein in the 1890s was the first one to create Revisionism by revising Marx saying that Violent Revolution was not necessary because workers parties will come to power and legislate in favor of the laboring classes. That is exactly what happened in Germany England, France etc. Socialism was understood as eliminating exploitation and expropriation of surplus value from the workers by the capitalists. That can be done peacefully by fair distribution and taxation. That was what was understood by ALL Socialists up to 1914. Mensheviks when they came to power in 1917 were the first ones to act out this program. They instituted 8 hour day, health insurance, joint worker owner management boards. Years later all European Social Dem parties did the same. What you refer to is not Socialism but Anarcho-Syndicalism, a tradition that goes back to Bakunin not Marx. These were self governing communes, workers' control, workers' taking over ownership and management of enterprises. These are all Socialist experiments, but not Socialism as a social and political system as understood by all except Lenin and his Bolsheviks. If we look on what Rosa Luxembourg wrote about Lenin's system or critique by Martov, we shall see that these people categorically refused to call what Lenin did anything even approaching Socialism. It was madness, anarchy, mass murder, etc. What you described happened later with SPD dropping Marx is only natural as times are changing and new understanding comes.
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  7306. very interesting idea
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  7307. That is your opinion
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  7308. You're very welcome!
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  7309. exactly
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  7310. Sorry to hear that, what about BRICS
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  7311. thank you
    1
  7312. thank you for your comment
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  7313. summed up well
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  7314. Thank you too!
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  7315. One Ukrainian politicians said yesterday that they will have to start Ukrainian political system from scratch, redo it completely
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  7316. Glad you liked it!
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  7317. Yes that is the future. China/Russia/BRICS can offer more and better than G7
    1
  7318. Glad it was helpful!
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  7319. What an excellent commentary. Thank you. Bravo!
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  7320. thanks
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  7321. true
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  7322. Glad you liked it
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  7323. thank you
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  7324. what is wef?
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  7325. yes black rock is going to lose a lot of money
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  7326. thank you
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  7327. true
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  7328. thank you
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  7329. thank you for your comment
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  7330. true, thank you for your comment
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  7331. AP stands for Advance Placement course, which means it is a college level course offered at High School
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  7332. yes
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  7333. What we do not like we always call "propaganda". A more serious approach is to say exactly what is wrong with the facts or arguments presented. By labeling something "propaganda" you basically are saying I do not want to deal with it because I have nothing substantive to say.
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  7334. good point!
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  7335. true
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  7336. welcome
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  7337. its over now
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  7338. Glad you liked it!
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  7339. thank you for your comment
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  7340. May be, but Trump has too many other priorities
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  7341. can well be
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  7342. It will have to, to avoid demise
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  7343. true
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  7344. if you are in Russia, one of my books is published in Russia available on Ozon.ru. великая октябрьская катастрофа
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  7345. welcome
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  7346. Glad you enjoyed it
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  7347. thank you for your comment
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  7348. yes, true
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  7349. good point
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  7350. spasibo vam Я очень рад и могу добавить, что у меня есть одна книга, изданная в России: «Великая октябрьская катастрофа». Она доступна на сайте Wildberries.ru; Ozon.ru; Litres.ru
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  7351. of course anybody can volunteer but the French troops did not volunteer they were sent my Micron
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  7352. not yet
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  7353. Wow, thank you!
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  7354. I am not an enginer to answer these questions but as a cunsumer Ican tell you Tesla is superior to any car I have ever driven. It is superresponsive and you need it especially when you enter a highway. It can speed up or slow down in a second or two. It is steady, it is maneuvrable, it is comfortable, quiete and on top of it it is two or three times cheaper to run without any pollution
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  7355. exactly right
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  7356. It is difficult to explain so many things in just 15 minutes. Just real my book, From Lenin to Putin and I take time and pages to explain all these terms. You see the difficulty is that what Marx meant by Dictatorship of the proletariat differs from what Lenin meant and that differs from what semi-literate upstarts meant
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  7357. exactly
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  7358. Thanks again!
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  7359. agree thank you
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  7360. thank you
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  7361. thanks
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  7362. You're welcome 😊
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  7363. probably true
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  7364. Because Biden announced it in Feb22. He knew it because he started the shooting of Donetsk
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  7365. You mean Solovyov the philosopher? Yes I have read him. The Russian idea is a separate path, not like the West not like the Orient, but its own, base on Orthodox Christianity, believe in father Tsar, and roots in Russian village traditions, community over individuality, a believe in justice, meaning fairness. That is in a nutshell
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  7366. true
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  7367. happy to hear that
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  7368. I'll check it out Dugin's main idea is that Russia is a civilization in its own right.I should do avideo on Dugin
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  7369. absolutely right. Crimean war wasabout blocking Russia out of the mediterranian. In 1914 GB would up in the same alliance with Russia only because of France. In 1940 the Brits were about to attack Soviet Azerbaijan and seize oil fields, and then humiliation when Stalin kicked out the London Poles...
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  7370. That is the plan BUT this requires billions of dollars of investment and I do not think the US has those billions right now.
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  7371. thank you so much
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  7372. I said in my video back in June, that the smartest thing for Elensky was to accept Putin's offer in June. He could have had all of Ukraine minus Donbas and Crimea
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  7373. The Russophobia is not as bad as it seems. Just 15 years ago there were warm relations between Russia and Italy, Germany, France. The Baltic republics and Poland were the champions of hatred of Russia. I was in Finland a few years ago and there was no hatred of Russia at all. I talked to the Finns and they said they had good neighbor relations tourism, Russian visitors at full swing. I do not understand what happened. Is it fear? Is it influence of Estonians? Poland received a third of its territory from comrade Stalin. They should be building monuments to him instead they hate the Russians. Without the Russians they would have been a province of Germany.
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  7374. I do too
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  7375. thank you
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  7376. thanks
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  7377. not always
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  7378. I am not on anybody's payrol I am retired. Yeltsyn took the services of Western image makers and advisers. I know many of them personally. If you disagree with something, say specifically with what, otherwise it is not serious.
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  7379. true
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  7380. greetings!
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  7381. well said
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  7382. I do not
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  7383. thank you for your comment
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  7384. I agree, well said. thank you
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  7385. danke froh
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  7386. well said
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  7387. thank you for your comment
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  7388. thank you
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  7389. exactly right
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  7390. here you are wrong. Hundreds of thousands of Brits come and settle in France speaking english
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  7391. The promise not to expand NATO was done during the reunification of Germany.
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  7392. Glad to hear that!
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  7393. why run over?
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  7394. I was born in 1951 and my grandpa in 1905.
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  7395. thanks
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  7396. You are welcome!
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  7397. Great analogy. Good girl
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  7398. exactly
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  7399. You are welcome!
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  7400. Zelensky insulted Vance in Russian by the word SUKA open up google and check what it means.
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  7401. thank you for the data
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  7402. Yes many in the Cheka were members of the Left SR party. But did they act on the orders of the left SR Central Committee or on the orders of the Cheka. My argument that Bliumkin, who killed Mirbach acted on the orders of Dzerzhinsky, the Cheka boss.
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  7403. Adam Ulam was my teacher and a colleague in the 1990s. I love Adam. He is great. His books were fantastic
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  7404. thank you
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  7405. exactly
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  7406. Welcome aboard!
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  7407. exactly
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  7408. Welcome
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  7409. Kotkin gives you a simplified picture. To industrialize one did not have to kill 4 million peasants.
    1
  7410. most welcome
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  7411. No one pays me!!! Why do you Americans presumably, always assume that someone must pay something. Can you not even imagine that free men can do something without being paid?
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  7412. Ich hoffe dass besserer Zeit kommt bald
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  7413. thank you
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  7414. glad to hear that
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  7415. No, it was set up. Nato started bombing Donbas after a broken ceasefire
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  7416. Yes, true, but so far the climate change works in Russia's favor. The north arctic route to Europe will become more available for trade. Frozen territories in north Siberia will become livable.
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  7417. true
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  7418. exactly
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  7419. In an electric car you do not need an ignition no more.
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  7420. I think that 6 trillion for Russia is underestimating it because the ruble is undervalued significantly. Rough estimate is closer to 9 or ten trillion
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  7421. he will
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  7422. you r right
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  7423. yes that is true, they wanted but the US could have said no. The US could have agreed to have a security treaty for all including Russia. The chose to expand nato to spread their bases and power.
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  7424. perhaps both
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  7425. thank you for your comment
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  7426. i do not
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  7427. So nice of you
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  7428. They withdrew from Berlin because they were led to believe that from then on we were all going to live in one European home. If they were told that they would be deceived, that NATO would absorb East Germany plus all other soviet satellites, they probabby would not have believed it
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  7429. Same to you!
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  7430. I agree check mu video why the US establishment hates Russia
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  7431. очень рад. покупайте мою книгу в России на русском Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа на Litres.ru; Ozon.ru; Wildberries.ru
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  7432. thank you for your input
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  7433. sorry
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  7434. Good point
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  7435. This was in response to merkel letting three million migrants legally in one year.
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  7436. thanks
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  7437. Yes, that is true. But Austria neutrality by an international treaty still holds. US promise not to invade Cuba still holds
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  7438. exactly
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  7439. good point
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  7440. read what. \what exactly are you referring to?
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  7441. No exactly. The Russian democrats helped the Baltic republics obtain their independence after the USSR collapse
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  7442. well put
    1
  7443. there is a non-proliferation treaty.
    1
  7444. If you watch the scene when Vance started talking, watch Zelensky lips. He said it quietly but it still can be heard SUKA, open up google translate and check what it means in Russia. It is a swear word. he called Vance that. I do not know if Vance knows what Zele called him. That s enough to break any relations with this former actor.
    1
  7445. you are right
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  7446. thanks
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  7447. many comments are along these lines
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  7448. good points
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  7449. thank you
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  7450. No, the US will not send troops. Impossible.
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  7451. probably
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  7452. thank you welcome aboard
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  7453. You may be right but 1. Turkey no longer seeks EU membership because the EU does not want them and 2, because the EU economy is on the way down and China;' is is on the way up. For the first time in history since the 8th century the East looks more attractive and more promising that the West. Moreover the anti=Israeli and Anti=American popular sentiment is Turkey is on the brink of spillover. Turkey's futurte will probably be with Brics China Russia and not the West
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  7454. The drones are easy to intercept. The Russians are learning to do it.
    1
  7455. The Russians keep talking about being duped by the West all the time.
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  7456. thanks
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  7457. demilitarization means no military force, or a limit on such a force, for example like the British army 50 thousand. denazification means bannning Azov batallion and or all Bandera inspired nationalists
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  7458. good point
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  7459. thank you
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  7460. exactly right
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  7461. thank you for this very interesting fact. The style is right is not it?
    1
  7462. I do discuss this question in my book. The short answer is that Stalin feared the rising power of peasants, rich peasants who produced more grain every year and who generated more kulaks (prosperpos market producing peasants) every year than the entire Communist party.
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  7463. thank you
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  7464. we shall see. Personally I do not think trump will be able to do any of it: I mean No Canada No Greenland and No Panama canal
    1
  7465. good point
    1
  7466. true
    1
  7467. thank you
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  7468. You're most welcome!
    1
  7469. welcome
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  7470. we shall see
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  7471. he says he does
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  7472. welcome
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  7473. thank you
    1
  7474. glad to try
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  7475. France is not a democracy. Micron ignores elections appoints gov. he wants, persecutes his political opponents, persecutes trade unions and jilets jeaune etc. Putin has been elected by 87% of the population. Why is it that when Netanyahu rules for 20 years it is democracy but when Putin does it is not?
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  7476. that was pathetic
    1
  7477. I left the Soviet Union in 1975
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  7478. Я уехал из Советского Союза в 1975 году.
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  7479. yes you are right, there is a historical connection here
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  7480. interesting insight
    1
  7481. I hope they won't
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  7482. This is a very complex issue. I studied in Germany in 1980-82. At that time Germany was pacifist to the core. The Greens were just beginning and they were pacifist and blamed their fathers for covering up the truth about the Holocaust. Fast forward 40 years and what do we have now, German Greens carve for war against Russia, forgot their pacifism, german business class wants Germany to dominate Europe and the Balkans and Ukraine and stick it to the Russians for their "victory" in 1945. Injured pride, fear of Russia, despise to the Poles, secret joy that Britain is now a nobody and derision in regard to France that poses still as a great power.
    1
  7483. It is going just fine. When do you think the Russians are going to be in Lvov? Will they continue to Warsau?
    1
  7484. You're welcome!
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  7485. exactly
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  7486. I shall, more to come
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  7487. We shall see if Trump can be an independent actor
    1
  7488. thanks
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  7489. Much appreciated
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  7490. takes time
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  7491. I agree with almost everything you say. There is a serious rivalry between China and India. However, both of these countries suffered from and remember well the British rule and a century of humiliation. Rivalry is natural, the key here is to keep the balance of power in Asia. Russia, as a friend of both, can counterbalance the power of those two.
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  7492. In 1930s there were no sanctions. Without collectivization,studies show, Russia=Soviet Union would have had more grain to export. 3. Let us not forget that Russia was not a poor undevelopped country. In 1913 it was the fifth largest economy in the world, that aint too bad.
    1
  7493. happy to try
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  7494. You are welcome!
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  7495. thank you for the reference
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  7496. great summary
    1
  7497. well said
    1
  7498. thank you
    1
  7499. Russia cannot be sanctioned to make it collapse. It is completely self-sufficient and what it needs can be obtained in China.
    1
  7500. thank you
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  7501. Many thanks!
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  7502. eighty million votes bannot be falsified
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  7503. who is the tribe?
    1
  7504. thank you for your comment
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  7505. goog analogy
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  7506. why suspicion. Russia is not ther USSR, just as Germany is not the Nazi Reich. Why can't you look forward, not backward. I realize that the USSR oppressed you. But it is over, is not it.
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  7507. The Americans used to buy Russian oil and gas for decades strating with the Bolsheviks under Lenin. I think in 2012 they changed policy and began to push the Germans to stop buying gas from Russia and decided to stop themselves. Reason is two: 1. They became self-suffucialnt in oil and gas; 2. They were/are afraid that Germany and Europe will develop a murually beneficial economic partnership with Russia and China and the Atlanticists would lose control
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  7508. Thank you somuch for awonderful new term: ideal safe enemy. I shall use it wwith your permission
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  7509. exactly
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  7510. The highway from Petersburg to Moscow is better then 95 from Washington to New York. Americans always think they are number one. Wake up, China has already surpassed the US
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  7511. probably true
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  7512. All of my books are available on Amazon.com and on Barnes and Noble and the latest book from the publisher Routledge. Also each book publisher has a website and sometimes they have better prices than Amazon. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I AM TOUCHED
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  7513. most welcome
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  7514. true
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  7515. they fled from Kharkov because 200K cannot hold the front of 1000 km. Now they have 800.000. we shall see who is going to run and how far.
    1
  7516. true
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  7517. thank you for your comment
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  7518. Because the US and UK promised to supply them with weapons however long it took
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  7519. Did he return to Poland what you consider Polish lands. Yes or no? The Brits and Amercan did not want to. Stalin insusted. Build a monument to Stalin
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  7520. true
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  7521. welcome
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  7522. this video explains it
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  7523. yes, but remeber Nixon came to Moscow and to China and a new era od detente began and then followed arms control agreements
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  7524. good question
    1
  7525. thanks
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  7526. Where the Russians stop is now at the center of debate
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  7527. I hope it is my next video
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  7528. thank you
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  7529. true
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  7530. thank you
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  7531. No they are there, lots of Polish French German American and others soldiers for hire with national IDs and pay from their respective countries, tens of thousands
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  7532. I do not care what Hitler thought of Weimar culture. To me it was great.
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  7533. good point
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  7534. thank you
    1
  7535. google images
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  7536. Strange the people in Europe do not want any war especially with Russia, but the elites are driven by some strange death wish to get into the fight.
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  7537. I am sorry I had this document a few years ago but now I do not. I found it online in some historical archive on Byzantine empire.
    1
  7538. that is a deeper approach
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  7539. richtig
    1
  7540. well said. thank you
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  7541. thank you
    1
  7542. That is not true. They are quite different in details. Some are more interested in purely military aspects, others in political, still others in situation in Ukraine or in Russia or US policy. I try to integrate into the Big Picture
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  7543. thank you
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  7544. that is why
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  7545. I realize the poles consider these territories Polish. If you ask Ukrainians they would say that these were Ukrainian conquered by the Poles and then Austrians.
    1
  7546. thank you
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  7547. What you describe is an ideal scenario. BUT what if UK France and Poland say they do not accept these terms and conclude bilateral treaties with labs and vessels and joint defense systems etc? Moreover, Russian generals says Odessa and Kharkov are Russian in any deal. How do you overcome these obstacles?
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  7548. exactly
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  7549. thanks
    1
  7550. thank you. Indeed many think that fascism was a reaction to bolshevism
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  7551. Welcome
    1
  7552. because the right sector got into power
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  7553. not the entire west, only northern Europe
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  7554. thank you
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  7555. that is why he asks for metals
    1
  7556. spasibo
    1
  7557. welcome
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  7558. No I have not. The book is in English and I am still looking for a Russian publisher
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  7559. dont be, its all a show
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  7560. exactly
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  7561. perhaps Africa and Wagner
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  7562. Hope all is well for you and Rim. May be next year in London
    1
  7563. welcome
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  7564. interesting
    1
  7565. yes true
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  7566. thank you for your comment
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  7567. yes, exactly
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  7568. no they dont. They defend themselves from US claim that the whole world should obey US dictates.
    1
  7569. yes it is, may be Yalta?
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  7570. They will not let either Kennedy or Trump
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  7571. welcome aboard
    1
  7572. true
    1
  7573. The MAGA movement will stop them
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  7574. interesting prognosis, I hope you are right
    1
  7575. thank you
    1
  7576. I know I said it figuratively. I believe they were tigers then
    1
  7577. that would be good to do
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  7578. true
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  7579. There were several conferences in Kiev in 2023 and 2024 where supporters of Ukraine discussed the victory plan and what they would do when victory comes, the ideas were to impose huge reparations upon Russia, to take over its nuclear arsenal, and to divide the country into zones of responsibility by the Great powers as was done to Germany in 1945. I do not remember which conference specifically
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  7580. some do believe it was a set up
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  7581. you are absolutely right.
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  7582. in Russia or with Russia
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  7583. Fear governs people. No Russia has risen because it feeed itself from colonies
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  7584. because it is not an aggression but a defense of Donbas against NATO aggression
    1
  7585. glad to try
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  7586. thank you for your comment
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  7587. most welcome
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  7588. thank you
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  7589. agreed thanks
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  7590. most welcome
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  7591. thanks for suggestion . I'll do it. he told me many stories
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  7592. You're very welcome!
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  7593. Thank you! Cheers!
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  7594. happy to try
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  7595. Glad it helped!
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  7596. we shall see
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  7597. That may well happen
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  7598. so glad to hear that
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  7599. true
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  7600. most welcome
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  7601. spasibo
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  7602. I am trying to correct that
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  7603. Glad you think so!
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  7604. thank you
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  7605. thank you so much. Happy New Year!
    1
  7606. I wonder why he caved in so early?
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  7607. exactly
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  7608. true
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  7609. Glad you enjoyed it
    1
  7610. true
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  7611. Glad you like it!
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  7612. I recommend that you watch Scott Ritter discuss exactly this topic. He says that moving such number of troops would be a very difficult if not impossible undertaking. The hundreds of thousands troops would have to be brought to the Russian border. There are roads that can be hit also railways. One would need to have the Congress authorize such massive deployment of troops which will not happen unless Russia strikes the US directly. As for European armies they are negligible. They would also need authorization from their parliaments to go to war against Russia and they will not get it even in UK let alone Italy , Germany, France Spain. The only ones that may authorize this will be Poland Baltic midguts and may be Sweden. For you info Dr. means Ph.D. in this case in History from Princeton University 1984 go check it out
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  7613. Hungarians are very proud of their culture and history. They did not let the soviets to control them and they will not let the Americans to control them
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  7614. yes
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  7615. thank you
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  7616. Thank you! Cheers!
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  7617. There are some. At one point I started making videos in Russian and received very few views. So I stopped and continued only in English. As far as I know today it is possible to have a voice translation from any language automatically which makes English or Russian translation easy
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  7618. thank you
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  7619. good point
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  7620. No, nobody in the West wants to fight Russia, except for some crazy politicians in the Baltics!
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  7621. thanks
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  7622. true
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  7623. true, unfortunately
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  7624. thanks
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  7625. Thanks for the tips!
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  7626. I meant to say that tens of thousands of the Dutch and Belgians and Brits own houses in France. But NO Germans. In every French town the stories still circulate about the war years and about the Gestapo and resistance. Danke
    1
  7627. happy to hear that
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  7628. There was no mutual defense treaty between Syria and Russia. If it had not been for Russia Assad's gov. would have fallen in 2012. As for Israel, if the treaty with Iran is actually signed on 17 Jan. then Russia will have to act in accordance with the treaty. Then Bibi will have to face a new reality
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  7629. 3. Do you recofnize the fact that Ukraine was a part of the USSR therefore it wasnot a separate country. It suffered just as Russian peasants therefore there was no genocide of Ukrainian but of pesants as such. On bendera. Do you recognize that there was a Volun' massacre of the Poles. Is it not hatred. You cannot deny that Bendera people served as polizei and slaughtred the jews. Is it not hatred.
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  7630. Hi Craig Unfortunately I do not know about translations. I read a synopsis in French
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  7631. BRICS is a project in the making
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  7632. Thank you too!
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  7633. true, primakov turned around in mid-air. remeber that
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  7634. As Colonel McGregor says most of the 61 bil is a fee to the mil indust friends of the folkd from Penn avenue
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  7635. Glad it was helpful!
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  7636. true
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  7637. True, injured pride, ambition, jealousy. The Poles are Catholics, may be they should remember that these are sins.
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  7638. You put it exactly right
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  7639. Welcome!
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  7640. Russia did not attack Ukraine. Russia defended Donbas people from attacks of Ukraine funded and armed by NATO.
    1
  7641. because it is about 25 years
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  7642. In my earlier video I argued that Trump dislikes Zelensky exactly because he played an important role in helping the Dems to impeach Trump over Hunter's misdeeds
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  7643. pozhaluista
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  7644. They do not know the Russians.
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  7645. that can well be as Russia has been sellig a lot of arms to India
    1
  7646. yes true
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  7647. this time around it won't work
    1
  7648. I do not remove them
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  7649. thank you
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  7650. I hope still not
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  7651. thank you very much
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  7652. so glad to hear that
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  7653. if you are interested I have one book published in Russia in Russian. You can find it on LitRes, or Wild Berries, or Ozon, just put my namein search bar. Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа
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  7654. exactly right
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  7655. thanks for the idea
    1
  7656. and Boris Johnson and Biden and Blinken and Solovan
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  7657. true
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  7658. I respect your view, but obviously mine is different
    1
  7659. thank you
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  7660. You touched upon many crucial questions. Let me briefly respond to some of them Trenin is wrong. I know him and I lived in Moscow in the 1990s. The west perception that Russia was a declining power was formed in the 1990s. Putin reversed that hence the picture on my book phoenix, a bird that rises out of ashes. On military strength. If you take major NATO armies one by one, you will see that they are a joke of an army, British? outdated; French, German, Italian, all understaffed and outdated. The US army's biggest problem is pervasive legalized corruption worse than in the Russian army. The hundreds of billions disappear into black hole of pumped up prices for hardware. The revolving door between Pentagon and DOF is a form of legalized corruption. The so called "best" recruits are semi-literate young people who have nowhere else to go. In technology the Russian army is equal or superior to the American one. In hyper missile technology is is definitely superior. Su35 is equal or superior to F35. US aircraft carriers are sitting ducks, to be destroyed in minutes. Russia today is stronger than NATO in conventional weapons and superior in nuclear ones. Economy: Russian GDP looks very low when it is counted in dollars. If you value real commodities produced, they will show a large economy bigger than Germany's, may be the third in the world after US and China. If you take into account that US GDP is more than half services, in fact putting same money from one pocket to another, you will see that the real economy is much smaller than it appears in dollars. Russia is on the rise and USA is on decline, but China is the real superstar
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  7661. She is amazing, what a personality, what courage, what energy and fearlessness!
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  7662. Many thanks!
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  7663. thank you
    1
  7664. most welcome
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  7665. welcome
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  7666. Yes you are right. Putin made these proposals knowing that Zele would reject them. He needs this posture for BRICS
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  7667. well put
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  7668. yes
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  7669. thank you
    1
  7670. glad to try
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  7671. thanks
    1
  7672. true
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  7673. interesting thought
    1
  7674. true
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  7675. true
    1
  7676. You literally repeat Zelensky word for word. I shall repeat the Russia position: Free Donbas, recognize the will of the People in Crimea, commit to neutral status , make a treaty that guarantees no Western forces of bases of any kind. Then and only then, sign peace. As for war crimes, Zelensky commits those every day, just look at the pictures of civilian destruction in Donetsk, Belgorod and other cities.
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  7677. He cannot do any of that until Jan21
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  7678. welcome
    1
  7679. thank you
    1
  7680. very true
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  7681. showman
    1
  7682. thank you
    1
  7683. My point is that if any future Ukr gov. signs a deal with Russia, the West Ukr may secede.
    1
  7684. thank you
    1
  7685. This episode has been quoted a million times and it is totally wrong interpretation. Khrushchev loved America. He came back from his trip of 1959 was excited about American farms and efficiency and rented cars and a million other things. He started the movement To Catch UP with America. As for banging his shoe. what he meant was that by Marxist theory the socialist mode of production was supposed to follow the capitalist mode of production. Socialism he believed will "bury" meaning leave behind the outdated capitalism. It was not meant as a threat at all. It was misrepresented by those who try even today to twist anything they want and put it out of context and label people of they disagree/ If you are interested in Khrushchev read my boo From Lenin to Putin, one chapter there explains it all.
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  7686. they are trying via Georgia
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  7687. true
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  7688. glad totry
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  7689. why not in Russia?
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  7690. thank you
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  7691. Yes
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  7692. thank you
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  7693. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  7694. true
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  7695. es
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  7696. I wonder really why?
    1
  7697. not the only one. thank you
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  7698. interesting view
    1
  7699. Please understand that there is a difference between Russia and the USSR. Eastern Europe confused the two.
    1
  7700. thanks
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  7701. I am not teaching AP any more. Watch my lengthier interview (the latest video) I do discuss there at greater length the Israeli intentions and the Turkish ones. As for the US, it all depends on trump's agenda.
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  7702. thank you
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  7703. Hope you will enjoy it If you have questions I shall be happy to answer
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  7704. that disease is of those who forget, Does the West forget it is supposed to have freedom of speech
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  7705. thank you
    1
  7706. thanks
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  7707. exactly
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  7708. agree completely
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  7709. thank you
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  7710. most welcome
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  7711. exactly!
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  7712. thank u
    1
  7713. yes!
    1
  7714. thank you
    1
  7715. thank you
    1
  7716. very true
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  7717. that is the danger
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  7718. I wonder to what extent anti-French sentiment in Africa combined with Russia flags guided his action?
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  7719. If you are in Russia and if you read Russian, I have one of my books published in Russia. It is available at Litres,ru; Ozon.ru; Wildberries.ru The title is: Velikaya Oktiabrskaya Katastrofa.
    1
  7720. true
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  7721. yes
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  7722. thank you happy to hear that
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  7723. well said
    1
  7724. true
    1
  7725. exactly
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  7726. not a joke but a tragedy
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  7727. good points
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  7728. interesting view
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  7729. woke culture: is: identity focusing on sexual identity, a cult of minority rights reversing discrimination against the white majority; militant atheism and persecution of religions; radical denunciation of the past of the suffering working masses of poor minorities were concerned; destruction of the old monuments; censorship of news and narratives in favor of the laboring masses of oppressed racial and sexual minorities; conquest of the schools and aggressive propaganda of woke political correctness in the wschools including indoctrination of perverse sexual practices
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  7730. thank you, agree good point
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  7731. they had a choice to be independent, their leaders chose to be a client of the US who appoint ministers and own most of Ukr economy and you call it independence?? ha ha
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  7732. well said
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  7733. Soviet Union produced "garbage" probably you lost your thoughts 100 million toms of steel is garbage, ?? As for richer in the West, this is all statistics, my friendsin Russia have an apartment and a car and med care and free education and yet nominally in dollar terms they are "poor" but in fact there are nohomeless tens of thousands in Russia as in supposedly rich San Francisco. Finally the east europeans in the west are unskilled laborers second class citizens service personnel.
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  7734. Glad you liked it!
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  7735. Many thanks!
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  7736. yes exactly
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  7737. glad to try
    1
  7738. Glad it was helpful!
    1
  7739. agree
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  7740. The reform of the Security Council is extremely difficult because the Veto power countries like Fr and Uk still have a veto power and will not relinquish their seats. One can add a few veto powers, but which ones?
    1
  7741. yes, exactly
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  7742. thank you, good point
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  7743. welcome
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  7744. Try to check my book on Rotledge publisher website. It might be cheaper. You can try this promotional code: EFLY01 As for Putin's bio there is not any in English, but I like the work of Richard Sakwa a British professor
    1
  7745. welcome aboard
    1
  7746. Yes, tru and we should ask Great again meaning like when?
    1
  7747. glad to try
    1
  7748. true
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  7749. thank u
    1
  7750. glad to try
    1
  7751. Great to hear!
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  7752. Thank you for your summation of facts
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  7753. Can you explain why?
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  7754. can well be
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  7755. really?
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  7756. happy to hear that
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  7757. well, it may hold if the army keeps advancing
    1
  7758. thank you
    1
  7759. thanks
    1
  7760. I shall ask my publisher
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  7761. can well be
    1
  7762. oligarchs were children of the party bosses
    1
  7763. I' try
    1
  7764. thank you
    1
  7765. true
    1
  7766. good point
    1
  7767. That may well be true, as is the fact that Rutube is blocked in France and RT is banned altogether.
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  7768. him too
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  7769. seems like it
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  7770. To have an effect one needs hundreds of tanks. Do not forget the Russians have 12 000 tanks right now and they are just as good or better.
    1
  7771. exactly right
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  7772. good point
    1
  7773. Exactly right. Plus friends around the world who do help
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  7774. My pleasure!
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  7775. My pleasure!
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  7776. true
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  7777. Happy to hear that. Welcome aboard
    1
  7778. interesting observation. What I noticed about reactions of Hilary Clinton for example was that she tried to be tough and belligerent as if to say I am not a weak woman. I can outdo men in toughness.
    1
  7779. Once Trump abandons Ukr it will fall wihtin a month
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  7780. quickly forgotten
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  7781. I agree
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  7782. exactly
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  7783. You question is so good that I will answer it in a separate video.It deserves an explanation. Briefly it has to do with the tradition of Russia intelligentsia.
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  7784. true
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  7785. thank you for your comment
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  7786. true
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  7787. I am not angry. I am excited
    1
  7788. spasibo!!!
    1
  7789. yes it is
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  7790. exactly
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  7791. The numbers show whatever you want them to show. The fact is that open border policy has generated an opposition in American society and Trump is the beneficiary.
    1
  7792. yes than you
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  7793. glad to hear that
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  7794. You are right that Putin wants full victory over NATO proxies in Ukraine, and he will get it. The US cannot do anything to stop it short of a nuclear war. Russia does not need Poland or any other EU land. Russia does not need it There is nothing there but hostile population. Russia needs Ukraine because Ukraine is a part of Russia and has been such for 500 years except the last 30
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  7795. Wow! Thank you for your analysis. I hope they stop before it is too late
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  7796. exactly
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  7797. You bet
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  7798. me too hope so
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  7799. Thank you kindly!
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  7800. thank you
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  7801. thank you
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  7802. I tend to agree with your reasoning thank you
    1
  7803. thank you
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  7804. True
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  7805. Do you think Trump can do all this. I doubt, but sounds good.
    1
  7806. Back in 2008 Ukraine was invited to join NATO.
    1
  7807. Exactly. Thank you
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  7808. welcome
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  7809. spasibo
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  7810. evidence? Ukraine is destroyed by zele and amcans
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  7811. true
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  7812. interesting what they say
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  7813. For the same reason as Russia. Cuba is independent, does not want to take orders from anybody. It is a proud nation. Long Live Cuba!
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  7814. My pleasure!
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  7815. glad to try
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  7816. exactly
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  7817. true
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  7818. thanks
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  7819. The sociology experts say that when in a community there are 10% aliens, the community can cope just fine. When it is 20% trouble begins. When you have 30% you may have a war. It has nothing to do with Nazis, it is that people naturally tend to prefer people like themselves. It is the same story in Marseille, in London, in Los Angeles etc.
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  7820. glad to try
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  7821. Welcome 😊
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  7822. thanks
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  7823. I wrote an article a few years ago Vladimir the Savior!
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  7824. too early to say
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  7825. It is outdated in th sense that it can be easily destroyed. Tiday's hypersonic missiles can reach any target anywhere before they are seen on the radar. The strengh of the US fleet is on the submarines with missiles, not in aircarft carriers.
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  7826. You confuse Russia and the USSR. For your information it was the Russian republic that walked out of the Soviet Union
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  7827. why?
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  7828. He says exactly the same as Biden's advisers
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  7829. Thanks, will do!
    1
  7830. exactly
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  7831. thank you for your comment
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  7832. thank you
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  7833. most welcome
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  7834. The Europeans could have included Russia in 1991 after re-unification of Germany. Egon Bar warned that not to include Russia would mean moving the iron curtain to the East. It turned out worse. The West decided not just to move the iron curtain but to grab a part of Russia, hence the war. Conclusion: The EU should reestablish peace on the continent by excluding NATO and including Russia in the new collective security and trade. A new Ostpolitik
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  7835. true
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  7836. thank you
    1
  7837. Just one fct. In 1997 Russia was officially a friend of the West, No threat to anybody. And yet NATO started its expansion. Wha is wrong with that. It is not just a guarantee of security. It is american missiles and bases and control. So East Europeans sold themselves from one master to another.
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  7838. Interesting point. Why do they give a trillion every year to Pentagon, if they have no money?
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  7839. welcome
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  7840. exactly
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  7841. why not?
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  7842. thank you
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  7843. most welcome
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  7844. not yet
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  7845. You're very welcome!
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  7846. thank you
    1
  7847. No I do not have videos on anarchism but it is a fascinating topic
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  7848. thank you
    1
  7849. may be
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  7850. yes but the US did fulfill its commitments in nuclear agreements
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  7851. Putin did that yesterday
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  7852. thank you
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  7853. true
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  7854. I do not think they'll cry at all
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  7855. yes I have had the same impression after my recent visit to Germany
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  7856. welcome
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  7857. Things may begin to unravel in EU if and when Trump launches his America first approach. Abandoned by Trump the European globalists like macron will lose their power and arrogance.
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  7858. Glad you like them!
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  7859. Of course Russia has no business telling Latvia who to be friends with. But if Latvia invites American troops on its territory then Russia has the right to be worried just as the Americans were worried when the SU put missiles in Cuba. Also Russia has a right to worry when Latvia banns Russian schools, and requires Russian born non-citizens to pass a Latvian language exam even those old. In France people who are over 70 are not required to pass French exam when applying to citizenship. You are supposedly for European values. How come you forget those when it comes in at least a third of your residents who happenned to be Russian?
    1
  7860. glad to try
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  7861. thank you
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  7862. merci
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  7863. merci a vous
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  7864. thank you so much. I am not alone. Check Jeffrey Sacks, Prof, Mershmeyer; Scott Ritter, Judge Napoletano; Ray McGovern, Colonel McGregor and others
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  7865. I hope so
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  7866. interesting
    1
  7867. посмотрите мою книгу в россии нa wildberries , litres Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа
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  7868. yes exactly
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  7869. welcome
    1
  7870. slightly different. Most Ukrainians are Russian Orthodox. those who ban them and hate them are the folks from Catholic west Ukraine
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  7871. thank you. I agree
    1
  7872. thanks
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  7873. I am sure Putin understands that. And that is why he refuses to get enraged
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  7874. thank you
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  7875. This is a long and complicated story. The starting point is 2003 when Russia Germany and France voted together in the UN against US invasion of Iraq. The US elites got really worried and began a project to split Russia from Europe by: replacing the leadership of the EU, spying over Merkel, seizing Ukraine by a color revolution and setting it up as a tool to fight Russia. All that was accomplished, until Putin decided to fight back
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  7876. Thank you so much!!
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  7877. glad to try
    1
  7878. It is a good personal narrative. Yet be appears to have believed the propaganda claim that so called collectivization was somehow related to progress.
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  7879. yes and the mainstream media and respected journals like Foreign Affairs
    1
  7880. You are free to think wjat you want, but if you study History, any attempt to move former cossacks from their land led to rebellion. Don area was never Ukraine not in the wildest dreams of Ukraininan nationalists. Ukraine could have kept it if they accepted Mink accords. Now they will lose Donbas at a minimum may be more.
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  7881. Russia did not invade. Ukrainian side broke the ceasefire on feb 22.
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  7882.  @ACR909  US set up Russia by breaking the cease-fire in Donetsk on 22 Feb 2022
    1
  7883. When it is over he will be either in jail or hiding somewhere off-shore
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  7884. excellent summation!
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  7885. God forbid! I hope not
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  7886. true
    1
  7887. BRICS?
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  7888. happy to try
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  7889. You are right. Sorry
    1
  7890. just to watch and listen
    1
  7891. well said
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  7892. well said
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  7893. thank you
    1
  7894. thank you
    1
  7895. thank you
    1
  7896. exactly, well said
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  7897. true
    1
  7898. The big question is whether the Dems would let him take the White House
    1
  7899. thank you
    1
  7900. yes, exactly
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  7901. No I think EU leaders are in real shock
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  7902. most likely
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  7903. yes exactly, back in 2014
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  7904. My latest book featured in the corner of the video is called: From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin, Russia in Search of its Identity. (London 2024) A chapter in it is about contemporary politics in Russia. So I believe I am qualified to speak about Russia today. Readm my book it is on amazon
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  7905. It is logical what you say but it is only a matter of will. Look at Nicaragua, look at Cuba, look at Venezuela. They dared to say No to Uncle Sam. Now there is China and its trade. Now there is BRICS and there is Russia. With enough skill and determination, a small country can achieve a lot.
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  7906. thank you for your comment
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  7907. Always welcome
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  7908. thank you
    1
  7909. and many others as well
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  7910. glad to try
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  7911. How about the freedom of speech.
    1
  7912. may be
    1
  7913. glad to try
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  7914. Thanks for the idea!
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  7915. thanks
    1
  7916. thank you
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  7917. good idea
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  7918. I know!!
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  7919. What is wrong with Putin Trump Koolaid? Do you want war instead? Do you want a nuclear war instead? The facts are that Ukraine cannot win back the Russian provinces that split away in 2014. That is impossible. So the best deal for Ukraine is to sign peace on relatively good terms. That is what Trump wants. Do you want the fight to continue? In that case more provinces will reunite with Russia. That is the reality one has to face.
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  7920. spasibo vam
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  7921. I am glad it is useful
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  7922. thank you
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  7923. can you specify what did they lie about? Just curious
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  7924. well said
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  7925. You are entitled to your opinion but Putin's popularity rating today is 65 %. Opinion polls not me show that the Russian public is against Gay culture and Gay agenda to push it into every school. Hungary banned it too and it is not Putin's. The big cultural divide is between Western Europe and US on one side and Russia on the other.
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  7926. I like your critical spirit. Some things you say are true, such as that the West does not want strong Russia. As for mass murder, it is the Ukro nazies who kill Donbas folks every day. As for Lybia it was the US Brits and French. Syria was great, it showed the US that they cannot push over every country in the Middle East. Nemtsov was killed by his business partners. He was involved in some strange investments. He was too insignificant to bother to kill him. As for MH17 it is either the ukranians who shot the missile or the Donetsk ones. You obviously do not like Putin but you probably do not remember or too young to remember how it was in the 1990s. Then it was exactly as you say, a bunch of thieves robbing the country. The West is not in the position to let or not to let Putin do whatever. Russia is now in the position to do or not to do what it wants, the only true sovereign power in the world. (other than the US)
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  7927. I am very touched by the picture you painted. I lived in Russia and taught as well a few years ago. I agree local bosses have not changed since the 1990s. I agree corruption is rampant. I agree the torture in prisons is horrible as the latest scandal has shown. But you see only the local pictures. try to see the big picture. here are the facts. The Standard of Living in Russia now is higher than ever before. GDP higher than ever before. All indicators you take on health, pensions, longevity, birth deaths all are better than in the 1990s or the Soviet period. The jobs are back the factories are working, unemployment is almost nonexistent. The military are back stronger than ever. As for neighbors. the Ukrainians have standard of living half of that in Russia. Young people of the Baltics have all left to Europe. Russia sells more grain than ever in History more than under the Tsars. As for scoundrels and tortures, I suppose you have heard nothing of American prisons or about Guantanomo. If you are so miserable in your town, go somewhere else. Do something to help yourself. Be proud you are Russian.
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  7928. exactly right
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  7929. thank you
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  7930. well summarized
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  7931. All they have to do is to say to the Amies go home and leave us alone and yes pay us for the blown pipeline
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  7932. welcome
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  7933. da eto tak
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  7934. These are not foreign territories. These lands were a part of Russia for 400 years, some were Russian for 800 years. Ukraine had a chance to keep them in Minsk accords and in 2022 agreements. They rejected all of those.
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  7935. Russia and China were going to get close with or without US action.
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  7936. I called myself a lawyer in Fort Myers and asked a question about property the answer was 700 an hour
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  7937. There were more lies and broken promises. Missiles in Poland and Rumania were supposed to be against Iran or so Bush said at that time
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  7938. Very true!
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  7939. sometimes
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  7940. may be
    1
  7941. There is a strong feeling among some of Putin's advisers that Trump's initiative has to be maintained.
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  7942. yea that's do
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  7943. they have been ardently pro-Biden?
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  7944. thank you for your comment
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  7945. True but they no longer control the world
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  7946. thank you for your comment
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  7947. I agree with your skepticism, but Russia is going to win anyway, so trump may realize that it is better to make it look like there is a deal before the Russians are in Kiev
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  7948. not the only problem but one of them
    1
  7949. good point
    1
  7950. thanks for your comment
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  7951. Your assessment is quite right BUT the people in Pentagon know that as of now Russia has hypersonic missiles that go the speed of ten marchs which is double the speed of the recently tested US missile. So in a nuclear confrontation the US will be destroyed first and they know it.
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  7952. may be
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  7953. Lukashenko would rather goto war than allow the Poles to move into volyn
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  7954. that is the point I tried to make
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  7955. you summarized it very eloquently
    1
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  7957. welcome
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  7958. It may have a new beginning
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  7959. That is why Starmer and Macron tried so hard to have so called peace keeping force.
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  7960. thank you
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  7961. why?
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  7962. If I were to list the countries the US invaded after 1945 it would double triple quadruple those by Russia
    1
  7963. happy to hear that
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  7964. well said
    1
  7965. a clown
    1
  7966. like the war of the north and south or the civil war or the war of northern aggression or the war of south independence, depending who you ask
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  7967. welcome
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  7968. perfect summary of the situation
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  7969. can be
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  7970. Thank you for your comment. Remember if Ukraine agreed to be neutral rather than NATO, there would not have been any war.
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  7971. check my video on the Baltic past and future
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  7972. I am not sure because she does not decide anything. So various groups will fight over policy
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  7973. EU current leaders. They have to go and then may be EU still has usefulness in it
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  7974. thank you I did it.
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  7975. yes
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  7976. welcome
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  7977. no, why should I be?
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  7978. well said
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  7979. You are absolutely right about US desire to control oil supply. However, Opec plus that includes Russia and Iran and Venezuala means that it is them who control world supply not the US. Moreover thr consumption is increasingly in Asia: billion and a half in China billion and a Half in India, 600K in Indonesia, these big population countries with growing economis need Russia oil and there is nothing the US can do to stop them.
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  7980. true
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  7981. Ukrainians did not respect their identity
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  7982. probably
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  7983. Yes it is true. But the age of the globalists is coming to an end. It is no longer attractive, because it is not the West that is winning but China. So in response everybody is going to fend for himself, which means the end of Atlanticists
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  7984. exactly
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  7985. I do not think they mean Berlin literary, I mean they probably mean those facilities in germany that produce leopard tanks since they are delivered to a party in war.
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  7986. Hey, thanks!
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  7987. Glad it was helpful!
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  7988. agree
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  7989. Estonia before the war was a poor agricultural country, not much different from Finnland, that made its econ miracle after the war. There is no reason to assume that Estonia would have done the same. I think Finnland is suicidal by joining NATO. It had a thriving trade with the USSR. As a child I remeber busloads of Finninsh tourists coming to Leningrad who made lots of friends among the locals. Now that Russia is not a USSR now that thousands of Russians used to go to Helsinki on a weeek-end trip you chose to join NATO. What have you accomplished? Only to get yourselves on a target list. Congratulations on your accomplishment.
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  7990. This may happen
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  7991. Welcome aboard!
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  7992. quite likely
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  7993. Glad you liked it!
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  7994. welcome
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  7995. welcome aboard
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  7996. Not by bread alone///
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  7997. You are absolutely right. A country that has 36 trillion in debt has a president who is in hurry to send as many billions as he can in the last moth to Ukraine rather than to the homeless people in NC
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  7998. welcome
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  7999. with many other countries
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  8000. true
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  8001. true
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  8002. They will pretend they dont know
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  8003. Yes, exactly, The Latvians used to make a lot of money on Russian exports thru their ports. Now they lost that business
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  8004. good point
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  8005. Western political culture never assumed that all members of society had an equal right to rise to government and that the gov. MUST take care of everyone as one family.
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  8006. thank you
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  8007. Even if he had he did not tell me.
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  8008. do you think there is no difference brtween Putin and Stalin?
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  8009. Glad you liked it!
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  8010. Yes of course it did. But it is frozen most of the year.
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  8011. glad to try
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  8012. interesting idea. Big question: Why do the people there despise France so much?
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  8013. true
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  8014. They wont get them
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  8015. That would be very nice. Thank you somuch
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  8016. thank you for your comment
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  8017. So nice of you
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  8018. glad to try
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  8019. Can you spell out which deals, it is interesting
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  8020. That can be, we shall see. The point is that peace could be established tomorrow: Ukraine is neutral, no foreign troops or arms and recognition of Crimea and Donbas as Russian. If Zelensky persists in war, he will lose Odessa and Kharkov.
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  8021. I hope by the end of the year
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  8022. thank you
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  8023. true
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  8024. glad to hear that
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  8025. who of them will start a big war?
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  8026. yes good guess, it won't work
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  8027. I shall look into it
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  8028. thank you very much
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  8029. you are right, why be silent about it?
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  8030. This is an interesting theory but Poroshenko before him did the same thing. And the Right Sector and Azov battalion started doing this back in 2014.
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  8031. forever
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  8032. spasibo
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  8033. You are very welcome
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  8034. exactly
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  8035. exactly, but how will people in Odessa, Kherson, Kharkov, Nikolaev Dnepropetrovsk vote? I bet not for Zelensky or any Bandera types.
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  8036. glad to try
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  8037. Sometimes people want to forget who they are, they want to bcome somebody else.
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  8038. So nice of you
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  8039. Great summary
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  8040. thank you for your thoughts
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  8041. Always welcome
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  8042. no its is notjust manipulation. Various oligarchs made alliances with other oligarchs and financed campaigns of favored poliyicians and then some won some lost but the system did not change.
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  8043. spasibo
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  8044. You're welcome!
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  8045. Putin responded to that
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  8046. thank you
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  8047. thanks
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  8048. happy to hear that
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  8049. well said
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  8050. Glad you liked it!
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  8051. exactly
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  8052. thank you.
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  8053. thank you enjoy
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  8054. thank you
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  8055. very true what you say
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  8056. yes well said
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  8057. The brea-up of the Soviet Union generated a lot of local conflicts over territory, borders, Azeri vs. Armenia, Dnietria vs Moldova, Chenya etc. That is true. However, tell me why Kosovo spit from Serbia and the US supported it but when Crimea voted to split from Ukraine, you consider that to be a Russian aggression. Double standsrd. When Montenegro splits from Serbia that is Ok because they join ATO but when Dondas wants to join Russia, that is no no sacred naro territory. Double standard.
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  8058. All they know in the west about ww2 is DDay
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  8059. thank you for your comment
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  8060. thank you for this info. disgusting
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  8061. My pleasure!
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  8062. thank you
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  8063. it is invoherent because his life and death are incoherent. Who poisonned him FSB or MI16 or CIA? or nobody? Do youclaim youknow the answer?
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  8064. Putin put it like this in one of his recent speeches: The Feast of vampires is coming to an end
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  8065. thank you
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  8066. happy to hear that
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  8067. thank you
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  8068. possible, thanks
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  8069. true
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  8070. danke
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  8071. thank you
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  8072. thank you for yout comment
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  8073. we'll see
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  8074. exactly, good point
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  8075. About brain power. It used to be that all flocked to the US. Now many choose to flock to China
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  8076. thank you
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  8077. NATO invaded Russia using Ukraine.
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  8078. thanks
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  8079. absolutely right. I did mention it thoufg but briefly.
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  8080. Kepp watching thanks
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  8081. very interesting insight. You may be right. I heard a report that th US is preparing to dump him and replace with with Avakov
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  8082. thanks
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  8083. Very welcome
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  8084. I do but where is the lie?
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  8085. Glad it was helpful!
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  8086. It will accelerate the fall of Zelensky's regime. And very soon.
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  8087. true!
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  8088. glad you liked it
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  8089. good summary
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  8090. I am glad to see that you follow my channel
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  8091. true
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  8092. interesting idea
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  8093. good analogy
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  8094. welcome
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  8095. Yes you are absolutely right
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  8096. There was no annexation. There was a referendum. Why can Kosovo secede and Crimea cannot?
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  8097. thank you for this precise prediction
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  8098. good point
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  8099. well said
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  8100. welcome
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  8101. Николаевич и вам большое спасибо за добрые слова подписывайтесь на мой канал
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  8102. I agree with the main thrust of your argument, but they want fellowships, grants, invitations, interviews and publications not rejected. That means they work for the system. In that sense they are hired propagandists. Would they say the same thing if in vogue were to say that Russia and America are allies for peace, morality and cooperation? I doubt, they would immediately change colors and serve the new ruler.
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  8103. glad to try
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  8104. thank you
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  8105. I share your concerns but siloviki do not keep anything in the west, it is the oligarchs, who are now no longer oligarchs. As for gangster regime. I doubt this narrative is true, it smacks of the CNN coverage
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  8106. may be
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  8107. Officially the British and the French were there in 1919 to deter the Reds, yes. But the peasants who stopped them were actually not Red. They were Ukrainian, Bat'ko Zelenyi and Batko Grigoriev. Why would leaders of Ukranian peasants fight the British/French expeditionary force? Because they were invaders, who wanted to rule their land as they ruled many colonial lands.As for ethnicity, Malorossians, or Ukrainians are Russian, just as much as Bavarians are German. They are a part of the three branches of the Russian nation: the Belorussians, the Malorossians (Ukrainians ) and the Great Russians. These terms were in use until the Communist takeover. I suppose you would not insist that the terms of the Bolsheviks and the borders drawn by the Bolsheviks should be sacrosanct! So my dear, I know my facts. I have been studying Russian history for about fifty years by now and wrote seven books about it.
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  8108. exactly
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  8109. true!!!
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  8110. thank you for such an interesting historical expose. I agree with almost everything you say.
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  8111. do they?
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  8112. thank you
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  8113. And they call it "free market" economy, I'd call it stupid economy
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  8114. yes
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  8115. so glad to hear that
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  8116. exactly
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  8117. true
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  8118. interesting observation
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  8119. thanks
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  8120. spasibo vam
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  8121. not Soviet but Russian. You see the Russians dont tell anyone how many immigrants they must welcome
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  8122. thanks
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  8123. Great suggestion!
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  8124. Yes, I'd love to, if you know how to reach them, let me know
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  8125. thanks
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  8126. happy to try
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  8127. glad to try thank you
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  8128. tere is proof of a money trail to Navalny from the US
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  8129. thank you
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  8130. Yes I do ,but I also think when one wants too much one loses too much
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  8131. good point
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  8132. Thank you for your lengthy comment. The last time I checked Lithuania faces a huge demographic problem
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  8133. excellent summary thank you
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  8134. Welcome
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  8135. glad to try
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  8136. spasibo
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  8137. thank you for your comment
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  8138. Of course there were many jews in the NKVD, butl also Latvians, and Poles. They all were obedient servants of the boss, comrade Stalin, a Gergian terrorist in his youth
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  8139. exactly right
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  8140. good comparison
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  8141. we shall see
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  8142. thank you
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  8143. good idea
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  8144. the future is not clear yet. Probably it will all end this year
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  8145. spasibo
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  8146. Glad you liked it!
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  8147. well said
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  8148. watch your terminology not Russian but Soviet Communist Stalinist
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  8149. you are right about the treaty being killed in the Senate. Th Russians want a treaty not a pause or a ceasefire
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  8150. exactly
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  8151. Open up National Interest website and look for the title I have in description
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  8152. not any. The most difficult is to define what is: Communist ideal? as defined by who: Marx? Lenin? Thomas Moore? Mao? Castro? Tito?
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  8153. Stalin wanted to smash the kulaks because every years there were more kulaks generated than the size of the entire Communist party. Kulaks were those who paid tax on more than 500 rubles revenue. So in any honest elections the communist party had no chance in peasant russia. The CP could hold power only thru dictatorship and even then they were losing. That is why stalin decided to smash the peasants. SEE MY BOOK RUSSIA AFTER LENIN
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  8154. They probably did but Stalin's so called socialism was certainly not working. He was basically buying factories from the US and Germany and had them built by slave labor. That is the extent of socialism. In all else it was a bloody brutal dictatorship with millions of poor Russian and Ukrainian peasants shot as kulaks
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  8155. it is a break
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  8156. what?
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  8157. Molotov Ribbentrop pact is a fascinating topic. I shall be uploading a video on this. In the meantime, I invite you to ponder these questions: What would the Polish government have done if Hitler offered an alliance with Poland against the Reds? What would the Polish government have done if after invading Poland Hitler would have taken just the corridor and nothing else and offered peace to Poland in exchange for an alliance against the Reds? Do you know the answer?
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  8158. Do you believe that Vilnuis and Lvov is a part of Poland?
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  8159. I list those who do at the end
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  8160. It is unfair to always remember Hitler each time there is some concern for national interests. If one were to be blunt than someone who is like Hitler these days is a leader of a certain middle east country
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  8161. Glad you enjoy it!
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  8162. That is true, but trump may order the US soldiers to leave. What happens then?
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  8163. well said
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  8164. why?
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  8165. thank you
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  8166. thanks
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  8167. Popularity with whom? It is not a beauty contest.
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  8168. prediction? Assad? Not clear. Let me put it like this. Turkey wants a piece of Syria, Israel wants a peace of Syria. The US has already chopped off a zone of influence. Russia is the only country that defends sovereignty of the entire Syrian state.
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  8169. good point, thank you
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  8170. welcome aboard
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  8171. thank you
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  8172. yes, unfortunately
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  8173. thanks
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  8174. interestinv view
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  8175. Yes I know it is a log story of rivalry
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  8176. Your reaction is called denial. You refuse to accept reality: that 1. Russia has won; 2. trump wants to end the war and make a deal with Russia; 3. Zelensky like you refuses to recognize that he lost. You may call it what you want but that is the reality
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  8177. thank you
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  8178. it does
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  8179. that is life
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  8180. Certainly the best Russian ruler since Alexander II
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  8181. Russia will use nukes ONLY if it is losing on the ground which is highly unlikely
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  8182. yes exactly
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  8183. Glad you like them!
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  8184. thank you
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  8185. good point
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  8186. The only opposition party that has a sizeable following is the Communist party. The individuals you may refer to as opposition like Navalny were getting money from the West.
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  8187. that is true yet hundreds of thousands Brits own houses and settle in France, but not the Germans
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  8188. thanks
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  8189. Yes, one of Red Terror organizers and the murderer of the Czar
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  8190. hura
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  8191. thanks
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  8192. your analysis is just right
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  8193. one down, shot with the pilot. Some say its by patriot missile the russians say they shot it
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  8194. yes right
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  8195. thanks
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  8196. very good point. They got used to thinking that Russia is in 1991, totally defenseless and subservient.
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  8197. thank you
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  8198. true
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  8199. glad to try
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  8200. Glad it was helpful!
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  8201. thank you
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  8202. Thanks for listening
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  8203. well said
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  8204. he wants to win without going nuclear
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  8205. thank you
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  8206. thank you
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  8207. true
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  8208. No they did not. In fact general Guderian warned Hitler to build defensive lines instead of an offensive. Adolf ignored one of his best generals
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  8209. we shall see
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  8210. we shall see
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  8211. so happy to hear that
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  8212. good point. It may be coming
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  8213. true
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  8214. yes, sounds logical
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  8215. Viva Cuba!
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  8216. If you do not like what I am saying, say what exactly. Otherwise it is just labeling.
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  8217. Good question. The short answer is that what the Israelies are doing in Gaza is a shock to everybody. People are afraid that if they protest they will be called anti-semites
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  8218. thank you
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  8219. thank you
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  8220. thank you truly
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  8221. I am not familiar with the theory you are citing. I can only say that the white superiority feeling appeared many centuries ago, probably from the time of Columbus or even earlier.
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  8222. thank you
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  8223. Uk + US
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  8224. True
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  8225. Much appreciated!
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  8226. may be but the US can lose
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  8227. Yes you are right. Peasant party could not be the vanguard of the proletariat according to Trotsky and Marx for that matter. So CP China does not qualify.
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  8228. Я очень рад и могу добавить, что у меня есть одна книга, изданная в России: «Великая октябрьская катастрофа». Она доступна на сайте Wildberries.ru, Litres.ru; Ozon.ru
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  8229. who invaded whom?
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  8230. It is way too early to judge where the US is at this historical moment. One thing is clear. as Bob Dylan said or sang, For the times they are changing. Everything is in change now: Politics, Culture, Society, Demography, Ideology, expectations, perceptions and identity.
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  8231. Keep watching
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  8232. Awesome, thank you!
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  8233. He does not have a party. He is promoting war veterans everywhere. That is his party. They will inherit the power
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  8234. yes exactly
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  8235. Why then did the US object to Soviet missiles in Cuba?
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  8236. They may decline or they may not. We shall see
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  8237. thank you
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  8238. thank you
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  8239. The best deal for Ukraine is to sign Peace. Putin offered the terms in June. Why can't you let Donbas go? They do not want to be in Ukraine. So many lives could have been saved. And if March 2022 deal was not rejected, Ukraine could have had Donbas as well. So who blew it?
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  8240. Definitely YES
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  8241. Some of the missing in action may have surrendered
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  8242. True
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  8243. yes sanctions hurt EU and especially Germany more than they do Russia
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  8244. yes true
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  8245. thanks
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  8246. You are right. They will not give up easily. but sometimes they make bad business investments and they do lose money. This time they will have to write off the loss
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  8247. Welcome aboard!
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  8248. strange twists
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  8249. thank you for your comment
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  8250. thank you
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  8251. good point
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  8252. exactly so
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  8253. The value of the ruble at world markets says nothing about Russia's real economy
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  8254. read the preceding comment
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  8255. May be some of them will go to jail
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  8256. Because they do not want to discuss this, only how bad Putin is. Their favorite topic plus Russian so called aggression
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  8257. I did those trips too
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  8258. true thanks
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  8259. thanks
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  8260. completely agree. The people in Europe are beginning to see the reality. German elections will show big gains for AFD. Macron is holding on to power after he lost elections and appoints one gov after another. Britain is on the verge of civil unrest over immigration and falling standards of living etc.
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  8261. interesting view, we shall see. Harris does not know how to work with the establishment. She will be a showcase for somebody's else's policy
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  8262. welcome aboard
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  8263. If you are in Russia, ans are interested in my books, I have one book published in Russia and available at Ozon.ru. Called: Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа
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  8264. No I mean dictatorship of the bourgeoisie the counterpart of the dictatorship of the proletariat
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  8265. the treaty on neutrality of Ukraine
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  8266. yes you r right
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  8267. Demographic collapse is even worse in Western Europe. Russia can and should open its borders to people from former Soviet Republics where there is no demographic crisis. And of course much is done, much more than in Europe to support young families and motherhood.
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  8268. thank you
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  8269. I think the neutrality status is in the declaration of independence
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  8270. About the POWs. Wen the Germans complain about the fate of their POWs during ww2, I would remind them that in 1941 Germany captured 3 million Russian POWs. Most of them were starved to death by the Germans in the fall of 1941. My uncle was one of them
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  8271. I agree with you, there must have been treason in high places
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  8272. ну пока не во франции
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  8273. The years in the KGB were when he was in foreign intelligence. There is nothing embarrassing about that. The KGB consisted of many departments that had no connection. He was posted in East Germany, not to spy on the East Germans but to work with them collecting intellegence on Americans and NATO. There is nothing bad in that. the words KGB thug is just a label one of many to insult him
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  8274. glad to try
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  8275. thank you
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  8276. I wrote several books exposing the crimes of the Bolshevik Stalinist rule. Just have the patience to read them. At Harvard I had a reputation of beiing as they put it excessively anti-communist.
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  8277. for some that is the goal
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  8278. well said
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  8279. yes exactly
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  8280. not really.
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  8281. I recommend that you look at independent comparison of F35 and Su 57 or SU35 You will see that in some capabilities the SU is better. As for control of the sky in Ukraine it is total on Russian side. As for US airforce. it has its strong points in communications, intelligence satellites, but not in missiles not in hypersonic ones. That is where the Russians are way ahead. Check out capabilities of Kinzhal, Poseidon, Burevestnik, Iskander, Bulawa. As for tanks, obviously they are not all on the battlefield
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  8282. that is a huge topic
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  8283. It may seem to you so and I understand that but many political actors and authors advocated violent overthrow of the existing order. Bakunin for example the author of anarchism or Kropotkin of Babeuf. When I was young I studied with fascination the work of Tkachev a Russian revolutionary of the 1870s and 11780s. Lenin is muh closer to his ideas then to Marxism. Tkachev wrote that a well organized revolutionary organization should seize political power and reshape society from above. Marx would have called this kind of thinking anarchist nonsense because History is made by class struggle and not by dedicated band of revolutionaries. Yet Marx was wrong and Tkachev was right as it happened as he predicted. So Lenin used Marxism he liked Marxism because it made him discover the workers as a vehicle for his coup d'etat, the vanguard of the proletariat. But he was not a Marxist in terms of understanding of how capitalism works and how to change it. Moreover the Socialist Revolutionary Party the SRSs they wanted to overthrow Tsarist regime by any means possible including terrorism, uprising, peasant war, anything. You would not call them Marxists just because they wanted violent overthrows of the system. Then why do you accord this definition to Lenin? Lenin just continued what the People's Will terrorists did by other means. He was not a Marxist.
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  8284. Yes pretty much. If you are interested in the subject f workers under the Bolsheviks check out my book: Dear Comrades: Menshevik Reports on the Bolshevik Revolution and Civil War (Hoover Press)
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  8285. no, no fun
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  8286. interesting thought
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  8287. true
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  8288. Everything you say about the catholic Church of the time is absolutely true and correct. It was a corrupt, murderous institution gilty of mass murder through its inquisition torture and abuse of power. However, the people who sacked Rome in 1527 were simply thieves and looters who descended upon Rome in search of pray. They were not an arm of revenge. They were out to use the opportunity to rob and kill and rape for fun.
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  8289. what is wrong with Putinism?
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  8290. true
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  8291. spasibo
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  8292. Check out my video American Occupation of Germany.
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  8293. possible
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  8294. thank you
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  8295. well said
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  8296. we shall see
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  8297. true
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  8298. true sorry
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  8299. true, hold on Serbia
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  8300. exactly
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  8301. It would take too long to answerr all your points. I hope you will not deby that Kievan rus is the orogin of ukraine and Russia. 2 that orthodox rus lived in what today is belorussia and was part of Lithuania in middleages
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  8302. What specifically is not true?
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  8303. interesting point
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  8304. the same as to Spanish speakers inthe usa
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  8305. welcome
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  8306. Yes, the danger is there. It seems Biden is already out of it all
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  8307. true!
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  8308. thank you very much
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  8309. true
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  8310. interesting point
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  8311. you are right. It is extremely difficult to know for sure. Each side exaggerates the losses of the opponent. Yet military specialists may know approximately what weapons produce what kind of effect in a given type of warfare.
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  8312. welcome
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  8313. that is highly unlikely
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  8314. welcome
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  8315. Glad you like it!
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  8316. well said
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  8317. I have the last chapter on this period
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  8318. there are none anymore
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  8319. me too
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  8320. thank you
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  8321. The Russians want their 300 billions back stuck stolen in EU bands, they want to sell oil to Germany by Nordstream2
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  8322. Dreaming of the past glory. It ismuch better for Poland to stop dreaming of an empire from sea to sea, but to reconcile with its neighbors and build peace and prosperity TOGETHER
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  8323. пожалуйстаю Читайте мою книгу если вы в Россиию Великая Октябрьская Катастрофа available at Litres.ru, Widberries.ru Ozon.ru
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  8324. thank you for yout comment
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  8325. that is exactly so
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  8326. I am so pleased to hear that. Thank you
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  8327. could not agree more. Thank you
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  8328. the theory says so. But is it true?
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  8329. yes true
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  8330. true
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  8331. yes he might
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  8332. thanks
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  8333. Happy to hear that
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  8334. You're welcome 😊
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  8335. glad to try
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  8336. thank you
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  8337. true
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  8338. Where are you going to go?
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  8339. thank you
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  8340. Or NATO will split up. Some countries may say we do not want to fight Russia in any case, least of all for Ukraine.
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  8341. Glad you enjoyed it!
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  8342. The starting point of it all is NATO expansion
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  8343. that is exactly why the US did all it could to make a wedge between Russia and Germany, war in Ukraine and blowing up pipelines all in the same vein
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  8344. good term
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  8345. The reality is exactly the opposite. The US economy is a fake economy based on shoving money from one pocket to another so called services. The actual commodity production is pathetic compared to China. Russia's economy s commodity based and is grossly undervalued because of the rediculous dollar ruble exchange rate. According to PPP IMF calculations Russian economy of number 4 in the world and has surpassed germany. Putin says it is goin g to surpass Japan this year and become number 3 after US and China
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  8346. interesting perspective
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  8347. yes all true. exactly
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  8348. He has done it before to the German leaders.
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  8349. welcome
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  8350. may be
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  8351. i will
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  8352. Sorry to say that but Brzezinsky created a theory that does not work in most cases. Each of Stalin's purges had a concrete specific political onbective.
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  8353. The problem with Totalitarian theory is that it assumes like Hanna Arendt did, that the leader ENJOYS popular support, that he is adored, that he is the Leader and has willing followers. NONE of that applies to Stalin's Russia. he was detested by millions of peasants, and despised by a bif part of his own Bolshevik party. So totalitarian theory does not work
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  8354. Thank you so much for your comment. However there were reports that during Russian Fleet celebration at the end of July there was an assassination attempt on Putin. Second, I find it extraordinary that a prestigious serious journal like national Interest would publish a serious article on foreign affairs and would admit a thinly disguised proposal using the word remove instead of assassinate.
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