Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "UATV English" channel.

  1. I thought poodles were French.
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  2. I really doubt it, but your point is well taken anyway!
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  3. I think the kidnapping of large numbers of Ukrainians and their removal to Russia is simply a cover for the massacre that was the Mariupol siege. When finally the vast numbers of missing are tallied, Russia will say "Oh, most of them are now living in Russia," but in fact they were killed in the weeks of shelling and rockets and are now being buried in dumps under millions of tons of rubble. Putin is mostly copycatting all of the things Germany did in the 1940s.
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  4.  @nicolek4076  Oh, roll up your Guardian tightly and store it safely in an appropriate place.
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  5. I strongly suspect a great deal of creepy, freaky, brutal stuff is going on under Luka-psycho. Someday soon Belarus is going to be in as many shocking and revolting headlines as Russia, if not more.
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  6. They sound medieval, all these people. Modernity has barely touched them. It reminds me of what the famous American diplomat George Kennan said about denazifying Germany after its defeat, and setting up a constitution and government. He wrote that it was the conscious aim of the occupiers to finally rid Germany of feudalism, which they saw at the root of Nazism.
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  7. ​ @CS_Pickle  I think perhaps there's something to that as well. It's well known that Ukrainians are stars at 2nd and 3rd+ languages. Not that I'm secondhand bragging, since I'm lousy at my own 2nd language, but they're very conspicuous in that way. I've known several such Ukrainians, including two (from two widely-separated Ukrainian cities) who started learning English halfway through their adolescence and in under ten years were not just advanced in their new language but geniuses at it, with accents like those of native-born physicians. I gather from elsewhere that NATO country trainers and other liaison people are habitually impressed.
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  8. ​ @CS_Pickle  ["ya, that's all I'm saying."] It's amazing how intolerant of disagreement people seem now. Formerly: "It's a free country. I'm entitled to my opinion." Former response: "Ok yeah, that's true. You can think and say what you want." Response now: "Look, it's already too late for you to shut up. We are going after you—and we know how to do it." The minute people are confidently asserting stuff like that, you're in a real sense more than halfway to gulags and a lot of the way to mass bloodshed. I know your post had to do with the literal intelligibility of what you were hearing, but a lot of the response was political and that's why I wanted to respond likewise.
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  9. Anti-Americanism and anti-Westernism is strong. It makes the Islamic world shrug off China's mass imprisonment of Muslims. It makes South Americans, Africans and Middle Easterners tolerant of Russian brutality. Uncountable legions of propaganda workers on the internet work day after day to slander the US and the West, and they've been doing it for decades now. Over time, it really works.
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  10. A priest should never be 100+ pounds overweight like that guy. Surely the Church is a major factor, or the central one, in Russian political and social backwardness.
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  11. Find innovative ways to go after the occupiers. You can do it. There's always a way. Even in the face of certain disadvantages, with good weapons, high motivation and good information there's always a way. I wish you the best.
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  12. Maintenant et pour toujours !
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  13. I read that the people of Brazil blame Ukraine for being invaded, and warmly support Russia, chiefly due to hatred of the US. Is this true? Google search gives me zero hits for Brazilian opinion polls.
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  14. An eloquent and persuasive address. It's great how the Ukrainian military and government show all the best things needed right now: Ferocity, determination, ability, intelligence.
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  15. If you don't, I'll have one for you. 😄
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  16. 👏Keep repeating this nonsense. It just hardens the world against Russia even more. Literally zero per cent of the world believes that preposterous Nazi crap. Meanwhile the whole war on Ukraine resembles nothing so perfectly as an actual Nazi invasion. If irony were bad for your health, Putzin would be dead. Anyway, as I said, keep it up.👏
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  17. Simply marvellous. Classic "hoist with their own petard"!
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  18. Am I the only one who suspects Putin is simply conserving his good troops, good weapons, and even stores of rations and other food for the time being, all in order to get Ukraine to go through all its good troops and weaponry first? I'm not ruling out a certain level of failure and incompetence, lack of preparation and resources, etc. I just think that in the main he's probably not very bothered with how things are going, given the extent of destruction and death he's rained on Ukraine. On this view, he's burning through country boys and old materiel he just doesn't care about, and has scarcely drained his armed forces of any of its real strength at all.
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  19. Best if this activity is paired with large protests. I am unaware of any historical examples of a few million people in the streets accomplishing nothing. One historical study concluded that 3.5% of the population (and often much less) suffices, which for Russia would be 5 million or fewer.
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  20. It's quite clearly under his shirt.
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  21.  @ConstructiveMinds100  Your likening Boris Johnson to Putin illustrates why throughout history the engineering mind has almost always been kept safely away from anything important. I don't mind them one bit when they stick to their calculators and screwdrivers, but those activities simply cannot prepare them for understanding and interacting with human beings.
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  22. Give the man what he needs. Save Ukrainian lives.
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  23. Your post is properly regarded as — let's see, how do the kids say it? — a sick burn. 👏👏👏👏
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  24. Pathetic try, Sergei. Fuel in Ukraine is very scarce and must be saved for the army. Their cars are parked at home. You're working for murderers. Just remember that.
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  25. WW2? Actually they've yet to move out of the feudal era. Seriously, they still feel the tug of the Middle Ages.
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  26. I too have begun to think that if Russia hasn't won by now, it's not going to.
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  27. You forgot: Population: Russia, 145m. Combined Ukraine–NATO–Three-continents rich democracies, ~1,200m GDP: Russia, $1.5-3trn. Combined Ukraine–NATO–Three-continents rich democracies, ~$50trn
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  28. This strikes me as a sneaky pro-Putin comment. It's not about the West crushing anyone. It's about the West helping a friend under massive, brutal, vicious attack. If the West prefers the Russian military to be weaker after this, that's simply normal and rational. You think they'd want them to be just as strong, so they can contemplate another attack on a weak neighbour immediately afterwards? It's something the whole world doesn't want, Putin going on a decade-long spree, even China and India (its frenemies).
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  29.  @odonovan  I think Alena meant glory to the nation of Belarus, not the State of Belarus. Like her, presumably, I too wish the nation of Belarus were rid of its fat and scummy dictator.
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  30. Lukashenko found his wife in bed with his minister of the interior, the plumber and the plumber's wife. Quite naturally it was the West's fault.
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  31. He's an incredibly preachy guy, then he bows to the demand made by Putin's Russia to him personally. I've watched maybe a dozen hours of his talks and, while I find him intelligent, learned, interesting and thought-provoking, I keep finding this element of sanctimony. He wants to be saintly, for his body to disappear and for his existence to be ethereal instead of temporal and earthbound. That's the thing in him I have to look past.
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  32. They might, but realize that 90% of them were born to be ruled and it has never been any different. So if they ever did recognize the truth of this war, one moment later their eyes would be nervously scanning all over the place—looking for the next psychopath to obey. This is the thing that separates Russia from the civilized world. It is dangerous to really believe this is Putin's war but not that of the Russian people.
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  33.  @crazyfloridaman3073  You don't speak for the state of Florida.
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  34. He's a good lad. A terribly clever Croatian-Australian doing his best to strengthen the future of his country, its ethics and its way of life.
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  35. He's so anti-American that it gives him nausea to support Ukraine simply because it means siding with the US. (Sort of like Tucker Carlson in a way, who isn't pro-Russian, he just won't back Biden for partisan reasons.)
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  36. No, slavery as a matter of fact has very long roots in Africa. And he didn't "try to make Africa look violent." He merely mentioned that the oldest archaeological evidence of organized violence was found in the soil of Africa. Your unknowing, unthinking, cheap sanctimony sickens me. To me the greatest horror would be to have a mind that was mass-made by some faction's cookie-cutter.
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  37. But only some of her in-laws.😉
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  38. Does Kadyrov have ambitions beyond Chechnya?
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  39. Russian soldiers refusing to evacuate will get what they deserve later this year.
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  40. There's also the chance that the war is part of a Russia-China pact. In that scenario, the Ukraine war is a trap for the democracies, especially the US, of course. The idea would be to drain Western military and financial strength by luring it into a prolonged war of attrition, one which would nonetheless not threaten the borders of Russia itself. That would prepare the ground for a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Guarantees of millions of tons of Ukrainian grain would allow China to do without the imports from the West on which the CCP currently relies to put pork and chicken on Chinese tables.
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  41.  @dennisyoung4631  He's on something anyway. You don't get a Karl Pilkington volleyball head for no reason. Turning rip-roaring psycho, among other things threatening to blow up Planet Earth is another hint.
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  42.  @MA-fg5hz  Well, both places have a strongman fetish problem. But at least Mexico is next to the US and has multiple political parties.
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  43. Putin: "I will bury Bakhmut under a pile of Russian corpses so deep that its defenders will suffocate." Russians: "Yay! You are our Dear Leader! I wish two million Russian soldiers a glorious death."
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  44. That is the viewpoint of a psycho.
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  45. Let's be clear: Depleted uranium is NOT used for radioactivity or explosiveness. It's used for its toughness as a metal. Period.
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  46. Yer g.d. right we do!
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  47.  @bovnycccoperalover3579  Yeah, sure. Slightest Resemblance = Same Thing.🙄
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  48.  @drlegendre  I like the way you took that as humour.👏
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  49. Yes, anyone who is over 50 in Russia or East Germany spent their whole childhood and at least some of their adult years under communism. They were indoctrinated all throughout their school years.
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  50. Propaganda comment.
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