Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Interviews from Ukraine" channel.

  1. But who says they are not both correct? Zaluzhnyi is surely right that more advanced military aid is needed for more progress to be made. Zelenskyy is probably right to object to the word stalemate, which in English has a strong air of finality: when a chess match is stalemated, it's over. Standstill, maybe.
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  2. Agree on Iraq, but Afghanistan was not a failure in the least. Fully occupying the whole country and helping Afghans install a nationwide democratic government was an impossibility in the first place. Absolutely everyone knew it at the outset. What was possible was to topple the Taliban from outright national rule and demonstrate to the world what happens when you host training of violent political extremists: Unpleasant guests arrive and stay for a very long time. And consider what has happened to such extremism in the time since. Afghanistan was a failure only as measured against goals that never actually existed.
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  3.  @spartan5921  From 1939 to 1942 Winston Churchill likewise spent an inordinate amount of time meeting with Franklin Roosevelt and begging him for aid. When he couldn't go he would write and phone. Canada and Australia were also targets of his supplication, over and over. And it worked. The aid that resulted saw Britain through. But I understand how furious you are that it has worked for Zelenskyy.😂 I feel for you, bruh.🤣
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  4. Problem is, they seem to think they had a right to it. And after receiving so much generous support, all that most of them could think of to say about the US amounted to "The US? It's okay. I guess. Mostly." Ingrates.
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  5. I love these people and I always have, for decades already. Thank god my government is solidly behind them and supports them with weapons, ammunition, cash, financing, medical supplies, clothing and other things. I just realized it's time once again to write my prime minister and member of parliament to tell them to increase our support. Thanks for the video.🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇪🇺🇯🇵🇦🇺🇰🇷
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  6. Absolutely. 🇺🇦
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  7. I can't find ANY mention of Trump doing any such thing on any search engine. Kindly provide a source. It doesn't have to be a link, which might not be permitted here. Instead just tell me the name of the website and the exact title of the article. You might be thinking of Egypt. Trump approved a deal for refurbishment of 43 Apaches for Egypt.
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  8. I'd like to see your face, standing in front of your house, if gangsters were barricaded inside holding your family, and the police told you that you must negotiate. "No ban on negotiating, Mr. Yandex. Here, take this phone. You might get back one of your children and a few of your rooms. Now get to it!"
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  9. If only Ukraine had a thousand nuclear warheads. Nuclear weapons afford a unique level of protection. Think about it, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia...while you still can.
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  10. It's bizarre to me how in Ukrainian and Russian your opinion of someone is called how you "treat" them. E.g. "What is your opinion of Putin?" "I treat him negatively"—even though this person has never had one second of contact with him. Strange quirk of language. (English on the other hand is free of such oddities. 🤨😄) As always, love & support from Canada and the West.🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸🇪🇺
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  11. I love these people. What an outstanding video. Subscribed. 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇪🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵🇦🇺!
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  12. 👎Wow, talk about a bunch of lukewarm endorsements for the country whose generous support is the sole reason Ukraine still exists. With a couple of exceptions, their gratitude in this video barely has a pulse. 👎 My opinion of them just went down. I wonder if the Ukrainian language has its version of the phrase "damn with faint praise."
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  13. I have been the most pro-Ukrainian Westerner possible since Day One of the war. And actually since 2014. This war is simply criminal. Yet Ukrainians are not above criticism if they happen to behave poorly, and I do not apologize. Give your head a shake.
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  14.  @tony_1980  What was the pro-Russian element in my comment? Was it the part where I expressed approval of US support for Ukraine?🤨
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  15.  @ChosenOne6666  Yes, that's the most important thing, but I still found this very disappointing.
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  16. ​ @TheMovieClipGuy69  It's not accurate to say Canadians and Americans "are almost identical."  The differences are major enough that many of those moving from one country to the other find themselves dissatisfied and homesick. Different character, just a shared language. Also, the French part of Canada has little in common with the US. And Canada is without the hispanic segment the US has, and its small black population hails mainly from the Caribbean and Africa.
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  17.  @odineproci2455  There are new therapies for addiction to copium. Look into it.
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  18.  @AngloAm  Perhaps take a deep breath and clear your head. I strongly support the actions of Ukraine, the US and NATO in this war. Are you ok?
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  19.  @concernedaussie1330  Ask Putin next time you speak to him.
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  20. Absolutely. 🇺🇦🇨🇦 I hope the NASAMS system we paid for has arrived and is helping keep the skies safe.
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  21.  @AntonGully  ​ I don't know how many Ukrainians you know, but I know quite a few (and have known a number of them over the decades), and they are not socially backward like that. The ones I've been lucky enough to know are personable, intelligent, realistic and have good manners.
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  22.  @romeob.8369  Kindly explain your reason for doubting that I support Ukraine in this war. This should be good.
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  23.  @milansavic2803  Down, Pooty! Go lie down!
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  24.  @ottoreitstock2465  As I understand it the Japanese are angrier about the invasion than almost anyone else. I believe their constitution forbids them from doing certain things like exporting weapons to a country at war, but they are quietly doing a lot. The Kiel Institute aid tracker says they are 4th in Ukraine aid after the US, UK and Germany. Search Kiel Institute Ukraine support tracker.
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  25. Remember that Ukraine is larger than the UK and Germany combined! Note this formula: 🇺🇦 = ( 🇬🇧 + 🇩🇪 ) x 1.06   Russia is attempting a huge military undertaking. It absolutely was counting on a quick surrender.
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  26. Wow, they teach Canadian English extremely well in the FSB now. jk😄 🇺🇦🇨🇦
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  27.  @buyshark3838  I really can't make out your meaning. Maybe you should run it through a translation program instead. I think maybe you're paying a compliment to the Ukrainian armed forces. If so, I am in full agreement. But I don't see what that has to do with what Ukrainians on street corners say about the US.
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  28.  @concernedaussie1330  Let it be in Hades one hour from now.
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  29.  @michaeljohnston980  I am. This isn't a party.
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  30. Little Mugabe.
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  31.  @milansavic2803  You seem to not know how replies work. If you want to reply to that person, click Reply under his or her post, not mine.
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  32.  @BTinSF  In coverage on YT channels ~90% of Ukrainian forces members appear to be ~35-55. Been thinking maybe high command sees it as helping the odds of victory.
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  33. Watch the 1420 Channel and listen what comes out of Russians' mouths.😦
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  34.  @Oleksandr_Kryvenko  Можливо, я був незрозумілий. Вибачте, якщо я був. Проте загадковий лінгвістичний приклад, про який я говорив, здається, зустрічається в українській і російській мовах однаково. Я дякую вам за вашу відповідь і бажаю вам всього найкращого. ————————————————— Perhaps I was unclear. Sorry if I was. However, the puzzling linguistic example which I was talking about seems to occur in the Ukrainian and Russian languages equally. I thank you for your reply and I wish you the best.
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  35.  @Matthew_Loutner  Perhaps you have a point. I did not have the same impression watching Part 1 (with the same title) a month ago. On the other hand, the question asked here wasn't something about the world, it was about their own personal feelings, which they know all about. And there's simply zero chance they don't know about US support and what it means. Sorry, zero chance. They all know, every one of them.
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  36.  @carelgoodheir692  Sorry, but that's just laughable.
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  37.  @Matthew_Loutner  Well, ok. Perhaps it is more strange and worrying than deplorable. And it was a small non-random sample.
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  38.  @1midnightfish  "Grovel"? Grovel? I'd ask you if you're kidding me, but I think you're actually serious. Wow. Just wow.
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  39.  @kyle-ld2gh  I never said it was a contest, Your Royal Pomposity. It was a statement of plain fact. It is scarcely possible to give more energy, time and resources (as a fraction of what I have) as a private Western citizen than I have done. Kindly explain to me just how, from a far-off chair in front of your computer, you dare assert otherwise. And to think, you feel yourself a very fine person for doing so!
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  40. It matters little. If they do agree, they will promptly violate it and falsely blame Ukraine. Mark my words.
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  41.  @majortom8047   Is that you, King Charles? Because commoners don't use 'the royal We.'😄 Anyway, I listened carefully to every word. Maybe gratitude just doesn't have much of a place in your ethics.
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  42.  @militantcapitalist4606  I'm more of a samizdat type, thank you very much. 🇺🇦🇺🇸🇨🇿🇬🇧🇨🇦🇪🇺
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  43. The "free people" part was fine, but it seems to me globalization has weakened the West while at the same time it has strengthened Putin and China.
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  44.  @contacttly6398  Yep!
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  45. ​ @yandex9188  Negotiations will begin in one of two scenarios. The first I will name is that in which one of the antagonists decides it is in his country's interest to enter them—i.e., it is losing badly, with little prospect of victory and a serious prospect of total war failure. At that point it will be thought best to give up on victory and instead try to stem losses or preserve gains where they are. That point is not near at hand. The second is a point at which losses on both sides are so severe that (1) neither side believes in a reasonable chance of victory, or (2) both sides believe that continuation of the war will be the ruin of both sides, or (3) there is massive public clamour for peace in one or both countries. Or there may be nothing which might properly be called negotiations, but instead unilateral surrender/withdrawal. An instance of this type effectively occurred in August 1945. The US demanded unconditional surrender, received a counteroffer from Japan, promptly rejected it, and repeated its demand, which Japan granted.
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  46. I'm almost certain they're sisters.
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  47.  @sobrcelt  Both pretty, but the one on the left, I could look at her face for the rest of my life.
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  48. Up to a point, I suppose. Except that the majority of people are fooled by excellent marketing teams. 😄
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  49. Politically Russia most resembles Africa. Corrupt, authoritarian, ruthless, oligarchical. They're moral and political brethren. Putin is like Robert Mugabe, Idi Amin, Mobutu Sese Seko, Laurent Kabila, Muammar Gaddafi, Charles Taylor, Jean-Bedel Bokassa. He even bears an amazing facial resemblance to Macias Nguema.
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  50. I've noticed a frequent linguistic oddity in both Ukrainian and Russian: the word treat is synonymous with regard, view or look upon, in the sense of have an opinion about. In English treat means to behave towards (a person or thing). One may have a certain opinion of something or someone, yet treat (behave towards) it/them in another way. For example, a conversation in English might go as follows: 1st person: "What do you think of Americans?" 2nd person: "I have a poor opinion of them." 1st person: "And how do you treat them?" 2nd person: "Well, I'm careful to treat them decently. I wouldn't want to be unfair to an individual, give offence, or display prejudice gratuitously." In contrast, here's a native English-speaker talking to a Russian or Ukrainian: 1st person: "What do you think of Americans?" 2nd person: "I treat them negatively." 1st person: "Your opinion of Americans is not good?" 2nd person: "Yes, I just told you that." 1st person: "Ok, sorry. And how do you behave towards them?" 2nd person: "Well, I'm careful to behave decently towards them. I wouldn't want to be unfair to an individual, give offence or display prejudice gratuitously." 1st person: "But you treat them negatively?" 2nd person: "Yes. You seem confused for some reason." It's so weird.😄
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  51.  @romeob.8369  There were defeatists and collaborationists like you in WW2 as well. "Please rule us, Hitler! We want peace! We'll do what you say! Forever!" Their lack of spine kept Hitler in business longer. You would do well to emulate Zelenskyy yourself. He's a man, not a mouse. Ukraine strongly supports him.
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  52. It's very simple. Trump would quickly put Putin in his place. But he is wisely afraid to say so, since Putin probably has the ability to tilt a close election in the favor of the candidate he prefers. Just a million votes may be enough, and with the billions and billions of Russian state-sponsored posts flooding US social media, Putin can likely achieve just that.
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  53.  @ChosenOne6666  Of what?
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  54.  @ChosenOne6666  Which one, in what way?
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  55.  @1midnightfish  I'm grateful for all kinds of things. For me, every day is Thanksgiving. You, I don't know where you're coming from, except a place of sanctimony.
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  56.  @bcorr42  I'm in close agreement with you on a lot of that, mostly, except for a couple of bits where I didn't know what you were referring to, like whatever it was you meant in your first thing. It's kind of a long thread now and I posted a few replies.
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  57.  @1midnightfish   👎 Who says I'm not grateful, o sanctimonious one? Indeed I am, to Zelensky, for instance, and all the members of the Ukrainian armed forces. Who I'm not so thrilled with are (most of) these people on the sidewalks of Lviv. 'For the last time' is right!
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  58.  @hotcheetoman86  Don't be ridiculous. If possible.
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  59.  @michaeljohnston980  A complaint is not a threat. How's that for nuance, pal? More nuance: gratitude isn't fealty. Btw, I never even said I'm an American, and it so happens I'm not, so there's some more nuance for you...pal.
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  60.  @Weeks25  Thanks for your reply. Actually if you check out Part 1 (same title) from a month earlier, the people speak much more warmly of the US. Which is nice. 🇺🇦! 🇺🇸! + many more!
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  61.  @qksf1645  You don't understand how much global security has to do with your own country's prosperity and that of yourself personally. The billions being spent aiding Ukraine is like lunch money considering what it does to keep you and your country safe and well-off. The cost of addressing this later would be in the tens of trillions.
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  62.  @IsmailKhan-jb3et  Your comment is accurate. However, it is best for the world if India continues to buy some Russian oil. If there was a 100% global boycott, then there would not be enough oil on the world market. Oil would soon shoot to $150, $200, or more, causing great economic problems in every country except perhaps those which export a lot of oil. I don't like this either, but it is reality. (Still, it is best if India refuses to pay Russia the full world price!) All the best to you, Mr. Khan. (P.S. If you are from Pakistan, I would like to thank your country for its sale of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine. I appreciate that your government is doing a good thing.)
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  63. Oh, they get it. The ones who don't get it are the ordinary Russian vatniks. They're the frogs in the pot which is nearing a simmer. Be ready to till a corner of ground for root vegetables, Sasha.
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  64.  @ssvinny2536  That's a possibility. :) In reply to your longer post, it might be pointed out in fairness that Trump approved lethal weaponry for Ukraine within his first year in office. At the time that was a pro-Ukraine escalation.
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  65. ​ @ssvinny2536  Don't take my word for it. Look into it yourself. If you need the word of the the WaPo to convince yourself of the holy truth of the matter, so be it. It's there in their Dec. 2017 coverage of the approval. The breaching of the line of so-called "lethal weaponry" was a big deal. Don't let hyperpartisanship be your guiding light towards truth. Let facts be your guide and give into the unpleasant ones as soon as you discover them. Facts are great; egos are not. My reply of a few minutes ago along these lines has vanished into thin air for some 'reason'. I hope this repetition of it makes it through to you.
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  66. True. Russia is still a feudal, quasi-medieval country. The tsar and aristocracy still think they have legitimate rights over the serfs; the serfs still think they owe fealty the other way. The Enlightenment has never fully taken hold, nor maybe even the Renaissance. Ukraine meanwhile is breaking free of feudalism towards European rights-based democracy. Perhaps it's because independence took away the tsar and aristocracy necessary for the people to recognize themselves as serfs.
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  67.  @larrymayfield6118  No, it isn't my 'metric.' What are you, hard of reading? Wait, don't answer. From the fact that you don't know the difference between 'then' and 'than', I can see you are.
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  68.  @larrymayfield6118  Nah, that wasn't "my metric" at all. I was suggesting it wasn't that at all. Oi, are you hard of reading?
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  69.  @BTinSF  Maybe the young are about to bear the brunt of the casualties as the war intensifies. Maybe the older men predominated at first in order to build (at scale) a core of experience and competence.
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  70.  @qksf1645  That goes without saying. But he said Ukrainian fighters are legendary, not Ukrainian-made weaponry and wealth.
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