Comments by "E Dennis" (@edennis8578) on "Путешествие с Расселом" channel.

  1. Nine rubles for the bread? That's about 11 cents in the US. Bread hasn't been that cheap here for 50 years, maybe more.
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  2. Develop an inner life, man. Most of the world would thank their lucky stars to have a home like this.
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  3. Such an elegant shopping mall! Can you imagine paying $200 for a fragile glass ornament? We use plastic ornaments on our tree because we have four cats. 🐾🐾🐾🐾🎄🐾🐾🐾🐾 Thankfully, many plastic ornaments now look so much like the glass versions that it's hard to tell the difference on the tree. I still prefer glass ornaments, but I have to hang them from our little chandelier instead of on the tree.
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  4. It looks like so much fun!
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  5. I can buy cage-free eggs in the Midwest for $1.50/dozen. Regular eggs are $1.07/dozen.
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  6. Thank you, Russell!
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  7. Regarding sugar cubes: I kept them on hand for when my children got hiccups. Sugar relaxes the stomach muscles and cures hiccups. My mother used to give me soft peppermint candy when I was sick with a stomach bug for the same reason. When my cat had stomach problems, I gave him a teaspoon of water with a bit of sugar mixed in and it worked.
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  8. ​ @paulsonjeff It's not a conspiracy, it's demonstrably true. It was the death of mall life even in Des Moines, Iowa. Gangs roaming the malls scaring away actual shoppers. I was confronted myself outside one of the biggest malls. I was waiting for my husband to pick me up; they hung around me until I mentioned that my husband was coming in from the gun show. They scattered at that.
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  9. Just to add, last year, prices were much higher for a few months. Prices reached as high as $4/dozen for regular eggs.
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  10. ​ @jerrylee4485 Not true. The problem started with Britain joining the EU, when Brussels started repressing British agriculture and fishing. Brussels eventually destroyed British farming and the fishing industry. They didn't allow British-grown produce in the market because of the severely restrictive regulations, and they gave the fishing rights to other countries in preference to the native British fishermen. Thousands of British farmers committed suicide because their way of life was destroyed. The damage isn't going to be repaired in just a couple of years.
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  11. The average salary in Kyrgyzstan is $358/month USD. At $500/month, this apartment is far beyond the means of the average person.
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  12. You've never been to a Costco? Our Sam's Club isn't quite this big, and has no live seafood, but I live in a small town in Iowa.
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  13. #1. Russia is a net exporter of food. I haven't yet seen a Russian vlog that ahows Russian supermarkets or grocery stores struggling, whether it's a village near Moscow, the city of St. Petersburg, or a town in Siberia. Foreign supermarkets that are preparing to close are naturally selling out their stock and not restocking, and THOSE are the places that some people are filming to cry about. You have to pay attention to what they're filming. Those people do it because then people send them money; they're grifters. #2. Also, check out Patrick Lancaster, an American in Mariupol. The locals say it's Ukrainian forces starving them (and destroying their homes), and if not for Russian soldiers giving them food, they would starve to death.
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  14.  @razvegoida_25  Did you have pity for the children in Donbass, who have been bombed by the Ukraine government for the past 8 freaking years? Many of those children, at least the survivors, have spent their lives in the basement of their homes. They've never been able to play outside because it's too dangerous. That's Ukraine doing that. So don't be a hypocrite.
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  15. @Chris What are you talking about? Even most of the high-end European designers have their lines made in China, not Europe. Have you been living under a rock for the last 50 years? Seriously. 🙄
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  16. That's the whole point of showing this supermarket. The sanctions were supposed to destroy the Russian economy, but they've had very little effect because Russia is self-sufficient in almost every category. Many Americans, especially, still think of Russia in terms of the 1970s - so outdated.
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  17.  @willy4170  No, she's informed. Putin has fortified Russia against sanctions since 2012. They are now almost entirely self-sufficient, and even a net exporter of food, fuel, crop fertilizer, wood, steel, and other products. They manufacture their own farm equipment and cars. What they don't produce, they can buy next door. You remember China, right? Where Americans buy almost everything we use?
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  18. That's an amazing selection of produce. There's nothing like that in even the giant supermarkets where I live. In fact, I ordered oranges on Thursday from the biggest store in town and they had zero oranges in stock when they prepared my order. I was dumbfounded.
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  19. Attend a university with Russian students.
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  20. The brands that left merely opened up opportunities for Russian entrepreneurs. I read that the government is offering big incentives for people who want to start their own business.
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  21. Russia is a net exporter of food. They'll be fine. They also normally export a huge percentage of the world's supply of fertilizer, but of course they won't be doing that, either. American farmers bought 96% of their potassium fertilizer from, guess who, Russia, as well as much of their other fertilizers. Who will have empty shelves? Not Russia. These shortsighted sanctions were placed against a country who supplies food and fertilizer to the entire world.
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  22. Yes, Russell, Chanel is pronounced shun-elle. Like your second pronunciation.
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  23. Imo, shopping malls who don't offer benches for sitting are missing a trick. It just makes me go home sooner, whereas if I could just sit and rest a few minutes, then I could keep going for another hour or two. The shopping malls in Las Vegas didn't have anywhere to sit either, when I was there, and it was an exercise in endurance.
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  24. Russia is a net exporter of food. They'll be fine. They also normally export a huge percentage of the world's supply of fertilizer, but of course they won't be doing that, either. American farmers bought 96% of their potassium fertilizer from, guess who, Russia, as well as much of their other fertilizers. Who will have empty shelves? Not Russia. These shortsighted sanctions were placed against a country who supplies food and fertilizer to the entire world.
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  25. Is that you, Zelensky?
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  26. For practically my whole life, as soon as I find a great product, the company discontinues it! So I have very little brand loyalty; I change brands whenever someone comes out with a good product.
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  27. Bless you. Thank you for speaking up. Too many people have jumped on the anti-Russia pro-Ukraine train without bothering to find out what they are supporting.
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  28. So you've never been in a Fred Meyer? How about Costco or Sam's Club? 🤦‍♀️
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  29. Thanks!
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  30. You know that Russia manufacturers its own merchandise, right? Under Putin's domestic policies, Russia manufactures almost everything, and now there are increased government incentives for entrepreneurs. Btw, almost everything Americans use is made in China, so I had to laugh at your criticism. Also, nobody would DARE threaten China for exactly that reason. China even makes most of our pharmaceuticals and electronics. They control a huge amount of the rare minerals that we need for batteries and electronics. They know it, too. They've said so out loud. China has us in a headlock.
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  31. Dude, 50 years ago it was the USSR, which no longer exists. It's like comparing the France of the revolution, with guillotines in the streets, to modern day France. Seriously, are you stuck in a time warp?
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  32. I wonder if this shopping mall could attract more traffic with some activities, like an indoor carousel for children and such? Maybe a petting zoo, an aquarium? I can't wait to see the Christmas/New Year decorations.
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  33. Russia is food self-sufficient. They are a net exporter of food.
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  34. Really? You should see some of the videos from Canada. One popped up today in my feed from a couple of days ago. Huge expanses of empty shelves. She was really scared. Putin's domestic policies have made Russia almost entirely self-sufficient; they can produce almost everything they need. Unlike us.
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  35. Affect whose thinking on Ukraine? Nobody batted an eye for the past 8 years while Ukraine shelled Donbass and kidnapped, tortured, and killed Russia-speaking Ukrainians, except that the UN gave it a passing comment and humanitarian groups objected. Other than that, not a peep.
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  36. It's so true! That's one reason why I'm glad that here in America we have Thanksgiving, then Christmas, then New Year to look forward to, as well. It's too sad when the holiday is over and all of the celebration is over. Everything seems so drab afterward.
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  37. Thanks!
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  38.  @bcool9104  Why do you think that only McDonald's has ordering software? What a strange idea.
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  39.  @diegogervasoni3432  What are you talking about? Putin's domestic policies have ensured that Russia is now almost entirely self-sufficient and highly industrialized. The sanctions of 2012 put the policies into action because he didn't want Russia to be at the mercy of foreign governments.
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  40.  @carlapraught4922  In the United States, there are many places, even entire states, where it's illegal to grow your own food. Homes & Gardens and Civil Eats have articles online that came up on the first page of Google results.
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  41.  @1xmedia766  I don't believe this, I know this. I pay attention to what's really going on, unlike some people (cough, cough). I don't live in the past. Modern Russia isn't the USSR.
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  42. Just curious: do you honestly think that Russia doesn't have ground beef, fish, potatoes, or bread? I expect that the new chain's food will be better without the chemicals that McDonald's puts in the food.
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  43. You know that there are tourists other than western who go to Russia, right? Besides which, Russia doesn't depend on tourism. In 2017, tourism represented only 3.8% of their gdp. Say that half of that was westerners, that's less than 2%. I don't know if it's occurred to you, either, but it could be that a lot of Russians no longer want to do a lot of shopping at foreign retailers. It's more patriotic to patronize Russian retailers.
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  44. Konstantin is always running away. Then he comes back. He just does it for attention.
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  45. We're in the middle of watermelon season where I live, too, but we only have red watermelons. Still yummy!
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  46. Not that much. I watch videos from as far away as Siberia. They're doing pretty well.
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  47. Unlike the US, Russia doesn't need to import its own food. There are things they do import, like tropical fruit, but they don't need to. We in the US import 20% of our vegetables and 80% of our fruit, so we're in a far more vulnerable position.
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  48. Russia insists that people who emigrate have to support themselves. No freebies. They also have to follow all of the laws. No exceptions. Also, it's freaking cold; people of color didn't immigrate to Scandinavia much, either, until they found out how much free stuff they could get as "refugees." Just to say, the Norwegian government, until very, very recently, was notoriously oppressive even to the Sami, an indigenous population that were forced by law to adopt every aspect of Norwegian culture and were forbidden to speak their own language. Yourway2norway did a video on it (he is Sami). By the way, Siberia, eastern Russia, has many people of Mongolian ethnicity.
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  49.  @englebertschnook5106  According to an article in NPR, the life expectancy in the US is now 76 years and dropping, and many states have a life expectancy under 75 years. So it's not that much different from Russia.
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  50. Every country tweaks its burgers to suit local tastes. Even McDonald's is different depending on what country you're in. French McDonald's is different from Japanese which is different from Pakistani McDonald's which is different from Indian McDonald's.
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  51. I just found a video that was shot in the Vegas mall last August, and it was no busier. Really, not at all. So I doubt that sanctions had anything to do with it.
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  52. You don't shop, do you? These stores are so big that you could put thousands of people in them and it still wouldn't look crowded. For comparison, my high school's auditorium held 2,000 people. If I picture putting that auditorium in this store, it's just a small corner of this store. Look at how crowded the checkout lines are. There are easily thousands of people here. Now extrapolate that into this huge mall.
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  53. Russia is a net exporter of food, while the US is a net importer of food, including 50% of our fresh fruit, 20% of our fresh vegetables, and 80% of our seafood. Most of the farmland in the great expanse of the midwest, where I live, is dedicated to field corn and soybeans, most of which is exported and isn't table food. We could be food self-sufficient, but that isn't how things have worked out. Putin made sure that Russia was food self-sufficient, especially after the sanctions of 2012, so they are protected from most of the problems that we can face here.
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  54. I usually eat the crust. I like a soft, bready crust.
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  55. If they close, that leaves an opportunity for a Russian to fill that gap. Putin is offering incentives for people to start businesses, like the one that is already taking over where McDonald's left.
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  56. Supermarkets have been getting bigger and bigger. Many older people in my town complain outright that it's too much work to go to a huge supermarket. There's one in my neighborhood that's so big that it's literally a mile by the time you walk down 20 aisles, and heaven forbid that you forget something and have to retrace your steps.
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  57. I don't know where you live that your shopping malls are always crowded, but where I live (small midwestern university town) this mall looks crowded by comparison. My local mall is the only place to buy midrange priced clothes, so anyone who wants to go shopping goes to the mall. The only time it looks this crowded is right before Christmas, even during the school year when the students are here.
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  58. Russians on average only spend about 33% of their income on food. That's less than France, where it's almost 37%. In Moscow, the percentage is probably even lower because the wages are higher. I've seen many supermarket videos by Russian youtubers; the prices are reasonable and in line with the relative prices/income in most of the US.
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  59. We used to go to the local mall on Sundays here in the midwest for fun before the stock market crash in 2008. Lots of stores closed. A couple of the big anchor stores folded; there's one left. Before the crash, the mall had plans to expand and renovate. They even posted the plans for the public to see. That went away. The mall is still there, but now the stores are geared for college kids, mostly.
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  60. They're all over the stores in my town in the midwest. They haven't bothered to take them off since covid restrictions lifted.
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  61. Take your meds. And get a clue.
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  62. A lot of stores will have your purchases delivered. You don't have to carry your bags around, especially from high-end stores.
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  63. ​ @straightshooter4177 That sounds like sour grapes. It's easy enough to watch other channels from other parts of Russia.
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  64.  @anabolic-v3p  I don't think you watched the same video as I did. I saw plenty of Russian shoppers. Did that gray-haired lady in the beige coat look like she was from Kazakhstan?
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  65. Taken by Russian brands.
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  66. What are you talking about? He said that it's now Russian owned, so it has nothing to do with the German company now.
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  67. The yearly average pension in Russia is 16,900 rubles/month, or 202,800 rubles/year, or $5,001 Australian, per person. However, the Russian cost of living is about 1/3 that of Australia, and taxes are much lower in Russia. They get free healthcare and free transportation. Rent and utilities are extremely inexpensive, and many elderly people get free rent. In Moscow, the city provides an additional pension of about 4,400/month (as of 2017 figures). Pensioners who live alone will have a more difficult time making ends meet than those who live with family members, but that's true in the US, as well. And more than 25% of elderly Australians live in poverty. I suggest that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
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  68. "All" of the tech experts haven't left. The estimate from western media is that 10% will leave, and many of them were mainly afraid of being drafted. Putin just signed a law exempting tech experts from conscription, so I expect that the loss will slow down.
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  69. I don't think that the name of the store has ever stopped me from shopping there, and I've seen some weird names. Sometimes I wonder what makes people name their businesses the way they do.
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  70. @Tomek You obviously have no idea what Soviet times were like. At all. Empty grocery stores, people standing in line for hours to buy toilet paper or in the hope of buying one poorly made pair of shoes. Modern Russia is far from that. Very far. And a lot of that is because of Putin's domestic policies.
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  71. What would they call a store in the US with no employees present? Empty. Looters would grab it all.
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  72. Is Neiman Marcus a punch in the face to poor Americans? Porsche? Rolex? Who do you think you're kidding?
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  73. Malls where I lived always looked like this, even back in their heyday in the 80s, especially the middle of the day, except at Christmas time. The middle of the day was the best time to shop.
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  74.  @The_Dark_Lord-69  Ukraine is getting justice visited upon it. They can just suck it up. I hope the hurt has just begun for Ukraine.
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  75.  @sputnikcaviar5592  I agree. As an American historian, I don't understand #1. Why so many people are acting like Ukraine is an angelic child who never committed a crime themselves. The government of Ukraine is blatantly murderous to their own people, but nobody says anything about that. And if we were in Russia's position, we would have moved against Ukraine years ago. Nobody wants to talk about that, either. #2. Putin's domestic policies have made Russia fairly self-sufficient, so we are far more likely to be seriously affected by the sanctions than Russia. Russia can produce just about everything it needs, but we don't. We have outsourced almost everything we use and that makes us extremely vulnerable. Why don't westerners understand this? I have a very bad feeling that such vulnerability will become apparent the hard way - experience.
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  76.  @Superfandangoo  Russia is one of the breadbaskets of the world. They also supply (pre-sanction) a large amount of the world's crop fertilizers. They're going to have a surplus now that they aren't shipping to the west. We're the ones who will suffer from the sanctions. American farmers bought 96% of their potassium fertilizer from Russia last year, plus a huge amount of other fertilizers. Now we're going to be competing for whatever fertilizer is available from somewhere else at massively increased prices. Biden already stated that the sanctions will cause us widespread hunger, or didn't you listen? Russia is almost entirely self-sufficient; they'll be fine. We won't.
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  77. ​ @omskpravo55 YouTube doesn't allow it. The only way to post a photo is to do it on your own channel.
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  78. Putin's domestic policies have made Russia almost entirely self-sufficient. What they can't produce at the moment they can buy from China. We're in a much worse place than Russia since almost every manufactured product we use is imported, mainly from China.
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  79. Oh, sure, they're so bad, and that's why their stock has skyrocketed in the last six months.
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  80.  @CheapSquierBassPlayer  So you admit that you won't even read his side of the argument. That's intellectually dishonest. He's telling some truth, but you don't want to hear it. smh
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  81. @William I'm puzzled why so many people think that Russia doesn't have fish, ground beef, bread, or potatoes. What's up with that?
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  82. ​​"Processed" just means that it's pre-prepared. If good ingredients are used, there's no difference between buying it pre-prepared and making it from scratch yourself.
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  83. You don't have to believe me. There's a guy who travels all over the world visiting the McDonald's in other countries, showing the restaurants, the menus, and sampling the food. I wish we had shrimp burgers here!
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  84. There are other Youtubers who do that.
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  85. There's a Russian named Sergey Baklykov, in St. Petersburg, who does many walking tours through the city and in museums, etc.
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  86.  @ovh992  Conversion rates only matter for imports. For example, the conversion rate for the dollar vs the British pound varies quite a lot, but within the UK, it only affects tourists and imports. As a matter of fact, it makes exports extremely attractive to other countries because they can purchase goods at a much cheaper price. And I know you're going to say sanctions, but not everyone is going to sanction Russia. The hypocritical west isn't the whole world.
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  87. The rabbit is traditionally a helper to Ded Moroz. Vintage greeting cards and figures often feature Ded Moroz with a bunny. I have even seen wall clocks carved with Ded Moroz and his bunny helper. Sometimes the bunny is carrying a gift.
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  88. Why would he leave? 13% income taxes, free healthcare, safe streets (no blm nonsense there), a leader who cares more about his own people than about political correctness, family values, almost total self-sufficiency within the country, stable economy, and they don't have to kowtow to anyone. We should be so lucky.
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  89. The reviews are very good. The only bad reviews I saw were from Russians who were upset at the overzealous security guards.
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  90. I don't know how that would work. I read that high end art is a big money laundering racket, because there are no fixed prices, and nobody questions why a rubbish painting was purchased for huge stacks of cash.
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  91. If the bank will exchange dollars, wouldn't it work just as well to buy $5 with rubles then sell it back for rubles? It wouldn't be even, though, because banks charge for exchanging currency. Btw, $50 is a much larger sum of money in Russia.
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  92. Ukraine should have thought of that before bombing Donbass for the past eight years and shutting off the water source to Crimea.
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  93. Where are you from, California? I was married in Iowa in 1997; we has 3 inches of snow on the first of May, right before my wedding.
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  94. The USSR no longer exists.
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  95.  @racheleraanan5133  Most people in the US live in apartments, too. People in any big city, for that matter.
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  96. Russia is so prosperous now because of Putin's domestic policies. I remember the old days when people had to stand hours in line for a roll of toilet paper and the grocery stores were empty. Now Russia is very nearly self-sufficient; they can produce almost everything they want and need. Btw, if you want the truth about what Ukraine government is really like, search YouTube for videos on the eight years of shelling in Eastern Ukraine - by their own government. There are years of European news clips. They are horrible.
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  97.  @Will-cg1jg  He doesn't just compare prices. He shows how well stocked the stores are, too. And how old are you that you don't understand the relationship between prices and hunger? When food is expensive, people can't afford it. When food is inexpensive, people don't have to go hungry.
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  98. About the 2:00 mark he says that the store changed ownership to a Russian ownership. So, they don't have anything to do with the old German company.
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  99.  @TravellingwithRussell  You were quite diplomatic to ignore the reference. Good for you.
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  100.  @smb123211  On average, Russians spend 33% of their income on food. In France, they spend almost 37%. The percentage is actually less in Moscow where the wages are higher and prices are lower than they are in less populated areas.
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  101. @Heather The exchange rate only affects imports. Goods produced within Russia aren't affected by exchange rates. Russia is a net exporter of food; they are self-sufficient. They don't have to import meat, wheat, potatoes, etc. for fast food. It's like the two times I visited England, with wildly different exchange rates. It didn't affect the English at all except for goods imported from America and it affected me, as an American tourist, because I had to pay a lot more for everything when the exchange rate rose for the pound.
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  102. There are McDonald's in many countries, and they're all different according to local tastes. Pakistani McDonald's are different from Japanese McDonald's which are different from French McDonald's. Quality also varies depending on local food regulations. In other words, a McDonald's burger in Paris isn't going to be like a McDonald's burger in Boston. And yes, there is McDonald's in Paris. In fact, there's one right next to the Moulin Rouge. Edit: It was hard to find a photo, but there's an article on wordpress: "Cemetery, Moulin Rouge, Rat, McDonalds (in that order)." I was there in 2008 and drove right past it.
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  103. I agree. I think it's schadenfreude. They are riddled with jealousy that Russia is doing so well and they don't want to admit that Russia will be very little affected by the sanctions, but Europe and North America will suffer. Russia is almost entirely self-sufficient (unlike us), highly industrialized (unlike us), and quite prosperous. That surprises the ignorant and they are in deep denial of reality. Russia supplies the west with food, crop fertilizer, steel, oil, natural gas, and many other things, and the nasty people will soon realize that we've shot ourselves in the foot.
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  104. Someone on Instagram keeps posting the most beautiful Christmas decorations, but they're from eastern Europe. I've never seen anything so beautiful and high quality, but we can't get them because she never posts what company the items come from.
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  105. Who are you trying to kid? All along, western governments were certain that sanctions would destroy the entire Russian economy within weeks of enacting them. They said so out loud! They were bragging that the Russian people would have empty supermarkets, no cars or planes, and no computers or phones. Some people in this comment section are still believing it. Those same governments, however, were woefully ignorant of the great strides that Russia has made to ensure its self-sufficiency and rapid industrialization in the last decade, thanks in large part to Putin's wise domestic policies. It's the west who bit the hand that literally fed it and will find themselves, ourselves, in real trouble come the winter and the next harvest.
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  106. It's -13°C right now where I am in Iowa, USA. Lots of snow on the ground.
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  107. Then American shops and European shops should have closed in Ukraine 8 years ago, when they started bombing the Russian-speaking part of their own country. You also realize that Ukraine had to fire the government official who was in charge of spreading all of those anti-Russian horror stories, right? It turned out that when asked to provide proof to humanitarian groups, she didn't have any. She made it all up. The so-called photos were either staged, or actually committed by Ukraine forces but blamed on Russian soldiers. Look it up.
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  108. Many people own dachas, houses in the country. In fact, about 40% of the fruits and vegetables consumed in Russia are raised by people at their own dachas.
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  109. I don't know why you think that's funny. Scandinavian-style sweaters are popular in much of the world.
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  110. So private businesses are booming all over Russia, new ones start every day, profits are way up, but you expect high unemployment? Where do you get your information from, CNN?
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  111. Many western companies left Russia. Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald's, Ikea, just to name a few. But that allowed Russians the opportunity to step up with businesses of their own, and they have.
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  112.  Eric  I doubt that Europeans would be happy to pay 3 times more for wood and wheat than they were paying Russia. Russian prices are much lower than North American prices.
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  113. Several people have commented that the bunny is a helper of Ded Moroz, and that it's traditional to give children chocolate bunnies at New Year's. Vintage Soviet greeting cards and figurines often feature Ded Moroz with a bunny. It is an old tradition, nothing to do with the Year of the Rabbit.
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  114.  @TravellingwithRussell  Don't let them kid you. Bunnies are traditional helpers of Ded Moroz; Ded Moroz is often depicted on holiday cards and decor items with bunnies at his feet. Sometimes the bunnies are carrying pretty wrapped gifts.
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  115. Most Americans, and Europeans as well, also seem to think that Russians as a whole are destitute and always on the brink of starvation. Well, surprise! And yet many still maintain that it's true, in spite of all evidence to the contrary.
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  116. Russian companies are already gearing up to replace the virtue signalers. This is like the case of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard; Johnny got canceled, just like Russia, but it was really Amber Heard who was the abuser, just like us.
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  117.  @TravellingwithRussell  I've seen Russian-brand cola in the stores. Why wouldn't this chain offer it? Just curious.
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  118. Modern Russia isn't as poor as you think. Many people live like middle class Americans and Europeans. Watch channels by ordinary Russian families. There are some that have been making videos for years. Their supermarkets look like American supermarkets, and their restaurants look very much like American restaurants, and their shopping centers look like American shopping centers. Many regular Russian families have weekend cabins in the country, besides their home in town. They drive modern cars, wear modern clothes, and have televisions, computers, and smartphones. They live like us. Except not as many people in America have weekend homes in the country.
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  119. I prefer to buy steak and cook it at home for the same price. New York strip is $12.47/pound; which would you rather have, a burger from a fast food restaurant or a pound of steak?
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  120. Do you really believe that garbage? Putin and Russia are on the righteous side of this. Check out The Duran, Tulsi Gabbard, Renaissance Horizon, and Patrick Lancaster for some home truths. We, the west, and Ukraine, are totally in the wrong here.
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  121. It was their choice. They chose it in 2014 when they started bombing Donbass, and chose it again when Zelensky took Boris Johnson's advice in March and shut down the peace talks.
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  122. Why are you defending Joe Biden? Ukraine is his cash cow, he's been milking it for $millions. That's the only reason he cares. If you cared about the Ukrainian people, you would have been concerned about how the Ukraine government has been shelling Donbass for the past 8 years. Many people have had to live in their basements for years because their homes were destroyed or too dangerous above ground. The locals say that they would have starved except for the food they received from the Russians. Why has the Ukraine government been shelling them? Because they voted to go with Russia. So instead of letting them go with Russia, Ukraine decided to kill them.
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  123. ​ @lisalexx242 Borrowed? Rome ruled most of Europe for hundreds of years, so of course Roman letters are used. What are you thinking? The island of Britain was ruled by the Romans for 400 years! When western Europeans became literate, they became literate in Latin. Laws were Roman laws. So not borrowed, IMPOSED.
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  124. Looks great, Russell. Fyi, the anti-Russian bots are out in force today. They plastered one poor lady's comment section with the worst filth. I mean, real filth. They don't talk like that to men. Can you delete comments like that, or do you have to leave them up?
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  125. No, actually, it isn't a sign of things to come. Russian companies are starting to step in and take the place of those western companies, and that will keep more Russian money in Russia for a long time to come. That's a good thing. Europe needs Russian natural gas, and they just agreed to pay for it in rubles. The Russian ruble gets stronger and stronger. You should listen to something besides the msm echo chamber, which does nothing but spew nonsense for views.
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  126. This was a mall mainly for foreign brands. Watch his other videos, or videos by channels like Different Russia. Normal malls are still humming. Russian companies have sprung up or expanded to take over where foreign brands left. Don't feel sorry for the Russians, because they aren't the ones who will end up suffering from the sanctions. Putin ensured that Russia is nearly immune from western sanctions, a policy he put in effect after the sanctions of 2012. Feel bad for the west. Many American economists and political analysts are pointing out that the sanctions are cementing relationships between middle-eastern and eastern countries, having the probable consequence of knocking the dollar off its pedestal as the world's reserve currency. Without that status, we have nothing. The dollar isn't backed by gold, so without world-reserve currency status, we are screwed.
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  127. Not so much. Russia is a net exporter of food, including wheat (you know, the stuff that bread is made of), seafood, and more. Putin has made sure that Russia can weather sanctions. However, the countries sanctioning Russia, not buying their goods, are the ones who are in for bread lines. Have fun with that.
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  128. I don't know where you live, but the shopping centers in my region in the midwest aren't this busy except just before Christmas. That was true even during the mall heyday in the 1980s.
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  129.  @toma9976  You're ready to believe a French government official regarding the inner workings of Russia? Dude. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 So why did Macron call Putin personally? There wouldn't be any reason to do so if Russia were really ready to crumble.
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  130. By Ukraine.
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  131. Sanctions and giving our weapons to Ukraine have demilitarized the west, instead. Now about all we have left is old crap from the 1970s and before, and we don't have the manufacturing capabilities to make more in a timely manner. Europe and the US are down to dragging out old WW2 stuff to send to Ukraine now. Whoopee. And think about it; do you think that Russia and China don't read the news, too?
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  132. #Chianti You people commenting how Russia will suffer! Worry about yourself. Putin's domestic policies have made Russia nearly self-sufficient. The west needs the east far more than Russia needs us. That's just fact. At least in America, we've outsourced most of our manufacturing and a lot of our food. Supply chain problems are getting worse and worse. My husband works for a multinational company who makes municipal water treatment facilities and the lead time to get parts is more than half a year instead of a week or two like it used to be. If it gets any worse, fresh drinking water will become a thing of the past throughout America.
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  133. They want to look like the west before the west went insane.
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  134. And YOU have not paid one iota of attention to what Ukraine has been doing to Donbass for the past eight years. Donbass voted to go with Russia. Instead of letting them, the government of Ukraine chose to kill them. The government of Ukraine has been shelling Donbass for the past eight solid years. Even now, according to the locals, Ukraine continues to bomb them but the government blames it on the Russians. Those poor people; many have been living in their basements for years because either their homes are destroyed or it's too dangerous to live above ground. They say that they would have starved if not for Russians giving them food. Take care whose side you're on; if anyone is righteous in this case, it's Russia.
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  135. It is that way in America, too. For example, Hershey, one of the largest chocolate makers, started using fake chocolate several years ago. Some of their "chocolate" products no longer contain any chocolate at all.
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  136. I don't expect there to be much difference, if sanctions last that long. Russia is almost entirely self-sufficient. They are a net exporter of food and crop fertilizer, so they'll have a surplus of those things since the west is no longer buying. We're the ones who will suffer from the sanctions.
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  137.  @englebertschnook5106  If Ukrainian citizens hadn't murdered Russian-speaking Ukrainians in Donbass for eight straight years, this wouldn't be happening now. I guess Ukraine thought they were immune from consequences.
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  138. Lee jeans are my favorite jeans. I can't wear Levi; they don't fit me.
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  139.  @CheapSquierBassPlayer  Sanctioning Russia is its own punishment. Russia is self-sufficient, but its trading partners aren't. By the way, did you know that the US government is still allowing millions of dollars in trade with Russia for the importation of oil products and crop fertilizer? America calls on the world to stop trading with Russia, but WE'RE still doing it!
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  140. What are you talking about?
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  141. Every country should use ideas as suits them. Burgers are now worldwide fare, not just western. India, Japan, Pakistan, etc., all have burgers.
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  142. ​ @alexleibovici4834  Even European politicians are saying that the sanctions failed, and only hurt Europe, not Russia. You aren't informed on current events.
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  143. Putin has a 90% approval rate. Russia has never been more prosperous. Also, the Ukraine operation is a rescue mission as far as the Russians are concerned. All Putin asked was for Ukraine to remain neutral like they promised and to stop shelling Donbas. He asked for 8 years. What happened? Ukraine allowed NATO and the Pentagon to build 46 bioweapons labs in Ukraine. 46. That's according to the Pentagon, who lied about it for years until recently. That's not just a threat to Russia, but to the whole world. Also, in 2014, Donbas held a referendum and voted to go with Russia after the coup. Instead of honoring the vote, the government of Ukraine chose to kill them. They've been shelling Donbas for the last eight freaking years. Putin decided, rightly so, that enough was enough. We're the bad guys. Time to face reality because the rest of the world sees it. They can't wait for the downfall of the US. We're in for a lot of hurt.
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  144. ​ @Infirito_Ekra  That's true. The French, for example, don't allow many of the additives that are normally found in American food. Even the Chinese have refused our crops before because they're already adulturated even as raw, newly harvested crops.
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  145. Malls only died in America because gangs took over. Decent people couldn't go there any more because the gangs practically live there. That doesn't happen in Russia. The government wouldn't allow it, and Russian men are still men who don't allow such things.
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  146. He is married to a Russian woman, so I'm sure that he has been steeped in Russian culture. Marketing is Russell's background, so he is most interested in filming stores.
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  147. 🐔
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  148.  @diegogervasoni3432  Where were you for the last eight years while Ukraine has been shelling the eastern part of their own country? According to the UN, Ukraine has murdered, injured, kidnapped, and raped at least 40,000 people, most of them innocent women and children. Also, consider that the rest of the Ukrainians were just fine with that. What kind of people do that? I would be careful what kind of people you're defending. They can dish it out, but now that they're getting some justice visited on them, they're whining about it. Karma, baby.
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  149. Ukraine is getting some just desserts for the bombing they've been doing to their Russian-speaking countrymen for the last eight years. They've been shelling Donbas for the last eight years, but I guess they don't like it when justice comes calling, huh? As far as I'm concerned, they can just suck it up.
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  150. It's not part of Russian culture to smile for nothing. They are a stoic people.
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  151. It's gang violence. In the UK, they use knives. Read up about what's happening in London. Violent people will always find a weapon.
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  152. Btw, Putin didn't say that.
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  153.  @captainbadger1013  That's not true. Europeans are flooding into Russia. They don't want to live under fascist NATO and the insane EU anymore.
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  154.  @connectwithyourdeck  So you haven't been awake for the last two months when everything Russian has been canceled in the west? Even cats? Why would Russians buy products from companies that have betrayed them?
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  155. It's a predictable consequence of sanctioning Russia - pushing Russia and China even closer as allies. They have a common enemy, us. That's not what we should be doing.
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  156. ​ @TravellingwithRussell Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is head of the FDA, now. He wants to eliminate corn syrup from soda pop in favor of real sugar, which would be amazing. I'm a Coke fan, myself.
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  157.  @Lljallja  You realize that if the countries hadn't sanctioned Russia, meaning that they stopped importing Russian products, then they would still be getting those supplies? Russia hasn't stopped trading with countries who haven't sanctioned them.
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  158. @Ev The average wage in Russia is about 1/3 that of the average wage in the United States, so the cost of everything tends to be proportionally lower.
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  159. So do you also boycott companies that trade in Ukraine? Ukraine is a genocidal dictatorship that has been shelling the eastern part of their own country for the past eight years, killing and injuring at least 40,000 people according to the UN, mostly innocent women and children. Unless you boycott those companies, too, then you're a hypocrite.
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  160. Oh, boo-hoo. Here's the thing: all Putin asked was for Ukraine to remain neutral like they promised and to stop shelling Donbas. He asked for 8 years. What happened? Ukraine allowed NATO and the Pentagon to build 46 bioweapons labs in Ukraine. 46. That's according to the Pentagon, who lied about it for years until recently. That's not just a threat to Russia, but to the whole world. Also, in 2014, Donbas held a referendum and voted to go with Russia after the coup. Instead of honoring the vote, the government of Ukraine chose to kill them. They've been shelling Donbas for the last eight freaking years. Putin decided, rightly so, that enough was enough. It isn't Russia that's lost the world's opinion, it's the US and Europe. Everyone in the world knows what's going on except the western addle-pated sheep.
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  161. So you approve of genocide when Ukraine does it? They've been shelling the eastern part of their own country for the past eight years, killing and injuring at least 40,000 people according to the UN. If we were in Russia's position, we would have crushed Ukraine years ago, and you know it, just like we've done many times before to other countries. Ukraine would be a big smoking crater if they did to us what they've been doing to Russians.
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  162. Pointless? Here's the thing: all Putin asked was for Ukraine to remain neutral like they promised and to stop shelling Donbas. He asked for 8 years. What happened? Ukraine allowed NATO and the Pentagon to build 46 bioweapons labs in Ukraine. 46. That's according to the Pentagon, who lied about it for years until recently. That's not just a threat to Russia, but to the whole world. Also, in 2014, Donbas held a referendum and voted to go with Russia after the coup. Instead of honoring the vote, the government of Ukraine chose to kill them. They've been shelling Donbas for the last eight freaking years. Putin decided, rightly so, that enough was enough. It isn't Russia that's lost the world's opinion, it's the US and Europe. Everyone in the world knows what's going on except the western addle-pated sheep.
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  163. Russia is on the righteous side of this argument. By far. Biden just doesn't want to lose the sweet, sweet money stream his family gets from Ukraine, and the Pentagon and NATO don't want to lose the 46 bioweapons labs they run in Ukraine. Isn't it funny how bioweapons labs are illegal in the US because they're so dangerous, but it's ok to run 46 of them in Ukraine? That isn't just a danger to Russia; it's a threat to the whole world.
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  164. Why are you carrying Biden's water? He's in this because his family have been raking in millions from Ukraine, his sweet, sweet honeypot of corruption. NATO and the Pentagon don't want to lose the 46 (yes, they have admitted to 46) bioweapons labs they have in Ukraine. Bioweapons labs are illegal in the US because they're so dangerous, but it's ok to run 46 of them in Ukraine? That's madness. Insanity. That's not just a threat to Russia, it's a threat to the entire world. Russia is on the righteous side of this argument.
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  165. Do you also boycott companies who trade in Ukraine? Ukraine is a genocidal dictatorship that's been shelling the eastern part of their own country for the past eight years, killing and injuring at least 40,000 people according to the UN, mostly innocent women and children. If you side with Ukraine, you're a hypocrite.
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  166. Who will invest in the US when the government can, and do, just confiscate everything whenever they want? We need a Sri Lanka event in the US.
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  167. Are you boycotting companies who trade with genocidal Ukraine, too? Or is it ok with you when "our" side does it? Ukraine has been shelling the eastern part of their own country for the past eight years, killing and injuring at least 40,000 people according to the UN, mostly innocent women and children. So - are you a hypocrite or not?
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  168. Is that how you feel about living in a western country? Western democracy is just an illusion. You think you're free, obviously, but only because you haven't been paying attention. Do you think for one minute that Russians would tolerate the violent riots of the last two years in America? I doubt that the Russian government would even have to lift a finger, because Russian citizens wouldn't have put up with it for a second.
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  169. A lot of it is that over 100 US food factories have exploded this year. We started feeling the loss nationally months ago when there were only 30 that had exploded. Now it's over 100. That's a huge problem.
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  170. Right now, this minute, Ukraine is deliberately shelling civilians in Donetsk, like they've been doing for the past eight years. They even destroyed a maternity hospital a few days ago. Tell me, what's the point of shelling civilians? If I were you, I would be careful whose side you put your money on. I know that Europe is having buyer's remorse right now.
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  171.  @scotland638  According to the Roman historians, he was. What does it profit you to choose to be a scoffer? Nothing, except your misery, and the misery you deliberately try to inflict on others. Good job.
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  172. My mom had a miniature poodle and she was definitely not rich. She worked in a greenhouse. She didn't have her dog trimmed like a show dog, though.
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  173. ​ @TravellingwithRussell I'm not crazy about crispy crusts, but I like the ones that are soft and salty like bread sticks. Pizza Hut has a style that's bready and filled with mozzarella cheese; my favorite!
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  174. You thought that was empty? I've never seen a McDonald's that busy, and I've been all over the United States.
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  175. If you side with Ukraine, you're in the wrong. Ukraine is a dictatorship, not a democracy. The Ukraine government has been shelling the eastern part of their own country for the past 8 years, or aren't you bothered by the wholesale killing of innocent women and children if "our" side is doing it?
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  176. ​ @danielaramburo7648 Why don't you check out other Russian videos where they do that? There are lots of them.
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  177. Is that you, Zelensky?
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  178.  @davidhartwell4826  You have the good guys and bad guys backward. All Putin asked was for Ukraine to remain neutral like they promised and to stop shelling Donbas. He asked for 8 years. What happened? Ukraine allowed NATO and the Pentagon to build 46 bioweapons labs in Ukraine. 46. That's according to the Pentagon, who lied about it for years until recently. That's not just a threat to Russia, but to the whole world. Also, in 2014, Donbas held a referendum and voted to go with Russia after the coup. Instead of honoring the vote, the government of Ukraine chose to kill them. They've been shelling Donbas for the last eight freaking years. Putin decided, rightly so, that enough was enough. It isn't Russia that's lost the world's opinion, it's the US and Europe. Everyone in the world knows what's going on except the western addle-pated sheep.
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  179. I find it disgusting that the genocidal, despotic dictatorship of Ukraine is still pretending to the low-IQ crowd that they're a democracy under siege.
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  180. No valid reason? Here's the thing: all Putin asked was for Ukraine to remain neutral like they promised and to stop shelling Donbas. He asked for 8 years. What happened? Ukraine allowed NATO and the Pentagon to build 46 bioweapons labs in Ukraine. 46. That's according to the Pentagon, who lied about it for years until recently. That's not just a threat to Russia, but to the whole world. Also, in 2014, Donbas held a referendum and voted to go with Russia after the coup. Instead of honoring the vote, the government of Ukraine chose to kill them. They've been shelling Donbas for the last eight freaking years. Putin decided, rightly so, that enough was enough. It isn't Russia that's lost the world's opinion, it's the US and Europe. Everyone in the world knows what's going on except the western addle-pated sheep.
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  181. Ukraine is the bad guy here. Genocidal killers. The US and NATO are worse, because we prodded Ukraine into this, and we're keeping it going. Unless you're a naz1, and in that case, it's no use talking to you.
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  182. Ukraine is a terrorist state. The United States is a terrorist state. If the US had been in Russia's position, we would have crushed Ukraine years ago, just like we've done to many other countries. It would be a big smoking crater.
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  183. It astonishes me how the western world is backing a genocidal despotic dictatorship like Ukraine just because Biden doesn't want to lose his honeypot and the Pentagon doesn't want to lose its 46 bioweapons labs.
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  184.  @toma9976  Why do you worry that Joe Biden might have his gravy train from the Ukraine stopped? You sure aren't worried about people, because if you were, you would have been concerned about the Ukraine government shelling Donbass for the last eight years. No tears for those women and children, huh? And do you know why they're being shelled? Because they voted to go with Russia. The locals say that they would have starved if not for the Russians giving them food. Many of them have spent years hiding in their basements because their homes were destroyed or too dangerous above ground.
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  185. I worry a lot more about American retailers who have started giving 40% off their merchandise as soon as it comes in. For the last couple of years, I've been able to buy first quality fall-winter merchandise in January for 90% off. I've never seen such deep discounts before at these stores.
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  186. What are you smoking? Russia is almost entirely self-sufficient and what they can't produce at the moment, they can buy from China. You know, where almost all of OUR manufactured goods come from.
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  187. So what? Due to sanctions against Russia, Germans are being told not to bathe now or turn on their heat this fall. Are you having fun, yet?
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  188.  @littleowlbooks8514  It's none of your business. Who died and made you the gym cop?
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  189.  @akbeal  So, are you going to stop shopping at stores doing business in that corrupt snake-pit, Ukraine, too? Or is genocide tolerable to you when "our" side does it? Are you a hypocrite, or are you an ethical human being?
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  190. ​ @TravellingwithRussell GMO means genetically modified organism. A lot of crops in the US are genetically modified with insect or fish or animal DNA, mostly to make the plant create its own pesticide. Such crops are illegal in many countries. The rise of deadly food allergies corelates to the use of gmo crops in our food supply.
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  191. @Deer Garden Putin isn't the Hitler figure in this situation. All Putin asked was for Ukraine to remain neutral like they promised and to stop shelling Donbas. He asked for 8 years. What happened? Ukraine allowed NATO and the Pentagon to build 46 bioweapons labs in Ukraine. 46. That's according to the Pentagon, who lied about it for years until recently. That's not just a threat to Russia, but to the whole world. Also, in 2014, Donbas held a referendum and voted to go with Russia after the coup. Instead of honoring the vote, the government of Ukraine chose to kill them. They've been shelling Donbas for the last eight freaking years. Putin decided, rightly so, that enough was enough. Ukraine, the US, and NATO are the bad guys here. We are the genocidal warmongers. Everyone in the world knows what's going on except the western addle-pated sheep.
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  192.  @finnmay  A lot of the people who left came back after the Kremlin changed the law and allowed tech workers to be exempt from conscription. Even Konstantin came back to Moscow; he did a video with Russell.
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  193. ​ @Славян-е8б  To a point. I know a university professor who nearly went bankrupt because she and her family spent so much money on restaurant food. They ate McDonald's almost every day and twice daily on weekends. $40 for 3 people for one meal. Their food expenditure was almost $2000/month, half her take-home pay. Most people here spend about 25% of their take-home pay on food, not 50%. They got into debt very badly.
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  194.  @dswiss1370  So that's why the Germans and the French were out in the streets protesting high gas prices? Because they're so rich? Ok.
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  195. H&M is "fast fashion," cheap clothes that are only meant to last a season and then be thrown out. I personally don't understand the widespread appeal, but it's a very popular chain, I believe.
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  196. That's a Marxist excuse. It isn't a poverty thing, it's a morality thing.
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  197. Ukraine is hardly an innocent victim. Search YouTube for shelling Donetsk, for example. Eight years of shelling their own people. Also, Dr. Robert Pope, director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency at the Department of Defense, stated a few days ago that not only do we fund biolabs in Ukraine, but conduct bioweapons research there. Putin was 100% right. Be grateful that he's going after Ukraine and not us, since we're just as much to blame for those bioweapons labs.
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  198. ​ @АНДРЕЙ3500 In the US also, you cannot just cut down a tree anywhere you want. Land is either privately owned or government owned, and it's a federal offense to cut down a tree on government land, and a local offense to trespass on someone else's property and commit vandalism.
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  199. So do you boycott companies that trade in genocidal Ukraine, too? The government of Ukraine has been shelling the eastern part of their own country for the past eight years, killing and injuring at least 40,000 people according to the UN and most of them are innocent women and children. So tell us; are you a hypocrite?
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  200. Due to Putin's domestic policies. On purpose. He set out to make the Russian economy nearly impervious to foreign interference.
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  201.  @eilat5964  So? That just means that East-Coasters drink the kool-aid, but we all knew that already. Heaven forbid that Biden loses his honeypot and money-laundering operation.
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  202. I have no sympathy for Ukraine. If we were in Russia's position, we would have crushed Ukraine years ago for what they've done. Crushed. Them. Consider that the government of Ukraine has been shelling the eastern part of their own country for the past 8 years, killing and injuring at least 40,000 people according to the UN, including innocent women and children. And the rest of the Ukrainians were just fine with that. As far as I'm concerned, they can just suck it up now that justice is being done.
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  203.  @ЕвгенияВитальевна-ц3я  Bless you for speaking sense. Words of truth. As a westerner, I looked at what was going on and there is no choice but to side with Russia in this. Ukraine is very wrong, and the US is run by corrupt officials who only care about money; money that was flowing in from Ukraine by the millions and money they can give to their friends who make military hardware.
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  204. Why? Because you said so? Anyone who strikes Moscow will be dead minutes later, and that's a truth that has been known for many decades.
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  205. As we speak, Ukraine is shelling civilians in Donetsk. On purpose, with western weapons given to them by NATO countries. They even destroyed a maternity hospital. Russia is on the righteous side in this fight.
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  206. Really, do you buy stuff in every store you enter? Does your mom? Your wife? If so, you're either teetering on the verge of bankruptcy or else you're rich.
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  207.  @TravellingwithRussell  Russia is basically self-sufficient because of Putin's domestic policies. They can produce almost everything they need. That's not an accident. Russia doesn't import everything like we do.
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  208. Good. They are getting just a little justice for the genocide they've been dishing out to Russian-speaking Donbass for the past eight years. No sympathy for Ukraine. I hope they get a lot more of the justice they're just starting to feel.
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  209. There's a lot more on our end. Most of this is our fault. We convinced Ukraine to provoke Putin into a fight. We did this. Would it surprise you to know that at least 51 members of Congress are invested in companies that make military hardware? Biden and Romney's sons are raking in millions from Ukraine. They have every interest in provoking a war.
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  210.  @kosmonautik639  Russia gets sanctions for doing a lot less than the US does on a daily basis. If we had been in Russia's position, we would have crushed Ukraine years ago. Ukraine would be nothing but a big smoking crater. But since Biden's family have been stuffing their pockets with Ukrainians money by the millions, Biden can't allow Russia to mess up his sweet, sweet income.
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  211. You're a riot. You're thinking of another country, where they're forcibly conscripting women, too.
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  212. Here's the thing: all Putin asked was for Ukraine to remain neutral like they promised and to stop shelling Donbas. He asked for 8 years. What happened? Ukraine allowed NATO and the Pentagon to build 46 bioweapons labs in Ukraine. 46. That's according to the Pentagon, who lied about it for years until recently. That's not just a threat to Russia, but to the whole world. Also, in 2014, Donbas held a referendum and voted to go with Russia after the coup. Instead of honoring the vote, the government of Ukraine chose to kill them. They've been shelling Donbas for the last eight freaking years. Putin decided, rightly so, that enough was enough. It isn't Russia that's lost the world's opinion, it's the US and Europe. Everyone in the world knows what's going on except the western addle-pated sheep.
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  213. Are you going to make a list of companies trading in Ukraine, too? Or is Ukraine's eight-year genocide of Russian-speaking Ukraines ok with you? So tell me, are you a hypocrite, or not?
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  214. @Arnold Shame on you for supporting a genocidal despotic dictatorship that western leaders are pretending to be a democracy. All to protect Biden's honeypot and the Pentagon's 46(!!!) bioweapons labs there. For shame.
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  215. Tell that to Colonel Sanders or Popeyes. They built a fortune with unique recipes.
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  216.  @witness1013  Yes, Burger King is a subsidiary of Restaurant Brands International (TSX:QSR)(NYSE:QSR) a Canadian stock that Warren Buffett owned until recently. That's from the Canadian Yahoo Finance pages: "3 Canadian Stocks Warren Buffett Has Owned." And this is from the Atlantic in 2014: "Warren Buffett Is Helping Burger King Move to Canada and Dodge Higher Taxes." From The Street: "Warren Buffett: Burger King's Relocation to Canada Isn't to Avoid Taxes: Here's why Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway is financing part of Burger King's $11 billion acquisition of Tim Hortons, said the burger chain is moving its headquarters up north." KFC, on the other hand, has never been headquartered in Canada as far as I can find out.
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  217.  @deserthaolepino483  See my other reply for details, but Warren Buffett moved Burger King's headquarters to Canada years ago. Burger King is also owned by a Canadian corporation, which is also mentioned by name in my other comment.
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  218. There are plenty of channels by Russians who don't live in Moscow. If you think that Russians are going to suffer severely from sanctions, you're wasting your time. Russia is well fortified to be self-sufficient due to Putin's policies. Russia is a net exporter of food, crop fertilizer, wood, steel, oil, and many other products. They manufacture their own cars and farm machinery. They make almost everything they need, and what they don't produce, China is right next door. You know, China, that produces almost everything we use here in the US.
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  219. Then don't buy any brands that trade in Ukraine, either, unless you're a rabid hypocrite. Ukraine has been shelling the eastern part of their own country for the past eight years, killing and injuring at least 40,000 people according to the UN. And the rest of Ukraine was just fine with that. Imagine if your governor was bombing one side of your state, killing tens of thousands of innocent people. Would you be ok with that? Ask yourself what kind of people would be fine with that going on. As far as I'm concerned, Putin is visiting justice on Ukraine and they can just suck it up.
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  220. You must live in California, where the government tells you that literally everything causes cancer. Stop reading those stupid government warning labels.
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  221.  @tocu9808  #1. You believe all of the ridiculous garbage coming from the criminal government in Ukraine. They don't say anything if it isn't a lie. #2. Why are you defending Ukraine? For the last eight years, the government of Ukraine has been shelling the eastern part of their own country. Search YouTube for videos about the shelling of Donetsk, for example. There are years of European news clips about it. Where are your tears for the many thousands of innocent people killed by Ukraine? Where are your tears for all of the children who have never played outside because they might get killed? I have no sympathy for the people in central and western Ukraine. Now they have a taste of what they have been dishing out.
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