Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "NFKRZ" channel.

  1. It's a childish, petty nationalistic pride. Like a toddler saying "look at me, I can do that too!" Russian government needs to stop being so insecure and just work on improving itself (or rather, the oligarchs need to either be kicked out or their money taken).
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  2. "Russia #1!"
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  3.  @Rainaman-  No. Stability is always preferable to ideals. Many people said the same of Saddam Hussein. 17 years later, and the man who toppled Saddam's statue wishes he could have him back. "Now there are 1,000 Saddams". Civil war. Putin isn't great, but it's better than Yeltsin. I hate to give him a pass but starting over from scratch would ruin everything.
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  4. I think the main contention leftists have is that, in such a situation (where opposing one type of imperialism, Russian, requires supporting another type of imperialism, American), all you end up doing is showing your allegiance to "your team". You simply can't claim in good faith that you're being ancom or leftist. ---That might passively be your identity, but either active choice here is just an expression of pro-imperial sentiment. Their refusal to acknowledge their pro-US support for what it really is, is what annoys 'tankies' so much.
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  5. I mean, it's kind of hard not to use the "meat grinder" tactic when you have no geographical anchor points (maybe the Carpathians?) to defend from. Stalin was simultaneously paranoid and blase about his own generals and Hitler respectively, but he did use what he had at his disposal- keep the soldiers close to enemy lines so that their air raids take out their own, too. Part of the reason I think it's silly to call this the government's mismanagement is because this is simply how the Russian state- in all its iterations- has waged defensive war. There are no vast forests or mountains in European Russia, no Black Forest to recede into or Alps to hide within. Attrition isn't evidence of poor governance, it's evidence of wars on flatlands and steppes.
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  6.  @AlanBarronGamersonly1234  At least that's easier to address. Vodka is part of Russian culture, you can't just take it away. But heroin and crack are easier to take away, because Mexicans haven't been using crack since 900 A.D.. It's not in your blood, thankfully. Good luck to Mexico, I hope all drugs are legalized there so the crackheads can get clean drugs (better chance of surviving if it's not laced) and clinics so that they can go to rehab safely. Also I personally think out-selling the cartels is the best way to beat them. They get their guns with money, they make money by selling drugs. Take their drug money away (by selling at cheaper prices than them) and they will fall.
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  7. Glad you understand it from the other sides' perspective. Most people (usually Russians, East Asians, and sometimes Middle Easterners) don't have the history of chattel slavery that the U.S. did, so they don't connect the idea of putting on makeup to look African with anything bad. Of course the girl was cringey anyway, as makeup vloggers tend to be, but she literally didn't know better. I do think she should have apologized though, because ignorance was no longer an excuse (there had to be at least ONE Russian who could explain the concept of minstrel shows to her).
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  8. Femboy-Gorlock power couple
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  9. I've always wanted to see a true Russian fast food chain (Teremok is the closest). But a fundamental problem is traditional Russian foods are always slow cooked, because of climate. The Russian oven was always on to heat the house, and people would cook things very slowly to draw out complex flavors. That is not easy to recreate over a griddle or industrial oven Ironically Chinese food is opposite to Russian, cooked in a flash over very high heat happens to be perfectly suited for quick industrial food production and selling
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  10. Finally my two favorite political YouTubers in one video, I don't have to make gay fanart anymore
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  11.  @enescustovic1883  Suppose so, they just see the bombing of their country as unjust. You could reference genocide, but the West has no issue with that in Turkey with Kurds, or a more direct example with Saudi Arabia bombing Yemen, or (if we are talking about separatists) supplying Ukraine with weapons to stop Donbass from separating, despite it being a different ethnicity from the dominant population-- no different from Albanians in Kosovo. They just see it as selective application of 'respect for state's sovereignty', based on the REAL criteria: are you our friends or not. That is probably the reason for the resentment.
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  12. ​ @katkapsa5761  Both sides of the conflict here (avoiding the w word because YouTube) are extreme in their views. Roman has cultivated this audience, they're no different to the comments under RT. Even if they're morally correct, they've also been coaxed into this one-sided media echo chamber and it shows. Them even trying to frame this as a fight, when it's a softball interview, is insane.
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  13. It wasn't a Russian channel lol
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  14. Well slap my ass and call me a centrist Sally, Jreg's here!
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  15. My condolences. Best of luck to you, hopefully the currency you saved in makes a recovery
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  16.  @bokunogentoo4420  This is what happens when your country is run by oligarchs instead of the money being distributed among, at the very least, a few marketing executives
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  17. ​ @danielturczan2485  Petty and cringe. People saying stuff like this make Russian speakers believe what Putin says... because it turns out to be true, in cases like yours. You don't just hate the government, you apparently hate the language, which is a part of the culture. How sad.
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  18. This is my issue with your thinking: we already tried a Russia without 'Putler' in the form of Yeltsin, and it failed spectacularly. It's this liberal idea (which I feel Gorbachev had in his mind) that if the people have freedom, everything will magically work itself out! It didn't, and with Putin gone, it won't. Democracy and economic neoliberalism is not the creator of prosperity, but rather a symptom of it. Like it or not, there need to be strong national policies to build domestic industry and genuinely raise quality of life. You could open yourself up to the West completely with a few IMF loans, but all that does is kill your own companies and allow the foreign ones to dominate your market and- attempt to, recently- dictate your politics (even though the Ukraine conflict is not justified, the fact remains that Western companies are an extension of Western political power, and that is rarely good for developing nations). England developed the first industrial capacity in the world- textiles- by banning all imports from India. Now they advocate for the exact opposite, achieve the growth that they got.
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  19.  Robin Elliot  That's fine, but if we're treating people like villains based on real-life atrocities then why aren't we seeing a videogame with Americans as coldblooded monsters? Or Japanese? Or Chinese? It's all about an easy scapegoat. China gives the U.S. too much money and Japan is an ally because America didn't want it to fall under Soviet control. America (and its people, apparently) are opportunistic and hypocritical.
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  20. Should have spiked the vodka with poison. Not lethal, just make them throw up for a few hours.
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  21. Or just get someone to subtitle it lol
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  22.  @sluggo206  True in every other country, too. The mass made food is usually worse. The issue though is that most dishes (not borrowed from the Caucasus, where climate favors frying foods) are slow-cooked. Russian food simply doesn't mesh well with the needs of industrial capacity- not impossible, but it would take time. Ironically, now might be best. With the competition for food willingly leaving, if Putin finally allows domestic industry to flourish without charging the owner with "corruption" and seizing it for a oligarch friend (this was done in 2014 Moscow with the cheesemaking industry, allowed to grow) ---maybe we could see many new Russkie Bistro.
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  23.  @ArthurMorganus  No, it's just luck. How many 100,000s of people do you think also made remixes of songs while living normal lives??
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  24. I had a different experience in Poland, mind you this was before the war (though after the annexation). I cannot imagine how it is now
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  25.  @sodinc  No, it's fine, just be careful in very western places like Lviv. The rest of Ukraine hasn't changed much since 2014 besides the language laws, which probably won't also much long-term. And anyways, most Russians and Ukrainains get along, very similar culture and people, it is politicians that divide them.
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  26. lmao
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  27. ​@richardsanders.4624 Isn't it strange that you think you should have control over the will of the very people whom you're claiming already share your opinion? If this many Ukrainians don't want to fight, maybe that should tell you something about whether or not this conflict should even continue. It's for them to decide after all, not you. Do you hate Russia more than you value Ukrainian lives? You want to send them to the front to spite your enemy? Are these the Western values you're fighting for?
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  28. No, the coronavirus isn't what caused (most) of the ruble crash. It was the price war set off between Saudi Arabia and Russia. Saudis started it, but that doesn't mean Russia should have kept going- the Saudi have much more oil, and they're able to produce more of it for cheaper. Even U.S. shale can't compete with it right now. Eventually, Russia will lose the price war, and maybe then the ruble will bounce back. But until then...
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  29. This was always my question— why wouldn't Putin (or any oligarch) start investing in other areas? Other countries have corruption too— China and Brazil, to a lesser extent but still. Why tf won't Putin change that, he's had 20 years!!
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  30.  @slyninja4444  Yea I think they should either have a dual language system like Serbo-Croatian (because they're all landlocked and somewhat rely on Russia for trade... similar script could help there) or go to their traditional Turkic script. Having to add Latin apostrophes for their glottal (throat) sounds every few letters is gonna get annoying (it's still easier for me to write in Russian than Polish because they have so many digraphs like cz/rz/dz etc instead of dedicated letters) and even altered scripts wouldn't serve it as well as Cyrillic.
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  31.  @Gamelord191  Oh fuck dude, that's gonna be awful. It's China but without the organization
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  32.  @MiStuSia16  Seems like nobody can answer my point. The person I originally commented on has fallen silent... Again: Was Stalin supposed to just let the Germans steamroll Poland and get right up to his border? Or was it smarter for him to give the USSR as big of an advantage as possible? Please answer my question. My point, by the way, wasn't about the brutality of Russian soldiers, but of the need to "ally" with the Germans, knowing they would destroy Poland either way. And it is rich that you're trying to make the Germans out to be better than the Soviets. They were nice to Russian civilians, too--- there is even a photo of a soldier sharing his last ration with a civilian woman. What you Poles consistently fail to comprehend that the Soviets were, in fact, better for the Poles than the Germans. Would you prefer an alternate history where they kept Poland? Sure, they would genocide the Poles out of existence forever.... but at least they had "class" and could run a country, unlike those Soviets! At least they kept their streets clean, all the easier to transport you to the chambers! Who cares if they turn Poland into Germany, at least they were polite! Your country's view of history is coloured so heavily by emotion that you honestly believe a regime set on wiping you from the face of the Earth for Lebensraum is somehow better than living under Russian rule. The only reason you're alive to bitch and moan about it too, is because the Russians weren't as brutal as the Germans.
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  33.  @user-hd7lx4jx7p  Ask your relatives (or father) to speak it with you! From experience I can say he might be stubborn and ask why you're 'bothering him about something silly' (that's what my parents say when I want to learn something from them :/) but if you make it a habit you will slowly learn! Don't lose your native tongue, speak both!!
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  34.  @ehmha3641  "just overthrow him bro" You overthrow him. Go ahead, come here and try. You need to fight back the police, tear gas, batons, riot shields, and then break into the Kremlin (or Duma) and force a vote. Good luck. Russia is not Ukraine, much harder to just "overthrow"
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  35.  @elloyd4797  Im just grateful that Russians don't know about acid attacks yet
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  36.  @sodinc  I don't know of any such law, but even if there was one, it's Ukraine- such laws are rarely enforced )) I spoke with some acquaintances from Lviv last year, they didn't know about anything like that
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  37.  @DailyMusic  It being "madness" doesn't discredit the Crimean people's genuine wishes at the time. Independence from Ukraine being impractical doesn't therefore mean it's okay to send a post-Soviet branch of the KGB in to silence people. To that extent, though, remember that the "cutting off" (I assume you mean the Dnipro Canal) applies to Ukraine just as much as it does to Crimea. The Dnipro starts in Russia, passes through Belarus, then Ukraine, and flows into the Black Sea. Would you make the same argument for Ukraine being "mad" to oppose Russia because Russia could divert or dam the river and permanently ecologically destroy Ukraine? That's the language of appeasement and I'm frankly shocked that you're willing to use it after all that's happened since 2022. I guess it doesn't matter when it's your guys... Anyways, the autonomy thing was never considered by Ukraine to dispel Crimean fears of Ukrainianization. And frankly, the Ukrainian Parliament disregarding the 1991 election vote where most voted to leave Ukraine and sending soldiers in to take Crimea by force (never mind the later referendum in 1994) dampens the idea that they defended their borders for the sake of democracy. The Crimeans weren't allowed the right to self-determination. The Rada (a few days before the annexation, on the 23rd) repealed the 2012 law that gave Russian legal status as a regional language within Crimea. Were it not for Turchynov's veto, Crimeans would be forced to learn only Ukrainian in schools, and all legal documents and bureaucratic matters would have to handled in a lanuage they didn't even speak. And the law was repealed in October of that year anyway, but the Rada showed its intentions even without the annexation as a justification. I'm not saying that the annexation was correct, but surely Ukraine could have done anything to even pretend that they didn't want to turn Crimea into ethnically Ukrainian land, despite supposedly being a democracy that respects multiculturalism. About the UN— it isn't very good at its job. Somaliland should be separate, Basque shouldn't be part of Spain, yet the UN didn't do anything to endorse or propose a referendum. In either case, Somalia and Spain quickly shut it down. Leaving elections up to a legal body that isn't capable of organizing them isn't a good solution.
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  38. I wish you had gone more into the details of the economic restructuring itself-- the Loans for Shares program, for example, largely being the reason Russia has oligarchs today. Or the fact that the 'shock therapy' was guided extensively by the 'Harvard Boys', who were working closely with the US Treasury at the time. Russia's disfunction is not inherent-- it was to some extent imposed.
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  39.  @mou6854  Every pro-Western person says this, but can never answer how it was our fault. Nobody in the USSR understood markets-- the Loans for Shares failed for exactly this reason. How are you supposed to use a stock in a company if your whole life was under communism? Frankly, how was anybody in Russia supposed to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" when capitalism wasn't practiced? We had to rely on, and trust, the American economic advisors. Clearly, our trust was taken advantage of. It will not happen again.
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  40.  @mou6854  "besides yourselves" We blame Gorbachev and Yeltsin for poorly enacting reforms. Nobody is deflecting blame, we have pointed out where it is. I simply recognize that the people giving Yeltsin the ideas were bad, too. But, apparently those two are "off-limits"! Westerners just love them so, so much, that they won't have those awful Russians criticizing Gorby like that!!
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  41.  @demonhunter635  Of course there is a difference, but the U.S. government is involved in a lot more media than you might be aware of. The "we're free" idea is true to an extent, but it can also be used to lull your people into a false sense of security. So much of mainstream media is controlled by monied interests, many of whom are military. In our country it's called bribery, in yours it's 'campaign finance'.
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  42.  @littleshell406  Maybe (if he can afford to travel to Far Eastern Russia), either Yukaghir or Ainu— both extremely rare languages, especially the first one
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  43.  @mikicerise6250  I find that distinction laughable- the economic engines of the EU (France, UK, indirectly Germany) and the most anti-Soviet countries (Poland, Baltics) all took part in the crusades you are trying to distance them from. They only reconciled after the damage had been done. An empty gesture. In fact, it was precisely because Russia, at the time of Putin, seemed to be moving to democracy, that Germany in particular (if you'll remember the speech in Munich in 2008) was so willing to invest in Russia. Not sure what you mean about glorious empires, even Putin acquiesced to the idea of Ukraine being independent, in his recent nationalist writings. He simply views the two as so intertwined that it only makes sense for their politics to be closely aligned. As America and Canada, he put it. If Ukraine had followed Minsk II, a good deal of this could have been avoided. I don't think Putin's stated reasons were why he invaded, but I do think the real reasons could have been averted.
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  44.  @cgt3704  You described Romania to me. I now have to ask: what has it achieved? It sounds like you have all the same issues, just with a different political alliance. You said it yourself- you have massive brain drain (especially to UK), corruption, bad infrastructure,, etc. So was aligning with the West, and opening up your market right away, even worth it? What do you have to show for it, Pizza Hut? I am not saying you should "give up", but I think your strategy is bad, Greece is still worse now than it was before joining the EU. Will you tell them to "never give up!"? You seem to put a lot of faith in this idea, that being with the West will eventually make things better, with basically no evidence to show for it. Poland and Baltics are really all that come to mind, but this comes from their smoother transition to capitalism and technology transfer. There was a political motivation to get them away from Russia, so the countries with money and colonial legacies made sure they succeeded. Not sure what to tell you about Putin, literally anyone was better than Yeltsin, you have no position to lecture others about ideals and values when we were starving to death. He is not perfect, but he is much better (even now) than the results we got under the Western-supported leader. And none of what happened in 2000s, stabilizing the country and economy, was "easy". We are sacrificing the political process, yes, but if we put all our efforts into one goal and fail, there will be nothing left. Better to stabilize the economy first, then transition to more democratic. We tried what you are suggesting (Glastnost first, than Perestroika). It failed
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  45.  @dukebanerjee4710  I don't disagree with those 2 ideas, but they have nothing to do with each other. India is not totally neoliberal, not like the US, and Pakistan is a semi-democracy (Imran Khan is gone). Not to mention, Modi is similar to Putin, and democracy worked in India because it is geographically safe, it is easier to take a risk and make yourself vulnerable to outside manipulation (like Russia's elections getting rigged in 1996) if you have Himalayas as your border. The government is still mostly run by upper castes by the way, same with land ownership and wealth building.
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  46. My guess is, 1km of warm land is more valuable than 1,000km of frozen land. Russia is just doing what it has always done, trying to get to the ocean and get more farmland
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  47.  @fredericusrex3296  Yeah, St. Petersburg is a real "shithole" lmao
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  48.  @arima_song  Eh but compared to places like Dagestan, those three cities are heaven. To be fair America has the opposite problem: it's cold and sterile here. The suburbs are "prosperous" but there is nothing here but houses. What's the point of building a country you can't even live in?
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  49. That's just needlessly ruthless, like trying to bring a country back t the Stone Ages. Also, the Russians left behind will not forget that-- all you are doing is extending the grudge and convincing Russia that the West can never be trusted to genuinely help Russians.
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  50.  @ravencadd  Like it or not, diplomacy will be the final stage in this war. Even if (in a Western wet dream) Putin is ousted, it is unlikely that any version of Russia will accept (potentially indefinite) American military presence so close to its borders. So even in the unlikely case where Putin is ousted, the war will probably stall, then continue. Ultimately, something will need to be proposed. And, since your ideal version is off the table (Russia incapacitates itself by withdrawing, gives back all territories, allows Ukraine into NATO, etc), a compromise must be reached. I think that leaving Ukraine out of NATO, but able to ally with individual Western countries- like Finland currently- is the best way out of the conflict. Do you have any alternative ideas that don't risk re-escalating an eventual ceasefire??
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