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

@Uneedhelp91 Actually, they came rather close, but Korolev died mid-development, and the project died with him
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@timewave02012 That's not going to stop them. Even some close friends are convinced that I am a mongol/finn/turk... orc seems to be the new one, among very nationalistic ones
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@helljumper912 Not inaccurate to say that it was originally a Khazar Khaganate before being captured by the Rus, there is also some truth to say that the 'folk wisdom' is that Kiev was named after Kiy. But the etymology of the name was originally Kyh-jev / Кꙑевъ, closer to Kiev than ...Keev. Original meaning is unknown.
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@richpryor9650 "Okay, first of all, you don't know what you're talking about" Did someone realize they were in over their head with rhetoric, and try to save face by editing their comment? Alexei Leonov was selected to be part of the eventual manned Soviet lunar landing, so no, it wasn't just a rover. You're wrong. If you're talking about the design, then sure, the N1's successive models would have been used. That's not much of a point, like saying that IBM was building its very first computer for personal use. I am referring to the first physical iteration that Korolev was personally working on, before his death... as I already said.
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I find this strange, like historical Stockholm Syndrome
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@richpryor9650 You're the one who replied to me, with a stupid "nuh uh!" no less Also you're flat wrong, they planned to go to the moon, wanna just admit your mistake and move on? Or keep finding ways to call names?
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@davidw.2791 yes, something like that
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@Cyberpunker1088 I think their fundamental sense of identity has been changed. They've gone from seeing themselves as a part of China to apart from it. Similar to how Ruthenia was Polonized until it became Ukraine and Belarus. Or how Britain forcefully divided India and created 2 new identities to keep a once united people fighting one another.
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@richpryor9650 ..What? The N1 was intended for the moon, not mars. Are you joking? Also, it wasn't too complex, but poorly planned. Not in stages, but all at once. Not to mention, the US took most of the nazi rocket scientists and used their knowledge to get there, the achievement was not America's but Werner von Braun's
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@kneekoo You're forgetting that China has way more people and has bucketloads of money thrown at it by Western companies in exchange for access to that market. It also flew under the US' geopolitical radar. The USSR and especially Russia (given its poverty in the 1990s was the US' fault) didn't have the momentum or the natural incentivize to draw US capital in. You act like China just magically did better policy. They got companies to invest because 1.4B people is irresistable.
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@kneekoo "Do you think that was bad and that allows Russian government to do something bad as well?" YES. What's the alternative? "Oh well, these other countries did something bad and we "can't do anything about it", but let's prosecute Russia to the fullest extent of international law!" At some point you have to acknowledge that this logic is just a plausibly deniable way to favor the US and weaken its adversaries. It has nothing to do with "good" and "bad."
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@termitreter6545 This is true, the Kremlin wanted state control over major tech companies (Yandex comes to mind, and Kaspersky, Telegram) but did it in a very unsophiscated way. Also, oil prices dropped from their 2012-peak, and the lazy method of just sitting back and letting the money roll in stopped working. Good times create weak men, I suppose. Too many Kremlin officials were happy to just rest on their laurels.
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@tahwsisiht I suppose, but this ultimately also comes down to translatability as well. 'Keev' is simply never going to be pronounced correctly in English, it lacks the distinction between и and ї. Kyiv is not the original spelling either, but a transliteration. Ireland could just as easily demand that it be called Eire, but it doesn't, because 1) it's purely symbolic and not practical and 2) it complicates existing norms For a better example, Poland does not ask people to use 'Varshava' instead of Warsaw. It benefits from using a name that is more easily pronounceable by non-Slavic people. I think Kiev, composing 2 vowels, is the same.
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@tahwsisiht It might not take anything for you as a single person. But, this will affect transliterations and translations of official documents in English (do we retro-actively re-publish everything with a single word change?), retooling tourist guides and materials, maps, atlases, websites, everything that even mentions the city by name. And I find it strange that you think someone's ability to see valid reasons not to change the name everywhere, comes from a place of disrespect.
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@codycast They don't invade their neighbors, but rather faraway countries. SO much better! Also it sounds like you just want Russia to continue its neoliberal path of outsourcing everything to Western firms. The government has (hopefully) learned its lesson about that by now.
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@codycast "Overthrowing a dictator" is never the real reason the US invades. Stop ascribing good intentions where there are none. If that were truly the case, Saudi Arabia wouldn't exist anymore. The US invaded Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and has soldiers in Somalia. They also ousted Bolivia's President Morales in 2019. And (under debate, but arguably) Ukraine, in 2014. Yanukovich was elected, and the Rada violated Ukraine's own Constitution twice to legally remove him. Whether or not you like him, Ukraine was a democracy and the US was heavily involved to the extent that Senators flew in to support one side. That would cause outrage of Kremlin officials did that for Trump. But I suppose I can't expect an American to be self-aware.
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@codycast Trump literally said that US troops are in Syria still to take their oil. In plan English. One of the first things that the US Army did when it invaded Iraq was seize control of Iraqi state firms and sell off their assets to US companies— which was one of the war crime charges levelled against them by the ICC. The US secretly smuggled thousands of tons of opium poppy from Afghanistan into the US for pharmaceutical firms to use in R&D for painkillers. Along with a certain drug.
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@codycast Trade =/= hyperspecialization. You can still carve out (a) niche(s) for your domestic industry while taking advantage of the natural advantage another country may have in that industry (ex: growing sugar beets and importing sugar cane). Gorbachev specifically proposed a pan-European security architecture that would replace NATO and establish a system that both the USSR and Europe could participate in jointly. Medvedev repeated similar sentiments in 2008. Each time, the claims are automatically regarded as lies meant to undermine US & EU interests. Russia is simply never given a chance to prove itself. Even at its weakest point, shortly after USSR collapse, it was treated like an enemy. NATO immediately expanded (yes expanded, Zbigniew Brzezinski laid out the order and year of accession long before any governments asked) and Russia's economy was gutted to be sold for parts. In spite of all that, Russia still wants to cooperate.
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@codycast I love YouTube censorship! Let me try again, bring very vague: Trade =/= hyperspecialization. And Ru did try a few times to be closer, but was rejected. This is regardless of ideology or political system.
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