Comments by "George Carty" (@GCarty80) on "Jake Broe" channel.

  1. Please don't let Putin be the fourth tyrant to deliberately starve Ukraine (after Lenin in 1922, Stalin in 1932 and Hitler in 1942)!
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  2. If you're a registered Republican then please vote against pro-Russia candidates in whatever primary elections you can vote in!
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  3. Don't you mean rename it "Johnsongrad" (Джонсонград)?
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  4. Germany didn't get to keep its pre-war borders after World War II but lost everything east of the Oder and Neisse rivers: how many people think that maybe Russia should lose the Kuban, either becoming an additional Ukrainian territory or a restored Circassian state?
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  5.  @JakeBroe  Anyone else looking forward to the white-red-white flag of Free Belarus flying over Minsk again?
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  6. Plus if Russia had occupied all of Ukraine it would mean millions of Ukrainian refugees moving long-term to western Europe -- the probable result of that would be that the politics of western European nations would change, causing those nations to come to see Russia as a blood enemy much as the nations of eastern Europe already do now.
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  7. The Netherlands is well and truly pissed at Russia for murdering 193 of their citizens aboard Malaysian Airlines Flight 17.
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  8.  @flipw3605  I don't see the UK rejoining the EU any time soon, not so much because the UK won't realize Brexit was a disaster, but more because the EU won't want the UK back.
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  9.  @denko44  Why do people talk about "fear of escalation" rather than the more honest "fear of nuclear war"?
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  10. Incidentally should we in the West not be using the decolonized version of that country's name: "Qazaqstan"?
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  11. ​ @Ariel-x1x Although I'd consider even Belarus to be more occupied by Russia than allied with it these days.
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  12.  @Nessy-of-the-Lynn  Because his opponents weren't united.
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  13. ​ @koma-k Don't petrostates tend to be authoritarian, because the state has an independent income that frees it from having to tax (and be accountable to) the people?
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  14. Don't get too cocky: I'd say we're currently more like 1943 than 1945.
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  15.  @champanachampana4881  It's why all Russian war memorials define the war as 1941-1945, not 1939-1945 like in Western countries.
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  16.  @Equaliser420  You do know that Ukrainians have their own saying similar to Ben Franklin's liberty vs safety quote? "When a people chooses bread over freedom, it eventually loses everything, including bread. If people choose freedom, they will have bread grown by themselves and not taken away by anyone."
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  17.  @jaksap  Which of course is one reason why Russia must be stopped, as their victory would embolden other potential imperialist aggressors in the future.
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  18.  @sticks_studiosHQ  It's not HIS "poor little country": real Chechen patriots are fighting for Ukraine in the Sheikh Mansur and Dzhokhar Dudayev battalions!
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  19. Putin thinks his nukes will save him from Hitler's fate.
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  20. I don't think any country could fight for years at the level of intensity we've seen up to now in this current war, unless the combatants regressed to World War II-level technology...
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  21. I suppose the Spanish Christians had a point calling the war on the Almohads a holy war, given that the Almohads were one of the few medieval Muslim regimes to forcibly convert Christian (and Jewish) populations to Islam.
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  22. Is it possible that the Ukranians are using Bakhmut much as the Russians did Stalingrad in WWII, and that in the next few weeks we'll see the equivalent of Operation Uranus?
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  23. You remind me of the character in Captain America who said "never forget that the first country the Nazis conquered was their own".
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  24. I wonder if he's one of those who (like most Russians) blames Western meddling for the 2014 Revolution of Dignity itself?
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  25. Tucker Carlson was almost certainly kompromized from the start.
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  26.  @rumblebunz8081  I think D Gentry's point is that if the water is flooding down the course of the Dnipro river (due to a blown dam) then it's no longer flowing through the canal to Crimea .
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  27. I suspect the West's reaction to Russia's 2014 theft of Crimea was muted for the same reason that Hitler was appeased over the Sudetenland: because the aggressor's ethnicity was a majority of the population in the territory in question.
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  28. "The Russian state is not based on treaties" -- Sergey Kirienko (First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia), 2017
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  29. Whether we liked it or not the Taliban were more in tune with Afghan society and culture than the western-backed government ever was. That will never be the case for the Russian invaders with respect to Ukrainian society and culture.
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  30.  @JakeBroe  Or to use an old Ukrainian slogan, "Свобода народам!​ Свобода людині!​"
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  31. The closest Ukrainian equivalent of that quote (or perhaps more analogous to the Ben Franklin liberty vs. safety quote) is as follows: "Коли поміж хлібом і свободою народ обирає хліб, він зрештою втрачає все, в тому числі і хліб. Якщо народ обирає свободу, він матиме хліб, вирощений ним самим і ніким не відібраний." Translation: "When a people chooses bread between bread and freedom, it ultimately loses everything, including bread. If a people chooses freedom, it will have bread grown by itself and not taken away by anyone."
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  32.  @atomicplaygirl5743  During the Cold War, the Ukrainian national cause was seen in the West as a far-right cause, but now it is supported by almost everyone but the far right (and admittedly the far left, although they are far less influential in the West than the far right).
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  33.  @JakeBroe  I expect Kim and his inner circle still have clean drinking water, surely?
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  34.  @jacktenrec472  Isn't that what Miguel was saying, that Kadyrov and his quisling army are not representative of Chechens?
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  35.  @merlin7766  The problem isn't just Mike Johnson, but with all the Americans who support Russia.
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  36.  @AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg  Makes me think Trump's party shouldn't really have the right to call itself "Republican"!
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  37.  @rambleon2838  No surprise that the Poles refused to let Soviet troops pass through their territory given that the Soviets had tried to conquer Poland in 1920.
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  38. Perhaps Russia should lose the Kuban (that's the bit of southern Russia east of Crimea and north of the Georgian border), to make sure it can never again attempt to starve the global South with a Black Sea naval blockade? It would also fit with the final lines of the Ukrainian army anthem: "A united Ukrainian state, eternal and whole from the San to the Caucasus!"
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  39. I don't know why the US still has anything to do with Saudi Arabia now that they don't need their oil anymore.
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  40. And Karjala to Finland, and Chishima and Karafuto to Japan?
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  41. Johnson received $37,000 in campaign contributions from the American Ethane Company, which is based in Texas but owned mostly by Russian oligarchs.
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  42. There's a reason Jake likes to refer to her as "Marjorie Traitor Greene"!
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  43. The rumours that started the riots were suggesting that they were "Mountain Jews" indigenous to Dagestan, who were returning after they'd emigrated to Israel during the 1990s.
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  44.  @santorizzuto7360  My argument was more that World War II weapons were truly mass-producible in a way that modern weapons are not.
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  45.  @lesbrunswick5137  Plus Kherson is not only the biggest Ukrainian city to fall to the 2022 invasion, but has a vital economic position as the way Ukrainian grain gets to the outside world, comparable to the role of New Orleans for the American grain belt.
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  46. The fact that Russia carried out assassinations on British soil (first of Alexander Litvinenko, and then the novichok chemical attacks in Salisbury) may well be a factor in driving Britain's hard-line stance, just as that of the Netherlands is driven by a desire to avenge the Dutch citizens murdered aboard Malaysian Airlines Flight 17.
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  47.  @jonm7272  The UK equivalent to a US Representative is a Member of Parliament (MP), and David Lammy is the MP for Tottenham.
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  48.  @speurtighearnamacterik8230  Which I guess means that Stalin was just as much of a Nazi collaborator as Bandera, and with far less excuse: Bandera was looking to liberate his nation while Stalin was looking only to expand his empire.
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  49. They likely don't mind as long as they get lots of cheap oil and gas.
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  50. I deactivated my X the day I heard Trump won.
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