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

  1.  @Heater-v1.0.0  I think the alternate history that @rambleon2838 was alluding to was "what if Britain and France had stood by the Czechs in 1938?" I can think of at least three ways in which such a decision could have backfired: 1. If the Nazis had somehow managed to conquer France even without the Czech tanks (after all, on paper they shouldn't have been able to do that even with them) then British morale would be a lot shakier if they hadn't first tried bending over backwards for peace (and in doing so, showing to the people why they had to fight). 2. The Soviets could have promised to get involved in defending Czechoslovakia, but they could have just grabbed the Baltic States and western Belarus and Ukraine (just as they did historically with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) while double-crossing Britain and France by leaving them to fight Hitler alone. 3. Perhaps Britain and France could have defeated the Nazis, but in this situation (and given continuing US isolationism) how likely is that this would be just "the German War": a minor prelude to the World War II to come (which would be an attempted Soviet conquest of Europe)? Kind of makes you understand why Neville Chamberlain was desperate to avoid war and play Europe's two totalitarian empires off against one another, until the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact made that impossible.
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  2. To be honest I don't see what leverage Ukraine has that would allow it to get any territory back without actually taking it back militarily.
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  3. Free Ichkeria, free Dagestan, free Tatarstan, free Bashkortostan and free Buryatia!
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  4.  @pupper5580  Something like that was what the Minsk Agreements were all about: Russia at the time was seeking to smuggle its puppet DPR and LPR back into Ukraine in such a way that they could have veto power over Ukraine's foreign policy (and for example prevent them from joining NATO or the EU).
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  5. I'd be shocked if any significant number of Ukrainians in Canada (as opposed to Ukrainians in Ukraine) were able to speak Russian in the first place!
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  6.  @JakeBroe  Can Bush II and the neocons (with their futile war in Iraq) be blamed in any way for the resurgence of isolationism that MAGA represents?
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  7.  @SkipEtchells  I don't think there was any diplomacy involved when Rome obliterated Carthage at the end of the Third Punic War.
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  8.  @robertmaybeth3434  Russia for now does have its own Black Sea coast, from Anapa thru Novorossiysk to Sochi. Unless the West gets mad enough at Russia's atrocities that it either decides to help fulfill the old OUN dream of a Ukraine "from the San to the Caucasus", or to restore the ancient homeland of the Circassians.
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  9. It probably isn't just about money, but also that they can get away with subjecting illegal immigrant workers to inhumane working conditions.
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  10.  @jimmallamace3027  IIRC the Canadian government specifically encouraged Ukrainians to settle in the prairie provinces, perhaps figuring that being from a similar climate they'd know how to properly cultivate the land.
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  11.  @guardsman2018  To me, a lot of the support for Russia in the global South has a (bastardizing Karl Marx) "natural resource exporters of the world, unite!" vibe to it.
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  12. A few English words have the Zh sound: the S in "measure" for example.
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  13. Because Israel's enemies don't have nukes.
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  14. ​ @lindax911 The only sort-of developed country that seems to be having lots of kids these days is Israel -- I wonder why that is?
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  15.  @Litt-g3p  I can't imagine that Jake Broe was that influential in Israel.
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  16.  @slezerpezer  Joe Biden did a great judo move by hanging on (and thus convincing Trump he had an easy win ahead) for just long enough for Trump to end up with (I wouldn't say "pick" as I think he was more the pick of Putin and Thiel) JD Vance as his running mate: a candidate who has essentially no appeal outside the existing MAGA base.
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  17.  @WalnutWarrior7  The complication is that pointing out that the USSR started WWII together with Nazi Germany might be used to argue that Poland should regain its lost eastern territories, and the Ukrainians (et al) who live there now certainly wouldn't be happy with that. (Indeed, pre-war Poland had a problem with Ukrainian terrorists, who amongst other things assassinated their Interior Minister.) The equivalent situation for Finland would be if Karelia had become independent after the fall of the USSR.
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  18.  @peterhoulihan9766  Well Ireland isn't really one to talk given that they don't even have a real military.
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  19.  @peterhoulihan9766  More precisely you don't engage in wars of choice (a good thing) and rely on the UK's military to protect you against aggressors (a not-so-good thing).
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  20.  @paulmakinson1965  Even before the Mongol invasions the principality of Vladimir Suzdal (Muscovy's predecessor) was already noticeably more autocratic than either Kyivan Rus or Novgorod, so perhaps Muscovite despotism isn't the fault of the Mongols after all?
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  21. Also disagree that Ukraine is likely to abandon the Cyrillic alphabet: they've likely been using it longer than the Muscovites have, and we already have an EU and NATO member (Bulgaria) that uses Cyrillic. I do expect that all the Turkic nations of central Asia will complete their switch to Latin though, and perhaps even Western languages will dump the Russian-derived spelling "Kazakhstan" in favour of the native "Qazaqstan".
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  22. While a fast breeder reactor does run on U-238 once the reaction is going, it does still need a fissile charge to start the reaction in the first place. Although I would have believed that the best material for such a start charge would be the fissile material the reactor normally burns (ie plutonium-239) rather than U-235. Just as for a thorium-cycle breeder reactor the most appropriate start charge would be uranium-233.
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  23. So you think Ukraine are aiming to play (on a smaller scale) the role the Soviets played in Stalingrad, hoping to hold out until their new Western kit enables them to carry out an equivalent of the Uranus offensive?
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  24.  @klubberzvonhatzenbuhl563  And in this battle (unlike Stalingrad) the city is mostly on the defender's side of the river.
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  25.  @Burglecutter  He has appeared on RT news in the past.
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  26.  @davidbilich1708  Where it belongs.
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  27. Don't high interest rates help kill off zombie companies of this kind though, as what makes a company a zombie is usually being heavily in debt such that most of its operating profits are spent on paying the interest on the debt.
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  28. "Every billionaire is a policy failure"
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  29.  @riparianlife97701  They still wouldn't have anything on UPA fighter Ilya Oberyshyn, who went into hiding after the end of World War II and only re-emerged in 1991 after the fall of the USSR.
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  30. The Nazis didn't have nuclear ICBMs.
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  31. Which UK politicians do you see as supporting Russia? (Other than George Galloway of course.)
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  32.  @MetalBeastShred  By promising cheap oil and gas from Russia?
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  33. Or at least as soon as they've retaken enough land in the south to bring the bridge within range of their aircraft or missiles.
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  34. Probably because of the US's own war crimes in places like Iraq.
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  35. Aren't the big business profits more to be found in equipment for the Navy and Air Force though, with Army spending being mainly personnel salaries?
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  36. ​ @georgeprout42  I think the issue is more to do with the pre-2014 ethnic Russian population, not post-2014 colonists. And the Russian soldiers are stealing washing machines more because they want them to wash their own clothes (due to their army's inadequate field hygiene provisions), not because they don't have washing machines back in Russia.
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  37.  @lewisdoherty7621  How do you think history would have been different if Poroshenko had defeated Zelensky and won a second term as Ukrainian President?
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  38. That's related to a misconception about how kompromat works. Russia doesn't (usually) kompromize people already elected to public office: what they do is kompromize men in their early 20s who are interested in politics, and then help them into public office. Only a few of the kompromized men end up in public office: most are used to help said few advance through the power structure. It's like Operation Black Buck where it took a dozen Victor tankers to get a single Vulcan bomber to the target.
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  39.  @glennfitzroy4352  I'm honestly surprised that someone who's been following this war as avidly as Jake has doesn't yet know how to read Cyrillic script.
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  40. Taking the rest of the Black Sea coast as far as the Georgian border seems like the highest priority, so that Russia can no longer threaten to starve the Middle East or Africa with a Black Sea blockade.
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  41.  @Silveirias  Makes me think of that Reddit map from 2014 of a Russia broken up into 30 countries, in which Finland was roughly doubled in size, Ukraine had gained the Kuban and the whole of Sakhalin Oblast had become Japanese territory.
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  42.  @Silveirias  So basically the pre-Winter War borders then?
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  43. B-52s were great for pounding enemies like the Taliban with minimal anti-air capability, but would be no match for Russian air defences: there's a reason why the skies over Ukraine are basically ruled by missiles and drones. The only thing that would really be a game-change for Ukraine in the air war is if they were supplied with F-35s or other stealth aircraft, which realistically isn't going to happen.
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  44. You mean the plan is to sucker Putin into putting as many forces as possible in those border oblasts (thinking they're safe) and then letting Ukraine hit them?
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  45.  @telebubba5527  "Соборна Українськая держава Вільна й міцна, від Сяну по Кавказ " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R7MTG-rGCo
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  46. Trump is Putin's puppet, possibly because Putin has copies of the photos of Trump raping children at Jeffrey Epstein's island.
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  47. Microcontrollers, which are also used in most modern weapons, and which Russia can no longer import due to sanctions.
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  48.  @billwilliams9023  What are you on about: are you a Lukashenka loyalist?
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  49.  @koma-k I think it is more that it reinforces existing authoritarian regimes: how many absolute monarchies -- other than Eswatini and (de facto) North Korea -- still exist that aren't Gulf Arab oil states?
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  50. And the fact that none of the women are wearing hijab (despite Derbent being a heavily Muslim city) is also evidence that the crowd is faked.
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