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

  1. ​ @Anna87147  Crimea is this war's "Sudetenland": a territory of a victim state where the aggressor's ethnicity was a majority of the population. That's probably one reason why the West's reaction to 2014 was relatively mild, just as how appeasement of Hitler in 1938 had mainstream support. (It does make me wonder though if a Ukrainian victory will result in the expulsion of the Crimean Russians, comparable to how the Sudeten Germans were expelled under the Beneš decrees.) Incidentally, given that the Ukrainian territory currently occupied by Russia (except Luhansk) roughly corresponds to the old Khanate of Crimea, and was taken by imperial Russia at roughly the same time, how did different places within it end up so different demographically? Kherson and Zaporizhzhia are overwhelmingly ethnic-Ukrainian, Donetsk is majority ethnic-Ukrainian but has a large ethnic-Russian minority, while Crimea proper is majority ethnic-Russian.
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  2. Party like it's 1853!
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  3. Smert' Voroham!
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  4.  @j_117  Any American who lives in a safe Republican district ought to register as a Republican, so they can vote against any pro-Russia traitor candidate in the primary.
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  5. I'd call a return to 1991 borders just a "win": for me "total win" would be Ukraine sharing a land border with Georgia.
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  6. I thought the title of old Ukrainian rulers was "Hetman"?
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  7.  @oeokosko  Part of Poland you mean, which is what fuelled the Polish-Ukrainian enmity of the era. Although that seems to have ended as early as 1946, when the Ukrainian Insurgent Army joined forces with Polish Home Army remnants to attack the Bolsheviks at Hrubieszów in eastern Poland.
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  8. Isn't BASF in the process of dismantling its entire chemical complex in Germany (as the high gas prices have made it unviable) in order to rebuild it in Louisiana?
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  9. When I heard about Russia's plan last year to use a Black Sea blockade to cause a famine in the Middle East (presumably to flood Europe with starving Muslim refugees) it made me wonder if Russia should be cut out of the Black Sea altogether: aka the Ukraine "from the San to the Caucasus" that concludes the song "March of Ukrainian Nationalists".
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  10.  @paulsutton5896  Imagine extending Ukraine to the south east so that it bordered Georgia...
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  11. I doubt the Ukrainians would be able to totally destroy the Kadyrovites: if they suffer bad enough losses wouldn't they just be sent back to Chechnya to prevent the territory trying to break free of Russia again?
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  12. What pro-Israel propaganda? Didn't see any in this video...
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  13.  @robm.4512  I didn't really support it either, thinking "she's our scumbag, our problem" more or less, plus I'm concerned that the decision would have a chilling effect on ethnic minorities in the UK more generally.
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  14.  @tanyaroberson9629  Even if Russia is conventionally a paper tiger, it still has the world's biggest nuclear arsenal.
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  15. ​ @sharkdegrijze  "March of the New Army" is of course a modern version of We Were Born in a Great Hour...
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  16.  @sharkdegrijze  Which version are you listening to? The original version from 1929 has 6 stanzas, while "March of the New Army" has 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_Ukrainian_Nationalists
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  17.  @aaronbaker2186  Turkey too is still effectively the rump of the Ottoman Empire, which is why it still has a Kurdish problem to this day.
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  18. Hope for a WWIII in the late 1940s (before the Soviets had deliverable nukes of their own) is likely what motivated UPA to keep fighting for so long after the defeat of the Nazis.
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  19.  @JakeBroe  As evil as the Nazis or (gasp!) even worse?
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  20. Doesn't "c" in all Latin-script Slavic languages represent the "ts" sound?
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  21.  @ericpeterson7512  Wasn't Sicily liberated a year before the Normandy beaches were stormed: 1943 as opposed to 1944?
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  22.  @JakeBroe  I often feel glum that being born in 1980 puts me in the ass-end of Generation X.
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  23. A good temporary measure, but in the long term I'd prefer it between Russia and a free Belarus. ⬜🟥⬜
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  24.  @RedJadeArt  The British certainly believed Ireland was overpopulated and encouraged emigration (I've amended my original comment accordingly), but I not sure what the British government could have done differently. UK government debt in 1847 was 140% of GDP (due to the enormous borrowing to pay for the Napoleonic Wars), and a quarter of the government's budget was being spent on famine relief. The Whigs were a minority government (dependent on the Peelites) and were unable to get enough votes to increase income tax, while an attempt to borrow $8m to pay for famine relief caused a double financial crisis with interest rates spiking from 3.5% to 8%: the highest the BoE base rate had been since 1694. Chancellor Charles Wood was thus forced to cut spending, and the Irish paid the price.
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  25. The main economic problem with Russia is that Moscow is an absolutely shitty location for a city of 12 million people: hundreds of miles from the sea, a local river that doesn't lead to the ocean (but to the inland Caspian Sea at Astrakhan), close to 56 degrees North, and on forest soil that is very poor quality for farming. All these factors make it very expensive to run, which is why it bleeds the rest of Russia dry.
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  26. They've still got to cross the whole width of Ukraine to get to the front line: Ukraine is a big country!
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  27.  @laars0001 It worked very well for Russia back in the old days when they had huge families, but not today when their birth rate (like most of Europe's) is sub-replacement.
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  28.  @laars0001  Well I've had since childhood a dominoes set that is Made in USSR, but I guess that's not quite the same thing.
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  29. I'm sure the NAFO guys would take offense at someone calling Orban a "fella"!
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  30.  @beth7935  I guess Hangul is more difficult that Cyrillic, because Cyrillic and Latin share a common ancestor in Greek. About 15 years ago I did also use the "Muslim Kid School" videos to teach myself Arabic script.
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  31. Israel is also surrounded by enemies, and for far less self-inflicted reasons.
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  32. I'm also thinking of the gigantic waves in Lake Superior that sank the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.
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  33. Unfortunately Russia can't be starved out as it's essentially self-sufficient in food now: one of the few real economic achievements of Putin's government was to fix Russian agriculture.
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  34. Old Rus' (whether based in Kyiv or in the even older Novgorod) was a civilization which developed along the river routes connecting Scandinavia to the Black Sea (and thus to Constantinople). While Muscovy (and Central Russia more generally) isn't part of that system of rivers: they're isolated from ocean-going international trade because they're in the Volga river basin, and the Volga leads not to the ocean but to the landlocked Caspian Sea: OK if you want to go to Iran but no good for most of the rest of the world. This lack of access to the ocean may be what set up Russia to be at odds with western civilization.
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  35.  @mikaelkarlsson2724Mikemike  Isn't the Finnish word for Sweden "Ruotsi"?
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  36. I'd prefer to say "Mike Johnson gave them it"!
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  37. ​ @Massive_the_Composer  Downing a bridge requires a considerably larger warhead than sinking a warship, because warships need to carry large amounts of explosive materials onboard as part of their function.
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  38. Actually I think the logic of tankie socialists is rather different: they hold the Leninist belief that the Western working classes tolerate capitalism because they've been bought off with cheap resources from non-western countries (including Russia, but mainly countries in the global south), and the way to bring about a socialist revolution in the West is to empower anti-Western regimes in those countries. They don't care exactly what kind of regimes they are, as long as they cut off the flow of resources.
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  39.  @maxpower3990  One thing that really helped the Nazis was Hjalmar Schacht's financial chicanery that allowed them to keep much of their re-armament expenditure off the books, for example with the "MEFO bills" scheme.
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  40. Poland-Lithuania and Muscovy were the two powers of Eastern Europe that were able to expand as the Golden Horde disintegrated in the 16th century. The only remnant of the Horde that survived for a while was the Khanate of Crimea, whose lands roughly corresponded to current Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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  41. Russia has the oldest leadership of any post-Soviet country, while Ukraine has the youngest.
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  42. If you're looking for a WWII-era Brit to liken to MTG then I'd suggest Oswald Mosley. Neville Chamberlain was more of a fall guy, dealt a bad hand by the poor state of the British economy during the 1920s and '30s.
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  43. Slightly larger actually.
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  44. 🟥🦁☀🟩
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  45. And Crimea (being majority Russian in population) was very much analogous to the Sudetenland in 1938.
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  46. Anti-immigration.
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  47.  @CMY187  Just as we dumped the Russian spellings Kiev, Lvov, Kharkov for the native Kyiv, Lviv and Kharkiv, maybe we should also start referring to Qazaqstan instead of Kazakhstan?
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  48. No, Donald Quisling Trump! Chamberlain was just looking to buy time to re-arm.
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  49.  @pynn1000  Russian has и and ы but not і, Ukrainian has і and и but not ы, and Belarusian has і and ы but not и. Belarusian also has the letter ў which no other language uses.
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  50. If you wanted to wipe out semiconductors across a huge area (and especially satellites) wouldn't the way to do it be to set off a hydrogen bomb just above the Earth's atmosphere?
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