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

  1. I'd say the Sudetenland equivalent in this war was Crimea rather than Ukraine as a whole.
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  2. Looks like Russia has just stepped up the nuclear blackmail by carrying out the first ever ICBM attack on an enemy target (the city of Dnipro).
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  3. When Jake suggested that all the participants in this propaganda video had gone through quarantine, it made me think of that "Wuhan pool party" video from 2020 which the Chinese used to brag about their victory over Covid, which I believe was likely the same kind of deal only on a much larger scale.
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  4. Given that Jake is a former missileer, I wonder if he was taught about the impact that the Coriolis effect has on the trajectories of ballistic missiles?
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  5. I think the word is "kompromat".
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  6. How long before we hear names like Petsamo, Viipuri and Toyohara come back into use?
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  7. You're suggesting that Russian aggression may cause the UN to go the same way as the old League of Nations?
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  8. YouTube deleted the audio of the singing Ukrainian soldier for reasons of copyright. :(
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  9.  @pupper5580  I'd still say the old League of Nations was fundamentally weaker because: 1) the United States was never a member, and 2) much of the world was under colonial rule at the time.
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  10.  @mr.meatsoup5639  Muscovy's economy was always dependent on exporting raw materials, but originally they were hunted (fur pelts) rather than mined. They expanded eastwards following the rivers in pursuit of fur, much as Canada expanded westwards for the same reason.
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  11. The last one should be spelled "Ceaușescu".
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  12. Didn't he once appear in Congress in an IDF uniform in spite of never having served in the IDF?
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  13. I'd have thought Jake (along with much of his viewership) would be able to read Cyrillic script (possibly in both Russian and Ukrainian variants) by now.
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  14.  @TheOmegaXicor  You can vote for pro-Ukraine candidates in the primary and still vote Democrat in the general. And if Trump loses in either the primary or (more likely) the general it won't matter what spin he puts on Republican losses in congress, because his age and state of health (or criminal indictments) will almost certainly stop him from running in 2028.
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  15. If Trump did support Ukraine he'd be facing life in prison after Putin released the Epstein kompromat on him.
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  16.  @HarryR1  Zelensky: "I need ammunition, not a ride!"
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  17.  @michaeldunham3385  Specifically he won on an anti-Muslim ticket.
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  18. Isn't the Don the other river you're thinking of?
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  19. Героям Слава!
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  20. Especially given that in a future war Russia's economy would be tightly coupled with China's and thus less vulnerable to western sanctions...
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  21. Shades of Germany's offensive of Spring 1918, which they saw as their last chance to win the war before the Yanks would arrive and swamp them.
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  22. I suggest Zelenskyy should deliberately share some unimportant data with Trump just to see if it is leaked to Russia.
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  23. Why would Putin give back any Ukrainian territories in negotiations if Ukraine wasn't able to take them back by force?
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  24.  @annabelvnoucek2148  Yes, the EU did provide financial assistance to deprived areas of the UK, but it wasn't anything like enough -- what would actually be needed is more on the scale of what West Germany spent on East Germany after reunification. In fact there seems to be a problem with the EU as a whole in that its industrial base (and the jobs that go with it) have become increasingly concentrated in Germany since the introduction of the Euro. And while I do think a certain kind of Leave voter (specifically self-employed "white van man" types) were directly economically harmed by Eastern European immigration, I also think more Britons were spooked by Merkel's decision to allow vast numbers of Syrian refugees into Germany, and were anxious that a lot of them would ultimately end up in the UK. I've even often thought that the UK's EU membership was really doomed on New Years' Eve 2015 with the mass sex attacks in Cologne, especially when many Britons were already primed by the grooming gang scandals to stereotype male Muslims as sexual predators.
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  25. I don't believe that ignorance is what really drive supporters of Trump and other right-wing demagogues.
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  26.  @geretstarseeker453  I'd say it was more a case of The Sea versus The Land: islands and peninsulas are easier to defend than inland territories, and navies foster democracy (look at how even uneducated thugs on board pirate ships evolved a rudimentary form of democracy) in a way which armies do not. * The Romans could "decimate" a wayward legion, but such harsh measures aren't an option at sea, as a ship's entire viability is in jeopardy if it loses 10% of its crew. * If an army captain's cruelty provokes a mutiny he can flee to his superiors, while a naval captain in a similar situation would better be a good swimmer. * If an army captain orders his troops to retreat without higher authorization, he can easily be punished by other captains or the general, while a disobedient naval captain can become a pirate. * The technical knowledge needed to operate ships means there's less scope for cronyism in navies than there is in armies.
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  27.  @popscratchie3985  The Ukrainian Insurgent Army carried on fighting the Soviets well into the 1950s even though they had no foreign allies at all.
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  28.  @robinstevenson6690  They were also heavily propagandized in that direction by older generations who had been traumatized by the Great Depression and WWII. Plus, it was a great time for the (white) American working class, which thanks to WWII (plus an anti-immigration policy going back to the 1920s) was facing almost no foreign competition.
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  29.  @EEX97623  1993 was also arguably the year in which the hope of Russia becoming a democracy died, as it was when Boris Yeltsin ordered the shelling of the Russian Parliament.
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  30. Another argument for why it's unlikely that the real Putin visited Mariupol, is that surely it's a place where enough people have been embittered enough by Russia did to the city (and who possibly lost their family and thus have nothing left to lose) that becoming a suicide bomber may look like an attractive option? After all, one of the first victims of suicide bombing was Russian Tsar Alexander II, back in 1881.
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  31. Perhaps we should call them Qazaqs now, as that is how they spell the name of their people in their own language. "Kazakh" is transliterated from the Russian: Russian (like English) lacks the separate Q sound, and they couldn't use "Kazak" as that means Cossack in Russian. (Our word "Cossack" likely derives from the Ukrainian "Kozak".)
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  32.  @pouncepounce7417  The threat that Trump (or some other leader) would take the US back into isolationism isn't the only reason why Europe needs to be able to defend itself: there's also the fact that America will need to use its whole power (and a bunch of allies) to contain China in the Pacific, and likely won't have anything to spare for Europe.
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  33. Isn't the U in Rutte a front vowel like German ü?
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  34. How much do you think support for Russia by SA (and other African countries) is a case of OPEC-like solidarity between countries that export natural resources?
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  35. A kompromized traitor.
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  36. Or at least over Belgorod, Rostov and Krasnodar: "Соборна Українськая держава — Вільна й міцна, від Сяну по Кавказ!"
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  37.  @Liza03V  I'd be very surprised if any significant number of Odesans wanted to rename it back to Khadzhibey (as it was under the Ottomans)!
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  38.  @benoithudson7235  And unfortunately that isn't going to happen: in the last Republican primary there MTG utterly wiped the floor with all her rivals.
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  39. I suspect the Salisbury chemical attacks are a big reason why UK support for Ukraine is so strong, just as the shootdown of MH17 is for the Netherlands.
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  40. If Ukrainians ever did carry the war into Russian territory, wouldn't it make more sense to head via Rostov and Krasnodar (which the Ukrainians might rename to Kozakodar) and on towards the Georgian border? As their army anthem (a rehash of the 1929 March of Ukrainian Nationalists) now goes, "A united Ukrainian state, one forever from the San to the Caucasus!"
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  41.  @exlibrisas  It was more that Putin decided to make Belarus into a massively subsidized propaganda showpiece, much like communist Cuba (or even West Berlin) during the Cold War. Russia sold vast quantities of oil and gas at a nominal price to Lukashenko's regime, most of which carried on thru the pipelines to the EU where the regime could sell it for its full market value. The huge profits that Russia thus allowed Lukashenko's regime to "earn" was then used to fund a generous welfare state that would keep the people of Belarus largely quiescent.
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  42. ICBMs?
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  43. And Germany wasn't allowed to keep all its 1937 territory either: it lost everything east of the Oder and Neisse rivers along with Stettin (now Polish Szczecin).
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  44.  @FINNSTIGAT0R  By 1945 it would have taken a whole new war to liberate Poland from the Soviets, and after four years of pro-Soviet propaganda it would have been almost impossible to get Western Allied soldiers to fight such a war unless the Soviets attacked them first.
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  45. The difference is that Putin is a 21st century Tsar, while Zelenskyy is a 21st century Cossack hetman.
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  46.  @playa08fly  The Ukrainian city of Kherson was named after the Greek Chersonesos, but (IIRC) Chersonesos is actually close to modern Sevastopol.
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  47.  @tcl78  At least not while there's an expansionist government in the Kremlin.
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  48.  @skaut_games7644  Yes, the one positive achievement of Putin's regime was to fix Russian agriculture, which means that Russia can't be starved out like Imperial Germany in 1918 (or more indirectly the Soviet Union in the 1980s).
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  49.  @skaut_games7644  Indeed, Germany's shortage of arable land was a reason why they tried to grab Ukraine in both world wars.
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  50. Now he just needs to learn how to pronounce the Russian city of Vorónezh (it's not "Vorénz"!)
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