Comments by "joe k" (@joek600) on "Real Reporter" channel.

  1. Im Greek. I wanted to do a comparison of prices between your supermarkets (a country in war and under sanctions) with mine (a country in the Eurozone and a member of the different versions of EU since 1980). I understand that your supermarket was a rather posh one, so I will compare with one of our normal local chains, not discount supermarkets like Lidl etc. I wish you could be more detailed in your shopping list at the end, referencing weights and possibly the status of each brand in the market (cheap, regular, expensive, crazy expensive). I tried to do my best to match your list, where it was not possible i noted the alternative product or quantity available here. Ι used regular brands not private label ones. Fresh Milk 1lt = 1.71 eggs (six regular) = 1.86 Lentils 500gr = 1,63 (Backwheat is kinda exotic here so I replaced it with something as common in the Greek market. FYI 500gr of Backwheat is 2.46) Minced chicken 1k =6.90 Cheese (feta) 450gr= 6.00 Coca Cola 1.5lt= 1.77 Yogurt (3x cups of 200gr)= 3,72 Butter 250gr= 3,18 Tomatoes 1k= 1,60 cucumbers 1k= 0,64 Apples 1k = 2.00 Potatoes 1k = 0,88 Bread (one loaf)= 1.20 Chocolate bar 100gr = 1,58 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Up to this point we are at 34,67 euros. Lets add your fancy smansy ice cream and pelmeni -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ice Cream 650gr = 13,34 Ravioli 250 gr = 4,55 (Pelmeni do not exist in Greece and Im quite sure that your packs are much much bigger, so I replaced them with ravioli) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Grand total = 52,56 euros Im curious to see the total in other EU countries.
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  2. I just accidentally stumbled on this video and I have to say that you did a great job. This video encapsulates my feelings about this conflict and the people involved. Life is fucking complicated. Somebody can seem like a gun nut, but he also can be a good friend and a thoughtful person. Im Greek, 20 years ago, when I was 24, from a strange stroke of fate I found myself in a serious relation with a girl from a town of Lugansk. For 2 years I was going back and forth there staying for long periods, and made myself the local exotic curiosity lol. Im still in touch with my ex, especially after the start of the war, getting news of our friends there. For our ''western media'' these people do not exist. 3 days ago a building 200m down the road of my ex's house got bombed by a HIMARS. 3 floors damaged and probably more than 20 people dead. I say probably because many were dismembered. Not a military target in the area, just residents. But still these people dont count and they are referred to as crazy Russian nationalists, on Putin's payroll, ''separatist terrorists'', all of them. All Putin's agents under mind control hating our ''western values''. Funny because I clearly remember most of them being metalheads, into fantasy/scifi literature, watching Hollywood movies, following to the best of their ability the fashionable trends, wanting the same things any young person wants everywhere. There was not one ounce of nationalism in them and in fact when i was asking them if they are Russians (everybody spoke Russian everywhere) I was always corrected by saying ''we are Russian speaking Ukrainians''. Many of them were extremely apolitical, thinking that anyway everyone is a thief so there is no reason to even go and vote. Actually my ex was making fun of me being political back then. Now if you call them Ukrainians, they will break your head and they are all VERY political. No reporter ever got in the trouble to ask ''what happened?'' and ''why''. What turned them against their former state. Is Russia paying so well that average people, with families are willing to endure being bombarded, sniped and constantly on the brink of personal tragedy for the last 8 years? How many silver coins (according to the Ukrainian state) are enough for a family to stay in such an environment ''for the love of Putin''? Are they really Orcs and robots without feelings as they are presented? Or is there much more to the story?
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  3.  @RealReporter  I didnt expect such a fast response, thanks man! Your work really makes a difference, I want you to know that. If I can be of any use, providing info. I would be happy to help, although Im not sure if I would go on camera. Im kinda of a double special case. Being Greek with all the financial complexities of the last 15 years that go along with it and having spent time in Eastern Ukraine (in a small Lugansk oblast town) due to a romantic relation in the ealy 00's. In fact Im still in regular contact with my ex and every time she is bombarded by the Kiev government, Im trying to cheer her up by sending links with our super market prices and receipts from the gas station lol.
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  4.  @sduchnowski  First of all you have to understand that I’m not some kind of therapist for your anti-Russian butthurt. Ok the Soviets ate your grand father’s lunch 100 years ago. I personally give zero Fs about your grudge and in turn you give zero Fs about mine against Turkey. I’m more interested in what’s going on today and how it’s affecting my life. I will try once again and maybe this time you will manage to get it in your thick skull. The average salary which yes is commonly used as a metric is nothing but an illusion the same way that growth statistics are. But the real people, not the numbers live in a completely different reality. The average income combines all the income of the citizens, divide by their number and produces a number that has absolutely no relation to the reality. On top of that Income by itself is not an indicator of living standards if you do not calculate the general cost of living. How much is the cost of housing, utilities, rents, fuel etc. You can have an income of 5000 and pay 4500 for essential living costs, where does that leave you? There are major financial discrepancies even between the EU countries. The initial goal was that through investments and financial support EU will reach a point where those differences would be almost eradicated. Then neo-liberals happened, and decided to extend EU including countries that were not ready at least for the next 30 years, only to be a cheap labor force and cheap (mostly sex) tourism destinations plus low tax havens for businesses. That doesn’t change the fact that living standards are relative and that the most important thing is the essential every day needs. Do you buy cars or electronic appliances every day? No. Do you buy groceries, fuel and pay utilities? Yes.
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  5.  @sduchnowski  I didn’t compare prices between Russia and UK my razor sharp minded friend. I directly compared Greek market prices with the Russian ones. Actually I called for people to add their local prices, maybe you should move your lazy butt abit and do it, it only takes a few minutes. I will say again that there is no such thing as an average salary. This is a statistical illusion. Adding together the income of the upper and upper middle class and that of the working class provides an average of absolutely no practical use. By that standards the average in Greece is 2500 euros. Yeah good luck getting that kind of money buddy, not as a lower end worker but even as a skilled experienced employee. The true average, meaning the money that the majority of the people receive and it’s most likely for you to get if you seek a job ranges from 800 to 1200 euros. The fact that a shipowner like Latsis has billions and can spend hundreds of thousands in every supermarket trip, doesn’t change that the AVERAGE citizen counts his money three times before getting to the cashier. And as I said before it’s all about buying power. People can accept not being able to buy posh brands or things if their basic needs are met.
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  6. The ''cocky lawyer'' returned even more cocky, but now he can sue you AND shoot you, not necessarily in that order lol. Great interview, I wish Andrey best of luck and I also wish for a way to end this war.
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  7.  @sduchnowski  The comparison still stands regardless, if you keep in mind that there are huge wage discrepancies between the EU countries. And I’m not even including the third gear ones that should not be in the EU at all, but were included prematurely for pure political reasons and the expansion mainly of the German market. The 2008 financial crisis only increased those gaps. You must not look only at the ‘’average’’ salary, btw all those average salaries stated on the internet are just a big statistical illusion that create a false image. What’s important is the buying power and especially in essential goods and services.
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  8.  @Психолог_АлександрСосновцев  He simply doesnt want to understand, obviously because of anti-Russian obsession, that actual living standards and buying power are relative. He should be able to get it, since he is probably Polish LARPing british. For example Im renting a 120 square meters appartment that I own to a family, for 400 euro per month. This is the average price where I live in a suburb of Piraeus. The school is one block away, the open market every Monday one street away. The central street with all the shops 3 blocks away. This appartment in Germany in a suburb of a big city would probably cost a couple of thousands to rent.
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  9.  @joerosa170  Well... the situation is alot more complex than that
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  10.  @Kinotaurus  Thank you! I know that there is a large Greek community over there, many people, even in Greece, have forgotten that there is a continuous presence of Greeks in the area from the time of the Black Sea coast colonization with several Polis -states back in the 7th century BC, all the way to Byzantium and later to the orthodox communities set up by Catherine the Great. If our government had any semblance of courage and dignity, the least they could do, would be to break a deal with both sides during the siege of Mariupol, have a few days of cease fire, send over the fleet and evacuate the people who were trapped in there. During the war in Georgia back in the 90's they did that and many people were saved. During the start of the siege the TV networks here sometimes had a link with Greeks living in Mariupol. Every time they mentioned something contradicting the EU narrative the news casters were going in full scramble mode. Most of those videos are gone from youtube, but I managed to find one that I watched as it happened and curiously was not erased. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHfAcIPyhGk&t=72s The man is a retired officer of the Greek army living with his Ukrainian wife and their family in Mariupol. At some point when he is asked why dont they leave the city, he said that they cant because Azov snipers are shooting everybody trying to get out and emphasizes that they are fascists and the cause of everything going on there. The news presenters quickly tried (unsuccessfully) to change the subject.
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  11.  @crabluva  You must be a genius. I surrender you found me out. I don’t live in Piraeus worrying every day that a person I truly loved might be dead in the next missile strike, and I can’t even show it because I don’t want to impose on an already tensed psychological situation. It must be really hard to deduct that if a town 50 km from Donetsk cannot be reached with the Soviet rockets Ukraine used, but suddenly is regularly bombarded after the delivery of HIMARS which have a longer range. It must be a Russian troll farm lie OR THE FACT THAT WE DISCOVERED LOGICAL DEDUCTION WHEN YOU WERE STILL ON TREES. You just made me channel the Gus Portokalos hidden within each Greek.
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  12. Im not Russian, you have a point about the provocative gestures with Z and such but my dude Lithuania has done everything possible to escalate this situation. They started the whole train line issue based on completely BS arguments about the EU sanctions, aggressive rhetoric, provocations, invitations for NATO intervention etc. My dude Im saying that with all my sympathy, I have nothing against you, but you are a country mentioned only during Eurovision, you entered EU only because Germany wanted to expand its market when you (and many other eastern european countries, dont take it personally) did not have the economy or living standards justifying a smooth transition. Do you really think that if the shit hits the fan after all your barking, any of us would run to fight your war?
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  13.  @antzacalie  It wasn’t always like that. I’m part of the generation that grew up having everything and slowly watched the world crumbling around us. Everything points back to the time when Greece entered the eurozone. What was presented as a blessing was really our undone. The first wave of price increases came in 98 when drachma was devalued in order to lock the relation with euro. I remember as an art school student the illustration Pantone markers I was using, cost 800 drachmas on Friday and 1300 on Monday. But people quickly got over that because the private sector and personal debt was extremely low. Then in 2001 came the Euro. During the transition let’s say that many prices were ‘’lost in the translation’’. That could be solved if the then government did not allow for the annual price rising to happen, as it already happened with the pretext of the euro transition. They did nothing and the annual price increase launched the prices of all the essentials. From the time the drachma and euro exchange rate was locked, the banks started issuing business and personal loans like there is no tomorrow. They would literally call you and ask if you want 3000 euros loan for vacations or shopping. That caught people completely off guard. You see in Greece up to the late 90’s credit cards and bank loans were almost unknown words. Up to my 20’s I never knew somebody who had a mortgage. Because drachma was a soft currency and the banks were extremely reluctant to issue any kind of loan except if you had concrete evidence that you will be able to repay them. That resulted into an extremely affordable housing market compared to the average western country. And the majority of the people had at least some emergency savings in the bank. Actually it was considered extremely shameful to owe money even to a bank. It was seen as a sign that you mismanaged your finances. Buying home appliances or a car on payments was something that you didn’t want the neighborhood to know. All that were turned on their head and especially during the time of the Athens Olympic Games the illusion that money are falling from the sky was everywhere. When it was my generations time to get married and find a home there was a huge housing bubble that drove the prices like 5x times upwards. Our parents managed to BUILD houses on real estate they owned only with their salaries and some tight financial management for a few years. We realized that unless you get in line and get a huge mortgage for the next 40 years it was virtually impossible to get an apartment in a building complex. All that was brewing when the financial crisis and the punitive treatment we received in order to scare Italy, that was about to bust, came like a wrecking ball. The real average salary in Greece, not the statistical BS, is about 1000 euros now. When I got my first job as a graphic designer back in 2002, my first salary was 1050 euros. I think that’s enough to give you the picture of what happened here.
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  14.  @Thor.Jorgensen  were you crying when typing that?
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  15.  @avlasting3507  Who is the ‘’we” exactly?
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  16.  @samztang953  Turkey a member of NATO occupied Cyprus. Nobody did anything about it for 50 years.
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  17. This was a very interesting video, especially since Im Greek Orthodox. From the little I read on the subject, the Russians took Orthodoxy to 11, inventing more and more austere rules to the point of verging on heresy. So the Patriarch of Constantinople had to call the Russian church to get back in line. For example crossing yourself with two fingers was never a thing in the original church and its something reserved only for the iconography as a gesture of blessing by a saint or Christ. Speaking about Jesus btw, in Greek its IHΣΟΥΣ (in the middle ages it would be written as ΙΗCOYC) so again the ''old believers'' are quite neoteristic by shortening the name by one letter. I suppose that their custom of eating raw fish can be related to the IXΘΥΣ (fish) acronym (IHΣΟΥΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ ΘΕΟΥ ΥΙΟΣ ΣΩΤΗΡ =Jesus Christ God's Son Saviour). This phrase was related to the persecuted christians who used it as a code, many times just drawing a very simple shape of fish. I guess they see themselves as persecuted but maybe miss what the acronym really means? Im using capital Greek letters cause they are easier for non Greeks to understand them btw. Im really interested to know how the Soviet state interacted with these self exiled people. Were they left alone, or was there an effort to ''civilize'' them?I would also like to know whats their relation to the modern Russian state. They seem to live completely autonomous, without expecting from the state to provide any kind of infrastructure. Does that make them living outside the traditional social contract between a state and its citizens? Do they still have all the obligations of a ''normal'' Russian citizen?
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  18.  @aceyage  You do realize that kindergarten analogies doesn't work in a real geopolitical scenario, don't you? You cant be so naive.
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  19.  @jimmiekarlsson4458  even the latest variants do not have protection for modern drone warfare, stop embarrassing yourself and at the same time admitting that you set up those poor Ukrainians to lose.
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  20.  @mitchrodee giving sophisticated weapons to people who were trained only according to some papers, and hype building media reports, and then kicking them out of the door towards a conflict that is probably the most gruesome since WWII, is like sending them to their deaths. There are rumors that some of the crews of those weapons sabotaged them by themselves because they knew that they were a primary target. Probably the Russian propaganda blows up this out of proportion but I don’t find it hard to believe that a crew of a Leopard 2 A6 would prefer to fake malfunction, than waiting to be roasted alive in a machine they can barely operate.
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  21.  @jipex911 and they eat babies too, seriously get stuffed already
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  22.  @avotia  I remember that literally over one week the koulouri (pretzels for the non Greeks) you would buy on the street for 50 drachmas, turned to 50 cents. 50 cents of the euro were 170 drachmas. I remember the ministers playing puppet theatre ‘’patroling’’ the open markets to show for the cameras that they are fighting back against price increases by the ‘’evil’’ middlemen. I also remember that my parents bought in 1997 a plot of land about 700 square meters in a sea side area close to Korinth. I’m not talking about some god forsaken village, but a location IN the city plan with the beach at less than 100 meters away. It cost them 7 million drachmas. That’s 20.500 euros. They built a house of 320 square meters triple floor maisonette without any loan, just savings from my father’s pay checks. It took about 10 years to complete, while living a measured but normal life as a family, the total cost was about 60k excluding personal work that saved around 10k. Right next to us there was another plot with the same size for sale. The guy who bought it took a loan and payed in 2008 120000 euros. Just for the plot of land. Our house today even with the current lower prices would sell for over 400000 euros. That should indicate the tremendous changes in the prices of real estate after our entrance in the eurozone.
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  23.  @RealReporter  Always stand by an old friend! Cheers!
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  24.  @uristZ  Lets hear the opinion of your squad mates! Lol. I’m sure they will be roasting you lol. Best wishes from Greece and know that even if our government is in a stranglehold, and the media are singing in tune like a choir, the people are very much aware of what is going on in this war.
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  25. Russia has a mandatory military service. My country is one of the very few proper EU countries that still have. I used to be an engineers corp sgt.
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  26.  @kobi_pw  Personally I absolutely hate feta cheese lol. But it’s a DOP product meaning that only if it is produced in Greece it can be called ‘’Feta’’ (btw feta means ‘’slice’’) in the same way that Cognac is a trademarked product and you can’t call just any Brandy, Cognac. So if it is a feta type white cheese as in this case ok but if it’s actually Feta then that means that it comes from Greece directly or indirectly. That’s why I was curious about the price difference. I was joking with some friends in Lugansk that I could send them olive oil from my fields in exchange for gasoline lol
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  27.  @bradleyheights5905  ''as the rest of the EU increases its military budgets'' that was funny
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  28. My grandma used to say, ''when the bulls fight in the swamp, the frogs are the ones paying the price''
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  29.  @comeforaride  Thats like staging a house burglary in the process of which I beat my brother and break my windows, just to test the reflexes of the local police station
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  30. Nobody has free press mate, the only difference is that the Russians know that they dont while many of us in EU have not realized it yet.
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  31. What did you do with your Martin Luther King?
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  32.  @steamedham5412  yes he had all the time in the world sitting in his little basement and memorizing computer game stats
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  33.  @stefthorman8548  Its seems that you have a comprehension problem. I answered to the ''bro he literally served in the army what did you do?''. In US you might be thinking that anyone enlisting is ''special'' in countries with mandatory service everybody serves, so saying that once in a blue moon you were in the army means nothing unless you held very particular posts. Now I dont know how exactly Ryan gets a ''Mr Know it all'' status by serving as very heavy infantry 20 years ago.
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  34. a walking sand bag maybe
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  35. the dead pilots are not laughing though
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  36.  @jimmiekarlsson4458  that’s how all those tanks are knocked out, if you expect tank duels go back to playing WoT. Drones and mines and no tank can do anything about these right now.
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  37. ⁠ @antoniochalking the opinion about the jets is very valid. One of my mates is actually a HAF technical officer with specialty into detecting micro cracks on F-16, Rafale and Mirage 2000 airframes in service of the Greek Airforce. Possibly the only European airforce that takes its equipment to its limits. The F-16s that are destined for Ukraine are very old ones and basically they passed their service life if we consider the safety of the pilots a priority. Yes they fly, only because their initial use was against seagulls and not actual opponents that are actually trying to kill you or maneuver you to the point of causing an accident. But expect a lot of failures. That’s how the cookie crumbles. I urge you to ask a technical officer and get real answers.
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  38.  @WangAiHua  Oh you want a comment? Here is one. First time I visited Ukraine in 2002 I had to ask people to speak Ukrainian just to hear how they sound, cause everybody was speaking Russian.
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  39.  @marcodelguerra  Actually I’m Greek
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  40. In a sane world, one should dismiss completely types like Ryan and move on. But we don't live in a sane world and that greasy meatball was all out for a character assassination, so a reply was obligatory. In my country we have an expression ''you slayed him with a cotton swab''. It refers to a situation when a low intelligence rude boor is put into his place, with elegance, and why not sarcastic humor. Being a narcissist is toxic and negative by definition. Being a narcissist while you don't have the looks, brains, education or charisma, is tragic. Ryan is a tragic figure, and one can even sense his jealousy of Konstantin, when he refers to his qualities even as a jump point for straight sycophancy. Ryan is one of those extremely pedantic individuals, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel if that could provide them with a ''win'' cause they desperately need one. Expect him to come back again and again, cause that type never knows when to stop. I would not be surprised if he was on the payroll of one of those NGOs that run influencers online. Thats not a badge of honor or testament to his quality since these agencies now days will take in anyone.
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  41.  @Diaboli29A  Is that how he was assassinated? By too much appreciation?
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  42.  @avotia  Πλέον είναι οικονομικά αδύνατον όχι μόνο να μεθύσεις σε μαγαζί έξω, αλλά ούτε σπίτι σου με φίλους. Αν το σκεφτείς ένα Τζάκ από σουπερμάρκετ κοστίζει όσο το βασικό μεροκάματο ενός υπαλλήλου γραφείου.
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  43.  @avotia  Μας έχουν φάει την ζωή κανονικά. Ήμουν 29 όταν ξεκίνησε το πανηγύρι το 2008, τώρα είμαι 44 και ακόμη δεν υπάρχει φως. Χάσαμε τα πιο δημιουργικά μας χρόνια σε μια διαρκή κατάσταση ανάγκης κάθε φορά για καινούριο λόγο. Οι βορειοευρωπαιοι πρώτη φορά τώρα ζορίστηκαν και είναι ακόμα στην φάση ‘’νταξει μωρέ θα περασει’’ όπως κι εμείς στην αρχή. Αν δεν βγει κόσμος στον δρόμο αυτή η ιστορία θα κρατήσει μέχρι τα 60 μας.
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  44.  @MrBoxxer95  the 832 is before taxes and healthcare/insurance deductions. Now do you want to compare utility costs?
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  45. yeah crazy, I mean what he did wrong he only continued a civil war, trashed every agreement and was signing bogus petitions for EU membership on the same day that Ukrainian and Russian diplomats were met in order to compromise (at that point there were very few casualties and literally 3 bombed buildings in Kiev, most probably by the Ukrainian air-defence, that all the networks were showing again and again).
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  46. He has a whole video explaining that. And that’s exactly what makes the ‘’exposure’’ video of that greasy meatball, an attempt at character assassination. A half baked attempt or maybe half flipped…
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  47. Not one of the people who disagreed completely with the war, properly elaborated. In fact the reporter makes an effort every time to make them say more but they won’t. You can blame the Russian government for making them fear to openly express themselves publicly, but how can you blame the reporter? Unlike 1402 they don’t edit the material down, or make provocative snapshots with comic elements, in order to make the people with the ‘’wrong’’ opinion look foolish. Or find somebody who clearly has not the education and ability to express himself and then making him the main act.
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  48.  @steamedham5412  army service is mandatory in my country I’m an engineers corps sgt in reserve. And on top of that I didn’t end up like a greasy meatball lol
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  49.  @zhl5806 lol dude
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  50.  @eskualranjov241  I dont think that the Cam-girl Land is West mate
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  51. Well, in situations like this only the strong people remain.
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  52.  @TheHighlanderprime They are using leading questions and edit the material in a way that it would ‘’expose’’ the persons with the ‘’wrong’’ answers, even if their opinions actually makes sense.
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  53. The first time I went to Ukraine back in 2002, everybody around me spoke Russian, I mean even in Kiev. Since I was curious I had to ask my friends to speak Ukrainian to hear how they sound. To my ears they sounded like Russian with some Polish mixed in.
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  54. Actually its completely different. The Irish were under British occupation. Two separate people with completely different cultures. Your example does not apply at all.
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  55.  @mullichsir6568  Ukraine is not a member of NATO or a member of EU or any alliance whatsoever. Specifically you cant be a member of NATO if there are open territorial disputes, exactly because they dont want the alliance dragged into petty squabbles. NATO doesnt exist so that you can take back that plot of field that your grandpa lost 100 years ago. NATO exists as an enforcer of the American foreign policy abroad. The Budapest Memorandum is as much of a joke as the promise that NATO will not expand eastwards. Literally nobody even mentions it in the mainstream as a justification for the support against Russia. Simply because that would mean WW3 automatically. And guess what. All these Ukrainian social media handles and cheap talk would disappear in a day if people had to actually go there and fight instead of venting on the internet before dinner.
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  56.  @donaldengel4128  Your ‘’points’’ do not worth debating. You are giving yourself too much credit. You are a fan of Ryan’s work because you are the exact same self important pedantic type. You people will lay out spreadsheets, do mental gymnastics, twist obscure info hoping that nobody will notice, and most of all keep coming back again and again until you ‘’win’’ the argument in your mind cause nobody is willing to spend his whole day debating your BS points. So no pal. I’m not giving you what you want.
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  57.  @OleksaLogos  They never were a treaty party. People are bundling Ukrainians and Russians since forever and they still do today.
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  58.  @OleksaLogos  Yeah sure, this kind of thinking turned out so good for you after all. Right?
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  59. History is full of nuance and complexity. Hungary was indeed attacked by the USSR (with Ukraine being second SSR only to Russia) but one can argue that during WWII the Hungarians joined the nazis and got their punishment. The Soviets were not in Eastern Europe to pass around flowers and good wishes. They were there to punish nazi collaborator states and make sure that there would be a huge buffer zone that any invader would have to go through before reaching again the borders of the actual USSR. That’s what the Warsaw pact countries really was. A buffer zone with amenities. The big question is at what point this punitive stance, becomes unfair for the post WWII generations? And then the things get complicated, because the older generations might have their nest full of shit, but their kids and grand children haven’t done anything and cannot understand this collective punishment. From their perspective they fight for freedom against an oppressor. In my opinion both the Russians and the Hungarians dropping this grudge and deciding to find a way to at least have a healthy dialogue if they can’t be friendly altogether, is the the wisest choice. Like Hungary so in my country, Greece, the majority of people understand the reasons of this war and if not standing altogether with Russia, then they surely want this thing to end immediately with some kind of peace talks. The government and the media is another story altogether. They are talking as if they were taken prisoners by Brussels and US. And it’s not too far from the truth. We are clearly going against our public interest, and if there was not the excuse of having to hold on to our weapons because of Turkey, I’m sure that we would unload everything to Ukraine to be burned up in some failed tv offensive.
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  60. The real game changers were the FAB bombs, they combine destructive force with huge quantities. Every other ‘’game changer’’ was either an overhyped Cold War era machine that never saw real war, or too little too late to make a real difference.
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  61. Let me tell you a secret. MOST militaries in the world use equipment much much older than 20 years old. Actually 20 years old is quite modern. Stop pretending that if there was a WWIII these would not be the bulk of the vehicles in use. Unless you want to wait 20 years until Germany can produce a full fleet of Leopard A8 or their new Panther. And guess what. Even then these will be obsoleted by newer models but there will never be a large amount of them.
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  62. Hey Prigo!
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  63.  @sammiller6631  HAF doesnt fly Gripens, which could be a good addition due to their robustness but we are ''not allowed'' if you get my drift. We got to deal with certain ''shops'' only. Most people dont realize that those F-16s are too few, too finicky to service and most of all too old types. They were not modernized because their original owners only had to defend their sky from seagulls not an actual enemy. Those f-16 are no better than the MIG-29 Ukraine lost. In fact they are worse if we factor in the effort to train people to use them and service them.
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  64.  @sammiller6631  well if you don’t care for the safety of the pilots, yes it’s a good cheap solution
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  65. quickly call the Ukrainian police! Are you for real?
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  66. Well what matters is the age of the bulk of the armament not the smaller amounts of the late type equipment. Trying to deflect by using the ‘’it’s just old crap’’ argument is just coping. All the armies are full to the brim with old crap, which are still used cause they work.
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  67.  @willwebb3557  so you are admitting malicious intend towards Ukraine?
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  68.  @willwebb3557  giving them stripped down equipment that cannot stand in a modern field, isn’t malicious intend? You are bragging here that ‘’these are just some junk we had in the store room’’. So which is it?
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  69. It would be interested if you could look into the following questions in future videos. 1) Despite Prigo's stunt today, he is not wrong by saying that the Russian army under-performed in Ukraine and one would expect that especially Shoigu and Gerasimov would be replaced. OR maybe they ''cant'' be replaced. Is Putin for real the all powerful figure he appears as in the media? 2) Does the average pro-Putin Russian citizen has the same respect for Putin he had yesterday? Did they expect him to be more active? Maybe meet Prigo and defuse the situation instead of using Lukasenko as a proxy?
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  70.  @WangAiHua  Did you had a stroke mate?
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  71. The issue is that these are not exactly ''old traditions'' but Russian additions to the orthodox dogma and some of them are going beyond that. Thats why they were forced to dial it down by the Patriarch of Constantinople. In the very end all these theological issues dont matter, people are people everywhere. But its not like they are upholding an ancient tradition, its more that the diverged from it at some point in the past and stuck to this.
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  72.  @marcodelguerra  I don’t think that you understand the situation
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  73. which Ukrainians of all?
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  74. Btw i would like to add a little detail that many ''google experts'' in Greekonomics are missing and will also indicate why you cannot argue with somebody with local knowledge when your only tool is wikipedia. There is a certain peculiarity in Greek salaries that at least to my knowledge (please feel free to inform me) does not happen in other countries. The concept of ''Doro'' (gift). In Greece we dont receive 12 monthly wages per year, but 14. On Christmas you receive as ''gift'' from your employer one full extra wage. The term ''gift'' is a euphemism because its legislated and calculated in your taxes. Lets say that you are payed 1000 euros, on 21 of December the employer is obliged by law to give you one more wage, making your salary for December 2000 euros. On Easter you receive extra half of a wage, so according to our example 500+, and on the summer along with your payed vacation time you receive another half of a salary, so according to our example +500 euros. So an employee that receives 1000 euros per month, is actually receiving 14000 annually. I guess this seems wonderful. Not exactly. Because this is a mechanism created to ''patch you up'' financially with a little boost on the periods where most people have the most social and personal expenses AND also have various tax related payments. Its also a nice way to put the working class back to sleep. Now, that money are calculated in your annual income (and offcourse appear in the stats), but you dont have access to them but only on these three specific periods and 9 out of 10 are gone within the next days upon their arrival in your account.
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  75.  @Timrath  I used the prices from Sklavenitis and Vasilopoulos. If you notice the reportage, he is not going into a discount supermarket but a rather fancy one. Also all the prices come from normal brands not private labels and not special offers. You completely missed the point. PS btw which super market are you referring cause those prices look like something from last year. In all Athens you won’t find Pepsi under 1.20 on offer (normal price is 1,78) and Coca Cola have not been on offer at least for 1,5 year. Before that the two brands used to compete, at some point for some reason Coca Cola just stopped bothering and soon after that Pepsi raised its prices too.
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  76.  @kobi_pw  Thank you for your effort! if only more people did it instead of running their mouth. I have to ask something. You have access to Greek feta cheese or its just a local white cheese? Cause the price difference is very impressive and interesting.
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  77.  @henningbartels6245  Offbrand colas are from 0.80 to 1 euro. Juices have skyrocketed over 2 euros/lt. Generally everything is 30+% more expensive and keeps going.
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  78.  @UtilityCurve  its a french word
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  79.  @BigOz  ''while Western propaganda often emphasizes democratic values, human rights, and free market capitalism.'' Im afraid that you just fell victim to propaganda. I understand that those American platitudes about Democracy may still look shinny in the Eastern Europe, but over here (Greece), and since we kinda discovered the thing (Democracy), nobody bites with that stuff. They emphasize democratic values and human rights so much that they installed a military Junta in 67 through 74 and people were having the shit beat out of them in basements, sent to prison islands or were denied employment because their third's cousin neighbor might have said something sounding left wing. Imagine that. Installing Dictatorship in the land that copyrighted Democracy.
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  80. On the other hand, i saw some super fancy veterans returning home from Ukraine crying.
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  81.  @RZakelis  the ‘’guarantees’’ you mention had a clause of Ukrainian absolute neutrality. As soon as Ukraine was subverted by the US and turned into an unofficial NATO springboard, that contract was automatically null and void. You are not very clever are you?
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  82.  @RZakelis  you just proved how uneducated you are log out
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  83.  @blacktiger995  Dude Bald and Bankrupt literally got into top secret locations (well, abandoned but still restricted areas). Wtf are you about?
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  84.  @allistairneil8968  lol so much hurt
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  85.  @blacktiger995  If you watch videos of the same event from other angles you will see many people inside the cordoned area, around the tanks, this is getting ridiculous
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  86. Ironically the Schengen treaty was created in order to keep Eastern Europeans out. Before 2017 it was easier to import drugs in EU than getting a 6 months visa for a Ukrainian without a huge bank account.
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  87. Dont know about you mate. I think im going to do what the majority of people over here will do. Drink coffee frappe at the beach.
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  88.  @Антон-ъ6ж2е  You are right there is a small difference.
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  89. I dont know dude, maybe allowing nationalistic goons to take over and then proceed to divide and terrorize a big part of your population for a decade might have been a wrong call. Just saying... While you are boiling can you make me a tea? We have to save energy in EU because of your shit show.
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  90.  @eskualranjov241 Yes and Ukraine is straight out of the Borat films, having a pseudo-EU facade in Kiev doesnt change the reality in the rest of the country. Do you live in Ukraine or you escaped at the first chance?
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  91.  @aceyage  Geopolitics exists buddy, that’s why countries have diplomacy and that’s why certain things are a no go. For the same reason that US has the Monroe Doctrine and has actively undermined systematically all the South American countries, the same reason why they would not allow the sovereign nation of Cuba to host Soviet ballistic missiles, the same reason why they made veiled threads towards the Solomon Islands 2 years ago if they would host a Chinese base.
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  92.  @aceyage  It’s not word salad unless you are a toddler.
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  93.  @Erix442  Russia ‘s regime is authoritarian but nothing like a dictatorship. I don’t live in a dictatorship, but my parents lived through one (installed by the ever freedom loving US of A in the late 60’s). I grew up with tales of how was it, some are almost tragic comedies due to the mind boggling abuse of power by the state. I would describe it to a Russian as a reverse Soviet regime of the 50’s where the lefties or perceived as so, were hunted down. Even the slightest act or word against the regime could have you end up in a basement having your face rearranged by military police goons, and then if you were lucky you would end up unemployable as a marked communist, if you were unlucky you would end up in a rocky island, our version of Siberia. Certain composers and artists were completely censored while the political songs of the era were communicating in code. My father in the early 70’s was slapped in the middle of the street by a police man because he had a beard ( as it was the fashion then, that returned the latest years also) and beards had the partisans, and the partisans were communists ergo my father was a commie that had to be corrected.
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  94. how butthurt you must be to comment on some glasses lol
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  95.  @dylanculp3841  Tim Pool... ok
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  96.  @notactuallyADJ  It was an emotional piece, you have to admit it.
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  97.  @Thor.Jorgensen  You literally accused Konstantin of being in the Kremlin payroll, bringing as one of the ‘’evidence’’ his military service. Which now yourself admitted that is mandatory for all Russian men. So EVERYONE serves. I mean from 9 to 10 how much of a clown are you?
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  98.  @ДанилаГолованов-у2я  I imagine that sounding like an 80’s summer blockbuster trailer overdub lol
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  99.  @mullichsir6568  Well my dude I have news for you. Nobody from the core EU countries, I’m not talking about the Eurovision second gear states added last just for cheap labour and German exports, is going to fight a war in Ukraine. The moment something like that would be announced is the moment where this whole construct goes down. You keep forgetting that Western Europe lived without you guys all these Cold War years. It’s very easy to shut you out and pretend you are not there for the average citizen if that goes in the way of his actual life. If the scores of well to do Ukrainians who are prancing around in our nightclubs and beaches don’t have any serious moral dilemma between their loyalty to their country and the obligation towards their family, guess how much that multiplies for the average European.
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  100. when he took that little pause, I laughed out loud
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  101. You are really coping, aren't you? Offcourse Ryan will respond, its the characteristic of petty, pedantic, self important keyboard basement dwelling warriors.
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  102.  @donaldengel4128  Off course you are Ryan's subscriber, his channel is a perfect fit for your type.
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  103.  @donaldengel4128  Show us on the doll where Konstantin hurt you
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  104.  @OleksaLogos  Hate to rain on your little parade but, Bismarck in that statement meant you too guys...
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  105.  @joerosa170  yeah also help grannies across the street
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  106.  @cosmosj7907 The Russians are using the American and Ukrainian propaganda in reverse, why does this surprises you? You are right. There is nothing magical about these vehicles, in fact in a real war, these are meant to be destroyed in massive numbers, hoping that in the mean time they do their job in turning the tide. But the ridiculous politicians and their spin doctors in the media created the narrative of invincibility. Well off course the Russians will now rub this on their faces.
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  107.  @sh_chef92  if you meant ''souvenir'' country, you got that right
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  108.  @truxton1000  During my military service in 2000, I had a G3 A4 rifle, basically a late 70’s-early 80s weapon. The Leopard 1 A4 was still in service, with the bulk of the fleet being Leo 2 A4. Even in the US military where the armaments is basically a huge money laundering scheme, there is old equipment. Those people who think that actual militaries, especially of countries who are not in the perpetual war business, somehow press a button and ‘’upgrade’’ everything as if life is a computer game, are delusional or ignorant.
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  109.  @ooltimu  maybe your grandparents should not have join the nazis mate
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  110. How to tell me that you have never been in Ukraine, without telling me that you have never been in Ukraine.
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  111.  @Denys101  several times since 2002, way before the maniacs took over and killed their own people
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  112.  @KrestTeem  But arent your weapons fully functional automatics that you just feed with blanks+ the attachment on the barrel to help the bolt cycle?
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  113.  @mitchrodee  My dude you are extremely biased and you are just reaching, you don’t have a solid argument yourself as you might think. Yes Ukraine held much better than anyone would think because an unprecedented amount of money and weapons were poured in, even before the war officially started. But at what cost? It’s male population. The losses are tremendous and the US and EU (because the US twists our politicians arm) keeps pouring in equipment and throwing them back into the ring. These people have not real experience on that kind of equipment and all the ex-soviet equipment that could be gathered and sent is already burnt. Yes it’s like sending over weapons to be captured and people to get killed. That’s exactly the reason why US felt the need to DOWNGRADE the Abrams tanks they would sent over. That’s why they are not providing training on the latest variants of F16 but try to do with Dutch junk that only flew against seagulls.
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  114. dude that's happening since the bronze age
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  115. You mean that he doesnt present everybody as a baby eating monster that steals washing machines from a country with much worse living standards than Russia?
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  116. So your solution is a revolt that will cause chaos in Russia, most possible breaking up in pieces and several years of Mad Max style situations. I think they call that ''90's'' over there and Im fairly sure that they dont want that. Maybe on the other side we should maintain trade and diplomatic relations, tell NATO and the US to F off back to their planet, make sure that Ukraine is a neutral country militarily, with possible options for closer ties to the EU. And everybody gets to live. But we cant have that. Can we?
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  117. He sure makes more sense than the NATO and US leadership
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  118.  @willwebb3557  never said that? A few posts upwards you are claiming that ‘’a whole bunch has changed since 1986’’ basically admitting that the M1A1 is obsolete in a 2024 battlefield. Are you brain damaged? The truth is that all that Cold War equipment was never tested in a real battlefield and your escapades against aboriginals for the last 50+ years doesn’t count. In an intensive modern warfare environment all these tanks are considered expendable and are expected to be lost in large numbers. The large number of tanks lost both from Ukraine and Russia, is not a result of the extremely bad quality of their tanks, but of the intensity of combat. The Russians lost so many T-90s cause they are actually using them, they are not garage queens like the Challys to be paraded once and then safely tucked away. The same goes for the Ukrainians who have gone through their whole stock and the stock of almost all the ex Warsaw pact countries. The M1 A1 you sent were not even export versions. They were purposely downgraded versions and combining this with the natural cons of a vehicle that is needlessly heavy, of high profile and needs a gas station attached to it, you didn’t provide help. You provided high profile death traps advertised as ‘’game changers’’. Well the game changers ended up being opened like a can of sardines and now you don’t like the fact that the Russians turned your own propaganda against you. Yes those are some old junk you sent. I know it, you know it but the public in US and EU was bombarded 24/7 by your payed media that these were wonder weapons, and because the plebs are who they are, they believed that. Now try to tell them that it’s not so.
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  119.  @SmellyCat-j7n What exactly are your rights?
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  120.  @donjohnson5123  He is very aware of the reality. You know nature is like a production line and as in a production line, some products do not function as intended. Now since we are talking about people, I do believe that society should give them some space and respect, but demanding to change the 95% of society for the malfunctioning 5% is a big stretch.
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  121. In Ireland its more of a political division, than a religious one. The Protestants are considered as affiliated to the English invaders.
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  122.  @weirdo1060 Germany admitted nothing, in fact to this day they refuse to pay reparations under various excuses. They just pretended that they were sorry after being crushed but privately they maintained the same mindset and that is showing in any chance.
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  123. Let me tell you how much they ''cared'' for the Ukrainians. Up until 2017 it was easier to import plutonium in Schengen countries, than to invite a Ukrainian friend for vacations. Ukrainians were considered a priori suspects of illegal immigration unless they had a very big bank account. Something extremely rare in a country where many people on average got under 300 euros salary and struggled to buy anything more than a Lada.
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  124.  @JamesSmith-ix5jd  Do you feel that Putin handled the situation good or did you expected another reaction?
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  125. Well, the Orthodox Church is the original church after all, so I dont understand the ''christian background'' statement. I mean you probably mean some kind of American off shot/sect of Protestantism and then the icons of Orthodoxy, should be the least theological issue.
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  126. And that goes both ways.
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  127.  @MrBoxxer95  The pocket money of the basic wage in Greece are 667 euros. You dont have to go absurd for 300 euros utilities. Actually thats around the amount most people pay when you add everything up and it can get higher than that. You know, google will only get you that far.... I didnt say anywhere that Russians as a whole live better than Greeks. I simply resisted the notions of butt hurt Polish trolls that somehow the conditions in Russia are generally abysmal while in Europe everybody is dining with silver spoons without taking into account the purchasing power. There are great discrepancies even between EU countries. And I dont even count in those third gear EU countries that are so, only in name.
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  128.  @fridest  By grocery store I guess you refer to your equivalent of ‘’magazin’’ and not to a supermarket. Anyway I will try to answer for both. Most of the neighbourhood grocery stores are mom and pap businesses and they maybe have up to 3 employees, but most usually one or two plus the owner who is also working. Supermarkets depending on the size can have 50-60 or more employees. In most cases they are all considered unskilled workforce and receive the basic salary, which is around 650 euros, pocket money after all the deductions for pension and healthcare/taxes. Small grocery stores usually they are open in the morning, they close down at midday and open again in the afternoons for about 3 hours. Legally an employee should work for 8 hours but in todays reality, yeah good luck with that. They are also expected to place products, clean the store etc. it is illegal to charge any loses of the store due to negligence or theft to the employee, but one too many and you are out without a job. The supermarkets are open from 8 in the morning till 9 in the evening. The employees used to work in 8 hours shifts before the neo-liberal onslaught. Now there is a small core of 8 hours employees, those are the privileged ones, that have full labour rights. The majority are 4 hour and 6 hours ‘’part time’’ employees. I used quotes because the majority of them are forced to work for 8 hours most of the time without pay but even when they are given overtime pay this is calculated against them by the state ending up in to raised taxation that normally would refer to ‘’extra’’ income but due to the reality of the situation it’s their normal income. I have a friend who worked as a cashier in one of the largest supermarket chains in Greece and when she asked me something about her taxes in the springtime when we are filling our income declarations, I totally freaked out because she was getting less than half of my income but had to pay a lot more taxes without owing any real estate. In the recent past the government changed the law where you were entitled an automatic raise for every grouping of three years term that you have as an employee in a certain field, and that was transferable to a possibly new employer. Now you get a raise if and when your employer feels like regardless of your years of expertise in that sector. Your salary will be the product of a negotiation with your employer. As Achilles said to Hector’s pleadings for delivering his dead body to his parents, ‘’since when the lions bargain with the sheep?’’. The employees again cannot be charged for any theft or damage but as I said that can be the cause of being fired. I have seen many times in supermarkets cashiers or security placing products or advertisements, something that’s clearly not their job description. Average rent for a three room apartment 350-400 euros. Average cost of utilities in the present situation is around 250 euros if you are very careful. The average internet/telephone flat rate is 30-35 euros, the cheapest mobile connection is around 20 euros and via card it’s 13 euros per month.
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  129.  @fridest  in Greece VAT is 24% some categories of essential food is at 13%. In supermarkets and other businesses of the kind it’s also forbidden to sit, the employees are taking their 20 min break but only in one chain that I know ( a friend works there) they are allowed to sit in the cafeteria that is on the last floor and take something for lunch. The government in 2010 ( same party as today different prime minister) introduced a law where people under 30 were payed 550 euros. The basic salary back then was I think 680 for unskilled hand labour and 750 for an office job. The law was supposed to give the incentive of hiring young people so the government could make the horrible youth unemployment statistics look better. Guess what happened. Many companies and not just small ones even Coca Cola did it, fired their existing personnel to the degree that it was possible, and replaced it with young people working for this new lowered wage. That carried on until 2017 if im not mistaken, I remember that it was one of the very few things that the Tsipras government managed to reverse, but the universal again for all age groups basic wage remained at the lowered 650 euros. Basically you can’t exist which that kind of money and that’s the reason why most Greek young people stay with their parents even after 30 years old. It’s very difficult to rent alone, if you don’t have financial help from your parents or a relationship that will move in and split the costs. It’s virtually impossible to buy an apartment without an eternity of debt and even if you are ok with that the bank no longer provide loans. Despite the fact that they were saved from bankruptcy 3 times with state money, instead of being nationalised since they failed to keep their house in order, they remained private institutions with the promise of providing liquidity in the market. Well guess what. They lied and nothing happened to them. The only way that the situation did not lead to generalised tragedy was that Greeks for the most part still own their own home, thus providing shelter to their set to fail kids and also for the most part the private debt was relatively low. For example the generalised use of credit cards and bank loans in Greece became a thing in the late 90’s before that credit cards was an oddity for very rich people and even then most shops under a certain level could not accept them. The banks were not giving out loans because drachma was a soft currency, but that made it very easy to build or buy your own house. It’s those houses that the neo-liberals are after now basically.
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  130.  @Лунтик-с5у  well then you will have to explain that to all those Ukrainian strippers and cleaning ladies
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  131. like the ''linguist'' he brought on?
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  132.  @raidermaxx2324  yes you nuked others
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  133.  @henningbartels6245  thats was a super retarded argument. And I dont buy lemons, I have 3 big trees in the garden, does that mean that they are not more expensive?
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  134.  @henningbartels6245  Pepsi Cola in Greek supermarkets was going from 1.20 to 0.70 (there were frequent periods of discounts) now its 1.78.
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  135.  @tertiusduplessis2581 I watched the clown on TV signing a petition for EU membership when it was made clear to him privately AND publicly that this aint going to happen. The very same time when the Russian and Ukrainian diplomats were having a meeting. Up to that point there were only minor skirmishes and low casualties. Everything could be put back in the box. This is public knowledge literally shown world wide on TV. Zelensky by following the orders of his masters killed his people by getting them in a fight they cannot possibly ever win.
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  136.  @bradleyheights5905  Ok reality check for Americans. Poland is a non entity EU wise. A pariah third gear country only getting American attention because of its use against Russia. 10 years ago they were still scrubbing toilets in Europe and they only now managed to reach some semblance of European living standards. The 4% statistic figures is like saying that in Somalia there is a 10% growth. That meaning they installed a public water faucet in the central square and the people wont have to drink mud water. France is the only serious player with a still capable military, but also the less eager country to go directly against Russia. UK is like an old aristocrat dressed in tattered silks who cant pay the tax bill of his estates. We are talking about submarines with super glued bolts and a shadow of a military. Finland is like 10 people. They might have an anti-Russian chip on their shoulder but I highly doubt that they would be willing to poke the bear. Getting into NATO was a completely stupid move that will only cost them money that could be spent in better ways. Generally the majority of the EU countries have a military only for parades and they downgraded their military spending because THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO THREAT. The only country that is armed in a dis-proportioned way, still has a ''traditional'' mandatory military service and has an airforce with actual experience in real life dogfights is Greece, and that's because of the issues with Turkey. Good luck with re-introducing mandatory military service in the broader EU again.
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  137.  @BigOz  Im afraid that you know nothing of what you are talking about. Just to show you how much you ''know'' the USSR did not support DSE, it was Bulgaria and Albania who did, and only because they had their own agenda regarding certain regions. Stalin remained neutral because they already had the Yalta agreement and Greece was agreed to be under British influence. With the collapsing state of the British Empire, the US stepped in. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
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  138.  @BigOz  About the US part. You will be surprised that what the Americans did (and did alot) dwarfs the British actions that directly caused the civil war in a very similar way of what happened in Ukraine.
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  139.  @BigOz  The Americans will take you out in a nice dinner, they will drive you home and then tell you to drop your pants. The Chinese will throw you some money and ask you to drop your pants. The Russians will punch you in the face and pull your pants down. Either way you are going to get fucked.
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  140. As a Greek I also understand how Russia was dragged in this war. Ironically enough the EU could not spare anything during the financial crisis, instead the Germans beat all the European South with an iron bar just for making an example, while other solutions existed. During the Covid years they denied also financial help and not only ignored the people of Spain and Italy who had so may casualties, but on top of that they were snatching mask cargoes from China in the airports. So many people lost their homes, their jobs, or saw their income severely reduced by the very same people who now expect us to cart boatloads of money in a country that is not even a proper prospect member and makes the corruption of the european south to look like Switzerland. WTF is this?
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  141.  @SmellyCat-j7n I look with a very critical eye both those ''traditionalists'' who many times have skeletons in their closet, but also the whole LGBT and whatever cat walk on keyboard follows. You have the right to do whatever you want in your bed, in my opinion you should also have the right of some form of social contract that takes of matters like inheritance or other legal issues. And somewhere there the madness stops. You should not be able to adopt children, you should not be able to exploit poor women as surrogate mothers, and you should not be over-represented in the media. You are a tiny tiny fraction of the society and there is a real natural reason why that happens. People who think that they are Napoleon are also a tiny fraction of the society, we dont dress in 18th century uniforms and parade in front of them for inspection. The uncomfortable truth.
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  142. There is only a huge WTF in my mind right now.
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