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

  1. Well, in situations like this only the strong people remain.
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  2.  @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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5.  @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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  6.  @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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  7.  @OleksaLogos  They never were a treaty party. People are bundling Ukrainians and Russians since forever and they still do today.
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  8.  @OleksaLogos  Yeah sure, this kind of thinking turned out so good for you after all. Right?
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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. Hey Prigo!
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  13.  @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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  14.  @sammiller6631  well if you don’t care for the safety of the pilots, yes it’s a good cheap solution
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  15. quickly call the Ukrainian police! Are you for real?
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  16. 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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  17.  @willwebb3557  so you are admitting malicious intend towards Ukraine?
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  18.  @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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  19. 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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  20.  @WangAiHua  Did you had a stroke mate?
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  21. 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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  22.  @marcodelguerra  I don’t think that you understand the situation
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  23. which Ukrainians of all?
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  24. 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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  25.  @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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  26.  @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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  27.  @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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  28.  @UtilityCurve  its a french word
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  29.  @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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  30. On the other hand, i saw some super fancy veterans returning home from Ukraine crying.
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  31.  @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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  32.  @RZakelis  you just proved how uneducated you are log out
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  33.  @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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  34.  @allistairneil8968  lol so much hurt
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  35.  @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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38.  @Антон-ъ6ж2е  You are right there is a small difference.
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  39. 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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  40.  @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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  41.  @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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  42.  @aceyage  It’s not word salad unless you are a toddler.
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  43.  @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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  44. how butthurt you must be to comment on some glasses lol
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  45.  @dylanculp3841  Tim Pool... ok
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  46.  @notactuallyADJ  It was an emotional piece, you have to admit it.
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  47.  @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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  48.  @ДанилаГолованов-у2я  I imagine that sounding like an 80’s summer blockbuster trailer overdub lol
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  49.  @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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  50. when he took that little pause, I laughed out loud
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