Something Estonians forget: Tallinn was controlled by the Danes from 1219 to 1227. The Germans controlled Tallinn from 1227 to 1343.The Danes came back and stayed from 1343 to 1561. The Swedes took over in 1561 and held it until 1721. Russian Empire acquired in 1721, and held it until 1918. Essentially in last 100 years, they may have had some sort of independence for like 50 years... maybe. During WWII Estonian government in exile collaborated with The Third Reich. Large number of Estonians served in Waffen SS. Russians didn't forget that. These pawns need to sit down. Otherwise they'll be swept into Baltic Sea for good this time around.
@@louislinsley3128 The US will find a way to abandon these micronations. But sending their miniscule armies to Ukraine will put targets on their backs.
@@louislinsley3128 you think that’s a game changer lol The Baltic states are the ones with the biggest mouth trying to start a war with Russia to drag NATO in to WW3 and nukes dropping on you.
NATO is an alliance of sovereign states, with their own foreign policies. If Turkey invades Syria, it's not NATO invading Syria. But if Syria were to attack Turkey, it could invoke article 5. If the US fights Islamic terrorists in the Middle East, it's not NATO fighting in the Middle East. But if if Islamic terrorists attack New York, the US can invoke article 5. In fact, that was the only time article 5 was invoked up to now. FYI, Estonian troops were deployed in Afghanistan.
A frog punched the elephant foot and asked the elephant whether its punch hurt the elephant, that is what the funny Estonia threat against Russia looks like.
I don't know which is better joke. The Estonians training the ukrainians, or the new Zealanders training the ukrainians. How about the Estonians and new Zealanders paying top dollar by hiring the ukrainian soldiers to teach them a thing or two about real hot war. That will be more serious thing to do.
Jõhvi, Narva and Maardu and parts of Tallinn have a huge Russian minority. Everyone is expecting the attack from the East. However that is from where Russia will not strike. Already the government of Estonia has made many fatal errors. One ruling party has cut costs on the military for 20 years straight in assumption that we are safe under NATO. This and many other errors done with it's own people will bite back hard. Russia needs to take 2/3 of the territory and there would be no way of dislodging the troops by any means. So it's a very bleak future.
Wow,....this Kharkiv offensive is looking pretty pathetic now. Russia's advanced 7-9km from its OWN BORDER,...because,....Ukraine couldn't build defenses right next to the Russian border so this was all unfortified territory. Contrast Russia's current ability to move forward against Feb 2022 when Russia half enveloped Kharkiv in the first month. And all this BEFORE US aid, or Czech artillery shells, or F16s have arrived in any impactful way. Who wants to bet VOR will stop discussing it over the next 2 weeks? Just like he doesn't discuss Russia's inability to kick Ukraine out of Krynky.
Is that right? Here's a fun experiment: Take the GDP per capita of all the former Soviet states who have joined EU & NATO and compare them to Russia's GDP. The average is 141% of Russia's GDP. Now do the same for all former Soviet states who are NOT part of EU & NATO, effectively Russia's "sphere of influence". The average is 42% of Russia's GDP. No, I did not miss a number. Is it really so hard to understand that Ukraine and Georgia and Moldova prefer to be wealthy as part of EU over impoverished as part of Russia's sphere of influence?
It's indeed not hard to understand that Ukraine wants to be part of the West. Kiev could have achieved this goal without a war by a) guaranteeing minority rights of ethnic Russians in the eastern part of the country and b) by opting for neutrality as Switzerland and Ausria. But instead it opted for suppressing the Russian minority and for NATO membership. That did make absolute sense - not for Ukraine but for the United States which seeks to deprive Russia from its position as a great power. The problem here is that a relevant comparison of strenght has to be made in manpower instead of GDP. You can't win a war just with Dollars and weaponry. What counts is the number of soldiers you can field. Comparing the size of populations Ukraine is an a weak position. Now, we have just two possible scenarios: The disadvantage ofa lack of manpower is balanced by sending NATO troops into Ukraine - which inevitably will trigger WW III- or to accept that the whole Ukrainian project did fail. @@truthseekerodinson5094
Estonia averidge sallary is 4 times that in russia, they also have 100% cover of indoor toilets. Something what russians dont have, not to mention life expectansy much higher and quality of life index many times better than what russia got. When i go to russia it looks like tallinn 30 years ago, and tallinn looks like skandinavian capital
@@kasperiization I Know! A researcher on economics and frequent visitor to Russia, for decades, says that 67% of rural Russians Do Not have Indoor Plumbing!? They haul water into their homes and poop Outside?! I'll bet that they All get State TV... huh.
Imo - the Baltic Sea States of Finland, Estonia and Sweden should have formed an own alliance and not joined nato. Denmark, Norway, Latvia and Lithuania could also join. This should make Northern Europe safer and the warmongers in DC can go to hell. _These countries have their own military industry; Namo, Patria, SAAB, Bofors, Sako, Hägglunds etc. This means that they wount be subject to American MIC blackmail, and in times of war independent of external suppliers._
In Soviet Union there was a joke: If Russians rush into Baltic limitrophes, the main thing is to push brake pedal on time, otherwise you'd run straight into Baltic Sea.
LOL,...Zelensky says that the "situation around Kharkiv has stablized" at the same time that Putin is changing his tune and saying that the 50,000 troops Kharkiv offensive is just to "create a buffer zone". Those 7km really make Russia feel safe. So lucky that VOR said that Russia's goal isn't to take land. Land not taken = Mission accomplished. The real goal all along is "take whatever we can", its just that they can't take much. At least not land,....washing machines only. And again,....before US supplies have arrived in earnest. Before Czech's June supply of 180K shells have arrived. Before F16s arrive.
Mariupol, Bakmut, and Adiivka............. Over 2 years, tens upon tens of thousands of young Russian men, over 3 thousand tanks and 12 thousand other weapons and eqiupment lost, Sweden and Finland now in Nato with no intentions to join prior to Feb 22............... A truly outstanding result for the Russian Bear................ Wow! 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤣🤣🤣
You saw the results? 87% vote for Putin with the other 4 candidates all getting 3.5% +/- 0.2. Half-decent, or anti-war, candidates barred from running for "spelling errors" and,....Navalny (the actual opposition leader) dies in jail. Here's some things that voters might normally care about in an election: -->water pipes bursting all over Moscow, -->Wagner's Thunder Run which made Putin flee Moscow -->dams collapsing, flooding 500K population centers -->16% interest rates (voters LOVE high interest rates), --> similar levels of inflation, --> Massive war defeats at Kharkhiv region, loss of Kherson, --> Loss of the Moskva flagship, loss of the Black sea to Ukraine's zero-navy drone boats. -->Massacre at the Moscow theatre -->Gazprom, Russia's most powerful corporation, going from $30B profit to -$7B loss. No serious person could believe that Putin has 87% support. Any one of the above issues alone could threaten or sink a democracy's leadership, particularly if the person has been in power too long,....Putin since 1999. VOR = believe-it-or-not propaganda.
To the Russian leadership - and to me, since I was first there (in Tallinn and Riga) in 1977, and frequently in subsequent years - it’s clear that the Baltic States do not belong to what Samuel Huntington referred to as the “Orthodox Civilization”. Their majority populations belong to the “Western Civilization”. In the pre-conflict period (prior to 2014 and particularly 2022) Russia - while concerned about the rights of the Baltic States’ large Russian-speaking minority populations, and while desirous of obtaining more free access to their Baltic Sea ports (which the USSR of course had prior to its collapse) - had no intentions to invade or otherwise intervene militarily in these countries. In the wake of the outbreak of the NATO-Russia War things have changed. Not entirely - no invasion is imminent at the present time - but nevertheless in a fundamental way. For historical reasons the current rulers of the Baltic States are extremely hostile to Russia. However, there is no rational reason for the United States to become involved in their disputes. The maximum logical extent of NATO expansion should have been Poland (the Curzon Line); to avoid threatening Russia; America should have sought to maintain the Baltic States as part of a neutral buffer zone between Russia and the West. It did not, and now we run the extreme risk of a “wag the dog” situation in which hotheads in the Baltics try to draw the U.S. into a conflict with Russia which lies completely outside America’s national interest. Same goes for Finland, to some extent Romania and Bulgaria, and - of course - the Ukraine. But the toothpaste is out of the tube, as they say, and there’s no putting it back in... while at the same time potential for conflict in Asia looms large (and, BTW, President Putin prepares to travel to Beijing). As Mearsheimer likes to say, our “betters” have clearly been “remarkably foolish”.
I mostly like your news analysis, but you are sometimes fooled and ridiculous yourself. Russia has had elections many times, but the result is all the time the same. Should we call this an election?
Keep on rockin’ in the ZOG world
Has “Fiddling while Rome Burns”, been replaced with:
“Playing guitars while Ukraine burns”?
same fiddlers
Something Estonians forget: Tallinn was controlled by the Danes from 1219 to 1227. The Germans controlled Tallinn from 1227 to 1343.The Danes came back and stayed from 1343 to 1561. The Swedes took over in 1561 and held it until 1721. Russian Empire acquired in 1721, and held it until 1918. Essentially in last 100 years, they may have had some sort of independence for like 50 years... maybe.
During WWII Estonian government in exile collaborated with The Third Reich. Large number of Estonians served in Waffen SS. Russians didn't forget that. These pawns need to sit down. Otherwise they'll be swept into Baltic Sea for good this time around.
Amen.
alexy, you've left out One thing... The Baltic States are freakin' NATO States! oops.
@@louislinsley3128 The US will find a way to abandon these micronations. But sending their miniscule armies to Ukraine will put targets on their backs.
@@louislinsley3128 you think that’s a game changer lol
The Baltic states are the ones with the biggest mouth trying to start a war with Russia to drag NATO in to WW3 and nukes dropping on you.
@@louislinsley3128 This NATO article 5 is fried baloney.
Slovak PM, anti Ukraine, was shot. Zelensky cancelled his EU travels....
What?
In Greek tv was announced 15 minutes ago that he was shot and he is in the hospital. I pray for his life , 🙏
You sound like someone who tell the truth , I subscribe.
It's fitting that keep On Rockin in the free World was satire.
Great channel.
One of the best.
he is rocking in the free world ahahahahah you are too strong :D
and when Blinken left and went back stage he gave everyone a reach around.
No mention about Slovakia Prime Minister Assassination attempt?
Emperor Augustus: "Varus Varus where are my Legions!"
President Biden:
"Zelensky Zelensky where are my Billions!"
😂😂😂
NATO is an alliance of sovereign states, with their own foreign policies. If Turkey invades Syria, it's not NATO invading Syria. But if Syria were to attack Turkey, it could invoke article 5. If the US fights Islamic terrorists in the Middle East, it's not NATO fighting in the Middle East. But if if Islamic terrorists attack New York, the US can invoke article 5. In fact, that was the only time article 5 was invoked up to now. FYI, Estonian troops were deployed in Afghanistan.
A frog punched the elephant foot and asked the elephant whether its punch hurt the elephant, that is what the funny Estonia threat against Russia looks like.
1:56 - thank you. It was starting to infuriate me. That freakin’ guy.
Coffee guy here. Enjoy. You have never covered about Middle East situation.
Do you think to cover that sometimes?
Global war, yes.
Mean Tweets, no
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Rocking in the free world.
That coffee has had a good effect..that was excellent M and F! J
Why would anyone trust NATO at this point
Yes it's his new band called Tony and the Neo-cons with their new hit songs "where's all the money gone?" and "Elenskyy don't lose my number"
Strumming on a guitar while the Russians are closing in and the country burns
I don't know which is better joke. The Estonians training the ukrainians, or the new Zealanders training the ukrainians.
How about the Estonians and new Zealanders paying top dollar by hiring the ukrainian soldiers to teach them a thing or two about real hot war.
That will be more serious thing to do.
Anthony blinken + loudspeakers = Ukraine win
(Remember the movie 'Mars attack ')
Estonia reminds me of that little guy talking tough with his three big brothers.
These Esthonians are mentally unbalanced.
Russia is that little guy emotionally
Jõhvi, Narva and Maardu and parts of Tallinn have a huge Russian minority. Everyone is expecting the attack from the East. However that is from where Russia will not strike. Already the government of Estonia has made many fatal errors. One ruling party has cut costs on the military for 20 years straight in assumption that we are safe under NATO. This and many other errors done with it's own people will bite back hard. Russia needs to take 2/3 of the territory and there would be no way of dislodging the troops by any means. So it's a very bleak future.
A chihuahua wants to fight a bear it looks !
A chihuahua with a Pack of Big Dogs backing it up. yes?
Salute for your coffee and you Sir
6:20 or Gripen JAS-39 from Gotland
Estonia is talking and provoking.. they have some issues… the Nordic countries have moved in military to Estonia 🇪🇪 to keep them calm…
CV90 has a 40mm canon
And they ran out of steam, and on their way back again, 1 step forward 2 back 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Wow,....this Kharkiv offensive is looking pretty pathetic now. Russia's advanced 7-9km from its OWN BORDER,...because,....Ukraine couldn't build defenses right next to the Russian border so this was all unfortified territory. Contrast Russia's current ability to move forward against Feb 2022 when Russia half enveloped Kharkiv in the first month. And all this BEFORE US aid, or Czech artillery shells, or F16s have arrived in any impactful way.
Who wants to bet VOR will stop discussing it over the next 2 weeks? Just like he doesn't discuss Russia's inability to kick Ukraine out of Krynky.
Russians are in the right side in this conflict 🇷🇺🇷🇺
Is that right? Here's a fun experiment:
Take the GDP per capita of all the former Soviet states who have joined EU & NATO and compare them to Russia's GDP. The average is 141% of Russia's GDP.
Now do the same for all former Soviet states who are NOT part of EU & NATO, effectively Russia's "sphere of influence". The average is 42% of Russia's GDP. No, I did not miss a number.
Is it really so hard to understand that Ukraine and Georgia and Moldova prefer to be wealthy as part of EU over impoverished as part of Russia's sphere of influence?
It's indeed not hard to understand that Ukraine wants to be part of the West. Kiev could have achieved this goal without a war by a) guaranteeing minority rights of ethnic Russians in the eastern part of the country and b) by opting for neutrality as Switzerland and Ausria. But instead it opted for suppressing the Russian minority and for NATO membership. That did make absolute sense - not for Ukraine but for the United States which seeks to deprive Russia from its position as a great power. The problem here is that a relevant comparison of strenght has to be made in manpower instead of GDP. You can't win a war just with Dollars and weaponry. What counts is the number of soldiers you can field. Comparing the size of populations Ukraine is an a weak position. Now, we have just two possible scenarios: The disadvantage ofa lack of manpower is balanced by sending NATO troops into Ukraine - which inevitably will trigger WW III- or to accept that the whole Ukrainian project did fail. @@truthseekerodinson5094
Estonia reminds me of the 1959 movie "The mouse that roared"....
Huh.. I like that movie.. As I recall, they did just fine with Western Power support.. right?
Estonia averidge sallary is 4 times that in russia, they also have 100% cover of indoor toilets. Something what russians dont have, not to mention life expectansy much higher and quality of life index many times better than what russia got. When i go to russia it looks like tallinn 30 years ago, and tallinn looks like skandinavian capital
@@kasperiization they also have a considerable Nazi past, which carries over to the present...long live the mouse that roared!!!
@@kasperiization I Know!
A researcher on economics and frequent visitor to Russia, for decades, says that 67% of rural Russians Do Not have Indoor Plumbing!?
They haul water into their homes and poop Outside?!
I'll bet that they All get State TV... huh.
Let's go
No! M and F. My first cup must be Tea! J
Estonia will be made an example out of.
Imo - the Baltic Sea States of Finland, Estonia and Sweden should have formed an own alliance and not joined nato. Denmark, Norway, Latvia and Lithuania could also join.
This should make Northern Europe safer and the warmongers in DC can go to hell.
_These countries have their own military industry; Namo, Patria, SAAB, Bofors, Sako, Hägglunds etc. This means that they wount be subject to American MIC blackmail, and in times of war independent of external suppliers._
Estonia sleepwalking in to war
In Soviet Union there was a joke: If Russians rush into Baltic limitrophes, the main thing is to push brake pedal on time, otherwise you'd run straight into Baltic Sea.
LOL,...Zelensky says that the "situation around Kharkiv has stablized" at the same time that Putin is changing his tune and saying that the 50,000 troops Kharkiv offensive is just to "create a buffer zone". Those 7km really make Russia feel safe.
So lucky that VOR said that Russia's goal isn't to take land. Land not taken = Mission accomplished. The real goal all along is "take whatever we can", its just that they can't take much. At least not land,....washing machines only.
And again,....before US supplies have arrived in earnest. Before Czech's June supply of 180K shells have arrived. Before F16s arrive.
Yes it does
Mariupol, Bakmut, and Adiivka............. Over 2 years, tens upon tens of thousands of young Russian men, over 3 thousand tanks and 12 thousand other weapons and eqiupment lost, Sweden and Finland now in Nato with no intentions to join prior to Feb 22...............
A truly outstanding result for the Russian Bear................
Wow! 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤣🤣🤣
lad, chihuahuas are so annoying.
Jaysis wept Ireland has better ISTAR than Estonia and they aren't in NATO and on Russia's border, maybe they should sit this one out.
Do you have so much trust for the russian elections and their results?
But yeah, still great, that there WERE elections
You saw the results? 87% vote for Putin with the other 4 candidates all getting 3.5% +/- 0.2. Half-decent, or anti-war, candidates barred from running for "spelling errors" and,....Navalny (the actual opposition leader) dies in jail.
Here's some things that voters might normally care about in an election:
-->water pipes bursting all over Moscow,
-->Wagner's Thunder Run which made Putin flee Moscow
-->dams collapsing, flooding 500K population centers
-->16% interest rates (voters LOVE high interest rates),
--> similar levels of inflation,
--> Massive war defeats at Kharkhiv region, loss of Kherson,
--> Loss of the Moskva flagship, loss of the Black sea to Ukraine's zero-navy drone boats.
-->Massacre at the Moscow theatre
-->Gazprom, Russia's most powerful corporation, going from $30B profit to -$7B loss.
No serious person could believe that Putin has 87% support. Any one of the above issues alone could threaten or sink a democracy's leadership, particularly if the person has been in power too long,....Putin since 1999. VOR = believe-it-or-not propaganda.
To the Russian leadership - and to me, since I was first there (in Tallinn and Riga) in 1977, and frequently in subsequent years - it’s clear that the Baltic States do not belong to what Samuel Huntington referred to as the “Orthodox Civilization”. Their majority populations belong to the “Western Civilization”. In the pre-conflict period (prior to 2014 and particularly 2022) Russia - while concerned about the rights of the Baltic States’ large Russian-speaking minority populations, and while desirous of obtaining more free access to their Baltic Sea ports (which the USSR of course had prior to its collapse) - had no intentions to invade or otherwise intervene militarily in these countries. In the wake of the outbreak of the NATO-Russia War things have changed. Not entirely - no invasion is imminent at the present time - but nevertheless in a fundamental way. For historical reasons the current rulers of the Baltic States are extremely hostile to Russia. However, there is no rational reason for the United States to become involved in their disputes. The maximum logical extent of NATO expansion should have been Poland (the Curzon Line); to avoid threatening Russia; America should have sought to maintain the Baltic States as part of a neutral buffer zone between Russia and the West. It did not, and now we run the extreme risk of a “wag the dog” situation in which hotheads in the Baltics try to draw the U.S. into a conflict with Russia which lies completely outside America’s national interest. Same goes for Finland, to some extent Romania and Bulgaria, and - of course - the Ukraine. But the toothpaste is out of the tube, as they say, and there’s no putting it back in... while at the same time potential for conflict in Asia looms large (and, BTW, President Putin prepares to travel to Beijing). As Mearsheimer likes to say, our “betters” have clearly been “remarkably foolish”.
I like turtles💪🇷🇺
It's got a whole new meaning, hasn't it 😂
The baltics are a joke
All baltics make 1-4 times more sallary in month compared to russians, and they all have indoor toilets. Something wich is not so common in russia
And of course, averidge life expectansy much higher, russia has averidge life expectansy in men, lower than brazilian 😅
I mostly like your news analysis, but you are sometimes fooled and ridiculous yourself. Russia has had elections many times, but the result is all the time the same. Should we call this an election?
Thank you.