I was honestly a bit scared to hear Tommy making some debatable statements on the matter, but i was pleasently surprised that he is being really lucid on this one actually spitting us some facts along the way. Very nice to hear someone intellectually aware for a change, thank you Tommy :)
His one sides POV is debatle, however since were back to a simple "one is the clear good guy and one is the clear evil guy", i guess nobody learned a single fucking thing. "I thought tommy makes a weird statement, turns out he thinks very on sided in favour of the west and thinks very badly of Putin... so its very mature and smart" What a joke. Of course Putins attack is a horrible mistake, but irony being - its the best case scenario for the West. They dreamed of this for years. They literally wanted this for years and Putin gives it to them. The only thing people fail to realise is that they truly believe the west has an interest to save the ukraine or anything. Nah, Putin is sitting on the same table as the other people. The West provoked this for years and the only reasnobale explanations of why Putin takes that provocation and does exactly what the West wants are either he is a retard, wich is hard to believe looking at the overall history and politics russia did before attacking Ukraine, or he is just in on with them. Playing the bad guy for the public,, while doing just what the West wants.
I think Tommy has a really good message in this video. My Great-Uncle (who lived through The Great Depression, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Covid, and now all this) once told me: "People don't make war, politicians do."
5:20 what every soldier under TK HOI4 complains Jokes aside, it's marvelous that someone who plays wargames for a living knows what war truly means, respecting human life and doesn't romanticise it like a great thing. Respect, god bless you.
You have to imagine there are veterans of Stalingrad living in Kiev. Imagine that, fighting and living through one of the worst battles of human history in street by street combat, just to see it as an old man, just this time, on the other end.
@@Crunchifyable2 ye there are probably a hundred or so. You gotta remember just how many people fought in Stalingrad; and just how many people live in Kiev.
LOL you mean a former member of the Red Army of the Soviet Union of Russia? Hmmm which side would they chose? Now maybe if they'd survived the Holodomor they'd be harboring some ill feelings but think about what you're saying before you say it.
What do you mean “seeing it on the other end”? Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union and was invaded during the first part of WW2. They also would have been the defenders in both cases
In my school I feel like I’m the only on worrying about how the world will react to this and I’m so mad at some of them for doing bets and all that also me and my family is keeping a close eye on the situation and I fear that this is only the beginning of the end Pray for the survival of the Ukraine guys and pray for peace
@@SullyDwyer Look, as long as NATO stays out of this, we are good. And By NATO, I mean America. I know most of the European Countries are run by an idiot almost as bad as our idiot (this would apply to Trump) but our idiot runs the nation with a blood thirsty and righteous people calling for blood. If this shit is turning to WW3, its cause Biden authorized the deployment of US troops to Ukraine. And once that happens, we better PRAY for West Ukraine, East Ukraine. because Nukes will be flying if we can't Korea this shit.
@@shadowofhawk55 Yeah, it's so much more complicated then one would think. I have the feeling that I want EU and NATO to offer maximum assistance but I know that wouldn't be smart for reasons you stated.
Guys, hello from Kharkov It's very scary now, my whole family and friends has either left here or is hiding in basements. I would tell you more, but I'm afraid that this will harm your mental health and may unleash a serious skirmish in the comments Russians are shooting at military targets, but some of them are located in densely populated areas, so we hid in anticipation of the best. I don’t want any of you to know what war is, everyone who tries to justify the actions of Russia or Ukraine justifies the war itself, which means they deal a heavy blow to the entire world community. Now no one is up to politics, everyone wants one thing - the end of the war All I can think of is the speedy end of war and the dream that no country will be touched by such a disaster again I say #NoWar and I urge you to do so Translated through Google-translator
Hey Hello from France, I can't even imagine what you are living now. It's so unrealistic, so mad. I'm so frustrated to see us unable to intervene without risking to start WW3. It's truly a dark day for you and for all of us. Stay safe and I hope that it's gonna end quickly. But like you I'm afraid of what's coming. We don't want war but we have no choice unfortunately. I can't understand how Putin can say that Ukraine isn't a real nation, doesn't really exist as a country. I just wanna say even if you might think you're alone in that we think about you all. You're impressing the whole world with you're determination against this madness.
His point on how some world leaders are completely impossible to negotiate with was really good. Putin, and leaders like him, have no interest in peaceful negotiations and the West needs to learn that's the case.
@@Link2edition Putin had a 15% casus belli time reduction so he managed to declare war before we could guarantee due to the "Federal Government" debuff which makes you have to wait 90 days to guarantee a country, smth.
My great-uncle served in Korea, and he told me “War doesn’t change, that’s why politicians need to”. He’s told me stories and it’s scary to think that modern day conflicts like that might be making a return
War will never disappear from Earth how much advancement and progress we humans make. We in Europe should be grateful that there has been no military invasions between two sovereign countries since world war 2 apart from current russian invasion of Ukraine. I hope that Ukraine could defend their country and that Putin stop the invasion or even better get removed from power so the russian people can have freedom. I pray for Ukraine from Sweden 🇸🇪 🙏🇺🇦
Tommy is a good friend to all of us and an amazing chess player. Please everyone make Tommy happy and never insult him. I am sure Tommy respects everyone here and there is no tiktok dancers.
It really is a horrid situation for Ukraine. Especially with the consequences that will come from Russia's actions. If such wars of security become normalised then what's to stop China or other countries from doing what they want. Not only that but the military industrial complex will further these situations because it makes them more money.
There haven't been that much consequence for war for a while. The anti iraq war protests were the biggest protests to have ever happened yet the u.s the uk and the rest of them invaded anyway. Protests and repercussions seem to have little effect.
@Lil Quack the donbass was a massacre in both side and most of the conflict happens in before 2018 they where even more dead in the Ukrainian side it was a terrible war and its doesn't justify the Russian invasion after them arming them for 8 years so they will not surrender
@@cunctator3401 occupational war. you dont want to destroy everything, you want to destroy the defences of the opposite party. if you destroy everything whats the point of occupyings? Gengis Khan followed this rule but had a line drawn in the sand. Russia is occupying. Donbass was one of the first place for seperatists. these two nations do not have the 6 pillars of warefare either. they do not care for civilian life. and using civilian death as a crutch for reason during war is quite based tbh.
This is one of the moments like 9/11 where you will always know where you were when the war broke out and the moments leading to it. I got the notification in one of my college classes that the Duma gave Putin the ability to send Russian soldiers abroad and at that moment I knew war was imminent. Then the following day I was up late talking with my girlfriend about things that don't even matter when I got the notification that a full scale invasion was underway. That moment really made me reflect on how privileged we really are in America where we don't have to worry about getting invaded outright by our neighbors and how we don't have to live in fear, where all we have to worry about is what we'll eat for dinner and when we want to take a dump. I just hope we can find a peaceful resolution, whether it is in Ukraine's favor or Russia's favor. We just need to find an end to the suffering of Ukrainians.
I'm British and ngl it's really scary having a war just a five or so hour flight away. I can't imagine how Ukrainians, the Polish, and Balkan people must feel
TOMMYKAY we support u and what u do. Please support your fans and save the word. All over the globe u have chess fans. PLEASE HELP US HELP U. We will never forget what u have done for chess and what u will keep doing in your career.
2:43 in the chat(translated from Ukrainian): "Tommy, you are the best streamer, thanks for your support" Really wanted to put it out there since I am Ukrainian myself and I think it's insanely important to share the truth right now. Glory to Ukraine!
Nightbot, as the chess world watches don't spam me with the things u did. We all have differences but 10 minutes of no chat is too much. TOMMY IS ON OUR SIDE AND ROMANIAN TOWN WILL ALWAYS BE ON TOP, I HOPE TOMMY has a good holiday as he is being very supportive.
A weak Russia was antagonized and left outside during the 90s and is now bitter and weary of the west. It's just like a bully that had a troubled home life. I feel like if Europe had offered a helping hand to Russia like it did to the rest of Eastern Europe we wouldn't be here today
If you don’t wanna be the bad guy, dont be the bad guy. If they hadn’t invaded Ukraine and didn’t keep this childish grudge we could’ve been working together. But keeping grudges stands in the way of progress.
@@accidentalgenius8252 Also I'm pretty sure NATO was not supposed to offer Ukraine to join but did anyways so it's a little less black and white buddy. Not to mention someone (in the west) is playing dangerous war games in Kazakhstan by causing over night civil wars.
I live here in Russia. This is not my choice, this is not the choice of hundreds of thousands of my compatriots. This is the choice of a gang of bandits who destroyed the opposition and still enjoy the support of a large part of the population. I just want this to end as soon as possible.
Interesting, what is the perception of the war in majority of the population up there? I know there are alot of people protesting against it, but it always felt like those were mostly more liberal folks from bigger cities. From what I have seen majority Russians still view Ukrainians as "little Russians" and the country itself as an organic part of the greater Russian sphere of influence.
Here in the US we have a gang of bandits running the country, just on a smaller scale and we have over 100 years of institutions, history, opposing power centers of local governments, independent business interests and culture to keep the bandits at bay. You guys have a thousand years of tsars and 80 years of a death cult running your country. These things take time.
TOMMY PLEASE PLAY 24 HOUR CHESS OF THE STREAM. We need it urgently and 10 minutes of chess will just be enough to be helpful in this confertation of chess. Everything in the world of chess works if u work hard. Everyone believes in u Tommy!
Not all Russians want this war because we have our friends, grandmothers and grandfathers here in Ukraine. It is very panful to see how these civilians die and women with children cry. We lived in one big country( The USSR) as brothers but politicians try to quarrel us today. РУССКИЕ И УКРАИЦНЫ НЕ ВРАГИ!
The fact that europe and NATO are allowing this without military action is insane to me. Like i really don't want people to die, but we have armies for stuff like these, i think soldiers all around europe feel they should be doing something about this, it's their job after all. I mean i know ukraine isn't part of NATO but this shit is unacceptable. Even if we want to follow Putin's idea, they should not in any case invade Ukraine as it's what separates them from NATO and will of course be seen as a war declaration to whole Europe. I'm afraid the west not wanting another war will just end up like in WWII, where they had to start a war anyway but in a much worse geopolitical situation. Idk, a major Europe capital under siege in 2022 is so unreal. Hope this ends for the best and the Russians finally have a real democratic goverment that cares about them and about human rights, the oligarchs that rule right now are funcking mental.
Agreed, I'm only 15 and live in America, all I want to do is enter this war CONVENTIONALLY and go to the front line to defend Ukraine, this shit is unbelievable, I've lost all respect for Putin and the government, they need to be held accountable for their actions
12:20 i mean tommy says ghetto but soviet era neigbourhoods (atleast here in the czech republic) are one of the better places to live, every single comodity is within walking distance or connected to mass transit which is everywhere. There are like 8 schools in a 3km radius of where i live.
TOMMY IF THE people want u to play chess we know u did it a long itme ago but yeah. There are many frogs, animals, and many others out there who want you to play chess but u do it because you see us as the people who support u. #SUPPORTtOMMY
Yeah because the Germans caused The Chinese Civil War, the Vietnam war, the Korean War, and the Nigerian civil war. Like, the majority of wars weren’t caused by Germany.
It’s insane, I don’t know if I was just naive in 2010-2015, but it feels like ever since the world was just been going crazier and crazier. Since 2015 we’ve had the real possibility of nuclear war with three separate countries, social upheaval everywhere, and a global pandemic
As a Russian who is also part Ukrainian pretty sad to see this happening, as most of the soldiers don't want this and most Russian people And Ukrainian people consider themselves as brothers, my prayerse to everyone.
when the most soldiers dont want the war why dont they just say no? I mean they do have the Advantage of beeing way more and having the ukainians as support + the support of the west and the russian peoples + theyre the ones with the more guns so pls explain why dont they just say "no , you can tstop all of us?!" ?
@@MOCHERlK Well Russia does have conscription, but if you are a soldier doesn't mean you want to fight, maybe this is because of patriotism. There is a good video of a woman going up to a soldier and you can clearly see ( the comments agree) that the soldier does not want this to happen.
Geopolitical, that what means, imagine US arming the neo Nazi in Ukraine and one thing Russian troops discover biochemical lab. In Ukraine in the near future they will used those lab for human Ukrainian army killing thousand genocide people in donbass region many children are die .. Putin can't close he's eyes for 8 years doing it to them and now need to pay all they do,
Ha ha ha we have seen how they consider Ukrainians brothers. And Ukrainians now want nothing to do with Russia .The Russian troops might not to be in danger but seem to love marauding , raping , and killing. Wives back home love the loot. Russia = scum of humanity
Hopefully Tommy understands that cheer of the people is chess. Chess in germany is a lot of culture and Christmas is in Romania more like German Christmas. WE ALL LIKE CHESS AND TOMMY WILL ONE DAY SURELY 24 HOUR CHESS STREAMS,.
Let's all be friends here. If tommy is career to play chess is good then we should all respect this decision. DONT REPORT THE TOMMY FOR PLAYING CHESS ON TWITCH we all know comwhere this will go to. Tommy deserves better than this and not to destroy the Twitch.
5:00 i would like to point out that even though they did not have the internet back then, the world was immensely interconnected and yes people did have friends from other countries. The scholars and politicians during the peacetime before both world wars said the exact same thing we hear now. Winston Churchill said 1923 , “It is too foolish, too fantastic to be thought of in the twentieth century… The interdependence of nations… have rendered such nightmares impossible.” We live in a scary time my friends, enjoy the peace while it lasts
This world is good if Tommy would help us play chess. We all know Tommy loves that but we know also that he bans the people who support he's career. TROLLING IN THIS CHAT IS VERY WEIRD DON'T DO IT IN THE DOCUMENTS WE SEE IT.
in school (norway) we had this thing in english class where there was 5 tiktoks about the war and we had to guess which one was fake news and the ones that was real.
Thank you for sharing a very honest view of the war. I believe you are especially valuable to younger audiences as they will not understand this from the news. Now is a hard time to joke, but I think it keeps you connected to your audience.
6:41 when you asked what is that militarily it’s called destruction in Russian military doctrine it’s one step under annihilation but every single blast of light you see is artillery exploding they have superior firepower as their doctrine and no that’s not a HOI meme
English has always been easier than chess. TOMMY WILL ONE DAY PLAY CHESS FOR SURE! Everyone who is like this chat plays in the chess tournaments against GothamChess and Chess people of this Town in Romania.
The bit you said there, about the old soldiers dying, thus the new ones have no idea what war is really like. God, tale as old as time. I wish more people talked about it. But then we wouldn't have any soldiers to defend us.
The small flashes in the background are muzzle flashes. If they were explosion the flash would aluminate the sky more with orange and red, these are bright yellow white flashes. Night fights are brutal for militaries lacking in NVG development.
No importa el punto de vista que tenga cualquier persona sobre este conflicto, lo que importa es que la guerra jamás debería ser una opción para solucionar problemas en los tiempos actuales, muchos alegan que son civilizados pero usan la barbarie para civilizar
To be honest, I’m not sure the disclaimer is necessary. I’m not sure how you couldn’t support Ukraine as well as the Russian people (who also didn’t want this war and still don’t) I’ve spoken with someone in Russia and they made it very clear what was happening was awful and nobody wanted it.
actually really rare that people behind the polititians want a war in my opinion youre not thinking "the war thing" all trough untill you have been in one a politician doesnt know how terrible a war is when they never saw a war with their own eyes for example if putins family would be killed or he himself would get shot because of the war he wouldnt think of it as he thinks of it as now
this world sucks. i wanna be born far further in the future man. I hope someday we'll learn to be above all this politics and think of something better. hoping all in Ukraine are keeping safe
1. The Green Party is not the biggest party in the government 2. They came to power in december of 2021. Germany already heavily relied on the imports from russia which were mostly commenced by the conservative CDU
I swear by God this is a real story I'm currently in my a level in a German school in East Germany. And today in my French class as we talked about the conflict and I spoke about the FACT that Russia attacked without any justified reason and on purpose threatens peace in Europe and the world. One Russian girl from my class screams at me in tears I'm lying. She then talked about the "poor kids in Donjezk" and that they are not allowed to go to school ore that they have to hide in bunkers. I looked at hear and said that that is now the reality of all children in Ukraine. She than tells me that Putin "was sitting 1 hour thinking about the call for help from Ukraine", she then said that the people of Russia are mostly antiwar but in the same sentence she then says the opposite that they support the war and Putin is completely right. My good friend then made a joke about asking her on why they elected Putin if they are against him. To cut it short. I am so sad about this mindset this lack of thoughts and feelings from SOME Russian people. Me and my friends are praying for Ukraine they don't deserve it to be attacked ore harmed in any way.
As Russian i am really dissapointed the entire situation got to this degree, but to be fair, Russian geopolitics have a point. Our government didn't want Ukraine to join NATO, which was consequential after 2014, because you can compare it with Cuba in 1960ies. But Ukraine wanted the Crimea back, and our countries didn't find an agreement. So after 8 years it just broke out, I think the biggest reason for the war was Zelenskiy's declaration about making a nuke. Anyway, the geopolitic situation is hideous for Russia, and this was, maybe IMHO the best decision, but we can't guess. About the war itself, i'm soully upset that our relationship got to this level. Shoutings about stopping war won't do anything, as it has already happened, and we had to think about it 8 years ago. Now I just hope the war will stop as soon as possible, with minimal casualties and fair peace. The biggest thing that scares me is an upcomming hate for the entire Russian people, how no one will look at us with any respect whatsoever, and how all, forthcoming 200m population is going to get povert. A broken friendship of peoples of Russia and Ukraine. I can't just imagine how 8 years ago we have been brothers, and now we hate each other. We are all slavs, and we never had anything against each other. The amount of fake news and polarized news is enormous, everyone talks shit of us. It is really sad how one of two slavs can be good and another bad just because we were born in two both poorly-developed countries. Peace guys, hope justice will triumph over time
@@ggeshundra The "geopolitics" went out the window the second Putin declared his desire to restore the Russian Tsar empire as the reasoning for his invasion.
Tommy, I'm an American and my mom said the same thing if WW3 starts they have to go through her to get to me during a draft. I hope as many people in Ukraine can be as safe as possible.
I dont know why americans keep saying this meme. If the world is in a situation where the USA needs drafting nukes would have been used long before that
the clip of them setting up the artillery piece is surreal as there is now a journalist in that same place after a battle went down. the petrol station there is destroyed and the road is covered in debris and destroyed vehicles
Noone actually understands the whole situation happening in Eastern Europe. There is no right or wrong sides as all sides in this situation are wrong. We have dictatorial Russian government controlled by cleptocratic oligarchs, pro-fascist Urkainian government which supported ultranationalists organisations such as Praviy Sektor (Right Sector) and Bandera supporters (Stepan Bandera was a nazi collaborator in WW2) and violated the Minsk agreements thousands of times and we have Western governments, who want to destabilise Eastern Europe to install their controll over Russian and Urkainian resorses (oil, gas, all that shit). This conflict could have been prevented back in 2015 if Urkainian government respected the Minsk agreements. But, on the other hand, Russian government did nothing to force Ukraine to actually respect it. The only true victims of this conflict are people of Donbass and Ukraine, who are now have to suffer because of bunch of stupid fucking polititians in Moscow, Kyiv and Washington. This is a complex conflict with lots of fake news and groups with different interests involved in it so I just ask you not to be stupid thinking that this is just a war between good Ukraine and bad Russia. Please, stay humans even in these hard times. #FuckTheWar P.S. This text may be a bit chaotic as I'm literally shaking while writing it because I have both releatives and friends in Russia and Ukraine so I feel really worried right now.
'I'm with you comrade. Imperialists' war only bring misery to the common people. Besides, neither Russia or Ukraine are communists anymore so why i should side with either of them?
@@kali8897 I mean the anti war movement in america and other countries not fighting in vietnam because the war was pointless kind of disproves you but okay
looking at what chamberain did with Hitler and all of the appeasement policies applied by the west and comparing them with europe's reaction with Putin's invasion I am actually very surprised at how we are handling this problem. I feel that modern politicians are doing better than their 1930s counterparts.
As Russian i am really dissapointed the entire situation got to this degree, but to be fair, Russian geopolitics have a point. Our government didn't want Ukraine to join NATO, which was consequential after 2014, because you can compare it with Cuba in 1960ies. But Ukraine wanted the Crimea back, and our countries didn't find an agreement. So after 8 years it just broke out, I think the biggest reason for the war was Zelenskiy's declaration about making a nuke. Anyway, the geopolitic situation is hideous for Russia, and this was, maybe IMHO the best decision, but we can't guess. About the war itself, i'm soully upset that our relationship got to this level. Shoutings about stopping war won't do anything, as it has already happened, and we had to think about it 8 years ago. Now I just hope the war will stop as soon as possible, with minimal casualties and fair peace. The biggest thing that scares me is an upcomming hate for the entire Russian people, how no one will look at us with any respect whatsoever, and how all, forthcoming 200m population is going to get povert. A broken friendship of peoples of Russia and Ukraine. I can't just imagine how 8 years ago we have been brothers, and now we hate each other. We are all slavs, and we never had anything against each other. The amount of fake news and polarized news is enormous, everyone talks shit of us. It is really sad how one of two slavs can be good and another bad just because we were born in two both poorly-developed countries. Peace guys, hope justice will triumph over time
Dude, where did Zelensky say that Ukraine wants to build nukes? Can we have an independent source for that? Ukraine is, even in comparison to Russia, a piss poor country, they just lack the money to properly fund and run a nuclear program, that could even remotely become dangerous to Russia. That is also one of the reasons they gave up their inherited nukes to Russia in the 90's in the first place: They didn't have the Know How how to deal with nuclear weapons and they didn't have the money to afford their upkeep. And NATO is no threat to anyone, especially not the Russian People. We're direct neighbors since 2004 to Russia. Kaliningrad is literally, on the landside, surrounded by NATO countries. Did we ever invade you since then or made threats like that? Did we park huge armies in eastern European Countries or did we train offensive maneuvers, were troops drill the invasion of Russia? No we didn't do anything of that. And ask e.g. Switzerland, except for Austria and Liechtenstein, they're also surrounded by NATO countries. Do they feel threatened? Not in the slightest, although Switzerland is neutral and neither part of EU nor NATO, we're on at least friendly, if not very friendly terms with them. NATO is only for dictators a threat who either plan to attack a NATO country or who commit genocides without having the international "get out of Den Hague"-card known as a nuclear weapons arsenal. For real, if tomorrow Putin would decide to massacre all the Chechenyians for racial reasons in concentration camps, many country would start sanctioning Russia, but they wouldn't invade it. Why? Because Russia has the largest nuclear arsenal of the world, you guys could nuke the entire world multiple times, if you wanted to. And Ukraine itself was maintaining a neutral position, the attack on them on 2014 made them give up neutrality and push joining NATO. And of cause they made plans to get e.g. Crimea back this way or the other, but having a plan is something totally different to actually executing it. Pls don't fall for the paranoid, lying propaganda of Putin and his regime, that drives you and your western neighbors apart, that allows Putin to stay in power. Join the other russian anti-war protesters. Only the Russian people themselves can overthrow Putin and implement a resilient, steady democracy in Russia, that would retreat all the troops out of Ukraine, including Crimea and Donbas and reestablish peaceful and maybe some day even friendly relationshops with their neighbors. And don't panic: I think, the large majority of the people in Ukraine and in the West can differentiate between Putin and his cronies on one hand and the common Russian people on the other. I believe you and other Russians, when you state, that you didn't want a war against your Ukrainian Brothers and Sisters. But complaining on the internet is not enough, you must act upon it, take to the streets, participate in mass protests to big for the police or the National Guard to suppress, overthrow the Putin Regime, retreat the troops and reach a peaceful end to this madness of Putin!
As an American I agree, I do not hate the Russian people for this, I hate your government though in fairness. The Russian GOVERNMENT needs to be paying for their crimes
@@MagiconIce "Президент Украины Владимир Зеленский заявил на Мюнхенской конференции по безопасности о возможности его страны вернуться к созданию ядерного оружия" search it up, as I can't upload links and you will find information about nukes, you are interested in and no, it was a possibility to create a dirty nuke, there is at least base in Ukraine, such as Chernobyl. I don't know how did they plan on getting nukes, but the fact is a fact Geopolitics is a thing, and it can't be denied. From its point there is only 3 powers in the world: NATO, Russia and China. None of the above want to have enemy's bases near the border. It is just obvious, you can look at Carribean crisis for example. Of course our alliances didn't invade each other, we all would doom us in nukes. Pretty much you can look at the world like chess, where you develop your pieces to get the best position to initiate an all-out attack. If you manage to take down all missile silos and anti-air faster, that their missiles reach you, it is guaranteed win. That's why countries want to get bases near the main enemy. Also it is a good places to deploy spies, cybernetic attacks ect., just because it is closer. You can manage trade, if you have more allies and much more. Just because nothing has been happening in NATO for 20 years means, that they didn't see Russia as a potential enemy, which is pretty obvious at current time. You can't deny that Putin restored Russia from absolute poverty, it is a fact. He never ever did any genocide, unlike in Ukraine. If you don't know anything about genocide in eastern Europe since 2014, then either research it, or don't mention. Horrible things happened after Maidan in Ukraine against russians, though no impact on western society. And now we see this one-sided anti-russian propaganda, because Russia is destabilising an advantageous for NATO geopolitical position. Of course Putin is receiving cricisism for anything he did or didn't. No matter how much I want to see an absolute objective look of the situation, I will route for my country in this confrontation, I am sorry for that. But the fact is a fact - Putin is no murderer, I know he is not racist or anything, and that all these civilian bombardment is provoked by Ukrainian military techs. In Russia it is hugely unlike west, protests don't really mean anything, as police is working its best to stop the rallies. Even the web is controlled lol. No revolution happening any time soon. I'm pretty resigned, that we would be outcasters for hopefully just couple of months. Most of Ukrainians are tired of this nonsence happening for 8 years straight, and lot of them have bad education, so a lot will hate all the Russians without basis. That's sad, but I still hope this war won't humiliate our countries too much. I'm really glad to see such an optimistic opinion, but sometimes you just have to be more realistic, especially when it touches your nation. Love from Russia bro
Hey Markoni, this is completely unrelated, but I need your help! There is this song that Tommy uses often in his esports streams/videos to get people hyped, like the hoi4 international. It sounds like a bunch of football fans singing (though there are no actual lyrics, just tu tu tu and hey hey hey). I recently heard it at a party here in Belgium and was very confused, now I need to know!!
We dont learn from our past mistakes. Im talking about nato doing something that britain atempted to do in ww2 that being peacefully stoping the germans.
What a Historical Moment to live in 2022, shit got crazier.
Really wish we weren't living through a major historical event rn TBH.
@@tony-te7gd British People in 1940:
invasion day would almost be 22/02/2022 if just 2 days earlier
Gents, this is only the beginning.
literally living through history as we speak
I was honestly a bit scared to hear Tommy making some debatable statements on the matter, but i was pleasently surprised that he is being really lucid on this one actually spitting us some facts along the way. Very nice to hear someone intellectually aware for a change, thank you Tommy :)
lol
@@TommyKay this must be Markoni
@@afdalridwan3813 It's always Markoni
he said on stream hes in favour of harsh reactions... what exactly does that imply ?
His one sides POV is debatle, however since were back to a simple "one is the clear good guy and one is the clear evil guy", i guess nobody learned a single fucking thing.
"I thought tommy makes a weird statement, turns out he thinks very on sided in favour of the west and thinks very badly of Putin... so its very mature and smart"
What a joke. Of course Putins attack is a horrible mistake, but irony being - its the best case scenario for the West. They dreamed of this for years. They literally wanted this for years and Putin gives it to them. The only thing people fail to realise is that they truly believe the west has an interest to save the ukraine or anything. Nah, Putin is sitting on the same table as the other people. The West provoked this for years and the only reasnobale explanations of why Putin takes that provocation and does exactly what the West wants are either he is a retard, wich is hard to believe looking at the overall history and politics russia did before attacking Ukraine, or he is just in on with them. Playing the bad guy for the public,, while doing just what the West wants.
I think Tommy has a really good message in this video. My Great-Uncle (who lived through The Great Depression, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Covid, and now all this) once told me: "People don't make war, politicians do."
People elect politicians, and kill other people too.
Could not agree more, My only question is, when are the people of this world going to stop fighting wars for these politicians?
I dunno man, there have been wars where the populace demanded blood, like ww1
@@christianhathaway5423It is unfortunately just a fact of life. I am tired of seeing good people get punished for the actions of a few bad ones.
Also the US population is angry when they are in war or at peace, like make up your mind, do you want war or peace?
FINALLY the first and only person who is speaking how i feel about the situation. Appreciate you making the video Tommy man.
take care of yourself brothers
He's literally sayinf what everyone is saying??
5:20 what every soldier under TK HOI4 complains
Jokes aside, it's marvelous that someone who plays wargames for a living knows what war truly means, respecting human life and doesn't romanticise it like a great thing. Respect, god bless you.
stay safe guys
@Rosseline...💜 bro this is not the time to bot
You have to imagine there are veterans of Stalingrad living in Kiev. Imagine that, fighting and living through one of the worst battles of human history in street by street combat, just to see it as an old man, just this time, on the other end.
Poor them, must be having some PTSD now.
They would be 99 years old...
@@Crunchifyable2 ye there are probably a hundred or so. You gotta remember just how many people fought in Stalingrad; and just how many people live in Kiev.
LOL you mean a former member of the Red Army of the Soviet Union of Russia? Hmmm which side would they chose?
Now maybe if they'd survived the Holodomor they'd be harboring some ill feelings but think about what you're saying before you say it.
What do you mean “seeing it on the other end”? Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union and was invaded during the first part of WW2. They also would have been the defenders in both cases
pray for ukraine, may the ukrainian population get through this conflict and i hope everything goes well and everyone is safe
Since when do prayers do anything
@@ynwa8835 No, the Ukrainian people shouldn't stand for this bullying by Russia.
@@ynwa8835 ah yes,"just give up your independence to a egotistical maniac"
@@reeflash29 Ukraine doesn't have independence they are American colony at this point. Hopefully not for long.
@@MrMatijaaaa wtf are you talking about
In my school I feel like I’m the only on worrying about how the world will react to this and I’m so mad at some of them for doing bets and all that also me and my family is keeping a close eye on the situation and I fear that this is only the beginning of the end
Pray for the survival of the Ukraine guys and pray for peace
Let’s hope ww3 doesn’t happen but I know I’m wrong on that but let’s hope
@@SullyDwyer Look, as long as NATO stays out of this, we are good. And By NATO, I mean America. I know most of the European Countries are run by an idiot almost as bad as our idiot (this would apply to Trump) but our idiot runs the nation with a blood thirsty and righteous people calling for blood. If this shit is turning to WW3, its cause Biden authorized the deployment of US troops to Ukraine. And once that happens, we better PRAY for West Ukraine, East Ukraine. because Nukes will be flying if we can't Korea this shit.
I feel you, no one else in my school cares either, but I think we should all be talking about how to fix this situation.
@@shadowofhawk55 Yeah, it's so much more complicated then one would think. I have the feeling that I want EU and NATO to offer maximum assistance but I know that wouldn't be smart for reasons you stated.
same ...
At least we get a new Oversimplified video
lmao
If he comes back
Guys, hello from Kharkov
It's very scary now, my whole family and friends has either left here or is hiding in basements. I would tell you more, but I'm afraid that this will harm your mental health and may unleash a serious skirmish in the comments
Russians are shooting at military targets, but some of them are located in densely populated areas, so we hid in anticipation of the best. I don’t want any of you to know what war is, everyone who tries to justify the actions of Russia or Ukraine justifies the war itself, which means they deal a heavy blow to the entire world community. Now no one is up to politics, everyone wants one thing - the end of the war
All I can think of is the speedy end of war and the dream that no country will be touched by such a disaster again I say #NoWar and I urge you to do so
Translated through Google-translator
Don't care didn't ask 🙂
@@per4n Thanks for the Russian input we appreciate the comment
@@per4n +15
Hey Hello from France, I can't even imagine what you are living now. It's so unrealistic, so mad. I'm so frustrated to see us unable to intervene without risking to start WW3. It's truly a dark day for you and for all of us. Stay safe and I hope that it's gonna end quickly. But like you I'm afraid of what's coming. We don't want war but we have no choice unfortunately. I can't understand how Putin can say that Ukraine isn't a real nation, doesn't really exist as a country.
I just wanna say even if you might think you're alone in that we think about you all. You're impressing the whole world with you're determination against this madness.
@@per4n ratio
Tommy makes points I agree with, I know we meme on Dommy but the man is intellectually aware and in tune.
His point on how some world leaders are completely impossible to negotiate with was really good. Putin, and leaders like him, have no interest in peaceful negotiations and the West needs to learn that's the case.
salute
@@Ketol1510 Putin was interested in peaceful negotiations, but America decided that his request were absurd. (Which is true,at least for me)
@@Signman-l8m He was interested in his own version of "peace." Which isn't really peace but the bullying of nations into his sphere of influence.
@@Ketol1510 The problem is that a military escalation will only be worse
If world tension had been higher, Ukraine would have been invited to the NATO faction by now.
Can't do that now. It would be a war declaration to Russia. Or should I say, to Putin.
@@Balinux Yeah, you really have to do your guarantees before the war breaks out, but I always forget on my playthroughs too.
@@Link2edition Putin had a 15% casus belli time reduction so he managed to declare war before we could guarantee due to the "Federal Government" debuff which makes you have to wait 90 days to guarantee a country, smth.
The whole reason for this war is nato. If only they had listened to putin'a calls for nato ban this wouldn't be happening.
@@mehmetsahsert3284 I disagree, NATO didn't order troops into Ukraine, Putin did, this is on him.
Dommy should go to Putin and show him how real alpha looks like
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My great-uncle served in Korea, and he told me “War doesn’t change, that’s why politicians need to”. He’s told me stories and it’s scary to think that modern day conflicts like that might be making a return
At the beginning of this video it reminds me of a quote I learned from the American Civil War “It’s a rich man’s war but a poor man’s fight”
I learned something as well as “ if you want peace, prepare for war” it hit hard
Say it in Latin sounds more badass
“Why do men fight who were born brothers” -James Longstreet
We are NOT brothers, never were, never will
War will never disappear from Earth how much advancement and progress we humans make. We in Europe should be grateful that there has been no military invasions between two sovereign countries since world war 2 apart from current russian invasion of Ukraine. I hope that Ukraine could defend their country and that Putin stop the invasion or even better get removed from power so the russian people can have freedom. I pray for Ukraine from Sweden 🇸🇪 🙏🇺🇦
Tommy is a good friend to all of us and an amazing chess player. Please everyone make Tommy happy and never insult him. I am sure Tommy respects everyone here and there is no tiktok dancers.
“This is a war of misinformation”
Reddit didn’t get the memo, at least the people in the comments
It really is a horrid situation for Ukraine. Especially with the consequences that will come from Russia's actions. If such wars of security become normalised then what's to stop China or other countries from doing what they want. Not only that but the military industrial complex will further these situations because it makes them more money.
@Lil Quack thats the explaination? okay so why wasnt estonia latvia etc invaded because theyve all been nato members for years
There haven't been that much consequence for war for a while. The anti iraq war protests were the biggest protests to have ever happened yet the u.s the uk and the rest of them invaded anyway. Protests and repercussions seem to have little effect.
@Lil Quack the donbass was a massacre in both side and most of the conflict happens in before 2018 they where even more dead in the Ukrainian side it was a terrible war and its doesn't justify the Russian invasion after them arming them for 8 years so they will not surrender
@@cunctator3401 occupational war. you dont want to destroy everything, you want to destroy the defences of the opposite party. if you destroy everything whats the point of occupyings? Gengis Khan followed this rule but had a line drawn in the sand. Russia is occupying. Donbass was one of the first place for seperatists. these two nations do not have the 6 pillars of warefare either. they do not care for civilian life. and using civilian death as a crutch for reason during war is quite based tbh.
@@cunctator3401 How about we go and actually provide some serious sources. Considering the very real and large amounts of fake news going around.
This is one of the moments like 9/11 where you will always know where you were when the war broke out and the moments leading to it. I got the notification in one of my college classes that the Duma gave Putin the ability to send Russian soldiers abroad and at that moment I knew war was imminent. Then the following day I was up late talking with my girlfriend about things that don't even matter when I got the notification that a full scale invasion was underway. That moment really made me reflect on how privileged we really are in America where we don't have to worry about getting invaded outright by our neighbors and how we don't have to live in fear, where all we have to worry about is what we'll eat for dinner and when we want to take a dump. I just hope we can find a peaceful resolution, whether it is in Ukraine's favor or Russia's favor. We just need to find an end to the suffering of Ukrainians.
I sat on my gamer chair when I saw online: "Russia invades Ukraine" and first thing I said was: "You're trolling."
@@eisbergsyndrom5010 I don't want ww3 to start, but I almost hope we join, Ukraine deserves justice
I'm British and ngl it's really scary having a war just a five or so hour flight away. I can't imagine how Ukrainians, the Polish, and Balkan people must feel
Like that it was for me when the US bombed Belgrade in 1999.
I was laying in bed laughing my ass of at the news and cheering at the news
TOMMYKAY we support u and what u do. Please support your fans and save the word. All over the globe u have chess fans. PLEASE HELP US HELP U. We will never forget what u have done for chess and what u will keep doing in your career.
2:43 in the chat(translated from Ukrainian): "Tommy, you are the best streamer, thanks for your support"
Really wanted to put it out there since I am Ukrainian myself and I think it's insanely important to share the truth right now. Glory to Ukraine!
Nightbot, as the chess world watches don't spam me with the things u did. We all have differences but 10 minutes of no chat is too much. TOMMY IS ON OUR SIDE AND ROMANIAN TOWN WILL ALWAYS BE ON TOP, I HOPE TOMMY has a good holiday as he is being very supportive.
Every hoi4 player when the war broke out: "I wonder if we can send volunteers or is that against the rules in this mp game?"
A weak Russia was antagonized and left outside during the 90s and is now bitter and weary of the west. It's just like a bully that had a troubled home life. I feel like if Europe had offered a helping hand to Russia like it did to the rest of Eastern Europe we wouldn't be here today
Russia brought that on itself.
If you don’t wanna be the bad guy, dont be the bad guy. If they hadn’t invaded Ukraine and didn’t keep this childish grudge we could’ve been working together. But keeping grudges stands in the way of progress.
@@accidentalgenius8252 so people killed in syria shouldnt care about america?
@@accidentalgenius8252 Also I'm pretty sure NATO was not supposed to offer Ukraine to join but did anyways so it's a little less black and white buddy. Not to mention someone (in the west) is playing dangerous war games in Kazakhstan by causing over night civil wars.
When your country in not to blame for ww3
I live here in Russia. This is not my choice, this is not the choice of hundreds of thousands of my compatriots. This is the choice of a gang of bandits who destroyed the opposition and still enjoy the support of a large part of the population. I just want this to end as soon as possible.
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Interesting, what is the perception of the war in majority of the population up there? I know there are alot of people protesting against it, but it always felt like those were mostly more liberal folks from bigger cities.
From what I have seen majority Russians still view Ukrainians as "little Russians" and the country itself as an organic part of the greater Russian sphere of influence.
Then, and I don't say this to be rude;
Go to protests in your area. Make your anger be heard
@@datoda3593 only around 200 people in St. Petersburg today i think
Here in the US we have a gang of bandits running the country, just on a smaller scale and we have over 100 years of institutions, history, opposing power centers of local governments, independent business interests and culture to keep the bandits at bay. You guys have a thousand years of tsars and 80 years of a death cult running your country. These things take time.
TOMMY PLEASE PLAY 24 HOUR CHESS OF THE STREAM. We need it urgently and 10 minutes of chess will just be enough to be helpful in this confertation of chess. Everything in the world of chess works if u work hard. Everyone believes in u Tommy!
The only thing we can do for now is pray for Ukraine and the people who live there
Beautifully articulated Tommy the world is full of amazing people, very sad that our "leaders" are letting us all down
Not all Russians want this war because we have our friends, grandmothers and grandfathers here in Ukraine. It is very panful to see how these civilians die and women with children cry. We lived in one big country( The USSR) as brothers but politicians try to quarrel us today.
РУССКИЕ И УКРАИЦНЫ НЕ ВРАГИ!
Excellent commentary !!!! Thank you for speaking truth !
The fact that europe and NATO are allowing this without military action is insane to me. Like i really don't want people to die, but we have armies for stuff like these, i think soldiers all around europe feel they should be doing something about this, it's their job after all. I mean i know ukraine isn't part of NATO but this shit is unacceptable. Even if we want to follow Putin's idea, they should not in any case invade Ukraine as it's what separates them from NATO and will of course be seen as a war declaration to whole Europe. I'm afraid the west not wanting another war will just end up like in WWII, where they had to start a war anyway but in a much worse geopolitical situation. Idk, a major Europe capital under siege in 2022 is so unreal. Hope this ends for the best and the Russians finally have a real democratic goverment that cares about them and about human rights, the oligarchs that rule right now are funcking mental.
Agreed, I'm only 15 and live in America, all I want to do is enter this war CONVENTIONALLY and go to the front line to defend Ukraine, this shit is unbelievable, I've lost all respect for Putin and the government, they need to be held accountable for their actions
@@cameron5007 I am the same way. But with how Putin is acting currently it seems like he wants to watch the world burn.
If USA can get away geopolitical power moves, so can Putin. Probably china too when the time comes
Why do you care if Putin, gets ukrain? If that way www3 can be avoided nice.
@@maxmusterman9262 because everyone knows Putin won't just stop at Ukraine
Best line ever taking a dump on a dump I gonna use that from now on
We pray for Ukraine 🇺🇦
Ukraine is prey
pray*
*pray
Cringe
Preay*
12:20 i mean tommy says ghetto but soviet era neigbourhoods (atleast here in the czech republic) are one of the better places to live, every single comodity is within walking distance or connected to mass transit which is everywhere. There are like 8 schools in a 3km radius of where i live.
i would rather die than live close to people
most amazing advice! pure common sense and realization that you are human, humble, simple, plain.
TOMMY IF THE people want u to play chess we know u did it a long itme ago but yeah. There are many frogs, animals, and many others out there who want you to play chess but u do it because you see us as the people who support u. #SUPPORTtOMMY
“The true enemy of the people are the leaders”-Anarchist Tommy, 2022
First time a German can watch a war, knowing they werent the cause of it
Yeah because the Germans caused The Chinese Civil War, the Vietnam war, the Korean War, and the Nigerian civil war.
Like, the majority of wars weren’t caused by Germany.
@@oracle372 ITS A FUCKING JOKE
They lost the streak
ur naivety is enviable, this war caused by the west eu and usa firing up the ukranian government telling them they got their back
@nowai90 that's not true, it was not a world war
it was a local war till the whole f1cking world decided to join in for whatever
It’s insane, I don’t know if I was just naive in 2010-2015, but it feels like ever since the world was just been going crazier and crazier. Since 2015 we’ve had the real possibility of nuclear war with three separate countries, social upheaval everywhere, and a global pandemic
As a Russian who is also part Ukrainian pretty sad to see this happening, as most of the soldiers don't want this and most Russian people And Ukrainian people consider themselves as brothers, my prayerse to everyone.
when the most soldiers dont want the war why dont they just say no? I mean they do have the Advantage of beeing way more and having the ukainians as support + the support of the west and the russian peoples + theyre the ones with the more guns
so pls explain why dont they just say "no , you can tstop all of us?!" ?
@@MOCHERlK Well Russia does have conscription, but if you are a soldier doesn't mean you want to fight, maybe this is because of patriotism. There is a good video of a woman going up to a soldier and you can clearly see ( the comments agree) that the soldier does not want this to happen.
Geopolitical, that what means, imagine US arming the neo Nazi in Ukraine and one thing Russian troops discover biochemical lab. In Ukraine in the near future they will used those lab for human Ukrainian army killing thousand genocide people in donbass region many children are die .. Putin can't close he's eyes for 8 years doing it to them and now need to pay all they do,
Ha ha ha we have seen how they consider Ukrainians brothers. And Ukrainians now want nothing to do with Russia .The Russian troops might not to be in danger but seem to love marauding , raping , and killing. Wives back home love the loot. Russia = scum of humanity
And then most russian soldiers murdered looted and raped their way theozgh their temporary ocxupations
So cool to see kaiser tommy back!
Hopefully Tommy understands that cheer of the people is chess. Chess in germany is a lot of culture and Christmas is in Romania more like German Christmas. WE ALL LIKE CHESS AND TOMMY WILL ONE DAY SURELY 24 HOUR CHESS STREAMS,.
11:59 LOL!!!! "Tommy, if you play Ukraine modern war Im gonna nuke your house" BRO I couldnt stop laughing!
Let's all be friends here. If tommy is career to play chess is good then we should all respect this decision. DONT REPORT THE TOMMY FOR PLAYING CHESS ON TWITCH we all know comwhere this will go to. Tommy deserves better than this and not to destroy the Twitch.
what.
5:00 i would like to point out that even though they did not have the internet back then, the world was immensely interconnected and yes people did have friends from other countries. The scholars and politicians during the peacetime before both world wars said the exact same thing we hear now. Winston Churchill said 1923 , “It is too foolish, too fantastic to be thought of in the twentieth century… The interdependence of nations… have rendered such nightmares impossible.” We live in a scary time my friends, enjoy the peace while it lasts
This world is good if Tommy would help us play chess. We all know Tommy loves that but we know also that he bans the people who support he's career. TROLLING IN THIS CHAT IS VERY WEIRD DON'T DO IT IN THE DOCUMENTS WE SEE IT.
in school (norway) we had this thing in english class where there was 5 tiktoks about the war and we had to guess which one was fake news and the ones that was real.
lets hope this is over quickly and peace is restored in luhansk, donetzk and the rest of ukraine
Ukraine shouldnt have started that civil war then a few years back
this is karma for thier evil actions
@@mynamejeef7166 damn you are delusional
Thank you for sharing a very honest view of the war. I believe you are especially valuable to younger audiences as they will not understand this from the news. Now is a hard time to joke, but I think it keeps you connected to your audience.
6:41 when you asked what is that militarily it’s called destruction in Russian military doctrine it’s one step under annihilation but every single blast of light you see is artillery exploding they have superior firepower as their doctrine and no that’s not a HOI meme
Russia and Ukraine are in war
Finland: fuck fuck fuck
It is a sad world we live in brothers
@Rosseline...💜 Thanks for giving an example for his remark
I have a good friend online from ukraine. Its sad to see him as a refugee and his dad has to leave to fight in the war.
Good luck to him and his father
English has always been easier than chess. TOMMY WILL ONE DAY PLAY CHESS FOR SURE! Everyone who is like this chat plays in the chess tournaments against GothamChess and Chess people of this Town in Romania.
The bit you said there, about the old soldiers dying, thus the new ones have no idea what war is really like. God, tale as old as time. I wish more people talked about it. But then we wouldn't have any soldiers to defend us.
"Imagine living in a country and hearing sirens" right that's how we felt in Serbia in 1999 when the US bombed us.
Ig you should have not genocided the bosnias lol
@@benjamingumundsson8338 Croatia did the same to us, also it wasn't specifically war criminals bombed but innocent people.
@@malinator111 X Doubt *LA Noire face*
@@firemochimc Look it up.
@@malinator111 lol delusional kid.
The small flashes in the background are muzzle flashes. If they were explosion the flash would aluminate the sky more with orange and red, these are bright yellow white flashes. Night fights are brutal for militaries lacking in NVG development.
No importa el punto de vista que tenga cualquier persona sobre este conflicto, lo que importa es que la guerra jamás debería ser una opción para solucionar problemas en los tiempos actuales, muchos alegan que son civilizados pero usan la barbarie para civilizar
and in 70 years if we did not kill each other before we will have a hoi 34 about this time period its just sad D:
To be honest, I’m not sure the disclaimer is necessary. I’m not sure how you couldn’t support Ukraine as well as the Russian people (who also didn’t want this war and still don’t)
I’ve spoken with someone in Russia and they made it very clear what was happening was awful and nobody wanted it.
sadly its actually necessary lol, care for some comments
Putin's popularity was at 69% but has gone down since the invasion.
@@johnnotrealname8168 Popularity? I'm not sure you're aware but Russia isn't an actual democracy.
actually really rare that people behind the polititians want a war
in my opinion youre not thinking "the war thing" all trough untill you have been in one
a politician doesnt know how terrible a war is when they never saw a war with their own eyes
for example if putins family would be killed or he himself would get shot because of the war he wouldnt think of it as he thinks of it as now
@@MOCHERlK Hitler was in the war he knew exactly what its like
this world sucks. i wanna be born far further in the future man. I hope someday we'll learn to be above all this politics and think of something better.
hoping all in Ukraine are keeping safe
It really is terrible that Russia thought it had to come to this. Praying for all the people in Ukraine stay safe friends🙏
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Some sources claim Putin is anxiously waiting for the response from Black Guard
Props for making this video so quick 👍
12:48 that's like going near a bear, and saying "these bears, are escapees from a zoo."
As a Ukrainian living in the north,I want to say:your support is important.
This war is about morale.Слава Україні!
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Tommy gonna get drafted as a general
you can thank your green party for making germany rely so heavily on russian imports XD
1. The Green Party is not the biggest party in the government
2. They came to power in december of 2021. Germany already heavily relied on the imports from russia which were mostly commenced by the conservative CDU
Tommy you couldnt be more right, My hearts and prayers are with you, lisa and markoni, you may be far away from it now but it may come soon.
I swear by God this is a real story
I'm currently in my a level in a German school in East Germany. And today in my French class as we talked about the conflict and I spoke about the FACT that Russia attacked without any justified reason and on purpose threatens peace in Europe and the world. One Russian girl from my class screams at me in tears I'm lying. She then talked about the "poor kids in Donjezk" and that they are not allowed to go to school ore that they have to hide in bunkers. I looked at hear and said that that is now the reality of all children in Ukraine. She than tells me that Putin "was sitting 1 hour thinking about the call for help from Ukraine", she then said that the people of Russia are mostly antiwar but in the same sentence she then says the opposite that they support the war and Putin is completely right. My good friend then made a joke about asking her on why they elected Putin if they are against him.
To cut it short. I am so sad about this mindset this lack of thoughts and feelings from SOME Russian people.
Me and my friends are praying for Ukraine they don't deserve it to be attacked ore harmed in any way.
As Russian i am really dissapointed the entire situation got to this degree, but to be fair, Russian geopolitics have a point. Our government didn't want Ukraine to join NATO, which was consequential after 2014, because you can compare it with Cuba in 1960ies. But Ukraine wanted the Crimea back, and our countries didn't find an agreement. So after 8 years it just broke out, I think the biggest reason for the war was Zelenskiy's declaration about making a nuke. Anyway, the geopolitic situation is hideous for Russia, and this was, maybe IMHO the best decision, but we can't guess.
About the war itself, i'm soully upset that our relationship got to this level. Shoutings about stopping war won't do anything, as it has already happened, and we had to think about it 8 years ago. Now I just hope the war will stop as soon as possible, with minimal casualties and fair peace.
The biggest thing that scares me is an upcomming hate for the entire Russian people, how no one will look at us with any respect whatsoever, and how all, forthcoming 200m population is going to get povert. A broken friendship of peoples of Russia and Ukraine. I can't just imagine how 8 years ago we have been brothers, and now we hate each other. We are all slavs, and we never had anything against each other. The amount of fake news and polarized news is enormous, everyone talks shit of us. It is really sad how one of two slavs can be good and another bad just because we were born in two both poorly-developed countries. Peace guys, hope justice will triumph over time
@@ggeshundra you will pay for every inch with blood
@@ggeshundra The "geopolitics" went out the window the second Putin declared his desire to restore the Russian Tsar empire as the reasoning for his invasion.
@@Chevalier1632 when did he say that
@@justADeni ok
4:01 the navy sound LOL
This is very sad
When tommykay drafted he got promoted to mayor general.
Tommy, I'm an American and my mom said the same thing if WW3 starts they have to go through her to get to me during a draft. I hope as many people in Ukraine can be as safe as possible.
I dont know why americans keep saying this meme. If the world is in a situation where the USA needs drafting nukes would have been used long before that
@@LordsUther are u high?
@@Europa_GG No, just someone that can analyze facts
They would go through your mom.
@@LordsUther nukes wont be used ever
I woke up to a reddit post of a Ukranian scared because he didnt know what was happening. Pray for Ukraine.
the clip of them setting up the artillery piece is surreal as there is now a journalist in that same place after a battle went down. the petrol station there is destroyed and the road is covered in debris and destroyed vehicles
Noone actually understands the whole situation happening in Eastern Europe. There is no right or wrong sides as all sides in this situation are wrong. We have dictatorial Russian government controlled by cleptocratic oligarchs, pro-fascist Urkainian government which supported ultranationalists organisations such as Praviy Sektor (Right Sector) and Bandera supporters (Stepan Bandera was a nazi collaborator in WW2) and violated the Minsk agreements thousands of times and we have Western governments, who want to destabilise Eastern Europe to install their controll over Russian and Urkainian resorses (oil, gas, all that shit).
This conflict could have been prevented back in 2015 if Urkainian government respected the Minsk agreements. But, on the other hand, Russian government did nothing to force Ukraine to actually respect it. The only true victims of this conflict are people of Donbass and Ukraine, who are now have to suffer because of bunch of stupid fucking polititians in Moscow, Kyiv and Washington.
This is a complex conflict with lots of fake news and groups with different interests involved in it so I just ask you not to be stupid thinking that this is just a war between good Ukraine and bad Russia. Please, stay humans even in these hard times.
#FuckTheWar
P.S. This text may be a bit chaotic as I'm literally shaking while writing it because I have both releatives and friends in Russia and Ukraine so I feel really worried right now.
'I'm with you comrade. Imperialists' war only bring misery to the common people.
Besides, neither Russia or Ukraine are communists anymore so why i should side with either of them?
Respect to you for this comment from the people of Donbass. Спасибо!
Thats what im trying to explain its the fault of the both sides that thiz is happening
@@KostyaWHC я надеюсь, что уже скоро люди Донбасса вновь обретут мирное небо на головой
When you go to sleep in 2022 and wake up in 1938.
Jokes aside I pray for those in Ukraine
People didnt pray for serbians and vietnamise People when nato bomb them bcs nato is good 😀
@@kali8897 hahaha the west is so pathetic. When they kill its ok, but when they get threatened they are scared
@@kali8897 I mean the anti war movement in america and other countries not fighting in vietnam because the war was pointless kind of disproves you but okay
That book killed me. "Looking good dead". I fucking died
looking at what chamberain did with Hitler and all of the appeasement policies applied by the west and comparing them with europe's reaction with Putin's invasion I am actually very surprised at how we are handling this problem. I feel that modern politicians are doing better than their 1930s counterparts.
Well if we get drafted to Eastern Europe we must organise the HOI4 community meetup. Paradox con Eastern Europe.
Well. If people thought the war will start in the Balkans, you are wrong
Totally out of the topic question but at 15:48 there's a song being drowned out. Can anyone tell me what it's called?
Putin's actions are completely unacceptable. I pray for the people of Ukraine. Stay safe.
How normal be prepare for WW3: They don't.
How HOI4 players prepare for WW3: They PLAY WW3.
As Russian i am really dissapointed the entire situation got to this degree, but to be fair, Russian geopolitics have a point. Our government didn't want Ukraine to join NATO, which was consequential after 2014, because you can compare it with Cuba in 1960ies. But Ukraine wanted the Crimea back, and our countries didn't find an agreement. So after 8 years it just broke out, I think the biggest reason for the war was Zelenskiy's declaration about making a nuke. Anyway, the geopolitic situation is hideous for Russia, and this was, maybe IMHO the best decision, but we can't guess.
About the war itself, i'm soully upset that our relationship got to this level. Shoutings about stopping war won't do anything, as it has already happened, and we had to think about it 8 years ago. Now I just hope the war will stop as soon as possible, with minimal casualties and fair peace.
The biggest thing that scares me is an upcomming hate for the entire Russian people, how no one will look at us with any respect whatsoever, and how all, forthcoming 200m population is going to get povert. A broken friendship of peoples of Russia and Ukraine. I can't just imagine how 8 years ago we have been brothers, and now we hate each other. We are all slavs, and we never had anything against each other. The amount of fake news and polarized news is enormous, everyone talks shit of us. It is really sad how one of two slavs can be good and another bad just because we were born in two both poorly-developed countries. Peace guys, hope justice will triumph over time
Dude, where did Zelensky say that Ukraine wants to build nukes? Can we have an independent source for that?
Ukraine is, even in comparison to Russia, a piss poor country, they just lack the money to properly fund and run a nuclear program, that could even remotely become dangerous to Russia.
That is also one of the reasons they gave up their inherited nukes to Russia in the 90's in the first place: They didn't have the Know How how to deal with nuclear weapons and they didn't have the money to afford their upkeep.
And NATO is no threat to anyone, especially not the Russian People.
We're direct neighbors since 2004 to Russia.
Kaliningrad is literally, on the landside, surrounded by NATO countries.
Did we ever invade you since then or made threats like that? Did we park huge armies in eastern European Countries or did we train offensive maneuvers, were troops drill the invasion of Russia? No we didn't do anything of that.
And ask e.g. Switzerland, except for Austria and Liechtenstein, they're also surrounded by NATO countries.
Do they feel threatened? Not in the slightest, although Switzerland is neutral and neither part of EU nor NATO, we're on at least friendly, if not very friendly terms with them.
NATO is only for dictators a threat who either plan to attack a NATO country or who commit genocides without having the international "get out of Den Hague"-card known as a nuclear weapons arsenal.
For real, if tomorrow Putin would decide to massacre all the Chechenyians for racial reasons in concentration camps, many country would start sanctioning Russia, but they wouldn't invade it. Why? Because Russia has the largest nuclear arsenal of the world, you guys could nuke the entire world multiple times, if you wanted to.
And Ukraine itself was maintaining a neutral position, the attack on them on 2014 made them give up neutrality and push joining NATO. And of cause they made plans to get e.g. Crimea back this way or the other, but having a plan is something totally different to actually executing it.
Pls don't fall for the paranoid, lying propaganda of Putin and his regime, that drives you and your western neighbors apart, that allows Putin to stay in power.
Join the other russian anti-war protesters. Only the Russian people themselves can overthrow Putin and implement a resilient, steady democracy in Russia, that would retreat all the troops out of Ukraine, including Crimea and Donbas and reestablish peaceful and maybe some day even friendly relationshops with their neighbors.
And don't panic: I think, the large majority of the people in Ukraine and in the West can differentiate between Putin and his cronies on one hand and the common Russian people on the other.
I believe you and other Russians, when you state, that you didn't want a war against your Ukrainian Brothers and Sisters. But complaining on the internet is not enough, you must act upon it, take to the streets, participate in mass protests to big for the police or the National Guard to suppress, overthrow the Putin Regime, retreat the troops and reach a peaceful end to this madness of Putin!
As an American I agree, I do not hate the Russian people for this, I hate your government though in fairness. The Russian GOVERNMENT needs to be paying for their crimes
A wholla ladda' to unpack right here
@@MagiconIce "Президент Украины Владимир Зеленский заявил на Мюнхенской конференции по безопасности о возможности его страны вернуться к созданию ядерного оружия" search it up, as I can't upload links and you will find information about nukes, you are interested in
and no, it was a possibility to create a dirty nuke, there is at least base in Ukraine, such as Chernobyl. I don't know how did they plan on getting nukes, but the fact is a fact
Geopolitics is a thing, and it can't be denied. From its point there is only 3 powers in the world: NATO, Russia and China. None of the above want to have enemy's bases near the border. It is just obvious, you can look at Carribean crisis for example. Of course our alliances didn't invade each other, we all would doom us in nukes. Pretty much you can look at the world like chess, where you develop your pieces to get the best position to initiate an all-out attack. If you manage to take down all missile silos and anti-air faster, that their missiles reach you, it is guaranteed win. That's why countries want to get bases near the main enemy. Also it is a good places to deploy spies, cybernetic attacks ect., just because it is closer. You can manage trade, if you have more allies and much more. Just because nothing has been happening in NATO for 20 years means, that they didn't see Russia as a potential enemy, which is pretty obvious at current time.
You can't deny that Putin restored Russia from absolute poverty, it is a fact. He never ever did any genocide, unlike in Ukraine. If you don't know anything about genocide in eastern Europe since 2014, then either research it, or don't mention. Horrible things happened after Maidan in Ukraine against russians, though no impact on western society. And now we see this one-sided anti-russian propaganda, because Russia is destabilising an advantageous for NATO geopolitical position. Of course Putin is receiving cricisism for anything he did or didn't. No matter how much I want to see an absolute objective look of the situation, I will route for my country in this confrontation, I am sorry for that. But the fact is a fact - Putin is no murderer, I know he is not racist or anything, and that all these civilian bombardment is provoked by Ukrainian military techs.
In Russia it is hugely unlike west, protests don't really mean anything, as police is working its best to stop the rallies. Even the web is controlled lol. No revolution happening any time soon.
I'm pretty resigned, that we would be outcasters for hopefully just couple of months. Most of Ukrainians are tired of this nonsence happening for 8 years straight, and lot of them have bad education, so a lot will hate all the Russians without basis. That's sad, but I still hope this war won't humiliate our countries too much.
I'm really glad to see such an optimistic opinion, but sometimes you just have to be more realistic, especially when it touches your nation. Love from Russia bro
@@cameron5007 love from Russia to American people
Did Clutrike said that Ukraine is a dictatorship because of the martial law?
Just send more helmets to Ukraine
Your a sensible well rounded person
glory to Ukraine. stay strong to any Ukraine's reading this!
Hey Markoni, this is completely unrelated, but I need your help! There is this song that Tommy uses often in his esports streams/videos to get people hyped, like the hoi4 international. It sounds like a bunch of football fans singing (though there are no actual lyrics, just tu tu tu and hey hey hey). I recently heard it at a party here in Belgium and was very confused, now I need to know!!
We dont learn from our past mistakes. Im talking about nato doing something that britain atempted to do in ww2 that being peacefully stoping the germans.
I wonder if attack on Poland eventually will again be the last straw. Would be interesting if an offensive against it was what causes both WW2 and WW3
i doubt russia will do anything for some years after this... (!JOKE!) they gotta wait for world tension to lower before going for moldova (!JOKE!)
@@Glumbus1 However China is still hovering over Taiwan
@@squaeman_2644 probably wont do anything unless ukraine goes superwell and even then usa can help taiwan unlike ukraine
Seems we've got quite the few Chamberlains in politics.
I'm from Russia. Sorry guys for all this
At the end of the day
Both citizen of the nation didnt want war.