Dude, Xitter is a Nazi-Echochamber.. But you still go there, and care about their Grievance politics & Culture-War "Tissue-Issues"..?!? Blue Skies await you brother. Xitter is Kremlin-Operation nowdays,so maybe NOT SUPPORT IT..!!!
@@4-Methylaminor3x that explains why orange dude won. He speaks like a 3rd grader. Well, that was in 2016. Now it is closer to 1st grader and I feel like I am insulting 1st graders.
I can't speak for what they teach in public school due to being thrown into Jesus school as a teenager but I wouldn't be surprised at either types not teaching about some darker sides to US history until one reaches college like having further depth in how the US government oppressed the Native Americans beyond just speaking of the Trail of Tears.
I think a lot of westerners have been oddly glorifying life in the developing world lately. They see Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America as places that embrace “traditional values” like religion, gender roles, and family dynamics while also having low cost of living and enjoying the ‘simple things in life’. What they fail to realize is that these places all have 10x the amount of issues that their nations do and there’s a reason why migration from the developing world to developed world happens a million times more frequently than the other way around. Your average westerner would run back to their country the moment they stepped outside the tourist bubble and saw how ‘regular’ people actually live in developing countries vs in their own.
@Entername-md1ev Yeah, from time to time, news stories pop up about American Conservatives moving to Russia then realizing they really f***ed up. They all seem to come back to Murica.
So much this. We Russians have some miniature of it (if it makes sense) with small nations in the North Caucasus. Some despise them for "being too barbaric and backwards", some, on the contrary, adore them for "upholding traditional values much more than those degenerate Moscow people". And if you don't know people from there, if you don't watch some small (so that they are not told to shut up) content creators from there, you just can't know how screwed up the situation is, but not in the way you possibly think. That those "patriarchal males" go smoking weed and doing nothing, while the wife works and works and works and then is abused; that they develop so many personality disorders because of it; that there's no actual "friendship" as on pictures and this is the world of lies - but at the same time so many young people from there actually don't want to live like that.
@@Danietz Well depends on the measure and depends on the definition of Eastern Europe. If you are talking about Moldova Belarus Russia there are absolutely a lot of similarities. Russia GDP per capita is below Chile and Uruguay and barely ahead of Mexico and even Argentina isn't far behind. Moldova is behind even Colombia, Belize, Peru.
Another particularly funny thing about that Tucker bit was his screaming about "low prices" without ever attempting to compare said prices to actual local wages, which revealed the Russian grocery prices to be far *higher* than in the West. Tucker knows better, of course (at least, maybe?), but it's hilarious that even he depends on his audience being too deliberately-ignorant to even spell "economics".
Maybe this reaction comes from the misconception in the west that the east is some extremely underdeveloped bumfuck of nowhere where people live like in middle ages, untouched by the impurity of infrastructure and modern culture.
So absurd that these people think they live in Orwell's 1984 and move to Orwell's 1984 as an escape. They complain so loudly about how they can't say anything in the USA all over social media. I hope they enjoy actually living that reality in Ruzzia😂😂😂 Maybe they will get some perspective on what totalitarianism actually looks like smh ..
@@gabraham9509The ironic thing is that once people who move to Russia realize they screwed up - it's too late. An American family moved to Russia for "freedom" last year. When they started having complaints, the government forced them to remove their videos.😂
Well, some Russian women would love to escape to a "better world", have some stability in their lives and something to brag about. But the thing those guys aren't considering is that if you want a traditional wife, be ready to be a traditional husband. Russian women are demanding, they don't want "a pair of pants" in the house anymore. Be a tradhusband and bring enough money so that both of us can live comfortably and I'll be your pretty tradwife no problem. Until then jog on. We are not meek and submissive lol
@@SergeiVasilev-u4c oh lol my bad. Idk what I was thinking😂😂😂 Anyhow the point is the same but you're completely right. 1987 doesn't even sound right😂 EDIT: Fixed it. Thanks for the heads up🙏
I'm a Russian living in the EU, and those people are pissing me off saying that the Soviet Union was amazing, Russian economy is the strongest in the world, and Russian leadership is the wisest. Those people know nothing about the Russian and Soviet culture and history, and yes, they also watch RT, it's not banned where I live.
In what EU country they told you that? Maybe in Hungary? I as a Finnish person most definately know what Russia is like and what the USSR was like. The USSR was the opposite of amazing, Russian economy is about to crash, and the Russian leadership are evil lying relics from the USSR!!.
In what EU country they told you that? Maybe in Hungary? I as a Finnish person most definately know what Russia is like and what the USSR was like. The USSR was the opposite of amazing, Russian economy is about to crash, and the Russian leadership are evil lying relics from the USSR!!
They also have no idea that a huge genocide of millions of people happened in Ukraine, called the Holodomor. People were starved to death by the Soviet Union. Which is failed to be taught in America.
Cuck.. just because a place is crazy doesn't mean it's not worth a visit. but it's not true you Finn's loved coming to st Petersburg to get drunk was numerous
Ukraine too and we done the same thing as them in 2014. Please please please, support Russias victims and enemies, it feels like everyone forgot about us, but my male friends are dying and I am starving because groceries became too expensive, if western countries helped more and didn't fear the "escalation" in the beginning we would be already free, and russian regime destroyed
@@sofiiamarusyn 🇺🇦🇳🇴🇺🇦 I agree. Our governments have been slow and timid. But you are not forgotten. And I think the new administration in USA (Trump) will be good for Ukraine. I hope Trump’s starting point will be that Ukraine needs all it’s territory back, and that Putin’s Russia needs to lose.
Same as Vietnam - had 3 relatives that went to Vietnam and not one saw combat. I googled it and something like 15% of troops sent to Vietnam ended up in the bush.
I’m an American who moved to Eastern Europe. Every time I visit home, i am shocked to hear my fellow countrymen, especially those who claim to be extremely patriotic, constantly carrying water for Putin’s government and parroting kremlin talking points that they heard on Fox News. The contrast is insane, and I will never understand it.
Neither will I, but you know, most of us don’t really have great analytical skills, so if a very rich Australian dude decides to buy a large news corporation to manipulate the citizens of the rich and influential USA, the result is given.
@@ArminiusGroßthat was 20’years ago. Eastern European countries have developed a lot since then. A lot of people started businesses, made a good living, etc. Some of my closest friends are now millionaires - all engineers, and created very successful tech companies. Leaving, at that point, is just for additional comfort or ambition. Not means for survival as it used to be years ago.
You're just repeating the same stochastic terrorism and other MSM/CriminalGov talking points about THEIR political opposition. All those examples you listed are extremist/authoritarian/totalitarian left wing ideologies and tactics. And singling out Fox News is just pure stupidity. Fox News isn't any different from the other totalitarian American MSMs that you blindly follow. After Tucker was fired, Fox died in irrelevancy alongside the rest of the medias EVERYTHING the American MSM says is to be taken as a LIE until proven otherwise. The only thing they do now is tell us about whatever the relevant topic is I can guarantee you that people like yourself are an insignificant minority of useful idiots that buy anything the MSM, Big Tech, Gov, Big Pharma, Wealthy Elite, etc say without question. Fortunately, the totalitarian left is losing their grip on society/culture and their legacy medias are rendered obsolete Even after the blatant corruption tactics to imprison their political opposition and even make multiple attempts on his life, it should be glaringly obvious who the real baddies are, if the 8+ years of stochastic terrorism of THEIR POLITICIAL OPPOSITION and the HOSTILE RADICALIZED MASSES didn't alrdy make it super obvious
They even don’t want to know anything about it. They suck up Trump and that’s enough. Putin licks Trump’s ego and the world’s largest economy fell for the Russian dictator. Smart US citizens 😂
@ What?? Musk? About programming?🤣🤣 Science? 🤣🤣 He loves a climate denial idiot. That’s about Musk’s infinite knowledge. Rogan is a peasant. I can’t inderstand why he’s so famous.
The one thing I know about Russia is that there's a whole section of Russian people obsessed with 1980s Italian music, because it was some of the first types of Western music which arrived in the Eastern Block during Gorbachev's liberalisation of the Soviet Union.
What? No it wasn't. That's not the reason at all. Italian pop got popular because people liked the funky upbeat sound of it. Nothing more. All that 80s European new wave sort of pop was popular. And popular before gorby
Fuckin' hell. Thank you Roman! As someone who has been going to these protests in Georgia for like 2 weeks already, I really do appreciate you shedding light on what is going on in Tbilisi now.
there's no benefit to join/leave a union, better let the country be as is. Much safer to do trade-deal or agreement, eg: like no-visa travel with EU than joining EU to get no-visa travel.
Not entirely Western, but I LOVE story about Slovak guy who was simping to Russia and russian government for a long time, he dreamed of living in Russia so much that he sailed to the Russian waters on Baltic Sea. What do you think happened next? He was taken by russian police for a long interrogation and send back to Slovakia, after these events he changed his mind completely ("these guys weren't even nice to me, even though I told them I love Russia so much"😂😂). I wish such experience to every westerner who thinks Russia is a free speech, wokeism free etc paradise 🙆
I'm from Slovakia and the best part is, that after he published his experiences from Russia on Facebook, his "fans" didn't even believe him and started blocking him. Yeah. Apparently, facts are sometimes not enough. (Also explains the situation in Slovakia hahah 🥲)
@@theresaa188 Is ruzzia trying to manipulate the politics and the culture in Slovakia using puppet pols, agents, assets and online botfarms the same way they have been doing to the US, Georgia, Romania, Turkey and Moldova? I'm learning the pattern, but from here in the middle of the US I can't tell how far across E Europe it actually reaches. Or how effective it is there.
A while back, I was in an online discussion with some actual Americans. One of the women said, "Well, at least Putin cares about his people." I have NO idea where that idea came from, but it seems pretty prevalent in certain quarters.
I guess she was a masochist. Look at the situation in Slovakia. The government literally treading on the people who scream "yes, finally someone who cares about the common folk!" Slave mentality.
Twitter is a zombie website swarming with bot accounts spewing ragebait. The whole shtick is engagement farming. I think all these social media apps should go the way of MySpace. They suck all the fun out of real people.
I'd say at least some 70%. All of them have shit like "patriot" in their bio and all praising russia. It's clearly just an illusion russia tries to create but I'm sure quite a few people still get fooled by BS about Zelensky buying a Bugatti or 35M mansion in Florida...
As a German, I have to agree. I have had many conversations about the whole situation with a good friend who is polish during the last couple of years that have really opened my eyes
@@paulsevenitz616 true. tbh i think germany and poland have a strong bond through history. even tho it's also marked by wars and such. i actually think germany should try and buddy up and cooperate as much as possible with poland for a mutually great future. also think about how many germans have polish ancestry, it's probably in the tens of millions. pretty much one in five germans will have at least some polish ancestry. i'm not including actual polish people that just live here in that. at my job, out of a team of ten people at least 4 are either straight poles or have an ancestral polish name. i also have some polish ancestry from my maternal great grandparents.
@@chainsawenthusiast true there are much more people with heritage from abroad in germany than shown in the data because many of those have german Passworts. And yes geostrategly it would be so good for whole Europe when france germany Poland would go the same Direction..however there is still this old Reflex in german thinking that they have to play with russia to be able to exert Power on poland and france.. in the AfD BSW Linke and unfortunatly in the SPD.. And the future looks Bad with emerging Front National
@@paulsevenitz616The poles i know overhere in Germany are anti american Putin lovers, that hate Tusk and Sikorski. It's me, who teach them facts to wreck their vatnik fake news, day by day.
Yea a lot of Americans generalize the rest of the world but also, as a Romanian immigrant in the US, a lot of the world generalizes America. It’s almost like nuance exists.
My dad still thinks all of eastern Europe is Russia He's in his late 50s when he went to school the Soviet union was still in full swing and he honestly doesn't know that the post Soviet nations are independent Or rather separate from russia
Weird. My parents are in their 80's and they know post soviet nations are "independent". I'm in my early 50's so I remember staying home and watching TV when the Berlin Wall fell etc. Maybe your dad is one of these who still think of them as all the same. I'm sure your dad really does know, but won't acknowledge it.
@melissas4874 thing is he lived in a small town, he most likely didn't care about geography when he was young and also information in school wasn't much in his history class he didn't learn much about wars except dates and that's it He learned more off of watching the history channel
@Baphomets_Kid that I do understand I feel like my dad might either be genuinely clueless or he might be buying into some propaganda somewhere I have no clue
Americans know the least about other countries, mainly because when we "sneeze, the world gets a cold" and that makes us care less about other nations because they don't affect US as much as we affect them
I visited the Soviet Union in 1975. I was in Moscow and Leningrad (St. Petersburg now). We bought rubles at 5 for a dollar in a Danish bank when the official rate was over $2 per ruble. We hid them in the socks we were wearing when we entered as it was illegal to bring in rubles from the west. I was in my early 20's and found the young folks in Russia were super western oriented, wanting jeans and music and had all kinds of questions about the west but they were pretty well informed. Most folks would only talk with me outdoors while walking. I was fascinated as it felt like Europe in the 1950s. People dressed in very drab clothes, most older men wore greatcoats. It was hard for me to tell military from police from civilians with those coats. Some Russian sailors kind of adopted my friend and I, taking us to the head of the line at restaurants getting all of us in because we were Americans. Most of the stores were empty except for the foreign currency stores and restaurants that only took western currency and thus off limits to most Russians. I did get to see the Bolshoi and liked it so much I went back the next night as well. At one point I was in an underground beer garden that was raided by the police while I was in there, and another time I was picked up by the police and held in a back room in the Moscow subway after I had been taking photos of all the drab apartment blocks in the outskirts of town. They let me go after a few hours. I stood out as I had very long hair, a full red beard and wore a red plaid lumberjack jacket and blue jeans. All in all I had a great time there but it was definitely very different from any place I had been, and from what I have gathered, very different from today's Russia.
Haha naar it's quite similar really police still detain you for random nonsense. Police and military everywhere. Still see guys wearing surplus military clothing.. police still like raiding bars.. Russians are still pretty "western" you still get the thing where some guys "adopt" you as a curious foreigner and show you around. It's only now there is no lines. You can buy what you want and there is less drunks.
20:00 It's because here in the west we take freedom of speech for granted and the countries which don't have it, we think it works like "criticise government in any way = go to jail". But there's different levels to dictatorships. In Russia you can get away with some things. In China, you can't get away with anything. And in North Korea, your entire family tree will be punished.
You are having it slightly backwards. China has way MORE freedom than Russia. That doesn't mean everything is super sunshine there, but Beijing doesn't care as much as most people commonly believe. And since China has a lot of money, really a lot of money thanks to their economy. Their can constantly built new infrastructure, highways, public transport, hospitals, schools, etc for their citizens which keeps them quit most of the time. While Russia on the other hand just pockets 95% of their taxpayers money and sends everyone to prison who dares to ask where the money went. Basically China is paying their citizens to quiet and only uses other means when giving them fancy gifts, good jobs and good infrastructure doesn't't work, while Russia beat the cr*p out of you just to prove they can.
@AxGerm756 bro what. if you post some thing about xi jinping on weibo chinese police show up in 2 hours time. in russia you can bitch all you like about the government so long as you veil it in sarcasm, or don't praise the westerners
Hello. I am from Mongolia. Yeah bordered between Russia and China. Post communist country. We experienced good and bad things with both our neighbors during 20th century. From Russia(Russian Empire, Soviet Union) we had recognized in UN and declared independence from china and industrialized but bad side is purge, one party state, censorship etc. Westerners still thinks Mongolians are barbarians and still horse riders and nomadic society. Yes we have nomadic lifestyle but not all people.Every country and system has advantage and disadvantage. Russia is big and diverse country. There are non Russian ethnic groups and Russian speaking and mixed groups there too. I am not supporter of Russia or USA but i see the Two different country, culture, and history, and location. For example westerners blame Russia is aggressive and cruel yes they are but are they only one? how about western countries! Colonialism, Slavery, Genocide, etc.... 21th century USA Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, UK Afghanistan France Western African countries, Libya so western countries are not innocent neither. I was lived in South Korea for 2 years and i experienced western countries thinks we know everything really? how? Yes i know other people blame me as Russian troll or something but i am real person.
Russians say the same thing when they try to whitewash themselves by pointing out the West's shortcomings, so it's no wonder that you're considered a bot.I advise you to watch his other video about Russia and read the comments of other nationalities living and having lived in Russia
It's no wonder that you are considered a bot if you write such excuses. I read a lot of how Russians wrote about this as an excuse for everything they do.
@@chrisconny2285since 900s we've had about 55 wars/battles with some form of the Russian empire. We've invaded them, they invaded us. There is a millenia of shared history. This includes having the country fully subsumed into Russia, and more recently, having the country be a satellite of Russia. NATO is a break in that pattern. It allows countries to basically ignore what Russia could do, and focus on living and growing.
@@ArminiusGroß I can add mine too, dude. Want to hear? Americans throw more food into waste, than half of African country consume yearly. 25% of you believe sun moves around earth/america. Your english and general language skills are attrociuous.0 You can make yourself to be proud about this, i`m sure. and keep having strong opinions about everything you have no clue about, it will make you a good cattle for yours System.
I can not emphasize how much I like this video. As someone from East Germany who was born in 1990 and who is actually politically active there AND who has actually lived in Russia for 1.5 years, I have a hard time talking to people who think they know something about nowadays Russia, simply because they grew up with East German Socialism. But all I ever hear from them is: "Well we actually still had Russian in school back in the days!" as if I wouldn't know that and not already have heard this exact phrase a thousand times before. And this is exactly where all their mighty wisodom about Russia already ends... That's why I keep on telling them that they don't know shit about Russia.
The author should grow a pair and stop using the term "westeners" this is offensive to europeans and other westener. Call them americans and not false terms.
@@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 Yes, there was! And you completely missed the point. I was born after the wall had already opened up in 1989 but East Germany (DDR/GDR) STILL EXISTED as a state for almost one more year! Both Germanys only reunified towards the end of 1990 on 3 October. You should look things up before you come up with such nonsense claims. This is why both my birth certificate and vaccination pass still have the seal of the GDR and where in fact issued by East Germany. And the point that I made here had even nothing to do with that. East Germany still even nowadays exists as a political term and many differences between the east and west of Germany continue to exist to this day. And if you grow up surrounded by "former" East Germans and you are being raised by them then of course you are still somewhat East German yourself. Things don't dissppear over night. Just like the southern states of the US still have their very own kind of identity which doesn't just dissappear over night.
Westerners' knowledge of Eastern Europe in general is abysmal. When I tell them I am from Serbia they immediately picture 6000 commie blocks, put a blue/grey filter over it, and say "It must really cold over there" (Probably thinking of Siberia or something even more stupid). Ok, it's not the most influential country in the world, but to not know one thing about a country that's on your planet? And then I met a person from basically any country in South America and they will know some fun fact about Serbia.
@@ArminiusGroß War stuff? Probably because you're from the Germanic world and you're projecting what other people first thoughts are when they hear about your country. But that's ok, it's something at least.
Westerners often see all of Latin America as basically just Mexico with different accents and way of dressing(this also technically applies to Spain and Portugal) same with Eastern Europe many often see Eastern Europe as basically Russia with different accents.
I am 100% on your side on this. People who don‘t know the very basics about European history after WW2 should just not make such comments and better listen to the people in Georgia, Ukraine, and other neighbours of Russia.
@@Charlotte-vp2fu @Charlotte-vp2fu This! For me as a Finn, it brings up visions of Russians dropping arty on their own positions in 1939, then invad8ng Finland because Russian troops found themselves literally breathless under a Russian barrsge. Also, Holod9mor in the thirties, where Stal9n willingly caused a humanitarian catastrophe for the Ukr people, leaving millions breathless. Oh! And the Great Fam9ne in the 20's! Millions of people left breathless. And who could forget Stal9n's camp system! Millions left breathless. With bad math, such as Russian apolog9sts use nowadays, that would mean *at least* two trillion breathless, two quintillion in the US large numbers system! Isn't it 9nsane!
listening to Ukrainians and Georgians about Russia is like listening to Hitler about Jews, a brilliant solution, but incredibly stupid. By the way, Ukrainians will not tell how they attacked Russia in 1992 and how they helped Chechen terrorists with weapons and soldiers in 1994, Georgians will not tell how they started the 2008 war, which is internationally recognized, so yes, keep listening to them.
@@juhalampola1954 Holodomor being a genocide is a lie literally created by the Nazis. It was not an intentional famine, and it was not used to intentionally target any specific groups. These talking points are widely discredited by historians, a vast majority of which are pro-western and anti-Soviet. You can be anti-Stalin and anti-Russian without engaging in historical revisionism and Nazi talking points.
The lefties that criticise western imperialism while failing to recognise Russian imperialism, is a position which Vlad Vexlar (Russian philosopher) refers to as; “Imperialism for idiots.” I agree, imperialism should be called out regardless of origin. As for Georgia, to be fair not every westerner has been or lived there, but as a westerner that has, I wish Georgia the future that their young aspire to. Russians hold some weird stereotypes of my country, so laughing at westerners should be reserved for those in the west that chose to be wilfully ignorant. Wilful ignorance, cognitive dissonance or even just plain serf mentality is needed by anyone that simps for Putin.
Correction. It is currently the Right wing that are the Russia simps. Also, the left criticizes our system in order to improve it, correct its mistakes, and make it live up to its promises. A system that can’t accept criticism is doomed.
This is a reason for my headaches. I live in a post-soviet country and even the right wing supporters there believe this imagination of traditional-valued Russia is how the world should be work like. But at least they hate putin, only because he is a threat for the country's independence.
Remind your right-wing friends that Russia is an atheist country, run by the former communists, with the largest number of prostitutes in the world and an HIV infection rate like Africa. There are no fewer migrants in Russia than in Europe, by the way.
When I think of Russia I think of men getting wasted drinking vodka. Not very traditional, but hey it’s just a stereotype, I know not everyone is like that.
Hah, I wish! Our elderly, you know, the ones who should actually know what living under soviet influence was like because they did, keep openly praising russia as if it were somehow the safehaven of all humanity, and wishing for their return.
Joe Rogan has culpability in that (as far as I can tell) he has made no effort to listen to Ukrainians (or even opposition Russians). Rogan is supposedly super open-minded, but you can tell a lot by who he puts on his shows.
All these comments regarding Georgia on X - sounds like Russian-paid trolls, because average American has no clue where a country Georgia is, most never even heard of them, and most likely don't know what's going on there right now.
Well tbh the most of the europeans don't know anything about Georgia either. I bet the most didn't know it is an european country. And yes this comment comes from an european. A couple of years ago I only knew it's whereabouts like near Turkey or something.
@@Dmitrihson if you had done a tiny bit of research you would know that she had french citizenship as she was born to Georrgian refugees in France but she gave it up. So no, it's not true. She only has Georgian citizenship.
I think the confusion may be that "conscription" in Western countries historically meant serving in the regular army. As in: putting a rifle in your hands after some basic training and sending you to war. It still effected all men in a certain age bracket but meant you were basically being drafted into being a soldier for war. This happened in the US in Vietnam and WW2 for example. So the idea that there's "two separate armies" one of which is the real army, and the other which is basically a glorified janitor service, is a pretty foreign concept to many Westerners. They hear "conscripted into army" and they think that means something like the Stanley Kubrick film Full Metal Jacket. For most Westerners: "army" means "being a soldier", and "being a soldier" means "going to war." The idea that a country may have "a national army of janitors" who are conscripted, is a pretty foreign concept to most Westerners. In the West, "conscription" is more like what you would probably call "mobilization". As in: "That's it son. Here's your rifle and your boots and your backpack: you're going to war."
@ hullmees666 you're missing my point. In NATO countries, "conscription" is for the regular military. Not for a "one-year janator and labor service" with the regular army being a separate thing. Most people in NATO countries won't relate to the idea of being "conscripted" into a non-military government free-labor force for a year. That's very much a Soviet-style idea. The closest thing the US had to that was the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) created in the 1930's to give labor jobs to people who enlisted to thousands of unemployed people to work on public works projects like dams and such. It was created during the Great Depression of the 1930's. But that was still voluntary: people weren't conscripted into that.
Probably the best explanation that I've ever seen on this topic. I've lived in both countries, so I can confirm that this is something that most people just wouldn't understand if they haven't either lived in both or haven't done extensive research outside of their own info bubble (most people wouldn't have a reason to know these things).
@@sarakajira there's something in between too: in Turkey, you get conscripted into the regular army and get all basic military training including those rifle shots but the tasks you're given as conscripts after basic training are pretty much the janitorial&labour tasks like Roman described, unless a genuine war arises. As I understand, that's how it works in Russia and Ukraine as well.
Russian conscription is not glorified janitor service. Not in this war. There’s literally videos from soldiers with rusted rifles and less than a week of training being sent to front.
Im not a Russian shill, just always been interested in the country and have a friend from there. I still hope to visit some day, though im not under any illusions regarding the government and politics.
People don’t know much about Norway either. But funny tho, I actually learned something new about Poland today. Met a half Polish girl. Life in Europe: you very often meet people from other countries, which is cool. (Hi from Norway)
@@MiSt3300 Wiem. Uczę się języka polskiego. Moi dziadkowie pochodzili z Polski. Amerykanie niewiele wiedzą. I Roman również nie wie o USA. Odwiedzę Polskę w przyszłym roku. Nie mogę się doczekać.
The based, Orthodox Putin who can't stop killing other Orthodox Christians. I heard people say, because Russia dropped bombs on Isis in Syria they're like the only true defender of Christianity in the region. When... pretty much EVERY country has dropped bombs on Isis. Clown world.
As an American conservative it’s a strange world when I find myself with more overlap with a self professed leftie Russian than most of my own countrymen. Cue the memes.
As an Ayn Rand Objectivist, I share your astonishment and then some. Basically MAGA and their extra-US equivalents are _social_ conservatives but are certainly not fiscal, individual rights, or US Constitutional conservatives. Their love of statism and their hatred of "the rich" both seem to be growing rapidly. They are literally moving _to the left_ of the left. But this could also be because ruzzbots constantly and almost exclusively false-flag as Westerners, so we often blame Western conservatives and libertarians for things said by ruzzbots.
well republicans used to be way more anti russian than dems. it is insane how it has changed. taking other policies out of it eastern europe was always glad to see republicans in power due to their foreign policies.
Everyone should keep in mind that enormous numbers of young Americans, say those younger than 40 (I'm 77), know NOTHING about any other country and have never heard of most of them. Many know little about their own! Our schools used to teach a lot of world and American history, geography, etc., but not so much anymore. So, younger Americans know little to nothing about the many European and Asian cultures, wars, or the general history of either. Nothing about great international famines, mass migrations, gulags, the brutal dictators, concentration camps or historical world epidemics. They don't even know anything about the Vietnam War or how their own country got mired in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Covid pandemic made this worse. All of this varies by region. In the south, especially, education is absolutely terrible, which is not the fault of the students. My fellow young Americans drive me crazy and make me feel alternately furious and sorry for them. The coming government of evil clowns will probably kill off much of what's left of American education. And who voted for them? The very people who know nothing.
as a Pole I must say that the lack of knowledge of the average American about the world is legendary. being in the USA this year I encountered it at every turn and in most conversations with Americans, they always took me for a Russian and when I explained that I was Polish they asked if the war in Ukraine was still going on. I don't know where this ignorance comes from.
I learned all of this stuff in American school 1995-2008. We were required to label every country on each continent in every High School geography class. I don't know where you're getting this "they don't teach it" thing. It's not that they aren't teaching it, it's that it doesn't seem important to American kids when I can play video games all day and the worst thing that happened to me this month is diarrhea from too many Hot Pockets and I didn't do my homework.
I learned all of these subjects in public school and I'm 42 years younger than you. Students not caring because they are spoiled is not the same thing as nobody is teaching it. Every single thing you listed, I remember learning about in High School alone, especially labeling names of every country on each continent. You also oddly left out the entire fields of biology or natural/Earth sciences and these are the subjects we are actually not teaching well at all.
I must remind to everyone, that Roman is not the only Russian who has this shit happen to him, westerners apply that to literally every single russian citizen, and Russian has ~200 different ethnicities in it, and most of them has it's own history, culture and language. It's not a rare thing, when you, as a Russian, are getting called "ruZZian" when you are: anti-gov, not russian by ethnicity, your mother-language is not russian, you have different history and culture, it's just happened that you are a citizen of the biggest country on our planet. Roma ideally describes the whole situation at 11:43 - 12:00.
What’s frustrating to me is that they’ll be aware of how restrictive Russia is and then complain that no one is protesting and that Russians are cowards. (even though people have protested) These are the same people who claimed that they would’ve tried to protest against Hitler if they lived in Germany. It’s easy to say when you’ve lived in a country with the right to protest.
Also, majority of the army in Russia are not ethnic Russians, as well as majority of politicians. Fun fact: USSR has an ethnic Russian leader for 1 (one) year in its history.
@@ObIitus I seriously doubt the Russian army is not majority ethnic Russians. That's pretty much a statistical impossibility. Not every ethnic Russian lives in a Moscow or Pete. Outside of those areas life is harder particularly in rural areas which are full of ethnic Russians in the west.
@@OnusofStrife First, ethnic Russians are not a majority in Russia. Second, there is a specific of this war. Government avoids recruiting in western regions, because pretty much everyone there has close relatives in Ukraine.
Russia was once sorta free back in the 90's to noughties. If only that law about forbidding people who used to have government ranks in the USSR [such as being a Politburo member or KGB agent] got passed somehow...because the Russian political scene under that proposal could've been fresher than flying hammers and sickles.
@@AmericansElitehard to be a free and fair democracy while being controlled from the russia hence the revolution in 2014. Pathetic russians attacking ukraine after ukrainian people finally stepping up against russian backed corruption.
As a Polish guy, I must say that while Poland might also be kinda anti-woke, anti-immigration, conservative country, no one, i mean NO ONE would EVER glorify Russia. Our pro-russian parties are extremally mask-on, and no one could said that Putin is good in public. It might breed some anti-russian general hate, which I think is bad, but at least with perceiving Russian government people are touching reality
I think it's because Poland is an actual conservative country with strong Christian ideology. With Russia it's just a big misconseption of some people in the American anti-woke side. Putin just wanted some ideology to bond people together. After SU and 90s there was nothing left - no religion, no morality, no principles. As a KGB agent that surrounded himself with other KGB agants all they could think of is this illogical mishmash of nonsence that they are trying to sell as traditional religious values
Yep as well as china and Iran. China more so. Once you know the talking points of the propaganda, it's easy to point out. Its everywhere too. They'll make a statement and never respond to any of the 4k comments to it
Thank you! I have relatives in Russia and there are so many things I cannot talk about with them, including a teenager that is growing fast to be old enough for the conscript army and I have been worried about him.
My Polish mom says that Russia is run by a bunch of Mafia. Back in world war 2, a bunch of Russian soldiers tried to rape my grandmother. She jumped out of the building. Grandmother also said they would steal from citizens, one soldier was riding a bike with watches on all of his arms.
How time pass... back in the day Poland in WW2 was one of not so many countries who finished their warpath in Berlin. Polish banner on Berlin Victory Column. But what now? WW2 for Poles: "My grandma was spanked by Russian soldiers!" That legend is passed from generation to generation! That is what makes them proud. That is new history of Poland, land of spanked grandmothers. Serves them right.
I once talked to a Polish woman who had spent the war in a Nazi concentration camp for participation in the resistance. She told me this. Hunger was a big problem and eventually people could not refrain from talking about food. The topic of oranges came up (because there was no fresh fruit of course). One of the Russian inmates chimed in with, "We have orange factories in the Soviet Union too," thereby establishing she had never in her life seen an orange.
as i get older i realize majority of people in the world would rather be told what to do than have actual freedom. freedom is scary for a lot of people and doing enough to get by works for them. im guilty of this in some ways too but i rather be commanded by someone intelligent and can back it up than someone that's an idiot and gets by on lies.
@@jesse76th96 The worst part about it I feel is that they want life to be simple and easy. That is why there is so much pushback against equality. While life gets easier for the disadvantaged, it gets harder for those who gained an advantage by disadvantaging others.
i live in america (midwest now northwest) but came from Slovakia. today at work i met an american communist, a fact that still amazes me. before i moved i almost thought they were a myth offline...
When you meet an American "Communist," you will often find an idealistic, naive person who imagines the "perfection" of Communism, which is often summarized as "To each person according to their needs, from each according to their means," and "The workers should control the means of production." They imagine that if we tried Communism again, we'd figure out how to do it "right." Many American "Communists" are responding to the mind-boggling wealth gap in the US between the haves and have-nots. They fail to consider human nature; unrestrained greed can be a human flaw that ruins any form of governance. It seems to me that countries using the Scandinavian blend of Socialism (to help disadvantaged people), and regulated Capitalism are the most successful. History proves that rewarding ingenuity and hard work incentivizes people to strive and improve. Capitalism is good at that. There must be rules to restrain the wealthy, not eliminate them. In pursuing wealth, human nature answers the question, "How much is enough?" with, "Everything." No system can withstand that.
Well trust me those ppl have no idea what actual communism or socialism is. To be fair neither have ever really existed because of humans inheirent greed and corruption, but fact they think itd be better than a direct democracy with socialist prpgrams is pure Ignorance. Our education average in USA is pathetic. Majority are under 10th grade level. So yeah what you are exp is the % of 350million who are ignorant and willfully so
More than that, only foreigners who support Putin and tell me how blessing for a country he is are driving me nuts more. People who have never been to Russia, never learned how to speak the language, never went in depth into country's history or politics, but tells me how it is so much better there?! My response to them is always unchanging: "I understand that you don't know about Russia as much as I do, because I lived there. What you have to do is go there, live there for at least a year, work, or limit your spending to a median salary in Russia. Then return, and we will talk. Before that, talks are useless."
Westerners think Russia and Eastern Europe are countries stuck in time - like they imagine those countries are like America in the 40's. When they hear those countries are more conservative than America, they imagine a country like old school America.
And we all know what they glorify when talking about 40s America: The ability to openly hate women and minorities with no repercussions while society itself claims straight white men are better than everyone else just because.
Americans especially have this notion of the whole of Europe too. Most still think we live in castles and ride on horseback. "Wait, you guys ALSO have credit cards over there???"
I respect that you don't try to embellish the danger (or lack thereof) you avoided by leaving Russia. If you played it up and agreed with everyone saying "Wow you really dodged a javelin!" and all that, we'd probably believe you and it might get a lot of clicks for the drama, but you choose to tell the unexciting truth instead because that's more important than drama. 💯
First I should admit that I’m American before I say anything else lol, but Joe Rogan has turned into such an embarrassment. His views on domestic US issues aside, I couldn’t believe some of the pro Z stuff that has come out of his mouth, and blaming the Ukrainians for the war? Years ago, he was a center left guy who represented truly independent media. It felt freeing at the time, like a counterculture even. His guests were mostly pseudo historians and pseudoscientists, sure, but he did get real scientists and historians in from time to time. He got wackos like Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopolis on, but he also would have Bernie and Kyle Kulinski. Now it’s become ridiculously one sided, he sounds more and more foolish by the week and he comes off as the shill that he was always so against. His audience has changed too, I know so many old school Rogan listeners that won’t touch his show now, and a whole new generation of young, red pilled bros have taken their place. I’m sorry to focus on Rogan in particular when he was just a mention on your video, but I think it is important because his reach is absolutely massive and shouldn’t be understated. When he says this type of crap, people listen, and he’s now contributing to the same lack of world-consciousness, and the “dumb American” stereotype that they used to blame the mainstream media for. He has literally become what he used to hate.
@ what’s your point? Are you implying that that would somehow make his show at all balanced? They sat around and trashed her while “waiting for her to respond”. But it doesn’t matter anyway because Kamala herself was running on a center right platform without Trumps populism. Given the way virtually every incumbent party around the world was ousted in recent elections, both right and left, because of the state of the post Covid world economy, it’s pretty clear she didn’t have a chance. I’m not a fan and didn’t bring her up in my original comment.
@ For someone who hates JR you state a lot of things he says on his show. If you hate him so much, why listen? He also is allowed to change his political viewpoints. And he is not a journalist. You make it sound like the only guests on his show now are right sided. I know in 2024 he had on John Fetterman, Neil de Grasse Tyson, Jack Dorsey with former Twitter propagandist Viyaya Gadde. Also Bill Maher in late 2023. I’m sure there were others. Balance is important for a good show. I mean if you want one sided reporting, turn on the television.
I lo-key hate on america too and I live in america. I am a leftist but, I do not simp for Russia imperialism. I hate nazis. There are so many here now. However, since the shooting of the CEO of the health insurance company, that affects far right, far left and in the middle. We don't have an actual universal healthcare system. A lot of people have died, so I expect the revolution in the US is going to be very bloody for the elites like Elon Musk.
We do, we know There lived a certain man in Russia long ago He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow Most people look at him with terror and with fear But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear He could preach the Bible like a preacher Full of ecstasy and fire But he also was the kind of teacher Women would desire Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey There lived a certain man in Russia long ago He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow Most people look at him with terror and with fear But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear He could preach the Bible like a preacher Full of ecstasy and fire But he also was the kind of teacher Women would desire Ra-ra-Rasputin Lover of the Russian queen There was a cat that really was gone Ra-ra-Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine It was a shame how he carried on He ruled the Russian land and never mind the Czar But the kazachok he danced really wunderbar In all affairs of state he was the man to please But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze For the queen he was no wheeler dealer Though she'd heard the things he'd done She believed he was a holy healer Who would heal her son Ra-ra Rasputin Lover of the Russian queen There was a cat that really was gone Ra-ra Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine It was a shame how he carried on But when his drinking and lusting And his hunger for power Became known to more and more people The demands to do something About this outrageous man Became louder and louder Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey "This man's just got to go", declared his enemies But the ladies begged, "Don't you try to do it, please" No doubt this Rasputin had lots of hidden charms Though he was a brute, they just fell into his arms Then one night some men of higher standing Set a trap, they're not to blame "Come to visit us", they kept demanding And he really came Ra-ra Rasputin Lover of the Russian queen They put some poison into his wine Ra-ra Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine He drank it all and said, "I feel fine" Ra-ra-Rasputin Lover of the Russian queen They didn't quit, they wanted his head Ra-ra-Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine And so they shot him 'til he was dead Oh, those Russians
Roman's advice: "If you are a Westerner who wants to have an opinion or make a point, try to do the slightest research." For a young man, Roman is truly intelligent, socially and politically aware, and constantly educating himself on the actual developments in the world much more so than most Westerners twice his age. Also forced to flee his homeland, spending two years in Georgia, he speaks with experience of the issues he speaks about. To see Georgians, Ukrainians, and other Eastern Europeans having to listen to the nonsense from clueless Americans and other Westerners who have never had to fight for anything except their opinions on X. America and numerous regions of the West will eventually fall if people don't use their brains and start to educate themselves on the history and current events that created the present political developments throughout our present world.
Roman, thanks! You have so many critics from all sides, not to mention the risks from being a public critic of your home country. I don't know how you manage the stress you must be under each day. Thank you for persisting with this channel and educating and informing us non-Russians. (I am American.) Please keep your sanity and keep on going.
I completely don’t understand, especially the republicans, who have been rabidly anti ruzzia/Soviet Union for 70+ years. Reagan must be rolling in his grave😞
Ya I was in a similar situation in Poland 89 as an American. Local Polish students thought I had special insight on when the government would collapse and I was like dude I listen to Van Halen and skateboard. I had zero political insight. It was like a local celebrity without doing anything. I can only imagine how huge my impact would have been with youtube and social media. Then when I went back, nobody in the US cared I was in Poland and the news had moved on to fighting Saddam Hussein in Iraq War 1 and the Cold War was kind of ended (so we thought at the time until Putin went nuts the last 8 years). Ya its extreme historical experience that left me with a lot of knowledge on revolution, so I have insight. The thing is about most Americans is they never leave the US, so only consume local nonsensical ideas on Russia and the world unfortunately. Usually it just leads to funny stereotypes in a comedy sketch, but sadly can end up impacting political stands politicians take (at least in front of the US public) and then maybe, hopefully are educated by diplomats. I think Russia has a similar isolated mentality where most locals never leave and have bizarre cultural thoughts on the US and US politics without really knowing in person any American or even somebody knowledgable. You can see it in the Russian state TV, which is mostly just propaganda for the locals that nobody outside of Russia takes seriously. All large empires have this myopic vision unfortunately. Only small countries like the Netherlands or Georgia, surrounded by various countries of dubious intent will know multiple languages and likely try to decipher the tea leaves of other political leaders in other countries. Peace man.
Roman, please make more content like this and 'Stop Idolizing Russia' because it's the exact kind of content us and everyone else needs right now. Thank you.
I am Russian, I live in Siberia. and half of my relatives are US citizens. I say hello. We are all brothers and sisters to each other. Let's learn more about each other and break down silly stereotypes!
lol. Did they really start hiring Americans? everything is bad with high-level IT specialists, because all the cool specialists left for other countries during the 3 years of the war. As a junior IT specialist myself, I would not have worked in Russia if I had been given a job offer in the USA. I'm just not that cool yet.
I think this is your most important video yet. Bc even in comments under your (other) videos this entire point has often been well demonstrated. Lots of westerners treating Eastern Europe as a basic fantasy book/game with an ExoTiC setting, few simple rules set in stone and you are ready to go. Just wander around in this non-fictional setting and ascribe whatever opinions you FEEL like are the most relevant, await a few pre-planned plot twists (like OFC all of this is just US doing, no one else has agency or imperial ambitions) while this having nothing to do with complex realities we all live. Which is what most non-western societies experience in some form, this fetishizing and othering attitude, but in a situation of a genocidal war being waged and other forms of political manipulations against Russia's former colonies this is especially painful. I've regretfully really started to look at westerners differently. So much more structural access to info and recourses than many of us others, so little self-reflection about power in the context of world politics. No, "US is bad and doing all of this" does not really count, you are just chronically unable to not center yourself. Rant over
Whaaat?! Don't you feel honored to be seen as Russia's little cousin? Doesn't it make you so ecstatic that the entire Serbian National Identity can be reduced to "Russia's little cousin"! Unbelievable! Edit: This is sarcasm for those who are too thick-headed to notice
Love your attitude about everything and not adding fuel to any fires. I appreciate your explanations as a Westerner always looking to learn about the world issues from all sides.
The whole rant with being anti US: honestly same. Like I would love to be fully anti US, I would be the first person to cheer for China or Russia to one up the US. If it just wasn't for the simple fact, that they suck a lot more than the US does. I call myself a socialist, but because I actually want a good life for everyone and think that full on capitalism is incapable of providing that, weirdly I do not feel the need to defend a cruel and destructive dictatorship led by a megalomaniac.
@@SanctusPaulus1962most people when they say a socialist probably mean social Democrats like the swedes and the Norwegians. We certainly wouldn't want collectivized farms. we also do don't like a small number of people having 50% of the wealth in the country while people are having food insufficiency. a lot more people would have better views of capitalism it was like it was when the progressive tax kept the really really wealthy from getting too wealthy. Unfortunately what we see of capitalism is people with massive yachts who are the bosses of people who have to go on food stamps to be able to make ends meet, where can I get health care. Basically we have a new aristocracy in America, progressive reforms that we still benefit from.. also it should be noted that Soviet and Chinese communism or not the kind of Communism that marx talked about. his view the government would recede over time as workers built their own communities, while they're merely a poor impersonation of it who's underlying concept was authoritarianism. I t bugs me when people call themselves Democratic socialists when really their social Democrats. And the difference is more than the inversion of the words would have you believe. Yet even Bernie keeps making that mistake
Btw Poland who was so poor and broke after Russian regime over us for 55 years, joined eu 22 year ago and is one of the best countries to live I Europe now and we have an influx of Americans and British moving in.
@@mxlxvxlxntDo you think we care much how Russian empire calls themselves? Be it Russian Empire till 1917 or Soviet Russia in 1919 (yes, Soviet Russia started a war with Poland in 1919) or USSR later on?
I'm a "westerner" and trust me bro, we crack ourselves and think most of our compatriots are arrogant provincials that juxtaposed their domestic concerns on issues in countries an ocean and a continent away. They are so concerned with the "culture war" that everything gets tinted with that view. I'm pretty sure the United States is spiraling into autocracy as we speak. This of course is far older than the Drumpf phenomenon. An America of freedom and common sense died on 9/11. Try not to dwell on the idiots over here, it will hurt your brain.
I wouldn't discount the influence of Russian and Chinese psyops on our free internet to manufacture consent on these issues. Our geopolitical enemies have put huge amount of ressources into polarizing our people against each other and getting a self destructive president like trump into power. I put blame on American people for being so dumb as to fall for it, but it was a concerted foreign effort to mislead them.
Mate, if you think America's spiral into fascism wasn't locked-in by the modern GOP with Nixon's Southern Strategy, I don't know what you tell you. Yeah, 9/11 threw gas on the fire, especially as the Dubya admin was teetering on the edge of complete ineffectiveness due to a perceived (and also real) lack of legitimacy prior to that, but you've been on this road for at least the last 50 years. You think Dubya did anything Reagan hadn't already done?
Being a Russian, it’s always a battle between “no, you don’t understand how horrible things are here” and “jc, no need to overdramatize our life, it’s nothing special” 😂
Roman, the problem in Russia are not the common Russians but the corrupt leadership. I travelled and worked (for a German company) in Russia in '78 (Electrogorsk) and in '85 (different places, Gomel, Moscow, Minsk, Rostov) I found that all my contact with the people was a real pleasure and fun, not one negative experience. I feel for the Russian citizen. Most western people reading and watching about Russia conducting the horrible war in Ukraine are incapable to separate between the Leadership pushing to swallow Ukraine and the common citizen who just like to live.
My wife was born in Romanian communism and I’m an apple pie chomping NATOphile who never forgets that “they” killed Apollo Creed. Our arguments prove the Cold War will never end.
Around twenty years ago, a drinking buddy moved to Russia and married a Russian woman. His thought was that the religious nuts were getting too much control in the US, and that atheism was the rule in Russia. I keep wondering what ever became of him. He seemed like a decent sort, but that shit's just plain stupid. I hope he figured out his mistake and left.
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Of course they don't!
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To be fair most Americans don't know anything about America.
54% of Americans read at a 6th grade level or below and it's in the hundreds for literacy rates.
True, sigh.
tough but fair.
@@4-Methylaminor3x that explains why orange dude won. He speaks like a 3rd grader. Well, that was in 2016. Now it is closer to 1st grader and I feel like I am insulting 1st graders.
I can't speak for what they teach in public school due to being thrown into Jesus school as a teenager but I wouldn't be surprised at either types not teaching about some darker sides to US history until one reaches college like having further depth in how the US government oppressed the Native Americans beyond just speaking of the Trail of Tears.
I think a lot of westerners have been oddly glorifying life in the developing world lately. They see Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America as places that embrace “traditional values” like religion, gender roles, and family dynamics while also having low cost of living and enjoying the ‘simple things in life’. What they fail to realize is that these places all have 10x the amount of issues that their nations do and there’s a reason why migration from the developing world to developed world happens a million times more frequently than the other way around. Your average westerner would run back to their country the moment they stepped outside the tourist bubble and saw how ‘regular’ people actually live in developing countries vs in their own.
@Entername-md1ev Yeah, from time to time, news stories pop up about American Conservatives moving to Russia then realizing they really f***ed up. They all seem to come back to Murica.
Talk about your own "developing" country
So much this. We Russians have some miniature of it (if it makes sense) with small nations in the North Caucasus. Some despise them for "being too barbaric and backwards", some, on the contrary, adore them for "upholding traditional values much more than those degenerate Moscow people".
And if you don't know people from there, if you don't watch some small (so that they are not told to shut up) content creators from there, you just can't know how screwed up the situation is, but not in the way you possibly think.
That those "patriarchal males" go smoking weed and doing nothing, while the wife works and works and works and then is abused; that they develop so many personality disorders because of it; that there's no actual "friendship" as on pictures and this is the world of lies - but at the same time so many young people from there actually don't want to live like that.
Ok, but Eastern Europe is already developed, not developing. It doesn't belong in the same category as Latin America or south Asia at all.
@@Danietz Well depends on the measure and depends on the definition of Eastern Europe. If you are talking about Moldova Belarus Russia there are absolutely a lot of similarities. Russia GDP per capita is below Chile and Uruguay and barely ahead of Mexico and even Argentina isn't far behind. Moldova is behind even Colombia, Belize, Peru.
Tucker praises a russian grocery store
Wow, so advanced, such russian advanced culture much impress
It's a French store chain...
Another particularly funny thing about that Tucker bit was his screaming about "low prices" without ever attempting to compare said prices to actual local wages, which revealed the Russian grocery prices to be far *higher* than in the West. Tucker knows better, of course (at least, maybe?), but it's hilarious that even he depends on his audience being too deliberately-ignorant to even spell "economics".
@@michaelccozens Most of his audience doesn't even know how taxes or military aid works, so that doesn't surprise me
You can tell he's never done his own food shopping
Maybe this reaction comes from the misconception in the west that the east is some extremely underdeveloped bumfuck of nowhere where people live like in middle ages, untouched by the impurity of infrastructure and modern culture.
He is a propagandist on a payroll, what do you expect
Unfortunately a lot of Western men think that moving to Eastern Europe will automatically grant them a wife and a handshake from Putin and God.
So absurd that these people think they live in Orwell's 1984 and move to Orwell's 1984 as an escape. They complain so loudly about how they can't say anything in the USA all over social media. I hope they enjoy actually living that reality in Ruzzia😂😂😂 Maybe they will get some perspective on what totalitarianism actually looks like smh ..
@@gabraham9509The ironic thing is that once people who move to Russia realize they screwed up - it's too late.
An American family moved to Russia for "freedom" last year. When they started having complaints, the government forced them to remove their videos.😂
@@gabraham9509 I agree with your opinion, but that book called "1984"
Well, some Russian women would love to escape to a "better world", have some stability in their lives and something to brag about. But the thing those guys aren't considering is that if you want a traditional wife, be ready to be a traditional husband. Russian women are demanding, they don't want "a pair of pants" in the house anymore. Be a tradhusband and bring enough money so that both of us can live comfortably and I'll be your pretty tradwife no problem. Until then jog on. We are not meek and submissive lol
@@SergeiVasilev-u4c oh lol my bad. Idk what I was thinking😂😂😂
Anyhow the point is the same but you're completely right. 1987 doesn't even sound right😂
EDIT: Fixed it. Thanks for the heads up🙏
I'm a Russian living in the EU, and those people are pissing me off saying that the Soviet Union was amazing, Russian economy is the strongest in the world, and Russian leadership is the wisest. Those people know nothing about the Russian and Soviet culture and history, and yes, they also watch RT, it's not banned where I live.
In what EU country they told you that? Maybe in Hungary? I as a Finnish person most definately know what Russia is like and what the USSR was like.
The USSR was the opposite of amazing, Russian economy is about to crash, and the Russian leadership are evil lying relics from the USSR!!.
Soviet union was amazing! Ask your grandparents kid
In what EU country they told you that? Maybe in Hungary? I as a Finnish person most definately know what Russia is like and what the USSR was like.
The USSR was the opposite of amazing, Russian economy is about to crash, and the Russian leadership are evil lying relics from the USSR!!
They also have no idea that a huge genocide of millions of people happened in Ukraine, called the Holodomor. People were starved to death by the Soviet Union. Which is failed to be taught in America.
@paveltrips nothing amazing about this open air prison, you've been fooled boy
As a Finn who lives a stone's throw away from the Russian border, the amount of times I've wanted to visit Russia is exactly zero.
Lol. Did you visit it at least once?
Cuck.. just because a place is crazy doesn't mean it's not worth a visit. but it's not true you Finn's loved coming to st Petersburg to get drunk was numerous
And how many times you threw a rock? :D
its those Westerners who romanticize russia who never had to deal with them for centuries in wars and occupations.
as a russian i know a lot of finns who were visiting russia only for blocks of sigs tbh. it was like 2008-2015
My heart goes out to the youth of Georgia man.. They are fighting for the freedom most of us in the west have no idea how priviliged we are to have
Ukraine too and we done the same thing as them in 2014. Please please please, support Russias victims and enemies, it feels like everyone forgot about us, but my male friends are dying and I am starving because groceries became too expensive, if western countries helped more and didn't fear the "escalation" in the beginning we would be already free, and russian regime destroyed
Damn... so sorry to see and hear that. I hope it only gets better for you and your friends. Love from Czechia@@sofiiamarusyn
@@sofiiamarusyn 🇺🇦🇳🇴🇺🇦 I agree. Our governments have been slow and timid. But you are not forgotten. And I think the new administration in USA (Trump) will be good for Ukraine. I hope Trump’s starting point will be that Ukraine needs all it’s territory back, and that Putin’s Russia needs to lose.
@@sofiiamarusyn The west is weak and clueless, people only care when its to late
@Unitedwestand_2024 didn‘t trump/his people say that they want the ukraine to give up territory?
Russian "Traditional values" was started in 2009 by Kirill Gundyaev..
The patriarch with the expensive watches?
His real name is Vladimir
If there's a traditional value I'd normalize into society, it would be men wearing pink clothes because pink was once considered a masculine color.
Na, you're stupid. Traditional values even existed in the USSR.
Ahahaa 😂 true
Only 15% of US soldiers in WW2 saw actual combat. That's a pretty typical ratio in war. You never see the boring, everyday parts of armies
or are taught about it in school
So true.
Same as Vietnam - had 3 relatives that went to Vietnam and not one saw combat. I googled it and something like 15% of troops sent to Vietnam ended up in the bush.
@ 😢
And some people exaggerate the draft thing and cry about it when literally no man was drafted especially in the USA since that law started lmao
I’m an American who moved to Eastern Europe. Every time I visit home, i am shocked to hear my fellow countrymen, especially those who claim to be extremely patriotic, constantly carrying water for Putin’s government and parroting kremlin talking points that they heard on Fox News. The contrast is insane, and I will never understand it.
Why on earth would you do that to yourself? Those I know in eastern europe dream of finding work anywhere else.
Fox News and other right wing media are destroying America from within.
Neither will I, but you know, most of us don’t really have great analytical skills, so if a very rich Australian dude decides to buy a large news corporation to manipulate the citizens of the rich and influential USA, the result is given.
@@ArminiusGroßthat was 20’years ago. Eastern European countries have developed a lot since then. A lot of people started businesses, made a good living, etc. Some of my closest friends are now millionaires - all engineers, and created very successful tech companies.
Leaving, at that point, is just for additional comfort or ambition. Not means for survival as it used to be years ago.
You're just repeating the same stochastic terrorism and other MSM/CriminalGov talking points about THEIR political opposition. All those examples you listed are extremist/authoritarian/totalitarian left wing ideologies and tactics. And singling out Fox News is just pure stupidity. Fox News isn't any different from the other totalitarian American MSMs that you blindly follow. After Tucker was fired, Fox died in irrelevancy alongside the rest of the medias
EVERYTHING the American MSM says is to be taken as a LIE until proven otherwise. The only thing they do now is tell us about whatever the relevant topic is
I can guarantee you that people like yourself are an insignificant minority of useful idiots that buy anything the MSM, Big Tech, Gov, Big Pharma, Wealthy Elite, etc say without question. Fortunately, the totalitarian left is losing their grip on society/culture and their legacy medias are rendered obsolete
Even after the blatant corruption tactics to imprison their political opposition and even make multiple attempts on his life, it should be glaringly obvious who the real baddies are, if the 8+ years of stochastic terrorism of THEIR POLITICIAL OPPOSITION and the HOSTILE RADICALIZED MASSES didn't alrdy make it super obvious
dude elon musk and joe brogan definetly don't know anything about anything......
They even don’t want to know anything about it. They suck up Trump and that’s enough. Putin licks Trump’s ego and the world’s largest economy fell for the Russian dictator. Smart US citizens 😂
I think Musk know few things about science and programming. Joe ... I dont know
@ What?? Musk? About programming?🤣🤣 Science? 🤣🤣
He loves a climate denial idiot. That’s about Musk’s infinite knowledge.
Rogan is a peasant.
I can’t inderstand why he’s so famous.
Elon, the dumb person's idea of a smart person.
@@Pekka.Pekka.1296 I heard he programmed something which is now called paypal
The one thing I know about Russia is that there's a whole section of Russian people obsessed with 1980s Italian music, because it was some of the first types of Western music which arrived in the Eastern Block during Gorbachev's liberalisation of the Soviet Union.
@AlexTenThousand I was not there for the 1980s, and I’m obsessed to this day. It sounds so sweet and silly to me
@AlexTenThousand even earlier than Gorbachev
What? No it wasn't. That's not the reason at all. Italian pop got popular because people liked the funky upbeat sound of it. Nothing more. All that 80s European new wave sort of pop was popular. And popular before gorby
Same in Poland, you can't have a truly Polish wedding without Felicita or Sara perche ti amo :D
Fuckin' hell. Thank you Roman! As someone who has been going to these protests in Georgia for like 2 weeks already, I really do appreciate you shedding light on what is going on in Tbilisi now.
ахахах либераха волосатая🤡
I support you on your efforts.
despite the light made of it do not underestimate sith lord soros
Зачем тебе эти протесты? Ты хочешь, чтобы Грузия повторила путь Украины?
there's no benefit to join/leave a union, better let the country be as is. Much safer to do trade-deal or agreement, eg: like no-visa travel with EU than joining EU to get no-visa travel.
Not entirely Western, but I LOVE story about Slovak guy who was simping to Russia and russian government for a long time, he dreamed of living in Russia so much that he sailed to the Russian waters on Baltic Sea. What do you think happened next? He was taken by russian police for a long interrogation and send back to Slovakia, after these events he changed his mind completely ("these guys weren't even nice to me, even though I told them I love Russia so much"😂😂). I wish such experience to every westerner who thinks Russia is a free speech, wokeism free etc paradise 🙆
I'm from Slovakia and the best part is, that after he published his experiences from Russia on Facebook, his "fans" didn't even believe him and started blocking him. Yeah. Apparently, facts are sometimes not enough. (Also explains the situation in Slovakia hahah 🥲)
wow, I thought nothing could surprise me anymore, but here I am.
Hold up, is he sailed to the Russian waters illegally? If yes then the fuck he expect?
@@Vazelinchik_bruh yes he did, and honestly, I have no idea
@@theresaa188 Is ruzzia trying to manipulate the politics and the culture in Slovakia using puppet pols, agents, assets and online botfarms the same way they have been doing to the US, Georgia, Romania, Turkey and Moldova? I'm learning the pattern, but from here in the middle of the US I can't tell how far across E Europe it actually reaches. Or how effective it is there.
A while back, I was in an online discussion with some actual Americans. One of the women said, "Well, at least Putin cares about his people." I have NO idea where that idea came from, but it seems pretty prevalent in certain quarters.
🤦🏻♀️
I guess she was a masochist. Look at the situation in Slovakia. The government literally treading on the people who scream "yes, finally someone who cares about the common folk!" Slave mentality.
How many of left or right Twitter accounts are just Russian troll farm employees?
I’m guessing quite a few. Thanks Elon. Way to betray your ‘adopted’ country.
Bruh, trump invited a russian plant into the cabinet and elon musk, head of doge, is showing pro-russian views. America is cooked 😔
Way more than before Muskva took over.
Twitter is a zombie website swarming with bot accounts spewing ragebait. The whole shtick is engagement farming. I think all these social media apps should go the way of MySpace. They suck all the fun out of real people.
I'd say at least some 70%. All of them have shit like "patriot" in their bio and all praising russia. It's clearly just an illusion russia tries to create but I'm sure quite a few people still get fooled by BS about Zelensky buying a Bugatti or 35M mansion in Florida...
As a German, I have to agree. I have had many conversations about the whole situation with a good friend who is polish during the last couple of years that have really opened my eyes
Thank goodness.
@@juliamrtn4837 it is our second job of the Poles in Germany ..the ambassadors for history talk :)
@@paulsevenitz616 true. tbh i think germany and poland have a strong bond through history. even tho it's also marked by wars and such. i actually think germany should try and buddy up and cooperate as much as possible with poland for a mutually great future. also think about how many germans have polish ancestry, it's probably in the tens of millions. pretty much one in five germans will have at least some polish ancestry. i'm not including actual polish people that just live here in that. at my job, out of a team of ten people at least 4 are either straight poles or have an ancestral polish name. i also have some polish ancestry from my maternal great grandparents.
@@chainsawenthusiast true there are much more people with heritage from abroad in germany than shown in the data because many of those have german Passworts. And yes geostrategly it would be so good for whole Europe when france germany Poland would go the same Direction..however there is still this old Reflex in german thinking that they have to play with russia to be able to exert Power on poland and france.. in the AfD BSW Linke and unfortunatly in the SPD..
And the future looks Bad with emerging Front National
@@paulsevenitz616The poles i know overhere in Germany are anti american Putin lovers, that hate Tusk and Sikorski.
It's me, who teach them facts to wreck their vatnik fake news, day by day.
Yea a lot of Americans generalize the rest of the world but also, as a Romanian immigrant in the US, a lot of the world generalizes America. It’s almost like nuance exists.
What is this nuance you speak of sir? And where do go to purchase it?
My dad still thinks all of eastern Europe is Russia
He's in his late 50s when he went to school the Soviet union was still in full swing and he honestly doesn't know that the post Soviet nations are independent
Or rather separate from russia
@@Nickinator811 While Moscow was immensely influential, the USSR wasn’t one country. It was like the EU if they gave most of the power to Germany.
@Baphomets_Kidgood explaination.
Weird. My parents are in their 80's and they know post soviet nations are "independent". I'm in my early 50's so I remember staying home and watching TV when the Berlin Wall fell etc. Maybe your dad is one of these who still think of them as all the same. I'm sure your dad really does know, but won't acknowledge it.
@melissas4874 thing is he lived in a small town, he most likely didn't care about geography when he was young and also information in school wasn't much in his history class he didn't learn much about wars except dates and that's it
He learned more off of watching the history channel
@Baphomets_Kid that I do understand
I feel like my dad might either be genuinely clueless or he might be buying into some propaganda somewhere
I have no clue
These poor unfortunate souls fell for propaganda
that wasn't even meant for them!
I wouldn't really say it wasn't, given that some grifters were caught red-handed with Kremlin money.
They are intellectually lazy. It is their fault they don't use their brains
It was meant for them
Russian propaganda is meant for western people. They are trying to destabilize democracies
@@railroadforest30 we tried but these Americans drank the Kool Aid thinking he is a Hero im talking about Trump not that other Hero
It's because Americans are exposed to stereotypes but not Russian media.
I recommend quiting Twitter
that's hell of a good advice! I quitted twitter and blessed myself for that :D
Free speech is not negotiable. Stay on to educate
Also don't take stuff that is clearly posted by BOTS to make any point, ever.
100%. It's the bottom-feeder cesspool of any culture on there.
I recommend never joining or clicking any twatter links
People, in general, know nothing about other countries and often don't even know anything about their own.
People in general know about other countries and are willing to learn, unlike Americans
Americans know the least about other countries, mainly because when we "sneeze, the world gets a cold" and that makes us care less about other nations because they don't affect US as much as we affect them
Unless their president is a propagandist dictator
I visited the Soviet Union in 1975. I was in Moscow and Leningrad (St. Petersburg now). We bought rubles at 5 for a dollar in a Danish bank when the official rate was over $2 per ruble. We hid them in the socks we were wearing when we entered as it was illegal to bring in rubles from the west. I was in my early 20's and found the young folks in Russia were super western oriented, wanting jeans and music and had all kinds of questions about the west but they were pretty well informed. Most folks would only talk with me outdoors while walking. I was fascinated as it felt like Europe in the 1950s. People dressed in very drab clothes, most older men wore greatcoats. It was hard for me to tell military from police from civilians with those coats. Some Russian sailors kind of adopted my friend and I, taking us to the head of the line at restaurants getting all of us in because we were Americans. Most of the stores were empty except for the foreign currency stores and restaurants that only took western currency and thus off limits to most Russians. I did get to see the Bolshoi and liked it so much I went back the next night as well. At one point I was in an underground beer garden that was raided by the police while I was in there, and another time I was picked up by the police and held in a back room in the Moscow subway after I had been taking photos of all the drab apartment blocks in the outskirts of town. They let me go after a few hours. I stood out as I had very long hair, a full red beard and wore a red plaid lumberjack jacket and blue jeans. All in all I had a great time there but it was definitely very different from any place I had been, and from what I have gathered, very different from today's Russia.
Haha naar it's quite similar really police still detain you for random nonsense. Police and military everywhere. Still see guys wearing surplus military clothing.. police still like raiding bars..
Russians are still pretty "western" you still get the thing where some guys "adopt" you as a curious foreigner and show you around. It's only now there is no lines. You can buy what you want and there is less drunks.
20:00 It's because here in the west we take freedom of speech for granted and the countries which don't have it, we think it works like "criticise government in any way = go to jail". But there's different levels to dictatorships. In Russia you can get away with some things. In China, you can't get away with anything. And in North Korea, your entire family tree will be punished.
You are having it slightly backwards.
China has way MORE freedom than Russia. That doesn't mean everything is super sunshine there, but Beijing doesn't care as much as most people commonly believe. And since China has a lot of money, really a lot of money thanks to their economy. Their can constantly built new infrastructure, highways, public transport, hospitals, schools, etc for their citizens which keeps them quit most of the time.
While Russia on the other hand just pockets 95% of their taxpayers money and sends everyone to prison who dares to ask where the money went.
Basically China is paying their citizens to quiet and only uses other means when giving them fancy gifts, good jobs and good infrastructure doesn't't work, while Russia beat the cr*p out of you just to prove they can.
@AxGerm756 bro what. if you post some thing about xi jinping on weibo chinese police show up in 2 hours time. in russia you can bitch all you like about the government so long as you veil it in sarcasm, or don't praise the westerners
В Казахстане президент дает приказ стрелять в народ без предупреждения (
@@Adonnus100 I'd say in Russia you can criticize government just till the first knock on your door as well.
The clips shown by our boy NFRKZ is living proof that ignorance is the most politically-neutral characteristic in the world.
Not ignorance. Blatant and shameful cognitive dissonance.
You mean that meme?
Hello. I am from Mongolia. Yeah bordered between Russia and China. Post communist country. We experienced good and bad things with both our neighbors during 20th century. From Russia(Russian Empire, Soviet Union) we had recognized in UN and declared independence from china and industrialized but bad side is purge, one party state, censorship etc. Westerners still thinks Mongolians are barbarians and still horse riders and nomadic society. Yes we have nomadic lifestyle but not all people.Every country and system has advantage and disadvantage. Russia is big and diverse country. There are non Russian ethnic groups and Russian speaking and mixed groups there too. I am not supporter of Russia or USA but i see the Two different country, culture, and history, and location. For example westerners blame Russia is aggressive and cruel yes they are but are they only one? how about western countries! Colonialism, Slavery, Genocide, etc.... 21th century USA Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, UK Afghanistan France Western African countries, Libya so western countries are not innocent neither. I was lived in South Korea for 2 years and i experienced western countries thinks we know everything really? how? Yes i know other people blame me as Russian troll or something but i am real person.
Russians say the same thing when they try to whitewash themselves by pointing out the West's shortcomings, so it's no wonder that you're considered a bot.I advise you to watch his other video about Russia and read the comments of other nationalities living and having lived in Russia
It's no wonder that you are considered a bot if you write such excuses. I read a lot of how Russians wrote about this as an excuse for everything they do.
@@samalaimukhametova7290 nuance is alien to you and being genuinely against both evils as well I guess.
I love when Americans tell me why my country joined nato.
I love when you share your interesting opinions about America
@@ArminiusGroßcheers!
Why did "your " country join Nato??? 1 reason
@@chrisconny2285since 900s we've had about 55 wars/battles with some form of the Russian empire. We've invaded them, they invaded us. There is a millenia of shared history. This includes having the country fully subsumed into Russia, and more recently, having the country be a satellite of Russia. NATO is a break in that pattern. It allows countries to basically ignore what Russia could do, and focus on living and growing.
@@ArminiusGroß I can add mine too, dude. Want to hear? Americans throw more food into waste, than half of African country consume yearly. 25% of you believe sun moves around earth/america. Your english and general language skills are attrociuous.0 You can make yourself to be proud about this, i`m sure. and keep having strong opinions about everything you have no clue about, it will make you a good cattle for yours System.
I can not emphasize how much I like this video. As someone from East Germany who was born in 1990 and who is actually politically active there AND who has actually lived in Russia for 1.5 years, I have a hard time talking to people who think they know something about nowadays Russia, simply because they grew up with East German Socialism. But all I ever hear from them is: "Well we actually still had Russian in school back in the days!" as if I wouldn't know that and not already have heard this exact phrase a thousand times before. And this is exactly where all their mighty wisodom about Russia already ends... That's why I keep on telling them that they don't know shit about Russia.
Modern Russia has nothing to do with east German socialism so
The author should grow a pair and stop using the term "westeners" this is offensive to europeans and other westener. Call them americans and not false terms.
@@nicechockwhat are you going on about....
Born in 1990.. buddy ..there was no east germany
@@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 Yes, there was! And you completely missed the point. I was born after the wall had already opened up in 1989 but East Germany (DDR/GDR) STILL EXISTED as a state for almost one more year! Both Germanys only reunified towards the end of 1990 on 3 October. You should look things up before you come up with such nonsense claims. This is why both my birth certificate and vaccination pass still have the seal of the GDR and where in fact issued by East Germany. And the point that I made here had even nothing to do with that. East Germany still even nowadays exists as a political term and many differences between the east and west of Germany continue to exist to this day. And if you grow up surrounded by "former" East Germans and you are being raised by them then of course you are still somewhat East German yourself. Things don't dissppear over night. Just like the southern states of the US still have their very own kind of identity which doesn't just dissappear over night.
As a Jewish dude, lmao, I wish we actually ran anything. It'd mean I wouldn't be broke.
Free Palestine
@@funnyjoke9225 Bro I did not ask. Not every Jewish person is Israeli.
@@Chonkems what I said should only bother you if you're a Zionist. The fact you felt the need to respond is just proof that you are.
@@Chonkems this only offends people who disagree with it.
@@Chonkems the only reason this should bother you is if you disagree with it
Westerners' knowledge of Eastern Europe in general is abysmal.
When I tell them I am from Serbia they immediately picture 6000 commie blocks, put a blue/grey filter over it, and say "It must really cold over there" (Probably thinking of Siberia or something even more stupid). Ok, it's not the most influential country in the world, but to not know one thing about a country that's on your planet?
And then I met a person from basically any country in South America and they will know some fun fact about Serbia.
I know what to associate Serbia with.
@@ArminiusGroß War stuff? Probably because you're from the Germanic world and you're projecting what other people first thoughts are when they hear about your country.
But that's ok, it's something at least.
@@ivan5083you saying this shit actually proves the stereotypes of serbs, lets not mention how a good part of serbs are pro-russia
@@ArminiusGroßA Serbian film? You should watch it.
Westerners often see all of Latin America as basically just Mexico with different accents and way of dressing(this also technically applies to Spain and Portugal) same with Eastern Europe many often see Eastern Europe as basically Russia with different accents.
I am 100% on your side on this. People who don‘t know the very basics about European history after WW2 should just not make such comments and better listen to the people in Georgia, Ukraine, and other neighbours of Russia.
Is this the flag of Karelia in your profile?
Ouf! Perhaps it's a good idea to know some of the history BEFORE WW2 as well....??
@@Charlotte-vp2fu @Charlotte-vp2fu This! For me as a Finn, it brings up visions of Russians dropping arty on their own positions in 1939, then invad8ng Finland because Russian troops found themselves literally breathless under a Russian barrsge.
Also, Holod9mor in the thirties, where Stal9n willingly caused a humanitarian catastrophe for the Ukr people, leaving millions breathless.
Oh! And the Great Fam9ne in the 20's! Millions of people left breathless.
And who could forget Stal9n's camp system! Millions left breathless.
With bad math, such as Russian apolog9sts use nowadays, that would mean *at least* two trillion breathless, two quintillion in the US large numbers system! Isn't it 9nsane!
listening to Ukrainians and Georgians about Russia is like listening to Hitler about Jews, a brilliant solution, but incredibly stupid. By the way, Ukrainians will not tell how they attacked Russia in 1992 and how they helped Chechen terrorists with weapons and soldiers in 1994, Georgians will not tell how they started the 2008 war, which is internationally recognized, so yes, keep listening to them.
@@juhalampola1954 Holodomor being a genocide is a lie literally created by the Nazis. It was not an intentional famine, and it was not used to intentionally target any specific groups. These talking points are widely discredited by historians, a vast majority of which are pro-western and anti-Soviet. You can be anti-Stalin and anti-Russian without engaging in historical revisionism and Nazi talking points.
The lefties that criticise western imperialism while failing to recognise Russian imperialism, is a position which Vlad Vexlar (Russian philosopher) refers to as; “Imperialism for idiots.” I agree, imperialism should be called out regardless of origin.
As for Georgia, to be fair not every westerner has been or lived there, but as a westerner that has, I wish Georgia the future that their young aspire to. Russians hold some weird stereotypes of my country, so laughing at westerners should be reserved for those in the west that chose to be wilfully ignorant. Wilful ignorance, cognitive dissonance or even just plain serf mentality is needed by anyone that simps for Putin.
Correction: "Anti imperialism for idiots."
You seem to have a cunning plan. 😏 Well said!
Correction. It is currently the Right wing that are the Russia simps.
Also, the left criticizes our system in order to improve it, correct its mistakes, and make it live up to its promises. A system that can’t accept criticism is doomed.
Thanks! Always appreciate your honesty.
This is a reason for my headaches. I live in a post-soviet country and even the right wing supporters there believe this imagination of traditional-valued Russia is how the world should be work like. But at least they hate putin, only because he is a threat for the country's independence.
Remind your right-wing friends that Russia is an atheist country, run by the former communists, with the largest number of prostitutes in the world and an HIV infection rate like Africa. There are no fewer migrants in Russia than in Europe, by the way.
If they want to live in a traditional-valued neighbourhood, then go ahead. But it would be nice if they could leave the rest of us alone.
Russia want American to migrate there, I've seen Ads once.
When I think of Russia I think of men getting wasted drinking vodka. Not very traditional, but hey it’s just a stereotype, I know not everyone is like that.
Hah, I wish! Our elderly, you know, the ones who should actually know what living under soviet influence was like because they did, keep openly praising russia as if it were somehow the safehaven of all humanity, and wishing for their return.
Joe Rogan has culpability in that (as far as I can tell) he has made no effort to listen to Ukrainians (or even opposition Russians). Rogan is supposedly super open-minded, but you can tell a lot by who he puts on his shows.
All these comments regarding Georgia on X - sounds like Russian-paid trolls, because average American has no clue where a country Georgia is, most never even heard of them, and most likely don't know what's going on there right now.
I heard their President have France citizenship. Is this true, hm?
You mean like the state?
Well tbh the most of the europeans don't know anything about Georgia either. I bet the most didn't know it is an european country. And yes this comment comes from an european. A couple of years ago I only knew it's whereabouts like near Turkey or something.
They know nothing. But they like MAGA/Russia propaganda. It is a popular trend
@@Dmitrihson if you had done a tiny bit of research you would know that she had french citizenship as she was born to Georrgian refugees in France but she gave it up. So no, it's not true. She only has Georgian citizenship.
I think the confusion may be that "conscription" in Western countries historically meant serving in the regular army. As in: putting a rifle in your hands after some basic training and sending you to war. It still effected all men in a certain age bracket but meant you were basically being drafted into being a soldier for war. This happened in the US in Vietnam and WW2 for example. So the idea that there's "two separate armies" one of which is the real army, and the other which is basically a glorified janitor service, is a pretty foreign concept to many Westerners. They hear "conscripted into army" and they think that means something like the Stanley Kubrick film Full Metal Jacket.
For most Westerners: "army" means "being a soldier", and "being a soldier" means "going to war." The idea that a country may have "a national army of janitors" who are conscripted, is a pretty foreign concept to most Westerners.
In the West, "conscription" is more like what you would probably call "mobilization". As in: "That's it son. Here's your rifle and your boots and your backpack: you're going to war."
there are several NATO members with conscription. not knowing how it works is willful ignorance.
@ hullmees666 you're missing my point. In NATO countries, "conscription" is for the regular military. Not for a "one-year janator and labor service" with the regular army being a separate thing.
Most people in NATO countries won't relate to the idea of being "conscripted" into a non-military government free-labor force for a year. That's very much a Soviet-style idea.
The closest thing the US had to that was the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) created in the 1930's to give labor jobs to people who enlisted to thousands of unemployed people to work on public works projects like dams and such. It was created during the Great Depression of the 1930's. But that was still voluntary: people weren't conscripted into that.
Probably the best explanation that I've ever seen on this topic. I've lived in both countries, so I can confirm that this is something that most people just wouldn't understand if they haven't either lived in both or haven't done extensive research outside of their own info bubble (most people wouldn't have a reason to know these things).
@@sarakajira there's something in between too: in Turkey, you get conscripted into the regular army and get all basic military training including those rifle shots but the tasks you're given as conscripts after basic training are pretty much the janitorial&labour tasks like Roman described, unless a genuine war arises. As I understand, that's how it works in Russia and Ukraine as well.
Russian conscription is not glorified janitor service. Not in this war. There’s literally videos from soldiers with rusted rifles and less than a week of training being sent to front.
Im not a Russian shill, just always been interested in the country and have a friend from there. I still hope to visit some day, though im not under any illusions regarding the government and politics.
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Coming from Poland I have exactly the same feelings as you. These people know nothing about Eastern Europe or our history
People don’t know much about Norway either. But funny tho, I actually learned something new about Poland today. Met a half Polish girl. Life in Europe: you very often meet people from other countries, which is cool. (Hi from Norway)
I thought Poland is considered Central Europe
@@run2fire yes but we share the history with eastern europe to some extent (communism)
@Unitedwestand_2024 well I suppose they'd just know the prejudice, just like in Poland, but at least for you it's gonna be positive prejudice (;
@@MiSt3300 Wiem. Uczę się języka polskiego. Moi dziadkowie pochodzili z Polski. Amerykanie niewiele wiedzą. I Roman również nie wie o USA. Odwiedzę Polskę w przyszłym roku. Nie mogę się doczekać.
those who know , don't say . and those who say, don't know . . .
Most now a days will try to preach before they practice. It's quite sad
I'm Eastern Orthodox. My friend at Church wants to move to Russia. I'm like "bro why?"
Russian church is a joke, only politics and nothing more.
Does he support putin ?
The based, Orthodox Putin who can't stop killing other Orthodox Christians. I heard people say, because Russia dropped bombs on Isis in Syria they're like the only true defender of Christianity in the region. When... pretty much EVERY country has dropped bombs on Isis. Clown world.
Because Russia is based, that's why
Move to Georgia (the country) instead
As an American conservative it’s a strange world when I find myself with more overlap with a self professed leftie Russian than most of my own countrymen. Cue the memes.
it would make a great buddy cop movie
most likely, you are not a conservative, or a zombie with brainwashed Western propaganda about Russia.
As an Ayn Rand Objectivist, I share your astonishment and then some.
Basically MAGA and their extra-US equivalents are _social_ conservatives but are certainly not fiscal, individual rights, or US Constitutional conservatives. Their love of statism and their hatred of "the rich" both seem to be growing rapidly. They are literally moving _to the left_ of the left.
But this could also be because ruzzbots constantly and almost exclusively false-flag as Westerners, so we often blame Western conservatives and libertarians for things said by ruzzbots.
well republicans used to be way more anti russian than dems. it is insane how it has changed. taking other policies out of it eastern europe was always glad to see republicans in power due to their foreign policies.
i suggeest you pursue the recent talk of yannis varafaukis and slavoj zisek , you migth you share alot of common ground
Everyone should keep in mind that enormous numbers of young Americans, say those younger than 40 (I'm 77), know NOTHING about any other country and have never heard of most of them. Many know little about their own! Our schools used to teach a lot of world and American history, geography, etc., but not so much anymore. So, younger Americans know little to nothing about the many European and Asian cultures, wars, or the general history of either. Nothing about great international famines, mass migrations, gulags, the brutal dictators, concentration camps or historical world epidemics. They don't even know anything about the Vietnam War or how their own country got mired in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Covid pandemic made this worse. All of this varies by region. In the south, especially, education is absolutely terrible, which is not the fault of the students. My fellow young Americans drive me crazy and make me feel alternately furious and sorry for them. The coming government of evil clowns will probably kill off much of what's left of American education. And who voted for them? The very people who know nothing.
as a Pole I must say that the lack of knowledge of the average American about the world is legendary. being in the USA this year I encountered it at every turn and in most conversations with Americans, they always took me for a Russian and when I explained that I was Polish they asked if the war in Ukraine was still going on. I don't know where this ignorance comes from.
Literally couldn't care less about the rest of the world tbh.
I learned all of this stuff in American school 1995-2008. We were required to label every country on each continent in every High School geography class. I don't know where you're getting this "they don't teach it" thing. It's not that they aren't teaching it, it's that it doesn't seem important to American kids when I can play video games all day and the worst thing that happened to me this month is diarrhea from too many Hot Pockets and I didn't do my homework.
I learned all of these subjects in public school and I'm 42 years younger than you. Students not caring because they are spoiled is not the same thing as nobody is teaching it. Every single thing you listed, I remember learning about in High School alone, especially labeling names of every country on each continent. You also oddly left out the entire fields of biology or natural/Earth sciences and these are the subjects we are actually not teaching well at all.
@johns1625 Things have definitely changed since you were in school. For example, the frequency of mass school shootings.
I must remind to everyone, that Roman is not the only Russian who has this shit happen to him, westerners apply that to literally every single russian citizen, and Russian has ~200 different ethnicities in it, and most of them has it's own history, culture and language. It's not a rare thing, when you, as a Russian, are getting called "ruZZian" when you are: anti-gov, not russian by ethnicity, your mother-language is not russian, you have different history and culture, it's just happened that you are a citizen of the biggest country on our planet. Roma ideally describes the whole situation at 11:43 - 12:00.
What’s frustrating to me is that they’ll be aware of how restrictive Russia is and then complain that no one is protesting and that Russians are cowards. (even though people have protested) These are the same people who claimed that they would’ve tried to protest against Hitler if they lived in Germany. It’s easy to say when you’ve lived in a country with the right to protest.
Also, majority of the army in Russia are not ethnic Russians, as well as majority of politicians.
Fun fact: USSR has an ethnic Russian leader for 1 (one) year in its history.
Well then maybe Russians should stop allowing dictator and ruzzians to run country and ruion life of other countries? Oh wait.
@@ObIitus I seriously doubt the Russian army is not majority ethnic Russians. That's pretty much a statistical impossibility. Not every ethnic Russian lives in a Moscow or Pete. Outside of those areas life is harder particularly in rural areas which are full of ethnic Russians in the west.
@@OnusofStrife First, ethnic Russians are not a majority in Russia. Second, there is a specific of this war. Government avoids recruiting in western regions, because pretty much everyone there has close relatives in Ukraine.
Idk, people who think Russia is free is either in denial or living under a rock
Almost as much as people who think Ukraine is a free and fair democracy
Russia was once sorta free back in the 90's to noughties. If only that law about forbidding people who used to have government ranks in the USSR [such as being a Politburo member or KGB agent] got passed somehow...because the Russian political scene under that proposal could've been fresher than flying hammers and sickles.
@@AmericansElite Nice! Straight to the good old whataboutism!
@@AmericansElitehard to be a free and fair democracy while being controlled from the russia hence the revolution in 2014. Pathetic russians attacking ukraine after ukrainian people finally stepping up against russian backed corruption.
It's free for good people.
As a Polish guy, I must say that while Poland might also be kinda anti-woke, anti-immigration, conservative country, no one, i mean NO ONE would EVER glorify Russia. Our pro-russian parties are extremally mask-on, and no one could said that Putin is good in public. It might breed some anti-russian general hate, which I think is bad, but at least with perceiving Russian government people are touching reality
I think it's because Poland is an actual conservative country with strong Christian ideology. With Russia it's just a big misconseption of some people in the American anti-woke side. Putin just wanted some ideology to bond people together. After SU and 90s there was nothing left - no religion, no morality, no principles. As a KGB agent that surrounded himself with other KGB agants all they could think of is this illogical mishmash of nonsence that they are trying to sell as traditional religious values
Most of those comments aren't actually "real people". They are either Russian bots or working in a Russian Troll Farm.
Yep as well as china and Iran.
China more so. Once you know the talking points of the propaganda, it's easy to point out. Its everywhere too. They'll make a statement and never respond to any of the 4k comments to it
But they do influence real people because hear my own family parroting things like this
Trump got 76 million real votes who either like Russia or don't care that Trump likes it. So that's not nothing
@@Eowynnofrohan It's a global disgrace, since 2010.
bots cant vote for trump tho
Thank you! I have relatives in Russia and there are so many things I cannot talk about with them, including a teenager that is growing fast to be old enough for the conscript army and I have been worried about him.
We here in Finland just want to live in peace. And have a beer after Sauna and so on. I hate to see innocents die in pointless conflicts.
They don't care if what they're saying is right or wrong. As long as it suits their narrative.
My Polish mom says that Russia is run by a bunch of Mafia.
Back in world war 2, a bunch of Russian soldiers tried to rape my grandmother. She jumped out of the building.
Grandmother also said they would steal from citizens, one soldier was riding a bike with watches on all of his arms.
the russian garrison commander in our village back in 1945 stole a motorcycle, got drunk and drove himself to death by crashing into the church wall.
How time pass... back in the day Poland in WW2 was one of not so many countries who finished their warpath in Berlin. Polish banner on Berlin Victory Column.
But what now?
WW2 for Poles: "My grandma was spanked by Russian soldiers!" That legend is passed from generation to generation! That is what makes them proud. That is new history of Poland, land of spanked grandmothers.
Serves them right.
@@wuestenfuchsxy Some things never change in the Russian army, I suppose
I once talked to a Polish woman who had spent the war in a Nazi concentration camp for participation in the resistance. She told me this. Hunger was a big problem and eventually people could not refrain from talking about food. The topic of oranges came up (because there was no fresh fruit of course). One of the Russian inmates chimed in with, "We have orange factories in the Soviet Union too," thereby establishing she had never in her life seen an orange.
Russians ignore that Stalin invaded Eastern Poland on 17 September 1939 they were Hitlers allies at the time.
Omg Roman, straight to the gulag for this one my dude 💯
As a Westerner/American….yeah, a lot of people here are pretty idiotic and basically would bend to Putin.
as i get older i realize majority of people in the world would rather be told what to do than have actual freedom. freedom is scary for a lot of people and doing enough to get by works for them. im guilty of this in some ways too but i rather be commanded by someone intelligent and can back it up than someone that's an idiot and gets by on lies.
@@jesse76th96
The worst part about it I feel is that they want life to be simple and easy. That is why there is so much pushback against equality. While life gets easier for the disadvantaged, it gets harder for those who gained an advantage by disadvantaging others.
Well in Russia it is the same. Putin knows how to use propaganda. And most humans are intellectually lazy af
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i live in america (midwest now northwest) but came from Slovakia. today at work i met an american communist, a fact that still amazes me. before i moved i almost thought they were a myth offline...
When you meet an American "Communist," you will often find an idealistic, naive person who imagines the "perfection" of Communism, which is often summarized as "To each person according to their needs, from each according to their means," and "The workers should control the means of production." They imagine that if we tried Communism again, we'd figure out how to do it "right." Many American "Communists" are responding to the mind-boggling wealth gap in the US between the haves and have-nots. They fail to consider human nature; unrestrained greed can be a human flaw that ruins any form of governance. It seems to me that countries using the Scandinavian blend of Socialism (to help disadvantaged people), and regulated Capitalism are the most successful. History proves that rewarding ingenuity and hard work incentivizes people to strive and improve. Capitalism is good at that. There must be rules to restrain the wealthy, not eliminate them. In pursuing wealth, human nature answers the question, "How much is enough?" with, "Everything." No system can withstand that.
Well trust me those ppl have no idea what actual communism or socialism is. To be fair neither have ever really existed because of humans inheirent greed and corruption, but fact they think itd be better than a direct democracy with socialist prpgrams is pure Ignorance. Our education average in USA is pathetic. Majority are under 10th grade level. So yeah what you are exp is the % of 350million who are ignorant and willfully so
I've met some people who claim to be. They're usually very privileged people who pretend to be progressive
More than that, only foreigners who support Putin and tell me how blessing for a country he is are driving me nuts more. People who have never been to Russia, never learned how to speak the language, never went in depth into country's history or politics, but tells me how it is so much better there?!
My response to them is always unchanging:
"I understand that you don't know about Russia as much as I do, because I lived there. What you have to do is go there, live there for at least a year, work, or limit your spending to a median salary in Russia. Then return, and we will talk. Before that, talks are useless."
Not all westerners. Love from Bulgaria! Добро тебе желаем, русский братушечка! ❤
Westerners think Russia and Eastern Europe are countries stuck in time - like they imagine those countries are like America in the 40's. When they hear those countries are more conservative than America, they imagine a country like old school America.
And we all know what they glorify when talking about 40s America: The ability to openly hate women and minorities with no repercussions while society itself claims straight white men are better than everyone else just because.
Americans especially have this notion of the whole of Europe too. Most still think we live in castles and ride on horseback. "Wait, you guys ALSO have credit cards over there???"
I respect that you don't try to embellish the danger (or lack thereof) you avoided by leaving Russia. If you played it up and agreed with everyone saying "Wow you really dodged a javelin!" and all that, we'd probably believe you and it might get a lot of clicks for the drama, but you choose to tell the unexciting truth instead because that's more important than drama. 💯
First I should admit that I’m American before I say anything else lol, but Joe Rogan has turned into such an embarrassment. His views on domestic US issues aside, I couldn’t believe some of the pro Z stuff that has come out of his mouth, and blaming the Ukrainians for the war? Years ago, he was a center left guy who represented truly independent media. It felt freeing at the time, like a counterculture even. His guests were mostly pseudo historians and pseudoscientists, sure, but he did get real scientists and historians in from time to time. He got wackos like Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopolis on, but he also would have Bernie and Kyle Kulinski. Now it’s become ridiculously one sided, he sounds more and more foolish by the week and he comes off as the shill that he was always so against. His audience has changed too, I know so many old school Rogan listeners that won’t touch his show now, and a whole new generation of young, red pilled bros have taken their place.
I’m sorry to focus on Rogan in particular when he was just a mention on your video, but I think it is important because his reach is absolutely massive and shouldn’t be understated. When he says this type of crap, people listen, and he’s now contributing to the same lack of world-consciousness, and the “dumb American” stereotype that they used to blame the mainstream media for. He has literally become what he used to hate.
Kamala had an open invitation to go on Joe Rogan but was too scared.
@ what’s your point? Are you implying that that would somehow make his show at all balanced? They sat around and trashed her while “waiting for her to respond”. But it doesn’t matter anyway because Kamala herself was running on a center right platform without Trumps populism. Given the way virtually every incumbent party around the world was ousted in recent elections, both right and left, because of the state of the post Covid world economy, it’s pretty clear she didn’t have a chance. I’m not a fan and didn’t bring her up in my original comment.
@ For someone who hates JR you state a lot of things he says on his show. If you hate him so much, why listen? He also is allowed to change his political viewpoints. And he is not a journalist. You make it sound like the only guests on his show now are right sided. I know in 2024 he had on John Fetterman, Neil de Grasse Tyson, Jack Dorsey with former Twitter propagandist Viyaya Gadde. Also Bill Maher in late 2023. I’m sure there were others. Balance is important for a good show. I mean if you want one sided reporting, turn on the television.
@ I still see some clips but I do not listen to that podcast anymore.
@@run2fire why should serious people go on podcast by a person who was in awe of Terrence Howard? 😂
I lo-key hate on america too and I live in america. I am a leftist but, I do not simp for Russia imperialism. I hate nazis. There are so many here now. However, since the shooting of the CEO of the health insurance company, that affects far right, far left and in the middle. We don't have an actual universal healthcare system. A lot of people have died, so I expect the revolution in the US is going to be very bloody for the elites like Elon Musk.
We can only hope.
We know A LOT about russia thanks to you! At least 1+ million westerners
russia is basically moscow+peter vs rest of the poor country
you know a Westernised Russians view on his own country which he essentially despises.
@LuciusEV better than nothing. ask the others, oh right they died on the front line. never mind
@@krisstopher8259 you are very delusional. The people that are fighting are like 95% contracters
@LuciusEV Self-honesty will do that to a person.
Thank you for speaking the truth, love from Italy ❤
we as americans. we know nothing about other countries. mostly
We do, we know There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people look at him with terror and with fear
But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
He could preach the Bible like a preacher
Full of ecstasy and fire
But he also was the kind of teacher
Women would desire
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people look at him with terror and with fear
But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
He could preach the Bible like a preacher
Full of ecstasy and fire
But he also was the kind of teacher
Women would desire
Ra-ra-Rasputin
Lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
Ra-ra-Rasputin
Russia's greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on
He ruled the Russian land and never mind the Czar
But the kazachok he danced really wunderbar
In all affairs of state he was the man to please
But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze
For the queen he was no wheeler dealer
Though she'd heard the things he'd done
She believed he was a holy healer
Who would heal her son
Ra-ra Rasputin
Lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
Ra-ra Rasputin
Russia's greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on
But when his drinking and lusting
And his hunger for power
Became known to more and more people
The demands to do something
About this outrageous man
Became louder and louder
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
"This man's just got to go", declared his enemies
But the ladies begged, "Don't you try to do it, please"
No doubt this Rasputin had lots of hidden charms
Though he was a brute, they just fell into his arms
Then one night some men of higher standing
Set a trap, they're not to blame
"Come to visit us", they kept demanding
And he really came
Ra-ra Rasputin
Lover of the Russian queen
They put some poison into his wine
Ra-ra Rasputin
Russia's greatest love machine
He drank it all and said, "I feel fine"
Ra-ra-Rasputin
Lover of the Russian queen
They didn't quit, they wanted his head
Ra-ra-Rasputin
Russia's greatest love machine
And so they shot him 'til he was dead
Oh, those Russians
😄 Boney M!
people like Rogan & Elon Musk pushing Russian propaganda, and the dude making up lies about Roman are two sides of the same coin.
Roman's advice: "If you are a Westerner who wants to have an opinion or make a point, try to do the slightest research."
For a young man, Roman is truly intelligent, socially and politically aware, and constantly educating himself on the actual developments in the world much more so than most Westerners twice his age. Also forced to flee his homeland, spending two years in Georgia, he speaks with experience of the issues he speaks about.
To see Georgians, Ukrainians, and other Eastern Europeans having to listen to the nonsense from clueless Americans and other Westerners who have never had to fight for anything except their opinions on X. America and numerous regions of the West will eventually fall if people don't use their brains and start to educate themselves on the history and current events that created the present political developments throughout our present world.
Спасибо за позицию! ❤ Респект 🇺🇦🇬🇪
2 minutes after uploading, im here btw Keep going like this NFKRZ.
Roman, thanks! You have so many critics from all sides, not to mention the risks from being a public critic of your home country. I don't know how you manage the stress you must be under each day. Thank you for persisting with this channel and educating and informing us non-Russians. (I am American.) Please keep your sanity and keep on going.
I would be having a permanent anxiety attack if I was him
All my love to Roman from Venezuela 🇻🇪
Its just crazy how many guys still defend Russia after all they did and said
I completely don’t understand, especially the republicans, who have been rabidly anti ruzzia/Soviet Union for 70+ years. Reagan must be rolling in his grave😞
They'll defend anything as long as it "owns the libs"
What do you mean by Russia?
Putin's mafia syndicate or something else?
@@DarkXOM94OK yea for the most part
@@DarkXOM94OK yes
Ya I was in a similar situation in Poland 89 as an American. Local Polish students thought I had special insight on when the government would collapse and I was like dude I listen to Van Halen and skateboard. I had zero political insight. It was like a local celebrity without doing anything. I can only imagine how huge my impact would have been with youtube and social media. Then when I went back, nobody in the US cared I was in Poland and the news had moved on to fighting Saddam Hussein in Iraq War 1 and the Cold War was kind of ended (so we thought at the time until Putin went nuts the last 8 years). Ya its extreme historical experience that left me with a lot of knowledge on revolution, so I have insight.
The thing is about most Americans is they never leave the US, so only consume local nonsensical ideas on Russia and the world unfortunately. Usually it just leads to funny stereotypes in a comedy sketch, but sadly can end up impacting political stands politicians take (at least in front of the US public) and then maybe, hopefully are educated by diplomats. I think Russia has a similar isolated mentality where most locals never leave and have bizarre cultural thoughts on the US and US politics without really knowing in person any American or even somebody knowledgable. You can see it in the Russian state TV, which is mostly just propaganda for the locals that nobody outside of Russia takes seriously. All large empires have this myopic vision unfortunately. Only small countries like the Netherlands or Georgia, surrounded by various countries of dubious intent will know multiple languages and likely try to decipher the tea leaves of other political leaders in other countries.
Peace man.
I like your laugh because I can't tell if it's laughing or crying... maybe it's both
Ehe ehehehe.
We love George Michael here in Russia. I grew up on his music.
We always look forward to your videos, my brother keep it up
As a westerner I always call this nonsense out
Roman, please make more content like this and 'Stop Idolizing Russia' because it's the exact kind of content us and everyone else needs right now. Thank you.
I am Russian, I live in Siberia. and half of my relatives are US citizens. I say hello. We are all brothers and sisters to each other. Let's learn more about each other and break down silly stereotypes!
Hi from England 👋
I had a recruiter contact me about an IT job in Russia, I'm an American; I told him not even on a bet.
Lmao. They're really desperate
lol. Did they really start hiring Americans? everything is bad with high-level IT specialists, because all the cool specialists left for other countries during the 3 years of the war. As a junior IT specialist myself, I would not have worked in Russia if I had been given a job offer in the USA. I'm just not that cool yet.
I thought westerners were the enemies of traditional russian values though? Why would they be hiring any?
Roman getting more plump with every video.
That Mediterranean food got him good!
I think this is your most important video yet. Bc even in comments under your (other) videos this entire point has often been well demonstrated. Lots of westerners treating Eastern Europe as a basic fantasy book/game with an ExoTiC setting, few simple rules set in stone and you are ready to go. Just wander around in this non-fictional setting and ascribe whatever opinions you FEEL like are the most relevant, await a few pre-planned plot twists (like OFC all of this is just US doing, no one else has agency or imperial ambitions) while this having nothing to do with complex realities we all live.
Which is what most non-western societies experience in some form, this fetishizing and othering attitude, but in a situation of a genocidal war being waged and other forms of political manipulations against Russia's former colonies this is especially painful. I've regretfully really started to look at westerners differently. So much more structural access to info and recourses than many of us others, so little self-reflection about power in the context of world politics. No, "US is bad and doing all of this" does not really count, you are just chronically unable to not center yourself. Rant over
Half of those X commentors are Russian bots
I'm Serbian not Russian cousins.
Where is sports car?
@@marcelsmiley858 Where's the fancy condo?
Whaaat?! Don't you feel honored to be seen as Russia's little cousin? Doesn't it make you so ecstatic that the entire Serbian National Identity can be reduced to "Russia's little cousin"! Unbelievable!
Edit: This is sarcasm for those who are too thick-headed to notice
Of course lol. You yourself have beef with a certain Russian dude named Dimitri
True because Serbia is the Homeland of Russians not cousins but grandfathers!
Love your attitude about everything and not adding fuel to any fires. I appreciate your explanations as a Westerner always looking to learn about the world issues from all sides.
The whole rant with being anti US: honestly same.
Like I would love to be fully anti US, I would be the first person to cheer for China or Russia to one up the US. If it just wasn't for the simple fact, that they suck a lot more than the US does.
I call myself a socialist, but because I actually want a good life for everyone and think that full on capitalism is incapable of providing that, weirdly I do not feel the need to defend a cruel and destructive dictatorship led by a megalomaniac.
Have you ever wondered why China and Russia suck so much more than the US? Could it not be because of their history with socialist dictatorships?
Or do you think the USSR under Stalin and China under Mao were utopian socialist paradises?
@@SanctusPaulus1962 or? What about my comment made you think that I would think that? ...
@@SanctusPaulus1962most people when they say a socialist probably mean social Democrats like the swedes and the Norwegians. We certainly wouldn't want collectivized farms. we also do don't like a small number of people having 50% of the wealth in the country while people are having food insufficiency. a lot more people would have better views of capitalism it was like it was when the progressive tax kept the really really wealthy from getting too wealthy. Unfortunately what we see of capitalism is people with massive yachts who are the bosses of people who have to go on food stamps to be able to make ends meet, where can I get health care. Basically we have a new aristocracy in America, progressive reforms that we still benefit from.. also it should be noted that Soviet and Chinese communism or not the kind of Communism that marx talked about. his view the government would recede over time as workers built their own communities, while they're merely a poor impersonation of it who's underlying concept was authoritarianism.
I t bugs me when people call themselves Democratic socialists when really their social Democrats. And the difference is more than the inversion of the words would have you believe. Yet even Bernie keeps making that mistake
@@SanctusPaulus1962 They specifically said that the reason they wouldn't cheer if China or Russia one-upped the US is because they are even worse.
Btw Poland who was so poor and broke after Russian regime over us for 55 years, joined eu 22 year ago and is one of the best countries to live I Europe now and we have an influx of Americans and British moving in.
Russian? Maybe Soviet?
@@mxlxvxlxntDo you think we care much how Russian empire calls themselves? Be it Russian Empire till 1917 or Soviet Russia in 1919 (yes, Soviet Russia started a war with Poland in 1919) or USSR later on?
"we have an influx of Americans and British moving in" well I hoped you enjoyed Poland while it lasted, because the dogs have come to ruin it.
@@belava82Should have been stuck with the fascists then
Careful the Americans and Brits who move in might be passport bros who are looking for wives and that "TRaDiTioNal fAmILy" fetish.
Loved your collab with Bald and Bankrupt.
I'm a "westerner" and trust me bro, we crack ourselves and think most of our compatriots are arrogant provincials that juxtaposed their domestic concerns on issues in countries an ocean and a continent away. They are so concerned with the "culture war" that everything gets tinted with that view. I'm pretty sure the United States is spiraling into autocracy as we speak. This of course is far older than the Drumpf phenomenon. An America of freedom and common sense died on 9/11. Try not to dwell on the idiots over here, it will hurt your brain.
I wouldn't discount the influence of Russian and Chinese psyops on our free internet to manufacture consent on these issues. Our geopolitical enemies have put huge amount of ressources into polarizing our people against each other and getting a self destructive president like trump into power.
I put blame on American people for being so dumb as to fall for it, but it was a concerted foreign effort to mislead them.
Mate, if you think America's spiral into fascism wasn't locked-in by the modern GOP with Nixon's Southern Strategy, I don't know what you tell you. Yeah, 9/11 threw gas on the fire, especially as the Dubya admin was teetering on the edge of complete ineffectiveness due to a perceived (and also real) lack of legitimacy prior to that, but you've been on this road for at least the last 50 years. You think Dubya did anything Reagan hadn't already done?
Being a Russian, it’s always a battle between “no, you don’t understand how horrible things are here” and “jc, no need to overdramatize our life, it’s nothing special” 😂
Glad you are still posting, Roman, these videos are important! Hope everything is going well for you!
Heeey Roman, it is your cousin Niko, we should go bowling some time
Roman, the problem in Russia are not the common Russians but the corrupt leadership. I travelled and worked (for a German company) in Russia in '78 (Electrogorsk) and in '85 (different places, Gomel, Moscow, Minsk, Rostov) I found that all my contact with the people was a real pleasure and fun, not one negative experience. I feel for the Russian citizen. Most western people reading and watching about Russia conducting the horrible war in Ukraine are incapable to separate between the Leadership pushing to swallow Ukraine and the common citizen who just like to live.
My wife was born in Romanian communism and I’m an apple pie chomping NATOphile who never forgets that “they” killed Apollo Creed. Our arguments prove the Cold War will never end.
Around twenty years ago, a drinking buddy moved to Russia and married a Russian woman. His thought was that the religious nuts were getting too much control in the US, and that atheism was the rule in Russia. I keep wondering what ever became of him. He seemed like a decent sort, but that shit's just plain stupid. I hope he figured out his mistake and left.
Georgia, stay strong.
Thank you for keeping up with Georgia. It's frustrating to see people online get basic information wrong.