Oleg Kostour ๐บ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ
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Kyiv-born founder of @coupleapp (10M Installs). YC & @uWaterloo alum. Exits with @Dropbox & @Life360 (ASX:360). Grew @Life360 from 3M to 50M MAU. My bad, Gen Z.
San Francisco, California
Joined June 2009
Have at it, Russia. Americaโs secrets are all yours. Letโs hope Zelensky didnโt share anything very sensitive with Bidenโs administration that could cause long lasting damage to the nation. Europe needs to be very careful moving forward.
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If they make it to Homs, Damascus will be cut off from Russiaโs naval base at Tartus. This is a surprisingly strategic maneuver, it must have been very well planned in advance. If they then turn West, Russia cannot take its warships out of the Black Sea under the Montreux
Breaking News:. 24h after entering Aleppo, Syrian rebel forces have entered the next regional capital in Syria, Hama. Regime axis forces lines have fully collapsed and panic in Hama and the Hama airport has broken out among regime ranks.
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Out of the 18 minute monologue, itโs the last 4 min where he shares his real thoughts. This is where he starts attacking Zelensky for not doing what he wanted and defending Putin. @lexfridman you are in no place to tell Ukrainians what to do. You hold no authority over us.
Dude, stop calling Ukrainians bots @lexfridman. Millions of us dislike you for what youโve said. We donโt want to hear hogwash Kremlin propaganda in English. Anyone who goes to the Kremlin on friendly terms is a traitor to America. Stop the charade and admit you love Russia.
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I was wrong. Anastasia Trofimova doesn't just have 4 documentaries funded by RT. She has at least eleven. Her entire career has been working with RT. This implies repeat contact with Russian state media. RT Filmography w/ links โฌ๏ธ
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Dude, stop calling Ukrainians bots @lexfridman. Millions of us dislike you for what youโve said. We donโt want to hear hogwash Kremlin propaganda in English. Anyone who goes to the Kremlin on friendly terms is a traitor to America. Stop the charade and admit you love Russia.
Lex Fridman just released a podcast episode that is NOT of Vladimir Putin. Is the Putin podcast still happening?. Did Lex do the interview and the Kremlin did not like how it turned out? Is he now refusing to release the Putin podcast because the Kremlin told him not to?
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America let a hundred thousand able-bodied and motivated soldiers fight under-equipped for years and get injured. Now they want replacements. You had 6000 Abrams tanks sitting around in the desert and you sent 31.
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@john_sipher @elonmusk He has gone into overdrive trying to promote the idea of cutting off military aid to Ukraine the past few weeks. Sad because he was a former hero in Ukraine. Now heโs become a cyber bully, normalizing it on this platform. At this rate, I wouldnโt be surprised if he started.
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Welcome to the real Lex Fridman. Donโt be Ukrainian and ask him uncomfortable questions, or youโll get censored.
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Rewatching the early days of the invasion in this segment about why Russia tried to take Hostomel airport, and Iโm struck with the thought, who do these guys think they are? They came for Kyiv?. They have to be taught a lesson so that they never, ever try that again. That lesson
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@mayemusk @elonmusk @POTUS Your son actively helps promote the Kremlinโs interests online. While our families suffer, he laments the casualties of the invading army. He is on streams with some of the worst individuals on the planet like Jackson Hinkle who poses with Wagner flags. Do you know what that.
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Please amplify Klitschkoโs message. Letโs get @Klitschko invited to @joeroganโs show (@joeroganhq). Help please! ๐โโ๏ธ @usykaa @MikeTyson @Tyson_Fury @TheNotoriousMMA @LennoxLewis.
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Imagine how much purpose these folks in PA have, knowing their hard work is saving lives on the frontline. Unspoken American heroes, not often in the limelight.
Scranton, Pennsylvania. I visited a plant that manufactures 155 mm artillery shells. Now, for our warriors who are defending not only our country, not only Ukraine, the plant will be ramping up production. I began my visit to the United States by expressing my gratitude to all
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Alexei is blocking everyone that asks him why he didnโt release his interview with famous Ukrainian journalist @IAPonomarenko. Itโs very conspicuous. I think itโs worth asking about this until we get a clear answer that can be corroborated by Illia.
If he hasn't blocked you yet, keep asking (politely) @lexfridman about this.
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@PM_ViktorOrban Of course you didn't. You will never accept Ukraine into the EU, no matter the circumstances. You have retained a vulture-like posture over Zakarpattia from the start. Your goals are the same as Putin's, and you are the European Putin. Retire!.
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A must-watch. @lexfridman in his own words in Nov 2020:. > โI actually donโt have real family in Russia who donโt love Putin.โ. > โI read every English biography on Putin.โ. > โI actually, in many ways, admire the man that took power. I think heโs very different than Stalin and.
Lex Fridman speaking to Dan Carlin about the need to empathise with Putin: โIn many ways I actually admire the man Putin was when he took power โฆ when he took power he wasnโt like Hitler and Stalin โฆ Putin was a humble, honest, loyal man when he took power.โ He says that his
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Halfway through the interview and Iโm now of the impression that Lex Fridman is actually just unintelligent. Who invited this guy?.
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@TuckerCarlson Dugin is openly fascist. Giving him airtime is extremely anti-American of you, and for some reason itโs no surprise you interviewed him in Moscow. Dugin is described as a โRussian political analyst who espouses an ultranationalist and neo-fascist ideology based on his idea of.
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For anyone still confused, polls show that the population of Russia hates both America and Ukraine equally. Why some Americans support a country that hates them is a mystery to me.
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Another person blocked by Alexei for asking where the @IAPonomarenko interview footage went. You donโt block people for such a thing unless the answer is realllly inconvenient.
Lex Fridman has now blocked me for asking why he wonโt post his interviews with Ukrainians. I am now one of hundred of accounts that have been blocked for asking this same question.
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@POTUS Ukraine should not have a different right to self-defense than other European countries. Our lives are not cheaper than those of Germany, France or Britain. Air defense missiles alone are not enough. Allow Ukraine to strike at the military facilities / jets firing these missiles.
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Here's the latest polling data from the US by @BrookingsInst on support for Ukraine. 58% of Republicans, 62% of Independents and 76% of Democrats side with Ukraine. As opposed to 4%, 2% and 1% (respectively) siding with Russia. General support amongst the American public is
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Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) who is being considered to lead the DoD, is a stalwart supporter of Ukraine. Here he is countering disinfo of misuse of military aid and speaking to how most the funds go to high-skilled jobs across America. Also, that it sends a signal to the CCP / China.
TRUMP EYEING REP. MIKE ROGERS TO LEAD DOD: NYP.
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@NicoleShanahan The money is mostly going into American pockets. Itโs mostly vouchers to buy American goods and restocking American weapons stockpiles. Johnson even said this directly. This feeds the families of American factory workers while countering geopolitical rivals. Win-win.
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Chris Alexander: Russian propaganda should have no place at TIFF. Really high quality article by @calxandr, former Canadian diplomat & politician. Please read, share, and follow Chris.
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@TuckerCarlson Tucker lying: "And to see self-described liberals ban your book, which is not a manual for bomb making or invading Ukraine.". Meanwhile, Dugin's book is LITERALLY a manual for how Russia should invade and carve up Ukraine. Tucker openly lies to our faces. You have to be a
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@RobertKennedyJr The fact that you think Russia would have withdrawn from territory they occupied should make everyone realize you know nothing about Russian history, and your opinion in this matter is not reliable. Please educate yourself on how they have behaved over time beyond your short
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@NikkiHaley Are you kidding me?. This is how he behaved before the full-scale invasion while Ukraine was already at war, instead of setting Ukraine up to deter Russia. And this is his stated policy for how heโll behave when he takes power after the full-scale invasion. Itโs the same picture
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Apparently, Canadians don't have to obey Ukrainian law when on Ukrainian soil. These people see themselves as superior. Is it surprising this type of view comes from someone involved in making this film? Imagine what they're saying to each other behind the scenes.
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@JakeSullivan46 @ZelenskyyUa @AndriyYermak โUnwavering supportโ. Last aid approved in 2022. ATACMS withheld after years of begging. Jake, youโre full of it.
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@RpsAgainstTrump People don't not like him because he's "too strong". People don't like him because he's traitor to the EU and NATO and is allied with Russia / Putin.
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1/ Looks like @lexfridman has taken a shot at creating a Russian version of his own show on YouTube meant to influence a potential audience in Russia (or Ukraine?). From the looks of it, heโs been quietly investing a lot of time into building this up. He has been translating his
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I would just like to point out that Putinโs approval rating actually goes *up* every time he attacks a weaker country. Unprovoked attacks on nearby countries are actually popular amongst his base. They will be ecstatic if he say, successfully annexes Georgia after a win in
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@lexfridman @elonmusk @lexfridman I don't like your implication that both sides are "murdering" the other with artillery - if someone breaks into your home and tries to murder you and your family, it's self-defence to stop them. Only one side is murdering anyone, and it seems you can't figure out.
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For anyone unaware, J.D. Vance, Trump's VP pick as of today, will abandon Ukraine. His stated position is to pressure Ukraine to accept Russian annexation. One can assume this means their administration will also reverse Ukraine's supposedly "irreversible" path to NATO
Hereโs the deal about J.D. Vance. He talks a big game about working people. But now, he and Trump want to raise taxes on middle-class families while pushing more tax cuts for the rich. Well, I donโt intend to let them. And if youโre with me, pitch in:
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@DrewPavlou He is mad that Ukrainians are not submitting to Putinโs โpeaceโ and that Russia isnโt in NATO. Lex loves Russia.
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In retrospect, it seems possible that Polish President Lech Kaczyลski was killed by Putin. Look at the way the KGB war criminal inspects the crash site with Shoigu. @realDonaldTrump should declassify any American satellite imagery & information about the crash.
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Just when you thought it couldnโt get any worse, hereโs Biden personally lobbying to disarm Ukraine on Nov 25, 1991, just as they become independent - to save Russia the headache. > โThe Soviet desire to get US support to destroy these weapons is not all because they worry they
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@KamalaHQ How Trump expects to win WI, MI, PA as the pro-Russian candidate is beyond me.
The 2024 election will be substantially impacted by the Polish-American swing state vote (w/ suppl. impact by Ukrainians and Lithuanians) and how they will react to @JDVance once he goes through the VP debate. Vance was not well-known figure (he was not in the Republican
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@BaileyCarlin This is from the wing of politics that claimed Zelensky was dressed inappropriately in congress. Letโs compare.
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The team from Russians at War are jumping at the opportunity to call Ukrainians violent, after they themselves spent half a year filming soldiers attacking Ukrainians, while wearing Russian military garb. The only thing Sean said that's right here, is yes, Trudeau should have.
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@Podolyak_M @elonmusk Itโs sad. Elon would have been a hero to so many people if he did things differently.
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RT: "The TIFF film festival in Toronto cited security threats from Ukrainian activists". TIFF helped write this headline. They were willing participants in this charade. There was absolutely no violence at what was 2x peaceful protests. The cancellation of the film itself has
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Ah, so thatโs where @lexfridmanโs idea of interviewing @ZelenskyyUa in Russian came from. It came from talking to @TuckerCarlson. Not. Surprised. At all. I was not able to find this segment in his English language interview with Tucker. It was released for his Russian audience
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@TimcastNews Sounds about right. Foreign policy is more important than ever this election. The Moscow-Beijing-Tehran-Pyongyang alliance is on the offensive. You either defend or cede ground to the new dominant players, and let them call the shots.
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@globeandmail โIโve spent half my life in Canada, half in Russia. I understand both views of the world, and I respect both.โ. So she โrespectsโ Russiaโs desire to ethnically cleanse Ukrainians form occupied territory and their neo-fascist trajectory? And wants to go back?. She also admitted to
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โWeโre with Ukraine for as long as it takes. Hereโs 3 tanks. Good luck.โ.
Today, I announced that the United States will send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine โ evidence of our enduring and unflagging commitment to Ukraine and our confidence in the skill of Ukrainian forces. As I told President Zelenskyy, we're with Ukraine for as long as it takes.
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@highbrow_nobrow Vance during WW2:. "Hitler should not have invaded Poland, but we are where we are.".
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TIFF continues to participate in the whitewash. They left the RT experience out from her profile and reinforced it again after the controversy. They continue to prove to everyone they are a direct part of this. Watch the introduction.
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@TheObamaArchive He owes Ukrainians an apology. He worked with Russia to help disarm us, then refused to take responsibility for his actions and help us:. โ 2005: Pushed a bill to destroy 15,000 tons of Ukrainian artillery shells, 400,000 small arms, and 1,000 air defence missiles. โ
Putin and the Presidents. โBiden lost. Instead of weapons, Obama went with sanctions.โ. This Frontline PBS 2023 documentary speaks to Obamaโs refusal to arm Ukraine in 2014, when Biden and the Pentagon wanted to provide defensive weaponry. Some snippets (~28 min in):. Narrator:
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@ukraine_map Nothing Orban says is worth listening to. Heโs the enemy. The EU and NATO have no mechanisms to kick out enemy states once they flip sides.
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Why does Trofimova avoid mentioning the fact that she was in Donbas in 2014 during her interviews?. She pretends that she didnโt follow the war when it started in 2014, but she literally went thereโฆ ๐ถ. Watch the interview clip. Interview quote:.> โThat was the surprising thing
1/ โ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ถ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฟโ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐๐ธ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฐ. I've uncovered footage of Anastasia Trofimova in occupied Ukraine on ~Dec 10, 2014 with Elizaveta Glinka (โDoctor Lizaโ). According to the annotations, sheโs seen at the
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She's ready. I'm all in. Commander-in-chief. ๐ซก๐บ๐ธ๐ฆ
. > "As commander-in-chief, I will ensure, America will always have the strongest most lethal fighting force in the world.". > "I will make sure that we lead the world into the future, on space and artificial intelligence. That
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@MarquardtA When all the worst people in the world love you, there's probably something wrong with you.
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@SgforgoodStella Kyiv is like a thousand years older. Wasnโt this built by the Russian Czar, Peter, around 1700? . That makes it one of the newest cities in Europe.
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@elonmusk Donโt people usually aim for the windows if they want to break into your car, not hit the door frame with axes?.
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@C_Kavanagh The full 4 min of this diatribe is even worse. Lex is preparing the ground for his Putin interview release.
Out of the 18 minute monologue, itโs the last 4 min where he shares his real thoughts. This is where he starts attacking Zelensky for not doing what he wanted and defending Putin. @lexfridman you are in no place to tell Ukrainians what to do. You hold no authority over us.
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1/ โ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ถ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฟโ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐๐ธ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฐ. I've uncovered footage of Anastasia Trofimova in occupied Ukraine on ~Dec 10, 2014 with Elizaveta Glinka (โDoctor Lizaโ). According to the annotations, sheโs seen at the
Russian filmmaker Anastasia Trofimova who presented Russian propaganda documentary โRussians at warโ at @la_Biennale, pictured with the now-deceased Elizaveta Glinka. Glinka is responsible for the kidnapping of Ukrainian children from Donetsk Oblast
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@TheStudyofWar MAGA Republicans are trying their hardest to get Ukraine to lose, so their candidate beats Biden. They are willing to do anything to screw us over. Their ally, Orban, is doing rounds all over America and Europe to try to get Ukraine to lose. Itโs time to pick a side.
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Guess who excluded the directorโs past affiliation with RT again. Thatโs right, another film festival. This time, Zurich.
The full programme of the 20th Zurich Film Festival is now online! ๐ฌ๏ธ๐. Ticket sale starts on Monday, 23 August. If you want to get your tickets before everyone else, get your pre-access pass here: #ZurichFilmFestival #ZFF2024
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@HertzBarry Congratulations on being party to the whitewashing of a fascist ethnic cleansing. At least you got her to admit she committed a crime in Ukraine. What is the penalty for entering Canada illegally? Ukrainian laws donโt have to be respected if you have contacts at RT, that right?
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@IAPonomarenko Europe needs to pre-empt this and send air defence ammunition for 2-3 weeks immediately. And Ukraine needs GUARANTEES about the speed of delivery from the US so they can stop holding back their air defence missile reserves during this interim period.
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Alex Fridman promotes โbothsidesingโ narratives. Heโs on record saying he perceives Ukrainians defending their home from invading soldiers as being โmurderโ. In my opinion, the attached shows a disregard for the basic ethics of self-defence. A truly pro-UA individual would never.
@lexfridman @elonmusk @lexfridman I don't like your implication that both sides are "murdering" the other with artillery - if someone breaks into your home and tries to murder you and your family, it's self-defence to stop them. Only one side is murdering anyone, and it seems you can't figure out.
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@United24media @ukrparalympic Given that many of the athletes competing may have lost their limbs in the war, seems like a slap in the face to even object. Glad they won this fight.
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@tvo โThe film was produced by an Academy Award nomineeโ. I think your statement fails to mention this award winning nominee created 11 documentaries for Russia Today, a Kremlin / Russian-state controlled media organization whose employees are currently embroiled in a US Department of.
Trofimova's RT funded films:. โข 2015, Syria: Her War: Women vs. ISIS.โข 2015, Iraq: Victims of ISIS.โข 2015 (?), Lebanon: Generation Standstill.โข 2017, Congo: Congo, my precious.โข 2017, Syria: The Road to Raqqa.โข 2018, Iraq: Iraqi Safe House.โข 2018, Russia: Champions of the
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@KyivIndependent So why didnโt @JakeSullivan46 do what was needed when they had the public support? Instead of waiting until everyone tired out so they could cut funding without the bad press? Jakeโs policies have been a failure. Far too weak.
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@POLITICOEurope So if Polish forces choose to ally with Ukraine and fight Russia, they would be "Zelensky's Poles"?. Very odd phrasing. Just call them what they are. North Korean forces attacking Ukraine.
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Itโs also mentioned that if a newly independent Ukraine doesnโt comply with disarmament, withholding food aid should be on the table. Virtually suggesting that the U.S. starve Ukraine into submission on the eve of their independence. Again, thatโs Ukraine, a country that lost
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@sapitonmix Of course. Then he blocks Ukrainians who criticize him for his unreasonable takes.
@lexfridman @elonmusk @lexfridman I don't like your implication that both sides are "murdering" the other with artillery - if someone breaks into your home and tries to murder you and your family, it's self-defence to stop them. Only one side is murdering anyone, and it seems you can't figure out.
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@EmmanuelMacron He may have started it, but Europe should finish it. Itโs time for a European Defence Force to finally form and hold the borders of the alliance. Rich and weak is not a state you want your country to be in. This is how countries like Germany currently make the EU look. It.
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@theblaze In fact, Ukraine is almost 1.5x as Christian as Hungary is (88% vs 56% respectively) and is closer to Poland (87%). You can't drive from one town to another in Ukraine without passing a church or small Christian shrine where one can pray. It's more common than McDonald's or
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@Culture_Crit Probably the fact that I would be immediately jailed for speaking freely like I can today. God bless America. ๐บ๐ธ๐ฆ
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@DavidSacks Youโre confusing Russian cash and Ukrainian cash. Burisma was linked to the Yanukovych regime, which was tied to Putin. Ukraine has no cash. Itโs at full capacity & a fraction the size of Russia. They didnโt have some Nord Stream cash pipeline straight to Germanyโs bank accounts.
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@igorsushko โAfter Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to topple Kyiv last year, Israelโs decision to not join other countries in imposing sanctions on Russia stood out on the world stage. No Israeli Prime Minister has visited Ukraineโs capital since Russia stepped up its aggression.
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@jurgen_nauditt By their logic, if Ukraine unilaterally declares it a part of Ukraine, itโs no longer Russian territory. At least thatโs the way they have told us the world works.
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@BorisJohnson >. he will be strong and decisive in supporting that country. Ok. Then why hasn't he said so?.And why did he choose a VP that said "he frankly doesn't care" what happens in Ukraine. And that he will oppose all initiatives to back Ukraine.
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@JayinKyiv This guy is a complete nut. He claims Kamala doesn't know what she's doing, while proving to all of us that he has no idea what he's doing. He will throw us to the wolves.
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@DrewPavlou @joerogan Joe Rogan blames the victim. ๐ . Real tough guy - worried about his privileged life as a rich Westerner getting interrupted by some dead Ukrainians.
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@LindseyGrahamSC >To those who advocate for abandoning Ukraine and letting Putin have his way. Isn't this you.
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@_JoshNeverStops They could even go further and start trying to capture the naval base. Imagine the weapons stores sitting there. It would be a big target. Idk if they would succeed but the risk that this happens and Russia forever loses its foothold in the Mediterranean may be an existential.
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@YourAnonCentral Ukrainians are not the worldโs marionettes or pawns to deplete anyone. Ukraine should go nuclear and end this war on their terms.
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@rustyrockets Right after you cut the video he says that another demand Putin made was to remove NATO from any country that joined after 1997. That would have required these nations to give up their security guarantees. Above is the longer clip. You think Poland, the
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@JayinKyiv This is so ridiculous that youโd think it was a Monty Python skit mocking the fraudulence of their election.
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@visegrad24 ๐ฅณ๐. Congratulations to Romania for being the second NATO country to find some courage in dealing with Russia! ๐ท๐ด๐ท๐ด๐ท๐ด.
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Within this word salad, @lexfridman managed to start promoting the propaganda narrative that all criticism of him stems from โUkrainian botsโ, while saying itโs other Ukrainians making the claim, not him. Then he personally disassociates with his own claim with an immediate
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@CaolanRob @nickshirleyy After watching this explanation, I think it's appropriate to say that if this guy is still in the country, his visa should be revoked for this and he should be deported. @ServiceSsu.
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@wartranslated And we wish Belarus independence and freedom from their dictatorship one day.
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While Ukrainians may not have sufficient influence in Italy to have stopped the showing at the Biennale, Canada is a different story. 1.26M Ukrainian-Canadians are a large voting bloc. Plus 300k Ukrainians on the CUAET visa. I would like to point to the precedent of the
โก๏ธ "It is irresponsible to allow the Toronto International Film Festival, one of the worldโs most reputable film stages, to be used to disseminate Russian propaganda," says Oleh Nikolenko, Ukrainian Consul General inย Toronto.
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