I played poker with a woman born in Soviet Ukraine. Russians may feel Ukraine is part of Russia, but Ukrainians don't. In no uncertain terms she made everybody know that she is Ukrainian and not Russian. If anybody made the mistake of calling her Russian, she corrected them in no uncertain terms.
I grew up in the soviets..I'm familiar with both Russian and Ukrainian cultures and I love both! What's happening in Ukraine bleeds my heart ..we used to be best friends, sisters ...
@Aaron I wonder why everyone turns a blind eye to these crimes but they are still prosecuting Trump and his children a year out of office. And then there is the January 6th Capital Riot.. could it be???? To keep all eyes off themselves?? Nothing to see here!! Hey! Look what that immoral man has done again!!!Says the MSM..... all a game to bring our Great Country down!!
There is only "freedom", do democracy in "free world", go get a cold world history book and do you homework. Remember, their freedom is your liability.
100+ year old history and modern day are two different things, otherwise we can all play this game and give reason to invade everyone. Of course that's what you want, a reason to excuse Russia.
Vikings and others immigrated to that area in 900s to settle/ intermarry w/ native peoples to form Slavic culture of today ( simplified version)500 years before any Russian civilization!!
members of the Scythian cultures are often specifically designated as Sakas "Based in what is modern-day Ukraine and southern Russia, they called themselves Scoloti (Ancient Greek: Σκώλοτοι Skṓlotoi) and were led by a nomadic warrior aristocracy known as the Royal Scythians." CF haplogroups are Monophyletic.
The Scythians were horse riding raiders, uncivilized with no real literature, written records or much contribution other then a negative one....meaning a record of their attacks on civilizations such as Ancient India.
word Ukraine doesn`t mean "Borderland", thats a lie from russian empire era historians. There is no "old slavic words" similar to word "Ukraine" with borderland meaning. Not a single. But almost every slavic language has word "Kraina" which means: land, homeland, state, etc.
Most Americans can't name State Capitals.....No Marjorie.... Blue is ALSO the color of the Orthodox Religion...Russian and Ukrainian history is intertwined.....Like English and Irish... Difficult to separate....60 percent of marriages are mixed...Ukraine is RUSSIAN like Scotland is British
Putin is very close friends with the Knight of Malta Prince Albert II of Monaco who also knighted Putin. Monte Carlo is a major money laundering headquarters for the Russian Mafia. The royals of Monaco the House of Grimaldi were originally Genoese nobles and rulers of the Republic of Genoa which ruled the Black Sea region and had leverage over Russia for centuries by controlling trade. Don Domenico Pallavacino of Genoa is Consul General of Monaco. The Pallavacinis originated as Genoese nobles and bankers and today are Roman princes and international bankers as well as Russian bankers and economists. Prince Giancarlo Pallavacini was lieutenant and interim commander of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Don Giancarlo Pallavacini of Milan was a Soviet economic advisor and is today a Russian economist. Margrave Alphonse Pallavacini of Austria the brother in law to the Queen of Belgium has been a top executive for Paribas Russia for about 15 years. The Cattaneo Della Voltas were Genoese debt collectors. Today Count Andrea Cattaneo Della Volta is an International banker with oil operations in Azerbaijan which borders Russia. The Savoys who are Knights of Malta are married with the Genoese Doria family currently with Princess Marina. The Dorias were Doges and bankers of the Republic of Genoa. The Sovereign Military Order of Malta Ambassador to Russia Prince Aimone of Savoy Aosta runs Pirelli Russia and has had documented photographed meetings with Putin. Prince Aimones sister Princess Bianca is married with the Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga family who have married with Russian royals. The Romanovs are married with Roman Aristocracy recently including the Gaetanis. The Romanovs have 3 royal branches living in America today and other branches in Spain, Germany, UK, and Italy. The royals of Monaco are married with the German Hanovers with Prince Ernst August the husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco who are also currently married with Russian royals with Princess Alexandra of Hanover married to Prince Andreas of Leinengen whose mother was the Grand Duchess of Russia. The current Grand Duchess Vladimirovna Romanov of Russia is a Dame of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and her son Grand Duke George Mikhailovich who is a Romanov and a German Hohenzollern is also a Knight of Malta. These are Putins bosses and they are war criminals who need to be hunted down for executions.
USA should mind its own Freakin business. IF USA is brave enough it should go head to head with Russians. But so far USA looks like it doesn’t have the courage to do that.
There's plenty of courage on both sides but the fear on both sides, fear of nuclear weapons, is what rightfully keeps us from one another. This same argument could be put back to Russia - if you whine so much about NATO why not go to war agaist it? Why not expel it out of your neighboring states? Of course the reason they don't is that they want nothing to do with war against the US.
For eight years Ukraine bombed Donbass, and no one in Europe barked at the military fascists from Ukraine. The war in the Donbas lasted from 2014 to 2022. Thank you to Russia for accepting refugees from Donetsk and Lugansk. Russia has already accepted 100,000 women and children.....,..
Now if people only cared about taiwan, tibet, and hong kong like they are now with Ukraine. Its frustrating to see the disparaging words from russia and china towards their smaller next door neighbor countries and their constant threats to take them over. This is all devastating, I sure hope putin can be stopped with this madness and leave Ukraine alone. If russia takes ukraine; china will be next to take over Taiwan and more. Either way lives will be lost, that that breaks my heart. Such needless suffering.
What do you think the US reaction would be if Mexico joined the Russian Alliance so Russia could put missiles and military bases right up on the US southern border? Wpuld the US respect Mexico's sovereignty? Or would the US invade Mexico or perhaps threaten to nuke Mexico?
@@tedbundy1769 Ummmmm..... not sure what you are getting at. Last time we were at odds with mexico was in the 1800's and we aren't going to take them over.. in fact we gave back half of the territory we got from the war with mexico. Can't say the same for China or russia though.
@@ShiningSakura You didn't answer the question. Nice attempt deflect though. I will tell you what the US would do. They would set up a blockade and threaten Mexico and Russia with nuclear strikes if they attempted to breach the blockade carrying missiles or military equipment. 100% guaranteed. The US won't tolerate enemy positions along their borders.......and neither should Russia. See what I'm getting at?
@@tedbundy1769 I wasn't deflecting since I really didn't understand your comment and that I was supposed to answer you. I don't think you understand my comment here as it doesn't have anything to do with your own comment. For example: China wanting to take over other countries (like Taiwan) has nothing to do with the USA or war strategies... they just want to take them over and make them part of the motherland ....end of story. They see these countries not as countries... but parts of the motherland that broke off sadly and are now lost and alone that needs reunification by force if necessary to be made whole. Seriously... they say this and I took Chinese so I would know how they feel as they told me.... USA doesn't want to take over mexico to reunite it with the motherland..... so yeah. Different stories.
@@ShiningSakura I was speaking on the reason Russia is invading Ukraine. And it has npthing to do with reuniting the motherland. It has everything to do with preventing his enemies from making deals with Ukraine to put missiles and military bases up against the Russian border. I think you are deflecting because you know that any country in Russia's shoes would do the exact same thing......just like the US did during the Cuban missile crisis which is the closest the world has ever come to a nuclear holocaust.
Read up on the history of Europe. You will find borders changed quite often. Poland dissapeared for a time. Ukraine was part of Poland for a time. Keiv was a Russian capitol for a time. Ukraine literaly means border lands. It was a collection of 12 or so seperate states that were reconized as the country of Ukraine in the early 1900s and then seperated into two countries,the west ruled by a capitolist dictator and the east a socialist republic with ties to Russia. There is STILL bad feelings between certain ethics backgrounds that go back generations .
Ukraine is Russian land and always has been since Kievan Rus. Kiev was destroyed by the Mongols in the middle ages. Russian civilization was then led by Moscow and Novgorod. Kiev became a backwater.
Most of Russia is a backwater. Vast majority of Russians live in large cities. Russians (and travelers) with channels on this site regularly show how underdeveloped the areas far outside of Moscow actually are. Some places and people look like they still haven't fully recovered from WWII. It's obvious how little Putin and his cronies care about the common people of Russia.
Ukraine is not Russian land, Russia didn't even gain Ukraine until Peter the Great. Russian Civilization =/= Rus civilization. After the fall of Kievan Rus the individual principalities fell apart. None of them have any more claim over the over because they all went there own way and formed there own histories. Russia doesn't have any more claim over Ukraine because of its shared ancestral state than Ukraine does over Russia. Educate yourself.
@noobeable hey genius, Peter the Great ruled Russia before America existed. How does the West have the right to complain if Russia takes back its territory that was separated from it due to an accident of history? USA just wants to keep control of its puppet state to point weapons at Russia
I played poker with a woman born in Soviet Ukraine. Russians may feel Ukraine is part of Russia, but Ukrainians don't. In no uncertain terms she made everybody know that she is Ukrainian and not Russian. If anybody made the mistake of calling her Russian, she corrected them in no uncertain terms.
Same here..born and raised soviets UKRAINE 🇺🇦
Yup, don't call me Russian!
Explain Crimea then. They certainly felt more Russian than Ukrainian.
Slava to your poker friends
I grew up in the soviets..I'm familiar with both Russian and Ukrainian cultures and I love both! What's happening in Ukraine bleeds my heart ..we used to be best friends, sisters ...
This has nothing to do with the USA
Sure it does. Where are US politicians going to launder money or illegally invest in corrupt gas companies if Russia takes control of Ukraine?
I pray for Peace in Ukraine in Jesus name.
😂
Why not pray for Jesus to intervene and help people directly rather than let them die?
Hunter knows about those riches, so does his dad.
Not now, Aaron.
Give it a rest
Yeah…Putin is a genius
@Aaron I wonder why everyone turns a blind eye to these crimes but they are still prosecuting Trump and his children a year out of office. And then there is the January 6th Capital Riot.. could it be???? To keep all eyes off themselves?? Nothing to see here!! Hey! Look what that immoral man has done again!!!Says the MSM..... all a game to bring our Great Country down!!
Trump is a Russian agent.
Ukrainian capital is much older than Moscow.
And Nancy Pelosi sanitary napkin is older than both combined.
0:00 Well most americans did not grow up learning anything anyways
🤣 your comment lightened up my evening ..thank you
I'm glad I'm not most Americans then, because I grew up learning a lot and I'm still learning!
Russia 🇷🇺 to Ukraine 🇺🇦. If we can’t have Democracy, neither can you.
There is only "freedom", do democracy in "free world", go get a cold world history book and do you homework. Remember, their freedom is your liability.
Hawaii had an even longer and richer history before as well.
Free hawaii
100+ year old history and modern day are two different things, otherwise we can all play this game and give reason to invade everyone. Of course that's what you want, a reason to excuse Russia.
@@gothenmosph5151 You got it, that is invade. The same as white man invaded south africa
Free Puerto Rico
Go "free" it then. Do you really think if USA had left Hawaii alone, countries like Japan, China would have left them alone?
Vikings and others immigrated to that area in 900s to settle/ intermarry w/ native peoples to form Slavic culture of today ( simplified version)500 years before any Russian civilization!!
Too funny...and now that we are attacking Ukraine it's time to learn about Ukranian culture...so creepy.
Don’t bring harm to the little ones! 🔥
Yeah, we all do.
And that rich history is a Russian and Polish one.
local news becomes opinionated…
They dressed like Switzerland and Germans.
members of the Scythian cultures are often specifically designated as Sakas
"Based in what is modern-day Ukraine and southern Russia, they called themselves Scoloti (Ancient Greek: Σκώλοτοι Skṓlotoi) and were led by a nomadic warrior aristocracy known as the Royal Scythians."
CF haplogroups are Monophyletic.
The Scythians were horse riding raiders, uncivilized with no real literature, written records or much contribution other then a negative one....meaning a record of their attacks on civilizations such as Ancient India.
@@martinvanburen4578 So were the Mongols, and have you seen Scythian metallurgy? Its insane.
@@user-xs1is9yd5o Mongols actually settled in China and they have written records. What is there of the Scythians from the Scythians?
I LOVE this!! They're actually quoting the CIA!! 🤣
So does Russia
word Ukraine doesn`t mean "Borderland", thats a lie from russian empire era historians. There is no "old slavic words" similar to word "Ukraine" with borderland meaning. Not a single. But almost every slavic language has word "Kraina" which means: land, homeland, state, etc.
Nice try….. Kievan Rus was on what’s now Ukraine, but doesn’t have much to do with a country of Ukraine.
Sry Ukraine your done done
STOP WISH MY COUNTRY TO DISAPPEAR.
@@kunik61 your wish is my command.
Rich diversity, dang, let me put on my military boots then
📢UKRAINE FIGHT 2 COUNTRIES RUSSIA AND BELARUS UKRAINE NEED HELP!!!!💪💪
Most Americans can't name State Capitals.....No Marjorie.... Blue is ALSO the color of the Orthodox Religion...Russian and Ukrainian history is intertwined.....Like English and Irish... Difficult to separate....60 percent of marriages are mixed...Ukraine is RUSSIAN like Scotland is British
Glory to Ukraine
You still are. It’s Putin that’s the problem
BS
Ukraines history will soon be history
A rumor. A myth
Some Ukrainians speak Russian becausr of Russification
Vote dimocrats out worldwide.
@john Cenna agreed 👍
😆 U fools
@@fern7306 No fools vote for tyrant dimocrats.
Putin is very close friends with the Knight of Malta Prince Albert II of Monaco who also knighted Putin. Monte Carlo is a major money laundering headquarters for the Russian Mafia. The royals of Monaco the House of Grimaldi were originally Genoese nobles and rulers of the Republic of Genoa which ruled the Black Sea region and had leverage over Russia for centuries by controlling trade. Don Domenico Pallavacino of Genoa is Consul General of Monaco. The Pallavacinis originated as Genoese nobles and bankers and today are Roman princes and international bankers as well as Russian bankers and economists. Prince Giancarlo Pallavacini was lieutenant and interim commander of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Don Giancarlo Pallavacini of Milan was a Soviet economic advisor and is today a Russian economist. Margrave Alphonse Pallavacini of Austria the brother in law to the Queen of Belgium has been a top executive for Paribas Russia for about 15 years. The Cattaneo Della Voltas were Genoese debt collectors. Today Count Andrea Cattaneo Della Volta is an International banker with oil operations in Azerbaijan which borders Russia. The Savoys who are Knights of Malta are married with the Genoese Doria family currently with Princess Marina. The Dorias were Doges and bankers of the Republic of Genoa. The Sovereign Military Order of Malta Ambassador to Russia Prince Aimone of Savoy Aosta runs Pirelli Russia and has had documented photographed meetings with Putin. Prince Aimones sister Princess Bianca is married with the Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga family who have married with Russian royals. The Romanovs are married with Roman Aristocracy recently including the Gaetanis. The Romanovs have 3 royal branches living in America today and other branches in Spain, Germany, UK, and Italy. The royals of Monaco are married with the German Hanovers with Prince Ernst August the husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco who are also currently married with Russian royals with Princess Alexandra of Hanover married to Prince Andreas of Leinengen whose mother was the Grand Duchess of Russia. The current Grand Duchess Vladimirovna Romanov of Russia is a Dame of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and her son Grand Duke George Mikhailovich who is a Romanov and a German Hohenzollern is also a Knight of Malta. These are Putins bosses and they are war criminals who need to be hunted down for executions.
CIA?? HMMMMM
USA should mind its own Freakin business. IF USA is brave enough it should go head to head with Russians. But so far USA looks like it doesn’t have the courage to do that.
I don't think Russia has the balls to invade us they just want to pick on countries that are weaker than them because there cowards
Kinda like you Mr TH-cam warrior
@@michaelbryant912 You mean like the US and afghanistan and iraq?
There's plenty of courage on both sides but the fear on both sides, fear of nuclear weapons, is what rightfully keeps us from one another. This same argument could be put back to Russia - if you whine so much about NATO why not go to war agaist it? Why not expel it out of your neighboring states? Of course the reason they don't is that they want nothing to do with war against the US.
STOP HATE UKRAINE
Soup
Ukraine is the original Russia. It is Ukraine vs Muscovy. Both have cause to claim the title Russia.
Kiev used to be at the center, and the capital, of the land of the Rus
Its not. Rus =/= Russia
@wim0104 that was about 700 years ago. Moscow left Kiev in the dust long ago.
Who the fuq carez
Azov battalion
They do not. Russia created Ukraine
For eight years Ukraine bombed Donbass, and no one in Europe barked at the military fascists from Ukraine. The war in the Donbas lasted from 2014 to 2022. Thank you to Russia for accepting refugees from Donetsk and Lugansk. Russia has already accepted 100,000 women and children.....,..
Now if people only cared about taiwan, tibet, and hong kong like they are now with Ukraine.
Its frustrating to see the disparaging words from russia and china towards their smaller next door neighbor countries and their constant threats to take them over. This is all devastating, I sure hope putin can be stopped with this madness and leave Ukraine alone. If russia takes ukraine; china will be next to take over Taiwan and more. Either way lives will be lost, that that breaks my heart. Such needless suffering.
What do you think the US reaction would be if Mexico joined the Russian Alliance so Russia could put missiles and military bases right up on the US southern border? Wpuld the US respect Mexico's sovereignty? Or would the US invade Mexico or perhaps threaten to nuke Mexico?
@@tedbundy1769 Ummmmm..... not sure what you are getting at. Last time we were at odds with mexico was in the 1800's and we aren't going to take them over.. in fact we gave back half of the territory we got from the war with mexico. Can't say the same for China or russia though.
@@ShiningSakura You didn't answer the question. Nice attempt deflect though. I will tell you what the US would do. They would set up a blockade and threaten Mexico and Russia with nuclear strikes if they attempted to breach the blockade carrying missiles or military equipment. 100% guaranteed. The US won't tolerate enemy positions along their borders.......and neither should Russia. See what I'm getting at?
@@tedbundy1769 I wasn't deflecting since I really didn't understand your comment and that I was supposed to answer you. I don't think you understand my comment here as it doesn't have anything to do with your own comment.
For example: China wanting to take over other countries (like Taiwan) has nothing to do with the USA or war strategies... they just want to take them over and make them part of the motherland ....end of story. They see these countries not as countries... but parts of the motherland that broke off sadly and are now lost and alone that needs reunification by force if necessary to be made whole. Seriously... they say this and I took Chinese so I would know how they feel as they told me....
USA doesn't want to take over mexico to reunite it with the motherland..... so yeah. Different stories.
@@ShiningSakura I was speaking on the reason Russia is invading Ukraine. And it has npthing to do with reuniting the motherland. It has everything to do with preventing his enemies from making deals with Ukraine to put missiles and military bases up against the Russian border.
I think you are deflecting because you know that any country in Russia's shoes would do the exact same thing......just like the US did during the Cuban missile crisis which is the closest the world has ever come to a nuclear holocaust.
Rich History = 1917
LOL
Read up on the history of Europe. You will find borders changed quite often. Poland dissapeared for a time. Ukraine was part of Poland for a time. Keiv was a Russian capitol for a time. Ukraine literaly means border lands. It was a collection of 12 or so seperate states that were reconized as the country of Ukraine in the early 1900s and then seperated into two countries,the west ruled by a capitolist dictator and the east a socialist republic with ties to Russia. There is STILL bad feelings between certain ethics backgrounds that go back generations .
We re not same with Russia/Poland!
Ukraine is Russian land and always has been since Kievan Rus. Kiev was destroyed by the Mongols in the middle ages. Russian civilization was then led by Moscow and Novgorod. Kiev became a backwater.
Keep believing this!
Most of Russia is a backwater. Vast majority of Russians live in large cities. Russians (and travelers) with channels on this site regularly show how underdeveloped the areas far outside of Moscow actually are. Some places and people look like they still haven't fully recovered from WWII. It's obvious how little Putin and his cronies care about the common people of Russia.
Ukraine is not Russian land, Russia didn't even gain Ukraine until Peter the Great. Russian Civilization =/= Rus civilization. After the fall of Kievan Rus the individual principalities fell apart. None of them have any more claim over the over because they all went there own way and formed there own histories. Russia doesn't have any more claim over Ukraine because of its shared ancestral state than Ukraine does over Russia. Educate yourself.
@noobeable hey genius, Peter the Great ruled Russia before America existed. How does the West have the right to complain if Russia takes back its territory that was separated from it due to an accident of history? USA just wants to keep control of its puppet state to point weapons at Russia
WE ARE NOT SAME WITH RUSSIA&RUSSIANNS, WHY DO YOU HATE UKRAINE?!