Immediately after Konstantins stream (in which yours was mentioned) I switched to this channel. Both of you are well spoken and a pleasure to listen to. Elsche the Netherlands
The one thing that surprised me about Konstantinos is that he still thinks that Russians running from conscription like himself and his family should have more rights than Ukrainians instead of less rights. As an example: scholarship for his children, Green cards for his family members, unrestricted access to public services like schools. These spots/financial aid should be given to Ukrainians and other oppressed people's, not russians who want convenience and free gifts.
Thanks, awesome interview again! Have gotten all of my close relatives in Finland/Sweden to watch you show, and they all have only good things to say about it! Keep up the good work, and glory to Ukraine.
If not for your channels, I wouldn't know what to think of the russian economy. Now I know where they got the money from for the last few years. And that the funds are drying up. Now I know that the sanctions are making sure that new equipment from other countries isn't coming in. Now I know that maintenance workers are too few to keep everything up. Now this very high interest rate to keep the inflation off, but fueling a depression, since companies can't borrow money for a reasonable price. Thank you so much for informing us about these things.
I just was reading earlier today that india has been sending sanctioned tech to ruZZia. Chips and other military use items. So ruZZia has been getting many things we were hoping they would be running low on. We need to stop enriching nations that work against democratic values. Brics is laughing at our inaction and they are united and working together better than the EU... The EU is strong enough to win but obviously lacks the leadership to protect the values it claims...
Just adding that equipment from other countries IS coming in. Some of it. Investigative journalists in countries like Lithuania are working round the clock to expose companies that are helping Russia avoid sanctions with the help of companies based in Kyrgyzstan and other -stans. One of the presidential candidates in Lithuania, Ignas Vegele's family owns a company like that. There was a huge scandal and he didn't win the election. So there are attempts to circumvent the sanctions, as well as crackdowns on those attempting it.
Thanks Jonathan. Your channel is outstanding in this field - congratulations. Konstantin was very interesting about state owned industries. ESKOM in South Africa is a prime example of what can go wrong and I imagine that particular situation is like a tea-party compared to what is going on in Ruzzia.
This is the first time I've watched any content with Konstantin and I'm going to be watching much more! Thanks for the great info and a great guest Jonathon! I hope that Konstantin is in a position to help his mom and family back home somehow.
Konstantin is the Best! This Men is the only RUzzian in the world with Integrity. I wish all the ruZzys could be like him, but the ruZzys don't have any feelings, Sympathy even for their own Race. You see how the RUzzian ARMY Treat, Beat Robe and Steal from their own Soldiers.
I have watched Konstantin a lot and found his insights to be invaluable. This format magnifies that through dialogue with a Western analyst. Well done! The only constructive feedback I would offer to both creators is: while pointing out the realities of the problems in the Russian hegemony is extremely valuable, it is also important to remain realistic about the pace and timing of unfolding events, and what events are or are not more likely. I can recall that there was already discussion in some circles of "Russo-Uikrainian War junkies" (e.g., communities on Reddit as well as certain pro-Ukrainian TH-cam channels) about the "imminent collapse of the Orc Horde," as early as the early spring of 2023 (prior to the vaunted summer 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive). Obviously, all of our hopes as far as that outcome of that summer did not manifest, and indeed, while Ukraine continues to fight valiantly and force Putin's Orc horde to be extremely high costs for very slow progress toward conquering just the Donbas, much less the entirety of the four Oblasts which are officially part of the Russian Federation according to Russian law (Zaporizhia, Kherson, Luhansk and Donetsk). We all want to see the Putin regime fail, Ukraine to succeed and freedom and liberty for everyone not just in Ukraine but in all the societies of the Russian Federation too (whether that means national independence for many of those federal subjects or not). But hope is not a strategy and vague expectations of "soon" only inform strategy somewhat better. While it might seem that the primary point of your work is to engage with your audiences, keep in mind that you contribute to the sum total of dialogue about the Russo-Ukrainian war too. Even if only indirectly, you guys can, through your work influence Western leadership.
Thank you Johnathan and Konstantin for yet another conversation filled with insights. It's helpful to hear how various economic performances can and do affect the Russian populace. Slava Heroiam Ukraini, Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 from Canada 🇨🇦 Stay strong, keep smart.
I just looked at your subscriber numbers Jonathan and I cannot for the life of me understand why you haven't sailed past half a million yet - this show is absolutely essential viewing! Konstantin is right of course although in fairness there has been talk amongst pundits of a multi-channel approach to Russian collapse for at least a year - specifically, over and above via the military route, the economic one and/or the political ones namely some sort of mass protest or rebellion. Ironically, despite receiving substantially the most attention and despite the obvious gravity of that situation, it's generally agreed the military solution is the least likely. It's going to be all but impossible for Russia to take over all of Ukraine because who is anyone really kidding when they talk about "deals being done regarding the four provinces plus Crimea"? It's beyond preposterous because EVERYONE with even an opaque window onto Russia and Putain, can see that such a deal would amount to nothing but a staging post - another piece of paper for Putain to completely ignore. That's why peace talks even on the most tentative basis are pie in the sky - Zelensky's heart and head have only hardened against Putain who he knows so well. He knows Putain would NEVER go for a DMZ, UN peacekeepers and Ukraine joining NATO. And HONESTLY Jonathan, I KNOW it's fashionable to slag NATO off - but surely - just SURELY - sufficient wise heads in that august body will convince enough people that Russia just CANNOT be allowed to permanently annex and colonise bits of - and ultimately all - of someone else's country. Putain may well be riding a truck over it today - but he signed The Treaty on the Russian-Ukrainian border back in January 2003 which was subsequently ratified April 2004 - so we can see from the fact less than a single decade passed not before the world saw a minor encroachment or a border misunderstanding but a takeover followed 8 years again by an all out grab for the rest of the country- no, the Russians messed about almost from the off, just accidentally on purpose not forging ahead with the actual on-the-ground marking out of the border and installing the relevant checkpoints. This was apparently done unilaterally by Ukraine the year after Crimea happened, clearly very concerned indeed (as they were right to be), that if they didn't the unreliable and tricky Russians would argue the toss about every single square inch and drag Ukraine into interminable and completely unresolvable land disputes, in the meantime a perfect excuse for trying to snatch the rest of the country by military force. Wisely Ukraine said no way José and just went right on ahead - literally staking their claim. Russia is and always has been the Imperial Grand Master of Fuck Around. It has an almost insanely puerile attitude that constantly amazes me at just what an astonishing resemblance it bears to a pouty, manipulative, arrogant, shameless 16 year old who can deploy the entire gamut of acting techniques to throw us off the scent - everything from feigned wide eyed innocence (even when caught red handed), maintaining the denial for as long as it needs to and whether pointing the finger of blame at another is - or becomes - part of the whole charade, or not. Just look at the behaviour regarding the gas pipeline disputes. Russia behaved like the same dreary old petulant reactive drunken gangster it always has done. Isn't the world getting SICK of it? I m sure the answer is yes but what's different about the current situation is that even Russia can't deny the devastating lengths to which it is prepared to go quite simply on the whims of one deranged tyrant. It is no longer a matter for speculation nor wait and see nor hoping it goes away. Russia can absorb VAST amounts of punishments which don't come cost free to all those of us in the West meting it out. Russia isn't just good at hot wars of attrition. It's good at every other form of it too, taking an almost leering cynical spiteful delight and realising its disruptive effects which are done fully consciously and deliberately. It is that great oozing, rotting, festering pile of stink that just screws around almost cos it can, its immense unwieldy size alone completely deterring any thought of anyone invading it, allowing it free rein in turn to be as irritatingly cocky and blithe as it wants like the school bully who pokes you in the ribcage then does it again and again.eacg time swearing blind it's not him even though he knows you and everyone else can see him do it. You've got to hand it to the bastards, they've turned it into an exquisite art. We need to stop assessing them by our standards which have evidently only grown even further apart than we thought since the end of the Second World War. Trump just needs to be jolted aware to this reality - and Putain needs to feel cold steel. Because as enough pundits are now wearily repeating, the ONLY thing the man can now understand is force.
Thank you Jonathan for your consistency and also Konstantin who gives us an inside view of deterioration in russia, always cheers the soul as it bodes better for Ukraine.
I just wish they wouldnt rush to say everything in 40 minutes ..they could have stretch this out to 8 hours and really fking bored the shat out of me ... 5 minutes please
Konstantin Samoilov is a superstar! I hope he fully revers his health as well as his composure. He always speaks to you like you hope best friend would!
Even if the war finished tomorrow, the Russian economy would face a depression. The whole export infrastructure has been destroyed. It will take a long time to return the way it was before the war.
Yes. And there's also the issue of permafrost thawing. I haven't really seen anyone talk about this.... probably because it will play out over the next two decades or so and thusly is not relevant to what's going on right now. But fact is, it's in the process of happening and it doesn't look like it's going to slow down or stop. Rather the opposite. Most of Russia's natural gas deposits especially are up north in these areas. And that is not good news for Russia. Because as the ground thaws, it'll get soft and mushy and shift around. That's *bad* news for the related infrastructure. Buildings, extraction equipment, pipelines, roads... everything will be affected. I read an EOS article from 2021 recently (so not war related 'propaganda'), that estimates the damage related to this to exceed 100 billion $ in the next 15 years. Which would have been doable under normal circumstances. Prices would probably gone up some, but what choice would we have had but pay up and supply the necessary support and parts? But now? I doubt they will be able to handle it.
There is practically zero foreign investment in Russia at the moment and for the foreseeable future as well. Who knows what comes after putin???? Nobody is willing to make bets.
Good interview, there are so many ways to look at the economic picture. The loss of so many Human Resources that for socio economic reasons, prodded into the military and straight to war. Either a purge, or something along those lines. Pretty strange. Thank you, Strength And Love.
ONE WONDERS JUST HOW MUCH STRESS & DAMAGE TO MENTAL HEALTH WILL BE THE FATE OF RUSSIANS AS THE ECONOMY CONTINUES TO WORSEN. MOTHER RUSSIA, YOU MAY SOON BE IN A HEALTH CRISIS WORSE THAN YOU HAVE KNOWN SINCE SOVIET TIMES. from 🇨🇦
This konstantin has already been saying that russia will tank in 2022 People seem to forget that it's the current ukraine that is at risk of collapsing.
Totally agree. There's more mental health issues here in Czechia, due to complications after Covid-19, low availability of real estate due to the influx of Ukrainian refugees, long-term shortage of therapists, higher taxes, the proximity of the war and very uncertain future in general. And yet, these must be peanuts compared to what most of Russia is going through.
Imperialist conquest. Defense was never important. They thought the projection of their monopoly of fear and violence was absolute and enough, hence the ease of Ukraine to enter in Kurskchyna. No significant border defense whatsoever, anywhere. Their trust in their foreign policy projections is a most ironic weakness.
Always appreciate the endless hard work being produced by the Silicon Curtain! I like Konstantin, soo glad he’s feeling healthy! 👍 SLAVA UKRAINI! 🇺🇦🔱🚂💥
You and Konstantine and Vlad are perhaps the presenters who have most touched and earned my respect, much less influenced my thinking, over the last three years. I just realized that K and I may share grandparents who both worked in the Russian railways. I gather his grandfather had a passionate obsession with railroading, as did my grandfather who started laying rails around 1890 or so, and then learned telegraphy. By 1917 Lewis Halbert was organizing transport for a million soldiers on the Western Front. 1918-19 under Herbert Hoover organizing transport for huge relief programs in Belgium and environs. Then Hoover and his aides were rushed over to Russia 1919-20 organizing vast transport of relief supplies during the chaos of the Civil War. Millions of lives were saved, and I believe that my grandfather had a certificate of thanks from the Soviet government (he was a progressive Republicans) supposedly signed by Lenin. I never saw this document, but I am sure that Hoover had one. I just had the thought that the two men might have met each other while my grandfather was routing freight trains around the Ukraine and western Russia. The only thing I know about the period is my mothers description of a difficult week in 1920 in New York spent by her parents in constant argument as my grandfather wanted to accept a great job offered by a St Petersburg shipping company. My grandmother, a very intelligent, strong willed woman and an excellent shot (other relatives were Wyoming law officers) strongly had no desire to set up an urban Russian household. In the end, Lewis Halbert returned to the Union Pacific, where he still had an executive position. My mother told me that in the end it was probably for the best that they didn’t move to well I guess it was Petrograd then. People’s lives take the strangest, pretzeled hairpin turns. There may be humor in these stories, but only against a background of massed deaths. In my grandfathers life, born into bleeding Kansas from the Civil War to world wars I and II, mass starvation, more mass starvation and continuing war, economic collapse in the 1930s, and then in the endnote, chief dispatcher out of retirement in Salt Lake City during WWII. I get the shakes thinking about it now. I’m 77.
I'm not so convinced there were no freezing deaths there last winter due to so many utilities breaking ... I'd not be surprised to learn, they just didn't report about it and didn't allow their citizens to communicate this on their very surveyed social media apps. Especially after their "gazprom hamster ad", they're likely too ashamed and their authorities are still too proud to report this internally.
"There is a great book called Atlas Shrugged" Yes, you are absolutely right, Konstantin! It is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the premises behind what is happening worldwide.
The yield on the 10-year Russian OFZ was at 15.8% in November 2024. A totally crazy situation. Putin is pumping money while the Russian Central Bank is trying pulling back money.
Appreciate you interviewing Konstantin. Feel sorry for the Russian people. This is what happens when you live in a mafia/oligarch society. Amerika, are you listening? lol
My thoughts and prayers are with the ordinary Russian people who are suffering from the choices of others they didn’t have a say in. Thank you both for this informative insight. Best wishes to you and all.
We've been hearing for almost 3 years that the russian economy is collapsing, with little outward sign (I live in Kyiv). I'm skeptical when our side sings us this tune, I think it lulls us into a false sense of security.
Ordinary Russians are suffering due to their own actions and culture. It's ordinary Russians who enlist to kill Ukrainians. The army is largely made up of contract soldiers who take Kremlin money to go to war. All those soldiers have family and friends who are part of the same system that valorizes hate of Ukraine and the murder of innocents.
They already did that, no there's barely anything left to give them except things that either won't make any difference or will just put them into a worse overall situation than they were in before. The war needs to end, the sooner the better, and never should have happened in the first place.
@@DissidentB so what's your answer? Give Putin what he wants? I lived under the Russia imposed communist regime. I know the kind of hell that is. Ukraine is right fighting for independence. They have also experienced the Russian regime. They know what it would mean to have Putin install his puppet government in Kiev.
Immediately after Konstantins stream (in which yours was mentioned) I switched to this channel. Both of you are well spoken and a pleasure to listen to. Elsche the Netherlands
🇸🇪💙🇺🇦 Agree
The one thing that surprised me about Konstantinos is that he still thinks that Russians running from conscription like himself and his family should have more rights than Ukrainians instead of less rights. As an example: scholarship for his children, Green cards for his family members, unrestricted access to public services like schools.
These spots/financial aid should be given to Ukrainians and other oppressed people's, not russians who want convenience and free gifts.
Thank You for hosting Our Konstantin once again. 🙏 A truly winning team. 👍
Konstantin's unique perspective is always insightful and very welcome, was excited to see this!
The Jeff Lutz of Russia... (if you know, you know....) - brilliant insights....
thank you for your valueable work Jonathan and Konstantin! Slava Ukraini
Get out of the UK 🇬🇧
Thanks, awesome interview again! Have gotten all of my close relatives in Finland/Sweden to watch you show, and they all have only good things to say about it! Keep up the good work, and glory to Ukraine.
Love Konstantin! Good to see him feeling better and recovering!
If not for your channels, I wouldn't know what to think of the russian economy. Now I know where they got the money from for the last few years. And that the funds are drying up. Now I know that the sanctions are making sure that new equipment from other countries isn't coming in. Now I know that maintenance workers are too few to keep everything up. Now this very high interest rate to keep the inflation off, but fueling a depression, since companies can't borrow money for a reasonable price. Thank you so much for informing us about these things.
I just was reading earlier today that india has been sending sanctioned tech to ruZZia. Chips and other military use items. So ruZZia has been getting many things we were hoping they would be running low on. We need to stop enriching nations that work against democratic values. Brics is laughing at our inaction and they are united and working together better than the EU...
The EU is strong enough to win but obviously lacks the leadership to protect the values it claims...
Just adding that equipment from other countries IS coming in. Some of it. Investigative journalists in countries like Lithuania are working round the clock to expose companies that are helping Russia avoid sanctions with the help of companies based in Kyrgyzstan and other -stans. One of the presidential candidates in Lithuania, Ignas Vegele's family owns a company like that. There was a huge scandal and he didn't win the election. So there are attempts to circumvent the sanctions, as well as crackdowns on those attempting it.
Someone told me India refines Russian oil then sells to us, so no problem there for them. I hope my informant is wrong.
@@wendyandrew3707 someone told you? Everyone knows that. Thats not secret, no one tries to hide it
That was great, so glad Konstantin is feeling better.
Always a treat to see Konstantin on your channel, Jonathan....the economy updates are so very important. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Gentleman Thank you both for your insights into the rasPutin led horrific war on free people everywhere
Heroyam Slava.
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Excellent video! Excellent Guest! I have followed his YT Channel for ~ 2 years. Thank you Johnathan!! Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦!
2 of my favorites..thank you both for what you doing👍👍🙏.Slava Ukraini 💙💛🇺🇦🇺🇦💙💛🇸🇪👍
Glory to All of the Heroes of Ukraine …. 💙💛💙
And ditto .. 🇮🇪💛🇺🇦
Thank you, Jonathan. Thank you, Konstantin. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 💙 💛
Heroyam Slava! 🇺🇦
Johnathan, you have a good voice for this work, and you get some great guests on your show. Thanks 👍
Great program by Konstantin and Jonathan - thank you guys - keep up the good work !!
Thanks Jonathan. Your channel is outstanding in this field - congratulations.
Konstantin was very interesting about state owned industries. ESKOM in South Africa is a prime example of what can go wrong and I imagine that particular situation is like a tea-party compared to what is going on in Ruzzia.
The state of energy infrastructure in SA is quite a mess indeed!
This is the first time I've watched any content with Konstantin and I'm going to be watching much more! Thanks for the great info and a great guest Jonathon! I hope that Konstantin is in a position to help his mom and family back home somehow.
We don't discuss his mom...😮😮😮😮
Thank you. Always very enlightening to hear you two.
I'll be looking forward to the next one ;-)
Great conversation and thank both of you guys for what you do every day
This is the best interview channel on you tube right now, thank you Jonathan.
Totally agree! 👍
Nonsense retired US Col Douglas MacGregor knows and speaks the truth
@@AnthonyMcRedmond-Vg2ry putin apologist trash, what a joke.
@@AnthonyMcRedmond-Vg2ry Hello, troll. Care for a cupcake?
you like fairy tales. weeb union is a more realistic site if you want the truth
Two giants of this conflict analysis. A real treat again.
One giant and one grifter, no respect for Samoilov.
Konstantin is the Best! This Men is the only RUzzian in the world with Integrity. I wish all the ruZzys could be like him, but the ruZzys don't have any feelings, Sympathy even for their own Race. You see how the RUzzian ARMY Treat, Beat Robe and Steal from their own Soldiers.
I have watched Konstantin a lot and found his insights to be invaluable. This format magnifies that through dialogue with a Western analyst. Well done!
The only constructive feedback I would offer to both creators is: while pointing out the realities of the problems in the Russian hegemony is extremely valuable, it is also important to remain realistic about the pace and timing of unfolding events, and what events are or are not more likely. I can recall that there was already discussion in some circles of "Russo-Uikrainian War junkies" (e.g., communities on Reddit as well as certain pro-Ukrainian TH-cam channels) about the "imminent collapse of the Orc Horde," as early as the early spring of 2023 (prior to the vaunted summer 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive). Obviously, all of our hopes as far as that outcome of that summer did not manifest, and indeed, while Ukraine continues to fight valiantly and force Putin's Orc horde to be extremely high costs for very slow progress toward conquering just the Donbas, much less the entirety of the four Oblasts which are officially part of the Russian Federation according to Russian law (Zaporizhia, Kherson, Luhansk and Donetsk).
We all want to see the Putin regime fail, Ukraine to succeed and freedom and liberty for everyone not just in Ukraine but in all the societies of the Russian Federation too (whether that means national independence for many of those federal subjects or not). But hope is not a strategy and vague expectations of "soon" only inform strategy somewhat better. While it might seem that the primary point of your work is to engage with your audiences, keep in mind that you contribute to the sum total of dialogue about the Russo-Ukrainian war too. Even if only indirectly, you guys can, through your work influence Western leadership.
Great links, great guests and unwavering support. Ty
Excellent guys! Thank you both! Slava Ukrainie 🇺🇦
💙🔱💛 Heroiam Slava!
Thank you for your coverage, insights and wonderful guests.
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Two of my favorites!
Thank you both for an inciteful conversation.
Thank you Johnathan and Konstantin for yet another conversation filled with insights. It's helpful to hear how various economic performances can and do affect the Russian populace.
Slava Heroiam Ukraini, Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 from Canada 🇨🇦 Stay strong, keep smart.
I just looked at your subscriber numbers Jonathan and I cannot for the life of me understand why you haven't sailed past half a million yet - this show is absolutely essential viewing!
Konstantin is right of course although in fairness there has been talk amongst pundits of a multi-channel approach to Russian collapse for at least a year - specifically, over and above via the military route, the economic one and/or the political ones namely some sort of mass protest or rebellion. Ironically, despite receiving substantially the most attention and despite the obvious gravity of that situation, it's generally agreed the military solution is the least likely. It's going to be all but impossible for Russia to take over all of Ukraine because who is anyone really kidding when they talk about "deals being done regarding the four provinces plus Crimea"? It's beyond preposterous because EVERYONE with even an opaque window onto Russia and Putain, can see that such a deal would amount to nothing but a staging post - another piece of paper for Putain to completely ignore. That's why peace talks even on the most tentative basis are pie in the sky - Zelensky's heart and head have only hardened against Putain who he knows so well. He knows Putain would NEVER go for a DMZ, UN peacekeepers and Ukraine joining NATO. And HONESTLY Jonathan, I KNOW it's fashionable to slag NATO off - but surely - just SURELY - sufficient wise heads in that august body will convince enough people that Russia just CANNOT be allowed to permanently annex and colonise bits of - and ultimately all - of someone else's country. Putain may well be riding a truck over it today - but he signed The Treaty on the Russian-Ukrainian border back in January 2003 which was subsequently ratified April 2004 - so we can see from the fact less than a single decade passed not before the world saw a minor encroachment or a border misunderstanding but a takeover followed 8 years again by an all out grab for the rest of the country- no, the Russians messed about almost from the off, just accidentally on purpose not forging ahead with the actual on-the-ground marking out of the border and installing the relevant checkpoints. This was apparently done unilaterally by Ukraine the year after Crimea happened, clearly very concerned indeed (as they were right to be), that if they didn't the unreliable and tricky Russians would argue the toss about every single square inch and drag Ukraine into interminable and completely unresolvable land disputes, in the meantime a perfect excuse for trying to snatch the rest of the country by military force. Wisely Ukraine said no way José and just went right on ahead - literally staking their claim.
Russia is and always has been the Imperial Grand Master of Fuck Around. It has an almost insanely puerile attitude that constantly amazes me at just what an astonishing resemblance it bears to a pouty, manipulative, arrogant, shameless 16 year old who can deploy the entire gamut of acting techniques to throw us off the scent - everything from feigned wide eyed innocence (even when caught red handed), maintaining the denial for as long as it needs to and whether pointing the finger of blame at another is - or becomes - part of the whole charade, or not. Just look at the behaviour regarding the gas pipeline disputes. Russia behaved like the same dreary old petulant reactive drunken gangster it always has done.
Isn't the world getting SICK of it? I m sure the answer is yes but what's different about the current situation is that even Russia can't deny the devastating lengths to which it is prepared to go quite simply on the whims of one deranged tyrant. It is no longer a matter for speculation nor wait and see nor hoping it goes away. Russia can absorb VAST amounts of punishments which don't come cost free to all those of us in the West meting it out. Russia isn't just good at hot wars of attrition. It's good at every other form of it too, taking an almost leering cynical spiteful delight and realising its disruptive effects which are done fully consciously and deliberately. It is that great oozing, rotting, festering pile of stink that just screws around almost cos it can, its immense unwieldy size alone completely deterring any thought of anyone invading it, allowing it free rein in turn to be as irritatingly cocky and blithe as it wants like the school bully who pokes you in the ribcage then does it again and again.eacg time swearing blind it's not him even though he knows you and everyone else can see him do it. You've got to hand it to the bastards, they've turned it into an exquisite art.
We need to stop assessing them by our standards which have evidently only grown even further apart than we thought since the end of the Second World War.
Trump just needs to be jolted aware to this reality - and Putain needs to feel cold steel. Because as enough pundits are now wearily repeating, the ONLY thing the man can now understand is force.
A very good essay mrkipling.
Thank you, Jonathan and Konstantin, for your latest conversation.
🇺🇦 Перемоги та миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦
Thanks gentlemen for the update.
This backs up some other economic news about Russia. However Konstantin always provides some real life examples.
I am so glad Konstantine is felling better.
I love listening to his stories and economic analysis.
Me too!He’s really a good guy trying his best! ♥️
@@U.H8 deffo. thumbs up
Thank you Jonathan for your consistency and also Konstantin who gives us an inside view of deterioration in russia, always cheers the soul as it bodes better for Ukraine.
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Love to see Jonathan and Konstantin together…most informative and honest offers on Ukraine and Russia. Many thanks. Aussie Ted
Me too, I feel safe when they are talking. My favorite mansplainers! ❤
Konstantin is as real as the rising sun...always enjoy his talks....slava Ukraine..
He’s authentic and unique!
Thanks guys! ❤
Konstantin thank you for speaking the trues , we love to hear you
Pleased you have recovered so well Konstantin!
I watch mr k.'s channel but its always refreshing to see him have somebody to talk to, western and eastern perspective conversing.🎉
MY FAVORITE GUEST! THANKS YOU BOTH!
I just wish they wouldnt rush to say everything in 40 minutes ..they could have stretch this out to 8 hours and really fking bored the shat out of me ... 5 minutes please
Two Giants chatting . So fascinating .Thanks
my 2 favourites 👏👏
So nice to see K back to full health😊
Konstantin Samoilov is a superstar! I hope he fully revers his health as well as his composure. He always speaks to you like you hope best friend would!
I suspect the railroad chief will be avoiding high-rise buildings from now on...Great stuff, as ever, Konstantin.
They fall on the tracks.........
Even if the war finished tomorrow, the Russian economy would face a depression. The whole export infrastructure has been destroyed. It will take a long time to return the way it was before the war.
Yes. And there's also the issue of permafrost thawing. I haven't really seen anyone talk about this.... probably because it will play out over the next two decades or so and thusly is not relevant to what's going on right now.
But fact is, it's in the process of happening and it doesn't look like it's going to slow down or stop. Rather the opposite. Most of Russia's natural gas deposits especially are up north in these areas. And that is not good news for Russia. Because as the ground thaws, it'll get soft and mushy and shift around. That's *bad* news for the related infrastructure. Buildings, extraction equipment, pipelines, roads... everything will be affected.
I read an EOS article from 2021 recently (so not war related 'propaganda'), that estimates the damage related to this to exceed 100 billion $ in the next 15 years.
Which would have been doable under normal circumstances. Prices would probably gone up some, but what choice would we have had but pay up and supply the necessary support and parts? But now?
I doubt they will be able to handle it.
There is practically zero foreign investment in Russia at the moment and for the foreseeable future as well. Who knows what comes after putin???? Nobody is willing to make bets.
@@raraavis7782 Denial is a central value of the Russian system.
There's a whole swath of the Russian population that probably wouldn't notice.
@@PandemoniumMeltDown ...and bullsh*tting is the other one.
Great as always, thank you both.
Slava Ukraini!!!
Heroyam Slava. 🇺🇦🙏
Good interview, there are so many ways to look at the economic picture. The loss of so many Human Resources that for socio economic reasons, prodded into the military and straight to war. Either a purge, or something along those lines. Pretty strange.
Thank you, Strength And Love.
I ❤ Konstantin Samoilov. One of your most insightful guests, hands down. Lots MORE, Please!!!
SLAVA UKRAINI !!!
it takes him 40 minutes to say nothing
Great to see Konstantin's health has improved.
Thanks guys 😄
ONE WONDERS JUST HOW MUCH STRESS & DAMAGE TO MENTAL HEALTH WILL BE THE FATE OF RUSSIANS AS THE ECONOMY CONTINUES TO WORSEN. MOTHER RUSSIA, YOU MAY SOON BE IN A HEALTH CRISIS WORSE THAN YOU HAVE KNOWN SINCE SOVIET TIMES. from 🇨🇦
Alcohol sales have been increasing. This might indicate mental health issues.
This konstantin has already been saying that russia will tank in 2022 People seem to forget that it's the current ukraine that is at risk of collapsing.
Totally agree. There's more mental health issues here in Czechia, due to complications after Covid-19, low availability of real estate due to the influx of Ukrainian refugees, long-term shortage of therapists, higher taxes, the proximity of the war and very uncertain future in general. And yet, these must be peanuts compared to what most of Russia is going through.
Yes the innocents always suffer but this is why Putin and his cronies needs to go quickly.
Mental... man they're worried about survival.
I want to make an important observation, Joe, Russia is spending on war , not defense.
Imperialist conquest. Defense was never important. They thought the projection of their monopoly of fear and violence was absolute and enough, hence the ease of Ukraine to enter in Kurskchyna. No significant border defense whatsoever, anywhere. Their trust in their foreign policy projections is a most ironic weakness.
Thx guys
Great work
Great interview.
Terrific subject.. Konstantin is always interesting and informative ❤❤👍🫶🇦🇺🦘
Yes!! My favorites!!!
Many thanks for interviewing Konstantin again.
He is an amazing orator and extremely brave too
Dear Jonathan indeed you have great guests and I follow you and Konstantin. I send you a smile from my heart 👌 ❤️ Michael
Always appreciate the endless hard work being produced by the Silicon Curtain! I like Konstantin, soo glad he’s feeling healthy! 👍
SLAVA UKRAINI! 🇺🇦🔱🚂💥
Heroyam Slava! 🇺🇦
Storm shadow go go go ! yahoooooo !!!
I wonder what was in that abandoned sanitarium? Barracks? Command & control? Inquiring minds want to know!
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You and Konstantine and Vlad are perhaps the presenters who have most touched and earned my respect, much less influenced my thinking, over the last three years.
I just realized that K and I may share grandparents who both worked in the Russian railways. I gather his grandfather had a passionate obsession with railroading, as did my grandfather who started laying rails around 1890 or so, and then learned telegraphy.
By 1917 Lewis Halbert was organizing transport for a million soldiers on the Western Front. 1918-19 under Herbert Hoover organizing transport for huge relief programs in Belgium and environs. Then Hoover and his aides were rushed over to Russia 1919-20 organizing vast transport of relief supplies during the chaos of the Civil War. Millions of lives were saved, and I believe that my grandfather had a certificate of thanks from the Soviet government (he was a progressive Republicans) supposedly signed by Lenin. I never saw this document, but I am sure that Hoover had one.
I just had the thought that the two men might have met each other while my grandfather was routing freight trains around the Ukraine and western Russia. The only thing I know about the period is my mothers description of a difficult week in 1920 in New York spent by her parents in constant argument as my grandfather wanted to accept a great job offered by a St Petersburg shipping company. My grandmother, a very intelligent, strong willed woman and an excellent shot (other relatives were Wyoming law officers) strongly had no desire to set up an urban Russian household. In the end, Lewis Halbert returned to the Union Pacific, where he still had an executive position. My mother told me that in the end it was probably for the best that they didn’t move to well I guess it was Petrograd then.
People’s lives take the strangest, pretzeled hairpin turns. There may be humor in these stories, but only against a background of massed deaths. In my grandfathers life, born into bleeding Kansas from the Civil War to world wars I and II, mass starvation, more mass starvation and continuing war, economic collapse in the 1930s, and then in the endnote, chief dispatcher out of retirement in Salt Lake City during WWII. I get the shakes thinking about it now. I’m 77.
Love you both! Thanks for what you do!
I am very pleased that you finally start getting the numbers of subscribers you deserve.
Love me some good Konstantin! 💙🔱💛
Thanks so much for creating and sharing this informative video. Great job. Keep it up.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Greetings from Canada
Rus exercitum delenda est!
Hello Canada! 🇨🇦 Extra points for the Latin!👍😉
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Ucraina hoc bellum vincet!
Konstantin for president of Russia a fine fellow.
What a ✨dream!✨ 👍🏻
Don't wish a serious burden to this good fellow,,,,Konstantin 😮😮😅😅😊
Incredible, detailed info and analysis, clearly presented as usual.
You both have a great repetoire, brilliant journalism.
Thanks!
I'm not so convinced there were no freezing deaths there last winter due to so many utilities breaking ... I'd not be surprised to learn, they just didn't report about it and didn't allow their citizens to communicate this on their very surveyed social media apps.
Especially after their "gazprom hamster ad", they're likely too ashamed and their authorities are still too proud to report this internally.
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Love both of you. ❤❤
Waiting for "Swan Lake" reruns to start before Christmas! Slava Ukraini!
Thank you both. Excellent as always.
Very interesting conversation 👌 👍 🤔
I think Konstantin is the >Moral Compass" of the masses in Russia. We love him!
I fear he is not, but he definitly should be 👍
@@Rdimbus1957 Excuse me
Gesundheit 🙏
No he's not
Thank you
Konstantin, like you, Jonathan, is always worth listening to.
"There is a great book called Atlas Shrugged" Yes, you are absolutely right, Konstantin! It is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the premises behind what is happening worldwide.
Konstantin is the Real Russia. God willing, he will be represented by a future government.
The yield on the 10-year Russian OFZ was at 15.8% in November 2024. A totally crazy situation. Putin is pumping money while the Russian Central Bank is trying pulling back money.
Glad to see he's feeling better!
How I wish more Western commentators listened to people like Konstantin Samoilov instead of some Peskov or Zakharova.
Appreciate you interviewing Konstantin. Feel sorry for the Russian people. This is what happens when you live in a mafia/oligarch society. Amerika, are you listening? lol
Hearing Mr.Konstantin is always very interesting and realistic
Great stream guys! Thankyou 🙏👍
Ruzzia is a 'house of cards' and Vlad the Terrible is holding the 'deadman's hand'.
Atlas Shrugged is one of my all time fav books. Amazing conversation. Thanks guys
So glad and happy to see Konstantin is doing well. Great discussion, thank you.
Thank you, gentlemen. Always an informative listen. 😎
I subscribed to Konstantin on Patreon he has such great information on Russia.
My thoughts and prayers are with the ordinary Russian people who are suffering from the choices of others they didn’t have a say in. Thank you both for this informative insight. Best wishes to you and all.
VERY much LOVE and RESPECT to BOTH of you.
Just brilliant, thank you.
Very nice convo - informative! Well received, subscribed, thumbs up!
We've been hearing for almost 3 years that the russian economy is collapsing, with little outward sign (I live in Kyiv). I'm skeptical when our side sings us this tune, I think it lulls us into a false sense of security.
Brilliant. Thank you. Sad that ordinary Russians have to suffer.
Even Konstantin says that Russians are complicit in this
Ordinary Russians are suffering due to their own actions and culture. It's ordinary Russians who enlist to kill Ukrainians. The army is largely made up of contract soldiers who take Kremlin money to go to war. All those soldiers have family and friends who are part of the same system that valorizes hate of Ukraine and the murder of innocents.
Fair mindedness is eliminated in ruzzia, glory to the regime, so wise they r
Always an excellent guest. Hugs Konstantin.
0:07 Thanks Jonathan & Mr K 🙏🇺🇦🫡
It’s always a great pleasure listening to yours Mr K’s conversation 🙏
Respectfully, Grace🩰
Heard for 1000 times the word collaps, panick, angry etc now. Give Ukraine the stuff they need!!
They already did that, no there's barely anything left to give them except things that either won't make any difference or will just put them into a worse overall situation than they were in before.
The war needs to end, the sooner the better, and never should have happened in the first place.
@@DissidentB so what's your answer? Give Putin what he wants? I lived under the Russia imposed communist regime. I know the kind of hell that is. Ukraine is right fighting for independence. They have also experienced the Russian regime. They know what it would mean to have Putin install his puppet government in Kiev.
Very insightful. Thanks.
I read a russian post and the person said they are short of 600,000 skilled workers, plumbers, painter/ decorators, electricians, mechanics…..
Sounds like the exact number of Russian people lost in war.😮😮😮