John Mearsheimer on Ukraine, Gaza & escalation dominance | SpectatorTV 

Russia has already won. It's obvious. We need to negotiate peace, not escalate.

Of course.

I am guessing that he would also predict that Sunak will not be PM on 5th July?

He is always right regarding analysis of strategic developments and international relations. He is the world's leading scholar in those fields.

They effectively won it after the Ukraine's summer offensive failure. They've also destroyed NATO.

Was going to say , look what USA is doing in Georgia right now

100% agree with your sentiments. I’m Irish and abhor what the nefarious Washington regime has been openly doing for decades with its assignations, coups, invasions, sanctions, etc. Millions killed by the USA. Despicable. I stand with Russia and I stand with Palestine against American imperialism.

You took the words out of my mouth.

No you have Georgian youth protesting against laws similar to Russia used to crackdown on criticism. Any evidence about that president claim

​@@In-hoc-signo-vincesThey're doing nothing that's the Georgian people don't take away their agency

Times Radio is a f*cking joke

Have you actually thought about Putin and his generals deciding to end themselves and their families over Ukraine? Have you any idea how ridiculous that is?

Times Radio is shocking. Some of their headlines are preposterous.

Judging by his naivety and ignorance over the war in Ukraine, and his stubborn refusal to change his narrative long after the facts prove him wrong, I don't imagine Mearsheimer's kooky analysis of geopolitics are worth a whole lot - There is a reason why he's so popular with Russian nationalists, after all.

@@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304 Yet more assertions without evidence. Is this the best you can do?

Yes, I gave up on it too...... many years ago. And found it very easy to resist the offers of gifts and discounts galore to resubscribe. Terrible rag.

@@myla6135 All off a sudden it dis-guarded it's political values. What a bore.

Bizarre comment. Who do you think booked John Mearsheimer?

@@JohnPretty1 One sensible booking versus numerous unintelligent articles for some years. And you think John Richmond and I might not have a valid point? That's what bizarre John P. I only clicked on this because it was Meisheimer. Not because it was the Speccie.

@@JohnPretty1 Nonsensical. Mershimer is in great demand all over the world. Now I have to stop buying your magazine :)

Probably doesn't want to get a visit himself...

Exactly. How come a journalist doesn’t understand a news story 😅

Did you see boris's nazi thugs at our parliament - check out their flag!

Another neocon cock-up!

True, but he was assassinated and survived. How do you call it when someone survives? Attempted assassination?

@@mladendjukic1061 'attempted' of course

@@mladendjukic1061 assassination = murder.

He has to act all innocent or he be in for a good talking to

Those phrases are still vague

@@manofculture584lol

Mafia talk.

Gangsters

Literally in Trumps case. The man lies before he gets out of bed in the morning.

Peace is not lucrative for the war mongers.

Yes Im so tired of the Russian criminal. Putin should be in jail!

Russia. Indeed.

You mean in Russia? Quite true.

It's a Republic, not a Democracy, liberal or not.

And also the US is a constitutional republic. It is about protecting all the people from a majority rule

​@@CarlMartin-hw3ev bro drank the cool-aid distinguishing republic and democracy lmfao But yea, it's initially a landlord oligarchy which is still working as intended.

So you prefer Russia?

@@DonQuickZote ridiculous statement... what do you think the real governing body is of the US

Exactly my thinking

It's because the politicians only considered the short term advantages over the long term. It was the downfall of many empires to not look far enough ahead.

Because the only smell West enjoyes is the smell of money easy money

@@hasan_z it wasn't the politicians that sold you out of was the CEO's and their shareholders: they are the ones who relocated their businesses elsewhere.

Turbo capitalism of the last 2 decades has been a disgrace for the west

No disrespect or offence intended, but I think that you meant vassal, and not vessel.

US foreign policy - make britain a weak, chaotic and dependant target.

100%

@@marthas.4456 trying to prop up your american pride?

@@tonysherwood9619 I'm not American, I'm from a small Eastern European country... But facts are facts, regardless who says it. If my country would have done these things, I would call them out on it too.

Ukraine had Nukes. Hence they transferred them to russia. Russia had no more claim to soviet union nukes than Ukraine had. Quit your attempts at semanthics. Russia was just a part of soviet union just like Ukraine and any other memberstate was.

Well the USSR wasnt just russia and those nuclear weapons were not only created by russians. The country collapsed so did the "creator” of the weapons. Your point is too absolutist, the reality is not that simple

Ukraine had physical possession of the missiles/warheads. With physical possession they would eventually rework the control capabilities necessary to make the functional weapon systems under Ukrainian control. The only element they needed was time. They didn't lack for expertise. That's why American perfidity had to act fast in the early nineties to get those weapons out of the hands of the Ukrainians.

They had nukes physically and had great scientists, engineers and nuclear reactors.

@@shamsiddinnabiev3151 My point is that in reality, Russia is a legal successor to the USSR, not Ukraine or any other former part of it. Also, every former republic now makes claims to whatever was developed in that republic under the USSR, conveniently "forgetting" the point that you are making.

"The history of the world is simply one tribe conquering another." -- Napoleon

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...because he hasn't sold his soul to the devil!

He is also one of the most deluded and depraved academics in the world.

he's an idiot

@@tonysherwood9619 he did in fact sold his soul to the devil

@@lembergnative7731 well you should know!

Or that these defeats were not expected or planned, the ones that want to weaken us have done everything in their power to do just that, with tremendous success! We must ask qui bono?

Neither can you assume they are 100% instigated

Color revolutions couldn't have been conducted without some elements of popular descent. But, yeah, there is always some popular descent and in any society.

Literally all of them are instigated , this is the concept of a "color revolution" versus a "normal revolution" like ex: Romania @ ​@@fluoroproilne

@@fluoroproilnethere’s audio of Victoria Neumann there instigating it and deciding the political landscape afterwards

The same can be said about the US when it comes to "having a voice." Meaning, we don't use our words, we use our might. Like a bully.

@@zyrrhos But unlike UK, US does have the largest conventional military on the planet. UK has .. SAS and SBS guys I guess?

The UK does have a voice. Not the biggest, but still considerable.

Go to Alex Christoforou, he would explain to you macros "STRATEGIC AMBIGUITY"😅

Ukraine is not at war with North Korea. Or Belarus. Or Iran. And yet those states provide weapons to Russia. Ultimately, Putin is big on threats, but his ability and willingness to carry them out doesn't match his rhetoric.

​@@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304Ukros are getting weapons from 40+ nations/client states. WHAT IS YOUR POINT? Is russia at war with nato?(that was a rhetorical question dont bother answer🤡)

@@proselytizingorthodoxpente8304 Well, you're right, Putin is soft.. but attacking Moscow or St Petersburg with ATACMS and similar will force him to escalate..

@@sotirmilivojevic6233 He's already doing his worst in Ukraine right now. And he values his own neck (as do those who support him) enough not to provoke NATO into direct military action.

Yes but the warheads were real, Ukraine at that time great industrial base, they could keep their independence real.

@@robrob9050 no. they couldnt. Bc Ukraine is an oligarh rulled country. with or withot nothing wouldve changed. plus they didnt had codes.

@@Treasure_hunter_21 in 1993 these oligars were just starting. It's failure of Ukraine to keep her independence.

What people don't understand.. if Ukraine kept nukes - today it would be Russia's ally, there would be no USA money for banderites, there would be no color revolution, nothing of that sort(USA never messes with nuclear powers.. because they usually find the worst group of criminals to pay and support - now imagine if one of their pet projects, ISIS, got control of nukes - USA has at least that much sense). Russia would be one and only country with influence in Ukraine .. and Russia would have 1.5 more nukes than it has today, which is one of the reasons USA demanded that Ukraine joins NPT.

The United States was quite capable of converting Soviet weapons into Ukrainian weapons. Nice of the US not to do that.

Sorry, this comment section is only for Russian bots, no actual humans asking reasonable questions here.

That is called interference in the inner matters, and most countries don't like it despite vocal minority. I.e. US during RussiaGate

@@vladimirgineyev922of course the ruling government doesn’t like it. Duh.

@@vladimirgineyev922 Oh let's be real. The US senators may have put on a festival of hypocrisy over that, but in reality The US, Russia, Israel, and China all have agents in basically every nation, overtly or surreptitiously influencing every single election and policy decision. That's just the world today. Putting on a big show over a few facebook ads was fodder for the politically clueless. In every country, including the US, the interests of foreign agents count for more than the constituents.

it is still not our job to solve it. We dont have free speech in Europe so whats your point?

Well, anything coming out of the government here in the United States is bullshit and I know because I’m an American. Most real Americans who have not been imported here over the past 40 years or who have come and they really really want to work and I’m on their own business without anybody bothering them and vice versa., aren’t like Washington DC because they’re so corrupt! What Joe Bidens administration just did to Donald Trump is exactly the way they are and they say they’re a democracy and what they did the trump is nothing short of a Kremlin Soviet style Sham trial! They were doing this to President Nixon Mac in the 1970s for a couple reasons and one was because he was withdrawing troops from Vietnam because he didn’t even like them over there in the first place and second he was backing the Shah of Iran, who was the monarch to stay in place, because despite any imperfections, the people in Iran were more free, and there were people going back around behind his back in the Democrat party, and some Republican warmongers having secret talks with the ayatollah Khomeini, and the next thing I know there was Watergate scandal, but I was only six at the time. I thought Nixon was great, because even though I was really little he met with the Chinese leader.,,Mao! I remember how everything was so different in China compared to America but trying I had been through bloody hell since the 1920s because the CCP was fighting with the government going back to the 20s (1924 I think is when it started and you will have to forgive me on my Chinese history because I’m not a professional but I have read a lot about it because I want to know and understand), the communist were fighting with the government in power with the Soviet union backing, and then Japan, invaded China and committed the most atrocious disgusting war crimes!! Germans had war crimes, criminals, and granted I think out of the 38 people or 36 people that did get the death penalty may be only 26 or 28 of them did die. The rest of them were in prison for the rest of their lives, and most of the people went to prison whether it was 10 years 20 years are for the rest of their lives, depending on what they did, and especially pertaining to the Holocaust and the concentration camps. Goodness gracious, the Soviet union committed war, crimes, moving westward, and once they got to east Germany, and they wouldn’t even feed the people there either even though the United States was sending food to feed 200 million people in the Soviet Union so they wouldn’t start to death or three or four years. The USA and the UK flew out every five minutes, dropping off thousands and thousands of pounds of food and it’s been known as the East Berlin or the eastern Germany food AirDrop.. by the 1960s America I was just starting to go to hell to be honest and I was born in 1967. President Nixon had ping-pong diplomacy going on with China and I always thought it was so cool and I was a little kid didn’t know much about anything.. then a couple years later they’re trying to impeach him and get him out of office and I know he didn’t do anything worse than anybody else. It’s just they wanted him out. sad!!! American citizens don’t want war with anybody and only time American citizens and I’m talking about the true American citizens, which probably 75% of us or 80% is IF Somebody does something to us first like the attack on Pearl Harbor or September 11, 2001 etc. etc. and even the British intercepting a telegram from Germany to Mexico in 1917 was enough to make Americans declare war on Germany and finally get in the world war one, because when I first started fighting in 1914, the Americans were saying “ well, here they go again!”. That’s exactly why we had a revolutionary war and we didn’t want Britain’s tyranny, and it seems like after World War II and then NATO so many of our politicians got pretty goody-goody with western European leaders, and they started taking on their snobby elitist Socialist fascist ideologies because I thought the power was pretty good and that’s what started the rule in America here in the USA and it’s really really sad. Donald Trump became president and he didn’t want war with anybody but he’s not gonna take any shit from anybody.. he was sitting at Mar-a-Lago at his house with president Xi. The only thing he did, and wanted to do militarily in his term was take out the terrorist group, Isis, and obliterate them. They were doing stuff like the Japanese did in China and they would go to people times pull them out shoot on, etc. etc. or decapitate them and Obama didn’t do anything about it and in fact he was the one that was so incompetent over in the Middle East and that’s what caused Isis to grow. President Trump said we can go over there and make them out in about two months but Congress made him stay two years.. see?? I was so glad when we pulled out of there in 2019 and turkey was going in just to keep the area Isis free,& Turkey was supposed to keep it Isis free but then Joe Biden became president a year later. When Joe Biden became president, Turkey pulled out, and Isis has grown back again. Trump was eating chocolate cake with the president of China and they were watching the video of what was going on over in Syria and the military was the bomb in the heck out of the terrorist group and I think they miss old and 56 or 58 times and then dropped a MOAB on Isis, and that’s a mother of all bombs, and is probably one of the biggest bombs. When it was over the president of China looked right at him, and he said. “repeat!” & President Trump said he was shocked because he was not aware that the president of China knew how to speak any English.

If you don`t now Chinese, you cannot understand China, if you do not speak Russian, you cannot understand Russia, its a simple concept western "experts" are incapable of understanding.

How much they pay you, again? 50 cents?

中国人比欧洲人更团结，他们能够忍受艰苦的工作和延迟满足感，但欧洲人作为罗马的继承者，天生就有一种扩张和征服的欲望，以及反抗压迫和暴政的意志。 他们中的一些人还具有马基雅维利主义，造就了拿破仑这样的人物

@@dfdf-rj8jr no, Eminem

exactly!

Hear, hear!

Ukraine has a right to join any bloc its govt wants. There was no possibility of joining NATO while there was a regional conflict. Joining the EU was very popular. For 30 years they have been able to travel and work in the West. The majority prefer it to the mystic Russian nationalism which denies the reality of Ukraine and the repressive regime they see. They saw democracy crushed in Belarus with Putin's full approval. There is no way any people would keep fighting against the odds if they were in favour or indifferent to being part of Russia.

But USSR was gone in 1991.

@@ianstevenson3628 Not all Ukrainians. Most of us who fled Ukraine came to Russia. Russia accepted the most number of Ukrainian refugees of all global countries. You may look this up to verify it.

Delusions can sound coherent too.

Well said !

They have AIPAC on speed dial, so they don't have Mearsheimer.

And Jeffrey Sachs

Spot on.

Absolutely true!

And how some Maidan excuses the Russian military intervention and land grabs... ten years later?

Every country in the world should have a law like that.

@@farerolobos9382 This is the crux of it for me as well.

He well paid by ruzzians

It's ironic you say that because he is assuming Putin and his regime is a rational party in this.

@@Igor-on8nmand Chinese. He even said he is more liked in China than in the USA

@@El_Camino_Que_Recorres_Solono

The planet is fine(C)

Thank you! Finally, someone said it. Also, they are not "newkewlar" weapons, but nuclear (comes from the word "nucleus")

@@AndreyMedvedev pet peeve of mine when people mispronounce nuclear

The Brits do that in purpose, to make his name sound like the word "puke".

Pootin

They do it on purpose. Every little evil counts for these idiots...

😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 Uniparty regime, which censors opposite narratives, force you into experimental injections, trying to jail its main opposition leader, is in constant wars or proxy war. USA regime is pretty much regime of economicFscm

A kleptocracy now!

this owns the comment section

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When the USSR was declared "no more", there were components of the USSR's nuclear arsenal located in multiple erstwhile SSRs outside of the erstwhile Russian SSR. Zero basis for anything other than either all of them severally becoming nuclear states or only one of them. NB. Russia did not have its own separate U.N. seat while the USSR was in existence. Ukraine and Belarus did! "Ultimately, at the Yalta Conference a compromise was made in which two Soviet republics (Ukrainian SSR and Byelorussian SSR) were admitted as full members of the United Nations. As such, between 1945 and 1991, the Soviet Union was represented by three seats in the United Nations."

Ukraine had physical possession of the missiles/warheads. With physical possession they would eventually rework the control capabilities necessary to make the functional weapon systems under Ukrainian control. The only element they needed was time. They didn't lack for expertise. That's why American perfidity had to act fast in the early nineties to get those weapons out of the hands of the Ukrainians.

The important point is that following independence Ukraine had control of the nuclear weapons within Ukraine. If that wasn't the case Russia could simply have transported them to Russia and indeed a treaty would not have been necessary.

He’s indirectly paid by Putin.

well soviet weapons- but there were concerns about how ukraine could manage them alone

@@rexiioper6920 Ukraine didnt had acceses to them nor had their codes.

@@rexiioper6920 and rightfully so, Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world. They would’ve sold off that nuclear arsenal for 10k USD a missile to any shady warlord who brought cash.

USSR nuclear arsenal. Not Russian until the USSR was no more, and the Russian Federation became its successor state wrt to all Treaties, etc. .

So you will argue that Ukraine was occupied during USSR?

That's the difference between being motivated by morals or being motivated by greed.

Yeh, tell that to Putin!

I could not agree with you more, I believe Zelensky is a dangerous & desperate man!

You are right that Putin is a madman, but Zelensky is as sane as sane can be!

@@cindybogart6062 But Putin is a nice guy then?

Yes Mr. Mearsheimer supports Russia openly 😂😂😂

@@ahartify When your teeth and hair begin to fall out and radioactive ash is like sand in Florida under your feet, you will remember the kind grandfather Putin...

He spoke very clearly. There were nuclear missiles at modern Ukraine territory prior 91, he meant in this sense "theirs".

Russia wasn't sole legal successor of the USSR. If it was, all (for example) railway infrastructure, cars, locomotives located in former Soviet republics other than Russian would be Russia propriety and not Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Estonian propriety.

"the Budapest Memorandum stipulates that Ukraine SHOULD remain NEUTRAL" .So how about putin sticking to that agreement then? Like from the very first day he took power 25 odd years ago hes been trying to bring them back under russian control. Firstly with yanukovych politically and now by military force. Can you blame ukraine, and many other former soviet states, from wanting to join NATO.

@colby25 Absolutely, plus to launch nuclear tactical weapons, in tandem with nuclear bombers required no such codes for Kyiv. As Ukraine designed and manufactured so much of the soviet nuclear arsenal, along with having significant uranium deposits, it could have stayed nuclear, certainly if the likes of North Korea, Pakistan etc are nuclear nations today. Ukrainians had both the know-how and engineering infrastructure to be a nuclear nation, should they have chosen so. Let's not forget the autumn of 1993 when russian tanks were firing into the russian parliament (white house) . That was just before the Budapest Memo was signed ie America was putting pressure on Ukraine to hand over weapons to russia ie it didn't register as a risk that russia was in a state of civil war, highly corrupt and fighting independence wars, like in Chechnya. It would have been better for Ukraine to have been acknowledged as a nuclear state back in the 1990s. It would have checked russian expansionism and kept the peace, certainly for Ukraine.

The Russian ambassador had "more brains in his little finger" than that DOPE, DONALD TRUMP (his "Trojan Horse"?)

@@colby25 Thanks for reminding viewers it was Ukraine that did not follow the Budapest Memorandum. Viktor Yuschenko back in 2005-2010 was talking about Euro-Atlantic future, not about reacting to Putin. No mention of Kyiv regime at that time being demanded to reunify with Russia. Yanukovich was democratically elected, after his earlier attempt failed. From 2014 onwards, the Maidan regime repeated Yuschenko's points, not about the Budapest Memorandum. If Kyiv held the view that it was Moscow that did not respect the Memo, the Yuschenko and the Maidan regimes would have made lots of noise about it. Where were the official declarations made by the Presidents and Legislatures that the Memo was null and void? Instead the Memo only received significant attention from the MSM AFTER Russian tanks rolled in.

Finland excels at gorilla warfare. When the snow sings Russians cry...

Exactly my thoughts. He makes for me a perfect argument to describe the Gaza situation. Ukraine not so much as I see the war there as one of conquest, imperial restoration. Russia threatening Europe requires a collective effort to stop them in Ukraine. He seems to feel that the Ukraine war is lost without taking into account that kleptocratic Russia is fragile.

I think the point is that they are struggling less than Ukraine, not that they are not struggling.

Because he is a joo , and a neocon spy .

The US may have liberal democracy (or used to have) inside the US. In its foreign policy the US is a tyrant.

But it is still much better to live in the "real" liberal democracy than in the Soviet-style socialist democracy. I know that because I lived in both these systems during my lifetime.

It's about the morale of the populace and its productivity. US with 2.5 times Russian population but 10 times larger economy. US with 1/4 the population of China but a slightly larger economy. Autocrats just don't get it morale. They try, but they don't have the empathy to get it right. Autocrats just want to win. The people come in second and more humiliated than people in liberal democracy.

This guy is insane. He thinks neo-conservatives wanna spread liberalism.

Just like the idea of Marxism in practice was a catastrophe in the hands of madmen like Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot.

Whose freedom are you supporting in this conflict?

Ireland never kicked Britain out of Ireland - we still own the North. Ireland just got eaten by the EU. An even bigger bunch of c***s. Next stop - The Irish Caliphate - the Mother of all c***s.

Don't the British still have a chunk of Ireland under their thumb?

@@rerite2 Signed away controlling interest during the Good Friday Agreement. They were desperate for the IRA bombing campaign in Britain to end. Thatcher, Major and Blair admitted the IRA could never be beaten. The British army (superpower) wanted a truce. Would you like a link??

@@rerite2 No a chunk of Ireland wants to be in Britain.

Plus Sachs is more in favour of keeping good relations with China.

I would refer you to Timothy Synder if you want an intelligent analysis. If you want to listen to a couple of mindless loonies then go ahead.

@@ahartifyTimothy snider is a Bonafide lunatic. His reality is entirely constructed in his mind but a useful idiot for war mongering d.c. elites. I’d suggest instead do some research of your own or at very least get a mix of perspectives and use critical thinking.

That interview is superb, Sachs is so frustrated with US policy.

@@ahartify 'intelligent analysis' = 'point of view I agree with and if it is intelligent so am I '. You didn't even spell his name correctly.

The Kremlin had the same rhetoric for other Eastern European countries in the 90s, but we did join NATO despite Russia’s opinion. They need to suck it up or at the very least, ask themselves the questions why all of these countries are flocking to NATO and the EU, and want to get as further away from Russia as possible.

What has Ukraine has in common with Poland, Hungary or the Baltic States?​@@cliomuse1206

not really?!, still spitting western BS propaganda lies, like Sergei Shoigu was fired, when he actually got promoted to Security Council. As for the Meirsheimer, he is not what he used to be, have feeling that he is getting corrupted

Thank you!

see 1993 agreement USA, Russia and Ukraine

You are basically admitting that Russia initiated an aggressive invasion of it's historical neighbor, that there was no sizeable UA separatist army without Russian support and that Russia is razing Ukrainian cities to the ground, because Yanu was ousted and Ukraine wanted to join the EU. Yes. This is exactly what's happening and this is AGAINST international law and against the conventions of war, and hence, Russia has to be stopped or there will be no laws left anywhere on the planet.

'We' as the West...

You would think the Professor would mention that..

@@shanejean5821 yes, you would think so. But deep down - he is American. He only recently figured out that Russia has a lot more people than Ukraine.

As a NATO member ukraine would have them,the Russians don't want that.

Apparently you’re wrong. Why all the gyrations and negotiations among the major powers to disarm Ukraine back then. Was it all just for fun? Please stop pretending to know things you do not know anything about.

@@zoranazanoskar5400 When did Russia figure out China has a lot more people than Russia? Xi is smiling in their face.

You have to be able to tell the difference between what they say their motives are and what their actual motives are. If you can't understand that the government constantly lies and misleads you then you won't ever understand what is really going on. You won't learn anything by watching TV or listening to the various talking heads or spokespeople. Good luck sweetie. The rabbit hole goes much deeper than you could ever imagine.

You got it...,?

"Open borders"? Really? I guess you want a wall. Geez learn to live with the rest of humanity. Many of those who cross the border are escaping vehemently countries the US deliberately wrecked. Stop wrecking countries and many will stay home.

Pretty amazing to hear Russians calling anybody else greedy for territory.

You’re factually incorrect in your description of Ukraine’s democracy. They have held many elections, with multiple different presidents in power since 1992. Here’s the CATO Freedom Index for 2023. Ukraine (83) far outranks Russia (121), UAE (125), Turkey (128) and India (109). Israel itself is only 59, with Greece at 57. And on “personal freedom”, Israel and Ukraine are almost identical (7.12 and 7.32) vs Russia (5.9). Ukraine loses on “economic freedom” which is not required for it to be a healthy democracy. You can be poor and free. The war is destroying Ukraine’s democracy, just like Putin wants it to, interfering with normal functions of a society. A successful Ukrainian democracy would put Putin’s regime at risk.

Yes!

Use a period to end a sentence, watch a video in full, fix your hamster attention span.

"fix your hamster attention span", LoL. I'm definitely using this one day.

Of course, on their way.

It's a common idiom in British English due to his regional pronunciation.

Because the default is "Russa bad" and you cannot let go of that in any capacity?

@@nexxogen In terms of 'default', that's not how it works for me. I let evidence speak for itself.

@@jdghgh And what evidence is that?

@@jdghghWhat evidence is that?

@@nexxogen He doesnt have evidence