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This entire thing between Russia and Ukraine is about keeping Ukraine as a colony of Russia
??? Russia has no colonies. Mutually beneficial cooperation of independent countries is not a colony. Russia provided a big discount on gas, reduced duties for Ukrainian goods, etc. The West like to use the word "colony" in relation to Russia. I think that West justifies itself for the colonial past. Russia did not create big colony and does not create it now. Russia sought to annex lands to the Empire, locals received status of citizens.
I have no doubt US troops are all over the Ukraine in various capacities. Including murderers/assassins.
US forces are there as trainers, including many of out special forces teams. They are also providing intel support and other non-material things. There is limited material support right now.
I honestly do not think the US trusts the Ukrainians either, it takes just one revolt for things to swing back the other way, taking all US supplied items with them.
P.S. Here DKM, today I accidentally came across the video that explains why Ukrainian can/can't be understood after Russian.
So to make the long story short, if you learn Russian as a foreign language, you learn the "high" version of it. With time you become familiar with the "middle" version of it ( assuming you have a lot of practice.) But you still most likely remain unfamiliar with the "low" version ( or "vernacular" version, to give it a fancy name.) But that's the version that gives the most clues about Ukrainian language, and that's why it's possible for native Russian speakers ( provided they are well familiar with the two lower levels,) to figure out Ukrainian.
And this basically explains as well why Russian speakers in Ukraine sound more educated overall, since their language is more academic ( and hence provides more outlets to academic knowledge, foreign including) than Ukrainian. It is no surprise that Ukrainian is regarded more of a language of the peasantry, since the Western Ukraine is predominantly agrarian, vs industrial East of the country.
I kinda always sensed that, but this video gave me more tangible explanation.
Thank for the explanation. This has been a mystery for a while for me now. I understand Putin perfectly well so I guess he speaks "high" Russian.
As for the Ukrainian sounding more "peasant" that is more likely because its the language of the villages in the parts of Ukraine outside of the western part where it is spoken everywhere including the cities. In the east you had to travel far outside of the cities to hear it spoken and even then, it sounds different from the Lvov version (to me).
But this is river and coastal zone ships. The junta sent river boats to the heroic naval campaign.
Well they were re positioning coastal ships to a base in Azov. On the surface this placement is according to the design of this class of ships. Putin acting like it was a great victory to ram a tugboat and lie to Russians saying they took American ships makes him look like an idiot sorry.
Maksim, is this a photo of some Ukranian military that were arrested after the river boat incident? They look like "bad guy" actors from a Steven Segal movie. I have never seen military men with hair styles like this. It is also odd to see one guy wearing a chest full of bright and shiny medals on a combat uniform (not on a formal uniform). Those are like painting a target on the camouflage of the combat uniform.
You can find it, he said it to his state TV reporter puppets in Argentina.
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