Possible consequences incl. Moldovan-Romanian 'unification', which means Russian troops on EU and NATO territory, heralding a spill-over of the Ukrainian conflict to neighbouring countries
In another video on Infowar channel I saw Putin during a meeting telling interesting facts on how the food crisis, inflation and so on, started and who did started...
As a person that knows a bit of financial situations, he was pretty straight and right...
And I thought " Wow! Have the western countries reached the lowest level of sense of justice and truth and the highest in Governments crimes, that we really have to listen to Putin instead? "
"Accession candidate"? That means nothing. It's just a way to dangle a carrot before the population of the country in question, without ever having to deliver anything.
What is it about Europe and Europeans - who are supposedly civilised; who look and sound alike (before immigration, of course) - that they cannot live peacefully and prosperously among themselves?
Europe, peace? Is that sarcasm...? As for "looking and sounding alike": the Dutch don't look particularly Greek to me, and Polish sounds nothing like Italian...
Curiously, I remember a Polish colleague mentioning that learning Italian is being advertised in Poland because there are some structural similarities in the two languages.
Hahaha! Well. I'm sure there are *some* structural similarities: they're both Indo-European, after all. ;-) BTW, some linguists now claim that the Balto-Slavic language family is most closely related to the Indo-Iranian family (and more distantly to other Indo-European languages). If this is correct, then Polish is closer to Hindi and Farsi than to Italian.
Surely they are not very close in the evolutionary tree of languages, but maybe they exhibit some convergent evolution. Or maybe it's just an anecdote, or Italian is just much simpler in structure than Polish (which seems really complicated to me; I did not spend enough time there to pick up more than a few expressions).
I'm sure there are some cognates (Latin-based vocabulary), but whatever common structure they share is probably just a leftover from the ancestor language (PIE). The two languages have the same basic word order (SVO), though Polish is quite flexible in this regard due to its case system. I believe you can generally drop the subject in both, because the verb is inflected for person (at least in some tenses). You might find other little things like that, but I believe it's all a leftover of PIE, and not parallel evolution. For parallel evolution, check out the Balkan Sprachbund: fascinating stuff! But that applies neither to Italian nor to Polish...
All of this why the process for Albania and Macedonia is being speeded up. Albania, who will only be too glad to do what Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary has done: try to force out their gypsy populations into the rest of the EU. Macedonia, who is like Greece only less developed and more corrupt.
That old idea of an inner Union of France, Germany, Austria and the Nordics states will be quickly be brought up again, together with the removal of states' veto.
Meanwhile, it quickly got very quiet in what few media that covered it, that Ukraine is defaulting on their loans, and never will be able to pay them unless natural resources are mortgaged and placed under de facto EU ownership. If anything is going to let the rusians play up some kind of liberator role in the future, that will be it.
Wasn't there a painter-cum-corporal who wanted to annex Ukraine to use for farmland for his vision?
BTW, interesting point about putting Ukrainian resources under de facto EU ownership. Yes, could happen. And yes, that would make the Russian alternative all the more appealing to a certain segment of Ukraine's population.
Why do you say Macedonia is like Greece? I mean, sure, all the countries in the region are corrupt, but apart from that? Macedonians are South Slavs (Macedonian is so similar to Bulgarian that Bulgarians claim that it's simply a dialect of Bulgarian, something that Macedonians roundly reject; welcome to the Balkans and its linguistic disputes...), and if there are any Greek speakers there, well, it won't be very many of them. Something like 25% of Macedonia's population is Albanian, though.
And of course Ukraine cannot pay its "loans" back. That much should be obvious to the birds. Granted, birds may be smarter than EUrocrats...
From where I'm looking they are the same, just as norwegians and swedes are the same from their angle. Emphasis: looks the same, not are the same according to themselves.
As for linguistic disputes, welcome to Sweden, where every village in the northern and north-western areas (3/4 of the land areal) has it's own dialect. In my home area, it's basically Old Norse with some modern words thrown in. One area, called Älvdalen (River valley/Valley of the elves) is so stubborn about their own pre-christian tongue they've managed to keep it alive despite 150 years of the central governement trying to erase it. The most stubborn families used runic script paralell to letters up until the 1920s, and lots of families still mark their territory/land using a family rune.
I guess the language thing down there in the South is like asking turks and greeks which came first: ouzo or raki... :)
The Scandinavian analogy for Greeks and Macedonians might be Swedes and Finns. Close geographically, with some cultural influence, but rather different in other (especially linguistic) ways. Macedonians are more like Serbs or Bulgarians than they are like Greeks. Traditionally, all those groups are Orthodox Christian, so there is that, I suppose. (But Swedes and Finns are both Protestant, aren't they?)
I generally dislike it when governments try to stamp out anyone's language (or dialect, whatever). You speak whatever is the most convenient for you and the person you're talking to. Granted, at the official level, states do need an official language, for practical purposes. Sometimes, these linguistic disputes intermingle with questions of sovereignty, and then it gets really ugly...
Speaking of which: the linguistic situation in Ukraine is a godawful mess, and it's one of the contributing causes to the current situation. (It's not the main cause, of course. That would be NATO expansion, as Mearsheimer has argued.)
Finns are linguistically different, true, and their forefathers did not have the same germanic cultural heritage as ours, but due to Finland having been the eastern half of the kingdom (Östra Rikshalvan) for so long, they are in many ways like swedes or vice versa, for that matter. The norwegians were under danish influence, and Denmark had a much stronger feudal nobility who used Norway more or less as a resource-colony and a shield/invasion path to Sweden. So both swedes and finns (used to) have a streak of stubborn independence. Swedes and finns are traditionally protestant, true, but how christian compared to the people's of southern and eastern europe, who has been christian for much, much longer is a different matter - christianity here was originally on the sufferance of the people, the olden laws are full of references making it clear that the priest and the bell-striker literally serves the community - they call precisely zero shots. It wasn't really until the tail end of the 17th centiry that the church started to wield actual power, and then only as agent of the crown, so it was real easy for the christian veneer to be sanded off during the 19th century on - especially giventhe rampant hypcrisiy, greed, grift and corruption of the church's words when contrasted to their deeds.
Anecdote time: during the mid-16th century right after the war against danish king Christian II, a danish mercenary force made up out of norwegians mainly tried to sneak attack in the rear, marching up from the south-west intending to cross the midlands and cause havoc in the border areas.
When the local farmers, loggers, coal burners and so on got wind of this from runners passing the budkavle* around the villages, they formed a force and tricked the mercenaries who didn't know the terrain, out onto a moor before surrounding them. Facing crossbows** on three flanks, the mercenaries surrendered.
This created a problem: winter was approaching, and it would have been unseemly and unmanly not to mention un-christian to drive them away unarmed and without food (your average pace through the terrain would have been 30-50km/day, tops, before the snows), and sending them towards the capital couldn't be done until a messenger had been dispatched, gotten there, been received, heard, the thing mulled over in council and then sending the messenger back - as in minimum of 8 weeks.
So the mercenaries helped out with the work around the villages, wintered with their "enemies", and were then let go back the way they came, with the exception of a few who instead decided to marry and settle.
That it happened is historical fact, the details having been passed down by oral and written tradition. One mercenary came all the way from Spain and wound up marrying into a local family and starting his own branch of it. That he was dark and catholic didn't matter at all - we have an ancient expression which covers the prevailing attitude to foreginers, and the finns are much the same: Var som folk***.
*Budkavle, a wooden rod carved with runes carrying a message, usually a warning or call to arms.
**The crossbow was as common in Sweden then as firearms are in the US today; it was called "Farmer's friend".
*** Literal meaning: Be as people, meaning behave as if you are one of the people and you have no problem. Black, jew, moslem, same, gypsy - no problem, just as long as you behave as people. If you don't, even being swedish by birth doesn't help.
Putin drop the bombs! txs!
In another video on Infowar channel I saw Putin during a meeting telling interesting facts on how the food crisis, inflation and so on, started and who did started...
As a person that knows a bit of financial situations, he was pretty straight and right...
And I thought " Wow! Have the western countries reached the lowest level of sense of justice and truth and the highest in Governments crimes, that we really have to listen to Putin instead? "
And it looks so by now...
"Accession candidate"? That means nothing. It's just a way to dangle a carrot before the population of the country in question, without ever having to deliver anything.
What is it about Europe and Europeans - who are supposedly civilised; who look and sound alike (before immigration, of course) - that they cannot live peacefully and prosperously among themselves?
Europe, peace? Is that sarcasm...? As for "looking and sounding alike": the Dutch don't look particularly Greek to me, and Polish sounds nothing like Italian...
Curiously, I remember a Polish colleague mentioning that learning Italian is being advertised in Poland because there are some structural similarities in the two languages.
Hahaha! Well. I'm sure there are *some* structural similarities: they're both Indo-European, after all. ;-) BTW, some linguists now claim that the Balto-Slavic language family is most closely related to the Indo-Iranian family (and more distantly to other Indo-European languages). If this is correct, then Polish is closer to Hindi and Farsi than to Italian.
Surely they are not very close in the evolutionary tree of languages, but maybe they exhibit some convergent evolution. Or maybe it's just an anecdote, or Italian is just much simpler in structure than Polish (which seems really complicated to me; I did not spend enough time there to pick up more than a few expressions).
I'm sure there are some cognates (Latin-based vocabulary), but whatever common structure they share is probably just a leftover from the ancestor language (PIE). The two languages have the same basic word order (SVO), though Polish is quite flexible in this regard due to its case system. I believe you can generally drop the subject in both, because the verb is inflected for person (at least in some tenses). You might find other little things like that, but I believe it's all a leftover of PIE, and not parallel evolution. For parallel evolution, check out the Balkan Sprachbund: fascinating stuff! But that applies neither to Italian nor to Polish...
All of this why the process for Albania and Macedonia is being speeded up. Albania, who will only be too glad to do what Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary has done: try to force out their gypsy populations into the rest of the EU. Macedonia, who is like Greece only less developed and more corrupt.
That old idea of an inner Union of France, Germany, Austria and the Nordics states will be quickly be brought up again, together with the removal of states' veto.
Meanwhile, it quickly got very quiet in what few media that covered it, that Ukraine is defaulting on their loans, and never will be able to pay them unless natural resources are mortgaged and placed under de facto EU ownership. If anything is going to let the rusians play up some kind of liberator role in the future, that will be it.
Wasn't there a painter-cum-corporal who wanted to annex Ukraine to use for farmland for his vision?
BTW, interesting point about putting Ukrainian resources under de facto EU ownership. Yes, could happen. And yes, that would make the Russian alternative all the more appealing to a certain segment of Ukraine's population.
Why do you say Macedonia is like Greece? I mean, sure, all the countries in the region are corrupt, but apart from that? Macedonians are South Slavs (Macedonian is so similar to Bulgarian that Bulgarians claim that it's simply a dialect of Bulgarian, something that Macedonians roundly reject; welcome to the Balkans and its linguistic disputes...), and if there are any Greek speakers there, well, it won't be very many of them. Something like 25% of Macedonia's population is Albanian, though.
And of course Ukraine cannot pay its "loans" back. That much should be obvious to the birds. Granted, birds may be smarter than EUrocrats...
From where I'm looking they are the same, just as norwegians and swedes are the same from their angle. Emphasis: looks the same, not are the same according to themselves.
As for linguistic disputes, welcome to Sweden, where every village in the northern and north-western areas (3/4 of the land areal) has it's own dialect. In my home area, it's basically Old Norse with some modern words thrown in. One area, called Älvdalen (River valley/Valley of the elves) is so stubborn about their own pre-christian tongue they've managed to keep it alive despite 150 years of the central governement trying to erase it. The most stubborn families used runic script paralell to letters up until the 1920s, and lots of families still mark their territory/land using a family rune.
I guess the language thing down there in the South is like asking turks and greeks which came first: ouzo or raki... :)
The Scandinavian analogy for Greeks and Macedonians might be Swedes and Finns. Close geographically, with some cultural influence, but rather different in other (especially linguistic) ways. Macedonians are more like Serbs or Bulgarians than they are like Greeks. Traditionally, all those groups are Orthodox Christian, so there is that, I suppose. (But Swedes and Finns are both Protestant, aren't they?)
I generally dislike it when governments try to stamp out anyone's language (or dialect, whatever). You speak whatever is the most convenient for you and the person you're talking to. Granted, at the official level, states do need an official language, for practical purposes. Sometimes, these linguistic disputes intermingle with questions of sovereignty, and then it gets really ugly...
Speaking of which: the linguistic situation in Ukraine is a godawful mess, and it's one of the contributing causes to the current situation. (It's not the main cause, of course. That would be NATO expansion, as Mearsheimer has argued.)
Finns are linguistically different, true, and their forefathers did not have the same germanic cultural heritage as ours, but due to Finland having been the eastern half of the kingdom (Östra Rikshalvan) for so long, they are in many ways like swedes or vice versa, for that matter. The norwegians were under danish influence, and Denmark had a much stronger feudal nobility who used Norway more or less as a resource-colony and a shield/invasion path to Sweden. So both swedes and finns (used to) have a streak of stubborn independence. Swedes and finns are traditionally protestant, true, but how christian compared to the people's of southern and eastern europe, who has been christian for much, much longer is a different matter - christianity here was originally on the sufferance of the people, the olden laws are full of references making it clear that the priest and the bell-striker literally serves the community - they call precisely zero shots. It wasn't really until the tail end of the 17th centiry that the church started to wield actual power, and then only as agent of the crown, so it was real easy for the christian veneer to be sanded off during the 19th century on - especially giventhe rampant hypcrisiy, greed, grift and corruption of the church's words when contrasted to their deeds.
Anecdote time: during the mid-16th century right after the war against danish king Christian II, a danish mercenary force made up out of norwegians mainly tried to sneak attack in the rear, marching up from the south-west intending to cross the midlands and cause havoc in the border areas.
When the local farmers, loggers, coal burners and so on got wind of this from runners passing the budkavle* around the villages, they formed a force and tricked the mercenaries who didn't know the terrain, out onto a moor before surrounding them. Facing crossbows** on three flanks, the mercenaries surrendered.
This created a problem: winter was approaching, and it would have been unseemly and unmanly not to mention un-christian to drive them away unarmed and without food (your average pace through the terrain would have been 30-50km/day, tops, before the snows), and sending them towards the capital couldn't be done until a messenger had been dispatched, gotten there, been received, heard, the thing mulled over in council and then sending the messenger back - as in minimum of 8 weeks.
So the mercenaries helped out with the work around the villages, wintered with their "enemies", and were then let go back the way they came, with the exception of a few who instead decided to marry and settle.
That it happened is historical fact, the details having been passed down by oral and written tradition. One mercenary came all the way from Spain and wound up marrying into a local family and starting his own branch of it. That he was dark and catholic didn't matter at all - we have an ancient expression which covers the prevailing attitude to foreginers, and the finns are much the same: Var som folk***.
*Budkavle, a wooden rod carved with runes carrying a message, usually a warning or call to arms.
**The crossbow was as common in Sweden then as firearms are in the US today; it was called "Farmer's friend".
*** Literal meaning: Be as people, meaning behave as if you are one of the people and you have no problem. Black, jew, moslem, same, gypsy - no problem, just as long as you behave as people. If you don't, even being swedish by birth doesn't help.
Okay, that's an awesome anecdote. :-)