more Ukraine research and thoughts.

[David Morris]

Your dilettante views of the “Latvian Problem,” dear fellow, its
 incisional relevance (🙀),  make you neither Rand nor Fauci.

Your dance was a poor distraction.

Good Day!
Jester Morris

On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 11:46 AM Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pardon me? He’s out and out made a false comment about me and somehow I’m
> the equivalent of a Covid denier? How dare you
>
> Martin entirely refused to engage on my perfectly reasonable, evidenced
> views on the Russian minority in Latvia, which geopolitical experts
> recognise as providing an unstable aspect to East European politics which
> Putin is keen to exploit. I’ve met enough Latvians, Lithuanians, Russians
> and Ukrainians to know that this is a real dangerous issue in the East of
> Europe.
>
> Martin might well live in Ukraine, speak Ukrainian etc - they’re often the
> last people you want to listen to, in the same way that the most ardent
> football season ticket holders are the last people you want to talk to
> about their team - they’re only going to give you an answer taken from a
> narrow partisan perspective
>
> I’m not into alternative facts. I am into facts. I’ve supplied a number of
> facts that are inconvenient to your argument which you haven’t yet
> countered. Saying people ‘feel’ a certain way doesn’t cut it. Better
> arguments please.
>
>
> On Thursday, January 27, 2022, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What Martin says:
>>
>> Some of this conversation is like watching exchange between Dr. Anthony
>> Fauci and Dr. Rand Paul on the subject of COVID. You decide who’s which:
>>
>>
>> https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/01/12/opinions/anthony-fauci-rand-paul-senate-exchange-begala/index.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 10:04 AM Martin Dietze <mdietze at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> What probably separates the two of us is me having spent a considerable
>>> amount of time in various parts of Ukraine over the last 25 years,
>>> speaking
>>> fluent Ukrainian and understanding Russian rather well and living amongst
>>> Ukrainians where I am now.
>>>
>>> You can choose to trust me on this.
>>> You can also do the research yourself by talking to a representative
>>> number
>>> of Ukrainians instead.
>>> What you should better not do is believe what "alternative media",
>>> geopolitics-loving bloggers and the like write about the country. 90% of
>>> that stuff is pure fiction.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> m.
>>>
>>