Gonzalo Lira has been reporting on and live-streaming about the Russian/Ukrainian war since it started. He sadly went missing in Ukraine on Friday. There is no official confirmation yet on what has happened to him. Some are speculating that he has been arrested, or worse.
My personal concern for Gonzalo has nothing to do with politics. I have known him for several years now, since around 2017. I am deeply concerned for his well-being as a friend, and I am praying for his safety.
1) The surrender of the snake island troops was filmed.
2) You are angry that Russia invaded, but you also don't want any context to know if it is necessary or if Ukraine forced Russia into this conflict by continually threatening to join NATO and by continually shelling Donbass since 2014. You don't want context, you just want to listen to the "screen people" on tv and be angry at Russia
Why is it that you only care now and not 8 years ago when armed gangs took control over maidan with US sponsorship and Eastern Ukrainians were being slaughtered for not wanting to do anything with illegitimate government, is it because the Western news told you that now you should care? The war has been going and people have been dying there since 2014. About the Snake island, you can call Russian claims BS, but they released a video of the POW who was awarded posthumously the hero of Ukraine as one of the 13 dead soldiers, he actually complained about the fabricated story on camera
His politics are most likely why he disappeared. East Europeans don't take too kindly to foreigners (also a "diverse" fella) who knocks up their women, promote sex tourism and treat their country as an open air brothel, and to make matters worse, cheerlead for the invaders. So nothing of value was lost.
I don't know of this man, but I will pray for his safety as a human because he is your friend.
As far as people supporting or not supporting invasions, as far as people supporting/dismissing the concern for the wellbeing of other people, I feel sorry for people who only let their opinions and passions be swayed by every thing that the media says. Media says a lot of big things, and sometimes those things are fact, but a lot of times they are not. I would say that it would be good to contemplate your own character when it comes to judgement of people by the events of governments. He could be wrong in his stance, you could be right or wrong, I will still be concerned about the wellfare of the people.
Matthew Demel
Hope it’s only he went deeper underground and will soon be in contact.
Maybe someone mentioned this already but i remember him saying earlier he had a decisive plan to deal with a situation where he would get caught. I'm thinking he either made a run for it and will eventually reappear later in time when he gets to a safe place otherwise he committed suicide and Azov is using his body as propaganda piece to instill fear into others. If they had really captured him they would release a video of him alive.
Timmy
I first became aware of him when you 1st interviewed him in 2017 when he only had 5k subs. I watched a lot of his content about the war. I learned a lot and got a new perspective of the situation that the globalists, media and social media are covering up. It's very tragic and I had a lot of concern about him criticizing the Ukrainian government while inside Ukrain. Hopefully we have proof of life soon. He has a family in Ukrain
I already cared when in the early 2000nds Russian backed Ukrainian politicians came in power and ignored the will of the people! I cared when the Ukrainian stood up against the Russian supported regime. And as I remember Zelenskey was politician who get mocked in the west and east. No global team liked him only Ukrainian did. I remember the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine! Why do you care only since 8 years and ignore everything before that? Why do you ignore the Russian guarantee for Ukraine giving its atomic weapons to Russia?
I won’t bother arguing with you, just research the names George Soros, Igor Kolomoysky, Victoria Nuland and their activities in Ukraine. Soros established his NGOs in Ukraine since 1990s, Kolomoysky is a Jewish-Ukrainian oligarch who sponsored Zelensky’s show “Servant of the people” and then his actual presidential campaign. If Bolsheviks never attached Russian lands (Novorussia) to Ukraine and Kruschev never gifted Crimea, we wouldn’t have these problems today. Ukraine never owned those atomic weapons in the first place, it was owned by the Soviet Union and stationed in Ukraine, and as such, was inherited by Russia, which also included all the debts of the USSR which Russia had paid off so that all Soviet republics could have a debt free clean start. Truth is, Ukraine was in the best spot in the 90s of all Soviet republics and they flushed it down the drain with their corruption. If you care about the Orange Revolution so much, why not research who was behind it all? You just absorb the initial layer of spoon feeding “people want freedom, rid of corruption, Russia bad, Putin dictator” without digging deeper. Heck, even the symbology they used during the protests was identical to various political protests in Africa and the Middle East. The West uses the same copy-paste strategy and people are so oblivious to it. Hunter Biden was on the board of directors of the largest Ukrainian oil company, Joe Biden used to visit Ukraine on a quarterly basis, open information, nobody gives a damn, you still point fingers to Russia because they tell you so (and millions of Ukrainians who’ve been spoon fed the same on their TVs since the 1990s, guess who controls that)
Why are you claiming he didn't expect or was surprised by the consequences of his politics? Did he actually say that his political stances wouldn't come with any personal risks for him?
shoulda coulda woulda! They did and Russia guaranteed it for Ukrainian atomic arsenal! They owned this atomic weapons because they where in the hands of Ukraine! You forget that Ukraine was part of USSR and so the weapons belonged also to them! I don’t care more about the Orange Revolution then you about maidan! You forgot it happened and concentrated only on events fitting your narrative! Do you really claim Russia did not the same as the west? Maybe you need more investigation on points you don’t like! I don’t believe Ukraine is an special democratic not corrupt country. But that doesn’t give Russia the right to invade as USA had no right to invade Iraq. Do you really want to say Putin is not corrupt or and dictator? Russia has no opposition out of jail. I don’t care how Ukraine come to exist and I wouldn’t care of changing borders, but this Russian war is unjust. Russia is with this invasion responsibility for every single dead in this war! You don’t have to dig deep just start at least look’ing without your Putin loving bias what happens in Russia.
2) You are angry that Russia invaded, but you also don't want any context to know if it is necessary or if Ukraine forced Russia into this conflict by continually threatening to join NATO and by continually shelling Donbass since 2014. You don't want context, you just want to listen to the "screen people" on tv and be angry at Russia
As far as people supporting or not supporting invasions, as far as people supporting/dismissing the concern for the wellbeing of other people, I feel sorry for people who only let their opinions and passions be swayed by every thing that the media says. Media says a lot of big things, and sometimes those things are fact, but a lot of times they are not. I would say that it would be good to contemplate your own character when it comes to judgement of people by the events of governments. He could be wrong in his stance, you could be right or wrong, I will still be concerned about the wellfare of the people.
I cared when the Ukrainian stood up against the Russian supported regime.
And as I remember Zelenskey was politician who get mocked in the west and east. No global team liked him only Ukrainian did.
I remember the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine! Why do you care only since 8 years and ignore everything before that?
Why do you ignore the Russian guarantee for Ukraine giving its atomic weapons to Russia?
Ukraine never owned those atomic weapons in the first place, it was owned by the Soviet Union and stationed in Ukraine, and as such, was inherited by Russia, which also included all the debts of the USSR which Russia had paid off so that all Soviet republics could have a debt free clean start. Truth is, Ukraine was in the best spot in the 90s of all Soviet republics and they flushed it down the drain with their corruption. If you care about the Orange Revolution so much, why not research who was behind it all? You just absorb the initial layer of spoon feeding “people want freedom, rid of corruption, Russia bad, Putin dictator” without digging deeper. Heck, even the symbology they used during the protests was identical to various political protests in Africa and the Middle East. The West uses the same copy-paste strategy and people are so oblivious to it. Hunter Biden was on the board of directors of the largest Ukrainian oil company, Joe Biden used to visit Ukraine on a quarterly basis, open information, nobody gives a damn, you still point fingers to Russia because they tell you so (and millions of Ukrainians who’ve been spoon fed the same on their TVs since the 1990s, guess who controls that)
I don’t care more about the Orange Revolution then you about maidan! You forgot it happened and concentrated only on events fitting your narrative! Do you really claim Russia did not the same as the west? Maybe you need more investigation on points you don’t like!
I don’t believe Ukraine is an special democratic not corrupt country. But that doesn’t give Russia the right to invade as USA had no right to invade Iraq. Do you really want to say Putin is not corrupt or and dictator? Russia has no opposition out of jail.
I don’t care how Ukraine come to exist and I wouldn’t care of changing borders, but this Russian war is unjust. Russia is with this invasion responsibility for every single dead in this war!
You don’t have to dig deep just start at least look’ing without your Putin loving bias what happens in Russia.