I’m in the United States I’m an old man🤨 I think you have tremendous talent and you’re a nice presentable man love that you do things with your brother thats awesome,of course I don’t know how you did it I have my thoughts but I’m not gonna present them out of respect for you, keep the family faith✊if you want to achieve and you will keep your nose to the grindstone and make it happen!!!!! Strive for the best but always remember second and third ain’t bad💯👍✊😎
This was very enjoyable to watch. I have heard many positive things about people from Lithuania over the years. That country is definitely on my bucket list.
What a wonderful act, and the magnetic personality. I might even think to add a small story in to this routine something like you’ve invited four people over for dinner and you need more chairs or something like that to give a good clear solid reason why you even need four chairs exactly. Which would then also make the ending all the more buttoned up. Great performance!🎉
This trick was fantastic! My only thought is that I had absolutely no idea how it was done, until the "big reveal" at the end. I almost think this trick is more marvelous when you assume there is a single chair, rather than 4. I think finishing by removing the box, revealing just one chair, and setting it up as you finished, would make it that much more spectacular than seeing the Russian doll.
I usually skip it when the trick is done remote but I decided to give this one a shot and I'm glad I did I loved the trick very well. I'm not a magician but usually I can catch a thing or two during the act but I wasn't able to catch anything thanks you manta for this amazing trick hope you perform more!
Fantastic trick and a great performance. I think I noticed the chairs being slightly different sizes, a fact the perspective try to obscure when all 4 are out, but even then I can't see how they would stack so neatly into each otheras to appear as one.
I love that act. And I love even more that your answer to Pen was revealing where he hit the code. For everyone who wants to know how the trick works: Never believe the magician. As a child he played with metal toys and definitely not a cardboard box like we did. 😜
I watch a lot of the Penn & Tellar Fool Us clips, absolutely loved your performance. Very classy, from your hand and body movements that are insync with the fast tempo of the music. If you just pulled 1 chair reversal it would have left me feeling entertained. I would been left feeling entertained, but not just 2 but 3 no 4 chairs. As Penn & Tellar stated it's a variation of classic magic you did it better. GREAT JOB!!!!!
You have a lovely, clear way of presenting Mantas! A little bit of feedback - I feel that the end of the trick exposes the method, especially because most people know the old version of this with 'bottles'. Although I know that - for example - making the chair disappear would be impossible, I would consider a different approach to this updated version, because it really is a great idea, very visual and much more impressive than 'bottles'.
The first chair looks solid and the rest seem to have angled legs, so initially I thought russian nesting dolls. But I can't think of how the upsidedown one comes off unless maybe it's the box liner and unfolds since they're the same color? I never see any indicator for it though.
As a spectator, something was odd to me when you pulled all those chairs. I think i understand what you did there. Try to move those chairs a bit slower, like they actually weight something. Hope to see you again in the international television. Best of luck :)
@@anderivative I don't think he has to pretend since there is one real chair. He doesn't sit on all the chairs he pulls out. When he sits he only sits on the one real chair.
the code is so hilarious to me. so you flip a chair upside down, and then bring 3 more chairs into existence. then Penn says "we like to do tongue twisters haha!! she sells seashasdfghjklasdfghjkl!!" and you're like "omg nooo he figured out the secret"
Without divulging the magic, can I get a hint on what the tongue twisters revealed? I don't get it! Did they say paper mache or 2D/3D or purple monkey dishwasher in there??
outstanding act and performance. certainly looks impossible enough that the answer to the illusion must be magic! (btw I happen to be Lithuanian myself.)
The flipping of the chair really makes it difficult to realize this is just the bottle trick in a different form. That part really confused me for a bit.
fainai kai lietuviai matomi tokiai placiai auditorijai, tik kodel per atstuma? koden ne scenoj su ziurovais? ar cia karantino metu filmuota buvo? pamenu seniau buvo toj laidoj kazkoks lietuvis ,nelabai zinomas bet scenoj pasirode
i don't think you should do the 4 chairs anymore. It's way too obvious (esp. the 4th chair) even for non-magicians and cheapens the trick. The upside down stuff is more impressive.
I didn't think that the rules of P&T FU allowed this type of trick that uses special prerecording. Were there any issues with the producers before being allowed on the show?
@@RODGERGRUMMIDGE I was on Fool Us and yes they prerecord some performances for people that can’t get to the states BUT the producers of the show watch the taping in real time. There is NO editing.
@@korana6308 The fact that you start off by "I know people with opposite opinions" tells me you are dumb and cant think for yourself. Next time base your argument on actual facts and lived experiences. Also using a single study as a main point is a very weak point to stand on.
@@korana6308 you wont quote it?? You dont have a foot to stand on. Figures. If its sooo apparent why cant you just quote it? Oh right because youre dumb.
with all my respect The “THE TOP.. TUR.. CHAIR” I think is not an effect to fool Penn & Teller 😕😕 I think the intention is to bring something new or some variation that hasn't been seen before. but anyway congratulations on going
Forget about the act. Whats up with this hateful intro? Look, in the end, Soviet Union gave Latvia all the independence it wanted, leaving it with the built factories, roads and infrastructure for free. And now they give such a crap about Soviet Union, meanwhile giving up all their independence and jumping from one Union right into another, going back to living on donations from their new sovereign.
You obviously know nothing about Moscow's treatment of Lithuania if you think everyone there wasn't massively relieved to get out from under the hideous, oppressive, murderous Soviet regime. Lithuania fought and won it's independence, it wasn't "given" it. In Jan 1991, months after Lithuania declared it's independence, Russian aggressors attacked. "On January 11, the Soviets seize various institutions, including the National Defence Department and the Press House, injuring protesters who interfered. Following the attacks, large crowds of people gather around the main institutions in Vilnius. In the early hours of January 13, 1991, the newly independent Lithuania faced its first casualties. Just after midnight, Soviet tanks start to fire. Minutes later, the tanks drive into the crowd. Scores are injured and two men are crushed and killed by the tanks. Soldiers fire live rounds into the Lithuanian Radio and Television building and over the heads of the civilians gathered outside. One person is shot and killed. By the time the night is over, hundreds are injured and 14 are killed. The Soviet soldiers opt not to storm the parliament building guarded by a large crowd and concrete barricades. Armed Lithuanian defenders are also inside. It took another 27 years for the night to conclude when in March 2019, Lithuania sentenced 67 Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian citizens for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed that night. Russia has meanwhile opened a criminal case against Lithuanian prosecutors and judges that handed down the ruling." Now Putin is trying to rebuild it by coercion and force. Look at Chechnya, Georgia, Moldova, and the genocidal war Russia is waging in Ukraine. Russia leaves a trail of death and destruction behind it.
@@khaitomretro Well, the population of Latvia reached its maximum during those "terrible" soviet times. Now, under EU rule, its going backwards towards pre-WW2 era.
It is not remotely "hateful" to acknowledge Russia's brutal occupation of the Baltic states. Freedom matters. And meanwhile, you in your rush to complain about a country actually celebrating its own independence, and acknowledging that Russia is right now engaged in a brutal war of aggression, you cannot even be bothered to keep track of which country this is about, since he is from Lithuania, not Latvia. Which shows how much you care or empathize with the people in question. The idea that the Baltics, or any other former Soviet republic was given independence has no connection to reality whatsoever, and has about as much of a connection to your later claim, where you confuse being forced to be made part of the soviet union as somehow similar to voluntarily joining the EU. The idea that any of the Baltics are somehow relying on donations from a sovereign is the sort of Russian propaganda that has no basis in fact. But it is particularly funny because the comparison you make also does not hold, because they were not relying on donations from some sovereign when they were part of the Soviet Union. Instead, they were oppressed and controlled, by a Russian dominated empire. But your propaganda cannot change the actual history or the facts. And luckily, just as the Soviet fell some 30 years ago, Russia's new bid for empire will fail again. But you don't think so, by all means go join the Russian army. They'll give you poor food, crappy boots, and just long enough for Ukrainian artillery to find you. Freedom wins.
@@joshuazelinsky5213 I was in baltic states. Its all the same. Aside from few places built on EU donations, its a sad sight. The majority is half-empty and deserted. For some reason, free and unoppressed could not even built themselves better buildings to live in, so they keep on living in ones that were designed by soviet architects and constructed by soviet builders using materials from the heart of USSR. And 30+ years later they still rely on these oppressly-constructed infrastructure, until EU will give more money on the renewal. And about freedom, its much more of it here. For example, noone forces us on the topic of how many colors are in the rainbow. And we still have access to the world's media, while Europe prohibited many "inconvenient" foreign medias for the sake of "freedom of speech". Finally, at the moment, it seems like EU don't even bother about the safety of Baltics. Yes, they fortify Poland, thats for sure. But meanwhile they pulled the majority of weapons from baltic states and gave it to Ukraine, as if they won't even bother defending anything east of Kaliningrad.
@@LtVadim So your argument is that they keep using buildings that are functioning? And contrary to your claim about the Baltics being sad, during the 2000 to 2007 period, the Baltics showed more growth in GDP and GDP per a capita than any other European countries. And while there has been some slowdown, economic numbers there continue to remain strong. Baltic Tigers is a term en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Tiger for good reason. And no, one on in Europe is forcing anyone to care about how many colors are on the rainbow, but that's a hilarious attempt at using homophobia as as an excuse. No one is harmed by allowing gay people to marry or openly celebrate their lives, even as they live in fear in Russia. It is true that parts of Europe have banned Russia Today and some other Russian government services. Frankly, I think that is probably a mistake, athough given that they are government run media, banning them is not the same sort of free speech issue. Meanwhile, contrary to your claim, even speaking up against the war in Russia gets you prison sentences. Any issue of free speech issue in Europe is tiny compare to a country where you literally go to jail for trying to protest the government. As for your last point, it makes even less sense. Of course they've pulled weapons from the Baltics and put them into Ukraine, because that is where Russia invaded and is currently engaging in its war. And that's with the support of the Baltics who have supplied more support to Ukraine per a capita than other countries. The Baltics want the weapons in Ukraine because they know that if Russia wins in Ukraine, they will likely be next. I meanwhile will continue to support Ukraine, the Baltics, and any other countries which wish to stand up for their freedom against Russian imperialism.
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Thank you all for watching and kind feedback! I hope to improve and grow with my art and share it with you ♠️♣️
Never apologize for your pronunciation. In USA no one cares about your pronunciation. Sekmes Mantai, triukas buvo superinis. Linkejimai is LA
You have world class stage presence,. I gather its a simple process but I actually think this is in my top 3 performances, well done!
It's a fascinating trick, you should be proud. Also proud of your country these days, you are all doing so much. Šlovė į Lietuva!
I’m in the United States I’m an old man🤨
I think you have tremendous talent and you’re a nice presentable man love that you do things with your brother thats awesome,of course I don’t know how you did it I have my thoughts but I’m not gonna present them out of respect for you, keep the family faith✊if you want to achieve and you will keep your nose to the grindstone and make it happen!!!!!
Strive for the best but always remember second and third ain’t bad💯👍✊😎
He seems a great guy and the act was impressive. Hope to see him perform live soon
Thank you ♣️♠️
This was very enjoyable to watch. I have heard many positive things about people from Lithuania over the years. That country is definitely on my bucket list.
Such an elegant routine! I especially love the convincers you did sitting on the chairs! It shows a mastery of the psychology of the craft! Much love!
Bravo, Mantas! Love your version and performance style! Continued success!
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What a great trick. Love the end when you produce 4 chairs. Great performance.
What a wonderful act, and the magnetic personality. I might even think to add a small story in to this routine something like you’ve invited four people over for dinner and you need more chairs or something like that to give a good clear solid reason why you even need four chairs exactly. Which would then also make the ending all the more buttoned up. Great performance!🎉
That is a great idea and I am already working on it ♠️
@@mantaswizard4987 appreciate it, how wonderful!
Wonderful idea
This trick was fantastic! My only thought is that I had absolutely no idea how it was done, until the "big reveal" at the end. I almost think this trick is more marvelous when you assume there is a single chair, rather than 4. I think finishing by removing the box, revealing just one chair, and setting it up as you finished, would make it that much more spectacular than seeing the Russian doll.
Great act, really wonderful effect. I also don't typically like this style of act but I _loved_ this! Great job, this is a lot of fun.
So beautiful and unique.. Well done, Mantas! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I loved the finale, with the 4 chairs! Greetings from Hungary!
Yay! Thank you! ♣️
I usually skip it when the trick is done remote but I decided to give this one a shot and I'm glad I did
I loved the trick very well. I'm not a magician but usually I can catch a thing or two during the act but I wasn't able to catch anything
thanks you manta for this amazing trick hope you perform more!
Nicely done! And I love the use of Grieg!
Fantastic presentation, Mantas! Looking forward to seeing more of your work. :)
Beautiful. And the fact that the chair symbol looks like a 4 made the ending so good.
Great illusion, I want that cardboard box, i need to stash my chairs too :)
Fantastic trick and a great performance. I think I noticed the chairs being slightly different sizes, a fact the perspective try to obscure when all 4 are out, but even then I can't see how they would stack so neatly into each otheras to appear as one.
and how did he show us one was the right way down then show us it was upside down. That's a hard one. It's a good trick no doubt about it
Amazing, I thought you deserved a seated ovation!
Such a pleasant and positive personality. And I'm fooled of course.
I have two ideas how this may have been done, but I'm still very impressed by the performance! Well Done!
😁 Don’t tel anyone ♣️
I love that act. And I love even more that your answer to Pen was revealing where he hit the code. For everyone who wants to know how the trick works: Never believe the magician. As a child he played with metal toys and definitely not a cardboard box like we did. 😜
Haha :) thank you! ♠️♣️
@@mantaswizard4987 This is how intelligence looks like - given by nature, absolutely royal and absolutely inspiring. Labai palaikome!!! 🤍🤍🤍
I watch a lot of the Penn & Tellar Fool Us clips, absolutely loved your performance. Very classy, from your hand and body movements that are insync with the fast tempo of the music. If you just pulled 1 chair reversal it would have left me feeling entertained. I would been left feeling entertained, but not just 2 but 3 no 4 chairs. As Penn & Tellar stated it's a variation of classic magic you did it better. GREAT JOB!!!!!
Sveikiname Mantai, Šaunuolis 👍🏻
Great performance, greetings from Poland😊🎩
He has long fingers - I wonder whether he's also a pianist. Super nice & sincere fellow. Fun magic.
Thank you! Unfortunately I am not in music anyway but sleight of hand magic is my favorite ♠️
Even though I have no idea how you did it, it reminds me of the trick where a magician pulls multiple wine bottles out of the cylinder.
This was so unique & fun! Wish this was performed on stage. Amazing & elegant performance 👏👏
Awesome performance. I was amazed and certainly fooled. I hope magic culture in Lithuania will flourish.
Thank you very much - hope it will ♠️
I am magically giving good wishes to your brother!
Thank you so much!♣️
This was a really slimmed down performance preformed beautifully
oh that was fun to watch. wonderful act, wonderful trick. really enjoyed it :)
Fantastic and very charming! You did incredible!
Thnk you 🖤
Awesome performance! You are great! God bless you!
I have no idea how the trick is done but I kept thinking of a trick involving a wine bottle and cylinder. No idea how that trick is done either.
You have a lovely, clear way of presenting Mantas! A little bit of feedback - I feel that the end of the trick exposes the method, especially because most people know the old version of this with 'bottles'. Although I know that - for example - making the chair disappear would be impossible, I would consider a different approach to this updated version, because it really is a great idea, very visual and much more impressive than 'bottles'.
Well done, Mantas !🎉
Puikus pasirodymas, šaunuolis! :)🎉
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I knew you were destined for greatness. I'm very glad that you are proving me correct! Nick 007
Šaunuolis, Mantai, didžiausios sėkmės Tau!
Ačiū! ♠️
Yaaaayyyyyy. Such entertaining art ! Wow 🤩
How?! Awesome performance!!
Magic 😅
Wow! Cool 😉👍
Very well done, the 4 chairs at the end was not what I was expecting. :)
lovely
Well done, what a lovely routine, never seen that before and you have a fantastic personality. Keep shinning..
Thank you very much :)
Awesome! Lots of fun! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Way to go, dude! Great job!!
Thank you my friend - was an honor to share the episode woth you ♠️ All the best to you!
What matters not, is how the trick was done. What matters most is where you entertained?? Yes
Labas! Great act I loved it
Till 4:00 I thought: That trick is simple. But then ... wow!
neat! i am stumped
I used to dread having to read Fox in Socks at bedtime. :D
So dope! I am fooled!!!
Praying that God keeps you and your family safe, in Jesus name
The first chair looks solid and the rest seem to have angled legs, so initially I thought russian nesting dolls. But I can't think of how the upsidedown one comes off unless maybe it's the box liner and unfolds since they're the same color? I never see any indicator for it though.
see 2:25 where he flips box and unnests a chair
WOW!
Your positive energy and dedicating it to your brother was truly great. I wish you all the success. You deserve it! 👏
Thank you so much! ♣️
Brilliant! From the UK.
What FOOLED US into not attending the theatre said the studio audience!
Was it Flu-vid 1984?
As a spectator, something was odd to me when you pulled all those chairs. I think i understand what you did there. Try to move those chairs a bit slower, like they actually weight something.
Hope to see you again in the international television. Best of luck :)
Even the (I think?) pretending to sit on them was a good touch. I learned how to pretend sit in ventriloquist school
@@anderivative I don't think he has to pretend since there is one real chair. He doesn't sit on all the chairs he pulls out. When he sits he only sits on the one real chair.
Awesome performance.
the code is so hilarious to me. so you flip a chair upside down, and then bring 3 more chairs into existence. then Penn says "we like to do tongue twisters haha!! she sells seashasdfghjklasdfghjkl!!" and you're like "omg nooo he figured out the secret"
exactly my thought, completely different world :)
There are 4 chairs in one.
EASY. VERY EASY.
Fantastic
A little bit of forced perspective while unstacking. Brilliant.
Felt like that last chair seemed a little weird at first glance, maybe you’re onto something.
2+2= chair.
4 chairs.
See, math isn't hard.
Nice trick dude
Thanks♠️
Šaunuolis, Mantai :) Puikus pasirodymas! :)
From a fellow Syrian, who knows exactly what Russian barbarism is, I wish you the best you and your country!
Your country was "getting free"? Nice way to put it.
Nice trick.
Aha very thin, stackable chairs
2:24 here he separates them
nice!
Great trick
Without divulging the magic, can I get a hint on what the tongue twisters revealed? I don't get it! Did they say paper mache or 2D/3D or purple monkey dishwasher in there??
WHAT the hell was Penn talking about?! 😂 Lol
Haha :) let’s say: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers! Thank you for watching ♠️
outstanding act and performance. certainly looks impossible enough that the answer to the illusion must be magic!
(btw I happen to be Lithuanian myself.)
Haha! Thank you very much - ačiū! ✨
@@mantaswizard4987 you're quite welcome.
I agree! Especially in a live performance seeing a bunch of chairs show up out of nowhere must be so confusing to the eye
The flipping of the chair really makes it difficult to realize this is just the bottle trick in a different form. That part really confused me for a bit.
4:47 is it me or does it look like he is I front of green screen
I'm a pot head and that looks like one hell of a bud in a pot lol
awesome from L
So how was the trick done 🤷🏼♂️
fainai kai lietuviai matomi tokiai placiai auditorijai, tik kodel per atstuma? koden ne scenoj su ziurovais? ar cia karantino metu filmuota buvo? pamenu seniau buvo toj laidoj kazkoks lietuvis ,nelabai zinomas bet scenoj pasirode
I think the last trick gave away the first two tricks. I was fooled until then. Great performance though
Explain it then, foolin' flex in' Felix!
Original act..
Next time I need some furniture I'll try to get him to come with me.
Haha :) yes please 👍
i don't think you should do the 4 chairs anymore. It's way too obvious (esp. the 4th chair) even for non-magicians and cheapens the trick. The upside down stuff is more impressive.
Cool be safe in Christ God Bless everyone 🙏 John 3:16 Holy King James Bible verse
I didn't think that the rules of P&T FU allowed this type of trick that uses special prerecording. Were there any issues with the producers before being allowed on the show?
I think it’s an older one from corona times. So he couldn’t go to Vegas.
@@24framesgmbh sure recordings are permitted in the FU format, but didn't think that *type* of recording would be permitted within the rules
@@RODGERGRUMMIDGE I was on Fool Us and yes they prerecord some performances for people that can’t get to the states BUT the producers of the show watch the taping in real time. There is NO editing.
@@davidmerlin3344 wait arent you a producer?
They probably had someone on set watching to verify
MLDC Mantai, pagarba
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The most impressive part of your act was the way you turned the US/NATO war into the Russian war.
How is this a trick? It's just a version of the Russian egg doll
Oh god. Politics on Fool us... who would have thought...
Lol what political views were shared during the show?
@@korana6308 I watched all of it
@@korana6308 State and quote the political view!!!!! Oh wait you cant because your argument is null and you wont do it because you cant be wrong.
@@korana6308 The fact that you start off by "I know people with opposite opinions" tells me you are dumb and cant think for yourself. Next time base your argument on actual facts and lived experiences. Also using a single study as a main point is a very weak point to stand on.
@@korana6308 you wont quote it?? You dont have a foot to stand on. Figures. If its sooo apparent why cant you just quote it? Oh right because youre dumb.
Turn coat. I hop you will get invaded
Amazing personality and trick, but very lousy historian. Although, it is now popular to tell things that didn't happen and diminish my country.
with all my respect
The “THE TOP.. TUR.. CHAIR” I think is not an effect to fool Penn & Teller 😕😕
I think the intention is to bring something new or some variation that hasn't been seen before. but anyway congratulations on going
Why include Western propaganda?
Lithuania is not in a war with Russia. Neither is any other country of the EU.
I liked the performance, but the intro was simple sympathy bait.
Forget about the act. Whats up with this hateful intro? Look, in the end, Soviet Union gave Latvia all the independence it wanted, leaving it with the built factories, roads and infrastructure for free. And now they give such a crap about Soviet Union, meanwhile giving up all their independence and jumping from one Union right into another, going back to living on donations from their new sovereign.
You obviously know nothing about Moscow's treatment of Lithuania if you think everyone there wasn't massively relieved to get out from under the hideous, oppressive, murderous Soviet regime. Lithuania fought and won it's independence, it wasn't "given" it. In Jan 1991, months after Lithuania declared it's independence, Russian aggressors attacked.
"On January 11, the Soviets seize various institutions, including the National Defence Department and the Press House, injuring protesters who interfered. Following the attacks, large crowds of people gather around the main institutions in Vilnius.
In the early hours of January 13, 1991, the newly independent Lithuania faced its first casualties.
Just after midnight, Soviet tanks start to fire.
Minutes later, the tanks drive into the crowd. Scores are injured and two men are crushed and killed by the tanks.
Soldiers fire live rounds into the Lithuanian Radio and Television building and over the heads of the civilians gathered outside. One person is shot and killed.
By the time the night is over, hundreds are injured and 14 are killed. The Soviet soldiers opt not to storm the parliament building guarded by a large crowd and concrete barricades. Armed Lithuanian defenders are also inside.
It took another 27 years for the night to conclude when in March 2019, Lithuania sentenced 67 Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian citizens for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed that night.
Russia has meanwhile opened a criminal case against Lithuanian prosecutors and judges that handed down the ruling."
Now Putin is trying to rebuild it by coercion and force. Look at Chechnya, Georgia, Moldova, and the genocidal war Russia is waging in Ukraine. Russia leaves a trail of death and destruction behind it.
@@khaitomretro Well, the population of Latvia reached its maximum during those "terrible" soviet times. Now, under EU rule, its going backwards towards pre-WW2 era.
It is not remotely "hateful" to acknowledge Russia's brutal occupation of the Baltic states. Freedom matters. And meanwhile, you in your rush to complain about a country actually celebrating its own independence, and acknowledging that Russia is right now engaged in a brutal war of aggression, you cannot even be bothered to keep track of which country this is about, since he is from Lithuania, not Latvia. Which shows how much you care or empathize with the people in question.
The idea that the Baltics, or any other former Soviet republic was given independence has no connection to reality whatsoever, and has about as much of a connection to your later claim, where you confuse being forced to be made part of the soviet union as somehow similar to voluntarily joining the EU. The idea that any of the Baltics are somehow relying on donations from a sovereign is the sort of Russian propaganda that has no basis in fact. But it is particularly funny because the comparison you make also does not hold, because they were not relying on donations from some sovereign when they were part of the Soviet Union. Instead, they were oppressed and controlled, by a Russian dominated empire.
But your propaganda cannot change the actual history or the facts. And luckily, just as the Soviet fell some 30 years ago, Russia's new bid for empire will fail again. But you don't think so, by all means go join the Russian army. They'll give you poor food, crappy boots, and just long enough for Ukrainian artillery to find you. Freedom wins.
@@joshuazelinsky5213 I was in baltic states. Its all the same. Aside from few places built on EU donations, its a sad sight. The majority is half-empty and deserted. For some reason, free and unoppressed could not even built themselves better buildings to live in, so they keep on living in ones that were designed by soviet architects and constructed by soviet builders using materials from the heart of USSR. And 30+ years later they still rely on these oppressly-constructed infrastructure, until EU will give more money on the renewal.
And about freedom, its much more of it here. For example, noone forces us on the topic of how many colors are in the rainbow. And we still have access to the world's media, while Europe prohibited many "inconvenient" foreign medias for the sake of "freedom of speech".
Finally, at the moment, it seems like EU don't even bother about the safety of Baltics. Yes, they fortify Poland, thats for sure. But meanwhile they pulled the majority of weapons from baltic states and gave it to Ukraine, as if they won't even bother defending anything east of Kaliningrad.
@@LtVadim So your argument is that they keep using buildings that are functioning? And contrary to your claim about the Baltics being sad, during the 2000 to 2007 period, the Baltics showed more growth in GDP and GDP per a capita than any other European countries. And while there has been some slowdown, economic numbers there continue to remain strong. Baltic Tigers is a term en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Tiger for good reason.
And no, one on in Europe is forcing anyone to care about how many colors are on the rainbow, but that's a hilarious attempt at using homophobia as as an excuse. No one is harmed by allowing gay people to marry or openly celebrate their lives, even as they live in fear in Russia. It is true that parts of Europe have banned Russia Today and some other Russian government services. Frankly, I think that is probably a mistake, athough given that they are government run media, banning them is not the same sort of free speech issue. Meanwhile, contrary to your claim, even speaking up against the war in Russia gets you prison sentences. Any issue of free speech issue in Europe is tiny compare to a country where you literally go to jail for trying to protest the government.
As for your last point, it makes even less sense. Of course they've pulled weapons from the Baltics and put them into Ukraine, because that is where Russia invaded and is currently engaging in its war. And that's with the support of the Baltics who have supplied more support to Ukraine per a capita than other countries. The Baltics want the weapons in Ukraine because they know that if Russia wins in Ukraine, they will likely be next.
I meanwhile will continue to support Ukraine, the Baltics, and any other countries which wish to stand up for their freedom against Russian imperialism.