Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Johnny FD: Making Ukraine Your Home | Jake Broe Podcast (E019) @JohnnyFD" video.

Johnny FD is a character, I saw him a few months back at the Silicon Curtain event in Lyviv. I left Australia and moved to Donbas in 2014 (Ukrainian wife). I flaked it and arrived right at the time in Donbas (Makiivka) when Girkin & his bandits took over & proclaimed the so-called DNR. May wife lost that flat in 2014 and we moved to the Ukrainian side of the contact line, to a town called now called Pokrovsk - old Soviet name was "Krasnoarmiisk - i.e. Red Army (town). I bought a new flat to replace the one my wife lost in the DNR and we had to leave that last year. It's only 60km (40 miles) from the front & too risky, we have no car and if the Russians over ran it, we would have no way to escape their cruel sadism.. Now my wife & I are IDP in NW Ukraine. Haven't been home in a year and a half. I had to leave my guitars behind. I used to strum every day. Last time I picked up someone else's guitar I couldn't remember any of the songs I used to know and mis-fretted tons of notes and chords. One of a thousand reasons I hate Zealot Russians and that cretin in the Kremlin. I did think about starting some YouTube thing, but I had to leave. my spec'd up tower PC in Donbas and only have a 2009 MacBook that I want to throw out the window when I use it.. I'm just a nobody in some kind of grey zone. I could have went back to Australia, but to be honest I can't stand Australians and their petty whining about trivial BS. My wife and I believe win Ukraine and we will not leave or run away. I will live out the rest of my days here. Don't miss Australia at all. Good on ya Jake, love ya show and looking forward to your father returning to shoot the breeze with you. That was definitely an interesting show, because you re mostly doing excellent monologues (you have a great format/style) but it is a nice change to have a guest to chat with every now and then.
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@rachelc2227 merci!
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@larsrons7937 Thank you so much, The main thing is to support Ukraine for victory in any way you can afford. Even If it's just in the information war etc. I've had offers of personal support from good hearted people such as yourself and I always say, forget about me, the best way to help us all here in Ukraine is to donate or buy stuff for the Ukrainian army so they can boot the Russians out and we can all go home. For Americans write to your congressman and urge them to support the aid packages etc. Once again, thank you.
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@franksims6452 Much appreciated. Thanks so much.
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interesting, tbh when he said he's gonna run away this winter, I kinda got pissed off, I've been here since 2014 and I will never run away. I'm just a nobody sticking it out to the end. there's a lot of grifters here inserting themselves into the situation and some of them, it's all about their self promotion, its not about Ukraine, they're just grand standing..Johnny FD has helped with some fund raising and whatnot, A lot of people are anti-Ukrainian - at least he's on our side.
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