Charity Poll
Added 2024-08-04 14:11:16 +0000 UTCG'day all.
As noted last video, I'm once again looking to get your feedback on where you'd like me to prioritise the channel's charitable contributions in the second half of 2024. The way I have historically handled this is to look at the spread of votes (as well as people's suggestions) and then picked a range of charities operating in Ukraine to support over the course of the following months.
Thank you again for your suggestions (I've discovered some foundations I'd never heard of before thanks to past polls and emails) and, of course, your ongoing support of the channel.
Comments
I’m interested in your assessment of the current mindset of those Ukrainians who were separatists before the 2022 invasion. I imagine many are disenchanted with becoming Russian. Will they forever be deemed traitors? What is the potential for repatriation?
Bob Norris
2024-09-15 16:13:35 +0000 UTCCan we have another update on the economic side of the war? I just saw this video, which got me thinking: https://youtu.be/tvL7qPOCRoI?si=crwxGPMArq_PsM34
Jorge Ortiz III
2024-08-23 12:00:36 +0000 UTCA bit off topic, but saw "More than 110 models of Ukrainian and foreign-made military vehicles have been approved for use in Ukraine" (source: https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-approves-swedish-infantry-fighting-vehicle-for-military-use/ )
Niclas Hansemark
2024-08-20 05:26:51 +0000 UTCComplaining about YouTube ads in the comment section of patreon. Welcome to the internet my friend. :) #youtubePremium best investment ever
JJ Sonn
2024-08-11 20:59:43 +0000 UTCSend Ten to Kyiv: 230 more M1 Abrams (we have 2300 just in storage from before ODS) to add to the pitiful 31 we've sent them, 400 more Bradleys (again, we have 2800 just in storage, plus 700 new M2A4's ordered by our Army in Feb23) stuffed full of forty year old TOW missiles we will never go back to war with again. 147 retired Stryker MGS for road trips. Planes? our Air Force just sent 200 planes to the Boneyard in Tucson AZ for retirement. These include the following: 50 F-15's, 50 F-16's and 42 A-10's (the entire fleet of 200 A-10's are also being retired). Granted some of these may be trashed? But imagine 200 remotely piloted Warthogs on one or more of the fronts in Ukraine? But why not send these to Ukraine as a gift to spend their Golden Years? We also have 1200 "good" "usable" F-16's already replaced in service by over 1300 F-35's. So send 120 still good Vipers to Ukraine right now. and Perun, you started this a year or two ago.
Thomas Bernecky
2024-08-11 20:23:17 +0000 UTCFor the last 2 videos I'm seeing ads at the start of each podcast; while my monthly support is for the content, I also contribute quite well so that I and others can see the content, and not wait through political ads. I understand this is your business, and if you choose to leave monetization on that's your choice, but it will lead me to substantially decrease my monthly support.
Brad Sattler
2024-08-11 16:12:40 +0000 UTCA2/AD in China then A2/AD Russia
m
2024-08-11 07:29:53 +0000 UTCWhile the war is raging I think supporting something more... kinetic... would be most useful. However if that's not an option for this channel, then removing UXOs is the best way of preventing further deaths and injuries.
Brave Sir Roger
2024-08-08 07:55:19 +0000 UTCMilitary vehicles are still participating in the demining, so sadly this should be a choice for after active conflict.
Brad Sattler
2024-08-08 02:53:47 +0000 UTCL'm sure the Ukrainian government has a recognized charity that supports the families of soldiers. Would help with morale and recruitment.
Teabag
2024-08-07 22:54:13 +0000 UTCI'd also like to see Putin and the other war criminals strapped to the de mining plows, frankly.
spaced_out_armour
2024-08-06 16:49:41 +0000 UTCI have been saying for a while now that Ukraine should demand, as reparations, that Russia replace it's mandatory military service with mandatory demining service in Ukraine. In essence, that russia should have to send Russians, paid by russia and supervised by Ukraine, to demine Ukrainian land completely. Such an agreement would firstly make it essentially impossible to recreate the russian military, as they would have no source of recruits or cash for training recruits, both of which would be going to de-mine Ukraine. Secondly, assuming it was managed well by Ukraine, it would create the potential for Russians to learn what it means to live in a democracy, and the consequences of warfare in a very real way, and thirdly since demining is a dangerous job, I would rather Russians were getting killed and injured repairing the harms they have done than it be Ukrainians.
spaced_out_armour
2024-08-06 16:48:58 +0000 UTCI would love to see an overview on demining in combat, and why it seems that it's been so ineffective in the Ukraine war. I get that isn't really in your wheelhouse, though, but it's a fascinating topic.
spaced_out_armour
2024-08-06 16:44:01 +0000 UTCI know it would be a very sensitive topic to discuss the wide array of opinions of Ukrainians to what is happening right now, but that is why I would be interested to see your take on it. I am not sure of your level of knowledge and insight on the subject, but I trust your balanced and carefully researched approach. The amount of bias, hyperbole and hysteria being tossed around right now is literally earth-shattering (see what I did there).
Scheraus
2024-08-05 15:55:56 +0000 UTCEchoing similar sentiments to what others have expressed already - I believe that rebuilding and mine clearing are extremely important tasks, but will unfortunately have to wait in large part till the fighting is over or at least more stable. That being said, I trust your judgement.
Scheraus
2024-08-05 15:39:53 +0000 UTCI wanted to also propose an update video series on Germany's military budget and "rearmament" progress. A video every 5 years or so?
Andrei Mogosan
2024-08-05 15:28:20 +0000 UTCI can't seem to vote, but I went with Demining and EOD. Later on, though, I'd really love a deep dive into the Singapore defense strategy and challenges. It's such a unique situation that has always fascinated me.
Independent George
2024-08-05 15:04:03 +0000 UTCEven if I have selected the demining and medical care options, I'm sorry, but my feeling is that it is helpful to get attack drones to the squads and enable the elimination of enemy combatants
Justin Spoliar
2024-08-05 13:14:38 +0000 UTCI voted medical stuff, though I think all of these are good options. However, I do have a vague suggestion-type thing, not sure how useful it's going to be. This makes me think of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. The simple short and relevant version is this: People have different needs that they prioritize differently. Certain needs have to be met first before other needs become relevant. To give a very very simple example: people are not going to care about having a good school to send their kids to if they have to worry about having a roof over their head or food to eat. Or to give an example in the context of humanitarian aid: Trying to get people better education is pointless if their healthcare is so bad that they're dying before they ever have a chance to go to school. So from that perspective, I would say, support the thing that's going to help the most people the best. I'm not an expert at all though so I have no idea what that would be in this situation and I think all the options you've listed are important and helpful!
Thomas Reijerse
2024-08-05 10:52:04 +0000 UTCSeconded, I would be very down with that
Thomas Reijerse
2024-08-05 10:47:23 +0000 UTCI'd actually vote direct financial support to the UAF
Bernhard Rohrer
2024-08-05 10:43:19 +0000 UTCCheck out Harley-EOD on YouTube. He's a Brit who has been training and equipping Ukrainians to demine. And they do it on a shoestring budget. I've been supporting him for over one year now. If you watch his videos you will see he is pretty fed up with the usual EOD charities and NGOs as basically wasting way too much money and taking too long to actually get areas cleared so civilians can return to their homes and fields. He suffered an injury recently so he has not been demining himself but is still raising funds and equipment for the teams in Ukraine.
Matthew Zaleski
2024-08-05 03:36:36 +0000 UTCGreat comments on a great guy's great proposals. Thank you, Perun, for listening to us. . . Though from coastal California, I come from a big family of farmers from the American Midwest. and Ukraine has still a primarily agricultural economy. But they can't grow wheat, maize or sunflowers for internal use and export in fields full of mines and unexploded ordinance. This has happened in basically all of Ukraine, but especially in liberated portions of the Kherson, Kharkiv and Zaporizhia Oblasts. For me, that's the foundation and starting point for everything else needed and suggested.
Douglas K Southard
2024-08-05 01:39:29 +0000 UTCI chose Reconstruction because not only is it important, it, I believe, is where the most graft and stolen money is. All topics are great subjects (those amazing rats that sniff out mines) but I think a history of reconstruction gone right (think Marshal Plan) but the so many that have gone wrong to the point of never being complete or worse. .... Think of the reconstruction material that has been diverted to build other things like ....tunnels? Fascinating topic this could be.
Maddogpilot
2024-08-05 00:16:34 +0000 UTCHard to go wrong with any of those options
Oscar
2024-08-04 22:22:34 +0000 UTCI guess for me it depends on what "reconstruction" means. If that is accelerating the economic recovery of the country, then I suspect that will enable all the others to occur better / faster. Hmmm.
Ben and Charlie are hamsters
2024-08-04 20:23:24 +0000 UTCMines and unexploded ordinance are a massive problem everywhere there has been a war. My father in law grew up in PNG and was finding stuff up Kokoda 20-30 years after the war ended. Now you might say that it's jungle... but dealing with ordinance takes people who give a shit. They still find stuff in France from over a century ago, and that is prime agricultural land. Terrain isn't the prime factor it's the funding and effort which makes the difference.
Chel
2024-08-04 19:48:35 +0000 UTCThings that are really important, but often overlooked or not sexy enough to attract donations. Administration, logistics, use your judgment!
Teresa Benson
2024-08-04 18:49:32 +0000 UTCNo apologies necessary! It's always good to let Perun know how much we value his time and effort.
Teresa Benson
2024-08-04 18:40:28 +0000 UTCAs well as those that stayed in Western Ukraine but didn't really do anything to help.
Teresa Benson
2024-08-04 18:38:34 +0000 UTCNot "instead," I want to keep sharing them with people who are only comfortable with YouTube.
Teresa Benson
2024-08-04 18:37:38 +0000 UTCI'd be curious to hear what sort of new (or old) cultural moors you think will come to the fore after going through this crucible. I personally have a feeling that there's going to be this weird cultural divide between those that stayed and those that left, and that this will have a profound impact on the kind of "nation" that gets glued back together.
AlliterativeArts (Eric Faust)
2024-08-04 18:26:18 +0000 UTCDemining and EOD cos I feel thats a major source of injuries and wounds to both civilian and military
j ong
2024-08-04 17:06:52 +0000 UTCAfter a hopefully successful peace, demining would be more choice, reconstruction will be a nightmare without it. However, as long as they are in a state of hostilities, my vote goes to medical assistance.
William Comars
2024-08-04 16:32:18 +0000 UTCImpossible to choose, so voted for all four. Sorry if that's no help.
Paul Haynes
2024-08-04 16:24:32 +0000 UTCApologies to all for any confusion I might have caused, please chalk it up to nooby exuberance.
Doug
2024-08-04 16:21:45 +0000 UTCThough de-mining is of course a priority after the battle, what Ukranian war-fighters need now is to stop the bleeding, adapt to prosthetic appliances, and PTSD intervention. Medical needs now, post war reconstruction after hostilities cease.
Daniel Hall
2024-08-04 16:13:30 +0000 UTCI believe EOD/Demining, especially post-war, is something which is easily overlooked, with foreign aid mostly going where nice pictures can be made, and heartwarming stories be told. Demining the world's grain basket is my choice.
Peter Jensen
2024-08-04 15:56:50 +0000 UTCThe Fall campaign will be bloody, an easy choice.
Neil O'Matic
2024-08-04 15:48:08 +0000 UTCI think Ukraine is the most mined country in the worldso eod sounds very important to me.
alexander gaitan
2024-08-04 15:26:46 +0000 UTCThank you Perun for all that you do and for your willingness to use your money for good. (PS- Did you see the Ukrainians named a drone for you? Lol ok probably not for you but it's nickname is the "Perun")
Brian Reczek
2024-08-04 15:26:29 +0000 UTCThe "Annexation of former penal colony of Australia to Glorious New Zealand Fund"
Luc Gierten
2024-08-04 15:16:02 +0000 UTCWith Russian forces continuing to advance it seems too early to put much effort into de-mining. But medical assistance remains crucial.
ALLAN LEES
2024-08-04 15:05:24 +0000 UTCAs a former combat engineer, i had to pick Demining/EOD. Those timebombs can lurk for decades, before someone stumbles on one.
John Doe
2024-08-04 14:45:54 +0000 UTCI saw a sponsored post in Instagram about a charity helping injured and abandoned cats in Ukraine. I'd suggest something similar on top of my votes.
AvakùmaMorgoth
2024-08-04 14:42:11 +0000 UTCI agree, Come Back Alive is a worthy organization.
Cap'n Dan Doherty
2024-08-04 14:37:41 +0000 UTCThe funds for donations have always come from things like sponsorships of videos on the channel. I just wanted to clarify that because I really don't want to ever risk people supporting me here based on incorrect assumptions. I keep the Patreon funds and use them to offset some of my time spent on the videos and for things like my sound editor, satellite footage, compensating people who assist with episodes etc. I promise I'm doing ok (at least as long as I manage to avoid burnout!).
Perun
2024-08-04 14:36:21 +0000 UTCPerhaps Vimeo instead or in the long run, a dedicated website.
Jakob Papirov
2024-08-04 14:32:28 +0000 UTCIs there a chance of a video on the topic of demining and EOD? Between the international ick that surrounds them (for good reason), their extensive use in Ukraine, and their long history, I think there might be interesting content there.
Adam
2024-08-04 14:31:58 +0000 UTCThe Gift for Putin initiative (backed by the Czech Ministry of Defence) offers a range of more kinetic options: https://www.weaponstoukraine.com/
Mike
2024-08-04 14:28:18 +0000 UTCNext to Perun keeping more for himself so he is not overworked, I suggest partnering long term with a specific volunteer organization working in Ukraine to find the most urgent need.
Hanhwe Kim
2024-08-04 14:28:15 +0000 UTCOfftopic: Please consider uploading your full videos to patreon too. I'd like to stop using youtube.
Shaarred
2024-08-04 14:25:54 +0000 UTCI laud the idea of supporting any of this efforts in Ukraine, but I have no qualms with Perun being compensated for his fantastic work.
Beanbag753
2024-08-04 14:21:09 +0000 UTCFair enough, I'm pretty new here 🙂🤷♂️
Doug
2024-08-04 14:20:55 +0000 UTCHe's probably doing fine as it is.
Jeremy L
2024-08-04 14:20:04 +0000 UTCWe should all chip in for that one
Niclas Hansemark
2024-08-04 14:19:54 +0000 UTC@Doug reading my thoughts. I agree.
Chariton Iosifides
2024-08-04 14:19:07 +0000 UTCEOD=explosive ordnance disposal.
Richard Dietzen
2024-08-04 14:17:39 +0000 UTCI hope this is taken in the Spirit it is meant, but I don't hate the idea of Perun keeping more for himself as well.
Doug
2024-08-04 14:15:32 +0000 UTCCome back alive foundation. It makes the most difference!
KapitainZino
2024-08-04 14:13:36 +0000 UTC
