Comments by "gerhard7" (@gerhard7323) on "Dangerous Trussonomics and Putin's Kremlin critics – The Week in 60 Minutes | SpectatorTV" video.

  1. Some serious historical revisionism there. The Cuban Missile Crisis wasn't simply about Kruschev wanting to play the Soviet strongman it was originally centred around the US's first placing of missiles in Turkey and Italy pointed at Russia. It was de-escalated by the US very quietly agreeing to their removal in return for Russia very publicly removing its missiles from Cuba. To portray it as victory for Kennedy's diplomatic skills or as a purely Russian initiated aggression is a blatant falsehood.
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  2. Crossed a line there mate. Cindy Yiu is magnificence itself.
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  3. From a humanitarian and moral perspective there is absolutely no justification for prolonging this avoidable war. Like many wars, particularly more recent ones in a fossil fuelled world, from a Western economic and geopolitical perspective there apparently is. History isn't a morality play but this isn't Iraq, Libya or Syria. This is Russia. A former world superpower. A country with a bigger nuclear arsenal than the US, whether half of it still works properly or not, and country where what potentially follows its destabilisation could be far, far worse than anything we could currently imagine. Be careful what you wish for people.
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  4. Nothing per se. It's whom you cut them for, why and, in this particular instance, when.
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  5. Both Trump and Biden both have strong ties with Ukraine. Neither of them edifying in either case. To suggest that Zelensky, originally an oligarchal placeman, in one of the most corrupt countries in the world isn't to some degree some kind Western inspired stooge is laughable. This was a man who is mentioned in the Pandora Papers along with many other of our esteemed leaders don't forget. Putin is undoubtedly a vicious, dreadful, corrupt individual but please let's not continually lionise those who oppose him as if they were saints.
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  6. I'm seriously not here to defend Russia's wider actions in Ukraine here but how can someone begin a credible justification for the blowing up of the NS pipelines by Russia by resorting to the bizarre argument that it's a completely irrational act but it's because Russia has now become a totally irrational actor? Imagine a Columbo where our resident detective used such a motive as proof. FFS. Grow up. There are other potential actors in the frame here that would have perfectly rational reasons for doing so and one of them, the USA, has repeatedly claimed that it would be happy to see the end proper of Europe's reliance on Russian energy.
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