Comments by "" (@colby25) on "Russia Can't Stop $60 Billion in Military Aid PASSING this Week in Congress" video.

Thats the problem with having a 2 party only democracy. All the extremes from the right and the left get lumped into one party or the other. And the extremes are always the ones who shout the loudest and lobby the hardest. Here in the UK we got multiple parties, so all the extremes get their own parties and the overwhelmingly moderate majority can then ignore them come voting time.
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"MTG is part of a small group of Republicans which oppose aid to Ukraine "...There were 112 nayes.....Small group?
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112 republicans still voted nay? WTF. Even tho trump supported it. Who do they support if not trump? Or were maga just testing to see their actual support in the congress whilst also noting who those pro ukranian republicans are?
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@AbigailAwesome69 Supported, as in it being in his own interests to U turn on ukraine aid. Not that he actually supports ukraine aid. Plus the change in his rhetoric in the vid commment. " Ukraines survival is in the interest of the US". I am still assuming that johnson is a maga/trump proxy in all this as well mind. .......Thinking about it i think your right and johnson has acted independantly of trump. That would explain the 112 nayes. It also shows just how much influence trump/maga has in the GOP with the 112 votes.
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@PNH-sf4jz Exactly. The same names continually referenced by putins state funded propaganda trolls. Mearsheimer is another one. As for the OPs question. "In your view, is a negotiated settlement inevitable?". Yes, but only when the ukranians want it. Its their country that has been invaded. Their villages, towns and cities flattened and their people dying for their freedom and independance from putins imperialist minded russia.
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Nope. Putin used the 8 years after the minsk peace deal to build up his military for the invasion. He had previously hoped he could regain control of ukraine through politics and his puppet yanukovych. He wants to regain control of the former ussr empire he was once part of. Especially ukraine as he sees them as historical partners. Trump had no way of threatening or bargaining him out of it. It would have happened whatever. What would have been trumps response tho? Thats the bigger question. No US support to ukraine is my guess due to his recent actions. Plus the maria butina spy saga pre his election win was a sign that putin saw in trump somebody similar in character he could work with. Plenty of years since for that relationship to have flourished in private.
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"state propaganda is ramping up In the west". Since when have fox and cnn been state propaganda? The only state funded media in all this is putins. 1.9 bilion usd last year they spent on it. How do you think solyolov gets multiple mansions at lake como and in the most expensive real estate in the world in sochi?
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"Russia is protecting herself from imperialists"...whilst invading ukraine for imperialist purposes. The word is hypocrisy. "looting of Africa"....what do you think prighosin and wagner have been doing over recent years. "Ukraine government is just a puppet for NATO"....try telling that to a ukranian.
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Ukraine has already won as putins special military disaster (3 day regime change) failed. And it is still winning as it still is an independant and free democratic nation whereas putins russia is losing as it is the total opposite to ukraine. Dictatorial, authoritarian, imperialistic and uses terrorist behaviour in targetting civilians.
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Make Democracy Great Again.
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Thats a good question that people like the late alexei navalny would put about putins dictatorship. Answer would be that most goes into buying the most expensive real estate in the world in sochi. Right next to putins mansion unsurprisingly.
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"I know they have paid their share to Ukraine, but they haven't paid their share for their own defence for at least 30 years". The collapse of the USSR was the main reason for that. Yeltsins, and even putins, russia was heading in a direction towards cooperation with the west/europe. There was even talk by some of the ending of NATO altogether as it just wasnt needed anymore with so many NATO military bases being closed down in europe. European politicians, like many, trusted putin back then. Sarkozy and merkel even scuppering plans for ukraine/georgia to join NATO as they wanted a more economically friendly relationship with putins russia instead. All that has changed now. All the baltics are increasing their military not surprisingly. Macron has increased his. Germany is still stuck in WW2 pacifist mode tho. 12 of the nato countries meet the 2% gdp target that was set in 2014 now. The US could also reduce their current contribution of 3% plus if they wanted to as well if they were not happy. So forcing europeans to stump up more.
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