Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "What Political Legacy Does Putin Want to Bequeath?" video.

@reubenong8728 Sounds to me more like that is an issue with racial/ethnic supremacy. Minority populations in Russia have ALWAYS been treated as second-class to the ethnic Russians. Very rarely has Moscow allowed the regions to enjoy autonomy. Yakutia is a notable exception because despite its large land area, the population is quite small; Moscow doesn't view them as a challenge to their dominance.
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@FlamingBasketballClub You haven't addressed ANY the points I brought up to counter you claim. Instead, you are resorting to typical logical fallacies of someone who knows they have lost the plot. ANSWER THE POINTS I MADE TO REFUTE YOUR CLAIMS.
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History. Japan and the USSR never officially ended WW2 with a peace treaty. Russia has never officially signed a peace treaty with Japan formally ending the state of war between the two nations.
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Except that NATO's expansion was completely voluntary. The members of the Warsaw Pact didn't have a choice whether to join Soviet Russia's military bloc. While I nominally agree with your assessment, THAT particular false narrative completely demolishes any point you were trying to make. The fundamentals are sound, but the application is improper.
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@scottwillie6389 You clearly do not understand the meaning of the word "occupation". Nor do you understand Japanese politics. Sit down because adults are speaking and children like you are to be seen and not heard.
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Indeed. Russia was supposed to back China militarily after Ukraine when Beijing was going to go after Taiwan/Formosa. But Russia clearly cannot deliver on that support. Then there is the issue that despite claims otherwise, Beijing still has desires for "Outer Manchuria". They are still irritated with Russia over the Treaty of Aigun and want to go back to the borders originally established under the Treaty of Nerchinsk.
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Yeah, something tells me Philip Short is one of Putin's biographers and is hardly unbiased.
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@757Poppy Clearly not.
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@Ali-bu6lo I did not watch either of those vides, but from my cursory digging after the death of his daughter, it became clear that Western media was making Dugin into the Russian version of David Duke. Another boogeyman they could whine about. So, your assessment pretty much matched my assessment, though we arrived there from different directions.
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He basically reinstituted the system under Brezhnev.
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@scottwillie6389 Is the US enforcing law on the streets of Japan? THAT is what constitutes an occupation, genius. And since you are not paying attention, Japan IS an important player in world affairs. One cannot be the THRID largest economy in the world and not be one. Japan has already made security guarantees to come to the defense of Taiwan.
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I hate to break your bubble, but authoritarianism has been the norm rather than the exception throughout human history. The modern period of "Jeffersonian Democracy" is something of an aberration. And if prior examples are any indication, it is about to come to a violent in within the next 50 years.
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@puraLusa Just like Duffman says a lot of things, OH YEAH!
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I don't think you understand what a Sigma Male actually is. Sigma don't care about being popular, nor do they seek power. They are the quintessential "Lone Wolf". On both counts Putin fails to meet the definition of a Sigma Male.
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@Tespri You are making a distinction WITHOUT a difference. And those who cause the descent into despotism are WORSE that the despot himself.
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As I recall, the Eastern Chruch views St. Mark as the founder of the faith rather than St. Peter.
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@FlamingBasketballClub I DID make legitimate points, you just refuse to accept them. You think that by not even dignifying them that it somehow renders them irrelevant. I got news for you, it does not. If Zelensky is a Jew, why the hell would Nazis in Ukraine support him? They would not, disproving your claims about Nazis in Ukraine. Even the Kremlin has dropped that blood libel. American support for Ukraine's resistance didn't start until almost a month AFTER the invasion. It was POLAND and the Baltic States that were supporting Ukraine exclusively during the first month. ANWSER THAT POINT! The EU's fast tracking of Ukraine's application does not in any way abrogate the fact that Ukraine has to first meet all of the requirements of a member, something they still have not achieved. You seem to ignore that their previous applications were rejected. It being considered now is a direct result of Russia's invasion. Hell, just you pointing it out is a red herring (logical fallacy) meant to distract rather than make a coherent point.
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@FlamingBasketballClub You are not making any logical argument, only words salad in an attempt to claim that correlation is somehow causality. Yet again you are pointing to events that occurred AFTER the invasion to justify Putin's invasion. That is called putting the cart before the horse and is an example of intellectual dishonesty and anachronistic fallacy. And you thinking you repeating my snide little remark makes you smart only shows once again that you do not have a single original idea in your head, instead parroting others in a poor attempt at mimicry. Every time you repeat it, you are praising me and engaging in a self-own.
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@rejvaik00 Where did I defend Russia? I didn't. You simply jumped to that conclusion because I offered a different perspective. I was simply pointing out that as much as the West like to hubristically praise its form of government, it is not the typical state of human existence. I agree that Russia needs to break the cycle. But them breaking that cycle will not matter if the West degenerates into the very same despotism as the old Soviet Union.
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@FlamingBasketballClub Put down the Vodka, Comrade. For one, the US didn't provide direct military aide to Ukraine until two weeks AFTER the start of the Invasion when it became clear that Ukraine was not going to be overrun. Secondly, Zelensky IS A JEW! Nazis would NEVER support a Jewish leader. Conversely, the Wager group are unrepentant Nazis, if you bothered to pay attention. Your claims are easily debunked, and you are not convincing ANYONE.
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It does seem like he has as Napoleonic "Little Man" Complex.
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Indeed. Putin managed to unite almost all of the Slaves.....agianst HIM!
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I tend to agree. Thought I think China would be the biggest danger for them. Out of the Russian orbit and into the Chinese.
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@rejvaik00 The Greeks whom the West love to claim descent from are who arguably pioneered both modern Democracy and Republican governance. And as Aristotle pointed out, they invariably degenerate into despotism. Even the Hebrews who started out as a decentralized confederation of tribes eventually became a dictatorship under an absolute monarch.
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@scottwillie6389 Pure copium. Either that or you are a paid shill for either the Chinese CCCP or the Kremlin. China wants Outer Manchuria back. And the fact that they have reinforced their border to prevent Russians from fleeing Putin's conscription only drives home the point that they are NOT friends, merely "business partners" with no love lost between them.
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@scottwillie6389 I agree that normal countries don't allow unauthorized entry. So tell me why Joe Bite-Me and his cabal are allowing that on the US-Mexico border? Those Russia ex-pats don't support US, genius. They just don't want to die in a pointless war started by a man who has a "Short Man" Napoleon complex. Just because Beijing CLAIMS their disputes are settled doesn't make it true. To this day there are still spats between Pakistan and China over their border, you just don't hear about it because neither side wants to talk about their embarrassments.
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I tend to agree. Under Yeltsin, there was a real possibility of engaging Russia in a meaningful way and help transition them away from their centralized command and control out of the Kremlin. Putin, unfortunately, went back to the very same system under Brezhnev, undoing the reforms started under Gorbachev. Islamic terrorism was yet another area that Russia and the West could have allied, especially in the wake of the Beslan School Siege. That should have been the moment when Bush and Putin locked hands and made the effort to put down radicalism. Russia's long history with central Asia would have been of great value to the West.
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Indeed, Soviet Russia under a different name, but all of the same Hallmarks of what Reagan called "The Evil Empire".
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Indeed. Putin simply reinstated the very same system they had under Leonid Brezhnev.
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Don't play the blame shifting game or whataboutism.
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I am all for KONIGSBERG becoming the Singapore of the Baltic.
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@nsevv You didn't read the part "OF THE BALTIC"? Basically, the city should be for that region of the world what Singapore is for Southeast Asia.
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Sounds to me like Kiril has done what the Kims have done in North Korea: perverted faith into a cult of personality. In North Korea, they believe in the Trinity: Kin Il-Sung the Father, Kim Jong-Il the Son, and the Holy spirit of Juche (Korean Communism).
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@DanDanJanJanJP Yeah, I don't think Dugin is as influential over Putin as the media likes to pretend. Dugin is simply a Russian talking head, not a policy advisor. To the more to the original point, it is highly unlikely that Japan would trade the US for Russia if only on the grounds that the US supports Japanese claims over ALL of the Kuril Islands. By joining Russia, they would relinquish their claims over any of the Islands.
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ICBMs may have global reach, but zero staying power. Blue Water Navies are mandatory to be considered a Superpower, and Russia hasn't had once since the collapse of the USSR. China wants one, but still isn't there yet. The UK and France have one, but theirs are not nearly as powerful as the US Navy. India COULD build a blue water Navy but has no aspirations hence no desire nor need to build one.
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@Tespri Again false narratives, strawman arguments and blatantly disingenuous claims. Much like Nicolo Machiavelli, I am pointing out the blatantly obvious, but rather than see it for the critique it is, you improperly see it as a tacit endorsement. Such is typical of the worst readers as Fredrich Nietzsche observed. Actually, I did if you bothered to even pay attention. Cicero was highly critical of the people who empowered first Pompey, then Julius Caeser then finally Mark Anthony before the last one had him put to death. "So mass murdering people on basis of their ethnicity/class/opinions is less bad than "selling of own people". Yet another strawman argument and a non-sequitur. But I get it, you are trying to act virtuous while achieving nothing. "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." as Shakespeare aptly said.
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Oligarchism and Plutocracy. To claim that it is Fascism shows a clear misunderstanding of what Fascism is. Italy under Mussolini was Fascistic. Spain under Franco was Fascist. Germany under that Austrian Chancellor was NOT Fascism, it was "German National SOCIALISM".
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@DanSolowastaken Calling people who disagree with you fascist only proves you don't even know the meaning of the word. Kind of like how calling someone racist has lost its meaning. Name calling doesn't make your point, it simply proves you know you have no argument left to make. "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser," -Attributed to Plato "When your argument is weak, abuse the Plaintiff," -Marcus Tullius Cicero "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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@DanSolowastaken Wow, take a dose of your own medicine.. Putin combines the WORST elements of every totalitarian dictator. But that does NOT make him a Fascist by precepts laid out by Giovani Gentile. Tell me, are you aware of the Molotov-Ribbentrop alliance? It was only possible because Stalinism and Naziism have so much in common. But of course, leftists like you want to ignore that alliance of the Hammer and Sickle to the Swastika because it reveals leftist ideology for what it truly is. And funny you accuse me of ad hominins when you do exactly that. Again, you throw around the term Fascist with the same intellectual dishonesty as those who accuse black conservatives of being White supremacists.
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@DanSolowastaken @Dan Herr Clown boots? You resorting to insults makes you guilty of the very thing you accused me of doing. it is also a sign of desperation showing that you know you have lost the debate. Thank you for effectively throwing in the towel and admitting you have lost the debate. Yes, Putin is an ethnonationalist, but that does NOT make him a conservative by American standards. But considering that the Euro-Centric view of conservatism has been skewed by a bias towards monarchism, I can understand your confusion. Oh, and Religious supremacy may also be a Euro-centric view of conservatism, it also happens to be the preferred position of Islamists whom the left on BOTH sides of the Atlantic love to apologize for. Are you referring to Giovanni Gentile or Mussolini? Because Gentile is the FATHER of Fascism. Any definitions that deviate from his principal points is Soviet-Communist disinformation to hide from the fact that they share much in common. So, are you going to actually debate merits or are you going to continue to parrot leftist talking points on cue like Pavlov's Dog?
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@freetolook3727 Indeed. Reminds me of some funny insults to WW2 German vehicles: A Mess of Messerschmitts. A Junk of Junkers. A Putridity of Panzers.
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@Tespri That is NOT what I said, and you know it. How about you actually read what I said instead of trying to twist and contort meaning that doesn't exist in what I said. I said those who CAUSE the fall into despotism are worse than the tyrant. Why? Because they are slavers on a national level, having sold their own people into slavery to the whims of an autocrat. An inherited despotism, whether Monarchy or Shogunate is less terrible. "Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome. Julius was always ambitious, but he was just one man," -Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator, lawyer, and politician: 45 BC.
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@LittleNoiseBoy The Baltic States and Poland would point to the invasion as specifically WHY the joined NATO. Hell, the leader of Lithuania even said that they would be occupied by Russia now if they hadn't joined.
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Your first mistake is that "Evangelical Fundamentalism" is NOT monolithic. Secondly, it does NOT the institutional power that either the Eastern Orthodox Chruch, nor the "Western Orthodox" (ie Catholicism) has enjoyed. But as typical, people like you grossly misunderstand nationalism and patriotism. Just because the philosophy is simple doesn't mean that its adherents are simple minded. Sometimes a simple concept can have vastly nuanced interpretations.
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@joeybwalsh That is not an argument, it is a logical fallacy. And it is you tacitly conceding that I am correct. Learn to debate and make better arguments. "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser," -attributed to Plato. "When your argument is weak, abuse the plaintiff," -Marcus Tulliuc Cicero "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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@FlamingBasketballClub Pot meet kettle dude. But then what should I expect from a Troll with zero original ideas in his head? Learn to debate. You are only making yourself look foolish. "Better people THINK you a fool than to open your mouth a remove all doubt," -Sameul Clemens, aka Mark Twain. "I learned long ago never to wrestle with pigs. You get dirty and the pig enjoys it," -George Bernard Shaw.
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