Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "Russia’s defence is too weak to fight Ukraine’s new tanks | General Jack Kean" video.

Give them Donbass back and they'll leave. Keep fighting and they'll fight on. There's no genocide involved. It's purely business.
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@rtorres4132 Sound in principle, but holding a fair referendum in Ukraine is near impossible. Bribery and intimidation are ingrained into the very fabric of society.
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It would be rather interesting to see an interview with Col Douglas Macgregor on this channel.
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@rtorres4132 Very good point.
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Tdey will probably come with pre-trained Polish crews in Ukrainian uniforms.
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@31Blaize The treaty was a mistake, and like all dubious treaties it has not passed the test of time. You can argue that the whole of Ukraine is Russian, since it has had virtually no independent existence for many hundreds of years. This applies even more strongly to Crimea and Donbass with their large Russian populations, and especially to Donbass whose mining and industry was developed with Russian money using mainly Russian labour.
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@SubjectiveFunny I've already suggested an interview with Col Douglas Macgregor. Professor John J Mearsheimer would also be worth listening to. Both are far more qualified than I am to explain the position in more detail.
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@kdawg9477 Hardly adequate analogies. There are very few Germans in Kaliningrad and I daresay if the Romans and the Mongols were miraculously re-incarnated and armed with modern weapons we would all have to look out! What reason re Macgregor? I assume he has trodden on a few toes, and I admit that his views may be coloured by resentment, as are Scott Ritter's, but they are both worth listening to.
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@rtorres4132 Even before that it was created by Peter the Great and Catherine the Great.
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@31Blaize How many border agreements have passed the test of time? Just look at maps and see how many have failed. More important is Ukraine ignoring the Minsk agreements of 2015/16. We are being sold an entirely false view of history. This war is about America trying to create a globalist monopolar world, and Russia is resisting it. The poor bloody Ukrainians are caught in the middle.
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@doyouwanttogivemelekiss3097 You seem to have contradicted yourself. Putin originally wanted just that: for Donbass to be an independent state - or two states rather, Donetsk and Luhansk. Ethnicity and language are only part of the issue however. More important is the vast mineral wealth of Donbass which represents a huge investment by Russia, both in terms of finance and of manpower.
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@cacwgm But the Russians are right, aside from the might. The "might" has only been brought in to play because more civilised ways of resolving the Crimea/Donbass issues have failed.
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@robertpatrick3350 His view is a Russian view of the world. Yours is a Western, US influenced view. Who is to say which view is the more distorted?
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@stephenhill545 Not very funny for all the people getting killed, is it? In fact the desire of many Russians in Donbass to escape rule from nationalist Kiev is widespread and genuine. It was obviously encouraged by Russia, but the Russians and Russia have just cause for complaint.
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@robertpatrick3350 ..and who were warmly welcomed by many.
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@timtadeo8614 Way off what? Their views seem entirely cogent and counterbalance the one-sided Ukraine-worship which disfigures Western reporting on the war.
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@stephenhill545 Then every country in Europe has been a criminal entity at one time or another. And who makes these laws anyway?
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@stephenhill545 That is surely the point at issue.
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@doyouwanttogivemelekiss3097 Rebellion was encouraged and made possible by Russia, certainly. But then Russia has considerable claim to the mineral resources of Donbass, as well as a regard for the welfare of ethnic Russians who live there.
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@geoffreycodnett6570 Because the mineral wealth was discovered, exploited, mined and paid for by that other country, using labour from that other country to do it.
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@geoffreycodnett6570 Modern Ukraine isn't. It has been Russian since the early 18th century.
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@richardjoseph9002 Who could that be? Ever heard of the Internet?
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@leeii337 Chechnya came round in the end, but the two situations are somewhat different. Russia likes to keep its borders secure, that's all.
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@geoffreycodnett6570 The Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine was entirely subordinate to the SSR of Russia. Moscow made all the decisions and imported Russian labour to do the work since the Tatars, who were the majority of the inhabitants, were unsuited to mines and factories. Donbass, like the whole of Ukraine, was Russian prior to the Revolution and remained Russian in all but name subsequent to it.
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@31Blaize Everything thing else I've said is also true, but realistically speaking obtaining access to the mineral and industrial wealth of Donbass is perhaps the main motive for the invasion. It's hardly greed though to try to get back something which is really yours, but has been given away in error by your drunken uncle.
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@leeii337 It pretty much is.
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@richardkey1678 They seem to think it does! I really wonder what the Americans will do if Saudi and the other Middle Eastern oil producers turn their backs on America and start doing deals with the Russians. Not unlikely, either.
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@richardkey1678 Too true. This is getting interesting, isn't it?
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@MostlyPennyCat They are!
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@timtadeo8614 It wasn't an independent country BEFORE it was conquered. Peter the Great was merely the victor in a territorial land grab involving Swedes, Poles and others. Most of modern Ukraine, especially the Eastern part, was occupied by wandering tribes of Tatars. The pre-existing Viking civilisation centred on the Dnieper river has more or less collapsed. Modern Ukraine is a Russian construct.
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@pacmanc8103 Speak for yourself -and everyone else with the attention span of a goldfish.
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@1202burton I don't think it would be a wise business decision.
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@kkpenney444 This is a condition which seems to affect a great many military men.
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