Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "Putin feels 'effect' of hundreds of Ukrainian drone strikes into Russia" video.

The mosquitoes in Russia are really terrible at this time of year.
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Unlike Ukraine of course. If they had adhered to the Minsk Accords this dreadful war would never have happened.
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@A4Natty Not in any important regard. These treaties were all created with the help of American lawyers, well-versed in the art of writing treaties. They have been developing these techniques ever since they were used to help commit genocide against the native populations of America in the late 19th century. Minor infringements - real or imagined - can be cited as an excuse to ignore the main points of such treaties, which are devised solely to enable US interests to be advanced.
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@nomennescio4604 So because Zelensky refused to talk to the DPR and the LNR directly his country got invaded? What a very astute politician he is.
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And how many billions did they spend?
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@Lepocoloco The Minsk was supposed to stop the war. And it would have done if Ukraine had done what was expected of it instead of arming itself for the next round.
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@Lepocoloco You are becoming hysterical. Nothing I have written is copy/pasted. It is simply the result of a reasoned assessment of the situation.
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@A4Natty I hate to point out a typo. I do it myself often enough. But I am not taking gibberish nor talking it. I am speaking the truth, hard as it may be for you to accept it.
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@nomennescio4604 What was happening in Istanbul then? A tea party?
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@PaulDenison-r7r Budapest is dead in the water. It was, anyway, just another of those cunning treaties got up by the Americans to fool people into thinking they were getting something they weren't. Putin saw through it and made it clear it didn't apply to his regime. No treaty lasts forever.
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@Lepocoloco You have it all about face. This war and the treaties that preceded it are simply about America and its allies turning Ukraine into a client state and getting their hands on its immense mineral riches - which Russia has spent decades of blood, sweat and tears in developing.
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@PaulDenison-r7r No treaty lasts forever, Putin didn't renege on it. He merely pointed out that it not longer applied. Budapest was a dreadful mistake .It created the situation leading to the present war because it made the boundaries of the new country of Ukraine the same as the boundaries of the former SSR of Ukraine. Russia, in fact, had appended bits of Russia - Eastern Ukraine and later Crimea - on to the Ukraine SSR purely for reasons of administrative and logistical convenience. These areas are Russian in all but name and attempting to drag them into the deals Kiev wants with NATO and the EU is the main reason for the conflict.
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@Lepocoloco Minsk was an attempt to ratify a complex situation. Essentially, Ukraine is a deeply divided country with the Western part looking to Europe and America, and the Eastern part still looking to Russia in many important respects. Minsk was designed to find a compromise by giving regional autonomy to the Donbass republics so they would not be included in any deals Kiev made with the EU, which would have prevented them continuing to trade with Russia. Whatever anyone might think of this compromise it was surely better than a war in which many thousands have died.
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@A4Natty The Russian Federation is neither the USSR or the Russian Empire. All it has ever done is try to defend itself against US imperial aggression in Georgia, Chechnya and now Ukraine.
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@Scaleyback317 That instead of taking steps grant autonomy to Donbass, Ukraine re-armed itself in order to be able to take it back by force..
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@Scaleyback317 Putin had a very clear idea of what to expect. The Russians in the East did indeed welcome his troops, as did the Russians in Crimea in 2014. He did not expect Ukrainians to do so. Before you go any further I strongly suggest you read his essay on Russian/Ukraine relations published shortly before the invasion. It makes his position very clear.
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@dorotazapolnik234 The rebellion in Donbass had very real causes. It was certainly aided by the Russians, but the underlying causes cannot be ignored. The people there could not put up with their culture being dismantled, nor their wages plummeting. The owners of the mines and factories - generally Russian - could not put up with businesses being nationalised and then sold off to American and other foreign agencies.
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@stevenmartin8828 No. It is you who apparently has no clue. Why don't you tell me what you think the reason is?
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@A4Natty It sold them instead. To Wagner. They were no longer in the possession of the Russian state.
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@A4Natty Yes. Anyone can declare a treaty no longer valid. There have been numerous examples of this throughout history. (I am not Russian, by the way. I am English.)
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@A4Natty I think you're wrong there. There was deep resentment of the process of de-Russification in the East, exacerbated by a huge drop in wages and general neglect of services by the Kiev government.
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@A4Natty None. Unless you count the Soviet Union as a country rather than a federation.
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@A4Natty It was the Soviet Union which did this, not the Russian Federation. You cannot seem to grasp that these are two entirely different entities.
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@Scaleyback317 But it was the Soviet Union which did these things, not the Russian Federation. The RF cannot be blamed for the policies of the SU.
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@Scaleyback317 You are not only apparently ignorant but reluctant to have your ignorance corrected. Putin has no wish to conquer Kiev, nor any of Western Ukraine. The SMO was designed purely to draw the Ukrainian army out in order to fight it on Ukrainian territory, instead of in Donbass, which was Ukraine's intention. The tragedy is that I am sure Ukraine and Russia could have arrived at a peaceful solution were it not for the intervention of foreign - predominantly American - interests who have mistakenly seen the vast mineral riches of Eastern Ukraine as ripe for the picking. (And Vladimir Putin is a highly educated and perceptive commentator whose views and analysis cannot be ignored if you have any wish to understand the present situation. But apparently you do not. You merely wish to unload the rage years of Western propaganda have instilled in you.)
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@A4Natty Law and order in Russia compares very favourably with the situation in many Western countries. There are Westerners who have emigrated there for this very reason.
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@A4Natty This shows nothing of the kind. Karelina's sentence may have been harsh by some standards, but she nonetheless supported the enemy in a time of war. In my country, if someone like her had contributed to the German cause during World War II they would haver been charged with treason.
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@Espiritu-o7x Is this so? How do you know?
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@A4Natty The sentence on this woman was indeed very harsh, as I have already said. And obviously Russia is at war with Ukraine -whatever technical description the Russians may use to define it. The point I was trying to make is that in times of war providing aid and comfort to the enemy -in whatever form - cannot be tolerated. The analogy I made was simply that if, during the Second World War, an Englishwoman had donated money to a charity providing help to Germans she too would have been charged with an offence. I agree that Russia is a very corrupt country, run by crooks - as indeed is Ukraine - which is why I find it so hard to understand how we in the West can claim any moral high ground in so fiercely supporting one set of crooks in their quarrel with another. The Russian crooks have a better case for claiming ownership of Donbass and Crimea, in my view, which makes me resent even more being expected to cheer for Zelensky.
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@A4Natty I see where you are coming from. It is a nice legal point -typical of the sort of cunning trickery of lawyers worldwide, but American ones especially. Let me put it like this: Russia is at war with Ukraine, and obviously knows it, even though it does not say so officially, because to do so would be detrimental to its position as, according to the US-created concept of "international law", this would restrict its strategies. The woman is indeed behaving in a moral way in that she believes here money will go towards relieving human suffering. From the point of view of the Russian state, however, she is behaving in a way which - however insignificantly - contributes to the comfort of Russian's enemies.
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@Comm.DavidPorter Russia did not violate Minsk, Ukraine did by failing to make provision for granting regional autonomy to Donbass, which was the prime objective of the treaty.
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@A4Natty Was the Mink upset? Seriously though, even if this happened (in fact it was Wagner, not the Russian State) this is a minor breach compared to Ukraine's total disregard for the main issue.
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@A4Natty AS I keep telling you, no treaty lasts forever and Budapest was a bad treaty to start with. A treaty is a temporary measure, not a noose round a country's neck.
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@A4Natty Russia can't be expected to have an Islamist state on its doorstep.
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@A4Natty But Russia had rather stopped being aggressive at this point, had it not? The SU had just collapsed and the Russian Federation has never done anything other than try to protect its existing borders and its existing interests.
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@dorotazapolnik234 You are right about the country being divided into a pro-Western West and a largely pro-Russian East. In fact, it is a country in name only, and two countries, in fact. So each of these two communities should be able to choose their own destiny. And Ukraine isn't winning at all. Russia's grim plans are succeeding. Donbass will almost certainly be captured before long and it will then be merely a question of admitting that - like Crimea - it has returned to being part of Russia.
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