Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "A Trump victory would cause 'severe difficulties' for Europe in its fight against Putin | Keir Giles" video.

  1. Russia just wants to be left alone.
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  2.  @TheFrewah  The nations, such as Belarus, were once part of the Russia empire and Russia still has a hold over them, despite their "sovereignty", whatever that means.
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  3. The billions of dollars pumped into the Ukraine war machine by the West has probably helped.
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  4.  @JayDeeChannel  Because Zelensky was about to sell off the multi-million dollar mining interests in the Donbass which Russians still owned.
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  5.  @TheFrewah  They do as long as their neighbours don't ally themselves with enemies like NATO and ISIS.
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  6.  @TheFrewah  As long as their neighbours don't undermine their interests, they do.
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  7.  @doubletap-z8c  No. I have simply escaped the brainwashing.
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  8.  @liukin95  Ukraine isn't a country.
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  9.  @doubletap-z8c  Traitor to WHAT??
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  10.  @victorianmelody46  Putin has made it abundantly clear that - however regretfully- Ukraine may turn its face to the West, with all this implies, But it can't take Donbass and Crimea with it. The new country of Ukraine, created in 1991, suffers from a major disadvantage in that it is not a true country as such. The former Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine, the borders of which provide the footprint for the modern country, was a province of the Soviet Union and took the form it did not for ethnic or linguistic reasons but because it suited the SU (ie Russia) to fix these borders on purely administrative and logistical grounds. The root of the problem lies in the fact that in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine many people still look to Moscow rather than Kiev as their real capital. They both have large Russian populations and Kiev has made the mistake of attempting to "de-Russianise" them. Even more significantly they are sitting on literally trillions and trillion of dollarsworth of gas, coal, oil and rare earth minerals. These resources have been exploited for centuries by Russian people financed by Russian investment. If Ukraine were to join the EU, for example, this immense wealth would be diverted from Russia and Russia just won't have that.
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  11.  @doubletap-z8c  I've never seen any Kremlin propaganda. You simply can't get in in the UK. I'm actually using my brain. You should try it sometime.
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  12.  @doubletap-z8c  When did the UK and Russia declare war, by the way?
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  13.  @davidwright5094  Did you forget the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees who have fled in the other direction - into Russia where they have roots and very often family? Ukraine is a deeply divided land. These two versions of events are far from incompatible.
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  14.  @davidwright5094  But there are refugees from Donbass in Russia too - very many of them. These people prefer rule from Moscow to rule from Kiev. What percentage of the population have this wish cannot be judged. It may be as low as 30 %, which is what is reckoned to be roughly the proportion of the inhabitants of the area who say they are Russian as opposed to Ukrainian. The proportion could, however, be much higher, as it certainly is the industrial areas. These self-declared Russians have been subjected to considerable pressure since Ukraine gained independence and following the Maidan revolution of 2014 this pressure became violent and repressive with Kiev sending in armed troops to shell civilian areas and conduct campaigns of torture and intimidation. This is clearly documented in independent UN sources. The fact is that it was Russia which developed this mineral rich area, using Russian investment and bringing in Russians to carry out the work. The situation is far from being as black and white as you seem to think.
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  15.  @davidwright5094  You are living in a fantasy. There isn't a great deal of difference between Russia and Ukraine except that Russians treat Ukrainians inside their country better than Ukrainians treat Russians inside theirs. This is perhaps understandable, given Russia's history as a colonial power, but all you have to do is check independent sources, such as the UN reports on the situation in Donbass in 2014/16 to see the truth of this. Donbass residents of Russian descent who have fled the war into Russia have done so because they wished to, because that's where their roots are, and because they would face a possibly grim future at the hands of Ukrainians if they had fled in the other direction.
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  16.  @davidwright5094  They prefer to be there. Otherwise they would have fled in the opposite direction.
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  17. The idea that Putin has any designs on Europe is a myth designed purely to support America's war-based economy.
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