Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "'Sorry to bother you': CNN obtains audio of Russians calling Ukrainian hotline" video.
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@Denidrakes69 : Isn’t that the point? Putin has spent the last 20 years trying to convince Russians that they share a common heritage with Ukraine, and moved families there to shore up his point, and fomented so called, “separatist,” movements, etc. So now he’s making his move (all to prevent competition in energy reserves, btw) and he’s finding his soldiers are reluctant to shoot down the very people Putin wanted them to think of as being just like them. It’s backfiring because one person defending their home and family is worth 20 conscript soldiers who don’t want to be there and know they’ve been lied to. Which is why Putin has resorted to shelling them from a distance. But he hasn’t learned the lessons of Stalingrad. Sooner or later they will have to move in, even if all they get to rule over is now rubble. And when they are face to face with their enemies, bitter at the destruction of their homes, each having lost family members, they will be outmatched. Ukraine is already ungovernable. Putin needs to go home. Or his people will starve.
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It’s so clear the Russian people don’t support Putin’s private war. Why don’t they just get rid of him? Oh, that’s right. Because Russia has never had a democracy in its entire history.
And now Russians appear to be paying the price for their indifference when they had a chance to do something about it. So much for the, “Well, at least things are better than the bad old days of the Cold War,” attitude. Now, when it counts, they’re going to find it’s so much worse.
Back to cuing all day for a loaf of bread, which costs about 20,000 Rubles, no news except state lies, power cuts and shortages all round, and a jail sentence if you complain about it in public! THAT’S the price you pay for not caring about the dictatorship in power when you should have under Boris Yeltsin.
I do sympathise with these poor Russian people, and I can’t promise I would have done much better under a dictator like trump. But the difference was that America fought hard to keep its democracy, shoddy as it is, and they were willing to risk their own safety, while the stakes were still not too high to pay.
If even the Russian people KNOW this whole war is only so Putin and his cronies can prevent Ukraine from drilling, or even developing their massive gas and oil reserves, it is their obligation to overthrow this crook, and put a stop to the armed robbery being carried out in their name.
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@andia968 : When you say, “Zelensky challenged Putin,” what do you mean, madam? Said, “no,” to him? Told Putin that Ukraine is none of his business? Did a deal with Shell, Exxon and BP to develop Ukraine’s massive gas and oil reserves? Putin has been able to prevent that so far, in the Donbas region where he’s just, “coincidentally,” backed his so called, “separatists,” and in the Crimea where the gas is offshore. But now they’ve confirmed massive reserves in the west, where Putin can’t reach it without taking the country and we’re meant to think this is about, “NATO”??? Come ohhhhn, madam? Who are you trying to kid? Yourself maybe?
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@RandleBeckford : Oh, I’ve done my, “own research,” thanks, son. I don’t Google stuff just because some Putin Bot suggests it, or I’d be reading specially prepared Putinganda websites all day, every day. Some of us historians had already done our homework, long before this happened and saw it coming. This is an armed robbery, pure and simples. Even the Russian people know that, which is why they’re not willing to support Putin’s private war. All he wants is to make sure no one drills or even develops Ukraine’s gas and oil reserves. And you can check the records at Shell, Exxon and BP for yourself, son?
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@AD-xl7kb : Maybe it is a helpful comment? Perhaps we should all face up to the fact that Putin has threatened us with nukes now, and that he has the capability of destroying the planet? Since he backed his threats up by putting all his nuclear bases on high alert, we have to ask ourselves, is he bluffing? I think he is. And, even if he isn’t, I don’t believe his goons all want to die with him? What happens when he gets a terminal diagnosis? Maybe what the entire world needs to do right now is concentrate ALL of its efforts into getting the madman’s finger off of that trigger? By spy craft, by supporting his opponents, by sanctions, by fomenting disorder in Russia and backing a revolution and any other means available? After all, he’s made that threat now, and only a very stupid person allows a madman to point a loaded weapon at their head a second time . . .
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