Comments by "Tim Smith" (@timonsolus) on "Russia’s FSB Foils Kherson "Sabotage", Zelensky Seeks Guarantees, US Confirms Nuclear Threat Talks" video.

@legend9805 : Ukraine broke the Minsk Agreements only because Russia broke them first, by refusing to remove its military forces from the separatist controlled region of Donbas. Russia lied and denied that it had any military forces in Donbas, it also refused to let the Ukrainians regain control over the original 2013 border as agreed. You can’t expect the other side to keep to all their agreements while you refuse to keep to yours!
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@legend9805 : Argentina annexed the Falkland Islands in 1982 and said it was for forever. The annexation didn’t even last 3 months. Nothing is forever, especially not while militarily contested.
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@AR9Legend : Only Ukrainians are doing any fighting. NATO is just the arms supplier and military advisor. Remember, NATO is giving Ukraine less support than the USSR gave to North Korea in the Korean War and to North Vietnam in the Vietnam War. Very nearly all of North Korea’s and North Vietnam’s weapons in those wars were supplied free of charge by the USSR. Did you know, about 3,000 Soviet soldiers and about 7,000 Soviet military experts served in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War? And they weren’t just advisors and trainers - they carried out commando operations (including stealing the latest US Cobra helicopter gunship). And they operated surface to air missile batteries and radar directed AA guns, and shot down hundreds of US aircraft. We know this because a very large number of those Soviet personnel were Ukrainians. So the West isn’t doing anything that Russia (as the USSR) hasn’t done before.
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@legend9805 : ? The Minsk Agreements had no relevance whatsoever after Russia started its SMO in February 2022. They were made superfluous by events. There’s no point in Russia asking Ukraine to abide by them now - particularly since Russia is doing anything but!
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@Lolonilola : The Russian military in 2022 looks about as competent as the Argentinian army in 1982 - relying on lots of hastily drafted and barely trained conscripts that don’t want to be there and just want to go home.
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@legend9805 : I’m not twisting words, that’s a Russian specialty
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@legend9805 : The entire population of the Falklands is British and has been for 200 years. Argentina’s claim is purely based on geographical proximity and nothing else. Plus hardly anyone in Argentina actually wants to go and live in the Falklands full time. The referendums in the 4 annexed regions of Ukraine were obviously staged. Russian soldiers went door to door with ballot boxes and guns, plus they looked at the ballots before they put them in the box. Nearly all the No votes were discarded and not counted. Plus there is the fact that many Ukrainians had been forced to flee those regions thanks to the SMO, the population there now is far smaller than it was before the war.
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