Comments by "Jennifer Lawrence" (@jenniferlawrence2701) on "Ukraine: Has Putin Revived A Weak & Moribund West? Why do Some on the Right Defend Putin's Position?" video.

  1. I think it is folly to pretend any great power is benevolent, rather than self-interested. That's just not how the world is, or ever has been or will be. What we should be doing is telling those who try to guilt us over the British Empire where to get off.
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  2. From where I'm sitting it looks like the USA and Britain cynically used Ukraine as bait to damage Russia. Look at what we've been telling Ukraine for years: "You can have it all, you can be members of NATO and the EU, you can become just like Western Europe, and you can ignore the demands of your more powerful neighbor to the East, you don't have to make compromises with them." If we were willing to fight Russia on Ukraine's behalf, or if Ukraine was powerful enough to avoid invasion by Russia, those would be reasonable things to be telling them. But we aren't willing to fight Russia (and never were), and Ukraine is simply not powerful enough to prevail against a really determined Russia. So our approach was either grossly irresponsible or worse: deliberately designed to lead Ukraine down a very dangerous path. Which is it? Well, consider that we all saw Russia was willing to use force in Georgia in 2008, we've heard the Kremlin saying for years that they view Ukraine being made into a bulwark of Western power to be utterly unacceptable, we knew that we were infuriating Moscow by trying to take Ukraine out of their orbit, and we saw from 2014 onward that Russia was willing to wreck Ukraine before they allowed that to happen. It was always obvious that in any tug-of-war between the West and Russia over Ukraine, it would be Ukraine that would suffer the most. So given all that, I find it very hard to believe the approach taken by Washington and London was simply naive, accidental, or mistaken. It looks very much like the intent was to force Russia to either fight for Ukraine or lose it. Now we give (or sell, it isn't quite clear) Ukraine just enough weapons to prolong a fight we know they can't win. Have we been good friends to Ukraine in all of this? It doesn't look like it.
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  3.  @philipford6183  The point is that supposed historical wrongdoing is merely a stick to beat European/white people with in the current era. Don't play their game. No guilt. No apologies.
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