Comments by "Golag Is watching you" (@golagiswatchingyou2966) on "What’s Going on in Ukraine?" video.

20:47 I really don't think Russia is ever going to be a willing US ally since the USA would then be much more capable of dividing and weakening the Russian state, the Russians have far more to gain by being allied with the Chinese for as long as possible because the alternative would be utter stagnation and death of the Russian nation. the only way I can see Russia becoming a somewhat US ally is if Russia became a part of the European wider economy without being part of NATO which in the process would make the NATO alliance seem less likely to survive to begin with, you would have this sweet spot of Europe being powerfull enough yet still loyal to the USA in order to put pressure on the Russians to go along with US interest since they aren't being threatend, would get economic growth which they really need while weakening their rivals in China thus making Russia much more powerfull in the long run. since that's not going to happen Russia is going to stick with China no matter what, not because they like China but because both Russia and China are in the same boat and they are lost without eachother and they know it, by the time Russia would become a western ally, China would have to be defeated to begin with, having the CCP out of power and entering a new era for both nations.
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20:03 it's a pretty strong military and it could easily become one of the strongest in the world if they get rid of their weak leadership and other nations around it demand Germany to become more powerfull, right now that's not the case because we rely on the USA and Germany has not learned to change with the modern times, though that can change very fast. Germany could if they wanted to build a very powerfull military with their industrial base, if they really hate fighting so much they can always simply make weapons for other Europeans to fight for them, that seems to be the goal with some of the EU military projects, to produce the same military hardware for all of Europe thus giving nations like France and Poland the same quality of tanks and rifles as Germany just on a much bigger scale.
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16:56 this would have been true back in 2015 for sure but Ukraine has been getting a lot more troops to fight with, as well as more modern weapons and training, now that being said yes the Russian army would probably be able to do enough damage and conquer most of the nation, esspecially the eastern parts with lots of local support and superior fire power, however holding it as well as the long term costs for doing so will be immense and the benefits won't be very much, furthermore many people are willing to fight against the russians which would probably result in a Afghanistan like conditions which will simply bleed the Russian military dry in a time when it's already being weakened on many fronts, Russia would have to take over Ukraine very fast, be able to convince the ukrainian people to accept them without much of a fight and all of the western powers be so weak and pathetic to not do anything about it which is just not going to happen. Russia is desperate if they think this plan is going to work.
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I think it´s great but the issue is that many nations, people and alliances still pretend like the USA is a strong, competent and reliable ally which makes nations that depend on it or think they do much weaker than they could be if they simply adopted to this new reality, politics always moves 100 times slower than cultural or material reality so the sooner people wake up to this fact the better it will be to adapt to it. of course all of this could be avoided if the USA was a more competent nation which is not a bad deal but after so many years of stupid wars and cultural decline, people might prefer the collapse over a revival.
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@CaptainGrimes1 best way of controle is to have the hearts and minds of the people living there. They aren't literally the same, it's the same as in a nation would be invaded and people fight against it, there are no caves or mountains to hide in but there are cities and rural area's that can spread the Russian army very thin. I don't think like a US centric person, frankly I think the USA is very weak and incompetent.
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@R3GARnator or the USA becomes too weak, right now the USA is very weak and other nations can see that and might switch sides if things go further south.
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lol whut? what are you smoking? meth?
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yes ethnic cleansing and mass deportation works to prevent wars, it was known after the Greek-Turkish wars back then and it's still true today, sadly the UN is going to have a big stink about it which is why the UN should probably be abolished at some point.
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they don't want it, probably become independent state or be split between Lithuania and Poland.
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@derlasercrafterwally4342 you do realise that poland got a lot of land from Germany by commit ethnic cleansing on the local population right? You see many people there or in the German government trying to reclaim those lost lands? Come on man, get real.
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you already have the Eurasian union but it's nowhere near a political union, at best you can get Belarus to become annexed as part of Russia proper and perhaps eastern parts of Ukraine but not rest of the member states in my opinion. as for China, China kind of needs Taiwan for a number of reasons, for the location, the erasing of any other Chinese model against the CCP, the chip market and as a means of opposing the USA, if China can't take Taiwan it can't move beyond to other parts of the world they have interest in, that being said how likely is war? not very since China is still going strong, USA is growing weaker and they are growing stronger (for now) but as their population ages and problems start to rise it's going to get more and more difficult to not invade Taiwan since it's such a potential game changer for China.
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nice bait.
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history is always in the air, sadly most of history is developments towards bad times and only rarely do we get to see some progress on any subjects and sometimes that same progress becomes a toxic air that slowly gives you cancer without you realising it untill it's too late. if there is one ideology which I think won't survive the 21th century it's probably Globalism, since it creates this web of corporate interest groups, mixed with greedy politicians that also destroys whole countries, cultures and peoples while robbing the people of their wealth, while a multipolar world of continentalist powers can be self sufficient, culturally stable, protect their own borders from hostile forces and be able to work with other nations/continental powers without being dependent upon them or so weak that they become puppet states of any other nation.
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it's a bit more complicated than that, it's the paradox of many resources, the leaders of Russia mostly don't need the people so they don't feel a need to develop them if that would threaten their power, ironically the best thing that could happen to Russia is them becoming a puppet to nations that do need a more developed population and economy thus making Russian leaders less dependent on Resources and more on their own people.
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@viterik69 Russia has been conquered before and basically every time when Russia was being invaded it was outside forces that destroyed the invading army, the biggest benefit Russia has is it's size, it takes so much manpower, logistics and time to just reach it all that by the time you are there some other nation right next to you is planning on invading your homeland while your freezing in the Russian winter. basically if Russia is surrounded on all sides, the force is big enough and no other outside force is going to come to Russia's aid then you can divide and take over Russia quite easily but everyone who has tried doing that rushed into it with few allies and basically ran out of time.
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@CaptainGrimes1 well it's funny you would mention after ww2 because after ww2 you had a lot of ethnic cleansing of germans (on wikipedia they call it ''explusion of germans'' but it was clearly ethnic cleansing, about half a million people died) Which in part helped prevent any sort of reunification of those lands to German, that's just how it works, same happened after the Greek - Turkish war, likewise Russia tried to do the same to much of the USSR, esspecially in Ukraine, that's why you see about 90% of russian people/culture in cremea and about 40-60% cultural ties to Russia in eastern Ukraine. as for Ukraine today, many people do seem willing to fight, I believe Caspian report did a good report on the amount of people that would be willing to fight and how much Russian troops would be needed to hold them down it's quite a lot. the thing with insurgencies is you don't really need many of them to cause a lot of trouble and damage for the oppressing forces, just minor things can hurt for a very long time, again with Afghanistan you can see how even after 20 years occupation, from the USA, Billions spend it all fell apart in a few weeks after they left, now the conditions aren't the same for sure, the people aren't the same for sure but there a lot of people who live there, Russia is not that powerfull, it's surounded by other more powerfull nations willing to help Ukraine or give supplies to the insurgencies if it came to that, so in many ways the odds are more in their favour than the Taliban was in Afghanistan.
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13:42 I don't understand that last part, how is Germany and Japan spending a huge amount of manpower, resources and getting into a bloody war that destroyed much of their cities less of a economic crash than just not doing that and becoming more competitive with economics? both Japan and Germany after ww2 became huge economies which would have been even larger had they not gotten themselves in a war world as well as losing said world war. there are so many alternative history situations you can come up with by just changing a few things in key moments, like not invading poland as germany or Japan simply not attacking the USA or even better not trying to start any new wars at all and just reform the economy like every other country at that time was trying to do, including the USA btw. perhaps im missing something here but I find ''because their economies would crash without a war'' makes zero sense from any perspective, wars happen either because of a rising powers threatening them or pride in a nation wanting that little bit of extra land/people/resources/prestige or ideology driving them towards war.
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@danielwest6095 that makes no sense at all, the depresion was ended in other nations by change in economic policy as well as having a more stable currency, both the weimar republic and nazi germany made the same mistake just from one end of the spectrum to the other. no modern nation or economy can or ever could be funded on ''looting'' nor was this ever the case, what happened was nations that got conquered were forced to work for the german war machine, thus going into debt, debt which was already very high by the loans of the USA which they weren't paying back because them being at war and all that. there is zero reason to start a war to ''save the economy'' and it makes even less sense when you consider the post war situation of cities in ruine and millions dead and then having a economic miracle simply by spending US money into the economy which was already possible even before ww2 but instead of putting that money into millitary spending you put it in the economy and boom your economy starts growing again. im sorry but this whole theory of looting and war being somehow inevitable or even nessisary is just bizzar beyond all reason.
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@tuehojbjerg969 again this makes no sense and is not how any economy functions, you are talking about running a war economy to continue fighting in a war, Nazi germany wanted to expand so it got into massive spending to build up it's military, loans from the USA and other means to hide their military spending sprees, indeed later on they started robbing savings because they were desperate for cash as the war went on but the goal was to expand which if you had won would mean more lands, people and resources to then reinvest into the economy or build up new economic growth. this economic condition was always going to be temporary as Germany needed more and more spending for it's wars, say the wars are over and they have enough lands, you honestly think they keep going and not at some point reinvest their plans, money and resources into actually building a functioning nation? makes no sense, in fact the economy of nazi germany was less regulated compared to the planned economy of the USSR.
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@CaptainGrimes1 uhhh I was talking about Ukranian people and their government acting like the Taliban in this situation, from the reports I've seen along with the US miltary records on how to deal with insurgencies the Russians would have to have at least a force of 330k soldiers to deal with the population of Ukraine if they actually want it under their full controle and win the hearts and minds of the people there. many people would flee regardless, hell people fled afghanistan before and again after the taliban took power, however the majority would be woman and children fleeing. Russian miltary can be very advanced and that might help against regular forces but without trust of the people and their support it will be very bloody and drawn out and Ukraine has already suffered from the loss of cremea as well as the war in eastern donbast, the love towards Russia has not increased but gone down nose dive. modern wars are much more difficult today than before.
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20:00 you mean the current weak, corrupt, incompetent and disfunctional government of Germany? yeah that one is going to go bust before they get to have any say on what the rest of Europe does towards Russia, I see France becoming the much stronger, more competent and forward thinking power in Europe and Germany is going to follow in line at some point because they suck and are bringing everyone down to their level of incompetence, this is something both the far left and far right largely agree on though for different reasons, if Russia were to invade Ukraine and Germany tried to cut a deal with them it would split the EU and turn Germany into a joke nations while nations like Poland and France would be seen as the true powers of Europe acting in the self interest of all of Europe. though for sure Germany can do a lot of damage before they get yeeted like they should.
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19:07 a sane set of nations? yes, of course... our current leaders and nations..... uhhhhh yeah not so much.
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11:58 but what if I do anyways? Russia as a concept of a nation is barely holding on as it is, why hold on to this current state as if it's to be feared and not pittied? I do like the Russians to a certain degree but I don't think it's current leadership and vision of itself is going to be able to survive let alone thrive in this new and modern age, I would much prefer it if Russia became more like a democracy, allied with the western world so we could form a collective front against the Chinese and the Americans, that way everyone would win, all for the small price of giving up some powers currently held by a tyranical, corrupt and stupid regime led by the last of the KGB relics of a bygone era. I do understand the Russian mindset though, it will take time to heal but I think it's possible.
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16:23 no offense but you make this argument quite often and you never seem to adress the issue of any one nation simply producing more nukes or gaining them by some other means, China has been upgrading their stockpilles of nukes in the last few years and going up as well as nations like Iran and North Korea trying hard to build or upgrade their nukes, not to mention nations that could very easily get nukes if they wanted to but simply follow the USA's policies for protection which could very easily be replaced with nukes of their own if they really wanted to, like Germany but also Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Indonessia, South Africa, Turkey, Ukraine used to have nukes as well, the technology is about a century old now so it´s not like they can´t make em, it´s just very expensive and puts a potential target on your head as well as motivates other nations to get them as well, Israel has Nuclear weapons which is one of the reasons why Iran wants nuclear weapons.
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@ianh2950 nice bait mate, very convincing.
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