Comments by "Tx240" (@Texas240) on "Russia Loses Ground in Syria as Conflict Goes Global" video.

  1. @DeMan59 The problem with saying, "it's not our war," is THAT is exactly what the US said at the outset of WWII as Hitler said the EXACT SAME things when they invaded Poland as Putin said when his Russia invaded Ukraine. Putin isn't just trying to subjugate Ukraine. He's trying to rebuild the second Russian Empire (aka Soviet Union). He's openly stated that the fall of (really the implosion of, though) the Soviet Union is the worst thing to happen to Russia. Putin's goal is to reclaim ALL former Soviet republics and territory that Putin views as part of Russian sphere of influence. Many of those countries are now NATO members. If we, the USA, don't help Ukraine make it untenable for Russia to be in Ukraine and force Russia to withdraw from Ukraine, it will be the same as us giving Putin the green light to invade the Baltics (Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia), small countries that Putin views as part of the Russian Empire. At THAT point, NATO Article 5 requires us to defend those countries directly, not just send aid. So, if we don't help Ukraine because "it's not our war", we will have a much more expensive fight that includes American casualties and possibly nuclear armageddon as we send men and equipment to the Baltics to directly fight Russia. At that point, it's much, MUCH more expensive than simply sending materiel to Ukraine and letting them do the fighting to prevent further Russian aggression in Europe. As the old oil change ad pointed out when a car repair shop said, "you can pay me now (for the oil change) or you can pay me later (for a new engine)". We're spending money to update the American arsenal and create American jobs (90% of "aid to Ukraine" is spent in the USA). So, there's even an added immediate benefit of economic stimulus in the US while we work to enjoy the future benefits of not having to send troops to fight Russia in European NATO countries and prevent nuclear war. If you want to know how "not our war" goes when wars start in Europe, I really recommend looking at what happened during the outset of WWII.
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  2. 24:08 sounds like someone finally shoved Jake Sullivan, a de facto Russian agent, into a broom closet and pointed out to Biden that his legacy on Ukraine was going to be one of helping protect Russia.
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  3. Re, South Korea, it looks more like the president was trying to use democracy as the excuse to subvert democracy. He's at the end of his term and trying to grasp onto power. The military seems to be following the process layed out in government policy and procedure. I don't know what the military was doing breaking into government offices, probably given false information by the president as he sought to contain information against him that someone threatened him with. The military said that martial law was active until the president lifted it after the parliament voted to overturn martial law.
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  4. Started with Obama doing nothing except trying to prioritize the "Russian Reset" during and after the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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  5. @vanettevanhuyssteen5548  to answer your question, I suppose it's because we have 2 oceans and a mighty military and nuclear deterrent protecting us. We feel safe. Unfortunately, perception doesn't equal actual safety. And, we're really too busy trying to make our car or SUV and credit card payments and fueling the wealth gap by helping executives and shareholders take an ever increasing share of the wealth to worry about what's going on "over there". Interestingly, this isn't just an American issue. In late 2013, during the Maidan protests in Ukraine, I was talking to a Ukranian friend who lived near Donetsk. When I asked her about the subject, she flippantly changed the subject stating that the protests were far away and had nothing to do with her. Within the year, she and her daughter had fled to a city outside of the Donbas area, her grandmother was eliminated by Russian proxy artillery fire as they approached her town (she refused to leave her home), and Russian special forces had secured the government buildings in the "polite" takeover of Crimea. THAT is the lesson that other Ukranians, other Europeans, and Americans need to understand. "That's far away and not my concern," can get real close and real personal unexpectedly quick. It's the same thing that happened in the outset WWII. Anyway, yes... Frustrating that so many people want to believe if we ignore it, the Russians will begin behaving.
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  6. @jimmiekarlsson4458  Biden could've done much more, much faster initially and in the year before Trump's lap dog road blocked the democratic process by preventing a vote. Biden is entirely to blame by not being more supportive of Ukraine and giving them what they were asking for. Besides the funds being made available by congress, Biden administration, under bad advice from the defacto Russian agent Jake Sullivan, was denying Ukraine weapon systems and use authorizations that thru would eventually get...after Ukranians had needlessly lost their lives (including civilians) and more Ukrainian towns were turned to rubble.
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  7. @mariannevelthuis1029  well, "West" includes Europe, which has skin directly in the game. The fact that Scholz is, apparently, taking Russian lessons ought to indicate Germany's willingness to return the bad old days when it was partly subjugated by Russia.
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  8. @Fokko  that's a very, very wonderful comment. I'll have a very, very good reply very soon.
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  9. The thumbnail explains the downside of Trump putting in people that are loyal but not experienced in the roles they're nominated for. It doesn't help that these loyal people are withdrawing their names because of controversy. Putin put in loyal "yes men" and got the "it'll take 3 days to reach Kyiv" advice. #DictatorProblems
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  10. Re, Syria The rebels look to make it to Damascus before Putin makes it to Kyiv. The fact that Tulsi Gabbard has been nominated to be the national intelligence director and she misunderstands global security bad enough to suggest Assad is a good guy... Then again, Trump might like to drop chemical barrel bombs on people who disagree with him. If Tulsi would be intelligence director, we may as well have Joe Rogan as Secretary of Education.
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