Comments by "Tx240" (@Texas240) on "Russia Now HATES Trump and MAGA" video.

@luissantoyo27 if someone breaks into your house, which rooms and family members are you willing to concede in order to have a peaceful resolution? Seriously, apply your logic to your own life and realize how ridiculous it is. Russia recently proved they are perfectly able to leave a country they aren't welcome in, Syria. The Soviet Union did the same in Afghanistan. As Russia also did in the first Georgian war, withdraw after being defeated. Russia is continuing the war with unsustainable military and economic policies. Ukraine doesn't have to defeat Russia militarily in every occupied part of Ukraine. Staying in Ukraine just needs to be made untenable for Russia, and Russia is perfectly able to withdraw, as they did in Afghanistan, Georgia, and Syria.
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@fyr7343 Correction. Donetsk and Luhansk both voted for independence from Russia at the fall of the Soviet Union. They were both (as was Crimea) semi autonomous regions within Ukraine. People there didn't really care much what Ukraine OR Russia was doing. The status quo was fine. There was no discrimination or persecution against Russian speakers until AFTER the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine. And it was a Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine, not a separatist uprising. The original "separatists" were foreign criminals and anarchists which Russia transported to Ukraine and then supported with Russian special forces who trained them in basic tactics, use of captured equipment, and called in helicopter gunship support when Ukraine tried to respond. I have a friend who lived in Donetsk. She fled to a city farther west and called the "separatists" (aka foreign Russian proxy fighters) t*rrorists. She was one of the Russian speakers you suggest wanted independence from Ukraine. Prior to 2022, she would tell you she was Russian. After February 2022, she was Ukranian and hates Russia for what they've done to her country, to her home, to her grandmother (killed by "separatist" artillery fire as they moved into town, similar to the current Russian tactic), to her friends who lived in Kharkiv, and for stealing her heritage by making it bad to be Russian. THAT is the person you're suggesting wanted independence from Russia. People who didn't leave weren't "fighting for independence from Ukraine", they just didn't have resources to leave or believed the Russian propaganda on the TV saying "we're coming to help you!" (which was followed by artillery and then armed criminals and anarchists ranging through town). As a bonus the first president of the DPR wasn't Russian OR Ukrainian. As I said, foreigners hoping to be the next Kadyrov or wanting an outlet for their criminal tendencies.
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And...because Ukrainians were doing a lot of the fighting.
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@pmac206 Ukraine doesn't have to militarily retake the land Russia occupies. Russia just left Syria. Russia left Georgia after its first invasion was halted by the Georgian defense. The Soviet Union (aka 2nd Russian Empire) left Afghanistan. Russia left Afghanistan and Syria after staying was made untenable by factors outside the battlefield. Putin is destroying Russia in order to continue the war in Ukraine. By the end of 2025, Soviet equipment inheritance will be mostly used up. The Russian economy has been broken in order to both prop up the value of the Ruble and for military supply. Russia's military and economic policies are unsustainable. Ukraine doesn't need to militarily retake all its territory. Staying in Ukraine just needs to be made untenable for Russia and Russia will leave, exactly like they did in Afghanistan, Georgia, and Syria.
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Trump was seriously insulting to Putin in his remarks during the executive orders signing marathon. Trump basically described Putin as a loser. THAT is probably the reason Trump is now not fanboying Putin the way he previously was. Trump, Mr "Win at Any Cost" isn't going to help a loser. It makes Ukraine's Kursk SMO that much more valuable. Ukraine looks like winners.
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Remember, Russia isn't the USA. They actually do brainwash the population as a means of control. Russian history books are very different from...reality. Russia won The Great War because of their superiority and guidance from the benevolent Stalin.
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27:47 re, strikes in Ukraine. This happens in all the major cities nearly every night. It is like 9/11 in every major city, every night. In the face of this terror, nobody should be suggesting Ukraine capitulate, let alone give Russia the "Russian oblasts" of Zaporizhia, Kherson, Donetsk, and Luhansk which Russia doesn't even fully occupy.
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21:49 Ukraine could create an exemption for parents in the 18 to 25 age range. It's not fear of the younger adults being eliminated that caused policy. It's that those young adults really do need to be at home, instead of on the battlefield, so they can make babies. Ukraine has a similar demographic crisis as Russia, China, Japan (and any other countries that aren't meeting replacement birth rates or encouraging immigrants to come and being a place people want to immigrate to). Exempt young parents. That might not sound like the most sensible thing to Western society but Ukraine does need those people making babies. So, if they aren't doing the deed, there's no reason they can't go to the battlefield or to more rearward jobs, as Jake suggested, where they'd still have opportunities for baby making.
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@ramonpen2592 there's a couple issues. People LIVE ON THAT LAND. Russia would have to agree to allow anyone who wants to leave would be able and that would require international observers. Plus, Russia claims territory that is fully under control of Ukraine. If someone broke into your home and claimed your living room is there's, despite the fact that they only broke into your garage and couldn't get into the living room, would you give up your living room? Russia is demanding that Ukraine "leave the Russian oblasts of Zaporizhia, Kherson, Donetsk, and Luhansk. Russia doesn't fully control any of those oblasts, was chased out of most of Kherson, and hasn't ever reached Zaporizhia. Then, there's the tens of thousands of children Russia kidnapped and hasn't returned. This is the primary war crime Putin is wanted for by The Hague. Also consider, if you reward a puppy for pooping the rug, it's guaranteed that he'll poop it again. Russia keeping any Ukrainian territory is rewarding Russia and encouraging them to invade again, except this time they already have a toe hold in the new territory. Finally, only way to prevent that inevitable future Russian 3rd invasion of Ukraine is to have Ukraine join NATO with the remaining territory Ukraine controls. Russia won't ever agree to this. Russia has broken every agreement it's made related to Ukraine since 1992. There is no peace agreement that will provide for an actual peace without Russia entirely leaving all Ukranian territory or Ukraine joining NATO. What you are advocating is actually a cease fire that will allow Russia to reaarm and reconstitute its military while the Western world forgets about Ukraine and ceases military support in light of the cease fire, aka "peace". In the short term this will stop the eliminations. In the long run, it's encouraging Russia to not only invade Ukraine again but to also invade the Baltics which are NATO members. Russia just doesn't respond to weakness and appeasement. It's viewed as something to be taken advantage of.
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@DerickMolina-q1x imagine someone breaks into your home. Are you going to compromise with them or do everything possible to remove them? Russia is losing the war of attrition and maintaining unsustainable attacks and economic policies. The person who broke into your house is wheezing but you'd rather negotiate what part of the house they get to keep rather than push them out? Remember, Russia has shown that they are perfectly willing to leave a foreign country that they aren't welcome in, Syria. The Soviet Union (aka 2nd Russian Empire) left Afghanistan as well as every Soviet country that didn't want to remain in the union. Russia can absolutely leave Ukraine.
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@OrangeDaddy47 That's not true. The original "separatists" were foreign criminals and anarchists which Russia transported to Ukraine and then supported with Russian special forces who trained them in basic tactics, how to operate captured equipment, and called in helicopter gunship support when Ukraine would try to move troops into the area in response. Internally, Russia referred to these proxy fighters as "asymmetrical fighters" while calling them separatists publicly. It's similar to the Russian campaign of dumping foreigners near the EU border and giving them bicycles to ride into the EU looking for asylum or refugee status from wherever they were actually from. A friend who lived in the Donetsk area during the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine called them terrorists and fled to a city father west. She's one of the "Russian speakers" that were supposedly wanting independence and whom Putin was invading Ukraine to "save". She now hates Russia both for what they've done to Ukraine and for stealing her heritage since being Russian is now bad. These "separatists" used the typical Russian tactics of bombarding an area before moving in, not caring about casualties of the people who lived there. Once they were in an area, local criminals looking for a legal outlet and people who had bought into the propaganda would join the Russian proxy invaders. Most people in the "area seeking independence" consumed Russian media, TV mainly. And they didn't realize they were being invaded until artillery shells started landing. My friend's Russian grandmother (moved to the territory of Ukraine under Stalin) was killed by artillery from the "separatists" because she refused to leave her home and bought into the propaganda that Russia was coming to "make things great again." Prior to the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine Donetsk, Luhansk, and Crimea were already semi autonomous regions in Ukraine. People mostly didn't pay attention to what either Ukraine OR Russia was doing and went on about their daily lives. There wasn't any discrimination against Russian speaking people until AFTER the 2014 invasion where some Ukrainians blamed ANY Russian of causing the problem. That said, other than feeling like a refugee from leaving her childhood home and starting new in an unknown city, my friend didn't experience any discrimination other than people saying her young daughter spoke strangely. Even that stopped as the girl acclimated and began learning Ukrainian from interaction with the other children. As an added bonus, the first president of the DPR was neither Ukranian OR Russian. How's that for home grown "separatists"?? So, no. Prior to the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine, there were not separatists active, especially militarily, in Luhansk, Donetsk, or Crimea, let alone Zaporizhia or Kherson (which Putin also claims, despite not occupying and having only the tiniest amount of support from any Russian sympathizers). And, EVERY oblast in Ukraine voted for separation from Russia in 1991 after independence FROM RUSSIA was an option.
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@ramonpen2592 either comments are bugged again or the YouTube thought police removed my comment where I pointed out that people live on that land and Russia is claiming land it has never and/or currently doesn't occupy. Besides that, Russia has violated every deal related to Ukraine since 1992, including the cease fires related to the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine would be foolish to believe that THIS TIME Russia is sincere. The only way territory could be ceded as part of a peace deal is if people in occupied areas were allowed to leave if they wanted to (Russia wants the people every bit as much as the land maybe more so because of their demographic crisis) and the remaining "new Ukraine" would have to join NATO. That's the only guarantee to prevent future Russian aggression. And, if the war ends in Russia holding Ukrainian territory without Ukraine joining NATO, there will definitely be future aggression. You won't be gaining any actual peace Ukraine by giving up some territory. If you reward a puppy for pooping the rug, it's guaranteed to poop the rug again.
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@OrangeDaddy47 either comments are bugged again or the YouTube thought police removed my comment where I explained in detail that no province in Ukraine was "fighting for independence (from Ukraine) before Russia inserted foreign proxy fighters in 2014, calling them "separatists" with special forces support that trained in basic tactics, trained in captured equipment use, and called in helicopter gunship support when Ukraine tried to respond. Yes, the original "separatists" were foreigners. As an added bonus, the first president of the DPR wasn't Ukrainian OR Russian. It was the same basic thing Russia recently did with transporting foreigners to the EU border, giving them bicycles, and sending them to the EU to claim asylum or refugee status. Except, in Ukraine they were armed by Russia and supported by Russian helicopters which the barely existent Ukrainian military wasn't prepared to deal with.
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@scotthenry3401 either comments are bugged again or the YouTube thought police removed my comment where I pointed out that Ukraine was never being considered for NATO membership. It's ironically unfortunate, too, because had Ukraine joined NATO as other former Soviet states were allowed to, Russia wouldn't have invaded. NATO had been, unofficially, telling Ukraine "someday". Meanwhile, NATO had been telling Russia, unofficially, that Ukraine wouldn't join NATO as a wrong minded appeasement attempt at the belligerent and imperialistic Russia. It's asinine to think or try to argue that the largest country on Earth needs just this little bit more land to feel safe from an alliance that exists solely to protect its members against Russian aggression. Further, Russia can't currently defend its own legitimate airspace or borders. More territory isn't going fix that, it makes it worse. Finally, the logic that Russia can't be safe if it borders NATO means that all of Europe ought to capitulate and join Russia. Again, ludicrous.
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@pmac206 Putin will eventually run out of time and support. He's doing too much to damage Russia and hurting too many Russians. The issue is will the West continue to stand by Ukrainians in their fight for freedom long enough for Putin to run out of time.
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@brunoverasferreira6263 we don't live in the stone age. Civilized nations believe in the rule of law.
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@fyr7343 your welcome. I've been following the situation since before 2014 since I know someone who lived there. It's the problem of Russian propaganda becoming "true" if it's loud enough and repeated or shared often enough.
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