Comments by "Богдан Беркут" (@user-wm5rt9pw5l) on "Джон Миршаймер: Израиль-Палестина, Россия-Украина, Китай, НАТО и война | Лекс Фридман Подкаст #401" video.

  1. In his lecture, he tries to prove that the integration of Ukraine into the “West” poses a threat to Russia and will lead to war. The integration of Ukraine into the “West” did not happen, but the war began and Ukraine, not being part of the “West,” found itself defenseless.
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  2. Compare his position on Taiwan and Ukraine and ask yourself whether this old man is honest.
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  3. He is not fantastic, he ignores reality in order for his arguments to work
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  4.  @wolfpants  All Mescheinheimer has been doing for the last 2 years is trying to hide the fact that his teaching is incredibly wrong, as the war in Ukraine has shown.
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  5. Because... they listened, Germany and France have been blocking Ukraine's progress towards NATO since 2008. Russia attacked Ukraine anyway.
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  6.  @xtrwq  Indicate the last time the United States annexed the territory of another state. Russia in 2022.
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  7. Both Minsk agreements were violated by Russia in the very first days after their signing
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  8. Because he lies and ignores reality. He's been saying this nonsense for years. In 2014, he blamed “NATO expansion” for the war in Ukraine. Great, let's assume that's the case. Since 2014, Ukraine’s admission to NATO has been fundamentally impossible. Who does he blame for the war in 2022? NATO expansion again? This is a lie and he knows it very well.
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  9. “totally correct about the Russia/Ukraine” - no, he is completely wrong. He ignores reality to promote this narrative. Namely, Ukraine’s admission to NATO has been fundamentally impossible since 2014, which everyone knew, including Putin. He also ignores revanchism among the Russian political elite and Putin personally.
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  10. Lol, didn't you have any history lessons in school? There was a period called the "Cold War"
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  11.  @velizhan  Mearsheimer started talking about "Ukraine is a de facto member of NATO" recently when he realized that this was the weak part of his argument, no one expected that Ukraine would become a member of NATO in the near future or at all (as long as part of the Ukrainian territory was captured by Russia) and therefore Russia did not have reasons for the invasion. Let's look at the issue of Ukraine's "de facto" membership in NATO. What is this even supposed to mean? Is Ukraine protected by article 5? No. Does Ukraine have the infrastructure to host NATO forces? No. Are NATO troops stationed in Ukraine? No. Does Ukraine have foreign bases? No. In no way could Ukraine be considered even close to being part of the “Western” bloc before the 2022 war. It's a bullshit. Let's look at the issue of cooperation between Ukraine and NATO. Is Mearsheimer suggesting that Ukraine, having lost some territory in 2014-15, should NOT have sought help from the West? This is madness. Is Mearsheimer suggesting that the "West" should have denied Ukraine any assistance, even soft ones like consultations or joint exercises, thereby sending a signal to Russia that it could continue its aggression without interference? This is absolute madness. Ukraine and NATO have been cooperating since the early 2000s, like many other countries. Ukraine has taken part in peacekeeping operations with NATO like many other countries. Ukraine strives for intercompatibility with NATO troops, like many other countries, including definitely neutral ones like Ireland, Austria or, until recently, Sweden and Finland. If this is a red line beyond which Russia can attack a country, then there will be many countries on its list and even some of the CSTO members.
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  12.  @jamesgornall5731  I see you like stupid analogies? There were no nuclear missiles in Ukraine, Ukraine did not try to host nuclear missiles, there was no prospect of nuclear missiles appearing in Ukraine at all. When nuclear missiles appeared in Cuba, the US did NOT invade Cuba, it imposed a naval blockade. Cuba entered into an alliance with the Soviets because the US posed a THREAT to the Castro regime (Bay of Pigs events). Mexico will not ally with Russia because the US does NOT pose a threat to Mexico. Ukraine is trying to integrate into the West because Russia IS a threat to Ukraine.
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  13. Your pathetic attempt to equate Hitler with Zelensky is very funny.
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  14. He lies himself to maintain the integrity of his narrative.
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  15. The previous president of Ukraine tried to come to an agreement with Russia. Russia attacked Ukraine from occupied territories again 6 years later. If you don't know what you're talking about, don't talk at all.
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  16. Yes, very objective. In order for his teaching to work, he deliberately ignores reality. Using the example of Ukraine: - Ukraine’s admission to NATO has been fundamentally impossible since 2014. Since 2008, France and Germany have been blocking Ukraine's progress towards NATO. - Putin’s revanchist worldview regarding Ukraine and Ukrainians, which he expressed many times, in particular in his essay half a year before the war and in a speech three days before the war.
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  17. LOL what? It’s very interesting to know what you mean by “invaded.” It will be very awkward if you are so crazy that you consider the liberation of allied France from the Nazis, for example, an invasion. It is even more insane to consider joint military exercises between NATO allies an invasion. When did the US invade Switzerland? Ireland? Kazakhstan? Mongolia?? You're insane.
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  18. This statement is also funny given the fact that if the possession of nuclear weapons by a country like Ukraine can prevent Russian aggression against Ukraine, then why does John not understand that the possession of nuclear weapons by Russia prevents any aggression by NATO against Russia and, accordingly, his entire argument about the need to invade Ukraine has no meaning.
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  19. ​ @ムャlechat  Yes, I will demonstrate this using the example of the war in Ukraine because I can talk with confidence on this topic. Mearsheimer's main argument regarding the cause of the war in Ukraine is "NATO's eastward expansion" because of which Putin was "forced" to attack Ukraine to ensure Russia's security. Firstly, in reality there was no threat of Ukraine’s admission to NATO. It was not in 2014 because, in response to Putin’s “Munich speech” in 2007, France and Germany froze Ukraine’s progress towards NATO by blocking the provision of a membership plan to Ukraine in 2008. Since 2014, the admission of Ukraine to NATO is fundamentally impossible because Ukraine is a country with a territorial dispute (Crimea) and an active military conflict (Donbass). Both conflicts involve Russia - the largest state in the world, a nuclear superpower, the leader of the second most powerful military bloc in the world. NATO members would never vote (the consent of all members is required) to accept Ukraine into the alliance, regardless of the US position on the issue. Secondly, if you look at the territories that Russia has annexed you can see that it strives to hold on to territories far in the south of Ukraine (where the majority of the Russian population is) while at the same time there is no “new territory” between the Ukrainian border and the Russian heartland in the north. Why? Mearsheimer also constantly contradicts himself by asserting that Russia did not want to capture all of Ukraine or, in particular, Kyiv, but this is exactly what Russia should have done “to ensure its security,” either by capturing Ukraine or changing the regime in it. Both of these actions would lead to the creation of buffer areas. Thirdly, Mearsheimer ignores and lies about Putin’s pronounced revanchist worldview because it contradicts his narrative. In 2014, Putin and his propaganda unexpectedly resurrected the term “Novorossiya”, forgotten 200 years ago, trying to prove that in the southeast of Ukraine there is a uniform Russian ethnocultural region that unfairly fell under the rule of Kyiv. At the same time, Russian proxies tried to separate these territories (they almost completely failed, success was only in part of Donbass, and Crimea was captured by the Russian army). Half a year before the war, Putin wrote an essay in which he tried to prove that a separate Ukrainian nation does not exist. In particular, in his retelling of history, he called all attempts by Ukrainians to gain independence “the machinations of hostile forces aimed at separating the historical part of Russia” Three days before the war, Putin gave an hour-long lecture in which he tried to prove (partially repeating the mentioned article) that "communists created a Ukrainian state” on the “historical lands of Russia” “on which millions of Russians ended up against their will.” On the day the war began, his address included the phrase “I will show you decommunization!” which hinted at his frustration regarding the condemnation of Soviet totalitarianism in Ukraine and at the same time was a threat to destroy the Ukrainian state, which he considers a failed experiment of the communists. I hope my answer is comprehensive.
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  20. There is no 5000 year old China. On this territory there were many different states and dynasties with different structures and values. What you are doing is a simplification at the level of "3000 years of Italian history"
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  21. You have been deceived. Nobody provoked Putin. Ukraine’s admission to NATO has been impossible since 2014, Putin held Crimea in his hands, the path to gas in the Black Sea was impossible for Ukraine. He had no reason to attack Ukraine.
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  22. Actually, by mentioning Germany’s position on blocking Ukraine’s progress towards NATO, he contradicts himself, but this old fool doesn’t even understand it.
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  23.  @askeladd60  In any case, the narrative about the threat of NATO is a lie. Ukraine's admission to NATO has been impossible since 2014. And yet Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022.
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  24.  @askeladd60  Dude, Ukraine's admission to NATO automatically starts a war under Article 5. Because one part of the Ukrainian territory is annexed by Russia (Crimea) and military operations are taking place on the other part of the Ukrainian territory (Donbass). And both of these territories are considered Ukraine by the international community. The only way to avoid this situation is for Ukraine to give up these territories. Was Ukraine ready to do this? No. Was Ukraine going to do this? No. For a country to be accepted into NATO, all NATO members must approve it. Was there 100% vote for starting the war tomorrow? No. So please stop this "bro geopolitics" with me.
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  25. You're a clown. Political realism was called neo-imperialism back in the 70s. The most famous practitioner of this teaching is... Henry Kissinger. Neoconservatives are at least honest in their worldview and arguments.
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  26.  @JamesSmith-ix5jd  You're a pathetic conspiracy theorist
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  27.  @Io-Io-Io  What foreign territory has the US annexed in the last 50 years?
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  28. "gift of truth" - dude, you have before your eyes an interview in which this old man simultaneously supports interventionism in the Chinese sphere of influence in the issue with Taiwan (literally taking sides in the Chinese civil war) and criticizes interventionism in the "Russian sphere of influence" in the issue with Ukraine .
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  29. Yes, for the sake of this transparency, he ignores the fact that Ukraine’s membership in NATO has been impossible since 2014, but continues to assert that Ukraine’s possible membership in NATO was the reason for Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
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  30.  @МарияМария-к6ы  What you wrote is false. In the 1991 independence act there is not a word about the neutrality of Ukraine. There is no word about neutrality in the Ukrainian Constitution of 1996. In 1990, Soviet Ukraine, like other republics, adopted resolutions on sovereignty that included words about the INTENTION to become a neutral state (not necessarily outside the USSR). It was the process of reformation of the USSR that came to nothing. This document has nothing to do with the emergence of modern Ukraine.
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  31. Europe is full of small independent countries, many of which are non-aligned and expressly neutral. That's why your statement is nonsense. And even if it were true, it is unclear why, if Ukraine needs to choose a side, it should choose the much more unfavorable and dangerous side of Russia.
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  32. Принятие Украины в НАТО невозможно с 2014 года. На чё там Россия отвечает в 2022? Какое отношение к НАТО имеет эта шиза пыни за три дня до начала войны о том как "коммунисты Украину придумали на исторических землях России"?
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  33.  @МарияМария-к6ы  By the way, according to the logic of your argument, Belarus violated its declaration of sovereignty by joining the CSTO. Now it should be conquered by NATO, I suppose, or something like that.
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  34.  @Pvt.Conscriptovich  You just decided to change the difference from 2 times to 26 without any reason? Year 1945 Muslims 1,061,270 Christians 135,550 Jews 553,600
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  35.  @kickinsnarehat  Enemy military bases will not appear in Canada and Mexico, not because Canada and Mexico are afraid of the United States, but on the contrary, because they do not consider the United States a threat. And yes, Russia has several NATO countries on its borders. And Ukraine’s admission to NATO has been impossible since 2014, so this is a false argument.
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  36. There is no evidence of this. In addition, Russia demanded that Crimea be recognized as Russian and the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions renounced. Ukraine would not have agreed to these conditions anyway.
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  37.  @jorje58965  What you wrote is the worldview of a teenager.
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  38. "Ukraine, a never before country" - ignorance. Firstly, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic existed since the founding of the Soviet Union and was even a co-founder of the UN. Secondly, Ukrainians made several attempts to create a Ukrainian national state immediately after the collapse of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires, after which both attempts (UPR and VUPR) were destroyed by the Bolsheviks and Poles. The main problems of leaving the nuclear arsenal to Ukraine were that a) Ukraine could not afford to maintain it b) it would violate the nuclear non-proliferation regime.
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  39. No, this is just a mix of an outdated concept of international relations and Russian propaganda.
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  40. Russia is not interested in being in NATO, Russia wants to be a superpower (for no reason, it has nothing but nuclear warheads) for which it needs a sphere of influence where it needs to drag tens of millions of people against their will.
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  41. Do you enjoy being fooled?
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  42. Нет, массоны и рептилоиды
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  43. You don't understand a word of Russian, do you?
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  44. “US did not allow Zelensky” is a stupid conspiracy theory that is not based on anything. At those negotiations, UKRAINE PROVIDED A COMPROMISE AGREEMENT and there is no evidence that Russia agreed to it.
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  45. LOL. 1. Mearsheimer - Ukraine's admission to NATO will start a war in Europe! 2. 2008, France and Germany block the provision of a plan for Ukraine's membership in NATO, the progress of Ukraine's accession to NATO is frozen. 3. 2014, Russia annexes part of Ukrainian territory, starting a proxy war against Ukraine, both of these actions make Ukraine’s admission to NATO impossible even in theory. ... 4. 2022, Russia attacks Ukraine again and annexes 4 Ukrainian regions. Are you fanboys of this old idiot completely stupid or what?
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  46. Yes, integrity. To state that Russia was forced to attack Ukraine because of the threat of NATO expansion, despite the fact that Ukraine’s admission to NATO has been fundamentally impossible since 2014. Which this useful idiot knows very well.
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  47. Oh yes, you studied so hard that you didn’t even notice how this old man in similar scenarios did not follow his own teaching within the same interview.
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  48. Что бы сорвать коварный план НАТО достаточно убрать российские войска с Украины.
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  49. Предоставь список битв с этими западными интервентами... Жертва ЕГЭ блть.
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  50.  @azerty8866  Dude, first of all, Ukraine’s admission to NATO has been impossible since 2014, and this nonsense about how NATO will cut off Russia from the Black Sea when Russia has already captured Crimea, tell someone else. Secondly, Russia has access to the Black Sea without Ukraine, look at the damn map.
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  51.  @azerty8866  Russia cannot build its bases in Canada and Mexico because these countries will not allow it. Why? Because these countries do not feel threatened by the United States... But if the US president began periodically talking about how Mexico is not a real country, then Mexico would try to find allies.
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  52.  @salam14111  Dude, unlike Cuba, there were no nuclear missiles in Ukraine, and it was not expected that there would be any. Even Ukraine’s entry into NATO has been impossible since 2014. So what did Russia protect itself from by attacking Ukraine in 2022?
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  53. “it was agreed to prevent NATO expansion to the east” - no, this did not happen. "this treaty has been violated" - name this treaty. “All of what Russia did and still doing is the reactions” - reaction to what? To the impossibility of Ukraine's admission to NATO after 2014?
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  54. Yes, he taught him a lesson in the hypocrisy of holding opposing positions in similar situations with Ukraine and Taiwan.
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  55. The war in Ukraine began after the capture of cities in the east by armed citizens of the Russian Federation, led by FSB officer Igor Girkin. This is not a civil war. You're ignorant and he's a useful idiot.
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  56. “they were Russian nuclear weapons” - another Westerner who does not understand the difference between the Soviet Union and Russia. It was the Soviet nuclear arsenal, the arsenal of a country that ceased to exist, an arsenal that ended up in the hands of fragments of this state and the consolidation of which in the hands of Moscow had to be negotiated.
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  57. The French army crossed the Neman on June 24. The invasion in the USSR began on June 22.
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  58. В минских соглашениях нет упоминания о псевдореспубликах вообще. "Россия НЕ была стороной соглашения" именно эта позиция была инструментом саботажа соглашений Россией.
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  59. To become a member of NATO and the EU, desire is not enough. need to meet certain standards. Many of them go against the desire to build tasteless palaces.
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  60.  @kickinsnarehat  The question was not about numbers but about stupid analogies.
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  61. А россия это нео-коммунистическая национал-либертарианская джамахирия.
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  62.  @hansu7474  this is an empty insinuation. There was no war in any of the regions in which armed people from the Russian Federation did not appear.
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  63.  @kelly980  Yes, yes, they came to save us from oppression. From 2014 to 2021, 800,000 people moved from the territory captured by the separatists to the territory controlled by Ukraine. A third of the population. They abandoned their home and left their “saviors” for their “oppressors.” Continue to be a useful idiot.
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  64. Do you know who is a practitioner of the teaching that the guest adheres to? Henry Kisinger. Look in the mirror to see the face of an ignorant fool.
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  65.  @johndoe1999-zq5di  Yanukovych was removed from power by the parliament in which he had a majority, the same parliament was in force until October 26, 2014, when elections scheduled by the same parliament took place. There was no interruption of legitimate power in Ukraine at all.
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  66. Because NATO does not have a mechanism for resolving military conflicts within the alliance, in light of which countries that hid from Russia in NATO (eastern, central Europe, Baltic countries, Scandinavian countries) will block such a decision. Russian imperial ambitions and NATO membership are mutually exclusive.
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  67. Yes, it is the United States that forces Ukrainians to defend their land. Certainly without the US, the Ukrainians simply demanded that Putin annex them immediately. US is the real problem here.
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  68.  @sergiop.7596  Cause? Russian Revanchism.
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  69. Lex unfortunately never criticizes his guests, this is his interview style. Mearsheimer is not only wrong, he is lying. Since 2008, France, Germany, Italy and other NATO members have been blocking Ukraine's progress toward membership. Since 2014, the admission of Ukraine into NATO has been fundamentally impossible due to the territorial conflict with Russia (the appearance of Ukraine in the alliance will instantly activate Article 5, because the territory of one of the members is attacked), Putin knew very well that even theoretically, Ukraine’s entry into NATO is impossible. Mearsheimer also ignores other inconvenient facts for his narrative. Like the consistent demonstration by Putin and other Russian leaders of revanchist and chauvinistic views of Ukraine and Ukrainians. Literally three days before the war, Putin tried to prove that “Ukraine was invented by the communists” on the “territory of historical Russia”, justifying the future annexation of Ukrainian land.
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  70. Yeah dude. For some reason, his thesis that countries are always guided by the interests of their security does not apply to Israel. He is ready every day to justify Putin’s war against Ukraine because of the illusory expansion of NATO, but for Israel, which literally lives surrounded by people who want to exterminate the Jews, he demands to put up with its enemies.
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  71.  @elozinoemeovrode9779  Here's a little realistic look for you. In 2015, 9 NATO members created an alliance within the alliance to deepen military cooperation and ensure security in the region - the Bucharest Nine. The entire eastern flank of NATO. 9 NATO members who are supposedly protected by Article 5. What scared them so much? Any ideas?
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  72. Ukraine's admission to NATO has been impossible since 2014, and Putin knew this very well.
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  73. Yes Yes. And therefore he considers it necessary to get in China’s face by supporting a side in the Chinese civil war, but at the same time refuses to help Ukraine because “this is Russia’s sphere of interests.” He's a hypocrite. And his fans are fools.
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  74. "his takes on Russia-Ukraine are worth considering" if you have the will to ignore the reality where Ukraine's admission to NATO has been impossible since 2014 and Putin's revanchist views
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  75.  @treninjector2245  this is a strange way to say that your mother is Ukrainian. Although unlikely. After all, you said cheap women, but your mother was for free.
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  76. Do you understand even a word of Russian? It’s so cute that you blame “Western” leaders for the moral bankruptcy, but the object of your adoration is a former petty KGB officer put in power by the oligarchs in order to steal people’s money, a dude who has been killing his political opponents for 22 years so that he can build his tasteless palaces.
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  77. "is very straightforward to anyone with" absolutely zero knowledge about the subject of what he is talking about
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  78. It's not true, you're not that bad. People who have had experience of living under the boot of Moscow will definitely have a couple of arguments on the topic.
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  79. A very strange genocide in which the Arab population increases tenfold.
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  80. Why don't you understand yet? The different attitude towards Taiwan and Ukraine in his words is not an error of judgment but a deliberate decision. He is an American prophet of aggressive political realism and for some reason he decided that helping Ukraine stands in the way of a more important confrontation with China and therefore he justifies Russia in order to influence US policy in such a way that the US would focus on China. Nothing more. In fact, either helping both Ukraine and Taiwan is correct, or helping Taiwan and Ukraine is interfering in the sphere of influence of other great powers and must be stopped. He's a hypocrite and most of his stupid fans don't understand that.
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  81. Political realists do not believe in the subjectivity of small countries or believe that it can and should be neglected.
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  82.  @shalomyizkl4388  ты несёшь полную ахенею которая не имеет никакого отношения к реальности. Тебе насрали в голову.
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  83. For your information, Cuba was in an alliance with the Soviet Union and had USSR military forces on its territory. I love analogies from ignoramuses like you.
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  84. And? If the United States falls apart, how strong an argument will it be for Texas: “Well, the nuclear weapons on your territory were controlled from Washington!”
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  85. And by the way, the launch vehicles of the Soviet nuclear program were assembled in Ukraine and after the fall of the union they were serviced in Ukraine.
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  86.  @johndoe1999-zq5di  you are ignorant
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  87. Yes, sure. Since 2008 France and Germany have been blocking Ukraine's progress towards NATO since 2014, Urquiana's admission to NATO is fundamentally impossible Since 2022, Russia has been waging the first war of conquest in Europe since the end of World War II ...2023 this old fool is still claiming that Russia attacked Ukraine because it could become a member of NATO.
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  88.  @hussainalharbi2448  But Russia cannot. USA 25% of world GDP Russia 3%. Russia has nothing to offer the world either culturally, scientifically or civilizationally.
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  89. In 1949-1950 when China destroyed the states of the Tibetans and Uyghurs and annexed them.
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  90.  @JoJoZaka  Google "Database and Video Overview of the Russian Weaponry in the Donbas" and "Proofs of the Russian Aggression: InformNapalm releases extensive database of evidence"
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  91. Lol, there is nothing more desirable for the “West” than a 3-hour unedited interview with Putin in the public domain. You probably think that Putin is a great thinker and speaker? Don't know Russian? This man has never debated in his life, he has never directly answered a single question, and every speech he makes contains the stupidest analogies and vulgar jokes.
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  92. Sorry, but you're wrong. The territories where shale gas deposits were discovered are almost entirely located on the territory of the pseudo-republics around Donetsk. And they are not that big. Russia also blocked access to the unexplored gas production potential in the Black Sea by annexing Crimea. But the NATO threat narrative is just as false.
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  93. Dude, if the United States were a threat to its neighbors and seized their lands, then the desire of the United States neighbors for alliances with the United States’ opponents would be justified and everyone would consider the United States the aggressor.
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  94. We need to listen to fewer useful idiots like him.
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  95. There is one small problem. After 2014, Ukraine’s admission to NATO is fundamentally impossible. And this old fool and his stupid fans continue to claim that Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022 because of the threat of its entry into NATO. And between 2014 and 2022, Putin widely publicized his Ukrainophobic worldview in texts and speeches, which the useful idiot doesn’t want to talk about and his stupid fans don’t know.
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  96. Dude, shouldn't you have experienced cognitive dissonance? His position on Ukraine is a justification of Russian neo-imperialism with the inclusion of Ukraine in the “Russian zone of influence” and the denial of Ukrainian sovereignty.
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  97. You've been fooled. The United States was ready to talk about everything that Russia wanted except for allocating for Russia its personal zone of influence in Ukraine.
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  98. Do you enjoy being fooled?
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  99. Oh look, a real Nazi.
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  100. Dude, he's a dying breed of doctrine that has killed millions of people. Another famous practitioner of this doctrine... Henry Kissinger.
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  101. "truth bombs" - Ukraine's admission to NATO has been impossible since 2014, but in 2022 Putin attacked Ukraine to prevent Ukraine's admission to NATO.
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  102.  @JamesSmith-ix5jd  No one carried out a coup in 2014. Yanukovych was removed from power by his own parliament. The same parliament worked until new elections on October 26, 2014.
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  103. Why shouldn't the US have one more ally? The US is not the main driver of NATO expansion in Europe. With the expansion of the European Union, the practice has developed that a country usually first joins NATO and then the EU. It makes sense. NATO serves as a safeguard for future investments. For example, when Slovakia became a NATO member, the level of investment in the country increased almost 6 times. Russia sees everything as a threat and does not understand or cannot accept that it has simply lost the civilization race.
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  104.  @Filtered_Photons  Yes, sure. Using the example of the war in Ukraine. Mearsheimer claims that Russia attacked Ukraine because of the threat of Ukraine joining NATO. He's lying. Ukraine's admission to NATO has been fundamentally impossible since 2014. Everyone knew about this, including Putin. Then why would Russia attack Ukraine in 2022? Mearsheimer claims that Russia is concerned about the possibility of enemy troops appearing on its borders, but Russia has seized territory in the far south of Ukraine without creating any new buffer between Moscow and central Ukraine, why? Mearsheimer claims that Putin is motivated by threats to national security, but why then did Putin give an hour-long lecture on how “the communists created Ukraine” on the “lands of historical Russia” three days before the war? Why did Putin in his essay, half a year before the war, try to prove that the Ukrainian nation does not exist? What does this have to do with national security issues?
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  105. Russia attacked the obviously weaker side and was not even able to capture it, but in the dreams of idiots, Russia is opposed to the United States itself
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  106. Your analogy is an incredible simplification of reality and is not an argument. There was no coup in Ukraine. Yanukovych was removed from power by the parliament in which he had a majority, by 328 votes out of 450. And this happened AFTER and only AFTER Yanukovych fled and PUBLICLY declared that he would not fulfill the agreement with the opposition which GUARANTEED him the presidency until new elections. This parliament operated until the elections on October 26, 2014. There was no interruption of legitimate power in Ukraine at all. Russia took advantage of the situation and annexed part of the Krajina territory and, through a proxy, occupied another part of the Ukrainian territory. Both of these actions made Ukraine's admission to NATO IMPOSSIBLE because Ukraine is a country with an active conflict (Donbass) and a territorial dispute (Crimea). There was no threat of Ukraine being accepted into NATO and Russia received the main geopolitical prize - Crimea. So why would Russia attack Ukraine in 2022? If only not because of the desire to capture more territory.
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  107.  @kickinsnarehat  Look, we have an interview where he simultaneously supports opposing positions. Russia has a sphere of influence and national security interests that cannot be interfered with... but China’s sphere of influence must be interfered with and its interests must be neglected because China must be contained. Countries acting to ensure their security are ready to do terrible things and this is a fact of life that in a situation of war against Ukraine we must simply accept... but Israel must accept the emergence of a Palestinian state and neglect its security interests.
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  108. Hitler + Stalin
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  109. Now, will you explain to us why NATO is not attacking Russia right now when it is at its weakest?
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  110. Сходи в военкмат зигун
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  111.  @jeremydinverno4503  Ukraine's admission to NATO has been impossible since 2014
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  112. Это преувеличение но не так что бы сильное.
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  113. There have been no nationalist parties in the Ukrainian parliament for 9 years. Jewish president, elected with 74% of the vote, appointed a Muslim as defense minister. The level of Nazism is off the charts. Go to the mirror to look at the idiot.
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  114. Да, что тебе не ясно? Если план коварного "запада" очевиден то что бы избежать ослаблении России и падение режима пыни Россия должна сделать что? Должна прекратить делать что? Должна уйти откуда? Именно. Но ты слишком туп что бы это понять.
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  115. потому что Джонсон не был частью переговоров, потому что переговоры были мертвы уже к его приезду. Потому что ты дурачок который верит всему что тебе в голову срет ящик.
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  116. He is not a legend, he is an old fool who promotes a dead concept of international relations.
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  117. The Communist Party is in charge of containing China. Authoritarianism is holding back China's potential and making the world poorer.
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  118. Watch "Munk Debate: Russia-Ukraine War | Stephen Walt, John Mearsheimer v Michael McFaul, Radosław Sikorski"
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  119.  @AseelShaq  Zionism is simply a version of nationalism. The goal of any nationalism is the construction of a nation state, the purpose of which is also to protect its people. In this regard, the Zionists are more than successful.
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  120. This is not NATO’s expansion to the east, it’s the east that wanted to join NATO and Russia, which could not convince the east that it is no longer a threat to it, which it accuses the United States of.
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  121.  @prazman  He didn't foresee anything. He had a false hypothesis with a similar result to reality. The fact that the hypothesis was false was confirmed by the war in 2022. Since 2014, the admission of Ukraine to NATO has been impossible. But however, we have a war and this charlatan who is trying to justify it with the same hypothesis.
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  122. Compare 1 to 1 his position on Taiwan and Ukraine and understand that he is a hypocrite and an old fool.
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  123. Actually, if we apply the hypothesis about the national security of countries as their main motivation for action in the international arena but in relation to the countries of Eastern Europe, then we will see that Russia’s fight against the threat of “NATO expansion to the east” is a self-fulfilling prophecy that Russia created with its own hands.
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  124. Mearsheimer fans - 0 digits. In fact, a scripted imitation of life.
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  125. From the Russian nation?
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  126.  @mikev2066  No, dude, it’s just that those useful idiots you listen to never talk about Putin’s worldview, which denies the existence of the Ukrainian nation.
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  127. No one disputes that Taiwan is China.
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  128.  @P.r.o.f.e.s.s.o.r  “Russia has always wanted to be friends with the West throughout history” - you don’t know the history of Russia and are ignorant.
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  129.  @memeticist  " NATO expansion into Ukraine presents an existential security dilemma" - this is a false narrative from both political realists and Russian propaganda. The admission of Ukraine into NATO has been fundamentally impossible since 2014. Since 2008, Ukraine's progress towards NATO has been blocked by France and Germany. Putin literally wrote an article in which he denied the existence of the Ukrian nation half a year before the war. Three days before the war, he tried to prove that the Ukrainian state was created by communists on “Russian lands.” Tell us what this has to do with "security interests."
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  130. If Stalin had not divided Europe with Hitler, World War II most likely would not have happened at all. Great savior, my ass.
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  131. Zelensky made an absolutely unpopular decision to withdraw Ukrainian troops from the contact line in 2020, leaving entire towns in the gray zone, leaving fortified positions to the enemy and no mythical Banderaites killed him.
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  132. The Russian Soviet Republic also did not have its own nuclear missiles, they were Soviet. What is your argument?
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  133. Well, he doesn't understand, he manipulates and lies and doesn't follow his own principles.
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  134. Ukraine had to be convinced to give up its part of the nuclear arsenal. Ukraine could refuse to do this. Ukraine could refuse and recognize the inheritance of the USSR to Russia, calling itself such. Literally nothing could stop Ukraine from doing this. The surrender of the nuclear weapons by Ukraine occurred solely due to the good will of the Ukrainian leadership.
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  135. In 2013, Russia devoted all its efforts to preventing Ukrainian association with the EU, not even Ukrainian membership, and was even ready to throw 15 billion to Yanukovych for plunder. In light of which your statement looks stupid.
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  136. "intellectual powerhouse" compare his policies regarding Taiwan and Ukraine in the same interview and understand that he is simply a liar and a hypocrite.
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  137. очевидно что твой мозг подключен к ящику который думает за тебя
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  138. Yes, a real historian. Since 2008, France and Germany have been blocking Ukraine's progress towards NATO. Since 2014, Ukraine’s admission to NATO has been fundamentally impossible. In 2021, Putin publishes an essay in which he tries to prove that the Ukrainian nation does not exist. In 2022, three days before the war, Putin gives an hour-long lecture in which he tries to prove that Ukraine was invented by the communists "on the lands of historical Russia.” In 2023, this old fool claims that Putin attacked Ukraine because of the threat of NATO expansion into Ukraine.
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  139.  @walberparker7111  And which line did who cross? The admission of Ukraine to NATO has been impossible since 2014, it has been blocked by Germany and France since 2008. Putin simply attacked a defenseless country that was defenseless because he demanded that it be so.
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  140.  @ivdrrgefff6133  come on, armchair geopolitician, tell us why Russia is not invading Finland.
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  141.  @ivdrrgefff6133  это не калька. Это их устоявшийся аналог с тем же смыслом. Вот пример прямо таки с вики - Armchair revolutionary is a description, often pejorative, of a speaker or writer who professes radical aims without taking any action to realize them "from the comfort of the armchair"
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  142. Dude, are you aware that Ukraine’s admission to NATO has been impossible since 2014? And when I say that this is impossible, I mean, absolutely and in no way. For a country to be accepted into NATO, ALL NATO members must approve it and number of NATO members have been against this SINCE 2008. In particular France and Germany. And since 2014, Ukraine has become a country with an active war (Donbass) and a territorial dispute (Crimea) and no matter how much the United States was in favor of admitting Ukraine to NATO, no one would do this because it would AUTOMATICALLY start a war under Article 5. Putin attacked Ukraine because of revanchist views on history and Ukrainians, not because of the threat of Ukraine's admission to NATO. Putin solved the problem of Ukraine in NATO in 2014, and we now know that he did this so that Ukraine would be defenseless. Don't be a useful idiot and stop harassing your friends.
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  143. So honest that in relation to two similar situations, Ukraine and Taiwan, he comes to opposite conclusions. Are you fanboys that blind or that stupid?
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