Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Authoritarian Russia's Lies and the Risk of Escalation Against NATO | Quick Take | GZERO Media" video.

  1. Ian, in all due respect, you are a voice of reason and wisdom in your assessments, but please show us a neutral look on your face. You are wearing your emotions rather than leaving them at the studio door before you come in to make a vocast. You look more and more concerned and worried with every new vocast you make. Just tell us what's going on like you would be talking to the cashier in the grocery store. Why do I say this? Because your face is exactly how we feel about the Ukrainian and Russian war. We need calm. We need to move ahead and all of us need to leave our emotions out of this.
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  2. Ian, Please allow me a second comment. Sergei Lavrov is one of the most gifted diplomats to hit the international stage for decades. He can come up with words that make anything he wants to sound real and truthful. Let us not be taken in by Mr Lavrov's skillfully weoponized remark as you say at 6:37 into the vocast. The give-away is saying Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood.This was planned and carefully crafted dirty-bomb words solely intended to have Israel react with rage and lose its rationality and then drop its neutral status and back the Ukrainian government lock, stock and barrel? Why do I say this? Because the goal of Lavrov's remark is to get Israel publicly backing Ukraine so that Russia can change its tactics in the middle east by legitimately having Syria and Iran come on board into the Israeli-Palestinian tango. My advice to Prime Minister Bennett is to not take the bait. In wartime, diplomatic lingo and neutral responses must be doubled and emotional reactions shelved for the rest of the war. I repeat: Sergei Lavrov's remarks were meant to torpedo Israel's neutral status so that the war in Ukraine becomes international and then Russia can use its loyal Syrian and Iranian hosts to fight a oroxy war against Israel and that will drag in the Americans. The Russians are watering at the mouth in having to fight American soldiers on any battlefield or ocean, because then China will be able to be called in to help them finish the job. All efforts must be to keep the war in Ukraine and not fall for booby-traps from landmines to diplomatic triggering of expected and hoped for knee-jerk reactions. It's an opinion. I am an artist not an international analyst.
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