Comments by "Robert Atkins" (@robertatkins9419) on "Take Putin seriously or risk World War III, former head of British army warns" video.

@johnfellows689 What have you been smoking, john?
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Thank you. Lord Dannatt, for advising everyone to turn the rhetorical heat down. This ought to be a lesson for the people at Times Radio, as much as anyone else.
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That reasoning is pathologically distorted.
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user-wj6dt5bq3w Of course you're right that most Russians support the military operation in Ukraine. Not only that, but there are a fair amount of Russians who'd like to have gone in much harder than they have done.
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@urbanyeti5233 Keep going down, you've got further to go.
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After listening to Dannatt again I have to say that to me he contradicts himself. On the one hand he calls for us to 'take Putin seriously', but on the other had he says things like 'it is absolutely essential that Putin doesn't win', and that this is to ensure the freedom of western Europe. Well, if we'd taken Putin, and his predecessors, seriously, we would never had made the pledge that Ukraine would join NATO, and this conflict would most likely not have happened at all.
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Russia is categorically NOT spending 40% of its GDP on defence. That is a flat--out, western propaganda LIE. It's also a LIE to say that Russia considers China to be an existential threat.
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@SiennaArtsandCrafts And let's not forget the Red Army, nor the country they represented, who lost 27,000,000 fighting for the freedom of everyone in the west.
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@CymruCelt01 They're as justified as the US would be invading Mexico - as they would undoubtedly do, only they wouldn't wait nine years to do so - if Mexico announced a joint military base being built in Mexico between them and Russia or China.
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