Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "NATO is Risking Nuclear War for Money" video.

A better question to ask would be why NATO even existed after 1991. Russia was poor, weak, and VERY pro-Western thanks to Yeltsin. A new military bloc that grouped Russia and Europe together could have been done. It seems that wasn't to the Americans' liking.
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 @moravianlion3108 I imagine they'd be happy to do that if the US didn't conduct wargames 70miles from their border
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@ivanivanovitchivanovsky7123 "The people" isn't ALL people. Just the people who happened to be in Maidan, in a single city in Ukraine. Also they maintained their democracy... by not holding elections and overthrowing the elected person? Lol Do you think maybe a... national referendum should have been held whether Yanukovich should go, and not some "football hooligans"?
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@stephenjenkins7971 They aren't the only brigades with views like that. Azov is the most famous, but there's also Aidar, Tornado, 301, Right Sector... many more that are even less known. It is a widespread problem, that Western sources reported on since 2013 until it became inconvenient for the war effort.
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 @ivanivanovitchivanovsky7123 ...It's a coup. It's not what the people want. Lol
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@ivanivanovitchivanovsky7123 "If the rest of the nation didn't care" But that's wrong. They did care, there were almost immediate counter-protests in the south and east— the places that voted for Yaunkovich the most. Zelensky came to office on a peace platform, and then (as the video shows) conducted mock wargames with the US in the Black Sea. He betrayed his own voters. People don't like him now, they just don't have a better option. Opposition TV channels, even Ukrainian ones, have been banned. None of this is democratic at all. Not Zelensky's current actions and especially not the Maidan. Frankly even if I believe you and say that most people agreed with Maidan, it was done in an extremely undemocratic way and weakens Ukraine's own government. What kind of "democracy" can only function through riots? The Congress or Rada has failed its core function at that point and doesn't deserve to exist.
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@RazorsharpLT Just to be clear, even the CIA acknowledged internally that Stalin was "the captain of a team", rather than an absolute dictator, which US media ran with at the time. Maybe you should reconsider what you know about Russia's governance style? Hindsight is 20/20 of course, but at least try and step outside the bubble. I'm not saying it's a democracy, but "mafia state" is something I'd expect out of CNN, not a YouTube comment. "He's a thug!" "Gangster capitalism", ad infinitum
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What those nations want doesn't matter. They contribute effectively nothing to NATO. The US is the lynchpin behind the entire thing— they provide the money, the logistics, the training. Without the US, NATO ceases to exist. It isn't a partnership of equals in any way, and those nations have no way of sustaining NATO. It is to to the US whether NATO continues to exist, so why should Poland and Estonia get to dictate how trillions of American dollars and manpower is spent?
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What were they doing between 1991 and 2007 then? Was it really all that urgent if they didn't even ask after Chechnya happened? Russia was poor and weak, and could have been brought into the European system. Europe only has itself to blame for trying to humiliate Russia even after it was already defeated.
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 @thelordofforeheads2839 You're assuming that NATO would actually hold Ukraine to a standard of anti-corruption, and that its referendum results would be real
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