Comments by "joe k" (@joek600) on "MASSIVE Russian Gains in Avdiivka & Bakhmut" video.

  1.  @kabanenko5319  All it took was to stay neutral and not enable nationalistic goons and their fantasies.
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  2.  @sdavis9444  more like a sovereign brothel
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  3.  @danielbwest  First of all Finland was a NATO member in all but name, now that we got that out of the way, Russia is a great regional power but doesnt have its former superpower status. A superpower is defined by the ability to project its might all over the globe. Offcourse Russia would not want to have an open front with NATO and Ukraine and anyone who really thought that Erdogan would not allow Sweden and Finland in, is completely ridiculous. He just wanted to get money and weapons, having you trample on your constitution and democratic values in order to get on his good side was just his afternoon fun. How do you feel that you danced like a monkey for his pleasure?
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  4.  @danielbwest  my dude just repeating an argument won’t make it true. Russia has a very delicate frenemy relation with Turkey and while for Erdogan the source of his troubles with US were the S400, his entire fleet of airplanes are f-16 and he desperately needs those upgrades and service. He was never going to veto Sweden and Finland. Hungary also is tied into the EU by financial bindings so strong that it would mean absolute collapse if they were withdrawing or faced massive sanctions by the rest of the Brussels mafia. The existence of NATO as the extension of the American policies and military projection, targeting Russia with the aim to choke it until it becomes once again the country ripe for harvesting it was under Yeltsin, is the source of all troubles.
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  5.  @danielbwest  I’m sure that in your head you have the perfect argument that Russia is evil and just does evil stuff cause that’s what evil people do. In the actual world it doesn’t work like that. First of all let’s take Turkey out of the picture. Russia and Turkey have a long tradition of conflicts and cool down periods. That is to be expected cause they have geopolitical interests in certain areas. If you think that Russia likes what Erdogan is doing in Azerbaijan or Syria, then think again. Russia and Turkey do not have an alliance, they have a momentarily understanding, providing services to each other up to a point. Turkey will never be a Russian Trojan Horse in NATO despite Erdogan’s posturing and tantrums. The truth is that he got too big for his pants thinking that he will combine the offensive superiority of US made aircrafts with the defensive superiority of Russian anti-air missile systems and he will have the best of two worlds. Until he got slapped back to his place and faced the danger of having a heap of unserviced F-16s. What sparked this idea of Erdogan was the issue with the Cypriot S-300, which after the Turkish tantrums left the island and got incorporated in the Greek air defence giving an edge against the Turkish air defence. I’m sure that he could acquire some S-300 but because it’s Erdogan and he had to show to the plebs there that he has the bigger one, he went for S-400 and then his diplomatic troubles started. Turkey is only threatening that will side with Russia trying to play both sides, but in the end it will always be in NATO for very particular geopolitical reasons. Germany had a dependence on Russian oil and gas, and had its own little plans for domination, this time via financial means not bullets since the last two times didn’t end well. The problem though is that Germany is still an unofficially occupied country, and while appearing strong in reality the US state department calls all the shots in the German political arena, both by bribing and blackmailing on an individual and state level. Yes the Germans were dependent on Russian oil and gas but when it comes to the point of choosing a side, they will always pick US of A. The massive proof of their inability to act independently is that the German chancellor sat smiling like an idiot while grandpa Biden was announcing in a press conference that the GERMAN oil pipe will be taken out. A few months after it got blown up and nobody in Germany made a whisper, because US was in da house carrying a stick and ready to use it. None of the European countries you imply that Russia has a hold on, would pick Russia over US anytime. Even if that’s obviously against their public interest, because their political scene is dominated by people who don’t exactly care about the public interest. I mean just check the bios of all the leading politicians and you will find all sorts of connections to American institutions, universities, NGOs etc. Russia did all it could, which was marching up and down its armies, saying in all tones ‘’guys I’m going to invade if this shit doesn’t stop’’. The US administration, not Biden he is gone long ago, decided that it’s wise to seek no compromise and push the situation regardless the consequences for Ukraine and Europe, cause after all…. They don’t live here.
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  6.  @loollool6689  To be fair everybody forgets Finland is there, but the period of Xmas with their Santa little tourist trap
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  7.  @kabanenko5319  I have been in your country especially, eastern Ukraine, I know people there for 20 years, so don’t you even try to BS me with your usual storylines aimed at clueless European cloud dwellers. BTW I come from a NATO/EU country and don’t care about Putin. It’s not about Putin at all. It’s very true that most people in Ukraine are not nazis, but they are led by nazi fringe groups that were allowed to take over your state. I guess most of you not bothering to vote at all for the past 30 years came with a price. I know what most Ukrainians wanted. Just 300-400 euros extra on their salary and to get out of the downward post-Soviet financial spiral that turned your country into a brothel ( that’s not my words, that’s the words of my Ukrainian friends). Unfortunately that’s not what EU wanted and certainly not NATO. Instead of raining money it rained bombs and it was 1000% avoidable. If I was in your shoes I would take Zelensky, Poroshenko and the rest to a nice tall tree with sturdy branches.
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