Comments by "Toby" (@toby9999) on "Sir Richard Shirreff - Escalation is Putin's Default Strategy; Might that be Driving us Towards WW3?" video.

  1. Sorry, but this is the same old blah blah blah we've been hearing for two years. It's very easy in hindsight to whine about being too conservative with Russia's red lines. But who can tell us what Russia would have done if Ukraine had been given everything they needed, open slather, no restrictions. Well, we'll never know, but the world is still intact. The nukes weren't launched, thankfully. Only a fool would have given Ukraine everything open slather up front and potentially shocked Russia into committing the ultimate act of madness. Not to take anyway from the value of this channel, but there are too many simplistic talking points being promulgated on a regular basis without serious thought to real solutions. Why? Because real solutions are thin on the ground. And they're hard... too hard for the average YT audience simpletons to digest.
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  2. ​@SiliconCurtain Perhaps I shouldn't have been so blunt in how I said it. You're doing a great job with promoting the pro Ukranian cause, and I respect your passion and drive. I'm also pro Ukraine. I've donated to the fund-raisers, notably Jake Broe's incredible effort, and I support a small Ukraine YouTuber. That said, I disagree with your hindsight based conclusion regarding how the war would have turned out. The real problems in my opinion were 1) Europe's insufficient level of defence finding and 2) US government dyfunction due to maga and ruzzian influence. Bottom line: we will never know with any confidence what might have happened. Could hsve been any one of a myriad of possibilities, from very good to very bad. Had Ukraine pushed the Russians out, would that have ended the war? I'm not confident that it would have. We'd still have a deranged paranoid Putin with his war chest intact and that huge Soviet stockpile of weapons etc. I'm a conservative person by nature and would rather "boil the frog slowly" so to sprak. I believe caution was prudent.
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