Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "Yanis Varoufakis: It's mad to think Ukraine can win" video.

  1. Varoufakis has sound logic and some good ideas, but I think the problem is - long term can either side of this, the Americans or the Russians be trusted to stay the course on any commitment they make. For example the commitment the West made not to expand NATO, and Russia's acceptance or losing influence and economic and industrial ties with Ukraine. I read that Ukraine was 1/3 of the Russian economy. I also read that since having these connections to the West, the EU, much of Ukraine's economy has been hollowed out, and shuttered, because the EU does not need Ukrainian heavy industry to compete with Western European corporations. And that in recent past years a million Ukrainians have left Ukraine because the economy is terrible, and there are no good jobs. Forget mansplaining, or Westsplaining, what if Ukrainians have been convinced to go against their better interest by lies from the West? These connections to the West are not going to pave the streets of Ukraine with gold, more likely it is to exploit resources, and in typical Western pattern the people of Ukraine will not benefit one bit from the exploitation of their country's resources. So, if the compromise position is one where both sides are unhappy to a similar degree, why would we ever think that they both will settle for that in the longterm and that one or the other will not either decide to unilaterally change the terms, or one or the other will not deliberately provoke the other side to military action so they can claim moral superiority?
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