Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "John Mearsheimer: The West is playing Russian roulette" video.

Thanks for posting something new from John Mearsheimer. Great to hear him hopefully being heard.
33
16:18 - Mearsheimer defending the Baltic States against Freddie's constant suggestions that Russia is going to attack.
7
The odd thing to me - the thing that does not add up when one listens to Freddie's comment here - 9:00 Ukraine is committed to their independence so much that they want to ethnically cleanse the Donbas and Crimea of what are essentially Ukrainians? What kind of country does that - i.e. declares war on its own citizens? Ukraine is in a war to expand into the Donbas and Crimea, based on the technicality that their current boundaries include those areas - but they are not really Ukrainian. It is sort of like Israel wanting to have its own nation in the middle of raging Islamic Fundamentalists, or even the Kurds wanting freedom from what are basically the same brand of Islamic Fundamentalists. The wars of Liberation are on the side of Israel, the Kurds, and the Ethnic Russians in Ukraine. Russia tried to compromise by asking for the Donbas to be given autonomous status, in the Minsk agreement - but the West has admitted they never intended to live up to the Minsk Agreement - they were stalling to arm Ukraine so it could essentially steal that land from the people who lived there and call it the democracy of Ukraine ... very ugly and cynical of them - at the same time murdering 14,000 people in that war. This is really a total mind-fug of the entire world to justify a war against Russia and to expand the West into Ukraine for resources ... and it's great now because all the Ukrainians are gone or dead. This is massively screwed up.
6
I think initially Russia made a grave error by attacking Kiev first thus making this look to the world like an invasion of taking all of Ukraine instead of trying to fix an injustice against a minority Russia population in the Donbas. I don't know - maybe they had to do that, or thought they had to, but I think it allowed the US propaganda - which today is so powerful it is terrifying. There is literally only a small handful of people willing to stand up and broadcast the facts that Americans are not able to hear from the mainstream media, and they are relegated to You-Tube, blogs, and other channels to small numbers of people - and they could easily have been shut up or cut off. The reality we hear in the media, and from major figures in social media, it is so pro-US, there is absolutely no room for facts, discussion, and it has turned dangerous to actually be democratic and free speech in the land of the free - America. WTF?
4
Its it fair to say that Russia, by attacking all of Ukraine initially, allowed themselves to ignite nationalism in Ukraine in a way that would not have happened had they focused their special military operation on just Donbas and had a different strategy to get behind the lines and fortify the Donbas while saying they were doing this for the independence/autonomy of the Donbas, and were allowing Ukrainians who wanted to do leave for heartland Ukraine?
4
It seems like the bottom line here is that US gambled and it came up snake-eyes for Ukraine ... and the Ukrainian people - who voted for Zelensky because he said he would stop the war in Donbas - are the innocent suckers caught in the middle - and this war will go on and on until Ukraine is not worth defending any more. Probably the US will or is working now on another front against Russia, maybe in the "Stans" or again in Belarus?
3
17:20 - ( The wisdom of John Mearsheimer ) Freddie Sayers - On the specifics of Ukraine then, what should we have done, do you think? John Mearsheimer - Well, first of all, in April 2008, when NATO said Ukraine would become part of NATO and the Russians made it clear that was an existential threat and was unacceptable to the, we should have back off right then. We should have done nothing more. Then the crisis broke out on February 22nd 2014, we should have recognized the severity of the situation and we should have backed off and worked with the Russians to create some sort of modus vivendi where the Russians felt that they weren't threatened by NATO in Ukraine and that Ukraine could remain a neutral state. But, instead what we did was we doubled-down. Then over the course of 2021 the situation deteriorated and on December 17th, 2021, the Russians sent a letter to NATO and to President Biden, demanding that they get in writing that Ukraine would not become part of NATO. What we should have done then is backed off and tried to work out some sort of modus vivendi where the Russians were satisfied with the situation in Ukraine and the threat of war was taken off the table. Instead we told the Russians, nothing is going to change. We are going to bring Ukraine into NATO, and we were working very hard to do that - despite the conventional wisdom in the West which says we were not. We were working to bring Ukraine into NATO.
3
15:00 - It is really over the top scare mongering for Freddie Sayers to talk about Russia invading countries like Sweden or the Baltic states. It is not in the same universe as what is happening in Ukraine, yet when he pushed the conversation in that direction it's just another propaganda game to vilify Russia. I'm so sick of this kind of rhetorical mind game.
3
47:00 - This is the crux of the Ukrainian Invasion that we in the West are being lied to about. Russia did not "invade" Ukraine per se, with the intention of taking over Ukrainian, and Mearsheimer pretty well proves this. Russia's special military operation was a gesture to force the West to negotiate over Ukraine, which we refused to do.
2
23:20 - Freddie Sayers sounds like he is really uninformed about world politics and international relations. How could he think that China was going to function to ensure Ukraine's security. That is so off the wall.
2
@mccanncollection You sound so uninformed. Why cruise these videos if you insist on not informing yourself? Because to me it sounds like you are just trolling. No normal person does that, only a propagandizing troll. And, yes, it is an invasion now, but it started out as a SMO. Russia blew it by feinting towards Kiev and turning this into a full on war. The problem is that the US was spoiling for this fight for 8 years, and even before. But I doubt you know or care as long as you can make your stupid comment ... and insert a "ha ha" into it. Now, that is funny that you think this is something to laugh about. Thousands of people on both sides getting killed, and Ukraine getting levelled, and Europe and American falling into the grip of military oligarchs while the world burns. Guess I miss the humor in that and kind of feel anyone who would laugh is a total idiot.
2
I think Russia's initial attack, it's Special Military Operation ... like America's Police Actions ... were to stick with the idea that this was a police action to assist defending Ethnic Russian minorities in Ukraine that were being Ethnically Cleansed and Genocided in order that the Ukrainian oligarchs could expand Ukraine's land and domination. To me this makes Ukraine a lying, hypocritical country, and a greater threat than Russia in the region. Ukraine is just pretending to be a democracy to fool us Americans into helping them, when it is killing its own people, and then NOT following the promises of those elected either. Zelensky promised to end the hostilities in the Donbas, but the OSCE reports indicate that shelling from the Ukrainian side to the Donbas increased radically. Ukraine also said it was trying to defend its territorial integrity, when in fact Ukraine never had territorial integrity because it was trying to conquer and subdue a population that wanted at least autonomy if not independence if not to be part of Russia.
2
Freddie seems to be constantly pushing the fear of Russia, which seems to be me to be more a product of decades, almost a century of our Western vilification - mostly for the purposes of ginning up support for war of aggression against Russia instead of just defense against Russia based on any actual historic evidence that Russia is expansionist. On the other hand is what Russia did and what many perceive Russia as having done during the Cold War. But then the rational though and argument fades off before we go into the history of the number of times Russia has been attacked from the West and the scale of the damage that has caused in terms of Russian lives and the Russian cultural consciousness. I don't like that tack from Freddie because it seems at least disingenuous.
2
The US good reasons for wanting to win and knock down Russia, but we are doing it in an ends justifies the means way, killing thousands and thousands of people and ruining countries and economies. 1000 years from now if it works maybe people will look back on it like the splendor of the Roman Empire - or maybe not. But I think from listening to Mearsheimer that it will be a huge hurdle and a huge gamble to know over Russia's government, and that it is more likely than not that they will nuke Washington as signal that the end of the world is on. First if they are losing as JM says they might use nuclear weapons Ukraine, and then as we say we will come in with our trillion dollar military budget with conventional forces and engage with Russia, and Russia will at that point have to prove they are not going to go down without a fight, and to signal that they will fire a hypersonic nuclear missile on some American target. DC would be a natural symbolic target ... and then what. The end of the world, miserable end of the world for most, and then anyone left over will be about killing each other to survive. That's why I think this is insane.
1
@elangelyt7738 Completely irrelevant to my comment. What were you trying to say?
1
@dawidkozowski5048 If you are going to make a case, try complete sentences and ideas. I don't know what country you are talking about and hand-waving generalities are just more of what we are getting from the mainsteam media.
1
@Blanka1100 > Russia refuses to admit its dark sides. What country does admit its dark side ... except for Germany? You're unloading a bunch of emotion here, but I don't hear you saying anything, just anti-Russian pro-Ukrainian war. No one is better off from this war, but least of all the Ukrainians. Why do they want to hang on to territory that they have only had for about 100 years and whose people do not want to be part of Ukraine - since they are being killed by Ukrainians. Some democracy, huh?
1