Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "The War in Ukraine: A Conversation with Yaroslav Trofimov (Episode #358)" video.
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When Russia supposedly invaded Ukraine one of the first things I found was a lecture from 8 years earlier by John Mearsheimer predicting this exact event. That provoked me to start investigating and recalling American behaviors about wars going back to Vietnam. I am still confused about this, unwilling to defend Russia, but also unwill to buy into our American narrative either. The US seems to have interfered in Urkaine going back to Maidan and the revolution that kicked out of office a Ukrainian President who was trying to do right by his people. The US has removed a lot of leaders in other countries from power who were trying to help their people - there is a whole list of them, and many CIA and State department insiders who have spoken about it.
I tend to see Russia-Ukraine as a disagreement about the split between Russia and Ukraine when the USSR dissolved. I think it is something the US should have stayed out of - except for one reason. That reason would be if couped Ukrainian President Yanukovych's plan to have Ukraine be neutral and an intermediary between Russia and the EU was predicted seriously to impact the US's influence and economic power in Europe.
On the other side is the desire for the US to keep pushing Russia through NATO expansion and putting pressure on it, as we do to all our seld made enemies, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, China, Vietnam, etc. If you are not an American puppet regime you are a communist threat to the world and must be destroyed.
That's the rules of the game. So, I don't think Putin is the devil incarnate, and I do think he is looking after the best interests of Russia, and ethnic Russians in Ukraine. But on the big battlefield of global big power politics, I support the US. I just think we should be more transparent about it, and not overindulge because we have made a wreck of our own country now.
It will not be too long before Russians and Chinese have a better lifestyle that Americans if we keep this foolishness up - at least without American citizen buy-in - and compensation.
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When Russia supposedly invaded Ukraine one of the first things I found was a lecture from 8 years earlier by John Mearsheimer predicting this exact event. That provoked me to start investigating and recalling American behaviors about wars going back to Vietnam. I am still confused about this, unwilling to defend Russia, but also unwill to buy into our American narrative either. The US seems to have interfered in Urkaine going back to Maidan and the revolution that kicked out of office a Ukrainian President who was trying to do right by his people. The US has removed a lot of leaders in other countries from power who were trying to help their people - there is a whole list of them, and many CIA and State department insiders who have spoken about it.
I tend to see Russia-Ukraine as a disagreement about the split between Russia and Ukraine when the USSR dissolved. I think it is something the US should have stayed out of - except for one reason. That reason would be if couped Ukrainian President Yanukovych's plan to have Ukraine be neutral and an intermediary between Russia and the EU was predicted seriously to impact the US's influence and economic power in Europe.
On the other side is the desire for the US to keep pushing Russia through NATO expansion and putting pressure on it, as we do to all our seld made enemies, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, China, Vietnam, etc. If you are not an American puppet regime you are a communist threat to the world and must be destroyed.
That's the rules of the game. So, I don't think Putin is the devil incarnate, and I do think he is looking after the best interests of Russia, and ethnic Russians in Ukraine. But on the big battlefield of global big power politics, I support the US. I just think we should be more transparent about it, and not overindulge because we have made a wreck of our own country now.
It will not be too long before Russians and Chinese have a better lifestyle that Americans if we keep this foolishness up - at least without American citizen buy-in - and compensation.
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