Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "How Ukraine's far-right, with NATO backing, blocks peace" video.

  1. Because a nation cannot have "aggression" toward itself. Donbas is part of Ukraine. And the conflict in Donbas starting in 2014 was itself an act of Russian aggression against Ukraine. The "rebels" were always largely Russian mercenaries, along with some invading Russian Army units with unmarked uniforms and vehicles (the infamous "little green men"). And Maidan was a popular uprising against a corrupt president who was trying to install himself as dictator.
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  2.  @kellynestegard5208  It wasn't 1991 when Crimea became part of Ukraine.
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  3.  @AlexCats  You're absolutely right about one thing. This war did start in February 2014, not February 2022. February 2014 is when Russia first invaded Ukraine.
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  4.  @real_lostinthefogofwar  It's Russia that committed massacres in Mariupol, not Ukrainian forces.
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  5.  @likklej8  There's no such thing as "Maidan illegal administration". And there never was a civil war in Ukraine. The Donetsk and Luhansk "People's Republics" were always just the Russian Army pretending to be Donbas rebels.
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  6.  @JonROlsen  Russian "protection" means being enslaved by Russia. Or I suppose serfdom would be a more traditionally Russian way to put it.
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  7. There was no coup in 2014. And the "demands from Donetsk and Luhansk to join Russia" were from a fringe minority who never actually represented the people of Donbas as a whole. Contrary to the Kremlin narrative, Russians are in fact a minority in Donbas, not the majority. Also, Ukraine wanted no part of Russia's "Eurasian Economic Union".
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  8.  @minhng7208  That's complete bullshit. Donbas was already part of the Ukrainian People's Republic before Soviet Russia conquered them and forced them into the USSR.
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  9. It's objective reality that Russia is the aggressor. And Russia is absolutely the most aggressive country in Europe. Their entire country was built by invading other nations. How do you think Russia got to be so big?
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  10.  @Uniule  The USSR invaded Poland as Nazi Germany's ally.
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  11.  @Uniule  Also, funny how you point out that Chechnya is part of Russia, but fail to acknowledge that South Ossetia is part of Georgia. So how exactly did Georgia invade itself?
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  12. That's the typical Russian narrative. That Ukraine shouldn't be allowed to exist.
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  13.  @LionZebra  They "were all Russian cities" because the Russian Empire had conquered them.
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  14.  @ednalansdowne232  The only part of Ukraine where ethnic Russians are a majority is Crimea. Which did have autonomous status. Contrary to the Kremlin narrative, ethnic Russians were never the majority in Donetsk and Luhansk. They're a little more than 1/3 of the population there.
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  15. There was no "Ukrainian aggression", you ignorant hack. Ukraine never attacked Russia. And Russia started the Donbas conflict by sending their mercenaries and Spetsnaz troops in 2014 to masquerade as "rebels". Russia absolutely had other options. Those options being to mind their own damn business and not invading Ukraine.
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  16. Utter nonsense. Ukraine is outside Russia's borders, not inside them. Invading another nation is aggression, period. Regardless of what the reason for the invasion might be.
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  17. Russia is trying to force Ukrainians to be Russian.
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  18. There never was any "banning of the Russian language". And those Kremlin lies about "Euromaidan Nazis" are a farce.
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  19.  @NotAPacifist825  Don't believe his lies. The Russian language was never banned.
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  20.  @NotAPacifist825  In reality, it's Russia that's actively trying to exterminate the Ukrainian people.
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  21.  @dushas9871  Jesus Christ, there was no banning of the Russia language no matter how many times you tell that lie.
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  22.  @dushas9871  There's a difference between not granting special legal status to the Russian language and "banning" it.
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  23.  @fred6319  Okay, and your point is? Requiring all students to be taught the Ukrainian language does not ban the Russian language. Nor does using the Ukrainian rather than Russian names for cities.
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  24. Donbas is part of Ukraine. Russia invaded Donbas in 2014.
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  25. It's Russia that's neo-fascist and attempting to colonize Ukraine. And 2014 is when the current conflict began.
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  26. What a load of complete bullshit. There was no "aggression" by NATO. What actually happened is that nations that have been repeatedly invaded by Russia for centuries joined NATO to make sure it would never happen again. And Russia hates that, because they want to have the option of invading all those countries again. And the only reason that Russia didn't want to pull Ukraine apart is that they wanted to conquer and annex the entirety of Ukraine. They thought they'd be able to just march into Kyiv, murder the current government, and install Viktor Medvedchuk as a puppet president who'd agree to said annexation.
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  27.  @davidlloyd2583  Scotland is part of the UK. Ukraine is not part of Russia.
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  28.  @katalinkiss120  Russia doesn't get to have "red lines". And it's none of their business if Ukraine wants to join NATO.
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  29.  @davidlloyd2583  That's a lie no matter how many times you repeat it.
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  30.  @timkelly5602  No, they are not part or Russia by law or by choice. Russian law means nothing in Ukraine, and those regions most certainly did not choose to be part of Russia. You claim that Scotland's independence referendum was rigged, yet you believe that Kherson and Zaporizhzhia (where Russians are only around 10% of the population are Russian) voted 87% and 93% to be annexed by Russia? And that Donetsk and Luhansk (39% Russian) voted 99% to be annexed? These weren't even rigged referendums, they were outright fake referendums. The voting didn't even occur in those oblasts, Russia just flat-out made up the results.
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  31.  @timkelly5602  Everyone with a brain knows you're making all of that shit up. The US didn't move in any "biolabs" and there are no such "tunnel networks" in Ukraine. Russia is the most evil government on the planet. A far-right fascist dictatorship that's so corrupt that not even Republicans and Tories can match it.
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  32.  @timkelly5602  Who would this "German observer" be, then? You're the one making blatantly fake claims. Along with ignoring the reality that Russia is massacring the people in every region they occupy, not "defending" them.
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  33. That's not a "real concern" at all, because the entire concept that the US wanted to put nuclear weapons in Ukraine was nothing but a Russian fantasy.
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  34.  @donacatanguma  His biases against Putin? Aaron Mate is a shill for Putin.
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  35. The actual percentage Ukrainian government officials who are Nazis is zero. And Russia does not in fact have majority support in the Donbas region.
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  36. What is Russia supposed to do? Perhaps they could just be a normal nation and not invade their neighbors for the purpose of conquest. NATO was never going to attack Russia. The only reason Russia has such a problem with NATO is that NATO membership puts a nation off-limits for Russian invasion.
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  37.  @ImperativeGames  The far-right extremists are Russia. Why is it so hard to recognize that Russia is a fascist dictatorship?
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  38.  @ronnie1989  Russia's invasion of Ukraine didn't start on February 24, 2022. It began on February 20, 2014. So no, Putin absolutely did not try diplomacy for 8 years. The entire Donbas conflict during those 8 years was part of the Russian invasion.
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  39.  @thedolphin5428  Russians are a minority in Donbas. And it's absolutely not "all Russia's now", nor will it ever be allowed to be.
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  40. Objective reality is that fascism is the far-right. No matter how much you right-wingers hate to acknowledge that you're on the same side as literal Nazis.
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  41. Russia didn't have a choice in the matter of accepting Ukraine's independence. And no, Odessa was not "100% Russian. It was just part of the Russian Empire's many conquered territories.
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  42.  @tenzinnordron9836  In the sense that Odesa was one of Russia's conquered territories. But Russians are not and have never been a majority of the population in Odesa.
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  43. Because there was no coup. And Russia is the sole aggressor.
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  44.  @silveriorebelo2920  In reality, the conflict was created by Russia. Most of the "pro-Russian rebels" in Ukraine were actually just the Russian Army with their uniforms taken off.
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  45.  @zapszapper9105  Where is it that you're imagining that happened?
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  46. Hatred toward Russia is the natural reaction of Ukrainians who see their families murdered by Russian invaders.
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  47.  @lenablochmusic  The Holodomor was indeed man-made. The man who made it being Joseph Stalin. Claiming that Ukrainians were never discriminated against by Russia is utterly preposterous.
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  48.  @lenablochmusic  The Holodomor is not an invention of the Western press. It's an actual atrocity committed by Stalin. Along with the Asharshylyk (the simultaneous engineered famine in Kazakhstan). The whole point was to kill off ethnic minorities, who were seen as by their very existence a threat to Russian power.
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  49.  @lenablochmusic  No, it was not created by the Nazis. It's simply what actually happened. You are aware that the Holodomor happened in 1932, right? A year before the Nazis had even come to in Germany, let alone taken any action against the USSR. You're simply denying historical fact because you can't accept the idea that Russia has ever done anything wrong. And it's not my regime who's torturing and killing Ukrainians. It's yours that's doing so. The fascist Kremlin regime.
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  50. Why does Russia need Crimea for their access to the Black Sea, when they have Novorossiysk?
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  51. Anybody who supports Russia is not rational, and nobody was "denied full citizenship".
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  52. Invading a country is aggression, period. It's aggression no matter what reasons you might have for doing it. Claiming that this war was not Russian aggression means you completely deny reality.
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  53. Kherson overwhelmingly supports "rule by Ukraine". Russians are a tiny minority there.
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  54.  @real_lostinthefogofwar  They didn't. Those fake "referendums" in no way reflect the entirety of Donbass.
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  55.  @real_lostinthefogofwar  That's another lie. "More than half the population" most certainly did not leave with the Russians.
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  56.  @burlbird9786  In the 1991 Ukrainian independence referendum, the vote in Crimea was 54%, in Donetsk it was 84%, and in Luhansk it was 84%. Even if you adjust for comparatively lower turnout and pretend that those who didn't vote were the same thing as "no" votes, it would become 68% in Luhansk and 64% in Donetsk. Those are still very large majorities in favor of Ukrainian independence. Crimea was the only place where turnout was as low as you implied. That 54% of votes for leaving the USSR amounted to 37% of the eligible voters. Crimea is the only part of Ukraine where it wasn't an outright majority of the entire electorate voting for independence from the USSR. But even taking that into account, only the people who choose to vote get a voice in an election. Anybody who chooses not to vote is deliberately silencing themselves. If all of the people who didn't vote actually wanted to stay in the USSR, they should've showed up and voted that way. And Crimea retained its status as an autonomous republic even after Ukrainian independence, so it's not as if Ukraine was mistreating the Crimeans.
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  57.  @timkelly5602  It's Russia that's been carrying out massacres of Ukrainian civilians.
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  58.  @timkelly5602  Says reality, which you of course reject.
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  59.  @timkelly5602  You see, that's the thing you guys don't understand. You don't get to have your own reality. There's only one reality.
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  60. The people in favor of Russian annexation were always a fringe minority in Donbas.
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  61. If you deny that Russia invading Ukraine is "Russian aggression" then you're a lost cause. No logic will ever take root in your mind. One nation invading another is the very definition of aggression.
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  62. Irish is the minority language in Ireland, with most the country speaking English. Does that mean that Britain would be justified in invading and reconquering Ireland?
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  63.  @antondalemma5484  Are you kidding? Both the Russian Empire and the USSR did impose Russian on the population of Ukraine. Russification was very much a thing. At times, the Ukrainian language actually was outright banned.
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  64. That's a blatant lie. The reason that Ukraine was "merely a region" in the Russian Empire is that the Russian Empire conquered Ukraine. Ukraine declared independence in 1917, but was promptly conquered again by Bolshevik Russia and forced against their will into the USSR. It's Russia that's the terrorist state.
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  65.  @nirbija  "Mother Russia" is maintaining Belarus as a puppet state. A colony. That's precisely the status that Ukraine rejects. And that's why Russia invaded Ukraine.
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  66. "Circling Russia" say idiots who can't read a map.
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  67. Russia has no sovereignty over Ukraine. Donbas is part of Ukraine. And Russia's claim of "defending Russian speakers in Donbas" is no different than Nazi Germany's claim of "defending German speakers in Sudetenland".
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  68. It's Russia that's an actual empire, and has zero interest in peace.
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  69.  @humwawa3468  Russia created this war. The idea that they "want peace" is laughable.
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  70.  @knightalexius593  That's because the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had conquered Kyivan Rus after the latter's decline in power. And then later Russia came in and seized much of that territory from Poland (the infamous partitions of Poland). As for the the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, it was not created out of nothing. It came about after the Bolsheviks invaded and conquered the Ukrainian People's Republic, which had declared independence from Russia after the February Revolution overthrew the Tsar. Contrary to Putin's narrative, Lenin did not grant territory to Ukraine, but took it away. The Ukrainian People's Republic before its conquest by Bolshevik Russia was significantly larger than modern Ukraine. For example, not only did it include Crimea, but also Krasnodar Krai and the Rostov, Belgorod, and Kursk Oblasts, and what's now Transnistria and southern Belarus.
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  71.  @nirbija  No, there was not any terrorizing of civilians in Donbas for being Russian-speakers. You're living in the alternate universe of Russian state media.
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  72. There was no "'14 coup in Ukraine". And if anybody are "paramilitary blackshirts", it's the DPR and LPR "rebel" militias.
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  73.  @katalinkiss120  It does not however mean "Borderlands" in Ukrainian.
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  74. No, the Rus' did not "later move to Moscow". Moscow was the distant periphery of Kyivan Rus's empire. An offshoot of an offshoot. After the Rus' empire fragmented, Moscow much later grew in power. Kyiv and Lviv were in the meantime conquered by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Later still, Russia seized Kyiv as part of the partitions of Poland.
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  75. In reality, "right wing neo-fascists" would be a perfect description of Russia's government. And it's Russia that's engaging in genocide (or "ethnic cleansing on a massive scale" if you want to be euphemistic) right now in Ukraine.
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  76.  @slickdarulah8229  No, it's objective reality. Conservatism has never had anything to do with "smaller government" or "less government intrusion". Those are just shiny objects that conservative politicians toss out to distract you from what they're really doing.
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  77. Everything you said is a lie. Ukraine never "received" territories from Russia, it had territories taken away by Russia. Ukraine declared independence from the Russian Empire in 1917, but was immediately invaded by the Red Army to force them into the USSR. Ukraine never wanted to be part of Russia, they were just forced at gunpoint. And now Russia is trying to do what they always do and conquer Ukraine again.
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  78. Russia is finished as a nation. To the extent it even is a nation, rather than being an empire.
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  79. In reality, Lenin took away significant territories from Ukraine when he conquered them and forced them to join the USSR.
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  80.  @minhng7208  Stop being wrong. Donbas was already part of Ukraine before Lenin conquered it.
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  81.  @minhng7208  Seriously, you actually think that the Ukrainian government has a goal of eliminating "surplus" population in Donbas? Where do you come up with this nonsense?
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  82. Meanwhile back in reality, it's Russia that's ruled by a fascist regime. it's Russia that's committing genocide in Ukraine (which is quite a tradition for Russia).
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  83. Putin is a liar. His statements rarely have any basis in reality.
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  84. Nobody invaded Russia, Dani. Russia is the arsonist here, not the firefighter.
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