Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Did Ukraine provoke war with Russia?" video.

  1. It's well-documented as being a lie. From 2014 to 2022, the total civilian death toll in Donbas was 3,404. That's including the 300 people killed on MH17 when it was shot down by a Russian Buk missile. The much-cited 14,400 deaths over that period of the war includes 11,000 soldiers who were KIA (both Ukrainian, "separatist", and Russian). That's certainly not the kind of death toll that 8 years of "indiscriminately shelling civilians" would've resulted in. Look at Gaza to see what just one year of indiscriminate shelling of civilians actually causes.
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  2. There was no coup.
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  3.  @jennyomalley7634  Oliver Stone's Kremlin-sponsored film is as far as it gets from unbiased.
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  4.  @vob8509  No, Crimea did not vote to leave Ukraine in 1994, or at any other time prior to the 2014 Russian invasion. Nor were there any Bulgarians harmed in western Ukraine. You're the one talking crap.
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  5. @ No, Yanukovych was not deposed in a coup. He was impeached by the democratically elected legislature. Donetsk and Luhansk did not secede. And secession is forbidden by Ukraine's constitution anyway.
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  6. @ No, there absolutely wasn't.
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  7. @ Oh gee, that's the very first time anybody's ever recommended that I watch that Kremlin propaganda movie, where literally Vladimir Putin himself is on-screen telling us that it was a coup. And preceding that is a "history lesson" about Ukraine that manages to exclude such critical events as the Holodomor.
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  8. @ Ethnic Russians always did have equal rights in Ukraine. And Ukraine never was shelling civilians.
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  9. No, there was not a coup in 2014. Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were not oppressed in any way. And the supposed indiscriminate shelling of civilians in Donbas for 8 years? Just look what 1 year of actual indiscriminate shelling of civilians did in Gaza. The civilian death toll for that 8 years of the war was about 3,400 people. Compared to 11,000 soldiers killed on both sides. That is not what happens if civilians are being indiscriminately shelled. And bear in mind that the civilian death toll includes the 300 people on that Malaysian airliner that Russia shot down.
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  10.  @MrJones0207  That claim is another blatant attempt to rewrite history. Zelenskyy campaigned primarily on the issue of cracking down on corruption, and promised increased cooperation with the EU and NATO. He even accused his opponent Poroshenko of being too soft on Russia!
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  11. No such stipulations existed. Maidan was not in any way a "coup". And the unelected "People's Republic" governments did not actually represent the people of Donetsk and Luhansk. Imagine if some CIA agent declared that he was now the president of the "Siberian People's Republic" and that he was seceding from Russia. Nobody would take that seriously, so why should GRU agents doing the same thing in Donetsk and Luhansk be taken seriously?
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  12. Russians do have their own country. It's called Russia.
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  13.  @btfofffice  The Maidan massacre? That was Ukrainians killed by Yanukovych's police for protesting against his pro-Russia, anti-EU policies. And please, give some evidence that none of the people killed in the war in Donbas were Ukrainians.
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  14.  @sanktionus  It's already been proven not only that the airliner was shot down by a Russian Buk missile, but even the specific launcher that fired it was identified.
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  15. @ Complete nonsense. Where do you come up with these goofy conspiracy theories. There was no Ukrainian air traffic controller who "tricked" Russia into shooting down MH17. And that Siberia flight was from 2001. And was shot down by accident in a join exercise of the Russian and Ukrainian militaries.
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  16. More like thank Satan for Aaron and Max.
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  17. It's Russia that violated the Minsk accords.
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  18.  @AlexKarasev  It was the Russian invaders shelling civilians. And "derussification" means reversing the Russification that had been imposed by force on Ukraine. Reverting names to their Ukrainian forms does not infringe on Russians' rights.
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  19. @ Nice try little Stalinist.
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  20. No, he does not have a mansion in Miami.
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  21.  @ArmyJay  No, he doesn't own any mansions, or any property in the United States. Where do you come up with this nonsense?
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  22. @ You don't have a point, because you're spreading lies.
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  23. No, there was not a coup in 2014. Your entire narrative begins with a lie. And the lies keep on coming after that. No, ethnic Russians were not being oppressed in Ukraine. The Donbas "rebels" (consisting mostly of Russian Army units "on vacation" and Russian mercenaries like Wagner Group) did not constitute a civil war. Civilians were not being shelled in Donbas. There is no Ukrainian "hit list". Attacking military targets like the Kerch bridge is not a in any way terrorism.
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  24.  @PerceivedREALITY999  No, she did not talk about a coup. Nothing about a coup was mentioned in that recording, and it was obvious to anyone paying attention that the Ukrainian legislature was going to impeach Yanukovych. Which they did.
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  25.  @alexeymaksakov9047  "It turns out" according to who?
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  26.  @baldeagle4308  There were no coups in Ukraine, and that "labs" nonsense is a joke. And if "Russia was in Mexico" at the invitation of the Mexicans, it would be completely illegitimate for the US to do anything in response. Let alone an invasion. That would be a blatant act of American imperialism. But apparently imperialism becomes good when Russia does it?
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  27.  @bootsymad9101  Those numbers are comically fake.
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  28. @ What "regime change"? Zelenskyy was elected by the Ukrainian people. As was Poroshenko, the previous Ukrainian president who lost to Zelenskyy when running for reelection.
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  29. @ The only "ethnic Russian part" of Ukraine is Crimea.
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  30.  @MrJones0207  You're missing the point. I never said that there were no ethnic Russians in the rest of Ukraine. I said that Crimea is the only part of Ukraine where ethnic Russians are the majority of the population. The Ukrainian government never said that there are no ethnic Russians in their country. Ethnic Russians are about 17% of the population, whereas ethnic Ukrainians are 78%. And even in Donbas, which has the largest concentration of ethnic Russians outside of Crimea, they are only about 33% of the population. So yes, there are no ethnic Russian regions of Ukraine other than Crimea.
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  31. @ Donetsk and Luhansk could and did vote in Ukraine's 2019 election. And voted overwhelmingly for Zelenskyy. Nor was Party of Regions the biggest party of the country, and it was not banned in 2019.
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  32. ​ @farerolobos9382 ​That's completely inaccurate. Party of Regions broke up in 2014, because it decided to boycott the 2014 elections but many of its members disagreed and formed the "Opposition Bloc".
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  33.  @MrJones0207  There is no such "erasure" happening. The entire narrative that people are being attacked for what language they speak is a lie.
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  34.  @farerolobos9382  Yes, it was subsequently banned for collaborating with the Russian invaders.
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  35.  @JoshuaPoopsie  No, it actually wasn't forbidden by the USSR constitution.
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  36. @ "Ultranationalists" being the term Russia uses to refer to any Ukrainian who supports the existence of Ukraine as a nation separate from Russia.
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  37. None of that ever happened. It's a fairy tale.
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  38. @ There is no "how it really went." The story posted above is pure fiction, not even the tiniest shred of basis in fact. The Brits never directed any of Ukraine's drone attacks. There was no missile attack that wiped out all the drone operators. And an Iskander ballistic missile cannot be used for a precision strike, because it's only accurate to within about 70 meters (230 feet).
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  39. Funny how you condemn everyone except the actual Russian invaders.
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  40. @ It's amazing how the people posting here will blame everyone except Putin for all of the bloodshed caused by Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
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  41. @ Stop blaming everyone else for Putin's actions.
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  42.  @franklin2846  And you pretend to be anti-war while claiming it was "level-headed and wise" for Putin to start the war?
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  43.  @franklin2846  "Get an education" by reading propaganda? It was Russia that invaded Ukraine.
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  44. @ I'll bet you claim to be a leftist, while vehemently supporting the reactionary empire that is Putin's Russia.
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  45. @ Repeating that lie won't transform it into truth. Mass protest movements are not a coup. Neither is impeachment.
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  46. @ They've deleted some of my replies too. (In this thread, I mean. Not just in general.) Youtube has never had free speech. Nor is there even any coherent pattern to what Youtube deletes. Which makes me think they have AI doing it. Censorship by humans would be predictable.
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  47. @ Yes, it was only 11 years ago. We saw what happened, and it was not a coup. Neither popular protests nor impeachment by the elected legislature can in any way be called a coup.
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  48. @ It wasn't a coup.
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  49.  @leonidashristou9111  Incorrect.
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  50. @ Calling it a coup doesn't make it so.
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  51.  @kennylyon1934  You were there? Really?
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  52. Declarations by the pre-independence government are most certainly not binding on Ukraine after it broke away from the Soviet Union.
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  53. @ "Illegally" given? In reality, what happened in 1954 was that Crimea was returned to Ukraine, after having been stripped away by Lenin in 1922 after Ukraine was conquered by the Red Army and forced to join the USSR.
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  54. Russia isn't entitled to any "red lines."
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  55. No, it was not. That's a well-documented lie used to justify this war.
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  56. @ Yeah, that's totally a thing that happened. Since when can I delete other people's posts?
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  57. @ No, there was also Russia's unprovoked attack on Ukraine in February 2014.
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  58. @ They do that a lot lately. Half of my replies are also vanishing, so they're doing it to everybody on both sides.
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  59.  @AllAboutMe-cy9xj  It wasn't diverted. It was on the normal flight path from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Which, yes, goes through Ukraine.
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  60. @ That's incorrect. No such alternate vector existed.
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  61. @ It's a war zone, for eight years. No kidding it ultimately resulted in more people killed than on 9/11.
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  62. That treaty was solely about East Germany. Horton's argument that this somehow constituted a promise that no countries in Eastern Europe would be allowed to join NATO is nonsensical. Horton ignores the fact that nobody on either side was even considering such a thing. Because in 1990, the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union still existed. When that treaty was being written, nobody had a clue that the Warsaw Pact would be dissolved just 12 months later, or that the Soviet Union would be dissolved just 10 months after that. It was being assumed that Gorbachev would carry out his reforms and the communist bloc would continue to exist for the foreseeable future. The idea that any of the governments of Eastern Europe would ever want to join NATO was literally inconceivable in 1990.
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