Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "UnHerd" channel.

  1.  @danielsolodov4222  None of Russia's grievances are legitimate. Russia's actual grievance is that NATO membership makes it impossible for them to conquer the Baltic states and Poland. Also, it makes no difference what percentage of the Russian people support Putin. Even if they really do all support him (rather than just "supporting" him to avoid being disappeared), Russia's invasion still has to be stopped.
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  2.  @adamiskandar5107  It's not "experimental".
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  3. Who cares what The Duran claims? Russia wanted to make a quick strike on Kyiv to topple the Ukrainian government and install Viktor Medvedchuk as a puppet president who would surrender the country to Russia.
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  4. The options are either perpetual war by giving Russia whatever they demand every time they start a war (thus incentivizing them to keep starting wars) or a very quick war by defeating Russia.
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  5. "Stories" about something happening doesn't mean it's actually happened.
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  6.  @richardpickersgill3434  What agreement?
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  7.  @richardpickersgill3434  There's no such person as "Velinsky", and Zelensky is leading the defense of his nation against a genocidal invader.
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  8.  @richardpickersgill3434  No, that's just the ridiculous lie Russia has been telling.
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  9. There's a third option beyond negotiating a "deal" that allows Putin to keep his stolen territory or keeping this conflict going for a decade. That option is simply defeating Russia. I don't mean Ukraine completely driving Russia out of Ukraine. I mean NATO actively entering the war and driving Russia back to their own borders. The Yugoslav Civil War is not the proper analogy to Russia's current actions. The proper analogy is to Germany's invasions of Czechoslovakia and Poland. Putin isn't going to see any agreement that lets him keep part of Ukrainian territory as the end of the war. He's going to see such a victory as a sign of continued Western weakness. He'll see that as an incentive to invade again and seize even more territory, and demand further concessions to end the next war. It would be another Munich Agreement.
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  10.  Marcus GH  Abandoning NATO in 1991 would've resulted in Russian domination of all of Eastern Europe. Today's Russia is more of a threat to peace than the USSR ever was.
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  11. John Mearshiemer is full of crap, and seems to think Russia should be allowed to just do whatever they want. The notion that NATO "provoked" this war is complete bullshit. If NATO didn't exist then Putin's first step would've been invade the Baltic states, and then to proceed with this invasion of Ukraine. Putin's anti-NATO stance was rejected by the West because the West isn't going to be bossed around by a 3rd-world dictator. Also, if a bear comes at me aggressively, I don't poke it in the eye. I shoot it.
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  12. Russia was not in any way "goaded" into this invasion. It's Russia and Russia alone that violated the UN Charter by attacking Ukraine. The US did not do anything to cause this. Russia chose it all on their own.
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  13.  @Mark_Harwood  The Minsk Agreement was about as valid as the Treaty of Tianjin.
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  14.  @pandabear-k7e  Russia doesn't have 40 million troops. Nor do they have any capacity to create an army of that size. Handing a man a rifle doesn't make him a soldier.
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  15.  @davidlummis1961  There was no such "8 years of indiscriminate shelling" in Donbas. That's a lie straight out of Russian state media. Putin's crap about "protecting ethnic Russians/Russian speakers" is literally identical to Hitler's pretext of "protecting ethnic Germans to invade Czechoslovakia and Poland. In both cases the actual motive was simple conquest. And NATO expansion to Russia's borders (nevermind that NATO is already on Russia's borders), that's none of Russia's business. They don't get to dictate to other nations what alliances they're allowed to join. Russia sees NATO expansion as a "threat" because it takes away their ability to invade the nations that join NATO. Putin's Russia is an expansionist empire, which wants to take back all the nations that had previously been conquered but have since achieved independence.
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  16.  @michaelevans4110  No, it's Putin who's delusional because he thought his plan would work.
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  17.  @michaelevans4110  The entire plan of invading Ukraine was insane.
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  18.  @michaelevans4110  It's a war, no matter how much Putin's ridiculously trying to claim otherwise. And it's destroying Russia.
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  19.  @hairlessape5107  Ukraine has no interest in occupying any part of Russia. All they want is for Russia to get the hell out of Ukraine.
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  20. Nobody is installing ballistic missiles or any sort of nuclear weapons in the bordering countries.
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  21. Libya wasn't a NATO operation.
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  22. The problem with this logic is that allowing Russia to keep their stolen territory would just incentivize them to invade Ukraine again in a few years to seize even more. A mere agreement on paper to end the war won't prevent that.
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  23.  gatherington  "Only after a violent CIA financed coup led by fascists overthrew the elected president, a hostile US puppet gov't installed and a flood of weapons received did the Russians respond." Literally none of that is true. Not a single word of it.
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  24. Russia needs to be severely weakened, so that they can't keep invading their neighbors.
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  25.  @Lurch685  What a load of bullshit. There was no war until Russia attacked.
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  26.  @WinstonSmithGPT  That's yet another blatant lie that Russia made up to justify their invasion.
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  27.  @adamiskandar5107  And the mRNA vaccines are not experimental.
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  28.  @quirkychelle  It's not an experiment. Clinical trials were 2 years ago, and these vaccines are fully approved. The "Nuremberg code" (which has no legal standing) is irrelevant.
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  29.  @wetcrow_com  That's the entire point, that Turkey has no right to those islands and it would be absurd to demand that Greece surrender them. Just like it's absurd to demand that Ukraine surrender part of its territory to Russia.
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