Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "The Chris Hedges Report: The truth about Ukraine with Medea Benjamin" video.

@georgecurly5965 Tell me more about how the US invaded Cuba in 1962 and held a fake referendum to annex Guantánamo Province. Oh right, none of that ever happened. Cuba remained the USSR's ally, and Soviet submarines (including ones with nuclear missiles) continued to operate out of the naval base at Cienfuegos.
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@eemoogee160 Russia never applied to join NATO. Putin was offended when he was told that Russia has to apply for membership and be unanimously accepted by the current members, just like any other nation. He thinks that Russia is too important to have to follow rules.
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@DonDeering A "leader" who nobody follows is clearly not a leader at all.
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@svenhanson398 No, the self-appointed "people's republic" governments (elected by absolutely no one) who claimed to represent Donbas asked. The actual people of Dongas did not.
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Nobody ever gave any consideration of "placing nukes 5 minutes from Moscow". Where do you come up with this nonsense?
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Medea Benjamin opens up by mentioning "how close Ukraine and Russia have been for centuries" but ignores that this connection was completely against the will of the Ukrainian people. Russia has been Ukraine's oppressor for centuries. That is the connection between Russia and Ukraine. Chris Hedges claims that "promises were made not to expand NATO beyond the border of a unified Germany" and insists that "This is a historical fact." In reality it's a historical lie. Gorbachev himself publicly admitted that he was never given any such promise. Medea then claims that NATO was transformed form a defensive to offensive alliance, by falsely claiming there was an invasion of Libya and ignoring the fact that NATO involvement in Afghanistan was because Afghanistan attacked a NATO member. As for negotiating with Putin, the fact that the US has negotiated with him in the past is precisely how we know that it doesn't work. Putin always violates the terms of any deals he agrees to. When you open the discussion with blatant lies like this, is there really even a point in listening to the rest of what you've got to say?
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@sorzin2289 That's simply false.
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@svenhanson398 Donbas did not in any way "ask" Russia to act. And the sham "People's Republics" that "declared independence from Ukraine" were never in any way representative of the actual people of Donbas. And Baud is a Kremlin propagandist.
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@svenhanson398 Your "reality" isn't honest at all. It involves you lying to yourself to fit your pre-conceived notions. And yes, Jacques Baud is very much a Kremlin propagandist.
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