Comments by "Stephen Hill" (@stephenhill545) on "Moscow's losses mount u0026 the vital role of Crimea | Ukraine: The Latest | Podcast" video.

  1. More like the plantagenots, the original conquerors of Ireland.
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  2. Great to hear that! Democracy is too precious and fragile to take for granted. We have blue and yellow ribbons on our Christmas tree, and we live in Russia.
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  3. If the west want to give ukraine the weapons to win, ukraine will win. Putin and Shoigu will hope that the west will want peace before total victory is achieved. Time will tell..
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  4. No. They are indoctrinated to believe it is as Russian as Moscow. They say russia is the descendent of the ancient Greeks, and crimea plays a big part in this myth. They also claim to be the third Rome. They have many myths to justify their thirst for other people's land.
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  5. That Russia still understands itself as an empire in an age of sovereign nation states is a disaster for humankind. Its opinion formers are wicked indeed.
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  6. France just sent tanks and said the goal is victory for the first time. Its clear that he just ran out of patience with Russia.
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  7. It is the sense of loss of a certain inperialist mentality driving both, and both will end in disaster, because the tide of history does not forgive those who try to turn it, it drowns them.
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  8. NATO has extensive naval resources to deal with one frigate.
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