Comments by "M Simon" (@msimon6808) on "Putin offers ceasefire in Ukraine in exchange for this" video.

  1.  @l-uk3xm  Actually they were the engineering arm of the Soviets. Pretty good too. Look at what they are doing with drones.
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  2.  @l-uk3xm  That is not my understanding. They were/are first rate engineers. The stuff they are doing with drones is an example. The Engineering Bureaus were set up where the engineers lived.
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  3.  @l-uk3xm  From a wiki - Ukraine's defense industry was a major part of the Soviet defense industry, responsible for 17% of Soviet defense production and 25% of its scientific research.[6] Some Soviet ICBMs were actually built at the Yuzhmash plant in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.[7] Russia's only aircraft carrier was also built in the Ukrainian SSR, as well as a number of other Russian military ships. At the time Ukraine declared independence in 1991, the country had 1,840 defense enterprises and research centers that employed close to 2.7 million people.[6] A number of facilities had unique capabilities such as shipbuilding and missile production.[6] But it was not a cohesive defense industry, but rather fragments of the defense industry of the Soviet Union.[6] I'd leave a link but YouTube is not link friendly. The above (and the rest) corresponds to my understanding.
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  4.  @lulumoon6942  If only Europe had given Hitler everything he wanted WW2 could have been avoided. But the politicians wanted MORE.
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  5.  @lindsaygriffeth4146  I read Putin's "Historic Russia" speech from Feb. 2022. He plans a Soviet Reunion. It will be cheaper stopping it in Ukraine than Poland.
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  6.  @AzzekaTheRealOne  You may have missed this; ==> Putin's "Historic Russia" speech from Feb. 2022. He plans a Soviet Reunion. It will be cheaper stopping it in Ukraine than Poland.
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  7.  @I_dont_read_responses  And after the War started and Bucha and others - they changed their minds.
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  8.  @GottiLX  Read Putin's "Historic Russia" speech from Feb. 2022. He plans a Soviet Reunion. It will be cheaper stopping it in Ukraine than Poland. I favor cheaper. Even if it comes with corruption. Prosecutions after the war.
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