Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Should the U.S. Be Sending Weapons to Ukraine? Scott Horton vs. Cathy Young at the Soho Forum" video.

  1.  @zakichoudhary507  They had control of the nukes. The fact that they had a sticker saying "property of Soviet Union" doesn't mean much.
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  2.  @bigvis497  The USSR also owned all of the Soviet military. And it had to be split among the countries. Ukraine is still using a lot of equipment that was Soviet and they inherited in the breakup.
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  3.  @jeanniemaycrawford4466  Both sides talked it over. The US did not invade Cuba or the USSR.
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  4. But it doesn't. The provocation was Russian all along, from before the dissolution with their forced relocation plans. Russia uses these Soviet era policies as a way to be a crybully and invade neighboring countries.
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  5. The "democratically elected government" did not overthrow itself. They voted to remove the president from power. Because he fled to Russia to avoid prosecution. Funny how you cry about ballot stuffer and voter intimidator Yanukovych being "democratically elected" but when the democratically elected parliament used their power to recognize that the president went AWOL you criticize them.
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  6.  @jeanniemaycrawford4466  "but but but" - Whataboutism. Several wrongs don't justify another. Afghanistan was not related to Soviet nukes. Vietnam was not related to Soviet nukes. Iraq wasn't related to Russian nukes. You claimed the US did exactly the same when they didn't. And if you want to go there, the Soviet Union also invaded Afghanistan and backed a proxy war against the US in Vietnam. "They invaded countries weaker than them, exactly what Russia is doing now" - But the problem isn't who's weak and who's strong. Russia could be weak, it would still be wrong. "Applying America's current rhetoric, them confronting Russia during the Cuban "crisis" itself was undermining cuba's sovereignty." - But Cuba's sovereignty was not undermined. The US dealt with the Soviet Union, made the concession to remove nukes from Turkey, and convinced Khrushchev that Castro was a loose cannon. Khrushchev himself realized that Castro wanted to be able to launch Soviet nukes without asking the Soviets, if anything the Soviets realized that they would be dragged into nuclear war because of Castro's personality. It would be Cuba undermining Soviet sovereignty, in a sense.
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  7.  @CharlesLumia  "those people shouldn't be killed" - They're not being killed. It's not an issue. They speak Russian just like many people in Georgian speak Russian, many people in Kazakhstan speak Russian, many people in Armenia speak Russian. It's heritage from the Soviet Union. There's culturally and ethnic Russian people all across the former Soviet world. Especially thanks to the Soviet policies of forced relocations. If they're Russian, they should go back to Russian land instead of asking other countries to give up their land. Imagine if French people arrived in Texas, and then asked Texas to become part of the French government. Why? You were put here. It's not the US's fault you are here. It's not your land, you were transplanted as part of a government relocation program. Why do you want that land to be given away to France?
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  8. NATO is a defensive alliance. Russia has the nukes. Most NATO countries don't. There can't be an invasion of Russia due to nukes. Dictators can be taken at their word? But you can literally find all the contradictions in Putin's statements. In 2008 he said Crimea was Ukrainian. He says he does't want NATO to expand East, and then says he isn't concerned with Finland.
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  9.  @gavinl4388  The problem is that there's good research and bad research. I believed the "Right Sector snipers" story. When I actually checked the sources, Sergei Lavrov made it up.
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  10.  @KAZVorpal  1. The legitimately elected government of Ukraine voted to remove Yanukovych from power. The Nazis lost the 2014 elections. 2. The Donbas region uprising was caused by Russian agents, who brought Russian weapons and money to run the conflict. 4. The Nazi party lost the 2014 elections. They did not respond with "brutal violence". 5000 separatists and 3000 Ukrainian military were killed. This puts them in equal footing in terms of violence. Tens of thousands of people were not killed. Again, 5000 separatists who were legitimate combatants, and 3000 Ukrainian military. You're trying to claim tens of thousands of civilians were killed, you're adding a zero. Genocide? Do me a favor: tell me how many people died in Donbas as a result of the conflict in 2021. If you don't know, then the number from 2020. Which I bet you don't know either.
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  11.  @KAZVorpal  1. First of all, at least get it right. They had the constitutional power to remove him from office because by fleeing the country, Yanukovych made himself unfit for duty. This allowed the parliament to not have to go through the impeachment procedure. Your boy lost his seat, dawg. He's a ballot stuffer and voter intimidator. He arrested his political enemies. Why are you simping for him? 2. Several regions heavily populated by ethnic Russians did not join the fighting. Being pissed at the government doesn't have anything to do with Russian weapons and servicemen being used to fight a hybrid war. If you're pissed at Joe Biden does that give you the right to just let the Mexican army into the US? No sane person would be FOR warring resolutions that eventually lead to almost 300 people unrelated to the conflict being killed by a Russian Buk launcher. 4. They lost the elections, dawg. The "population" were Russian soldiers that when caught, the Russian government claimed they had accidently crossed the border. They had a sham election where they lost on purpose just so you could lose an argument 8 years later on the internet? Nobody was attacked for wanting to secede. Armed forces of an enemy country and its sympathizers were attacked. Get it right. Russia is like an abusive husband for Ukraine leaving him in the 90s. The tally is correct according to UN numbers. Want to question it? Go there and prove it Don't just say "it's higher". Meet the burden of proof. Hint: you can't. Simp.
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  12.  @HarryPainter  That wouldn't make any sense, because at the time there was no reason for Warsaw Pact nations or Soviet republics to join NATO. That's like saying Putin is asking for no NATO bases in Siberia. Hold on, Siberia is Russian. Did he travel to the future and saw that Russia fractured?
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  13. How do you "preview a war"?
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  14. Increased Ruble value is bad for them - that means less Rubles per barrel of oil they sell. The oil & gas prices increased, but they're forced to sell at a discount. They're not backing Ruble with gold. There's not enough gold reserves to back any currency.
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  15. What's the point of libertarianism if we're just going to let authoritarian governments steamroll us over?
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  16. "Diplomacy" with Russia is just giving them whatever they want. They're rational human beings - they'll take whatever they can. You give an inch, they take a mile. The way to be diplomatic is a solid punch square in the face when you see them reach for the mile, and you say "we let you keep the inch, you only take the inch". That's diplomacy.
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  17.  @SubvertTheState  The iron curtain included countries which weren't the USSR. You're ignoring how countries like Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, etc were not part of the USSR.
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  18.  @TheCruxy  If you die with your property under my custody and don't leave a will specifying what should be done with it, the property rights transfer to me. You gave me something and then died. How are you going to claim property rights after you stopped existing?
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  19.  @junkjackcriteria  That's like saying you have the keys to the locker. Okay. Anyone can use bolt cutters on the padlock or drive out the hinge pins. You're calling me a fool when you don't know that mechanical objects can be disassembled. Nice joke.
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  20.  @spartanx9293  Launch codes are as irrelevant as a padlock on a locker. The codes disarm the safety features. If you want, you can just disassemble the warhead and remove the safeties, and store the nuke live. Or you can just install your own safety system with the codes you want. You have to think of a nuke as one of those "safe" guns that need to be unlocked electronically or with biometrics. If you disassemble the gun and remove the safety lock, it will work when you reassemble it. It prevents unauthorized access when you're in possession of the gun, but if it gets stolen anyone with tools will be able to make it work again.
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  21.  @junkjackcriteria  I didn't say anything about blowing any lock, curious how you need to make up lies about me to win in this conversation.
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  22.  @junkjackcriteria  If you leave a place of work or stop going to a gym but leave the padlock on the locker, what do they do? Yeah, it's a metaphor. You don't know how metaphors work. You also said "blow the lock" and now proved yourself wrong by quoting my sentence where I never used the word "blow". Thanks for proving to everyone you're a liar. Cope.
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  23.  @junkjackcriteria  If you leave a place of work or stop going to a gym but leave the padlock on the locker, what do they do? Yeah, it's a metaphor. You don't know how metaphors work. You also said "blow the lock" and now proved yourself wrong by quoting my sentence where I never used the word "blow". Thanks for proving to everyone you're a liar. Cope.
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  24.  @leighalaughlin4056  The key just prevents unauthorized launches. If you lose control of the nukes, it's like if someone steals your gun safe. Yes, you have the keys to the safe, but if someone just took it and has infinite time to get it open, they will.
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  25.  @arimoff  The Ukrainian government didn't overthrow itself, think a little. The Rada was not dissolved, the parliament voted on stripping the president of his duties (his own party also voted in favor of it). If the US govt. decided to impeach the president and call for snap elections would the US government be overthrown? No, it's still the same government.
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  26.  @arimoff  "Soviet scientists" doesn't necessarily mean "Russian scientists". Did Ukraine not have universities? No PhDs?
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  27.  @gummysteve  The opposition was not silenced.
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  28. Why would the weapons go to Syria? Russia arms Syria already.
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  29.  @nightdipper5178  Complete schizo theory. So instead of following supply and demand, weapons are being smuggled by Russians into Syria and into the hands of pro-Assad forces... who are allied with Russia... and will kill Russian servicemen????
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  30.  @shanerooney7288  By your logic Target opening a new location is "undermining Walmart's economic security". Russia is the ultimate crybully.
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  31.  @shanerooney7288  The territory of the former East Germany still doesn't have foreign bases on it, only German military bases. So NATO kept its promise to a country that doesn't even exist anymore.
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  32.  @shanerooney7288  You're the one ignoring context. Why would they be making agreements about the Warsaw Pact and Soviet republics joining NATO? Think about it for a second.
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  33.  @jeanniemaycrawford4466  Funny how you say that people don't care about brown people, but Yugoslavia had NATO defend Albanian Muslims from Serb nationalists. "We'd have ceasefire" - LIE. The DPR forces backstabbed Ukraine by signing a ceasefire, then assaulting Debaltseve the day after. Those people cannot be trusted, they lie, and they want the war and killing to continue. They are paid by Russia to keep the conflict running. You claim there would be a ceasefire but this is clearly a lie, you just want Ukraine to stop firing and allow the separatist forces to continue attacking.
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  34.  @jeanniemaycrawford4466  This conversation is not about any crimes. It's about the Russian invasion. Russia also acted aggressively in Georgia and said it was humanitarian. So what? You're conveniently ignoring past events.
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  35. But the issue is that if you look back at 2014, there were protests across Ukraine in the pro-Russian regions that eventually subsided. Russia sent money, weapons and Russians to act as officers and create an artificial separatist movement in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The Ukraine government wasn't "stopping" them, they were fighting the equivalent of green berets. People who infiltrate enemy countries and start using locals to fight a clandestine war. They take down radio towers and broadcast Russian media to keep them under control.
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  36.  @CharlesLumia  They don't want to split. It's an astroturfed movement created by Russian and Ukrainian gangsters. Look at the DPR leader, he was a Ponzi scheme scammer before becoming a "politician". They're just paid to keep the conflict going. If foreigners couldn't help, the movement wouldn't exist.
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  37.  @junkjackcriteria  They don't because they said so. They played it cool when Finland joined.
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  38.  @junkjackcriteria  And then nothing happened and Russian state media said Putin didn't care.
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  39. You have a suicide vest that's gonna kill everyone is they lay a finger on you, and you use it to kick the ass of everyone around you. They get together and form a group with the same capability to get back at you, and now you're under threat?
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  40. Patrick Lancaster is a shill. Video footage? Okay. He also had video footage of a supposed IED attack where the skull of one of the victims had straight cuts made during autopsy, aka he or his producers stole a dead body from a morgue or coroner's office and placed it inside a burned out car to pretend an IED killed a civilian. He lies about what he shows you. He moves corpses around. Why would you trust him?
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  41. The US government burns money and never solves anything domestically. The money is sent to a foreign war, and I get to see tanks burning. Seems like a better use of my dollars.
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  42. You're sincerely off your rocker. Any country with agriculture has biolabs for disease prevention. How would Ukraine poison Russia without poisoning itself?
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  43. False. The West tried to help, but former Soviet apparatchiks ignored them and continued Soviet era policies. The crook oligarchs stole from Russia, not the West. That was Yeltsin's loans for shares plan. Russia never made any real attempt to standardize their military to NATO specs or convince their population to support NATO. In fact when the Russian military had joint training with NATO militaries, the Russian population protested against it. Russia also had a history of using military force to solve their disputes while NATO has a requirement to solve them diplomatically instead of using force as a first resort. 14,000 were not killed by shelling. That number includes 5,000 separatists and 3,000 Ukrainian military. They were legitimate combatants. So no, it wasn't 14,000. It was around 4,000 killed, most in 2014-2015. The conflict then become more or less frozen.
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  44.  @nacetroy  It's the truth. Russians stole from the Russian people and told them the West did it. Where are all the American and British CEOs of Russian corporations?
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  45.  @bigvis497  2016: You can't call everyone Nazis, free speech for all! Stop deplatforming me! 2022: PUNCH THE NAZIS PLEASE OH GOD DENAZIFY EVERYTHING
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  46. People in this country get a ton of money. Trillions every year. Ukraine gets a few billion and now everyone wants to feed the homeless.
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  47. Oh no, Russia is being backed up by Latin America. I'm shaking in my boots. They are struggling. The vast majority of their military cannot participate in the conflict unless they declare mobilization. Declaring mobilization is an admission that the war isn't working out. So they have to have most of their military kicking rocks or being forced to build summer homes for generals, meanwhile they're sending 50 year olds to fight. There's a reason for China not to invade. You saw what happened to the Moskva? If Taiwan is gonna have a last stand, they're gonna hit the troop transports and drown the PLA. That's a lot of only sons in the bottom of the strait. What will parents of single-children do now that their retirement plan is sleeping with the fishes?
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  48.  @Tespri  Am I? It seems poorer countries are the ones in the chopping block. I am extremely concerned. How could Russia threaten their food security? Maybe the people from Africa and Latin America should join Ukraine and fight back against the people taking the food out of their mouths, instead of being allied to them.
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  49.  @KA3A4EHbK0  The grain deal now seems quaint. Russia can whine all it wants about sanctions, but Ukraine can blow up Russian ships in port so they can't fully embargo the grain. Deal or no deal.
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  50. Iraq wasn't a NATO op. Libya was a UN op, that was asked for by the Arab League. NATO only took over the No Fly Zone, and didn't engage in land fighting in Libya.
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