Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "The Very Worst Ukraine Responses" video.

"The Armenians were maaaaaaad..." - Cenk Uyghur
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I think Putin simply assumed he could call Zelensly's bluff with a quick hop into the capital, not expecting the Ukranian people to actually support their president to this degree. It's actually pretty rational to assume Zelensky would tuck tail and run, but from his perspective he probably thought that running would force him to live the rest of his life in shame so he'd unironically rather get killed in Kiev. This show of courage rallied the people and delayed what should have been an easy incursion.
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@JeremyRight-zi4yp Politicians spew BS all the time. He claims he is denazifying Ukraine because that's a convinient excuse. He doesn't give a damn what Zalensky's ethnicity is, he just wants a reasonable excuse because you can resort to armed conflict to handle these localized disputes, such as protecting people who identify as Russian from a genocide.
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@easternrebel1061 If you have physical access to the warhead and the technical expertise, you can simply reassemble it with a new arming mechanism with your own codes. Nukes aren't some kind of esoteric entities we can't fathom, they're made of discrete components and each has a function. Designing a nuclear weapon from scratch is a daunting task that needs people with PhDs to get involved, but if you are in custody of foreign nukes you can disarm them and bypass the securities. In this case, for the purpose of installing your own. There are weirdly interesting safeties in some warhead designs, one is a chain inside a hollow core that prevents the compression of the fissile material. When you arm the nuke, along other electronic safeties being disabled, a drum starts rotating and winds the chain out of the core. If you have your own electronics to set off the EBW detonators and a new motor to rotate that drum, you now have a nuke you can control. That's just an example because I don't think anyone else but the British used the chain safety but I could be wrong.
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@tomaszwota1465 I could also jump off a building. I won't do that. It goes against my interests. Just saying X country could do Y is absolutely useless. Putin could - but actually he "can't". You're just now noticing he won't destroy the country he wants as buffer?
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Leaning towards what you think rather than just being a contrarian. We don't actually have to have a stance on all subjects.
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@JeremyRight-zi4yp "reasonable" not in the sense that "a reasonable person" would agree with it, reasonable in the sense that one can use it as a "rational" justification for a local conflict. The excuse doesn't need to be believable, it just needs to exist.
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@JeremyRight-zi4yp That's the idealistic vision. You don't need to have a winning argument, you just need to have one. Invading Ukraine to threaten their political independence (strongarming Zelensky out of power) is clearly against the UN charter. The "special mission" to stop a genocide of people who identify as Russians is self-defense. And in this case no false flag was needed, because there's been an ongoing conflict between separatists and the government forces.
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