Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "What would happen if we lost the war?" video.

  1. I learned a new word today: “vatniki”. It comes from the word for a kind of warm jacket, but it refers to people who prefer to bask in the warm glow of not thinking about things, of having implicit trust in their leaders ... regardless of the consequences.
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  2. Call it the “Hollywood mentality”. Too many movies and TV shows have the guy with the biggest guns/bombs winning the argument. And then the story ends, as though there are no consequences afterwards.
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  3. If you remember, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine agreed to give up its nukes, leaving Russia as the sole nuclear-armed remnant of the original nation. In return, it got security guarantees from various parties, including Russia. Now we know how worthless those “guarantees”, from that one party at least, have turned out to be ...
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