Comments by "Kath" (@Kath-nd6pj) on "BBC News" channel.

@JonLettsGuitars making enemies of your allies is not saving the west. There is no reason why he cannot negotiate to extend the bases the USA Already has in Greenland and for the purchase of their minerals. He does not have to cease their land. Canada is a western sovereign ciuntry. There is no ‘saving’ of the west by bullying Canada. But it well please Putin to see internal fighting within NATO. Just what he wants. So no, it will not SAVE the west. It will serve the Russian/Chinese alliance. Then He can name the Gulf of Mexico which ever way he wants for the USA maps. Each country in the world uses their own language to name seas, straits etc, Could mean being out of sinc with other English speaking countries, but it is up to the USA what they want to call it.
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@joshuapaul2022 You have that arse about face. But as this is your copy & paste party piece I suspect you already know that.
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@josephesposito70 ‚The Deal‘ is to extort minerals from Ukraine. He is also pursuing a deal to gain minerals from Putin. Does he seriously think having a group of US miners on the ground in Ukraine would cease the Russian invasion? Putin does not hold to signed agreements. Plenty of neigbouring countries can confirm this.
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@jimmyj5557 to have a single currency you would have to have a combined economy policy. I think all three countries would prefer to keep their own. The EU is a union of much smaller countries of shared interests. . In total it covers only 1.7 msqm. Compared with 3.8 msqm of the USA. At 3.93 msqm The whole of Europe is more the size of just the USA , 40% of that is Russia. So Mexico, USA and Canada would be enormous. Certainly a challenge to put all of that under one hat.
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@notcrazy6288 Yes and cultural differences too. The USA compares first with monetary values. Elsewhere, even Wikipedia or lexicons, they compare first with population numbers, terrain, climate etc. lol
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Putin’s daughters lived in Paris!
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Yes, investigate why a cargo plane heading East away from the airport and away from the boarder would of have had prisoners on it. Were they going to Siberia? Safe passage should be announced and made for a plane (usually Aeroflot) arriving, (this was a cargo plane departing). And investigation into where the bodies of the prisoners are. (Only one was visible in the initial video taken locally).
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@SteerCarmer he did not even write that book. Country to country diplomacy is not ‚a deal‘ there is a lot more to it than just commence. Ask embassy staff. Unless you are a dictatorship and work by thinking everything, everyone is for sale!
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@edentahilla9295 Hawkish? He is a liability. Cheatng and lying. After three authoritaive people tell him he has his figures wrong and give him the correct ones, he again repeats the false made up ones , because it makes his case sound more effective. You don’t make good deals based on lies. You make enemies. That is bad for business longterm.
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@kvintersvinterz Thank goodness for airraid alarms. Shelters and the metro.
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@keto0303 so why are they trying to take Ukrsine? Moldova? Estonia’s? They have Belarus and are makining political moves on Romania, Georgia and more: Hungry? The EU and NATO are not “taking” anyplace, countries feeling the oppression from Russia are ASKING to join. We do not threaten and flatten cities to force them to join ! Kremlin, Putin are lying, Putin knows the defensive alliance NATO was no thrast.. Norway boarders Russia and is a NATO founding member! Now they have an much longer actual boarder with NATO due to Putin’s brutal aggression. Finland-Russian boarder is many time longer than the original Norwegen one and as longer as the boarder with Ukraine. It has NOTHING to do wth NATO. And everything to do with Putin’s ego. wanting a Stalin sized mention in the history books.
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@USMC-Goforth the USA verses the rest of NATO plays perfectly into Putin’s play book. We have enough on our hands already. Well done Trump, doing Putin’s work for him. Thus is where he got his idea of grabbing land for minerals. (Forgot ahem: ‘security’) from. Straight out of Putin’s playbook!! He did say he admired .Hitler. And it was clear he wanted a legacy. Maybe even promised Trump junior a continuation of power, but had no idea Trump was intending to do a Nazi land-grab deal.
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@davidlinden2370. Yes, it would be a bloody battle indeed if the other half of NATO had to take on the USA. With Putin rubbing his hands with glee! NATO was formed to protect sovereignty, not cease countries at will! Maybe this was Trumps plan all along. He had not planned to loose the 2020 elections. He did say he wanted to leave NATO. Said he did not believe in it. We were told to not listen to what he says, but see what he does. What the heck for a nutter have you voted into power. Yes, the USA is debatably the most influential country world wide, but only accepted so because it once stood for uprightness, fairness and in general ‘the good guys’. This changes everything. Trump is aliening to the dark-side. And don’t tell me it is his way of doing a deal. To treat others like the enemy and threaten is no bases of making a secure deal. The USA has bases in .Greenland. They can easily negotiate to extend them. If they want their minerals they can offer to purchase them. The USA does not have to take their land away. Same with Canada. What the heck is he saying? That they cannot make deals with Canada? Cannot respect their sovereignty? If the USA wants to sell more to Canada, then they need to make better stuff that Canada wants. Or to buy less from Canada and make their own. You do not need to swallow another country. They have different laws, different ideologies. It wiould never work. Each side would have things to gripe about for centuries to come.
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@davidlinden2370 Denmark (also in NATO) has more to say re Greenland. Self governing, but their territory. You say France and Britain, but after Denmark the Scadinavians are more closely related to Greenland alongside Canada. So we would not be alone. Musk has already attacked us, seems the new admin is gearing up for strife rather than co operation with partners. How are you going to swing this. “Only his way of making a deal”. Trump has learnt after his last term. He was greatly annoyed that his wacko plans were stifled by sensible staff of the White House. This time he intends to push his anti west pro dictatorship ideology through. His way of feeling ‘big’ is to fabricate an attmophire where it is him against the world. It boosts his ego. And the aggression state is purely of his own making. He did so during his last term (against deep state - to which as president he actually belongs!) and during rallies, where he insulted anything that moved, yet was pretend painfully grieved and any slack coming his way. As President he still held ongoing rally style staged performances throughout. He was so intoxicated by the agression he coukd whip up. Sitting in the White House getting on with the job - just too lame.
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@tristankerr3655 that is so not true. Putin has always wanted to get Ukraine under his belt. He sent insurgents in to create a stink. In 2o14 he formed, Financed and weaponised His special private army The Wagner Group specifically in Donbass, Ukraine to agitate and bring heavy fighting into play there. Russia speakers live in many countries, especially ones that were once part of the Soviet Union. They speak their own languages too, but Russian was learnt for between countries communication. Much like Spanish is used in south America. English used between different areas of India and very common in Eurooean countries. Does not make them English! Even Russian born living in that part of Ukrsine are fighting against the Russian invaders. Living under their occupation is horrendous. One said „ what have I been liberated from? Liberated from my home, my business, now in ruins. From my loved ones killed“. This is what Russian ‚liberation‘ means“
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Because we do not yet have confirmation on what happened. These were presumably Ukrainian stall holders in this occupied Russian controlled area. Truth will out via satellite images and flightpath trajectory etc But only those that consider Prigozhin‘s demise was accidental will take Russian official news media at face value. There are no free journalists there to report on what happened.
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