Comments by "Living Ironically in Europe" (@LivingIronicallyinEurope) on "My response to your feedback" video.

  1. You've skipped a lot more than just a "little bit". It's great that you're owning up to your mistake, but you've again presented Russia as this poor helpless victim & Eastern Europeans as just pawns, completely disregarding the imperialism Russia, more specifically, the Soviet Union did throughout the 20th century, the ethnic cleansing & Russification programs many people went through & their families & how & why that impacted their decision into turning towards the West. You also completely disregarded the fact that countries don't just magically change overnight. New states acquire the geopolitical problems & ambitions from their predecessors, hence why the USSR acted imperialist as it had the same geopolitical problems like Imperial Russia. Also, you just completely straight up formed the narrative in your own way via the Poland story. The US rejected Poland 3-4 times from joining NATO, that they had to literally threaten they'd get nukes if they weren't allowed to join. Whilst you framed it as if the US jumped in immediately to expand towards Eastern Europe. And last but not least you again mentioned how Russia was basically powerless in the 90s, but again, immediately after the dissolution of the USSR Russia fought the Chechen War, and invaded 2 sovereign states; Moldova & Georgia. You framed it as if there was no reason for NATO to expand as Russia didn't give any indicators it would act with aggression, which in fact it did. The apology & everything is great, but these things at best are a severe lapse in research as they're generally common knowledge about this topic, while at worst, this was framed intentionally as such to push some sort of narrative, be it Russian propaganda or far left "West is imperialist and bad". There are no 2 sides of the story, there is objective fact & then there is the video you made. This is incredibly problematic as Eastern Europe this year has been the victim of hybrid warfare conducted by Russia via a disinformation campaign & election meddling. And you, as someone with a huge audience of let's face it, a lot of Westerners who don't know jack about Eastern Europe, can very easily influence them & spread extremely harmful & problematic talking points. Again, props to owning up to your mistake, but it was a huge mistake indeed.
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