Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "Johnny Harris" channel.

In a lengthy essay penned in July 2021, Putin referred to Russians and Ukrainians as "one people," and suggested the West had corrupted Ukraine and yanked it out of Russia's orbit through a "forced change of identity." - The classic custody battle on the geopolitical scale.😳
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Putin to Zelensky: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let me in.” Zelensky to NATO: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but please let us in.” NATO to USA: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but we need you in.” USA to Russia: “Look, I know we’ve had our issues in the past but you do know who’s going to win.” 😳
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The greatest problem humanity faces, and has always faced, is one of perspective. We have narrowed our vision such that we are unable to see the universal wood for the exclusive trees. We have hitched our star to this or that family, clan, tribe, nationalism, religion, such that we have become deluded, unable to serenely see what actually is. We are cosmic dust on a grain of sand, one of trillions of grains of sand, whirling around a nuclear reactor, one of trillions of nuclear reactors and we are willing to abase ourselves to murdering one another for an accident of birth, or an imagined daddy in the sky? Has it come to this? There are alien civilisations who use this Earth as a cosmic pit stop on their intergalactic travels and they look at us and weep. They have perspective. They can literally see the Earth in toto. They cannot see the pettifogging, sanguinary squabbles over this or that imaginary line drawn on a map. They cannot see the ignorant ranters championing their imagined God, ranked against the ignorant ranters championing their imaginary God. The solution to all this nonsense is very simple. Expand your terms of self-definition. Refuse to accept a random, arbitrary accident of birth as a salient marker of your identity. Refuse to accept unthought-out shibboleths handed down to you to shore up your fear of death. Refuse to be proud, unless your pride is grounded in self-motivated, self-guided achievement, and not some random, bizarre, nonsensical ‘pride’ based on the fact your mother happened to plop you out here, and not there. None of this would matter a fig, but for a key point: we now, at this critical juncture in our cosmic journey, face the very real and present danger of incinerating this planet and everything on it. Really. We are better than that.😳
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@manwithnousername9779 It was a joke. sighs
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@haku_kz4586 All very well. But if a majority of Ukrainians want no part of the old Russian system (and they don’t), then morons like Putin should recognise this and go home. My theory about all this is quite simple: Putin is pushing 70, he’s nothing to lose, and he’s having a last hurrah at everybody else’s expense, quite simply because he can. 😳
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@dmytrogalan1005 It’s quite simple, mate. It’s called ‘self-determination’. If a majority vote for something, anything , then you honour this vote. It’s called ‘democracy’. I don’t give a shit about the history blah, blah, blah. If today, a majority vote says Ukraine should be an independent sovereign state (and it does), then not Putin, nor anyone else has a leg to stand on. The only reason he is doing this is because power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and because he can.😳
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War may not determine who is right but it does definitely determine who is left. (B Russell)
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Vladimir Putin: that toxic ex who just couldn’t let it go.😳
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@KDG860 Well, it is a bit of a custody battle. Do you think you can’t have parental dictators?😳
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@dmytrogalan1005 Why do we complicate things as a species? A majority vote. Therefore this vote is honoured. If you have a problem with the majority vote then you are free to leave and go and live somewhere else. If I were ruling the world there would be no such thing as ‘nationalism’ or ‘organised religion’ anyway, but until the day they vote me in to carry out these policies, then I sit and carp from the sidelines, while nearly dead old morons like Putin put my safety, and the safety of my children in mortal peril.😳
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@Silver Let them go. Split the country. East Ukraine/West Ukraine. It’s not that difficult.😳
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@dmytrogalan1005 That’s not the fault of the basic principle of self-determination. That’s sound. If humans can’t actually carry it out because we are so corrupt/stupid, then so be it.😳
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@dmytrogalan1005 Well, it is actually changing your point as I am here to tell you that the principle of self-determination is the only way we can go here. If you have a better principle then spell it out, sunshine, or forever hold your peace.😉
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@dmytrogalan1005 Wtf are you on, mate. If a vote is taken and a majority vote for self-determination is the result, what fucking problem do you have with this? It’s really not that difficult.😧
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