Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "Is Ukraine losing the war? See former CIA director's answer" video.

  1. What I’ve never quite understood about war and humanity is this: if every single human being refused to be conscripted into any army/military role, then we could end this mass killing of each other overnight. At least in the hand-to-hand combat level. The issue I haven’t quite worked out yet is how we can prevent states/nations from manufacturing and delivering weapons, even without actual combat soldiers. 🤔
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  2. Yeah, but here’s the truth: if we hadn’t taught people to believe in a random, arbitrary accident of birth as a key marker of their identity, none of this would have happened. Does a child born in Ukraine hate a child born in Russia on the basis of an accident of birth? No. Of course they fucking don’t. In my book that makes them wiser than we, adults, are, as they play with whomever: black, white, yellow, green, big, small, old, young etc. As Jesus said, (and I’m no Christian, but he was right about this one) observe them, look at how they live in the glory of the moment, without judgment. Until they hit 7, then they become monsters and judge everything! But the salient point is: never hitch your wagon to an accident of birth, for this way madness lies.
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  3.  @deborahfreedman333  I agree. There is probably more going on here than meets the eye, geopolitically. However, this notwithstanding, if Vlad just backed off then we may be ok. He’s right to be wary, though. A majority of Ukrainians look west and want to be part of the NATO party, so on this basis, I can see why Putin may be wary when it comes to the West. However, my bottom line here is the very basic principle of democratic self-determination and existing as a sovereign state. On this basis, Vlad needs to pipe down, shut the fuck up, and let Ukraine get on with it.😳
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  4.  @deborahfreedman333  I would also politely add, apropos your reply here to Ben; I don’t think ‘world domination’ is anywhere near the Russian radar. Putin, the old Cold War relic, just has a vision of how the now Russia (then USSR) should be. He just wants that kind of sphere of influence, geographically-speaking. All the Marxist/Communist stuff plays no real part in this vision. Putin is ex-KGB, ex-Communist, yes, but I’m willing to bet that even he sees that ship as having sailed back in 1989. No, what he wants, I think, is a purely spatial/geographical sphere of influence, answering broadly to the old Soviet Union.
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  5. Expecting the Ukrainians to tolerate without resistance the occupation of Ukraine by Russian forces is a bit like asking anyone to tolerate an uninvited guest to come your house and set up a camp in the house and asking you to live by their rules under your roof.😳
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  6. Hmm … 🤔Avenge Putin. All very well and while the Bible may have one or two decent ideas the main trouble with the philosophy of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, is that it puts a whole load of opticians and dentists out of work. 🦷
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  7.  @deborahfreedman333  The best analogy I can think of here, is that Putin just wants a good part of the double-bed, and you’d better not hog the duvet!
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  8.  @swordarmstudios6052  ‘Critical mass’. Indeed. That’s all it takes.😳
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  9.  @OriginalPuro  We abolish armies by refusing to serve. Of course, evil, malicious folk will take advantage and clandestinely try to create/build an army. We’d have to dismantle/abolish the idea of nationalism for the idea to work, perhaps.🤔
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  10.  @userofthetube2701  How about a one-world army? A genuine United Nations army and not just an ineffective talking-shop.🤔
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  11.  @jefftheriault3914  So you’re telling me we keep believing in random, arbitrary accidents of birth as key markers of our identity? And all the out-grouping and exclusion that entails. Is that it?
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  12.  @userofthetube2701  As I see this, until we jettison primitive ideas around random, arbitrary accidents of birth serving as key markers of our identity, there will be no waking up from this collective human nightmare. Nationalism and organised religion are the two most baleful blights we ever had the misfortune to invent as a species.😳
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  13.  @jefftheriault3914  The trouble humanity has, and has always had, is one of self-definition. Before ‘human being’, first and foremost, we seem to want to put this or that random accident of birth, or this or that imagined daddy in the sky. Individually, this is not an issue. However, when we band together with others on the basis of random accidents of birth and imagined daddies in the sky, the trouble starts. Nietzsche looked at this in the eye and called it: In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. With an outlier like Putin, we need to develop a workable system of removing such dictators from positions of power. In the kindergarten, the staff don’t allow a single bully to ride roughshod over others as whim dictates. Why, then, do we allow this as adults? 👀
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  14. @UCGou_-mQVCTOPn6WEDnV92A Lol. We are all about to be incinerated in a nuclear conflagration and you’re asking us to buy Amazon gift cards?! Jeff Bezos must know something we don’t.🤔
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