Comments by "gerhard7" (@gerhard7323) on "Russophobia, Historically Considered - Prof Glenn Diesen interviewed by Prof Dan Klein" video.

Diesen's knowledge and understanding blows my mind and all delivered with complete modesty.
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People have alarmingly short memories. Up until around a decade ago Russia was the reliable cheap energy dynamo powering EUrope's greatest industrial power and not asking much in exchange other than payment. What changed? The US, around 2014, sought to disrupt and end that successful dynamic that had hitherto lasted for years and served all parties well. Apparently no-one seems particularly interested in asking the question as to why.
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@calicocat8213 Yep. The unpublished but leaked Wolfowitz Doctrine. 'Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.' Subsequently rewritten by Dick Cheney of all people for public consumption because it laid a little too bare the US's blatant imperial ambitions for some.
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@amythompson7700 Russia was supplying Germany with cheap energy long after the Nato Bucharest Declaration.
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Copied, because I know what sh*ts YT censors are nowadays.
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Did they see the CIA sponsored coup in 2014 you mean? Deadly snipers shooting from rooftops from impossible angles, at least according to the official narrative, at both advancing demonstrators and retreating riot police?
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@albertmaziarz6739 You'll need to do better than that I'm afraid.
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The equal sovereignty argument is precisely why the US will cheerfully and conspicuously engage in negotiations for these treaties that aim to achieve it but then ultimately refuse to become signatories to them themselves. They bind others whilst allowing the US the freedom to pursue its completely fallacious, self-serving, 'for thee but not for me', 'international rules based order'.
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