Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Why 3 European Countries Still Support Putin" video.

  1. One thing you find in common with these kinds of countries is that you tend to get leaders that want to run like a dictatorship and only seem to care about their position in power and not the well-being of the people, then they use much of the media to twist the views of their people to keep the governments position in power. It's an old trick but it's a very effective one because they play on the fears of the people in many areas to push their own agenda. Not much good comes from it longer term for the people as those kinds of leaders are not interested in growth of the people and are more interested in consolidating its position in power. As for Hungary, they should be kicked out of the EU and made way for other more deserving countries that want to join the EU, Poland are showing signs of change so I think they are salvageable and they are the key to pushing Hungary out and unlocking the door for future members as the EU isn't likely going to let any others in until that problem is solved as well as reforms to the EU. Personally, just let these countries be puppets with Russia, they'll learn quicker when Russia screws them over and keeps them poor, people tend to learn a lot more from their own mistakes than they do from others trying to help them and it's the same for Russia, a country with so much natural resources to still be poor is really poor performance from the leadership, I mean, the eastern EU members have a GDP per capita as high as the richer regions in Russia which tend to be Moscow and St Petersburg, other places in Russia, the drop-off is big, it's a really poor showing from the leadership but then looking at Putin's leadership in Ukraine, it's easy to see why.
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  2.  @feister2869  Actually, it's more likely to happen now thanks to Putin, he's scared a lot of countries to wanting to get closer to the EU and NATO, the EU seems a lot more open in bringing in new countries, that longer term is only going to make the EU more powerful, the last thing Putin wanted and really, what did Putin expect, you threaten countries, they are going to move away from them. Russia is isolating its self and let's be blunt about this, Russia is a pretty weak power compared to China, the west see China as a potential threat in the future whereas Russia are seen as a bit like the UK, lashing its tail around, dreaming of the glory days of empire, truth is, both are dying empires, both are just too stubborn to realize it and the real powers today are the EU, US and China with maybe India joining that race in the future and Putin knows this, hence his desperation in Ukraine to try and extend Russian power.
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