Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Is Putin's time up? | Garry Kasparov" video.

  1. If the EU was more integrated and had a single military with the union speaking with one voice, the EU could have put 20,000, 40,000 troops in Ukraine for peacekeeping reason and prevented the war from even starting. It's one thing to attack Ukraine which is a poor country even by eastern European standards, it's another to attack if the EU had troops in Ukraine, it's also something the US could have done but they tend to only care about things in self-interest, now I'm not saying the EU is different but it's clear they care more and even if it wasn't for that, it's far less likely that the EU would want an all out war on it's boarder and would be compelled to step in, as for the US, it's seen as a far away land where they see this as an opening to do real damage to Putin. It's clear that European countries in the EU need to start working closer together and stop with all the petty differences, they have the power to make a difference in Eastern Europe, to make it safer, more secure and stable and to stop Putin from intimidating countries and I think the EU could become a counterweight to America's power around the world, to balance things out. Just like many, I am surprised by how tough the western world is getting on Putin, especially the EU countries, most of us and I suspect Putin expected a much softer response on this from the west but I also feel the west needs to get tougher, Putin has to pay a high price for this, either war crimes or hanging from the Russian people and I think if the Russian people rise up, Putin is done for and that could happen once the sanctions really start to hit the Russian people. With that, my heart goes out to the people of Ukraine as well as the innocent Russian people that didn't want this war because they are all being dragged into this.
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  2.  @Aussiemarco  Brexiteers had many reasons to want to leave the EU, if it wasn't an EU army, it would be something else, in the end, follow the money behind Brexit, Putin has shown he is willing to interfere in western democracy from Brexit, Trump, Le Pen and many other cases around the EU, now with everything going on with Russia, maybe it's time some real investigation is done on who Putin has been financing, starting with Brexit, the Tory donations, the press, Trump and many other cases around Europe, it's clear a lot of money was used to push a specific agenda in favour of Putin. In the end, it's really up to the people to hold them to account which so far they've been pretty weak on that and are allowing them to get away with that, lets see if any of that changes now Putin has really been exposed to the world.
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