Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Putin in trouble over Russia's economic problems | DW News" video.

  1.  @VicharB  You've got it backwards. If you throw around accusations, you're expected to be able to substantiate them. In other words, the burden of proof is on you. You alluded to factual errors in DW's reporting. What are they?
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  2. So what is it that they got wrong?
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  3. I, for one, remember in what state Russia was in the nineties. Immune to economic crisis, you say? They had the area and the resources then, too.
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  4.  @kovichni  Interesting. You urge me to grab a calendar and prove your point. Are you incompetent or just too lazy to formulate your own arguments?
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  5.  @okayvision3413  That's just another pipe dream, I'm afraid. Despite all the lofty words, Russia has failed to diversify its economy to any measurable degree. In fact, Russia is more dependent on exports of raw materials than it was in 2008. Try to keep up with the news.
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  6. You've got everything backwards. Russia invading Ukraine reinvigorated NATO, not only giving it a new lease of life, but also letting it do what it does best: checking the expansionist ambitions of the Kremlin. Last time, NATO saw to the implosion of the Soviet Union. Why would the rump state, Russia, fare any better? The EU is not facing an existential threat, Brexit notwithstanding. And it's in a totally different league from your EEU, which is just a poor excuse for a counterweight to the EU -- a lightweight squaring off against a heavyweight. Yanukovych himself was favourable to an association agreement with the EU, until he had a last-minute change of heart (Putin rang?), signing his own political death warrant in the process. His executors were the Ukrainian people, not the EU, NATO, CIA, Zionists or whoever you chose to blame instead.
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  7. No need to remind us that Russians, as opposed to modern people, are into personality cults.
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  8. Because they're hurting the Russian economy?
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