Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Truth About Putin's Russia - Mikhail Svetov" video.

  1. ​ @kerryj2260  Trump's no genius, but it didn't take a genius to recognize that the Democrats are off their rocker and drunk on power. And he made his points very simplistically, in a way that was accessible to everyone. This drove Democrats out of their minds. He was beating them at their own game.
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  2.  @hayleylongster4698  I'm not sure HOW you structure things so that the nation is secure, the people are mostly better off today than yesterday, and the economy is on a solid footing. This cat seems to think Putin's economy is a total failure, when it looks like he's doing more right by people than one almost has a right to expect. Something people don't much talk about is all the territory he has that borders or includes Islamic territories. He doesn't want his country to be Islamified. He also shares age-old territorial ambitions in Crimea and parts West and South. Hillary sold us out on Uranium-1, but she and her neocon cronies worked systematically to deprive Russia its ports on the Mediterranean. If they got too cozy with anybody in the Middle East, well, then maybe it was time for some regime change... But when I look at the big stuff, like living within your means and backing your currency with precious metals, etc., I see a man respecting the property rights of the citizenry more than the USA does! If only we could get economic good sense and EXPLICIT recognition of people's rights, we'd have a great country! Sorry to free-write at everyone's expense.
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  3. Eastern European countries aren't a continent-spanning empire. They're still very authoritarian, but they're small enough, there's a "sense of the people." And not just Eastern Europe, but throughout Central and Western Europe as well. There's more of a cultural homogeneity that you don't necessarily have in a sprawling behemoth like the Russian Federation. I just wish the USA would go back to something just this side of the Articles of Confederation, i.e.. something more like the original U.S. Constitution, where the power of the individual states was greater. But since Lincoln made such a fetish of The Union, with abolition of slavery as the pretext, the USA's been getting progressively TOO centralized. I wish that the Russians AND the Americans would find the proper balance between local autonomy and unity of the whole. USA was very close to that, early on, but the old forms almost immediately re-emerged, with a self-appointed and would-be-hereditary ruling class. A ruling class with imperial ambitions. We, the people, don't want any of that nonsense. We just want to be free and encourage (not force) others to be likewise. I think the world would be a better place if it were easier to JOIN the USA and easier to LEAVE the USA!
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  4. Good stuff. Misha gets it. Russian libertarian. Gotta love that.
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