Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "War in Ukraine? Farage vs. Russian" video.
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What Kissin (sp?) doesn't get is that the West abandoned the moral high ground and is NOT as strong as it once was. Look around. In debt up to our eyeballs and talking about war? We're in no position to speak in such terms. We're teetering on economic catastrophe, not because of free-market capitalism, but because of falling into fascism while PRETENDING to be a beacon of hope and freedom, while we piss it all away on one stupidity after another.
How can we export ideals that we no longer exemplify?
And Putin's totally justified in feeling nervous about expansion of NATO into Ukraine. Russia's not a bunch of saints, but look at the last two centuries. Napoleeon in the 19th, Hitler in the 20th, and now saber rattling by NATO in the 21st.
And while we're all uptight about Russian troops on the border (is that really more than there were, before? I don't think so.), we don't even consider actions we have been taking to influence politics in Ukraine, how we pour tons of money into Ukraine to prop up corerupt oligarchs from whom a handful of top U.S. officials are extracting millions for their own personal and family fortunes. If they can demonize the Russians, maybe nobody notices how they're feasting on Ukraine's corpse, with the assistance of corrupt oligarchs, there.
This has been going on for 30 years, and the Russians have a legit gripe. WE have been destabilizing Ukraine, and obstructing thseir efforts to end corruption, even to the point of impeaching Trump for trying to HELP them fight corruption. Meanwhile, Joe Biden is on video bragging about how he used American aid as a lever to STOP them from prosecuting the company his son worked for. Not a WORD in mainstream media about the BLATANT pay-for-play and quid-pro-quo going on, THERE, but everybody heard a bunch of made-up shit about Trump along those same lines.
Putin's holding all the cards. We can still mess things up for everybody’s , if we listen to the war mongers and let them embroil us in another murderous conflict, abroad, with no exit strategy and no real purpose.
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