Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "US media finally covers sabotaged Russian-Ukraine 2022 negotiations" video.

  1. Did Ukraine not understand the state of things in Europe and the USA well enough to understand how empty their security guarantees were? While I'm largely in agreement with you guys, maybe you're arguing in a somewhat partisan way about the terms of the Istanbul agreement that didn't go forward. Agreeing to disarm yourself, while your great, big, fat neighbor makes no such commitment is foolhardy for any sovereign nation. If assurances of peace were all it took to disarm yourself, then why has every nation that lasted longer than 5 minutes in history done its best to field a defense against external aggression. Where you're the strongest is in your criticism of the military-industrial complex and its political leadership's fecklessness and ruthlessness (an odd combination). I think it dates back to World War II, during which the USA became, for all intents and purposes, world hegemon. I think there were a bunch of eggheads in Washington - two brothers in particular - who loved the days of the war, when they could do anything they wanted, and the press, the schools, the media, entertainment, and the government were all of one mind, and it was universally accepted that the government could and should censor anything damaging to the war effort. The security state has done its best (and been largely successful) to keep us on a permanent war footing, or at least a permanent "crisis" footing, ever since. If there's always a war or big enough crisis, then the normal, moral way of doing things must take a back seat, in service of the existential struggle the war or crisis has plunged us into. How many times have we been told that secrecy and national security trumps transparency? How many times do we have to see official documents being slow-walked through the DOJ, only to be entirely redacted by the time any of us, the unwashed, have a chance to see them? We all know we didn't get the straight scoop about Iraq, Libya, Kosovo, Ukraine, or Gaza. We all know we never will, if the permanent government - in what should be a representative republic - has its way, and we have no reason to believe it won't, because it always HAS, since at least World War II.
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  2.  @bumble-g2j  What is the matter with you? Do you not understand that America and its NATO minions are an existential threat to sovereign nations around the world? I guess you missed the 2014 Maidan coup in Ukraine, that was engineered by the USA. It was only after that coup (so much for democracy!) that Russia annexed Crimea. I think that if Ukraine had declared itself neutral and had simply rejected NATO membership, that Russia would've had better things to do than invade Ukraine. Are you an American? Imagine if the same thing was happening in Mexico that happened in Ukraine. Now add to that the FACT that Russia has been invaded by the West twice in two centuries (Napoleon and Hitler), and the bat-shit crazy policies being pursued to their west by feckless leaders who appear to see war and revolution abroad as their main chance of retaining power.
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