Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Daniel Davis / Deep Dive" channel.

  1. I don't see how Russia can negotiate a settlement with such notorious deal-breakers. They will negotiate a settlement, but it will be based on Russia's absolute ability to guarantee the terms, regardless of the machinations of Zelensky or the West. It won't be like Minsk Agreements.
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  2.  @jimturpin6503  But you repeat yourself.
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  3. Great Britain has been trying to keep Russia and Germany as landlocked as possible for centuries. If Russia ever became a sea power in proportion to her land power, Britain would become a minor player in the Great Game. Britain has stayed in the Great Game by allowing and sometimes manipulating America to act as her proxy. The USA picked up where Britain left off, which allowed Britain to maintain the illusion (and sometimes the reality) of its former imperial glory. To this day, if there's a nation with a significant Russian presence in its seaports, it's likely to succumb to regime-change operations. Britain's ambitions in the Middle East, Africa, and the Far East have pretty much been carried out by the USA. We, the collective West, have a maddening habit of dragging other nations down and then saying "See? This all shows our civilization is superior to theirs, and why we have the right and the duty to intervene and draw the map for them." "See? All they do it hate!" And I think "Well, no wonder." I also think that the stresses we impose on societies around the globe are in large part responsible for the regressive and authoritarian regimes we hold in such scorn. We keep them on a constant war footing and then blame them for being so top-down in their governance.
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  4.  @andrewkrolikiewicz6522  Politicians have done their best to corrupt and circumvent the U.S. Constitution since the nation's founding. It says something for the Constitution that it worked as well as it did for as many people for the better part of 200 years.
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  5. Incumbency gives you access to donors and the party machinery. Also, Lindsey and Mitch have been very populist in terms of handouts and other concessions that favor the people in their states. "I brought this state INDUSTRY! I brought this state JOBS! I got our farmers BIG SUBSIDIES!" As incumbents, they bring all kinds of goodies back to their constituents, often at the expense of supporting better legislation. They're Republicans who have always sided with Democrats on big domestic spending, so they bought votes at the low end with hand-outs and they appealed to conservatives by being war hawks, at times. Both of them fought hard to block Obama SCOTUS appointments and later, ram Trump's SCOTUS appointments through. On foreign affairs, both of them go along with the neocons. Graham is an embarrassment to the Republican Party and the American people.
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  6. Great way to politicize the military. Pack the higher ranks with your cronies.
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  7. Crabs in a bucket.
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