Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Dave Smith Breaks Down the Reasons Russia Invaded Ukraine" video.

Ukraine's always been resource- and agriculture-rich. A real prize for whoever can hold it. Part of it is Russia's will to expand. Part of it is regime-change foreign policy by U.S.-led NATO, which doesn't defend against Russia worth a darn, but sure enjoys subverting and toppling governments around the world.
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Comedians are by nature something of an iconoclastic group. When nobody was looking, the socialists became the establishment and they don't wear it well. They're more authoritarian than the "right wingers" they replaced. But none of this socialism stuff is actually left. It's reactionary, dragging us back to the days of monarchy, when the power of the state was absolute, and the people were chattel that the aristocracy "cared for."
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He's not losing. He hasn't even begun to fight. He's mostly been using militias from the affected regions to do most of the fighting. If the referendum is resoundingly pro Russia, which I expect it will be, then we'll see Putin take off the kid gloves and use Russian forces, and not mostly arming and supporting local forces.
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@thatindiandude4602 Gain-of-function labs the Fauci crowd don't want anybody investigating.
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I've been tracking since the '80s, when I still trusted our intel community. What they told us about Soviet intentions and capabilities was pretty much all wrong. The Soviets didn't want to war with us when they could undermine us, which they were VERY successful at. Meanwhile, our Intel Community was routinely overestimating their military capabilities by a factor of 10 or more. You'd have to check back in time to see it. The Soviets were enjoying far more success subverting our belief in liberty and free markets. They turned us socialist just by leaving us alone, by the 1990s. And what we've done to ourSELVES has kept them competitive. Totalitarianism is horribly inefficient. It can do a few things very well, at the expense of everything else, but it's sort of self-defeating, because your people are your strength, and they have to crush their people, periodically, to keep everyone on the same page.
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