Comments by "Aristocles Athenaioi" (@aristoclesathenaioi4939) on "The role Russia-China-US relations plays in the Russia-Ukraine crisis" video.

  1. I must agree with the comments that take exception to your view of how benign Putin is for Ukraine. In the July speech from Putin that you quoted, Putin presented the Ukraine Russia shared culture and border as comparable to the relationship of Canada to the US, or Austria to Germany. In fact that is a false equivalence. Despite having history in common, Ukrainian and Russian are different though related languages. I have a friend in Ukraine who who grew up and lived in Crimea, but fled Crimea with her son when the Russians annexed it. She settled in Lviv in Western Ukraine, which about as far West as you can go in Ukraine. She and her son only spoke Russian, and now she is learning to speak Ukrainian. There is less difference between Ukrainian and Russian than there is between Cantonese and Mandarin. However, there is a lot more difference between Ukrainian and Russian than between English as spoken in Canada and English as spoken in the US. The US and Canada really do speak the same language. I should add the my friend in Ukraine views Russia with the same apprehension that my Taiwanese friends view the PRC. The real issue in both Ukraine and Taiwan is whether they can continue to develop as separate and democratic societies, or will they become subject to an autocratic regime even if they share common history, culture and speak closely related languages. Ukraine should be permitted to decide it's destiny, and Taiwan permitted to decide it's destiny. Neither should have that decision made for them.
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  2. You mentioned the Three Kingdoms in your description for this video. Would you consider producing a video about the Three Kingdoms and the Warring States periods in Chinese history?
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  3. The Ukrainian situation in the Second World War has very disturbing elements to it. In many cases the Ukrainians working with Nazis committed war crimes and atrocities at least as horrific as the Germans did, and in some cases even worse if one can imagine. Ukrainian death squads under Nazi authority committed ethnic cleansing and other genocidal actions. Actions by the Soviet NKVD, secret police against Ukrainians whose only "crime" was getting captured also matched the ferocity of Nazi retribution just the the posting I am replying to correctly indicated. Russian and Ukrainian soldiers repatriated as POW were summarily executed by the NKVD without exception.
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