Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "" video.

The European dream has predictably turned into a nightmare thanks to the EU's clumsy interventionism in the Russia/Ukraine relationship. Do you really want to make matters worse?
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@witthyhumpleton3514 Someone or something has deleted the post to which you have replied. Wasn't me.
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@51bikerboy They've done all they can.
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@verystripeyzebra Who can judge the will of the Ukrainian people? Who can even judge who the Ukrainian people actually are? And what's it got to do with us anyway?
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@paulsaunders6536 What cult that would be? And what referendum? In a country as corrupt as Ukraine no referendum can be judged to provide an accurate result, and nor can any election.
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@whssy I think these things are conducted somewhat more robustly in Ukraine.
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@verystripeyzebra As I said, it is really impossible to know the wishes of the people in a country like Ukraine, where everything is fixed, and known to be fixed. One thing we can be relatively sure of though is that it is a deeply divided country with, quite probably, the majority in the western areas wanting to enjoy the pleasures of EU membership, while the Russian heritage inhabitants of the Eastern provinces, very probably, would like to return to the bosom of Mother Russia. Their towns and villages have been extensively shelled by the Ukrainians over the past eight years, even though they voted to secede in a referendum. Superficial parallels are dangerous when matching present day occurrences. I think. If at any time Putin looks as though his pan-Slavonic prejudices are matching Hitler's Aryan ideals, or that he is planning to exterminate large sections of the world's population, then we might have justifiable reason to intervene. At the moment we are just watching a pimp beating up on his whore. Best to stay on the other side of the street unless you want to get hurt. Unless of course you are another pimp, wanting to take her over.
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@verystripeyzebra I never said the Donbass referendum was fine, only that you can place the same amount of reliance on it as any other referendum or election in Ukraine. Putin has held Russia together for more than twenty years with no sign of wishing to expand its territories. Hitler's ambitions were clear within three years and his intentions towards the Jews were clearly outlined in Mein Kampf. Accepting the UN's definition doesn't seem to have worked out too well in this instance, does it? Wars are not matters of precedents but of pressure. It just so happens that this particular separatist struggle has put pressure on two opposing powers: the US and Russia. The US was lining up to push things too far and things have gone pop! Putin is no crackpot dictator. He is a very clever man has judged this very carefully. He will take Ukraine and America will lose a vassal state and is too weak and feckless to do anything about it.
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@verystripeyzebra Chechnya and Georgia were just about keeping them on side - which a great many of the inhabitants probably wanted. The same goes for Crimea and Donbass. If Putin wants to regain the Russian Empire he has certainly waited a long time to set about it. He has dismissed the idea, naturally enough, but has given very cogent reasons for doing so. I think he just wants respect. The Americans have been pissing him about for years, and now the EU is getting in on the act. I think this is about drawing lines in the sand, that's all. Hope so anyway! I agree that Hitler's attitude towards the Jews did not play a great part in the alliance against him, but it later provided more than sufficient justification for the actions taken. Were it not for the Holocaust one might argue that his initial advances were themselves justifiable, given the Versailles Treaty. One can justify Putin's present gambit in much the same way, given NATO's unremitting eastward advance and the US efforts to suborn Ukraine into its sphere of influence. Putin is no Hitler though and the Russian army is no Wehrmacht so, fingers crossed, we will be relatively safe once he makes his point in Ukraine. What will be will be though and if he does decide to go into the Baltic States or wherever he's only got Joe Biden and Ursula Von Der Leyden to stop him, which is scarcely a comforting thought.
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I suppose providing time and safe routes to enable civilians to leave is part of this Cunning Plan?
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@arctic_haze I think not. A million or so have left already and the rest are free to leave. Putin just needs to secure control in order to be able dictate terms.
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@aasphaltmueller5178 I would rather have thought it would slow them up, but I'm sure you are right. Do you have any historical precedents you could direct me to?
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