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

He tried hard enough, but was outbid by America.
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@MrMartinSchou Of which there are plenty. All in fact. Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
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@seanpatrick1243 Ukraine is swimming in CIA money. You can't tell me none of it reached Zelensky's campaign. He is just a puppet for American imperialism.
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@johnmunro4952 No. The CIA overthrew him.
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@ionnanskilliorus No. They simply accepted a better offer from the Americans.
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@stephenthomas3085 It's an excuse obviously, but there's nothing sick about Putin. He's a very pragmatic man, and a man of his time and place. All the same the "poor innocent little Ukraine" trope is such an insult to our intelligence that it needs to be quashed. These two countries are as bad as one another and regularly swap places as the most corrupt nations in Europe.
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One of the reasons for the blood on the streets is the EU's attempt to seduce Ukraine into its arms. Putin didn't like it.
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The Cold War ended in 1991 remember? Conservative defence ministers can now sleep with anyone they like.
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@tilley6351 While this may true to a great extent it ignores the fact that Russia is inevitably going to feel threatened by Western expansion -as indeed it has for nigh-on 500 years. The contrasts between Western consumerism and Russian poverty are not as pronounced as they were pre 1990 and many Russians living in Ukraine feel that being turned into a nation of customers for Western delights isn't necessarily for them.
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@mariogmajner6549 A concise and excellent precis. I might pinch bits of it. Hope you don't mind.
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How long have we been at war with Russia then? Can someone remind me? And why oh why is this Socialist channel consistently allying itself with US imperialism?
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@jiversteve What's that got to do with anything?
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His real name is Alexander, Al for short. He is related to most of the Royal houses of Europe including the Romanoffs who ruled Russia before the Communist revolution. Hence Boris -his second name which he uses just to show off.
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We do. And we help train the Ukrainian Army, some of whom are unashamed Nazis.
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@dirkdupont5004 Illegality and immorality are two entirely separate concepts. In any case genocide - or at least the murder of Ukraine citizens on ethnic grounds -certainly occurs in the Donbass provinces where a bloody civil war has been in progress for eight years. The real reason for the invasion is of course to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO, which is an entirely reasonable stance for Putin to take. The last thing he wants is for his excuse to fall foul of legal quibbling in the Hague. And I do not like dictators. I just tend to dislike totally unnecessary wars. If Donbass were allowed to become an independent buffer state and Ukraine gave an assurance not to join NATO then this war could be over now. It would not even have begun if Ukraine had not been conned into sticking its neck out by American bribes and promises.
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@olmostgudinaf8100 Don't be so silly. Avowed neo-Nazis - the real thing, racist to the core - have occupied senior positions in Ukraine for years and continue to do so.
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@dirkdupont5004 I presume you are aware of the Azov Battalion? In any case I have already agreed that the idea of genocide has simply provided a reasonable excuse for Putin's action which in reality has a much wider political context. The population of Donbass is predominantly Russian and, like Crimea, has voted in a referendum to secede from Ukraine. The response has been invasion with towns and villages being shelled and neo-Nazi death squads murdering anyone who can't speak Ukrainian. Thar's genocidal enough. The history of Russia and the history of Ukraine are inextricably entwined. The very name Russia comes from the Kievian Rus, the Vikings who sailed up the Dnieper in the 8th century or so. Ukraine didn't exist until various fiefdoms were joined together by Peter the Great and then Catherine the Great and only became a country as such because Stalin wanted an extra seat in the UN. Putin doesn't want it in NATO because he knows full well that NATO is just a vehicle for American imperialism and exists mainly to provide markets for the US military/industrial complex which needs to maintain Russia as a permanent enemy in order to justify its existence. Ukraine is flooded with CIA money, much of it channelled through the IMF. Didn't you see the video where vice-president Biden openly boasted that he withheld a billion dollars until the then President of Ukraine sacked the prosecutor who was after his son Hunter? Ukraine is a whore of a country whose leaders will sell her to the highest bidder. Your Scotland analogy makes no sense. Ukraine doesn't want to leave Russia. It is not part of Russia any longer. A more apt analogy would be if Scotland had already left the UK but some of the lowland countries wanted to partially re-join. Scotland then starts shelling these separatist counties and sends in fanatics to kill English-speakers. It also seems ready to enter into an alliance with an international conspiracy of arms dealers who want to use it to set up missile bases targeting English cities. How should England respond to this do you think?
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@stephenthomas3085 There was plenty of dirt on the Democratic party to get too. Do you really suppose the bright, shining Dems and their deep-state allies are muscling in on Ukraine out of the kindness of their hearts? What Ukraine and Russia get up to between them has nothing to do with us, much less the money-grabbing, power-hungry hawks of the US. Ukraine is nothing like a democracy. Votes are bought and sold like everything else. And poster-boy Zelensky has jailed the opposition leaders and shut down three TV stations which didn't toe his line. Democracy my arse. We have no inherent right to impose our own morality on other nations except in very extreme circumstances. Compared with Stalin Putin is a pussycat. Without a strong leader Russia would collapse into anarchy. Countries have different methods of dealing with internal threats and Putin is far from being alone in bumping off troublesome individuals. None of my business or yours.
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@olmostgudinaf8100 Now you're being extra silly. And I think you know it. At least I hope so.
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@dirkdupont5004 I utterly defy you to prove or even indicate the presence of men of similar leanings to the members of the Azov Battalion in the British Army. Our Nazis are bogey men in the brains of brainwashed lefties. The Ukraine's Nazis are real. Even if Putin's invasion is illegal (which is highly disputable) it is entirely justified. More to the point it could be over in a minute if Ukraine simply recognised the independence of the Donbass provinces and promised not to join NATO. Crimea is already a done deal. If it is Putin's ambition to recreate the USSR he's certainly taken a long time to set about it. Russia could have wiped out the other former USSR states after the Soviet collapse if it wished. Instead it kissed them goodbye and tried to recreate itself without the crushing presence of the Party. It also asked to join NATO -four times and was rejected. NATO needs a permanent enemy in order to justify its existence. Russia hasn't been it -until now. All international arms manufacture is interlinked, but the Americans run the business programme and create the markets via countless invasions over the past hundred years, many since the Soviet collapse and many far, far bloodier than this one. The nuclear power plant thing is just another dollop of Western propaganda too. Nuclear power plants are practically impossible to damage from the outside. Even melt-downs generated from within are relatively mild on the scale of disasters. Chernobyl only provably killed 80 or so people and it has proved utterly impossible to attribute subsequent cancer deaths to it.
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@dirkdupont5004 Even you must be getting tired of these analogies by now. I've made the mistake myself of trying to draw comparisons between Ukraine and Ireland, but it only takes one tiny difference of emphasis to blow these things sky-high.
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@olmostgudinaf8100 What names?
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@Dash8Q400Channel A direct hit from what?
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@olmostgudinaf8100 Utter fantasy. And you must surely know it.
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@dirkdupont5004 What the security services pretend is true and what is actually true are entirely different things. Fat guys with unsuitable tattoos bear no comparison with the forces of jihad or the destructive power of BLM. You'll fall for anything which fits your conditioning, that's all. The legality or illegality of Putin's invasion doesn't enter into it. International law is a sham . Laws are decided upon by societies with a broad common interest. The UN does not fit this category. Polls are even more subject to corruption than referenda. They are meaningless. The largely Russian population of Crimea is happy to be part of Russia again, especially now they've got their water supply back. It was only tacked on the Ukraine by in 1954 because it was easier to administer services across the isthmus than across or under the Kerch strait. The original population was shipped out and replaced by Russians back in Stalin's day. This stuff about Trump and Brexit is total propaganda, tailored for idiots.. Putin wanted Trump in sure enough, and liked the idea of Brexit sure enough, but Russia's impact on either was minimal. You really are a sucker for paranoid fantasies, aren't you? Of course Putin want to keep Russian satellites on side and of course he doesn't want to test NATO. That's only sensible of him. Radiation deaths are another bogeyman. There is no evidence for what you claim. If there were it would be shouted from the rooftops.
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@Dash8Q400Channel You'd need something really big to crack the concrete. And even if you did the radiation would be containable. But what are we talking about? It ain't gonna happen. It's just another bit of propaganda designed to scare you.
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@olmostgudinaf8100 This would assume I accept this absurd farrago of a definition. I don't so that's that.
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@olmostgudinaf8100 Your version of reality is the result of brainwashing. The briefest of intellectual scrutiny and it melts like a dream upon awakening. Wake up.
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@olmostgudinaf8100 Words only have meaning when they are accurately related to real things. Otherwise they are mere attempts at definition, and such definitions may well be subject to controversy or review. This is especially the case when a word has been suborned for a political purpose - words such as fascist or Nazi for example have generally lost their true meaning through being adopted as insults. They do not mean what you think or pretend them to mean. The reality they pretend to encompass when used in this way is a chimera - a fiction or a dream.
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Child
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@michaelmayo3127 Your innocence is breathtaking.
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@tuga9999 You are falling victim to the most absurd propaganda. Even if what you say is true (and it very probably isn't) the idea that Johnson is Putin's "puppet" is sheer fantasy. He and his chums may have got a few spiffing holidays out of the Russkies, and a few crates of top-notch champers, but Britain remains firmly in the pocket of the good ole USA. Even now you are doing their bidding -without even knowing it.
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@jeffsuter344 It's not a talent contest or a beauty contest, it's world politics. There's been an illegal bloody civil war going on in East Ukraine for eight years, financed by the US and featuring Ukrainian soldiers trained by the US and Britain. Putting a stop to that makes Putin's invasion quite legal, and even if it doesn't who cares? It's time the West stopped messing with Russia. They weren't a threat -but they are now.
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@Dash8Q400Channel I don't know. Nor do you. And it's got nothing to do with the present situation anyway.
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@tuga9999 Keep supping the bourbon Carlos. Or do you prefer dry martinis?
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@1050cc Talking of children Google The Alley of Angels. It records the names of some of the Donbass children killed by the Ukrainian army over the last eight years.
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@annishilcock4587 Are you kidding!!???
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@jeffsuter344 Who hates the West? It's lies and stupidity I hate.
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