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

Boris is a clown - but not as dangerous as that clown who thinks he's running Ukraine.
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@pansepot1490 If somewhat lacking in Zelensky's boyish charm.
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@Liz_for_PM_again Democracy does not exist in Ukraine.
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@Ian_Carolan Crocker and Pot does have a sort of ring to it, I have to admit. Or should it be Pot and Crocker? We could specialise in deadpan humour.
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@Liz_for_PM_again Let's get this straight. I am no particular fan of Putin but he has been forced into this by Zelensky's political incompetence, which has led to a quarrel between the two most corrupt countries of Europe bringing us to the verge of world war. Our only hope is for Ukraine to quickly agree to Russia's entirely reasonable demands.
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@verystripeyzebra The Kremlin line differs in that it is based on established fact and provides the only real way out of this tragic dilemma.
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@rocketscience4516 Democracy is a dead duck in all three of these countries, more or less. Russia and Ukraine are the two most corrupt countries in Europe and not so long ago Ukraine was judged to the second most corrupt country in the entire world after Columbia. Ukraine and Russia are peas in a pod. Zelensky has imprisoned the leaders of the opposition and closed down three TV stations which didn't toe the line. He is just the glamour-boy front man for one of the cabals of oligarch gangsters who run Ukraine - one which happens to have been bribed more efficiently by the Americans than by the Russians.
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@verystripeyzebra In essence, yes. Zelensky has already back-pedalled on his NATO madness, thank God, and all he has to do now is get off his ego trip and acknowledge two established facts: the Donbass provinces have had more than had enough of being ruled by incompetents and are entitled to their independence, and Crimea's secession to Russia is a done deal. The alternatives are either the installation of a puppet government run by Russia or an endless civil war which will drag Europe and America down with it.
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@Liz_for_PM_again Democracy in Ukraine is a sham. The ballot box is merely a tool used by the gangsters who run the country. If you believe in democracy, how about the 80-90 % of voters in Donbass and Crimea who voted to secede? Those referenda are no more or less valid than the elections which brought Zelensky to power. Ukraine is run on harsh realities, not by dewy-eyed idealism. Putin does not want to rule Ukraine. He knows full well that to attempt to do so would merely lead to a never-ending civil war. As with Georgia. Moldova and Chechnya all he requires is a reasonably well-behaved independent government which will not succumb to the blandishments of the mighty dollar and allow their countries to be used as advance missile bases by NATO.
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@rocketscience4516 Attempts to combat corruption can only be commended and there is evidence that they may be having some small effect. That is not the main point at issue, however. The point at issue is that Russia cannot be expected to allow Ukraine to take part in the continued expansion of NATO which has changed from being a defence organisation to one whose members regularly engage in acts of aggression against other countries. As for EU membership, that is very much a different matter. Putin can be expected to resist it but he will not go to war over it. He will simply try to outmatch EU inducements with economic measures of his own. This may well involve bribery and various sorts of nastiness but, once again, it is none of Britain's business, although EU member countries can obviously expect some degree of involvement.
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@Liz_for_PM_again I wish you would tell me where you get your rose-tinted spectacles from. I would dearly love a pair. Putin has no plans to bring former Soviet republics or satellites "back into the fold." He regrets the demise of Russian power but is sensible enough to realise that attempts to reconstruct it would be utterly foolhardy. The war in Ukraine is essentially an ethnic one, and this outweighs all other considerations. With memories of the Holodomor and other Stalinist atrocities in mind many Ukrainians hate Russia with all their hearts. They are not fighting for the privilege of joining the EU or of having free and democratic elections. They are fighting for revenge. It is just unfortunate that Zelensky's political incompetence has created a situation which has allowed this hatred to find a means of violent expression.
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@rocketscience4516 Here is a list of invasions, coups, and interventions by NATO members since the break up of the Soviet Union. Iraq (twice) Rwanda Yugoslavia Nepal Afghanistan Liberia Ethiopia Guinea Bissau Philippines Venezuela Syria Iran Libya Colombia Haiti Ukraine Yemen Palestine NATO are the good guys. Yeah. Sure.
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@verystripeyzebra Perhaps not a justification, but it is surely worth trying to understand his motives, rather than just dismissing him as a madman or a power-crazed dictator.
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@verystripeyzebra My "support" is neither here nor there. I don't go in for taking sides as a general rule and the only axe I have to grind here is to try to point out a few salient facts which are being ignored. There comes a point when people don't believe in threats unless they are carried out. Compared to NATO invasions of Iraq and general meddling this is a family quarrel which could end in a minute if Ukraine saw sense. And it puzzles me deeply why this particular conflict should arouse so much feeling in the West. I can really only conclude, as I think I have said before, it is because the victims are a bit pinker than average.
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@Liz_for_PM_again He does regret it. But he knows those days will never return. And pro-West is one thing. American stooge is another. Pro-Russian governments in Ukraine, "democratically" elected, have been overturned by mobs financed and manipulated by Western secret services. Poor Ukraine is a battleground between opposing forces. Until now this has been turned to advantage but Zelensky's bungling has created a disaster.
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@rocketscience4516 I was merely drawing a comparison between NATO members' interference in the affairs of other nations compared with Russia's, which has chalked up four so far, three of which involve countries over which the Soviet Union once held sway and which are therefore closely linked economically and strategically with the Russian Federation.
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@verystripeyzebra Probably not in Western terms, but ethnicity and culture enter into this too. Putin is an Eastern potentate and the people he rules have very different lineages to those you might find in Bradford or Bruges. Strength must be demonstrated if power is to be maintained. Even while Western "values" creep slowly Eastwards the spirit of Genghis Khan still holds sway in many respects.
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@Liz_for_PM_again It certainly appears so, and it would be naive to think otherwise. Biden and the CIA have their sticky fingerprints all over the Ukraine mess and have flooded the country with IMF cash directed to the right pockets. US military advisors train and equip the Ukraine army and the only Nazis in Ukraine are right-wing nationalists who love the Yanks like theres no tomorrow. And, if you remember, those demonstrations and their break up led to the duly elected pro-Russian President fleeing for his life. Sounds like a good result for the CIA to me.
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@verystripeyzebra Think about it anyway. The fact that he is compelled to accumulate vast personal wealth and govern in such ostentatiously elaborate surroundings in order to gain respect is also characteristic. We cannot judge Russia by the standards of a well-behaved middle-class Englishman.
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@rocketscience4516 America has been meddling with Haiti for years. Using natural disasters as a cover for further infiltration is a well-known CIA technique.
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@rocketscience4516 "U.S. Intervention in Haiti Would Be a Disaster—Again The nation’s poverty and chaos has been shaped by Washington for decades." The above is a headline and strap from Foreign Policy, a magazine which is worth looking at from time to time. In the remote hope that you may wish to inform yourself more fully the whole article is in the July 13 edition of last year. I have tried to send a direct link but of course the YouTube algorithm has it on its hit list
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@verystripeyzebra I don't know. Henry III? Queen Elizabeth I? Fidel Castro? Ayatollah Khomeni? The King of Bhutan? Castro and the Ayatollah were a bit flaky to to start with if course, but the King of Bhutan was quite a nice chap I gather.
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@rocketscience4516 What utter naivity. Have you bothered with the Foreign Policy article? NATO is just a vehicle of American imperialism.
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@rocketscience4516 I just don't see the connection. I am an elderly English gent currently disgusted by the war hysteria, hypocrisy and muddled thinking being displayed by so many people in the light of the Ukraine crisis. I'm worried too because this war fever could bring total disaster. You are utterly innocent if you do not know that America via the CIA manipulates poor countries all over the world, and that NATO is one of its instruments of control. The US deep state's ugly manipulations have created the Ukraine crisis, as they have created crises all over the world, including those in Haiti.
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@rocketscience4516 Oh gee! Thanks for the laugh Rocket! You've got my day off to a good start!
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@Liz_for_PM_again I bet they wish they'd thought of that! (All elections in Ukraine are rigged, by the way.)
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@rocketscience4516 Rocket falling for MSM propaganda make CIA snigger!
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