Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "Ukrainians fear tough winter without heating | Focus on Europe" video.

@SerenityMae11 When I look at the map I see Donbass and Crimea firmly in Russian hands. Which is all Putin ever wanted.
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@wom_Bat No. They'll be nice and warm.
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@rocksmo3384 Not at all. The Ukrainian army has been decimated. Hy else would they be training civilians?
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@thegreatdane3627 They seem to be settling on a line largely on the Eastern edge of the Dnieper flood plain, and beginning to fortify it., ready for winter. The western sections of the annexed regions remain in Ukrainian hands it is true. But Russia controls much of the coastline and the main industrial areas. I think the Ukrainians will have great difficulty dislodging them.
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@leyvithanTech So Zelensky must go.
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Behind Russian lines all will be warm and cosy.
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They had to destroy the Ukrainian army first.
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@antred11 Is it though? The front seems relatively secure at the moment and more or less along the line I imagine Russia had in mind. The Ukrainian army, meanwhile, has sustained substantial losses of trained troops while Russia has considerable reserves of men experienced in the war in Syria, the battle-hardened armies of the Donbass republics, plus Cossacks and Chechens with more Chechens on the way I gather. Should be an interesting winter campaign, especially if Ukraine has no electricity.
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@ВадимСтецюра-й7о Noble sentiments. But the death of thousands is surely a high price to pay to have your country run by America instead of in partnership with Russia.
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@ВадимСтецюра-й7о I really don't think Russia wants to rule Ukraine. It would be letting itself for years of civil strife. It will be content with Donbass and Crimea where at least a good portion of the population are of Russian ancestry and prefer to look to Moscow than Kiev for support and governance. I think you are naive if you don't realise that this war is of America's doing. Your country, like Russia, has been in the hands of oligarchs ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Some have formed alliances with Russia, and some with America. Ukraine is a honeypot for both of these evil empires and America has, I think, gone too far in both pushing for membership of NATO and in supporting the war against the Donbass separatists. Many American crooks and politicians (often the same thing) have huge financial interests in your country and alliances with your own crooks and politicians. Zelensky himself is (or was) the creature of Kolomoisky who cleverly engineered his election and who launders his ill-gotten gains in the US and who has several very prominent American politicians in his pocket. Ukraine's entirely understandable desire to escape its often unhappy past and become a liberal democracy, with less corruption, has been harnessed by dark forces whose motives are entirely financial. This is the way of the world, but none of this is sufficient to plunge a country into a bloody and destructive war. Compromise is possible. It needn't necessarily mean Ukraine becoming another Belarus either. Putin is eminently pragmatic and I am sure he would be content with Donbass as a buffer state while allowing Ukraine to go its own way as long as it stays out of NATO.
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@wom_Bat They'll have electricity. The Ukrainians won't.
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