Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "Why a retired major is calling for Ukraine to retreat from contested city" video.

The whole of Ukraine east of the Dnieper was called "Little Russia" until not so long ago, and very many Russians live there - up to 90% in some industrial cities. Putin is now on course to take much of this back before the cavalry arrives from Europe and the US. It would be wiser in the long run to let him keep it - and certainly much better in terms of loss of life.
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@APW554 It was part of Russia long before the coming of the Soviet Union. Russia fully accepts it is no longer an empire, but is not prepared to surrender areas in which it has a long-standing economic and historical relationship to another empire - the American one.
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@anastasiiaf8311 Then why are you all speaking Russian? And why in the last census did so many city dwellers identify themselves as ethnic Russian? In the country as a whole over 17% said they were Russian - that's over eight million people.
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Elena Much of the world is occupied land of you look back far enough! But who does one give Eastern Ukraine back to? It was mainly occupied by wandering tribes of Tatars until coal was discovered there and the Russians came along and began to mine it. As for Western Ukraine, despite it being the original homeland of the ancestors of the Russian people, Poland , Lithuania and Sweden have occupied it at various times I believe, and Poland even thinks it is still entitled to a bit of it.
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@WinterGK But what is Ukraine? And where did the aggression begin? America and NATO have spent tens of billions of dollars on arming Ukraine to retake Crimea and Donbass to allow Western entities to have access to enormous mineral wealth to which Russia feels it is entitled. If this war did not take place in Ukraine, it would have happened in Donbass and Crimea. Ever since the end of World War II "International law" has been largely a vehicle to promote American hegemony. It is not divine and the UN Is not God. And the Donbass and Crimea are not Ukrainian simply because a paper was signed back in 1991 by a confused drunkard in the chaos of the collapse of an empire. This could have been settled peacefully, but America has instead chosen to use Ukraine as a cat's paw in its battle to subdue Russia and further enrich itself thereby.
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@WinterGK The UN is a sham, really. Votes mean nothing. And there is no such thing as "the global community." Russia is far from isolated. Many counties sympathise with its cause and will support it openly one day, as many are already doing covertly.
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@WinterGK Do you really imagine that ALL those 141 countries meant it? Don't you think it possible that many of them were just hedging their bets, waiting to see who wins? The world is changing, and this war will hasten that change. Russia and China and India and all the countries queuing up to join BRICS are going to give America a run for its money. As for wartime laws - check on some that Zelensky has brought in.
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@anastasiiaf8311 So why are they still doing it now, even post 1991?
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@anastasiiaf8311 That was the figure in the census that year. Are you suggesting the percentage has changed so dramatically since then? As to language I daresay your figures are right, but ethnic Russians still speak Russian at home do they not? And there were Russian schools until Kiev tried to shut them down, were there not? And is Kiev now not turning the tables and trying to ban Russian?
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@WinterGK BRICS is a trading group with a rapidly increasing membership and advanced plans to create its own gold-based currency designed to rival the dollar. Russia has a huge nuclear arsenal and is one of the world's top three producers of oil, gas and nuclear fuels. GDP is a only one measure of a country's position in the world. Furthermore most countries are still trading with Russia by various covert means, despite the polite noises they make in the sham UN talking shop.
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@anastasiiaf8311 I don't understand why the Ukrainian government should rig a census to indicate that it has a 17% Russian population when it does not, nor how in one breath you claim that there are Russian schools all over Ukraine, and in the next say the Russian language has to be banned.
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