Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "Fierce fighting rages on front lines in eastern Ukraine" video.

  1. Selling itself to America was though.
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  2.  @WinterGK  It wasn't Ukraine's nuclear arsenal. It was Russia's.
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  3. Noble words - but how many more billions can NATO and America actually afford to pour into Ukraine?
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  4.  @paulschulte1064  America poured billions into Ukraine long before the invasion. Along with other NATO countries it created a huge Ukrainian army to take over the mineral-rich Donbass region. This war is not for charity. It is a business enterprise.
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  5.  @rujiel4620  Is America a democracy? Or is it just another gangster state in disguise?
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  6.  @selcukcilek555  Certainly not in the way many people in the West think it does. It's a hodge-podge oligarchy ready to sell itself to the highest bidder.
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  7.  @WinterGK  Ukraine is Russia's creation. Much of its industry is or was owned by Russians. The nuclear weapons were Soviet weapons, and could only be fired from Moscow. No-one in Ukraine had the firing codes.
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  8.  @bonnie7898  So what? That was then and this is now. No treaty lasts forever. Most last for only a few decades and have to be adjusted or replaced as circumstances change. Every effort has been made to overcome the anomalies of the Budapest accords, and all have failed. The Minsk treaties of 2014/16 were designed to give time to allow Ukraine to iron out the problems in Donbass, instead of which NATO stepped in and paid for an army with which to invade it. If you're looking for bad faith, look there.
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  9.  @bonnie7898  Nobody is denying it. NATO and the US are quite proud of themselves. This is the introduction to a document from NATO published as a fact sheet 2016: "Following the September 2014 Wales Summit, NATO Allies have established five Trust Funds to help Ukraine better provide for its security. " The US Congressional Research Service provides full details. The US alone gave $24billion prior to the invasion. Other NATO countries have also chipped in a few billion. Colonel Musienko is not far wrong in his assessment, although it is a good deal more complicated than that. Russia does indeed wish to maintain its influence on Ukraine - or at least on the Eastern part of it. You might consider this to be only fair since the area has a very large percentage of Russian inhabitants and, perhaps even more significantly, Russia has invested blood, sweat, tears and uncounted billions of roubles in developing the vast mineral resources and industrial potential of Donbass. They are not happy with the Kiev government wanting to sell it off to the Americans, nor with the Americans for bribing the Kiev government so efficiently as to persuade them to do it. As to interference, after Putin persuaded Yanukovych to veto the EU bid, American agents organised widespread rioting in the streets, even allegedly posting snipers on the rooftops to shoot into the crowds. Yanukovych was forced to flee and was replaced by an interim American puppet, shortly to be replaced by the current American puppet, Zelensky.
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