Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "Putin marks first anniversary of 'special military operation' in Ukraine" video.

I'm afraid Putin's "startling take" stands up to considered examination far better than the juvenile crap spouted on this channel.
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@shawns0762 I am on the side of a country which has been under constant threat from an expansionist, militaristic state which was founded on ethnic cleansing, slavery and environmental destruction; which has over a million soldiers stationed in 160 locations all over the world and which deceives and cheats its own people, while suppressing the rights and aspirations of others in foreign lands, and not infrequently invades and bombs them, killing millions as it does so. It's called the United States of America.
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@shawns0762 To America, wars are business opportunities disguised as acts of philanthropy. It's territorial gains are in terms of creating new markets and obtaining cheap labour and resources by violence, although some actual geographical gains have been obtained in the past.
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@shawns0762 It's not hate and it's not Russian propaganda. It's a healthy contempt for lies and hypocrisy.
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@shawns0762 It kills more people than any other country. Look at the millions directly killed in Iraq and the many millions more who die as the result of the destabilising effects American interference and war-mongering. The war in Ukraine, just as the latest example, would never have started without America setting its sights on getting its hands on all the coal, iron, gas, oil and rare earth minerals in the Donbass region. You're living in a dream world. Your immigrants massacred the people they found living there, and your democracy is a sham. America is run by gangsters and the seasonal change from Democrat to Republican is just window-dressing.
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@shawns0762 Saddam Hussein was, of course, originally installed as an American puppet. He rebelled and was taken out in order for America to regain access to Iraqi oil. There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam's use of chemical weapons pales into insignificance compared with America's shock and awe destruction of the entire country. America occupied Europe. The money it spent was an investment which is still being repaid. I repeat: America starts wars to make money. Wars in themselves are profitable up to a point, and installing American troops and opening up conquered territories to American businesses is even more so. Charity does not enter into it.
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@shawns0762 US intelligence helped Saddam's Ba`ath Party seize power for the first time in 1963. Evidence suggests that Saddam was on the CIA payroll as early as 1959, when he participated in a failed assassination attempt against Iraqi strongman Abd al-Karim Qassem. In the 1980s, the US and Britain backed Saddam in the war against Iran, giving Iraq arms, money, satellite intelligence, and even chemical & bio-weapon precursors. As many as 90 US military advisors supported Iraqi forces and helped pick targets for Iraqi air and missile attacks. Support continued throughout most of Saddam's regime. Access to Iraqi oil, and destabilisation neighbouring Iran were the keynotes of this policy. The Marshall Plan did indeed rebuild Europe. But it also benefitted the US in many important respects. The Soviet Union, as you rightly say, occupied those territories it conquered on the way to Berlin and installed puppet governments. But the present-day Russian Federation is not the Soviet Union. Those territories have been returned and where there were once Russian soldiers, there are now American soldiers, as most of these countries have chosen to join NATO, despite promises that they would not do so.
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@shawns0762 What I can understand of this (which isn't much) seems like utter garbage. Iraq and Russia always enjoyed close relations so why on earth would Russia want to start a revolution? Iraq obtained weapons from both Russia and America. As ever, this trade was in order to gain access to oil. Saddam was overthrown because after years of playing both ends against the middle he upset the Americans too much. Thus led to two wars which resulted in the deaths of about a million people. What does this have to do with China? And where are the South Koreans and the Vietnamese charging south to exactly? The sea? The Marshal Plan brought many benefits to the US in terms of creating markets for American goods - as indeed does NATO. And promises WERE made that after the Berlin Wall came down NATO would advance no further Eastwards. The Russians were foolish enough to believe these assurances.
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@shawns0762 I see what you mean now! But Russia has now completely rejected communism of course. And you are wrong about Saddam and the CIA and the benefits to America of the Marshall plan. Communism killed millions - but then so too did America's attempts to suppress it. The fact that America still continues to bully, manipulate and invade despite the collapse of Soviet communism is pretty indicative that its self=appointed role as policeman was just a cover for its own advancement, don't you think?
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@shawns0762 Really the only difference between the Soviet empire, the Nazis, the Japanese empire and the American empire is that the American empire is still operational. For now. For your information, here is a list of the countries bullied, manipulated and invaded by the US over the past hundred years or so: 1914-1918 - a series of invasions of Mexico. 1914-1934 - Haiti. After numerous uprisings, America brings in its troops, the occupation continues for 19 years. 1916-1924 - 8-year occupation of the Dominican Republic. 1917-1933 - military occupation of Cuba, economic protectorate. 1917-1918 - participation in the 1st World War. 1918-1922 - intervention in Russia. In total, 14 states participated in it. Active support was provided to the territories that separated from Russia - Kolchakia and the Far Eastern Republic. 1918-1920 - Panama. After the elections, troops are brought in to quell the riots. 1919 - COSTA RICA. ... The landing of US troops to "protect American interests." 1919 - American troops fight on the side of Italy against the Serbs in Dalmatia. 1919 - American troops enter Honduras during elections. 1920 - Guatemala. 2-week intervention. 1921 - American support for militants fighting to overthrow Guatemalan President Carlos Herrera for the benefit of the United Fruit Company. 1922 - intervention in Turkey. 1922-1927 - American troops in China during the popular uprising. 1924-1925 - Honduras. Troops invade the country during elections. 1925 - Panama. US troops break up a general strike. 1926 - Nicaragua. Invasion. 1927-1934 - American troops stationed throughout China. 1932 - invasion of El Salvador from the sea. There was an uprising at that time. 1937 - Nicaragua. With the help of American troops, the dictator Somoza comes to power, having removed the legitimate government of H. Sakasa. 1939 - the introduction of troops into China. 1947-1949 - Greece. American troops are involved in the civil war, supporting the Nazis. 1948-1953 - military operations in the Philippines. 1950 - Uprising in Puerto Rico is suppressed by American troops. 1950-1953 - armed intervention in Korea about a million American soldiers. 1958 - Lebanon. The occupation of the country, the fight against the rebels. 1958 - confrontation with Panama. 1959 - America sends troops to Laos, the first clashes of American troops in Vietnam begin. 1959 - Haiti. The suppression of a popular uprising against the pro-American government. 1960 - after José Maria Velasco was elected president of Ecuador and refused to comply with US demands to break off relations with Cuba, the Americans carried out several military operations and organized a coup. 1960 - US troops enter Guatemala to prevent the removal of a US puppet from power. 1965-1973 - military aggression against Vietnam. 1966 - Guatemala. ... US troops entered the country, massacres of Indians were arranged, who were considered potential rebels. 1966 - military assistance to the pro-American governments of Indonesia and the Philippines. ... (60,000 people were arrested for political reasons, 88 torture specialists officially worked under the government). 1971-1973 - bombing of Laos. 1972 - Nicaragua. American troops are brought in to support the government, beneficial to Washington. 1983 - military intervention in Grenada, about 2 thousand marines. 1986 - attack on Libya. Bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi. 1988 - US invasion of Honduras 1988 - The USS Vincennes, which was in the Persian Gulf, shot down an Iranian plane with 290 passengers on board, including 57 children. 1989 - US troops quell riots in the Virgin Islands. 1991 - large-scale military action against Iraq 1992-1994 - occupation of Somalia. Armed violence against civilians, killings of civilians. 1998 - Sudan. The Americans destroy a pharmaceutical plant with missiles, claiming that it produces nerve gas. 1999 - ignoring the norms of international law, bypassing the UN and the Security Council, the United States launched a 78-day air bombardment campaign by NATO forces against the sovereign state of Yugoslavia. 2001 - invasion of Afghanistan. 2003 - bombing of Iraq. 2011 - Libya. 2014 Syria US and allied invasion of Syria 2015 Yemen US missile strikes on Yemeni Houthi rebel positions and active support for the intervention of Saudi Arabia and its allies in Yemen 2015 Cameroon US military operation in Cameroon 2015 Libya Second intervention in Libya And now America is financing a Ukrainian army with which to attempt to destroy the integrity of the Russian Federation.
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@shawns0762 If America is a policeman, it is a bent one on the take, setting up crimes in order to solve them. It's interventions are invariably calculated to bring advantage. It is romantic nonsense to imagine for a moment that self-interest does not enter any of these activities. The results may sometimes be beneficial, but that is not the prime motivation. The prime motivation is profit. America seeks a monopoly of world resources. It wants to rule the world and will do anything to achieve this objective, including taking full advantage of disputes in foreign countries and often creating or encouraging them, as it has done in Ukraine. As far as "Russian propaganda" is concerned there is no doubt that Russia engages in similar provocations in order to achieve its objectives. Part of Russia's justification for its own intervention in Ukraine is very similar to that cited by the US and NATO for their interventions in Yugoslavia - namely the prevention of ethnic cleansing. In both cases there is more than element of truth in this, but there are also other motives. An essential difference, however, is that Russia is seeking to protect existing interests whereas, as ever, America is seeking to extend them.
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@shawns0762 But where does the taxpayers' money go? Into the pockets of arms manufacturers and businesses which set up shop in conquered territories, that's where. Americans may be individually charitable, but this does not mean that the USA is a charitable enterprise. Far from it.
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@shawns0762 I've given you a list. Are many of these territories not conquered and occupied? Perhaps you would prefer a more polite phrase such as "within the sphere of American influence" if that makes you feel any better.
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@shawns0762 As I've said before, it's not hate, just a contempt for hypocrisy - such as pretending that you've conquered a country because of the nature of its government, rather than because you want to get your sticky little hands on its resources.
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@shawns0762 I'm afraid it is you who have swallowed propaganda wholesale. You are confusing the Soviet Union with modern Russia. They are entirely different entities. You are also foolishly attributing philanthropic motives to a nation which has clearly shown that it is motivated by the desire for profit above all else. It has military bases all over the world Russia has practically none. Russia has given up the business of empire. America will shortly be forced to do the same.
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@shawns0762 Ukraine has statues of Stalin too! But this is romantic nostalgia. Have you not read Putin's speech of yesterday? He firmly blames Stalin for much of the present difficulties. Russia would say it is not conquering territory, but taking back territory which it historically owns and which has been stolen from it. There is some truth in this, of course. I do recommend you read the relevant parts of Putin's speech. It gives a very detailed and accurate picture of the background to this dreadful situation. It was aimed at a domestic audience, so really cannot be called propaganda.
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@shawns0762 You are completely wrong. Ukraine is largely Russia's creation. It was only given the status if a country in the chaos following the collapse of the USSR. The nukes were Russian nukes, by the way. Ukraine could not fire them since only Moscow held the codes. The anomalies of the Budapest Treaty have never been ironed out, despite decades if diplomatic effort. Putin made it quite clear that, however regretfully, he would not object to Ukraine looking to the West, but it could not join NATO and it could not have Donbass and Crimea, both of which have very high Russian populations and both of which represent a considerable investment of Russian capital and Russian labour over very many decades. There are no comparisons, really, with Germany in the 1930's and Russia in the present day - or at least the differences far outweigh what similarities there are. Comparing the two situations, like comparing Putin with Hitler, is really - well- just Western propaganda.
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@shawns0762 You are wrong again. Russia was those things before Putin took over. He is nothing like Hitler. There are closer similarities between Zelensky and Hitler, if you want the truth. Both rely of charisma rather than sense, and both rapidly led their countries into needless and destructive wars. There are videos of Ukrainians behaving just as badly as the Russians, if not more so. They shoot prisoners. They torture collaborators. During the siege of Mariupol they imprisoned people in bomb shelters and shot them from the rooftops if they tried to flee. In the early stages of the war in 2014/16 they instigated a campaign of torture and summary execution in the Donbass which shocked the world and laid the foundations for the present escalation. The perpetrators were genuine Nazis complete with Nazi insignia and tattoos.
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@shawns0762 Before Putin there was chaos. Russia was slipping into anarchy. This was a situation very pleasing to America, since it would have allowed them to finally crush their old enemy and feed off its corpse. All media is NOT state controlled there are hundreds of private TV companies and newspapers. Dissent from the official line is tolerated to a surprising degree. People who represent a threat to political stability sometimes meet with mysterious deaths it is true, but this happens in other countries. In America it might happen, for instance, to someone likely to expose the sexual perversions of members of the elite. Zelensky was put into power by the oligarch Ifor Kolomoisky, who also employed Hunter Biden and at one time owned a good chunk of the US steel industry and half of downtown Cleveland. Zelensky is an American puppet, hand in glove with the Biden crime family. Russia, naturally enough, would prefer a Russian puppet in the post. There were fascists in Ukraine long before the invasion. While Russia was fighting the Nazis Ukraine welcomed them with open arms and cheerfully helped them murder the country's Jews.
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