Comments by "Tim Trewyn" (@timtrewyn453) on "Did we attack Finland in 1939?" video.

  1. Any nation that doesn't term limit its chief executive is suspect.
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  2.  @VictorLyuba  More lights in North Korea at night?
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  3. The 75-year-olds have their pensions. Could they get an apartment near a hospital in one of the Russian oblasts next to Ukraine? They could share it. I hear the hospitals are busy there.
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  4. They have determined that there is a sector of any population that is demobilized by such rhetoric. This of course is not their only tool. They have refined information warfare. Christopher Hitchens described Russia as a "psychopathic dictatorship". Vince Lombardi's quote is useful to describe this leadership, "Winning isn't everything. Winning is the only thing." Little boutique ethnic nations on the border are so tempting to that mind set.
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  5.  @natureblank1401  It's about money and the power of money. Russia relies heavily on resource exports. Western oil and gas companies had been exploring Ukraine for resources that could be obtained by their advanced extraction techniques. This includes old fields in the Donbas. These companies often obtain productive new wells in well-developed locations like Texas using their new drilling techniques. Ukraine was on track to compete with Russia in supplying the European market for oil and gas. Ukraine was going to become more powerful and independent in the process. Russia wants that power for itself. It's about the power the region can provide. If Russia was about a flourishing population, it would have at least twice the population it does now. Instead, it treats people like currency, something to be spent for elite ends. This is not an exclusively Russian problem. It is a human problem that other societies have been able to regulate better than Russia does, and so they flourish. Russian leadership is stuck in "strong-weak" and victory paradigms. Russian propaganda may say it's about the people. Russia's actions make quite clear it is not. This is not to excuse the profit seeking of the West and Ukraine in the Donbas, but I propose those companies, greedy as they may be, are more benign than Russia obviously is.
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  6. That's what government terror does to a population. Language is reorganized to avoid trouble.
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