Comments by "DasBubba" (@dasbubba841) on "Good Times Bad Times" channel.

Doubtful. It is in the interest of the US for Ukraine to be powerful. It would counterbalance Russia, and France/Germany. A victorious Ukraine would be grateful to the US, and suspicious to Western Europe.
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@schuschnix5261 Whether Putin steps down or not is irrelevant as long as sanctions hobble Russia's ability to perform on the battlefield. No one cares about regime change, because authoritarian regimes are rather tenacious in the face of sanctions. Also, no one is going to buy repackaged Russian oil from India because it's inconvenient and more expensive than buying it from Saudi Arabia or Nigeria. As for refining, that can be bought already refined from the US (which has immense refining capacity), and natural gas doesn't need to be refined. Also, to answer the rest of your rather schizophrenic rant, no one will sanction the US because the US can actually do diplomacy and is far more powerful and globally relevant than Russia.
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@ruggeddiscipline6026 Uh, yeah. The US Navy patrols the world's oceans. Why else does the US have 10 aircraft carriers, and about 70 destroyers? Not because the US is afraid of the rusty Russian navy, that's for sure. Who buys stuff in rubles? I'm not taking about Russian oil, but Russian vodka. Russian timber, nickel, and coal. It's done in dollars. No one buys anything in RMB (I doubt you even know what it is). International transactions are done in mostly dollars, and occasionally euros, all facilitated by the US keeping the oceans safe and free.
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A weak, defanged Russia is far more preferable. A free-for-all civil war would be catastrophic, not only for the nukes but the massive amounts of weapons up for grabs.
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No concessions. The Minsk Agreements are dead. Russia won't be allowed to slink away and lick its wounds. It has been humiliated in Ukraine, had thousands die for "de-nazification".
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@ArchivatorRUS Uh, yeah. What makes you think that Ukraine should consider the interests of an invader, especially one as incompetent and sloppy as Russia? Russia isn't a great power, just a corrupt gas station with a bunch of nukes. Ukraine wants nothing to do with Russia, who offers only misery. Russia started this war; they fired the first shots. If they can't get what they want militarily, then they will get nothing, because they deserve nothing. Simple as.
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It was a giant ponzi scheme created by Egypt's corrupt elite that used the entire country as collateral to fund their decadence.
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No, it's not. Russia seriously underestimated the will of Ukraine. They did not prepare for a serious fight. They expected a war like in Crimea of '14. Quick, painless, with hardly a shot being fired.
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@allo5170 Natural resources that encourage wasteful planning and corruption. All that oil money goes straight into the pockets of the corrupt government. Look a Singapore, a country that has NO natural resources, and yet is one of the most well developed and richest countries out there.
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The Biden administration is incredibly risk adverse, as they are more concerned with surviving November elections rather than having to deal with a collapsing Russia. The admin simply doesn't have the stomach for the conflict, and so are willing to buy into Russia's "red lines".
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Trump is just a symptom of the end of the previous global order, one that your beloved Obama failed to maintain and guard. The EU was arrogant and naive, and assumed that the "end of history" would last forever. So you better believe this is happening. It's change, mate.
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@Unwise- In many dictatorships, to lose power is to lose your life. In your rise to power, and in your efforts to maintain power, you make some serious enemies. If you were to, say, retire, you'd be giving up that power which makes you safe. Then, someone else may take that power and see you as a liability. For personal reasons, or in case you might decide retirement sucks and you want your power back. Wars for dictatorships are a gamble. They can either unite the country and boost your legitimacy (if you win), or you look incompetent and lose any legitimacy you have. Mao used the Chinese Civil War and the stalemated Korean War to gain immense legitimacy and prestige. Said Barre of Somalia, in contrast, after losing the war with Ethiopia lost any scrap of legitimacy he had left and basically lost control over his country.
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I'd rather Russia be under a weak and isolated Putin (militarily defanged of course), than fall under Navalny or someone similar, who has no control over most of the country. Or worse, that Russia descends into a civil war with their entire nuclear arsenal up for grabs.
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Perhaps, but I would disagree. Afghanistan is a thorn bush of trouble. View it less of a nation than more of a mosh pit of competing tribal, ethnic, and religious interests. Not even religion unites them, as there are a sizeable Shia population in a Sunni majority. I would argue that it has now returned to it's natural state: A conservative confederation of tribal and religious interests loosely controlling the country.
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Ukraine possessed a strong and well organized military with heavy equipment such as tanks, IFVs, and heavy artillery. The Baltics lack this.
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@morewi Of course not. As the Russian economy smolders in the dumpster, they have less money for the "Russia Stronk!" bots. So, they started recruiting prisoners.
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Russian arrogance towards Ukraine will likely prove their undoing. Russia saw Ukrainians as backwards "hohols", who folded without a shot during the occupation of Crimea, and who were pushed back at Delbaltseve. What they forgot is that Ukraine was then divided by revolution, and still using the old Soviet model for their military. Ukraine rebuilt itself, retrained itself, and reunified itself.
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Brandon Palmer Doubtful. That radiation would be dumped on his ally Belarus.
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@ Canada has lower wages and more expensive housing. The US is growing faster. Also, Canada's healthcare isn't even that good compared to having decent insurance in the US, with Canada having much longer wait times presently due to having an overstretched system. Thus, more Canadians are attracted to the US.
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