Comments by "18rabbit" (@18_rabbit) on "Lex Clips"
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nope. I'm a liberal american and even i know that during the Cold War, the only country assertively inserting itself in aggressive ways that undermined human rights and freedom, was Ussr, not the U.S. That is a basic fact that if not seen, clouds all vision of then and now. Most of you here are arguing points based on ancient ideas that are simply how the USSR wanted ppl to perceive them and global reality, bcuz the ENTIRE METHOD of the Ussr was as an information-manipulator, bcuz it had no money, no econ progress, & could barely utilize its resources. Ru/ussr is the most dysfunctional yet modestly organized ppl on earth and have now become the nightmare for the world, showing how ignorance, social dysfunction, poor health of citizenry, can lead to hyper-aggression. We will...not...tolerate it further. RU will be stopped, cold, at its border. There are no compromised the western border nations will make (and if Hungary wants to, it can leave Nato) NOT fooling around here. so Ru better take heed.
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Lex, this is your only bad interview i've ever heard. Mearsh. is sufficiently incorrect in his 'framing' that u were apparently unable to counter that, so u played into it. Very sad to see!!!! If u want actually knowledgable experts then interview ppl like Pomerantz, Sater, and others u will find among the interviewees on Silicon Curtain.
Examples are about his ideas about the Minsk agreement! The idea that Putin felt betrayed is absurd: the european nations had their view BCUZ a nation called Ru invade a soverign state, took its land through surreptious means and blatant aggressive means, started to create a dystopian hellscape of occupied territories and actual legally-defined genocide of those areas!!!! Stop this pseud-intellectual both-sides-ism that Mearshiemer who is someone stuck in the cold war thought-processes and is basically effectively condescending/patronizing TO russia, which is what the pro russians westerners are really, they think Russians are not humane, barely human and thus can be allowed to operate outside of the most basic human rights concepts on earth. It's cockeyed, its' half baked. Please Lex, do not make a mistake like this interview again. This interview damaged your reputation.
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Mearsh. looks at things like peace-talks at face value, when that is not how slavs or any slick negotiators do things. They do things without fully intending to do anything bcuz using deception is what they do, whether weak or strong, it's normal for any warrior!. The idea that Ukr needs to be 'neutral' is preposterous and shows that he is stuck in the 1990's if not 1980's. The idea that the four oblasts would remain Ru as part of a deal is preposterous, it defies the basis of international system/law/economics which was established after WW2 for the first time ever in world history! The supposed fears of Ru that first, the Baltics, then other central euro countries joining Nato, and then the possibliity that Ukr might in the future, are all what Ru wants the outside to think: as always, Ru gives the impression of paranaoia and fear, and while part of it is real, they are also human beings who DO think rationally, who have seen that no central euro or western nation besides a populist rightwing entity known as Third Reich, has ever harmed Russians in any way, shape or form!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ru is a grand master of psyops and while Mearsheimer is bright, he is not sharp enough in that he thinks in plain dual black-ish/white-ish apparent reflections and angles. He is essentially a victim to Russia's cutsey-plus-aggressive stated ideas/fears, etc, that are very similar to how small-minded individuals play dysfunctional games when they're bullies who are insecure and thus get aggressive.
Mersheimer cannot conceive of the nuance that is the reality of both war and diplomacy............These assumptions that he makes are all based on the status of geopolitics from the distant past. Literally he and others seem stuck in the past as if RU has the mandate of the similar power of Ussr, which is clearly does not, bcuz there is no comparison in terms of capabilities of any type, or power.
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