Comments by "18rabbit" (@18_rabbit) on "Russia u0026 USA Confronted by History 101" video.

Elie Wiesel's Night (and his companion story "Day", iirc) were pivotal for many of us growing up here in the U.S. who are now at midlife. He really understood human motivations & natural law. When an individual person stays neutral, that is absolutely siding w/ the aggressor. That is crystal clear. When it comes to nations, like Sweden in ww2, it does get tricky. IF a national gvt who acquiesces to foreign control like Sweden did, but can operate quietly surreptitiously to gain intell on the aggressor nation, then it can, in theory , be net positive. That didn't happen though, i guess.
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@JayMaverick yep. We all knew this war was historic on a centuries-level scale when very early on, Switzerland changed tack for the first time in many centuries. The Swiss r likely privy to depth of intell/information that even the U.S. may not have, bcuz of the banking system in CH.
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yes, AND my america (i'm midlife now) is not actually nearly as sophisticated as germany was into the early '30's., albeit there are also positives that DE did not have, so it's not a fair comparison obviously, and i'm still confident that we normal ppl will resist what DJT will try to do next year. Btw, Ru's imperialism is entirely medieval in all aspects, including even the amount of knowledge involved. Ru has always done everyting on the cheap, but more importantly it's entirely a-moral and uses sadism in a spread-sheet precise way, thus reminding us very very much of the 3rd Reich.
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yes but here in the U.S., ironically or not, our way of gvt is actually based on a whole bunch of attorneys (lawyers) and org's who they work for, etc etc, and civic org's as well, that will try to keep the new regime from harming the nation and the world, e.g. by pushing Ukr into an unjust & precedent-setting peace. Ukr has to be able to decide its limits, without undue influence. (and e.g. apparently last week DE's chancellor did not take the appropro tone when informing Ukr that he was about to call PooTin. That's unacceptable unless DE and UKR have an already existing arrangement to deal w/ any fallout or complexities resulting from such a call.
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