Comments by "Dylan Vogler" (@dylanvogler2165) on "UATV English" channel.

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  15.  @margaret9314  we don't blame Russia for anything because we don't care about Russia at all. If you wouldn't bring war back to our continent we would not even think about you. It is not whataboutism as I don't try to use the situation in Chechnya to accuse Russia of having done something. I am using it in the context of the right of self determination also applying to Russia. Aka it works both ways. Also the right of self determination is not the same as a right of independence. They don't have a right of independence, and let's be honest they won't ever be independent as Russia will annex them. They're no different than Manchuria under the Japanese or Slovakia under the Germans. They have a right to have their opinions heard within Ukraine. In which any potential independence should then be gained to referendums gained via political, not military means. Again a point I try to make is that you are pointing to a right of self determination whilst at the same time your country has threatend to retake Alaska (with a population that doesn't want that), end it's recognition of Lithuanian independence (again violation of the right you point too) and to nuke/bomb London as well as Rotterdam. Not to mention threatend with retaliation on Sweden and Finland on exercising their sovereignty as independent states by choosing their own future. The point I am trying to make is I support the right of self determination and the west should not ignore said right. But I think Russia is the last place on earth to advocate for this right as it seems to cherry pick when and when it doesn't want this right to exist.
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  18.  @margaret9314  first off I never said they didn't. I pointed you to the fact that self determination is not just the right of independence (which doesn't exist). Which is what seems to be what Russians think it is. Secondly the separatists are not recognized by the international community. What they do is not the proper way to exercise the right of self determination. A proper example of this, is Scotland. Any referendum held during military occupation, and yes that is the case with Crimea, DNR and LNR, are invalid, because of obvious reasons. Especially considering the fact that international observers were not allowed. Imagine if you lived in Kaliningrad and Germany decides that it wants it back. It invades, then holds his troops on the streets and calls for a referendum about joining Germany. While you want to vote there are soldiers outside and you know your vote won't be anonymous. What would you do mate? Exactly the reason why a referendum in occupied territories is not worth nothing. Then there is the ally part... well if they were proper countries, they could do so. They're not, they're an rebellion. It would be like if we caused trouble in Russia and then use it as an excuse to invade. Because let's call it what it is, just a fabricated casus belli. About the US/UK part no you can write about them, but use the dumbest possible example. Especially since there are good examples of the right of self determination in regards to Scotland, Northern Ireland as well as the Spanish region of Catalonia. But then again I shouldn't expect you to know about these things.
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  42.  @DezorianGuy  either way sorry if I called you a Putin fanboy, you clearly aren't. And saying this what you just said seems to me that you're reasonable too. People saying it was a good move by NATO aren't correct either btw. It was done for the right intentions as there was a genuine risk of genocide by Serbian troops on the Albanian population in an attempt to either kill or force them to leave. So ethnically cleansing the area essentially. However the way it was done was crude, even hitting the Chinese embassy. It was illegal by international law, that is a fact. And it set a precedent that it is okay to intervene and violate a country's sovereignty and territorial integrity for humanitarian reasons, which is exactly why Russia is using bs claims about genocide being committed in Donbass for a casus belli. But what we need to becareful is not to equate situations with each other. There are similarities but there are differences too. It is the same as people calling Putin , Hitler. Whilst there are similarities in their conduct, there are just as many differences. So they are similar to the point of both being facist, but that's about it. People say that history repeats itself, and on the artificial level if you only look at similarities, then yes it does. But when you actually analysis situations you will find just as many differences as every situation is in the end it's own with it's own nuances. I would therefore say that history doesn't repeat it self but that history is more like "dejavu".
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  49.  @albo8404  your reaction says all. Difference between you and I is that I do my own research and not just believe anything either Russian or Ukrainian and Western media tells me. Lavrov is a liar and I don't trust anything he says as he has on multiple occasions blatantly lied or contradicted reality with his statements. Blindly following a leader and just believing all he said is the path the Germans followed in the 30's and 40's. See what that brought them and the world. The fact you immediately defend with the "Ukraine is winning" stuff says more about you than me. As no Ukraine isn't winning right now, the war is tactically currently a statement as both sides win and lose ground, but with a slight advantage to the Russians. Strategically the war is a loss for the Russians, which doesn't necessarily mean a victory for Ukraine. Russia is in a strategically in a much worse position than it was in before the war, even if it would take all of Ukraine. Its international reputation has been damaged and will take a long time recovering. Economically it has become much more reliant of China (which in the long run might be a bad thing for Russia in the might makes right world it has ushered in again) and military its shown to be extremely incompetent and the myth of Russian power is broken. We see this in the EU (even small Lithuania) and US taking much more hostile actions towards Russia than they would have a few months ago. Not to mention Finland and Sweden that will join NATO, which means actually extending the NATO-Russian border and threatening Murmansk and Saint Petersburg and effectively cutting of Kaliningrad in case of hostilities. The war was a strategic blunder, just like how Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan were for the US.
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