Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Channel 4 News" channel.

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  11. Please write to your representatives and demand that NATO gives the formal invitation to join NATO today! Keep in mind that the process can still take as long as NATO wants after the invitation is proffered, but it gives the unequivocal and unambiguous signal that NATO is committed to Ukraine WINNING this war! That’s the one message that the west has stopped short of, “because escalation,” blah, friggin’ blah. Putin has ALWAYS backed off when faced with a GENUINE red line. Every single time! Just look at the Wagner Mutiny? Putin fled Moscow for St Petersburg! Even though the Wagnazis didn’t even reach the outskirts of the city! Prigozhin is ignoring his exile, swanning about Russia, free as a bird, while Wagner STILL refuses to carry out Putin’s direct orders and join the regular armed forces! He’s not even IN, “control,” of Russia! We should NOT fear a deliberate nuclear attack, but we SHOULD fear the possibility of nuclear ACCIDENTS, which Russia has a legendary record for! As the chaos continues, the chances of that go up. Western intervention is necessary for peace, yet NATO has just told Putin that he might still find a way to get a, “draw,” out of this. NATO has just prolonged the war! Please? If you care about world peace, the future of Europe, or the plight of Ukraine, just drop a line to your representative and DEMAND action! Let them know it is an election issue. Save Ukraine and we save the world . . . at least, we save it from one of the three biggest threats, (China and the Middle East remaining as troubling as ever, but not actively making war on Europeans!) and saving Ukraine could potentially neutralise Russia as a threat to the world, possibly forever?
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  12.  @BlinkonceforU  : There are many differences between the two events, as was pointed out by Jake Broe on his YouTube channel, from which I took this comparison. Yet it is an apt comparison nonetheless; especially for the type of warfare we are seeing. As to the location of Russia’s, “first line of defence,” you know as little of that as I do, which is considerably less than a Ukrainian general. I trust that they know what they are doing and will succeed, as they have at all other points in this war. I must take issue with your statement that, “this is not a world war,” as it clearly is. Just because it is only being fought in Ukraine, doesn’t make the stakes any less high. Every country in the free world has a dog in this fight. And this is the World War Three that the world gets when the protagonists on both sides are unwilling to use their nukes for obvious, not being suicidal, reasons. Russia is not alone in its, “axis of evil,” as China has been backing them both overtly with words and covertly with resources, along with Iran (directly with weaponry) and other countries. While Ukraine is supported by the entire EU and the Five Eyes states, because we value freedom and democracy as much as we value life. That is another respect in which we can draw our comparison with the battle against Nazism. The casualties were high on D Day and in the coming months afterwards, but they were expected to be high and that high casualty rate was built into the calculations of the allies, as it is in Ukraine. I do not say this is a, “good thing,” just a reality of war. Yes, I would love to see Ukraine get a fleet of F16’s. I write to MP about that! Do you write to your representatives? Anyone who tells you that’s a waste of time is plain wrong. Demand the tools for victory and help speed the process! But, keep in mind that what the world’s leaders are saying and what is happening are not always the same thing. They don’t necessarily want Russia to know about much of the hardware that is already in Ukraine, or the shadow dropping of some jets, via Poland and other allies. I promise you, Ukraine WILL WIN. The question is how long? And how many casualties must they take. We can influence the answer by demanding more from our representatives. That’s your role in this. On top of donating money and supporting correspondents who get the truth out there, you can persuade your own politicians.
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  43. In fairness, an all out war between the west and Russia would have no end in sight and could result in nuclear conflagration, either deliberately or by accident. So it has to be the very final resort. But consider what this war is actually about? Putin is desperate to seize control of the massive gas and oil reserves in Ukraine, because they have enough sitting under their country to rival, if not outstrip, Russia’s. So far, Putin has managed to scare off Shell and Exxon, who bought the rights to develop the biggest reserves in (you guessed it) Donbas and the Crimea. And now they’ve confirmed yet more massive reserves in the west of Ukraine, by the Carpathian Mountains. Putin can’t reach those and he has decided he must steal the entire country to maintain his stranglehold on Europe’s energy reserves. Naturally, he knows the west would rather buy from Ukraine, a democracy with free speech and free trade, closer to Germany than Russia, which is way better than propping up a dictatorship, which has already threatened to cut off the gas lines in the past. So this is a desperate panic move, caused by the coming financial hit we’re all going to suffer worldwide. We think it will be painful in the west, but Russian people will wind up going back to mile long cues for a loaf of bread, and getting locked up for complaining about it. All we really need to do is play the long game, let Putin sink what remains of his ailing economy into his Vietnam in Ukraine and squeeze his economy until his own people snap and bring him down. I know that sounds brutally cold, and doesn’t help the people of Ukraine, but it may well result in fewer deaths world wide? And we can maintain supplies and money to the Ukrainian armed forces in the mean time. Historically, in over a hundred years (basically since it became an issue) the west has NEVER allowed themselves to lose control over energy supplies. In that respect, I don’t believe Putin is going to be a special case. We certainly need to do more. I hope you are writing to your politicians and demanding they seize ALL Russian assets, deport ALL Russian oligarchs and use their resources to pay for the weapons and resources to fight their own Russian army? I am.
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