Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Russia Says it Must "Liberate" Germany Again" video.
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@devilsnetwork4212 : I don’t believe you really know what you’re saying. If you were in Russia, saying the equivalent thing about the Russian state, you would have to fear a knock at your door just for writing that. God forbid you got stopped for a spot check by the, “police,” and they checked your devices for comments like these, as they do to so many Russians in Moscow right now. Trying to convince yourself that everything the government does is totally self serving and cynical doesn’t reveal the truth. It’s just another lazy, myopic way of looking at the world, which dismisses the sacrifices and commitment of those in government who aren’t playing some geopolitical fantasy-football-style game of world domination and manipulation, but genuinely trying to help people and make the world a better place.
Granted, there are (and always will be) bad people in politics. But it’s an easy, low effort stance to take, to just assume every powerful politician is in a cabal, playing us for fools and making cruel, cynical choices without ever engaging their consciences or their morality. But it’s still a point of view that is as far fetched and un-thought through as the opposite case, where you assume everyone is a saint, selflessly serving the public good.
Recognising the nuance in life is complicated and hard work, requiring thought, reading, critical thinking and analysis. Realising that even one person can be a mix of good and bad, depending on context and circumstances, should open your eyes to the fact that entire organisations will be considerably more complex and difficult to summarise in a sentence or two; let alone entire networks of organisations that make for one, single, modern government; to which we must then add the complex relationships of their allies and the organisations and institutions in which they cooperate.
That’s why, I hope you will come to see (perhaps one day?) that dismissing a democracy’s agenda as being purely cynical is as naive as assuming that God and the angels are supporting your government’s every decision. It’s simply not possible, let alone plausible.
Yes, bad things happen at the hands of powerful western democracies, but usually for reasons we don’t expect and rarely for the kinds of reasons we prefer to assume. After all, you are referring to the very same institutions that produce people like Jake Broe, Paul Massaro, and so many other self sacrificing individuals who are simply trying to put their knowledge and expertise at the disposal of the wider public for the general good.
Maybe think about that the next time you feel like summarising the history of western democracy in two cynical sentences, huh? . . . Just saying.
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@OVER9000xDxD : If only you knew sufficient history to prevent yourself from making such embarrassing mistakes, huh, son? Do you know WHO those, “Red Army,” soldiers who took Berlin were? Look it up, kid? They were mostly UKRAINIANS. The leg you stand on has been kicked out from under you. But it’s silly to equate the deeds of our grandfathers with modern politics, so you didn’t have an, “argument,” to start with.
You Putinistas like to brandish your rusty nukes at everyone, hoping that the free world is occupied by the same kind of morally absent cowards as Russia is filled with, but you’re obviously as ignorant on that topic as you are every other. Not that we can really blame you for that, given that you live in a propaganda bubble in which free speech and access to truth are banned. You’ll be glad of those nukes in the end, alright, but not for the reasons you imagine. They will be the only currency Russia has left to trade that the world will accept for sanctions relief. After all, it’s not like they can fire them at anyone without committing suicide. Maybe Putin might decide to take you all with him in a giant suicide pact, toward the end, but do you really think that people who want to live will not have anticipated that? Russian military corruption is LEGENDARY and half of those nukes will only exist on PAPER! But the ones that are there represent a commander’s ticket to a rich future in the prosperous west, for him and his family; tradable goods that the west will gladly accept. And much smarter to trade them westwards than trade them east, only to have to spend the rest of your days on the run, on a CIA hit list, right?
There is no scenario in which Putin survives this, or in which Crimea and the whole of Ukraine doesn’t go back to the Ukrainians. I can tell from the way you mask your anger with a, “lol,” and the other insecure remarks you make, that you know I’m right. The problem with you Putinistas is that not even you believe you, and it shows. Have a nice day, kiddo. 😉
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@OVER9000xDxD : You sound like you’ve been to the Putin School of Face-Saving Back Peddling to me, kid? Firstly, you came to me. You’re the one, “crying about it.” Second, the FACTS on the ground bear out my hypothesis perfectly, without needing to parse hypotheticals mixed with historical rewritings. Third, I never contended that it was solely Ukrainians who took Berlin in WWII, nor is anyone here interested in that irrelevance. I merely pointed out that they were as much a part of that victory as any other region of Russia, and you were the one saying they would be overrun by, “the Red Army,” whilst overlooking the fact that Ukraine WAS the red army at that time. Parsing the numbers makes no difference to that point. If you honestly think Putin will win this war, come back this time next year and let’s hear what you have to say? That is, if your troll farm in St Petersburg hasn’t been overtaken by a suite of NATO offices by then? 😉
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