Comments by "duncan smith" (@duncansmith7562) on "What signs of Russian withdrawal in Kherson could mean | DW News" video.

Imagine being forced to go and die to save Zelensky from having to admit his mistake.
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@zeffe0528 wrong. in Ukraine, when the recruiting officer comes knocking on your door, you have to sign up and fight. That is why men of fighting age are forbidden from leaving Ukraine. On the other hand, in Russia, men of fighting age are free to leave Russia. It's called "freedom". Yes, Ukraine has many mercenaries signed up. If we count the Wagner group, Russia does too, you just don't hear about them as much. More importantly, Russia has much greater support, economically, from around the world, China, India, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, all of Africa, Latin America.
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@giuliochierici1916 you mean a free country where Russian language is effectively banned and where young men cannot leave the country, that kind of free country? Russia is so much freer than Ukraine.
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@Checobeep Given what you said, you need to learn about the realities of life in Ukraine. been there, have you? Lived and worked in Ukraine before?
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@Goprof150 from many public spheres, it was. no education in Russian, limited broadcasts in Russian, even in commercial transactions, and that would include a trip to the pharmacy, Ukrainian was the language insisted upon. Nowhere else in the Western world would ever DREAM of this! why are you fine with it?
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@Stickyman61 that's right. even North Korea can see that it is a total joke to defend such a corrupt, russophobic tyranny as Ukraine! Takes one to know one, we could say!
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@Stickyman61 the funny thing is that the club of sanctioned countries, such is the long list of Western targets of useless sanctions, is not far off being the majority on the world's nations! when do you think the West will learn that sanctions don't work?
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@APW554 no need to imagine! one man in Latvia was thrown in jail for trampling on the Ukrainian flag! North Korea is already IN the EU. In Paris, a teacher was beheaded for showing a picture of Mohammed! North Kore sounds safe and liberal by comparison!
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@APW554 talking of protest, Putin has to face opposition Duma representatives, for example, the Communists, day in and day out, protesting. Does Zelensky have any opposition MPs protesting him in the Rada? or did he get rid of all such protests?
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@Goprof150 as i said, educate yourself, read "language policy of Ukraine" and you will see all the spheres in which Ukrainian is banned. got a high school kid who is a native Russian speaker and lives in a Russian speaking majority area? education must be in Ukrainian! learn some bloody facts. why do you think Hungary got so irate about Ukraine's policy and why the policy was condemned by Human Rights Watch? It's a russophobic travesty of justice, but speaks volumes you 100% support it.
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@CreatingAlong "somewhere with free speech"? you think it is an either/or? either a country has free speech, or it doesn't? life is much more complicated than that! there are degrees of free speech, a spectrum. For example, in the UK, the Police are on record for knocking on a man's door and saying "we have come to check your thinking!"...free speech union had to take the Police to court! Right now, I am in France, but I have lived and worked in many different countries. Now then, oh knowlegeable one, which "facts" do I need to know, exactly? what is your experience of living and working in many different countries?
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@APW554 do you think the USA should stay within its borders?
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@APW554 do you think the "defensive" alliance, NATO, should have stayed within its borders when it bombed the living s**t out of both sovereign Serbia and sovereign Libya?
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@APW554 on the matter of UN votes, do you really believe the one vote of Antigua and Barbuda is as important and relevant as the one vote of China?
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@bonnie7898 but true
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given that the Ukrainian offensive in Kherson has fizzled out, could be that more Russian troops could be put to better use in Donbass.
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