Comments by "duncan smith" (@duncansmith7562) on "African leaders meet with Zelenskyy, Putin to push for peace | DW News" video.

none of this would have happened if Ukraine hadn't taken sovereign territory of DPR and LPR and shelled those republics for 9 years.
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@boozolini4465 Ukraine had no nukes to give up. They were Soviet nukes, and the world decided the safest thing would be for just one successor nation to the |USSR, namely Russia, to have control of such nukes. Kazakhstan lost the Soviet nukes on their territory too.
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@mauritsvanoranje6725 you mean neighbors like Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizia, Tadzhikistan, Mongolia, all happy to be part of the CIS group or to work closely with Russia. those neighbors?
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@mauritsvanoranje6725 no one has been around such places with the contentometer to measure national content, but my experience of Belarus under Lukashenko is that most people are not noticeably scoring low on the contentometer. people in the West seem pretty pissed off these days. seen what the French have been doing in their streets over the last few months?
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@Orto-jj2di exactly. a country no longer has any sovereignty once it has chosen to throw democracy out the window. 2014 turned Ukraine into a banana republic without the bananas
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except that the African delegation said there was no missile attack. it was just more theatrics from the lying Zelensky regime. in case you never noticed, Russia never attacks Kiev when a world leader or world leaders are in Kiev.
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@regu6582 am always interested in people who refuse to see the truth
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@sergeyb8 Ukraine's eastern territory has been occupied by ethnic Russians for centuries! After the 2014 coup, Crimea voted to separate from Kiev. The vote in the Crimean parliament in Simferopol was 78-0. it's called democracy. LPR and DPR declared independence. you can deny it and pretend otherwise, but those are the facts. Just curious. do you see Kosovo as an independent country? Cataluna? Scotland?
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@boozolini4465 of course Ukraine was part of the USSR. It was a Ukrainian warmonger, Leonid Brezhnev, who led the USSR into its fiasco in Afghanistan. But only ONE successor state was chosen to inherit the Soviet nuclear arsenal, and that was Russia. Not one single country in the world supported the idea of Ukraine having any nukes.
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@GeeJay1971 I worked in Ukraine in 2018. I know it.
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Putin is by far the best leader in the world. Articulate, measured, informed. Stands up for his people and does not waver. If only the West had leaders like Putin.
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@roeci6 Armenia and Azerbaijan just signed a peace agreement. Neither country is particularly keen on turning away from Russia.
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@thomastumasang2770 big English? I had no idea language could be "big" or "small"!
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@joannebottcher9779 all nukes belonged to the USSR. The world agreed that only one successor state would possess the USSR nukes, and that would be Russia. Ukraine never had any nukes. if your dad's car is in your garage, and your dad dies, it doesn't mean the car becomes yours.
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@norbertjendruschj9121 what sarcasm?
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@captaintoyota3171 just waiting for you to contradict any specifics of what I said. Go ahead.
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@ErikPedersen-yf1vu giving you the truth and a perspective Western MSM denies you. you need the Russian perspective, otherwise you are just brainwashed.
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@boozolini4465 clearly reading comprehension is not your forte. i never said Mongolia was a CIS country. read my words again. carefully. Armenia is not moving towards the EU. Armenia is carefully balancing its interests with Russia and those with the West. Kazakhstan has a large ethnic population and, unlike Ukraine, wisely decided to treat Russian speakers fairly and with equality. Russian speakers in Kazakhstan can opt for their entire education to be in Russian and not Kazakh. If only Ukraine had had the same wisdom to do that. The CIS group is flourishing and Russia doesn't need the West. wise up!
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@boozolini4465 teaching. I still have Ukrainian online students. One of my students, when I was in Ukraine, got recruited and killed on the Donetsk frontline. I need no lectures from the likes of you on what has been happening over the last 9 years in Donbass.
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@theshimario253 on the contrary, i try very hard to listen to all perspectives to try to at least approach the truth. something most people in the West have no interest in. as long as they can get their fill of russophobia, they are happy. deluded, but happy.
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@boozolini4465 Moldova is a parasitic nation that wants handouts from the EU, so good riddance. I'm sure the EU will enjoy every minute of the thieving gypsies and mafia types that Moldova will soon export to the EU. Armenia, whether CIS or not, will remain close to Russia. The ties are very deep there. Kazakhstan has not abandoned Cyrillic script. You are ignorant. I have 2 Kazakh online students, Russian speakers, both have had every single aspect of their lives conducted in Russian, all education, everything. Kazakhstan has succeeded in striking a happy medium between Kazakhs and ethnic Russians.
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@maryanchabursky9148 Like Romanian criminality, Moldovan criminality is no imaginary construct. If you live in the EU, it will be coming to your neighborhood soon. Just look at Tottenham these days.
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@bonnie7898 when you have figured out who the Allies were in WW2, then I might consider what I post and don't post, yet it changes nothing because what I post is the truth or perspectives based on my experience living in Ukraine, speaking to my Ukrainian students and my reading on the subject.
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@Mr.Byrnes what is pathetic is you can't even read how old my account is correctly! 8 years old, are you? dunce!
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@Mr.Byrnes so, once you have corrected yourself on how old my account is, like that means anything, how about you rebut what I said with some evidence, like a grown up?
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@JohnStegmeier it depends, doesn't it? if such families honor Bandera as a national hero and cheered at the Union House massacre, then they had it coming, agreed?
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@remcogreve7982 It was Ukrainians who murdered collaborators in Bucha. You didn't figure that out? Fighting to the end is stupidity. Just sue for peace and finish this suicide mission. Putin is popular and his government is stable. stop deluding yourself there is instability in Russia.
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@M_O_G Russia has more freedoms than the "democratic" West.
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@AGAMetah it's the "civilised" world that has managed to destroy Ukraine. Once the destruction is complete, the "civilised" world will move on to the next victim, probably Taiwan.
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@mauritsvanoranje6725 it speaks volumes for the stupidity of Western leaders
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apart from the Ukrainians who want to be part of Russia, and their are millions of them. They support Putin, as you should do.
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