Comments by "duncan smith" (@duncansmith7562) on "CNN" channel.

  1.  @alanbellas513  Tell me, dear Alan, if Putin wanted to take over more and more territory, just to re-create the USSR or Imperial Russia, why in Georgia did he stop once he had liberated the Russian speaking areas of Abkhazia and South Ossetia? In Moldova, why did Putin stop once he had liberated Transnistria? (where the Russian speakers live). Why not continue with his glorious conquests and overrun ALL of Moldova, ALL of Georgia? Why stop with just the Russian speaking areas? And how many countries has Putin invaded that had NO Russian speakers to liberate?
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  2.  @alanbellas513  No one single country annexed Kosovo, but a group of countries called NATO did. Simple question for you, Alan. Whose troops currently occupy Kosovo? Occupation = annexation. Pure hypocrisy. You applaud NATO's annexation of Kosovo, you cry crocodile tears over the annexation of Crimea. Your double standards reveal so much about your whining, hypocritical brainwashed biases.
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  3.  @alanbellas513  Have a look at the countries that REFUSED to condemn Russia! China and India (that's a third of the world's people!), plus Bangladesh, Pakistan and many other massive countries. Most of the world, in terms of population, live in countries happy to work and trade with Russia. Even NATO has two member states happy to work with and trade with Russia! That would be Turkey and Hungary! Not every country is led by snivelling hypocrites like you!
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  4.  @alanbellas513  "the guy sending his own fellow countrymen to their deaths" = Zelensky! again, don't be a hypocrite and just be consistent! It takes 2 to tango! Zelensky is doing EXACTLY what you accuse Putin of doing!
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  5.  @alanbellas513  your problem, Alan, is that you swallowed Western lies hook, line and sinker, and now when confronted with Russian perspectives, you can't handle it! You resort to your beloved buzzwords, injected into your brain by Western propaganda.....you throw out "Russian propaganda", "lies" and anything to deflect from the truth. Putin's actions in Ukraine are justified. You just never took the time to study all the background.
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  6.  @alanbellas513  do some more research, dear Alan. ALL the Black Sea coastal oblasts are majority Russian speaking! Odessa, Mykolaev, Kherson, Zaporozhe, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkov and Dnipro, all of it Russian speaking majority. Putin never tried to "take" Kiev. Why would he? Do some research on what a "fixing operation" is. Keep enemy troops pinned down in one area while your main body of troops seize territory in another area (in this case, the land bridge from Kherson to Rostov). Alan, you MUST do some research and learn more! You have been content to just regurgitate mainstream Western media. Do you EVER try to get the other perspective? Just to repeat, Putin has been in power for decades and has NEVER seized territory other than Russian speaking areas that were embroiled in wars against nationalist governments discriminating against ethnic Russians. NEVER! (Unlike USA and NATO, who attack whomever they want for whatever reason). The record is there for all to see.
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  7.  @alanbellas513  So, let's end the conversation there. If you don't even know the oblasts in Ukraine where Russian speakers form the majority, it is time for you to step out of the ring, do some more research and learning, and then try again in the ring when you know something. Hasta luego.
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  8.  @alanbellas513  there is no false equivalency at all. I base all I say on what you say! so, you need to choose your words more carefully. you said Putin was guilty of sending so many of his fellow countrymen into war to die. Zelensky is doing EXACTLY the same thing! There is no false equivalency! So, now you need to backpedal and re-state what you actually mean! See why clear thinking is important?
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  9.  @alanbellas513  Yes, Putin ordered his troops to fight in Ukraine. And yes, Zelensky ordered his troops to fight defending Ukraine. Zelensky foolishly opted to allow millions of innocent Ukrainians to suffer and die rather than negotiate peace. that is where we are.
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  10.  @alanbellas513  Stop lying, you pathetic brainwashed liar. Ukraine's right to exist has never been denied. On the contrary, Putin has recognized Ukraine's right to exist. It is just a question of deciding where Ukraine's borders will be. You really need to read the 5 objectives of Russia in this conflict. and stop lying
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  11.  @alanbellas513  so, time to correct one of your many lies. according to Wikipedia, here are the Ukrainian oblasts with a majority of Russophones: Crimea, 97% Dnipro, 72% Donetsk, 93% Lugansk, 89% Zaporozhe, 81% Odesa, 85% Kharkov, 74% Mykolaev, 66% As I TRUTHFULLY said before YOU LIED in your counter, Putin has never invaded and occupied and annexed ANY territory that was not majority Russophone. so, in future, stfu about your lying nonsense about "oh, Putin, such a threat to his neighbors and to the west" Learn some basic truths before entering the ring, cretin.
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  12.  @alanbellas513  no one is saying "where Russian is spoken, that's Russia". Hence there is no need for Russia to intervene in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Khirghizia, Tazjikistan, Azarbaijan, Armenia, Belarus and the Baltics. Those countries afford equal rights, though Latvia recently has been going down the Zelensky path of discrimination against Russian speakers. The point is, where there are Russian speakers and ethnic Russians WHO ARE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BASED ON THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE, that is where you can expect Putin to intervene, AND ONLY THERE! If you weren't such a brainwashed, rabid russophobe you would support him and wake up to reality. But then again, maybe you believe in rabid discrimination
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  13.  @alanbellas513  yes, it was a statement of fact you made. Putin is throwing lives into war. Just as mine was a statement of fact. Zelensky is throwing lives into war. They both are? So, what's your point? They are both warmongers?
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  14.  @alanbellas513  The concept I adopt, and you should too if you were honest, is that wherever Russian language is spoken by a considerable number, those people should be afforded equal rights to use Russian in education, courts and government". If that principle were adhered to, as it is in Kazakhstan and so many other ex Soviet republics, the world would have no problems with Putin. But people like you, who favor discrimination against Russian speakers, prefer war, clearly.
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  15.  @alanbellas513  as said on many occasions now, there is no need to liberate any Russian speakers, or ethnic Russians, when their rights are protected, as in most ex Soviet republics. In Ukraine, where most people are Russophones, it is pure discrimination to refuse to recognize Russian as an official language. In Switzerland, only 4% of the population speak Italian as a native language, but it is an official language of Switzerland. Had Ukraine adopted the Swiss approach there would have been no problems with Putin. The reality completely destroys the Putin haters, like you.
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  16.  @alanbellas513  so, here are some facts we have established. Putin has been in power for decades, but never once invaded, or even threatened to invade, any of his neighboring countries, with the exception of those that clearly, for whatever reason, thought it was a really good idea to discriminate against their Russophone citizens. Unlike USA and NATO, that feel free to invade any country they so desire. I think we can see why most of the world is slowly but surely coming closer to Russia and China, and moving away from the West.
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  17.  @alanbellas513  and just to keep you informed of how Putin gets on with his neighbors, following the Russian border from east to west: N Korea - ally China - close friend Mongolia - ally Kazakhstan - close friend Azerbaijan - close friend Armenia - close friend Georgia - they tolerate each other, full diplomatic relations Ukraine - at war, following the Kiev refusal to implement Minsk Agreements Belarus - ally Baltic Chihuahua states - close to war, based on their policies of discrimination against Russophones and their support for the Azov Nazi tyranny in power in Kiev. there you go. Most of Russia's allies are more than fine with Putin, as is most of the world. look in the mirror to see what went wrong with the West's relationship with Putin and the Russians
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  18.  @alanbellas513  you hit the nail on the head! All those countries who choose to discriminate against Russophones, they are inviting a Russian military intervention, which would be deserved. Adopt the Swiss, Canadian, Belgian, Kazakh, Welsh approach to minority language rights, and problems with Putin disappear. The evidence is clear.
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  19.  @alanbellas513  No, the ultranationalist concept is "even though these Russian speaking communities have existed within our borders for decades, let's discriminate against them and ban their language in education and government and the legal system" it is the ultranationalist concept that is the cause of the problem. Russia's intervention is the response.
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  20.  @alanbellas513  So what should the Swiss do with their 4% Italian speaking population? Compel them all to be educated in Swiss German? Why shouldn't Kiev's approach be applied to Switzerland?
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  21.  @alanbellas513  the ones who chose war are those who refused to talk peace in December 2021 (USA) and those who broke off peace talks in Istanbul in March, 2022 (USA). Putin has offered the peace option several times, rejected by your side every time.
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  22.  @alanbellas513  and who are the ones who decide that Ukrainian is the only official language in "their" country? Who is "they"?
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  23.  @alanbellas513  the ones who prefer the war are those who start it by shelling the people of the Donbass. or by declaring a "shock and awe" attack on Iraq!
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  24.  @alanbellas513  False equivalence = ideas and logic I don't like, in Alan's world. Look, EVERY leader, whether he be invading or defending, has a CHOICE. Peace or war. Zelensky had that CHOICE. Either talk PEACE, or FIGHT. Zelensky CHOSE to fight. No false equivalency, just FACTS you can't handle. But why start in the middle of the book? Why not start at the beginning? Why not start with Kiev's decision to start war by shelling the Donbass? 2014.
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  25.  @alanbellas513  The duty of the commander in chief is NOT to fight! The duty of the commander in chief is to carefully weigh up all options and make a decision based on the welfare of the majority of his citizens. That decision might be war, or peace talks, or outright surrender. But warmongers like you would not recognize any option that did not include death and destruction, I guess.
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  26.  @alanbellas513  Was Putin the bloody aggressor when the Azov Battalion started shelling Donetsk?
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  27. bulls**t. Fauci will never mention a particular study that backs up his claim. he just waffles and skirts the issue. It's not just the Cochran Report. The Danish and Vietnamese studies say the same thing. masks don't work. period. how can they? the virus is tiny and the holes in the masks comparatively massive.
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  28. of the 12 ships in the Ukrainian fleet that they had at the start of the conflict, how many are afloat now?
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  29.  @MrOptimusheath  why not talk a bit about Snake Island if we are going to celebrate Ukraine's most recent and most devastation victories?
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  30. deluded fool. like a little kid saying one day, he will fly like Superman. Of course no territory will be "ceded". it has been seized and occupied and will remain so. deal with reality!
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  31. Russia only fights for the rights and fair treatment of ethnic Russians. Hence Transnistria, Chechnya, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and now Ukraine. Treat Russians fairly, and you have no problems with Russia. Screw Russians over, like Ukraine tried to do, and you eat shit and die. Simple rule, really.
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  32. Johnson is a traitor, and a disgrace. MTG is so right on stopping funding the Ukronazis in Kiev.
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  33.  @FullNelson007  the Germans were dead and defeated while Hitler was alive and well in his bunker! Sadly, snakes are not political movements. Castro gone, communism alive and well in Cuba. Snake theory didn't work there. Chavez gone, socialism alive and well in Venezuela under Maduro. Snake theory didn't work there. Likely Putin would be succeeded by Medvedev. who is more of a hawk. Remove Putin and get more war.
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  34. Smirnov is not pivotal at all. the bank records that show money flowing from overseas businesses to Hunter Biden and thence to Joe Biden through various shell companies would be pivotal.
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  35. Russia 6 Ukraine 0 every time both sides decide to battle it out toe to toe, street by street, Russia wins. EVERY TIME! Mariupol, Severodonetsk, Popasnaya, Lyzychansk, Soledar, Bakhmut. 2021, Taliban goat herders kick NATO's ass. 2023 Convicts and drunken mercenaries kick NATO's ass.
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  36. such a hard ass they ran out of weapons and ammo, that hard.
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  37.  @PNH-sf4jz  am I old? am I your friend?
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  38.  @gameofender4463  who says Putin dismissed the idea of feeble UK "helping" Ukraine? Putin may have stayed up all night wringing his hands at the thought of all 14 Challenger tanks heading to Ukraine.
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  39.  @gameofender4463  he did. he saw that Russia prevailed.
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  40.  @PNH-sf4jz  you can elevate your toe all the way up to the height of a basin!?
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  41.  @gameofender4463  if looking at a GDP number makes you think UK has a "larger" economy, go knock yourself out. Problem is, Russia produces the commodities the world needs. UK doesn't.
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  42.  @gameofender4463  indeed Russia is prevailing. Have a really close look at how Russia won in Chechnya, Georgia and Syria, and you will see exactly the same pattern in Ukraine.
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  43.  @aleksanderfradkin7955  "loses" or "losses"?
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  44.  @gameofender4463  NATO out of ammo = Ukraine lost
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  45.  @97henrik041  apart from those who see this war as futile
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  46.  @silversurfer8278  spending on defence in UK = electric tanks project, diversity and inclusion training, recruitment conforming to equity policy. forget the production of munitions, let's focus on a woke image.
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  47.  @silversurfer8278  much stronger economy? I guess Liz Truss resigned because of the strength of the UK economy!
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  48.  @silversurfer8278  UK has a much stronger economy? IMF predicts Russian economy will see modest growth in the next year, UK economy will contract, and Russia is the most sanctioned country ever! How do you think this remarkably strong UK economy would do under the sanctions Russia is facing?
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  49.  @gameofender4463  correct. NATO has no interest in invading Russia. NATO doesn't have the guts to try that. NATO only has the guts to pay someone else (Ukraine) to fight Russia in the hope of weakening Russia. Coward's fight.
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  50.  @gameofender4463  Russia has no intention of "beating" or occupying Ukraine. Read the list of Russia's 5 objectives in Ukraine.
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