Comments by "Awesome Avenger" (@awesomeavenger2810) on "Russia, spies and enemies of the state - BBC News" video.

  1. Putin is KGB. He murders his opponents in Russia. The KGB have been murdering Russians ever since the communist created them.
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  2. Yup. Damage control squad.
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  3. It's not so many people. It's only a few on multiple accounts. The aim is to get in the comments early, post something pro-Putin and anti-western, thumbs it up enough times until all the top comments say exactly what Putin would like them to say. You could ask why bother? But if someone were to look down at the comments and see only pro-Putin posts, there's your answer. Never reply to them. It bumps them up.
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  4. Putin has a long record of assassinating, imprisoning, or exiling those who displease him. The desperate denials from the kremlin are as believable as their lies over MH17 and their invasion of Ukraine.
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  5. The Problem is Putin. He has turned so many nations against Russia.
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  6. Every western country has come to the same conclusion. Just as most rational people have. Putin is a threat to the west. And yes, Russia is war mongering around the world: Ukraine, Georgia, Chechnya, and Syria.
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  7. When did the west ever threaten Russia?
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  8. So the US has alliances with other countries, and? Perhaps if Russia didn't keep attacking its neighbours, it too might have good relations with them? The Libyan dictator, Gaddafi funded terrorism against the west, and when the Libyan people finally rose up against him, the west gave him a little push. Good. Syria is Putin's war. He his busy killing Syrians to keep his puppet Assad in power. And Ukraine got rid of an unpopular and corrupt government (kinda like the Russians sometimes do). Their present government is democratically elected. More than can be said for the Putin regime. No western troops killing Ukrainians or occupying Ukrainian territory. Only Russians.
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  9. But that's still not an answer to your own question I threw back at you: When has the west ever threatened Russia?
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  10. +Poffertje The Arab Spring began in Tunisia. A country with a pro-western regime. It then spread to another pro-western country - Egypt. So the idea it was started by the west is ludicrous. And paranoid. And where as the west takes on Saddam and Gaddafi, and the Taliban. Russia, being a reactionary power, fights in support of dictators like Assad, and against its democratic neighbours, Ukraine and Georgia. In Ukraine, for example, Putin gave the Ukrainians a choice. Russia or the west. You can't have both. Not wanting the kind of regime they have in Moscow (who would?), the Ukrainians picked the west. All countries have foreign policy. But not all countries foreign policy is the same.
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  11. Daniel the Spaniel rushing to the defence of his enemies once again.
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  12. +Poffertje Absolutely. The west supported the Libyan revolution. Don't forget that Gaddafi armed and supported terrorism in and against the west whenever possible. Western intervention shortened the war (unless you make the argument that the war would have ended on the exact same day as Gaddafi died anyhow). Compare that with Syria. Assad should've gone at the start (just as Ben Ali and Mubarak did in Tunisia and Egypt - no war). But instead we've had seven years of war there. Which is responsible for the refugee crises. And all because Russia needs to prop up one of its last remaining allies. So on balance, which was the more successful intervention? Russia in Syria or the west in Libya? Considering that the uprisings against those regimes were already underway? After all, once a dictator turns on his own people in order to cling to power, who is most responsible for what follows? Him or the people he wants to rule over? Ukraine is not a buffer state. It's a sovereign country with all the rights of any other sovereign country. This isn't 1930's or cold war Europe anymore. Those days are gone. So you're right. Ukraine does what it wants to do. And if Putin doesn't like that, then he has no one to blame but himself when Ukraine turns its back on Russia.
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  13. +Poffertje I agree with you. The west should be more involved in Libya, not less. But as to Syria, Assad would have been gone by now if it hadn't have been for Russian intervention. Libya may not be a haven of peace and tranquillity, but its in a far better situation than Syria. And let's not forget that in both cases, Libya and Syria, refugees come to the west. Not Russia. Which makes it our business. But the Ukrainians don't agree with you on the status of their national sovereignty. Neither do I. I don't really care what Russia wants in Europe. Or how it thinks things should be. If it can't treat its neighbours with respect, it deserves to lose what little influence it has with them. Which, of course, it has.
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  14. Weep as Russia becomes ever more isolated.
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