Comments by "" (@SG-js2qn) on "Was Russia Justified to Invade Ukraine?" video.

  1. Prior to 2014, the Russians were running Ukraine as a corrupt client state. They were abusing the Ukrainians and trying to rob them of all their treasure. What happened in 2014, or a little earlier? Large natural gas fields were discovered. Most people don't know this, but Europe is DESPERATE for energy, importing more than 50% of the energy they need. So when natgas was discovered in Ukraine, finally Ukraine had the possibility of earning good money and getting out from under Russia's abusive thumb. So Ukraine and the west created a coup to evict the Russian kleptocrat who was running / ruining the country. Putin's response to this was to mount an invasion and steal back the specific lands that had the natgas reserves. That was all of Ukraine that he wanted: the gas. He had no use for the regular people, whom he'd already impoverished. As happened before in Afghanistan and in Syria, the west mobilized, armed, and trained fighters to enter into the lands Putin stole from Ukraine, and they acted as terrorists or freedom fighters, depending on your point of view. Putin wants to control and profit from the Ukrainian gas reserves, and he doesn't want Europe to get them. So he set up a plan by which he would use elite capture - bribes - to get Europeans to cut back on their own energy production in favor of Russian energy sources. Once the US and Russia were dependent on Russian oil, gas, and coal, they waited till winter ... the time of greatest dependency for Europe. And that's when they invaded Ukraine, with the goal of solidifying Russian control of the gas fields. This is 100% what's going on. All the stuff in the media is smoke.
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