Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "Turkey Positions Itself as Key to Ending Europe's Dependence on Russian Energy" video.

  1.  @deepblue3682  - “in Ukraine, USA and NATO” Ummm... nope... Only Ukrainians. Sure, some individuals may have joined Ukrainians of their own free will, but not quite as bad as Russia paying mercenaries from nations like Syria. NATO has not put trained soldiers with their equipment on the ground to fight. 1-2 year long conscripts from Russia can not compare to career soldiers, who live & eat & breath the mission. 1-2 year long conscripts from Russia can not compare to Ukrainians, who experienced invasion & Genocide at the hands of Red Communist Russians ~100 years earlier. Russia has massive quantities of Soviet era equipment. Ukraine has been receiving light arms & ammo from other sources. Russia is about the same size in square miles as the continental USA & NATO nations combined. Whatever Putin has been doing with Russia, over the decades, has not left Russians better off.
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  2. If Russia was unable to circle Kyiv, If Russia is unable to circle Ukraine forces, It will likely not last that long.
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  3. Hi  @ivanvitanov5193  - Suggesting Kyiv was not part of the plan, after so much equipment was brought out there and multiple attempts to encircle Kyiv were blocked (ie winning an area & then losing the area, repeated several times) is a silly suggestion. We watched weeks of this, over satellite, with reports from the ground. Suggesting an huge aggressor country with virtually unlimited resources will get what they want, after destroying a smaller nation, is not a significant achievement. I honestly did not know Russia was so weak, until we saw this invasion. Wow. Putin’s Russia is really nothing much more than a third world nation. Putin squandered so much, since the breakup of the USSR, depending so much on old WW2 era military equipment, only 1 more working landing ship in the Black Sea. It is sad to see what Russia had become, in such a short period of time, under Putin’s guidance. All that oil wealth squandered, instead of invested into making Russia great... and now the military is being largely destroyed by some small neighboring country that he decided to invade. It all makes me so sick to my stomach.
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  4. Hi @Ivan vitanov  Russia now lost another ship in the Black Sea https://youtu.be/c-BRW9Y2bhY It is a shame that this war was started by Putin, who claimed to be invading Ukraine for the sake of Russian speaking people there... the same reasoning Fascist Hitler used to invade neighbors during WW2. What a shame.
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