Comments by "Gavin Mc" (@gavinmc5285) on "Altercation erupts between Lukashenko and Pashinyan at a meeting of Russia-dominated economic union" video.

  1. over in eastern europe behind the organized crime curtain, there's an old school player that has normalized dictatorship 🇧🇾 and there's a new school player that is trying to normalize a dictatorship 🇷🇺. together, the two dictators of 🇷🇺&🇧🇾 conspired to conduct a full-scale assault on 🇺🇦 (on feb 24th, 2022) to demonstrate that the might of dictatorial violence is the might that is right. between 1991 and 2014, issues of ukrainian sovereignty, ukrainian politics and ukrainian corruption were largely local or regional issues and by region there is meant russia - the russian federation. in 2014, russia escalated in and on ukraine. on two levels: crimea; and flight mh17. crimea was a coup by stealth, cunning and ingenious yet it didn't break the regional mould. the downing of mh17, whilst in and of itself is and was not ok, nonetheless still largely contained itself within the regional framework (the near abroad, a moscow jurisdiction) and grayzone warfare (eastern ukraine was already subject to separatist-loyalist divisions). that all changed on feb 24th of 2022 when russian federation state signed-off on an invasion of ukraine from belarus with over 180,000 soldiers. the invasion broke the rules of the post-1945 consensus in the most blatant and obvious way, was a fundamental rejection of the principle that is westphalian sovereignty (1648) and was itself an act of denial that implied a cold war (1945-1991) hadn't even taken place (don't mention the ussr). in rewriting history using late nineteenth - early twentieth century levels of violence and supplanting drones for tank and air mechanization, the authority of russia's federation was preeminently unquestionable. a three day lightning strike to decapitate the kiev enemy and three weeks to execute a crimean-like big green men for three months of total capitulation and surrender of submissive ukraine. nearly three years later, the denial persists. eastern europe's longest running dictator is hiding in plain sight. the second place candidate is an adolf 'godwin' hitler for our age. over in the PRC there is a potential josef stalin brewing. either way (comparative or actual) there is a set (a club, a group, an elite, whatever) that is hell-bent on ensuring that the cult of personality dictator model of governance triumphs over the institutional-based modes.
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