Comments by "Gavin Mc" (@gavinmc5285) on "US declassifies intel on Russia’s staggering losses as Zelensky pleads for aid" video.
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@TheJacketify yet even if true then the politicians have to play both sense and the popular vote at least. and as such present their arguments or manifesto commitments as intelligent and rational ways of appealing to baser instincts. whilst also maintaining the demands from their own baser instincts in public view. and ensuring that the interests of those from which they base their power are respresented without being unnecessarily or overly exposed.
also, i agree with the draw of ego - yet only when it comes to the role of political 'leaders' or figureheads. the ego of narcissism can act as a public mirror which can in turn draw those that submit either to the principle of the greater sin (a way to cover their more minor transgressions), a figure of entertainment (an attention honeypot), a business magnet (profit), an international symbol of strength (power projection) or a focus of ambition (driving copies, clones, wannabes or aspiring equivalents). all, each or any combination of the above are able to catalyse voter imagination. dynamism, marketing, promotion, narrative and an appeal to the baser insincts cited can then be used to engage operationally.
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@patriotzfinder true indeed. it was neither 1964 nor 1968. the cold war had ended and in february 2022 the kremlin knowingly, intentionally, deliberately and purposefully broke all the rules and conventions of international relations in one fell swoop. the invasion of russian forces may well have been a continuation of the crimean takeover but it was still an exception. it was the role of a stronger state (c.145m people with nuclear weapons) invading a smaller state (c. 30m people and a decision made post-cold war to relinquish its nuclear status to that bigger state) - a simple abuse of power by the bigger state (russian federation)
putin as an individual is insecure, has spent too much time in power, is on a one way trip to hell, is a oneman powertrip egotrip gone wrong and going wrong and the longer he persists after feb 22 the more of an arsehole he shows himself to be, the more and more evil his authoritarian and malignant dictatorship tendencies become, the more and more damage he does to both the ukrainian and russian peoples and the more and more he gets deeply and inextricably embedded with north korea and the beijing regime. which just sucks for everyone else in the world too that have to live with the effects of his fallout and obsession with power. not that he cares. as a psychopath he is fully entitled.
what makes the invasion of ukraine different from the invasions of iraq or afghanistan? (for example). many apologists of russia might want to highlight an equivalence standard of how the west is just as guilty and although there are parallels, it is not equivalent. saddam, ghaddafi, soleimani and bin laden were not zekenskyys. they were not able to rally international support to their cause that legitimized their status as dictatorial warlords. putin is in their league. he is a warlord - bound by organized crime yet trying to front that mob as a legitimate entity. it's not - the Kremlin is a front and everyone from Moscow to D.C. knows it. and that is not ok when the spillover effects of that crime is a psychopathic individual so obviously committed to murder - small-scale or large.
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