Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Ada Wordsworth - Review of the Best Books of 2023 to Understand Ukrainian Resilience to Aggression" video.

  1. At the 59:15 min mark Ada says "..you read Serhiy Plokhy, it could have been stopped in 2014 and it wasn't, it could have been stopped in the 90's and it wasn't" - on the 90's angle, former Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul had some pleasantly surprising things to say in retrospect about some mistakes made in the 90's on the Hoover Institution YT chan "Secrets of Statecraft - Getting Inside The Mind Of Vladimir Putin" episode. If you want to hear it search for the clip title in quotes (URL's seem to get the comment zapped) and start at the 24:30 min mark and listen for a few minutes, but I'll quote some of it here... Interviewer - "what should have been done back in 2014 that might have saved Ukraine from its present disastrous situation" Ambassador McFaul - "now I haven't pushed you back and say what should have been done in the 1990s that's when we missed the opportunity although I'll talk about 2014 in particular but in retrospect and now we have the benefit of that time but I believe that we should have expanded NATO as fast as we could when Russia was weak and we should have armed those countries, Georgia as well and and you know Ronald Reagan used to say peace through strength. Russia's never or the Soviet Union has never invaded a NATO country, by the way NATO has never invaded Russia" 👍💯
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  2.  @richardamullens  This reveals how clueless you are about history with your clownish "dog wagging the tail" vatnik BS take. It was unprovoked, NATO was not a threat, Russia IS the threat, that's why NATO exists, because Russia has an aggressive history of attacking everyone. If you think you know what you are talking about, go to the wikipedia page "List of wars involving Russia" and tell me which if those hundreds and hundreds of wars (try counting them, you'll take a week) before 1949 was "provoked" by NATO "expansion". Even in WW2 they were the aggressor and started the war by attacking Poland as an Axis allie. 🤡
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