Comments by "Kate S" (@KateeAngel) on "Latvia destroyed the bubble on the border with Russia and Belarus" video.

  1. So Europe played the local way on other continents while colonising and stealing wealth from them for 4+ centuries? Remember that Europe's prosperity was largely built on results of colonialism and imperialism (Russia too btw, they and western empires weren't that different from each other, actually very very similar). And now European border control in some places is rather inhumane to people trying to migrate from those former colonies. So "you don't want to play the European" way sounds sinister if you take bigger history into an account
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  2.  @swapnaneelbhowmik1063  4 centuries of slave trade and colonialism disagree. It is easy to play good guys when you did more or less for several decades after several centuries of horror
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  3.  @LathropLdST  you could say this about many countries in different times in history
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  4.  @virginiaoflaherty2983  how does one excuse the other?
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  5. "don't teach the native language of 25% of your population to their own kids at schools". How does that sound now?
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  6. Surely, this tiny bridge matters.. in your mind
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  7.  @ArmedSpaghet  yeah, sure. For 8 years Europeans have voted for politicians who openly supported Putin's new gas projects, while anti-Putin Russians had zero voting power and were thrown into jail after protesting. But now you are all good, while Russians are "all orks" 🤦 make up excuses as much as you want
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  8. Yes, that even you consider Karelian Isthmus 100% Russian now))) don't forget to tell that to whiny Finnish nationalists though, who constantly type revanchist nonsense on every video about my hometown))) Don't take that personally as well, I have positive opinion of Finland, extremely negative of Putin, I just don't understand how "civilised" Europeans don't see that any revanchism is wrong. If Putin "returning" Crimea was wrong, then so should be any talk of "returning Karelia".
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  9. Latvia has one of the highest rates of alcohol consumption in the world dude. Unfortunately, as is for any country with such problem. Alcohol is poison
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  10.  @ArmedSpaghet  dude you are delusional. Latvia is better than Russia or most Eastern European nations, but it is far not as good as most EU countries
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  11. As if Putin cares about tiny bridge... Dude he didn't even care about losing 100k lives to useless war, he won't get any message
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