Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "NATO, Finland, Sweden, and Russia's Domino Theory Dilemma" video.

BTW, Putin is not for learning -- not for turning. THIS is in the nature of dictators and dictatorships. Something that you have yet to learn. Wars are NOT initiated rationally. They are gut-check throws of the dice. Primakov bent Saddam's ear WRT how the US Army would crush Saddam's boys -- because desert fighting is wholly unlike jungle fighting. Saddam was not for learning -- not for turning. And Saddam went down that road TWICE. Dictators have reputational risk, too. Duh. The more fundamental problem which eluded you: Kings and dictators have TOO MUCH AUTHORITY to learn or turn. The beauty of the US system is that even presidents can't (constitutionally) bind treaties -- the ones they created. Congress then steps in. See: League of Nations -- and many another presidential folly.
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A fatuous comment for such a great mind. It's quotable nonsense. At present, no-one is more malicious than Putin -- and that's a tough competition.
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Correction: even FDR did not know that the USSR was working on an atomic bomb. Fact: the USSR started their A-bomb project AFTER the Nazis were defeated -- and solely because American traitors gave them the goods. (Oppenheimer & Hopkins) This info didn't come out -- fully -- until the end of the Cold War. By his diary, Harry Hopkins was a full on Communist. Robert Oppenheimer's entire family were Communists. (Parents, brother) He was the ONLY American atomic scientist obsessed with the possibility that Stalin was racing to the bomb. (1948+) So on his authority, alone, the USAF had reccon aircraft sweeping the skies for radioactive fallout - in the Far East. THIS was how the world discovered Stalin's new toy. Spaniel, stop inventing history. From 1945-1949 the combined clones of the B-29 and Fat Man cost the Soviets as much as fighting WWII. (WRT critical resources and talent.) For decades the US Pentagon & media repressed/denied the truth: That the USSR had cloned both weapons systems -- even to the point of using non-metric dimensions. The American Left was left choking on Soviet/Russian bragging, claims and evidence. It still is.
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@ratatatuff You could NOT be more wrong. BTW, the UK and US proceeded to enforce UNSC mandates. THAT was the basis for their actions. Your assertion could scarcely be more anti-informed. As for Saddam's hanging - - there was dancing in the streets -- all across Iraq. What few knew at the time was that Saddam had corrupted the UNSC: France, Russia and Canada were all on his 'pad' -- plus the UN Secretary General. (Kofi) When these connections all came out -- the Volker Commission -- it was quite a scandal in Canada. In France and Russia the revelations produced a national yawn. But TWICE is relevant: that tyrant was not for learning. Everyone else did. His army refused to fight the UK and US.
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@headoverheels88 Look at the video. His own man was shaking in his shoes during the big confab. What kind of mentality would even HAVE such a show video? Putin humiliated his 'inner (semi) circle' in that video. Think on it. Why even go through the circus? 'Twas to cross-intimidate his ENTIRE cotorie. That's what it's purpose was. Every top official was warned -- you're entirely ALONE.
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