Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Fire at Europe's largest nuclear plant after continuous Russian shelling" video.

The Russians are INSANE to even take the fight to such a zone.
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@marcuslawrence6733 NATO versus Russia devolves to atomic war. It's a total non-starter. You MIGHT take a tip: it's Putin that's even raising the idea that atomic warfare is on the table. Putin is invading his brothers -- and even so his PR crew is tossing the blame for his impulses upon NATO. BTW, Putin has destroyed the Russian economy. It'll take some weeks for this to become ever more brutally apparent.
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@rajeshvyas5613 Kiev never initiated this fight. Putin has gone full Adolf. Period. He didn't level with his own troops, nor his nation. BTW, NATO membership was not even in the cards for Kiev. That prospect, that phony prospect, exists only in the agit-prop of Putin. NATO membership is expressly forbidden to any nation that has an active border dispute. Well, Putin made sure that such a dispute existed. This very fact is why Paris and Berlin were puzzled as to what Putin was 'on' about. It, prospective NATO membership, made absolutely no sense. He was in a position to block it -- and he HAD -- all the way back in 2014. Obomba utterly failed to recognize the significance of Putin grabbing Crimea in the larger Big Picture. Putin does have a problem: he's destroyed Russia's economy. Ditz posters here utterly fail to grasp just how dire the future is for Putin... and his prisoners/ citizens.
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@Historian 'Minsk' required the shooting to stop BEFORE it became effective. The treaty was conditional on this point. (The hope was that this provision would induce the parties to stop shooting -- so as to win the other provisions. Neither party 'bit.' ) But neither side stopped shooting -- at all. So, 'Minsk' was a dead-letter from the beginning. You're not much of an historian, are you?
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@rajeshvyas5613 But Red China is expansionist -- in the extreme. Have IQs plunged in India ?
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@maddog3768 NATO has no attack capability. It's a passive-active DEFENSE alliance. NATO has always been pitched as being oriented towards Moscow. This is not quite true. NATO was created by London so that there could never be another Napoleon, another Adolf. Integration of France and Germany meant that neither nation could spring an attack on its neighbors. Pointing to Stalin as THE threat was just good salesmanship. NATO has all of the aggression of a puppy dog... and this is by fundamental design.
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@marcuslawrence6733 Russia's reserves -- in the West -- have been frozen. Re-stated, they don't exist anymore. Putin is ALREADY choked. For how severe that choking is: Visit ZeroHedge -- a pro-Putin website that focuses on financials -- worldwide. No-one, that's anyone, is willing to trade with Putin. The Russian currency now has no market value outside of Putin's prison. Red China and India don't want rubles, either. They also don't have anything worth while for Putin to import. He wants cutting edge tech -- not Easter bunnies, dolls, or rice. Everything that was possible ten-days ago is now GONE. That situation is irreversible so long as Putin & Company are in the saddle. If Putin irradiates Ukraine -- all bets are OFF. We are sitting in a MORE dangerous situation than that of October, 1962. BTW, the consensus of Westerners that have known Putin for years is that he's changed. The betting is that he's spent too many years inside his own security bubble -- with ranks of yes-men -- mirroring his own delusions.
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@TheAnekKotha Ukraine flatly does not qualify to be a member of NATO. So, it's NOT. NATO diplomats offered a START style treaty to Putin WRT atomic weapons and where they would be prohibited -- etc. etc. Putin threw diplomacy into the dustbin of history. The West was shocked. Everyone, but everyone, figured that a deal could be struck -- and that Putin's ire would fade.
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@treelinehugger He didn't even bring up NATO membership in his Big Speech. He, of course, never brought up that he discarded NATO proposals for a weapons treaty that would keep atomic weapons hundreds of miles away from Russia... and so forth.
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@marcuslawrence6733 NATO membership is prohibited for any nation that has an active border dispute. Putin made sure that Ukraine DID have an active border dispute -- by seizing Crimea... etc. France and Germany were baffled by Putin's complaint -- because NATO membership is a dead-letter for Ukraine. It's also a dead-letter for Georgia. The border provision is EXACTLY why Putin seized a hunk of Georgia. You've bot the BS. NATO is simply not coming. Instead, individual nations are stepping up. But those responses pale in comparison to an Article V NATO response. That would turn atomic PDQ.
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@Bigdog1787 You're flat-out making stuff up. No NATO nation is mobilized for war. No-one wants war. NATO has NO territorial claims against Russia. NATO is doing exactly what it promised Putin: it will stop doing business with him. Doing so will be painful, very painful, for all parties. For Russia, it will be pure hell.
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@marcuslawrence6733 Adolf had the same mad scheme. Not a fellow to follow.
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@marcuslawrence6733 You need to follow the financial news. You're plainly lost.
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@Truthorfib Putin's demands were made of NATO, not Ukraine. He demanded that NATO dictate Kiev's foreign policy options. NATO's response: we won't force any nation to do anything. (Any pledge made by Zelenskyy was meaningless to Putin.) So, then he attacked Ukraine. Such is Putin's logic. As posted above, NATO membership was never in the cards for Ukraine. Putin, himself, had made such a membership impossible. And he KNEW it... all along.
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@wolfswinkel8906 A security concern is to be satisfied by DIPLOMACY. It's strictly a CONCERN. Putin has transformed his paranoid concerns into outright warfare and ruined his nation's economy. Next step: Russia living like North Korea. In the meantime, Putin has rejuvenated NATO. Score one for Putin.
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@Historian The ceasefire provision superseded all others. If the players didn't stop shooting, then the ENTIRE deal was dead. Which is exactly what happened. Attempts at bringing it back to life kept dying as the shooters would never stop. In the ultimate, 'Minsk' (I or II) would end up, de facto, recognizing Russia's puppets in the Donbas. No wonder Putin loved it.
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@marcuslawrence6733 Because of Putin's War, Ukraine is going to have a terrible harvest this year. As for feeding a conquered population -- I must sign high praise. BTW, Ukrainian citizens are now feeding Russian troops, because their supplies had run out. Putin's War is a fiasco. The real bite will only hit as the weeks roll by. We can only pray that the NPP is not turned into the world's worst BBQ. The total insanity of even bringing the fight to ANY area around a nuke plant is obvious on its face. Any rational commander would conquer the countryside around the plant, and then send in the sheriff to collect the keys. Only an IDIOT attacks a NPP. They are always to be besieged instead.
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@marcuslawrence6733 As a ranking world-dominant atomic power -- absolutely NO-ONE dares attack Russia -- EVER. Putin has his head stuck in the 18th Century. Modern strategic weapons have eliminated distance and oceans. Buffer states have no real practical meaning. There is no way on this Earth that NATO is going to ever send tank armies into Russia. It's not going to re-draw Russia's borders, either. Putin is headed into Adolf's dilemma: no-one, absolutely no-one, will accept him as a counter-party. He can't deal, anymore. He must now live and die by the gun. Putin is a pariah. Your postings are too late. It's DONE.
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@Historian SOROS funded the Orange revolution. NATO had nothing to do with it. As for puppets -- that who and why he was ejected -- and ran straight to Moscow. He was part of Putin's crew. The civil war in the Donbas was and is totally phony. it was, from the first, a Putin invasion with a proxy army. It was schemed and commanded by Putin's KGB/ FSB buddies. 0bomba let it slide, of course.
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@marcuslawrence6733 Putin says NO. Kiev is currently non-aligned. It's not in the EU, It's not in NATO. So, it IS a buffer zone -- an out dated concept, I must add. Putin is transforming a buffer state into a vassal state. He's very open about his intent. At heart, he's a thief, thug, hence all of his self-serving murders over the years... with special emphasis on Moscow journalists. He was so petty as to steal Mr. Kraft's Super Bowl victory ring. Yet American football means nothing to Russians. He just HAD to steal it. That's the real Putin.
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