Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Putin's Thoughts on Invading Ukraine - What He Needs for Success" video.

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  25.  @pkre707  You have not been following the news. Ukraine is NOT a part of NATO and no NATO military response is on offer. Period. How many ways can the diplomats say it? NATO is going to step on Putin's wallet. Any invasion will bring on Cold War 2.0 -- and NATO has about 20 times the GDP of Russia. Putin can't even really count on natural gas to twist arms. Germany merely needs to turn its atomic plants back on. ( They shut them down about three-weeks ago. ) The Netherlands can open up their own natural gas wells for export. And everybody can burn more coal. Those plants are still sitting around, too. It's just that the Greens DON'T WANT TO. That does not add up to a ton of leverage for Moscow. In contrast, Putin makes virtually ALL of his profits by selling to European NATO. There is no (really big) money in selling to India or Red China. What seem like big deals are actually trivial when set against the scale of Russia's trade with Germany. Your equivalence calculation omits the fact that Putin is a THUG who has murdered -- rather chronically -- Moscow journalists. He's a thief, too. Putin is the problem, not Russia. If Yeltsin were still President, no-one would be shocked if Russia became a NATO member... so as to protect itself from Red China. Red China will soon totally out class Russia -- in every dimension. Indeed, that's what's a factor in Putin's calculations. He's "killing the chicken to scare the monkey." That's how the Chinese phrase it. The entire hyper-sonic race is between Russia and Red China. America will not be using hyper-sonics against either nation. America's hyper-sonics will be exclusively non-atomic -- and designed for bin Laden types.
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