Comments by "dlukton" (@dlukton) on "Hindustan Times" channel.

This story seems likely to be true. NO QUESTION, the US was at the center of it; but very likely, it wasn't a US citizen who actually "pulled the trigger"; US officials wanted someone else to do it, and no doubt the British were happy to oblige.
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Politicians in the EU and the US couldn't care less about large-scale famine; what they care about is THE POLITICS surrounding large-scale famine. If millions of people end up starving to death, the EU and US politicians will be quite happy about that.... as long as they can succeed in blaming Russia for it.
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Trudeau is a lightweight. Canada should just stay the hell out of international politics.
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@giselapfeifer4666 Zelensky doesn't do anything.... ANYTHING... of consequence without getting approval from the US government first (and he's VERY well paid, so he's not complaining).
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@denisbaro3836 Zelensky could stop this war any time he wants; so could President Biden.
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One of two things has to happen here: either the mayor has to be... um.... "cancelled"; or else he's gotta be bribed. There's no other option.
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@wisdombites3586 The controversy concerns the grain in Ukraine.... and whether Russia should allow its enemies to just take the grain out of the country, or whether Russia's enemies should have to give Russia something in return.
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@denisbaro3836 Why do you worship the neocons in Washington DC...? The neocons want as many Ukrainians to die as possible.... as long as some Russian soldiers are ALSO killed. As many have said, US politicians want to "fight the Russians down to the last Ukrainian".
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@denisbaro3836 False.
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Manu Singh Yes... OF COURSE Putin could end the war; but so could Biden, and so could Zelensky.
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@denisbaro3836 I don't know which sentence you're referring to.
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@denisbaro3836 You say that only Russia is responsible; and that the US government is just an innocent bystander who never got involved in Ukrainian politics. First, the US govt was behind the coup in 2014. That then set up the initial conflict in the Donbas. Then add in Zelensky's refusal to even TRY to implement the Minsk agreements. Add in the fact that the US has .... for eight years.... been training Ukrainian military and paramilitary forces in tactics to kill Russians. And add in the fact that NATO has been relentlessly expanding eastward. It's obvious to me that US neocons WANTED this war with Russia, and they hope it continues, even if 500 Ukrainians have to die for every Russian soldier killed. And as for YOU, I assume you'd rather see one million Ukrainians killed, and all the infrastructure destroyed.... and to see high commodity prices all over the world; maybe even a global recession.... all of that, rather than to see the US government give Putin one inch. And that's perfectly fine if that's your view; but if that's your view, you shouldn't complain about all of the death and destruction that's occurring.
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@denisbaro3836 No... you've got it wrong. As I wrote in my comment, if you want widespread death and destruction in Ukraine, that's fine with me; my point is ... if that's what you want, then don't complain about death and destruction in Ukraine.
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@denisbaro3836 Putin isn't asking for all of Ukraine; he initially (back in February) asked for part of eastern Ukraine to be "independent". I know that that would make Zelensky very unhappy; and it would make US politicians very unhappy. But I'm not sure that the people in that region would really prefer endless war to being "independent".... or even being under Russian rule (with the option to move to another part of Ukraine). And again, if you want to advocate for "fighting the Russians", that's fine; but you've got to expect a tremendous amount of death and destruction.
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@denisbaro3836 If Pakistan wants to go to war with India, that's quite alright with me... as long as the US stays out of it. If half the population of Pakistan gets wiped out.... and an equal number of people in India also get wiped out, I think that's fine, as long as the governments of both countries are prepared to accept that outcome (and as long as the US stays out of it). What we have now... in Ukraine... is that the war would never have happened if the US hadn't gotten involved; and even if the war had started (without US involvement), the war would have been over in about 2 weeks, in the absence of weapons being sent to Ukraine. So the key issue is this: INVOLVEMENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
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"Criminal activity". PFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!! Hello!!!!!..... it's called "war"; that means, laws don't apply.
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Idiots.
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Hard to know what to believe here. And Russia has good reason to disbelieve anything coming out of the Biden Administration at this point. Biden could have VERY EASILY made this deal a year ago; and Russia would have taken it. But at THIS POINT, Biden may have to offer more.
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@truthteller2237 I'm not saying that it's "new". I'm just pointing out the duplicity of the US government. The US government is trying to present itself as a paragon of virtue, wanting only to preserve the "rules-based order", while (arguing that) that evil monster.... Vladimir Putin.... only wants to kill people. Meanwhile, the VERY LAST thing the US politicians care about is morality, or honesty or international law. And no, it's "nothing new", but there are still a lot of people out there who are believing the official narratives coming out of the US government, and out of the mainstream media.
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@GenZsucks Who's crying? I think the main issue here is that of the deception and hypocrisy of the US and the UK. The US is going around acting like they're a bunch of choir boys who want nothing more than to spread peace and love around the world.... or at least, that they think that governments should follow a "rules-based order". At the same time that they're spewing this horsecr@p, they're going around sabotaging Russia's infrastructure. So if the US government would come out and admit that they're just as greedy and power-hungry as the Russians are..... and that moral standards impose no impediment .... I would say TERRIFIC!! FANTASTIC!!!!! At least then, we'd have some honesty. For me the issue is much more that of deception and hypocrisy (on the part of the US and the UK) than about any sabotage of infrastructure.
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@alastairreed7314 you're saying that the pipeline that the UK (allegedly) blew up supplied natural gas to the UK...? Got a link for that?
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@alastairreed7314 Any economic harm to the UK.... from the pipeline sabotage..... should be minimal (it's the people of Germany who will really be hurt). The UK government did not (allegedly) blow up the pipeline in order to IMPROVE their economy; this is primarily about harming Russia. The US and the UK are intent on causing as much economic harm to Russia as is possible (and then there's also the fact that the "greenies" hate fossil fuels, regardless of their source).
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@licheam2007 Yeah, I think that's it in a nutshell.
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@cnccarving "responsibility". What about the responsibility of the ballot-counters to count the votes accurately.... and to refrain from fabricating votes by the millions?
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I wouldn't say that the war in Ukraine has "nothing to do" with the British. The situation is that the US is the primary hegemon in the world, and the UK is a very close ally of the US. Russia and China are now threatening the hegemonic status of the US. Politicians in the US and UK believe that a weaker Russia is in their interests. In any case, WHATEVER the war in Ukraine is about, it is NOTHING to do with the official narrative being put out by the US and the UK.
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Lots of people die in war; indeed, that's largely THE POINT of war.
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@varg92 That's not the main issue.
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Yes; I think that's all this is.
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@daveanthonysalalima1128 American foreign policy is run by a tiny, tiny number of people... probably most of whom were never elected. And even to the extent that they WERE elected, they never stated their intentions with regard to foreign policy. So out of 330 million people in the US, only a few hundred of them are responsible for all of the wars that the US gets itself into.
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Easy come, easy go.
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