Comments by "andy99ish" (@andy99ish) on "Hindustan Times" channel.

  1.  @plekkchand  It actually isn't.
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  2. Relax. The Polish President has publicly stated that this was NOT an attack on Poland.
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  3. Germany in its recent history oscillates between militarism and pacifism. Both positions are dangerous to peace. And that Germany did not stop NATO from encroaching Russia turned out to be fatal. Now one might have dismissed Russian fears of NATO as exaggerated. However that is beside the point. What counts is, that these fears were clearly and repeatedly communicated and that Russia is a nuclear superpower. Any reasonable statesmen would have taken all this into account. The Ukraine could have assumed military neutrality and concentrated on its economic and social development, taking advantage of both its traditional ties with Russia and new ties with the EU. Instead now we have a brutal war, wide devastation of the Ukraine, grave harm for Russia, inflation and increasing unrest in Western Europe.
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  4.  @monumentaltravel3745  No more animal than those who were risking a nuclear war in order to prevent missiles being stationed in Cuba. And less animal than those who have destroyed the Iraq for no good reason.
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  5.  @kaspertube512  The US recently fled from lightly armored guys on motorcycles. The Taliban. Leaving loyal Afghans behind with some of them falling off the departing US planes. Mockery of Russian weakness is therefore misplaced.
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  6.  @beaur252  Except the Taliban.
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  7. Austria is not anti-Ukrainian. After all ethnic Ukraine belonged to Austria for some 90 years and the feeling of national identity of the Ukrainians came into being and could flourish under liberal Austrian rule. But the actual sentiment is, that the main legislative chamber of a militarily neutral country is not a place for representatives of war parties to make their case. On top the speaker of that chamber arrogantly ignored the sentiments of many representatives on this issue. That is a no-go in mature democracies.
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  8. A peaceful transition of power.
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  9.  @thanmawiachhangte1544  100% wrong. Germany started WW 2 .
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  10. "Russia has made their stance clear. It has no intentions of attacking Poland or any other Nato nation." Not entirely true. In December 2022 Russia has officially demanded that Poland's and other countries' NATO membership status shall be downgraded. While not a physical attack, that demand was an aggressive act. Poland is not eager to go to war against Russia. However it has the tendency to try to open the eyes of Western Europe about dangers, which Western Europe is prone to ignore. Beginning in 1934 the danger Poland has warned about was Hitler. In the last 20 years it was and is Russian ambitions to reestablish its former sphere of control and influence. No overinterpretation here: Putin very clearly and repeatedly referred to Russia at the times of Peter the Great. The Russian empire at the end of that tsar's rule included i.a. what now are the Baltic states. So Poland was basically right with their warnings. And the West was mostly naive. The silliness of that particular ambassador nowithstanding.
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  11. Russia mostly gained strength during wars.
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  12.  @thanmawiachhangte1544  You are fully ignorant. Germany wanted to reconquer what it has occupied before WWI. It is as if the UK today demanded to take India back as "their territory". And there was no offer of territory exchange whatsoever. Poland heroically stood up to Nazi Germany which before has annexed Austria and Czechia despite all concession they have made to Germany.
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  13.  @MrLeadb1  In the past? As far as I am informed Russian troops today are deep in the Ukraine today. Did you miss that ?
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  14. Actually the Korean "temporary" ceasefire proved to be more stable than many "final" agreements. See, there is no such thing as permanent treaties. You know why ? Because there is no World Police who could ensure that treaties are kept. The League of Nations after WW I was an attempt at that, the UNO an analogous one after WW II. Both failed. So: A deal which might last is one which addresses both side's long term needs. THAT is what counts. Not adjectives as "permanent" nor "temporary" nor any other.
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  15. Soon India will ask the West to protect her.
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  16. The riots are NOT a response to one tragic occurrence which is taken care of properly by relevant authorities. They are some chaotic militant uprising against France as such. Let's hope it will be quelled without too much bloodshed.
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  17. ​ @markobucevic8991  If you want to understand why Putin repeatedly refers to Russia of Peter the Great, just ask him. I am not his spokesman, you know. Although I see that throughout history Russia as a mostly landlocked empire was eager to gain access to the seas. Hint: The Baltic countries are placed at the Baltic Sea. Another hint: The Crimean is at the Black Sea. Now I did not imply that Russia has no right to pursue its interests. And yes, pushing NATO so far east plus promising the Ukraine NATO access was irresponsible. But Russia shows imperialistic tendencies. And it is a most unattractive empire for nearly everyone, save some Balkan nations to whom historically it was a distant protector. Yet even Yugoslavia steered clear from Soviet Russia.
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  18.  @jallopenoman1126  Look, the US even lost against the Taliban. And did not win the Korean War btw. More generally the issue of treaties is not a question of adjectives NOR of the assessment if some conflict was fair or not.
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  19. President elect Trump has a realistic chance to sort it out. While the DNC policy of just keep doing the same had ZERO chance of success.
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  20. That must be sarcasm.
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  21.  @gilbertknight6617  LOL That is 100% nonsense. While many Europeans do not vilify Putin and understand that also Russia has a right to its security, virtually no one "loves" Putin nor thinks of him as "a kind- hearted gentleman". Putin is a tough Russia ruler, so much is clear for everyone.
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  22.  @teebrain8977  If Russia is so weak, why is the West so afraid of it ? Why was NATO upheld after the USSR collapsed ? Why was NATO pushed to the East so far ? Because of dwarfs ? Please do explain !
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  23. Poland tried to open the eyes of the pacifist West to the danger Nazi Germany posed as early as 1934. In the last 20 years Poland repeatedly warned about Russian ambitions to reestablish its former imperial sphere of control and influence. Poland was right. The West was wrong. That an ambassador overshot the message is regrettable, yet to be seen in that basic context.
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  24. That arrest warrant is both useless and inflammatory.
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  25.  @DennisPlagge  Quite the opposite. Putin is very credible. He said in 2007 that he will not accept NATO expansion into the Ukraine and he has acted accordingly ever since. Putin said he will not forgive treason and apparently he did not.
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  26.  @beaur252  You are an ignoramus. The Mujahideen were not the forerunners of the Taliban. The Taliban held Southern Afghanistan for 20 years. Then nearly no one opposed them when they closed into Kabul. From which US military had to flee. With those foolish Afghans who believed in the might of the US falling off the fleeing planes. That was the most shameful retreat in US history. That you try to make light of it, is disgusting.
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  27. Poland is to be praised for its calm reaction. Which is all the more praiseworthy as they have a troubled history with Russia.
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  28. Crimea to Russia, the Ukraine neutral (no NATO entry), referendum in Luhansk, Donetsk. Russia sells gas and oil to everyone, 10% of revenue go to Ukraine reconstruction fund. DEAL !
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  29.  @richditlevsen4225  No glory to an aggressor. At the same time no glory to those who have ignored Russia's legitimate interests. This war is a collective failure. For no good reason we are back to a Cold War with its nuclear risks.
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  30.  @fransvangoolen2972  Russia is not on the right side, as there are no two sides in history. The world is not bipolar but multipolar now, no matter what naive people of the West imagine it to be. And the West has lost its moral higher ground. Remember the destruction of the Iraq ? No amount of silly leftist self-bashing for Western colonialism will compensate for such recent acts.
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  31.  @oconnem1  Russia started their invasion with just a tiny fraction of its forces. The Ukraine was massively supported by NATO since 2014 and is even more supported now. So that is not a Russia vs Ukraine war. Talk about humiliation, childish in itself, lacks any basis. The main fool is NATO, which massively miscalculated that its ongoing encirclement of Russia will be accepted forever. Now it turns out that having a promise to join NATO at an unspecified point of time (as the Ukraine has since 2007) can be a dangerous thing. However this war turns out, the Ukraine is already massively damaged and its dead will not resurrect. Russians and Ukrainians, living together or close to each other in relative peace for many centuries, now hate each other. All this is a spectacular failure of NATO which defines themselves as a security and peace provider.
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  32.  @491n4he5  Not only Russia has been invading other countries. So did England, France, Spain, the Mongols, the Arabs, the Romans and so on and so forth. In the last years it was the USA which invaded the largest number of countries.
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  33.  @kbaburao3608  Why ? It has happened in history. The British have liberated parts of India from Moghul oppression.
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  34.  @mandarinandthetenrings2201  And so are Ukrainian soldiers. I hope that you are aware how unreliable propaganda of BOTH sides is.
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  35. Everybody knows. But everybody knows someone else.
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  36. Milley did NOT say that one side will WIN.
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  37.  @teresaolszanka112  Those rumors were spread by Russian agencies to divide Poland and the Ukraine. What really happened is that Putin offered Poland a partition of the Ukraine. Poland did not even consider that absurd proposal.
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  38.  @jr9721  Look for alien intervention.
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  39.  @MrLeadb1  How do you know what my eyelids did ? I suggest that you a) refer to arguments made and not arguments or eyelid reactions imagined and b) break away from that binary mindset which apparently makes you believe that someone who sees that Russian troops are in the Ukraine today must be blind to all kind of errors the West did. After having completed a) and b) we might have a fruitful debate.
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  40. ​@Cycling God I am aware that there is a substantial Russian minority in the Ukraine, concentrated in the Eastern Ukraine. Not only this - I am aware that it was Soviet policy to ensure that in each Soviet Republic as many ethnic Russians live as possible. I am aware that consequently the boundaries of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was not following ethnic lines. Actually I think that establishing independent countries based on internal Soviet boundaries was a major mistake. And I am very well aware of the ugly side of Ukrainian nationalism. But I am not sure why you apparently think, that these facts weaken or contradict what I have stated before.
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  41. ​ @Elena-j1y  Inaccurate. Poland-Lithuania was the dominating regional force in the XVI century, reaching to Smolensk and invading Moscow. In the 1620s it was fashionable to speak Polish at the tsar's court. And Poland-Lithuania did stay strong till the end of the XVII century. On top it ruled for centuries over what today is Eastern Ukraine. I agree though that this ambassador was very silly. What he stated is not Polish policy.
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  42.  @markod7662  Your knowlegde is severely wanting. Poland took back a tiny strip of land which was annexed by Czecho-Slovakia after WW I. And the UK and France, which both have done nothing when Hitler took apart Czechia and Moravia, did finally declare war on Nazi Germany after Poland was invaded.
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  43.  @hg6996  If it were miserably failing, it would have withdrawn. You are a victim of Ukrainian propaganda.
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  44. So His Majesty the Prime Minister is dissatisfied with the people ? Hear, hear ! Maybe he should elect himself another people.
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  45. The USA rules the world. It is the good superpower.
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  46. So you are with the legal Niger government ?
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  47.  @Komeshokakunanwene  Leave Africa alone ? Not buy what it has to export ? Are you sure ? And it is rather up to Africa to leave Europe alone and not try to get to Europe at any costs.
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  48. Oh really ? So there were no schools in the colonies, no Africans studied in Europe ?
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  49.  @anonanon7235  LOL So whatever happens in Africa is decided in Europe ? What a low opinion of Africans you must have. And the slave business would be impossible if not some African tribes hunted people from other tribes.
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  50. The West is not ideal. China is much worse though.
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