Comments by "andy99ish" (@andy99ish) on "Putin fumes as NATO nation admits plans to join war if Ukraine gets defeated | Details" video.

@thanmawiachhangte1544 100% wrong. Germany started WW 2 .
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"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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@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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@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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@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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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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@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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@jr9721 Look for alien intervention.
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@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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@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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@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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@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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@hg6996 If it were miserably failing, it would have withdrawn. You are a victim of Ukrainian propaganda.
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@jr9721 I do, when dealing with mature people.
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@teresaolszanka112 I missed nothing. Russian troops are deep in the Ukraine. The fact, that what IS Eastern Ukraine today WAS part of the Kievan Rus' and later of the Mongol empire and later of Russia does not change the fact of Russian troop being there. There is a medieval differentiation between Great Russia and Little Russia and later between Great Russians and Ruthenians, starting from the 1870s Ukrainians. So the history is much more complex than you are suggesting. Ukrainian nationalism is very nasty, yes.
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@msimon6808 They are fashioned after Russian historians like Karamzin and Danilewski. Plus the Soviet version of newer history. In which the German-Soviet cooperation, which started after Rapallo (1922) and continued long after the Nazi-Soviet partition of Poland in 1939 does not exist. As far as I know Putin refers to Russia of Peter the Great. Baltic republics beware.
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@danutahanyga4834 Your somehow selectively picked details are not new to me, and neither do they weaken my concise and correct posting before. Unfortunately you have omitted important facts which at this level of detail you should have not. Like that the special status of Moscow was bestowed upon it by Mongol overlords. Who btw ruled for some 150-200 years directly over what we are debating here - namely what today is Eastern Ukraine. Fast forwarding you also have omitted the popularization of the concept of a Ukrainian nation started by prof. M. Hruszewski, acting under the semi-autonomous rule of the "Regnum of Galiciae et Lodomeriae" in the last two decades of the XIX century. Likewise you have omitted the development of a written Ukrainian language, executed by O. Barwinski under the auspices of M. Bobrzyński, head of the education commission of that Austrian province, but being ruled by Poles of Austrian citizenship. In these decades a Ukrainian national identity was born. That some Ukrainians today claim things of little credibility, like the Cossack connection is true. But so what ? That is no different than claiming that Russia has a direct lineage of over 1,000 years. Or that Charlemagne's empire was an early form of France/Germany. More importantly - what is the relevance of all this to the fact, that Russia invaded the Ukraine ?
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