Comments by "John Adam" (@johnadam2885) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

@mdrexel6622 But Britain likes to talk as if it is leading Europe with its Russophobia. Some months back a British newspaper wrote of the Americans ditch Europe, Britian should step in and show Europe the way on tackling Russia ! The British are vain and egocentric just like the French and Germans.
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Europe is a collection of 30 puny states. They have two ex-powers, the UK and France. These were military powers - in the 19th century. Germany had industrial power but due to its history, it cannot be a military power. Then there are some countries like Netherlands etc. The feeblest are the eastern Europeans like Poland and Lithuania. Russia is the only power in Europe since 1945. It remains a superpower. It makes single minded decisions. The Europeans are divided and do not count for anything. Neither singly nor as a collective can the Europeans can match Russia. So they are dependent on the US, and the US has made them into doormats. The combination of their puny status, and living next to a real power in the neighbourhood, gives the Europeans an inferiority complex and jealousy, which comes out as Russophobia.
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In 1994 Ukraine gave its nuclear weapons to Russia in exchange for promises to respect its sovereignty...' That was only one part of it. There was also the understanding that Ukraine will be neutral and not join any military alliances, Russian or western. Without this understanding, Ukraine would not have got independence. Ukraine had to give up its nukes AND agree to be neutral. Get it ? After the US initiated coup in 2014 which implanted a US favouring govt., the Ukrainian govt. voted to join NATO, unilaterally breaking a key condition for its independence. That day, Russia took back Crimea. Crimea has Sevastapol port which Russia was leasing from Ukraine, and using as the base for its Black Sea fleet. The moment Ukraine announced it would seek to join NATO, Russia realised the US Seventh fleet will be sailing from Sevastopol, and it would shut Russia off from the Black Sea. Hence, Russia took back Crimea. Had Ukraine not announced it will seek to join NATO, it would be intact, and even have had Crimea. Ukraine stabbed Russia in the back and decided to gang up with the US against Russia, so Ukraine's independence is terminated. For 3 years, Ukraine had US backing, but US now knows Ukraine cannot win in a fight with Russia, the US wants to leave and hand over its failed Ukraine project to Europe. Part of Ukraine will be incorporated back into Russia, the western part will be left but turned into a wasteland dependent on EU aid for however long it takes, and the US goes off to its next war project.
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Europe needs to be independent from America. America has landed Europe in trouble. The US sponsored the 2014 coup in Ukraine and brought Ukro Nazi Russophobes into power, that triggered a war. Europe has to scrap Russian gas and pay for US LNG (4x the price) and it gets the refugees. It has to buy more NATO equipment and it has to subsidise Ukraine for years. Long ago, de Gaulle had warned the Europeans, if a war comes to Europe, the Europeans should remember at the end of the day, Americans don't live in Europe and the British live on an island. These two countries have taken the least number of refugees.
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