Comments by "John Adam" (@johnadam2885) on "Channel 4 News" channel.

  1.  @simontemplar404  Yours is only a wish. Would you care to explain how Russia will be expelled from Ukraine ? Ukranians have lost 20% of the land, and more will go. NATO is too cowardly to send troops.
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  2. Why did not these fellows go and fight against the invaders of Afghanistan and Iraq ?
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  3. Ukraine was given a warning on NATO membership, and that it would threaten Russia. So it cannot complain if Russia dismantles Ukraine.
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  4. She says Russians have incredibly skilled negotiators. Putin cares about every single detail, and it is to Russia's advantage. The west looked down on Russia, mocked it, but now they know. The west cannot fight Russia militarily and economically., or even diplomatically.
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  5.  @run2cat4run  'Funny that NATO refused Ukraine intervention so not to point the bear but the bear without getting point is invading Ukraine' You don't get the point. Russia is more powerful than NATO. Ukraine's counter offensive is a flop, that land is gone for good. NATO knows that. The only chance Ukraine has is if NATO sends troops. But NATO refused intervention, not because it does not want to provoke the bear, but because it is afraid of being killed by the bear !
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  6. It is the same people who support Israel. And Ukraine also supports Israel, and it send 5000 troops to Iraq to please America.
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  7. So why don't you send troops ?
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  8.  @gnehzeey  All that Ukraine has was built by the USSR - the infra structure, power stations, the nuclear reactors, the educational institutions, the railways, the Antonov plane factory, T 72 tank factory. Although the media keeps telling Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe, the people look well dressed and fed, they fleeing with pets, their trains and buildings look good. The USSR rebuilt Ukraine after the devastation the Germans caused - without any Marshall aid. So how dare you say they had nothing ? Ukraine's independence was conditional on agreeing not to join any military alliance against Russia. Putin said he had no objection to Ukraine joining the EU; that is an economic alliance, not a military alliance. The Ukranians tried to cheat on the neutrality condition. They tried to join NATO, indulge in Russophobia and they thought they could do this because of NATO shield. They were warned by Russia not to play this dangerous game. Their society bred Ukro Nazis like the Right Sector and Azov batallion. Therefore Russia has revoked Ukraine's independence and take it back. Ukraine cannot be brought back, 20% is taken, and what remains is unviable. Ukranias achieved something as part of the USSR. In fact, they had rulers - like Khrushchev, Chernenko. When they were given independence, in 30 years they chose policies that made them a failed state. So they would be better off taken back by Russia.
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  9. Russian aims are not achieved says the interviewer. Is that true ? Russia has established that Ukraine will not join NATO. Zelensky understands it, the west also understands that it cannot place NATO missiles in Ukraine. So Russia's key objectives have been met - even if regime change was not achieved. Ukraine has lost more land - the strategic coastal areas. Russia will turn Ukraine into an unviable landlocked rump, that has to be dependent on EU aid. Russia can easily block any reconstruction efforts till Ukraine disarms and signs neutrality. It is a disaster to Ukraine and its backers.
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  10.  @abodabalo  It is not Ukraine’s free choice to apply for membership. Under the conditions in which Ukraine became independent, it had to give up nukes and give an assurance to Russia that it would not join any military alliance against Russia. Ukraine's independence declaration said it would be neutral. Otherwise, Russia would not have given independence. Thus, Ukraine's sovereignty was never absolute in this regard. You are speaking like a simpleton. Either you are ignorant of the details above or you are wilfully duplicitous. After the 2014 coup organised by the US, in which Nazi groups like Right Sector and Azov Batallion took part, Ukraine unilaterally changed its constitution to say NATO entry was a goal. The Ukro Nazi groups spread Russophobia thinking they had infinite American protection. Zelensky said if Russian Ukranians want links with Russia, they should go to Russia - the classic line of fascists. Even before Ukraine entered NATO, the US was training the Ukranian army in a centre near Lvov, to make them NATO-ready. Why ? Ukraine sent 5000 troops to Afghanistan even though it was not in NATO yet. It was helping Americans kill Afghans who had done no harm to Ukraine. So now when Ukrainians get killed, in the non-west, many would say 'let them get a taste of what they did in Afghanistan'. Zelensky said Israel is the victim and the Palestinians are the aggressors. Hence, Zelensky has no credibility outside the west. As Ukraine unilaterally reneged on its commitment on neutrality given to Russia at independence, and planned to enter into NATO and allow the US to threaten Russia, Russia has every right to annul Ukraine's independence and take it back so it does not bring in America to threaten Russia. Ukraine has blown its chance to be an independent state due to American interference and machinations, and the Ukranians' penchant for Nazi style nationalism. The eastern part and the coastal regions are gone, and Russia will make the part that is left an unviable, failed state, where reconstruction is not possible. If the remainder of Ukraine wants to survive, it will have to go back to neutrality AND agree to lose more land. Russia will not agree to anything less now. Such is the price for following Zelensky, Ukro Nazis and America.
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  11. Did the stupid lady narrator say 'phallic weapons of war' ? Would she say the same about western weapons ?
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  12. Ukraine asked for a ''no fly zone'. So when are you providing that ?
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  13. Can Europe stop Putin on its own? He who threatens or attacks Russia gets defeated. History proves that. The French were defeated in 1812 by Russia. The French now would not dare send troops for a direct engagement. The Red Army beat Germany into a pulp in 1945, and made Germans a peaceful people. The British boast a lot because they won a war in Crimea in 1856, but they would not dare fight a land war against Russia now. Look at Russia's arsenal - a single Sarmat missile will take out Britain. 100 years later, the Soviet Union forced Britain to climb down after the Suez crisis in 1956 when Britain went back to its colonial mischief and invaded Egypt. In 2025, Russia has defeated the collective west in its wicked plan to put NATO bases in Ukraine to threaten Russia. Ukraine has to cede 20% land at least (and more if it does not agree to neutrality), Ukraine cannot be in NATO, and the US is not going to send peacekeepers, and Russia will not allow Europeans inside Ukraine. This is comprehensive victory enough, but Russia is going to achieve more - end NATO altogether so that the double faced Europeans do not threaten Russia ever ! Russia is a great country and the rest of the world salutes it for defeating the collective west. The collective west invaded and robbed Africa, Latin America, India, China, Arabs....They practised slave trade and apartheid, and they back Israel. Russia helped the South African people fighting to end apartheid. It helped many developing countries. Europe and the west will not be able to return to the world order they ran for their benefit at the expense of others. That is the magnitude of Russia's achievement.
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  14. I assumed it was Somalis. They have a record of downing Black Hawks. At least three.
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  15.  @s_kosto  If that is true, you would not reply. Obviously, what I wrote cannot be ignored, but you do not have the intellect to refute it.
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  16.  @frogashow  NATO is not so innocent as you pretend. It invaded Afghanistan and runs around as the US's errand boy. Ukraine sent 5000 troops to Iraq. so it should not complain. Actually, NATO is a just a tool for American expansion and threats to others. The US sponsored anti-Russian Ukro Nazi groups like Right Sector and Azov Batallion, and overthrew the elected govt. in Kiev in 2014, and implanted a govt. of their choice. This is the model they have used in Latin America, Pakistan - use money and military power to corrupt local governments and create a faction that supports them. The implanted govt. in Kiev wanted to join NATO, reneging on the commitment to neutrality given to Russia at the time of independence. The US desire was to have missile and more important naval bases in Ukraine. Russia took action in the nick of time to avoid US mischief. Putin had said in the interview, it is costly for Russia to take this action, but the cost will be greater later if the US got its way. If Ukraine got into NATO, Russia would have to fight a nuclear war to get remove US. By intervening at the correct time, it is clear Ukraine cannot join NATO, nor the US have naval bases. Ukraine can keep shouting it is going to join NATO, but Ukraine will not exist in the form of 1991, its a failed state, its time is over. Russia has the upper hand militarily and it is the winning the economic war against the west. Putin is a master strategist and what he has done is very profound. You do not have the intellect to figure it out. Single handedly, Putin has ended the so called western 'rules based order', and the dollar run international economy, where the rules are formulated by the west, which they impose on others and disregard when they want (like in the invasion of Iraq).
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  17.  @jusmeetsingh1907  You are putting on a brave face for the west, Singh. 'The power infrastructure they destroy is being restored immediately.' Ukraine's grid operator has told Ukranians to expect 4-5 hours power cuts. As winter advances, unless they do the cuts, the whole thing will collapse. 'So instead of complaining about these attacks and exaggerating them for propaganda purposes, Zelensky and Ukrainian govt and West are quietly welcoming these drone attacks... ' What are you talking about, Ukraine is begging for anti missile systems, and the west is scratching its head. Otherwise, there will be more refugees. '....and how they are helping Biden to do regime change in Russia.' Hmm, is that so ? Look at Italy - Draghi is gone. UK - arch anti-Russian, BoJo gone; Truss is slated to go. After mid-term elections, Biden will be a lame duck; Republicans are questioning blank cheque for Ukraine. I bet you any money Putin will still be there after Truss, Biden and many western leaders are gone. Putin has got not only the Ukrainian but the European economy by the scruff of the neck. He is de-industrialising Europe. In fact, what has done is profound : he has single handedly ended the western 'world order' for good. China, India, Turkey, Saudi, Iran and the rest of the world is ignoring/defying the west. He has catalysed non-dollar trade and that portends the eventual end of US dominance. The satellite states go down with it.
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  18.  @jusmeetsingh1907  In this post, you sum up the reality about western thinking. Bourell, the EU's foreign minister summed up Europe's world view : he said Europe is a well maintained garden, the rest of the world is a jungle, if we don't take care, the jungle will invade. Ursula von Leyen said Ukrainians are part of the European family (meaning Ukrainian refugees are welcome as your look like us; but those Afghan and Iraqi refugees we created are not welcome). The western angst and fury is that Putin has single- handedly ended the western 'global order'. This was the order they constructed with their financial system and military power whereby their rules are imposed on others, but they make exceptions for themselves. They talk about sovereignty but invade Iraq because Iraq does not have the right to have WMDs, whereas the west has the right to do so (because they are very responsible people).
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  19. Western media have been giving misinformation projecting to the Ukranians and western public the false hope that the plucky and brave Ukranians are standing up to the Russians, and the Russian attack was floundering, and their economy was collapsing due to sanctions. Zelensky the comedian appeared everyday and boasted about his fighters had blown up convoys and not allowed Russians to enter. Western govts. talked about how they are sending arms and even fighters. Now, we understand the big weapons are being lined up and even BoJo understands Kiev will be decimated if it resists and there is nothing Ukranians and the west can do. The Russians have given the civilians time to get out, they are only after Zelensky and his team who thought they could live by putting US missiles to threaten Russia. It does not work. The west is responsible as it encouraged Zelensky's anti Russian phobia. It would have been much better if the Europeans had been realistic to sign an agreement that NATO will not expand to Ukraine in exchange for all other sovereignty for Ukraine. BoJo was making inflammatory statements saying Russia will fail and collapse, but now knowing what is coming, he was left with no way to respond to the lady. The Ukranians have been told they are the finest Europeans every bit like us according to Ursula von Leyen, and Europeans have special rights, so one cannot blame the lady in the video for her expectations from the people who told her you can threaten Russia because you are us.
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  20.  @Concord003  'So I will support any course that brings Ukraine into the EU. It has much better record in upholding freedom.' Russia has never objected to the EU or Ukraine joining the EU. Recently, Putin said he had no issue when Ukraine's EU application was announced. He said the EU is an economic alliance. Russia's objection has always been NATO which is a military alliance whose only purpose is to threaten Russia. The US wants Ukraine in NATO so it can put missiles there and have naval bases on the Black Sea. That is a grave threat to Russia. Ukraine's independence declaration had promised it would be a neutral state. That is one condition based on which Russia gave independence. However, Ukraine reneged on that unilaterally. Therefore Russia has decided to enforce the neutrality or cancel Ukraine's independence. 'Also, imagine you're President Zelenskii of Ukraine. Imagine you personally agree Ukraine should be neutral and surrender land in the East and South to get peace. What do you say to the people? What do you say to the families of tens of thousands of soldiers who bled and died to defend the land, which you are now giving to the enemy?' I understand the dilemma. He has to say to his people that unless we sign on neutrality AND cede the land, we shall lose all of Ukraine. The window for negotiations to get such a deal is coming to an end. After Russia completes Donbass operation, they will offer such terms. Ukraine and west will refuse. Then Russia will decided that coming this far, they might as well advance to the Dnieper and take half of Ukraine. What is left of Ukraine will be a landlocked failed state needing EU aid. The Ukranians miscalculated and pawned their sovereignty to get US support, by inciting Russophobic nationalism. They have blown their chance for independence.
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  21.  @milkhit2714  Odessa is in the re-acquisition plan. But even without Odessa, Russia is strangling Ukraine's economy. Why do you think Ukraine has a problem exporting its grain ? Putin said he has no problem with EU membership. But Russia will not allow NATO membership. You are projecting wishful fantasies about Ukraine having a rosy future in the EU. It is like the EU holding a fantasy conference on reconstruction of Ukraine when (1) it is not known how much Ukraine will remain (2) whether Russia will allow reconstruction of any left-over Ukraine and (3) whether the EU has money to fund reconstruction when it itself is heading for dire economic problems. The EU is putting on such shows even though there is no chance of it directing reconstruction. The EU feels defeated and inadequate. And you are feeling the same way, that is why you talking vainly about the bright future Ukraine has. The reality is Ukraine has no future at all. If the Ukraine that is left over wants to be part of the EU, it can, but only if it goes back to neutrality and distances itself from NATO. If it does not do that, Russia will continue till all of Ukraine is taken. The strong cards all with Russia, and not with Ukraine, EU or NATO.
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  22.  @Concord003  So Ukraine is trapped. It does not want to submit but there is no way it can win. Then fight on till Russia takes Kiev. It was exactly the same situation for the Nazis in Germany. The tide of the war turned after the surrender of the German army in Stalingrad. Hitler (like Zelensky today) could not admit he made a miscalculation. Goebbels made a speech after the Stalingrad debacle saying Germans would go for Total War. It was like Zelensky claiming Ukraine will now fight to get back all territory up to Crimea, and he has a million strong army to do it. The Germans were fighting up to the entry of the Red Army in Berlin. After Stalingrad, the time for negotiations was over. The USSR would only settle for unconditional surrender. Like that, after the Donbas operation is finished, Russia will not agree to negotiations. They might as well advance more. Russia will not rest till Zelensky is laid to rest. Ukraine has squandered its independence after being seduced by the west to take a Russophobic stance, and allowing neo Nazis to control state policy. The US has created such divisions in other countries as well where it wants a foothold.
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  23.  @nic7048  The western media was saying Putin was dying due to Parkinson's, cancer etc. They were also saying there will be a coup. Now, they recognise that was wishful thinking. So what you are saying is old wishes. As for Russia being poor by 2030, Europe is going to be poor immediately by this winter, and Ukraine'e economy is strangled, so what are you talking about ? Nobody in Russia will be freezing, its industry will have power - unlike Europe. Russia has land, water, food (biggest wheat supplier), energy, metals, industry and strong armament industry (missiles + nukes). How many countries have all of these ? Hardly, any.
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  24. She says the Ukranians are defending democracy. They are defending their Ukro Nazis - Right Sector and Azov Regiment. Russia will not tolerate Nazis.
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  25. Russia also has a lot of firepower and decisive leaders.
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  26.  @Setinmywaysalways  The 'better Russians' for you are the ones who want to be surrogates of the west like Zelensky. Yes, Russia curbs them.
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  27. Russia has defeated the collective west including the US. Russia should be congratulated on this stupendous achievement. Sir Putin is a man of steel, maybe not equal to Stalin, but he is stronger and stiffer than all the weaklings of the west.
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  28.  @jaroslavazverinova4836  'Sp why are the people living in that country so poor?' I do not see the connection of your comment to what I wrote on Russia defeating the collective west. Which country is poor ?
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  29. Putin is ending Europe - and its of standard living.
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  30. Krushchev's daughter is objective - she understands American cowboy mentality, and Russian thinking. Something a westerner is incapable of.
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  31. Somewhere in between the western propaganda and wishful thinking, the truth comes out : Ukraine's goose is cooked in Bakhmut, and the war is lost for the west. Single handedly, Russia has overturned the western imposed global order. Russia has even screwed up the west's economy and financial institutions. The west needs an off ramp to climb down from their stand that Putin should not be allowed to win (Boris Johnson), and Ukraine of 1991 must be restored with Crimea. Anything else is defeat for the west, they are forced to sink their money in hard times for making Ukraine win. None of NATO has the courage to go to fight for Ukraine. Instead, they stand outside and supply stones to the Ukranians in the vain hope they can fend off the marauding Great Bear.
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  32. 'He is a disgusting excuse of a man.' Trump's supporters are just as angry as him. They are starry eyed about him.
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  33. Putin should not accept any 30 day truce. It will be used by the west to arm the Ukraine. Since Russia has the upper hand and it has the experience of how the west used Minsk 2 agreement to buy time to arm Ukraine (Merkel), it will not fall for this.
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  34. Less tax, but more money for Ukraine. Where does that come from ?
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  35.  @bogdanbaudis4099  The heard the cost of LNG versus piped gas in a debate on France 24h, between a Qatari energy expert and a European - they said 7-10%. It is expected because the gas has to be compressed, cooled and liquified, then sent in ships, and then unloaded and stored. US having lots of shale gas is not relevant. That has to be cooled and compressed and sent by ship, that is where the cost is. The EU can get an alternative supply through LNG - but it will always be at a very much higher price, which automatically means lower standard of living for the public, as your disposable income has to pay for higher fuel costs, and the cost of Industrial production goes up, so EU goods become even more uncompetitive (high labour cost + high operating cost). EU and NATO countries are paying for the reckless NATO expansion which was the result of US policy to benefit its arms industry. It is not for you to decide whether you can take Russia's money to pay Ukraine. The frozen assets are about 300 billion. The cost of reconstruction as of now is 600 billion according to Zelensky. It will become 1 trillion after another few months. Russia can just destroy more of Ukraine and you can keep dreaming the frozen assets will be used to pay Ukraine. You can do that to Afghanistan. But Russia will tear Ukraine in one way or another. No one can dictate to Russia. That should be clear by now. They checked NATO expansion in no uncertain terms. Ukraine is never going to be in NATO.
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  36. When Russia gives a warning, it means business. They will take their time, but when they punch, it will be very hard. Lithuania is counting on the US to be willing to fight a nuclear war for Lithuanians. It is not going to happen. The rest of NATO is useless. Lithuania has a death wish. Or perhaps it is being egged on by the EU, NATO and the US.
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  37.  @edvigq  Do you think Estonia being hawkish helps them ? Lithuania tried to put a blockade on Russian trains to Kaliningrad, violating the agreement that gave Lithuania independence. Lithuania climbed down when a Russian politician said that Lithuania's independence must be reconsidered.
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  38.  @georgine321  Lithuanians listened to the Russians when they said they will have to reconsider Lithuania's independence. Why else did the Lithuanians drop their attempted blockade. Because they realised Russia will kick their head in and the US would look the other way. Get it ?
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  39.  @chriscampbell9191  'I have yet to read or hear any military expert say that's the case.' Western military experts will not claim their failures like Ukraine's 2023 counter offensive. They would claim it if Ukraine succeeded. Before the counter offensive, Stoltenberg said Ukraine had 98% of what it needed. After the flop, he did not explain why NATO's tanks and the rest got burnt, and the Ukrainians could not cross the first defence line. Who are western military experts ? Generally British idiots who say Russia is fighting with shovels, and their electronics comes from washing machines. One of them even said Ukraine could not advance in the counter offensive because the weeds had grown too tall !
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  40.  @Blanka1100  What are the achievements of these great people, Kallas and Sikorski, apart from barking like chichua dogs ?
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  41.  @jefferyshute6641  'The Russians had several months to prepare 3 lines of fortified defense.' Give them credit for reading NATO's mind correctly. 'NATO countries would never have attempted the counter-offensive without air superiority over the battlefield, which Ukraine did not have.' Ukraine was pressed into the counter offensive and given a time table by NATO. Stoltenberg said Ukraine had 98% of what it needed for the counter offensive. So was air cover the 2% that was missing. If NATO countries would never have attempted the counter-offensive without air superiority over the battlefield, then why did you make Ukraine do it ? You are criminal. You don't mind seeing Ukrainians killed to save your ugly pride. Since NATO does not have air superiority over Russia, and Ukraine also does not have it, why is NATO driving war ?
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  42.  @tempest411  'Except Estonia is very much a country, and a country with better quality leaders. No Trump's, or Marjorie Taylor Greens.' It has anti-Russian rabble rousers like Kallas who would like to fight a war with Russia - using others. How could you be so dumb ? The impression you give is the whole western world feels so defeated it looks up to Estonia.
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  43. The western world lives in la-la-land because it feels defeated. So it looks up to Kallas to lead them. That is the depth of the defeat.
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  44. 'It’s truly astounding how Putin thought he could just invade a country and no one would do anything' Putin did not imagine no one would do anything. He prepared for it. He knew the west would not have the guts to fight a war, and he knew they will freeze assets and launch economic war. Amazingly, he was prepared to launch counter economic warfare and that is bringing the west to its knees. Germany is rationing energy, and there are predictions of business closures. Russia has to be admired as it has the unflinching will to take on the west. No one else, not even China, can do that. Russia has the strong cards, it is capable of military AND economic warfare. Energy is more valuable than currency. The days of western blackmail by freezing dollar assets are over.
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  45. NATO already lost in its Ukraine plan, it lost to Taliban, it does not inspire confidence.
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  46. Russia made a mistake giving Ukraine independence. Never imagined the Ukranians would become such backstabbers for Russia. Everything Ukraine has was due to USSR and Russia. Now, the mistake is being corrected. Ukraine is being broken up and reabsorbed. There is no other solution. Otherwise, the US will get in and put bases to threaten Russia.
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  47. Hopeless video. I watched till the end to hear What would Nato do if Russia used chemical weapons? There was no statement ! It seems the usual western bluster. What will they do ? More sanctions ? Who is left to sanction ?
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  48. The UK has nothing to give. It is all mouth and no trousers.
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  49.  @r-e_mii  The UK does not have the capacity to fill the gap. They are all mouth and no trousers.
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  50. This interviewer demands the Palestinian Ambassador to condemn the attack. But it is like asking the Jewish concentration camp inmate who killed the camp guard to condemn and apologise for what he did. One important point that the west does not understand is the fire Israel is playing with in trying to demolish the Al Aqsa Mosque. The Palestinian ambassador has said the attack was caused by this and it was called Operation Al Aqsa. Any attempt to demolish the mosque will cause major attacks on Israelis, Jews and the west, and it will not be controllable. The west has no understanding of this mischief that Israel is doing, it is just obsessed with the death of a few Israelis.
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