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

Netanyahu has to go ahead with the war as his ego, false pride and political life are at stake. The girl will lose her life in the process. The Israelis will be mired in Gaza and their opponents cannot be eradicated. A settler colonial apartheid state is not sustainable and the west should not waste its time over it. Israel does not know any other way of living, the western settler colonial mentality is embedded in their minds.
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The west worships such a clown. On the one hand Poland and Bulgaria say they have alternatives, so I don't see why they and the EU are raging about the cut off. In any case, Russia only wanted payment for its gas in roubles as depositing euros in a western bank is worthless for them. Why is that blackmail ? It was the EU's choice to make the euro worthless for Russia.
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Yeah right. Napoleon and Hitler reached Moscow but were frozen out. Russia has decided the capture of Donbass can now be sped up, the Ukrainians are over extended, let them stay in Kursk during winter and fool around, they can be driven out later.
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@freeheeler09 If the west escalates by supplying weapons, instead of persuading Zelensky to negotiate, it is possible that Putin will settle it with a tactical nuclear weapon. After all the, US did it on Japan, and they defend it saying it brought an end to the war. A CIA man has said so, even Zelensky thinks so, he is almost resigned to it. But it will not lead to a world war. Neither the US and NATO want to fight a nuclear war, as they cannot win that, because Russia will do in kind. If they drop a tactical nuke on Kiev, the west will shout about a war crime, but will not do beyond that. If the west wants to save Ukraine, instead of its own false pride, it will make Zelensky negotiate now. The problem is the west feels that then Putin has won. Alternatively, Russia takes Mariopol, and Donbass and then agrees to negotiate (it is a good bargain), without having to use the nuke.
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The US should not be training Ukranians, it should be pushing for negotiations. Ukranians will not be able to defeat Russia in the east, and get back the coastal areas. And there is the possibility Russia will settle it with a nuclear strike on Kiev. The US is playing a dangerous game at the expense of Ukranians.
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Actually, Putin is not in the corner in the first place, so it is condescending clap trap of the west about not humiliating him. Actually, the west needs a face saving way out. Its surrogate is losing militarily, and the west is losing in the economic warfare. Both cut a sorry figure. That is why they keep saying to each other 'we cannot allow Putin to win'. They see Putin is winning on the horizon.
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@jonnym4670 Oh, so now realise sanctions take years to work. Earlier your type said rouble will be rubble soon. Ukraine has last already lost. Here is the evidence : Ukraine will not be able to join NATO. The US now understands that Russia is ready to fight a nuclear war if needed. The US does not want its US cities destroyed, so it is not going to go and fight Russia. Ukraine has lost 20% of critical land. It has lost the industrial land and the coastal areas that control the shipping lanes. The part that remains will be dependent on EU aid and Russia will not allow it to be reconstructed by repeated aerial attacks. The west thought that it could get Russia to back off by economic warfare. The west was not prepared for Russia's counter economic warfare. Now the west has found that sanctions do not work, Russia's currency did not go down, the rest of the world did not boycott Russia, and the west in fact is now facing an economic crisis and an energy crisis. So the west does not have economic endurance to continue supporting Ukraine indefinitely. The US created this problem with NATO expansion. You need to swallow your false pride and accept reality.
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@carlosbaez7884 You don't know that the US fought Taliban for 20 years, dragging NATO along. After 20 years, the US under Trump negotiated with Taliban in 2021 in Doha (without NATO !) , and as soon Biden came, he withdrew from Kabul. The American troops dashed to the airport as the Taliban have a deadline. The Americans cornered the first flights out of Kabul, and forgot to tell NATO allies that it was leaving !!! Shameless people. You don't know about this ? Where have you been ? Did you start reading the news on 24 Feb 2022 ? It says two things about the US and NATO. They will not fight if they face casualties, because they do not want to die. The second is the US uses allies and ditches them when it does not need them - and that includes NATO. That is what we see with Ukraine also, just like Afghanistan. The US financed the Maidan coup in 2014, trained the Ukranian army to fight Russians, provided weapons etc., made them feel they were special and about to be inducted into NATO, but when the Russians put their foot down, the US and NATO watched from the sidelines, said they would not put soldiers or a 'no fly zone', as they don't want to get killed. They gave the Ukranians some arms. The US will fight Russia to the last Ukranian. If the Russians settle it with a tactical nuclear weapon, believe me the US and NATO will shout about war crime, but they will not do anything. I would never trust the US as an ally. Every country that has allied or served the US has been a door mat -whether they are Afghans, Latin Americans, Pakistanis, Arabs, Europeans, Ukranians..... Of course Europeans and Ukranians may think Americans have a special bond for them, but evidence shows despite that, the US is opportunist.
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@lorrainetaylor5894 You must be feeling emboldened by weaklings Finland and Sweden ! But it will not help Ukraine. There, Russia has defeated the west. Are you burning ?
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@darksector1389 Without the Red Army, Europe would be ruled by German Nazis. All of them would collaborate. The combination of Stalin, Red Army and the Soviet Union finished Hitler. 'Russians just have zero sense of strategy, they usually just have many numbers (cannon fodder) to exhaust the enemy. ' But the Russians win. The strategy of taking the industrial area, and the coastal area, and putting the blockade allows them to strangle Ukraine's economy. It is brilliant. The Ukraine that they have left for the moment is dependent on EU aid, and it cannot be reconstructed because missile strikes can happen unexpectedly. They have sapped the EU financially with energy cuts. Russia has started channels for non-dollar trade with non-western countries, with the aim of weakening the dollar. That is the most far-reaching strategy. When the dollar's value decreases because its demand for international trade settlements decreases, US power diminishes, and with that the EU, which is a US dependent, also fades away. Russian strategy is all encompassing : army, navy, air force, nuclear missiles to neutralise the US, hypersonic missiles (which the US has not got), satellites and satellite knock-out technology, cyber warfare and economic warfare. That is why Russia is formidable. I see a desperation in the talk and bluster of western leaders. I see that in your infantile response. The west just doesn't know what to do. They cannot admit the US folly of trying to induct Ukraine into NATO. The EU is so weak it cannot challenge the US. They cannot explain why they encouraged Ukraine along the path of confronting Russia and then, their cowardice in leaving Ukraine to fight alone . The west does not even have the intellect to learn from mistakes, as they mire themselves in further wars by encouraging Lithuania to act like Ukraine. They imagine the world is the west, but when they peer outside, the find no one is supporting them, and others support Russia.
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@lorrainetaylor5894 As if another two weaklings joining NATO will change the west's fortune in Ukraine ! Finland and Sweden prove how scared Europeans are. Russia is the predominant power on the continent and 30 or 32 countries are no match.
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@lorrainetaylor5894 Ukraine is losing and the west cannot reverse it. The best the west can do is hold G7 meetings and cheer themselves up with lame jokes.
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@Angry.General1461 Well, you are certainly realistic. I agree with you. But the problem is that it is an unbearable loss of face for the west. They have taken the stand 'we cannot let Putin win'. They believe their 'rules based international order' (which they flout when convenient) will collapse. So they will add fuel to the fire instead of water to douse it.
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@Angry.General1461 NATO is really the US. The rest do not count. The US has its own agenda. NATO expansion was pushed by Lockheed etc. in the 1990s to replace Soviet arsenal of the Warsaw Pact countries. Now the US's agenda is to weaken Russia so it does not wage war again (Austin). The weak countries of Europe are happy being the doormats of the US as they think it is their Lord Protector.
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@lorrainetaylor5894 300,000 troops on the borders - why don't they send them to Ukraine to see if they can make a difference ? NATO's exit from Kabul was the most cowardly display I have seen from an ensemble that claims to be the strongest fighting force in the world. The 300,000 troops will scatter if Russia went after them. NATO has not been tested yet. Russia has shown it can take on Ukraine + NATO militarily and it can wage economic war.
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@lorrainetaylor5894 Wait for who ? Ukranians ? Ukro Nazis surrendered in Azovstahl. Their Nazis tattoos were inspected and they were sent to Russia for a trial. Or should we wait and see NATO ? Those cowards don't have the courage to go into Ukraine. Instead, they are trying to induct two more weaklings and are making a show of it. 32 frightened chicken instead of 30 against the bear.
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Earlier western media reported also on the Ukro Nazis of Azov Batallion and Right Sector and the threat they posed Ukraine and the west also as white nationalists started flocking to get training. Now that Russia is liquidating the Ukro Nazis, they have become heroes of Azovstahl.
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I understand Israel has decided to invade and sacrifice the captives. Part of the war equation. Netanyahu needs the war so that people do not hold him accountable.
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@syav4467 Then why is Zelensky asking for a free exit for his Azov Nazis ?
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@syav4467 They have taken critical regions : Maripol, a land corridor to Crimea and they can control Ukraine's maritime trade. The amount of area is not what is important, it is what it controls.
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@syav4467 Ukraine has not been able to get back Crimea from 2014. It has lost more, and it will not get these back either.
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@syav4467 How is it a stalemate where only one side dies slowly ?
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@syav4467 The Azov Regiment has a Nazi ideology and was founded by the white supremacst Andrei Biletski. Russia is dismantling Nazism as they did in WW 2.
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@syav4467 On russians were pushed back out of Ukraine - it is wishful thinking. Ukraine could not get back Donetsk and Luhansk, or Crimea in the last 8 years. So what is your optimism based on ? They are not going to get back Mariopol and more they are going to lose. For Russia, Ukraine is strategic, they cannot allow NATO and US to put their missiles. They will do whatever it takes to stop that.
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@syav4467 They took Crimea, and Ukraine could not get it back. They have now taken land along the Black Sea coast, it can be supplied, and Ukraine will not be able to dislodge them. Kiev can be for later. Unless Ukraine signs a peace treaty reaffirming neutrality which was in their original constitution, Russia can keep Ukraine disturbed continually so that reconstruction is not possible. In any case, NATO membership is out, Ukraine knows that and US knows that. So I would not waste time with such losers who do not know the ABC of statecraft and who think being a proxy for the US against Russia will bring them benefits. I did not realise Ukranians were this stupid. During Soviet days, they used to rule the Soviet Union.
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Poland's, Bulgaria's and the EU's reactions show that despite the pretence that they are unaffected and they have alternatives, that is not the case. They are going to feel the pinch but they do not know how to climb out of the hole they have dug for themselves with NATO expansion and Zelensky worship. Their false pride makes it unable for them to accept the reality that Russia wields both economic and military power. The west is accustomed to think only they have economic and military power. So the west will cut its nose to spite their face.
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They do not need drones in Mariupol, the Nazi Azov needs to surrender or they will be starved out.
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Don't waste your money on Ukraine. Ukraine is a lost cause, and Israel is an apartheid state which is creating enemies for America in that region, and is causing decline of US influence.
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What kind of repercussions ? Oh, more sanctions ! Like the previous sanctions that did not work. Sullivan is useless.
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Russia is not asking for negotiations. Zelensky is begging to end the war by December. Russia will keep going till Ukraine accepts neutrality and cedes land, or all of it is destroyed.
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@j96700 No it will not. Afghanistan was not vital to Russia like Ukraine is. Ukraine will be as ravaged as Afghanistan and reconstruction will be impossible. Russia will not allow it. Russia has taken the industrial areas and the coastal areas, and that is not reversible. With the coastal blockade, Russia is able to strangle Ukraine's economy.
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I can see you are a Brit with a colonial nostalgia about being a world power. Why are you ashamed about the decline of your military power ? Your military did plenty of things to be ashamed about. The days in which your military was used to loot India, and impose your reign and strip that country of its wealth to build yours, are over. Even after de-colonisation of India, you went on colonial adventures during the Suez crisis of 1956, and you joined the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, and now you are actively stoking war in Ukraine. But now your power and wealth have shrunk. No matter how much you increase your spending, you cannot fight Russia, or China or India.
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@garrydimasa1964 The Empire ended decades ago .... that advice is difficult to comprehend for people who made their wealth by looting India. They cannot think of any other way to be wealthy other than with military conquest. They invaded Iraq saying WMDS could hit them in 40 minutes, and they were boasting about their invincible Challengers till the Russians destroyed them. Bad habits die hard.
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@TomGodson95 'The US is in way more debt than the UK but they manage to find a way...'. The way the US manages to do is by printing dollars but avoiding inflation....They print dollars to pay for the interest. And that was done by forcing the Saudis and Gulf oil producers to sell oil only in dollars - that kept up demand and value of the dollar, as big oil consumers like China and India had to buy oil in dollars. They could get dollars only by selling goods and services cheaply to the US. Thus the US had the best of all worlds : they could print dollars, import goods and services cheaply, and run massive deficits without inflation. A military machine was built to wage war on anyone who tried to undermine this system - like Saddam when he started selling oil in euros and Gadaffi who talked about setting up an Islamic dinar to sell oil. However, the world order has changed and the US is unable to maintain it by force any longer. The sanctioning of Russia and seizing its dollar deposits forced Russia to de-dollarise trade. China had set up a gold backed currency back in 2018 - the yuan. It was given a boost by America sanctioning Russia. Besides China using it for trade settlements, Russia is also using the yuan. The weaponising of the dollar has led to several countries to jump on the band wagon of de-dollarisation. The arrival of BRICS means there is sufficient production in other countries compared with 70 years ago, so that if the west bars exports of goods, there are others who can fill in. For example, when European car makers left Russia, the Chinese could enter and fill in the gap; the Europeans lost market share in Russia which they will never recover. Previous efforts at de-dollarisation were stopped by the US with war and regime change operations. However, the the main drivers of de-dollarisation today are China, Russia, India, Iran, and not the weak Arabs. The US cannot invade Russia and China and induce regime change as they did in Iraq, Libya etc. Trump's realises the gravity of de-dollarisation. His announced solution to de-dollarisation is to impose tariffs (so far, he has not chosen war). However, the others like BRICS can trade between themselves, and the US will be starved of cheap goods. If the US puts tariffs on textiles coming from China, India, Bangladesh etc., the US textile industry will not revive as it is completely gone; all that will happen is Americans won't have cheap clothes. Tariffs will accelerate de-dollarisation.
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@kim-ys2fs Russia is only threatening the UK as much as the UK actively engages in threatening Russia. If you send arms to Ukraine, why shouldn't Russia threaten UK ? Numskull !
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The war is lost and western sources are now starting to admit it. It was obvious to non-westerners 1 year ago.
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If Putin uses the Sarmat missile, it will be “lightning fast”. He did not use it in the first attempt on Kiev, but he can come back. If Sarmat is used, NATO will not be able to stop it.
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@DavidStaab-zi3ls 'Ukrainian people are dying fighting so that American troops don’t need to so show some respect to their sacrifice. Or just keep playing video games and your mother’s basement at 40 is my guess.' What is the meaning of your sentence ? Lockheed profits, and Ukrainians are dying - do you see that as a win-win deal ? What is America's business in Ukraine ? America is across the Atlantic, why does it create conflict in every corner of the world ? Do you know English ?
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