Comments by "foil hat" (@foilhat1138) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

@Lirvan The EU built a desalinization plant and right after it was built Hamas went in and tore out all the pipes to make rockets.
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@ElijsDima It would require an act of congress to withdraw from NATO, presumably there are still enough hawks on the Republican side to prevent that.
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@TheAntsh They can be taken out easily if you have precision missiles. Which Russia lacks. They've spent the past two years taking out Ukrainian infrastructure wherever they could, what on earth are you talking about?
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The UK just walked away from trade negotiations with Canada over beef and cheese.
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@remarkymarkable Probably true, but you don't actually need the weapons, just the threat of them potentially existing is enough of a deterrent.
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@MatchSmith What actually happened was Yanukovich tried to sign the EU association agreement and Russia embargoed them in response, which was a violation of the Budapest Memorandum. 100% of parliament, including his own party then voted against Yanukovich but instead of signing the agreement he refused. This led to the predictable protests. The protests were to get him to sign the EU agreement though, nobody was asking for him to flee the country, he did that on his own accord. It wasn't a coup by any definition, the same government was in charge of Ukraine after Maidan as before.
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@MatchSmith Wrong. From the end of July 2013 to the beginning of a full embargo about 40 Ukrainian companies were put to the "list of risk" of Russian customs. On 14 August 2013 the Federal Customs Service of Russia put all Ukrainian importers to the "list of risk". These actions resulted in embargo of imports from Ukraine to Russia. This is historical fact, feel free to deny it, just don't expect anyone to take you seriously. Yanukovich fled because his thugs killed hundreds of protesters in Kyiv and that is difficult to come back from. The Party of Regions was still active well after the Crimea invasion and annexation, they themselves decided not to run because they were upset that the Donbas wouldn't vote in the election. It was Russia itself lthat occupied that territory, remember? Pro Russian parties were still active in Ukraine right up until the full scale invasion. It wasn't until Mar 20, 2022 that eleven Ukrainian Russian leaning political parties were suspended. Do you think maybe Russia's repeated invasions and annexation of Ukrainian territory may have moved the needle on that decision?
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@FlyingGuy The "one inch" comment was referring to NATO forces in East Germany while negotiations for unification were ongoing, which to this day there still aren't. It had nothing to do with other countries joining NATO, Russia wasn't particularly worried about Warsaw pact countries joining NATO. Moreover Russia and NATO signed the NATO-Russia founding act which unambiguously stated both alliances could expand as they saw fit.
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@fratomdev According to Minsk Russia was supposed to withdraw support for the rebels, remove its forces from the Donbas and retun control of all occupied territories to Ukraine, all under the supervision of the OSCE. Russia did none of these and violated Minsk on day one. Ukraine had implemented as much of Minsk as could reasonably be done while Russia still occupied its territory. The agreements require political measures on Ukraine’s side, including a special status for the region, an amnesty for those who committed crimes as part of the conflict, local elections, and some form of decentralization under the Ukrainian constitution. Ukraine has already passed legislation addressing every point. It has passed and extended with renewals legislation on special status and amnesty, and already has legislation on the books governing local elections. It has passed constitutional amendments. All that waas left was for Russia to leave Ukraine, which didn't happen.
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F16, Mirage.
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The west warned that there was going to be a terrorist attack in Moscow weeks ago. Whether this was the work of extremists or Russia trying to pull another '99 is up for debate, but I suspect another false flag.
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@orangedark Hamas is on video tearing the pipes out. They are also on video boasting how they were going to make rockets out of them. And another video of them making the rockets.
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We gave Putin an off ramp, he could have said 'Mission accomplished, we've successfully denazified and disarmed Ukraine SMO over." But he had his sham referendums and that went out the window.
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Just some little green men. Likely local Belgorodians who are tired of being bombed and oppressed by Russia and want freedom. They probably just got their equipment from army surplus stores and captured from the Russian army.
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@ChristyHyre Who do you think the US is protecting Canada from? The only threat to Canadian sovereignty is the US. Every Canadian military deployment in the past 50 years has been in support of the US, not the other way around.
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@TheAntsh Yeah they got them from North Korea. It also changes nothing, Russia has been trying to destroy Ukraine's food and energy infrastructure to freeze and starve as many Ukrainians as possible for two years now.
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@TheAntsh Yeah they got those from North Korea. this changes nothing, Russia has been targeting Ukrainian energy and agriculture infrastructure for two years now.
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@TheAntsh Yeah you can tell things are going well when Russia starts launching extremely expensive anti-ship missiles at apartment buildings. Almost like they lack conventional missiles. Do you think before you speak?
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@TheAntsh Wow two weeks later and you're still coming back here. You must have really got your feelings hurt, try not to cry ok. I've said multiple times that Russia has been trying to take out Ukraine's infrastructure since the start of the war, this changes nothing, its still less than they were doing in the first year of the war when they had an abundance of weapons.
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@TheAntsh Ok buddy, dry your eyes.
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