Comments by "foil hat" (@foilhat1138) on "When the Missile Is the Message || Peter Zeihan" video.

@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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