Comments by "King Ace" (@kingace6186) on "William Spaniel" channel.

  1. As an American who voted for Harris, this is my advice for Europe. Give up on us. It will take us 4 or 8 years to recover from this. Functionally, NATO is now just a European defensive alliance + Canada. Unfortunately, the same is true for the Paris Agreement.
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  2. (10:45) Why is IAEA flexing on us so hard? LMFAO
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  3. Yeah. Whac-a-Mole theory is a very old strategy for Israel but it hasn't seemed to decrease violence output or terrorism. This feels like the Israeli Government is trying to double down on the theory as a hail mary. It's a precarious gambit.
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  4. You don't desperately cling to power for 30+ years just to throw it all away to appease a dictator whose military is already bogged down. It's a loss of leverage for Russia. Moreover, doing Putin a favor won't be worth it if Lukashenko sees Putin as someone who won't pay back his debts. Same reason that Russia can't properly attack Belarus if it disobeys is the same reason that Russia can't properly defend Lukashenko's hold on power.
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  5. Here is an extra tangent that might be more realistic. Despite already being under the NATO, Poland is flirting with the idea of getting nukes themselves. It's in a much better position to pull it off than Ukraine. Hypothetically, Warsaw could go as far as claiming their nuclear deterrent has an umbrella that also covers Ukraine due to fallout or something. It's kinda unsettling how a lot of countries are even thinking about resorting to this.
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  6. The ironic part is that Russia manufactured or froze the disputes for the Kremlin's political benefit. Now those disputes are coming back to bite them in the ass.
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  7. That says a lot about the ever-burning fire that is the world.
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  8. And Finland had/has the benefit of winter
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  9. That part.
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  10. Seriously. If his cabinet picks weren't lying about their intent to cut defense spending waste, that would be a great place to start.
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  11. 😂😂 @Gametheory101 
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  12. The saddest part about all of this is that this all happened while Alexei Nalany was being charged with even more fake crimes in a closed trial to serve even more time in a prison filled with far-right convicts that are sympathetic to either Putin or Prigozhin. He is still the only President that Russia deserves.
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  13. Same here. Same here.
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  14. I like how the US's response to North Korea deploying to fight Ukraine with Russia is just to instigate a rift with China. Pentagon and State Department were like, "Are you really gonna let you puppet state get so chummy with your weaker frenemy/rival? I thought you wanted to apply pressure on South Korea and Japan as it relates to Taiwan. Then why is North Korea in Europe? See if that happened to me, I'd--" And just like that: Welcome Mr. Nixon.
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  15. That's the obvious choice. And Kherson Oblast or the Donbas are still equally strategic targets. At least on the surface level, the difficulty of all three targets is equilateral.
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  16. Now that's the trillion-dollar question.
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  17. Lol. It would be amazing if William's books were sold in bookstores. Like a local Barnes & Noble.
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  18. Russia keeps attacking Ukrainian energy? Well, 2 can play at that game.
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  19. Less ammo and equipment, but still more soldiers.
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  20. Russia: "Help! I am drowning! I need help!" China, Brazil, India, & Saudi Arabia: "Here, buddy." Throw a lifeline Also Russia: "HA! Screw you!" Pulls them into the water to walk on top of them.
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  21. I would also like to mention the global protest/boycott of the 2022 Qatar World Cup. For the women, the LGBTQ+ Community, and all the migrant workers that live oppressed in Qatar
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  22. Maybe. Maybe not. Let's see.
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  23. The Saudi people are increasingly hating Israel, but the Sauds have been trying to formalize an alliance for years now. So inevitable, yes. But the timeline depends on Israel's policies, OR how pissed off Saudi Arabia gets at Iran. Also if MBS messes up the timing, his alliance could cause a direct war.
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  24. Fking positional warfare
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  25. I keep thinking this. He is basically dead weight. What use does he serve Putin now?
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  26. Actually, the Austro-Hungarians and the Germans saw the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb (Serbians were backed by the Russian Empire) as the start of the war. Therefore, the Kingdom of Italy was obligated to join in on the war as the defensive pact was triggered. Instead, Italy broke that promise, declared "nEuTrAlItY" and only joined in 1915 for its own territorial interests -- ultimately switching sides, again, for its own territorial interests. These are the objective facts.
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  27.  @burningphoenix6679  That is just a matter of subject semantics. If Ukrainians killed Putin's hypothetical son, that is tantamount to a declaration of war.
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  28. LMFAOOOOO You are so naive. You are all fked. Trump is going to let Netanyahu "finish the job". The entire Middle East is fked.
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  29.  @huwenkai440  I see.
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  30. Kerch* Bridge
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  31. The West doesn't like learning from history. That's our greatest weakness.
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  32.  @diegodessy9700  Maybe the Kingdom of Italy did get treated poorly by the Germans & Austrians. But at the end of the day, the Austrian heir was assassinated by a nationalist of one of the Russian Empire's proxies. When the Austro-Hungarians were attacked, the German Empire upheld its part of the defensive pact, but the Italians did not. Whether Italy was justified is a matter of debate. But what is objectively true was that the Kingdom did not answer the call of war (a war that Austria-Hungary did not spark).
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  33.  @diegodessy9700  So all three are guilty of alliance abandonment at one point or another.
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  34. Putin wanted an empire to be feared and got incompetent pariah status, instead. If anything, China and India are the only winners.
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  35. LINES ON MAPS... of planets!???
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  36. If this war ends in a ceasefire and a dmz, it is only a matter of time (maybe a decade) until Russia decides to try its luck against. It's not just about Putin's mortality. The Russian establishment is still pro-imperialism, regardless.
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  37. My man William has been over here releasing video after video at breakneck speed. This channel is amazing.
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  38. Hungary isn't a problem for NATO. Hungary is a problem for the EU. If NATO's problem was a nation it would be Erdogan's Turkey.
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  39.  @phantorang  If Article 5 was ever triggered in any meaningful way -- like say 9/11 -- I am sure the West can count on Turkey .... hopefully.
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  40.  @phantorang  But Orban really does concern me.
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  41. That part
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  42. This is why I saw Russia was no "hero" in WW2. Eastern European Slavs and other people were deprived of peace and life twice over; by the Nazis and by the Bolsheviks. Yet, NATO is the "villain" in Russian propaganda.
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  43.  @awalk5177  What you are not mentioning is that Crimea has always been ground zero for proxy wars and expansionism for countries around the Black Sea and from the Euroasian Steppes. Before the Ottomans, several nomadic tribes conquered and settled it; the Mongols being the most well-known. The Ottomans controlled Crimea for centuries until the Russians tried taking it (starting with Sevastopol). During the Crimeans War, the Russian Empire was defeated by the Ottomans and the other European empires. The Russian Empire could never secure the peninsula long enough to rule. Then came the Soviets who took Crimea and annexed it -- since the Ottoman Empire died and AttaTurk advocated for semi-isolationism. This is when Stalin came to power and deported the ethnic Tartars, native to Crimea, and began moving Slavic people there. Premier Khrushchev gave it the Soviet Ukraini as a sort of Trojan Horse, since it had a large Russian population. In conclusion, the history of Crimea is one of military annexations and ethnic cleansings. The latest case of ethnic cleansing was when Putin invaded & invaded Crimea; then, deported or scared off ethnic Ukrainians living there since 2014.
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  44.  @BRMCX69  So in summary, "I am gonna deny everything you said so Russia doesn't look as bad". This comment wraps facts to support a pseudo-claim just like how Noam Chomsky denied the Milokovic-sanctioned Bosnian genocide.
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  45.  @awalk5177  A biased comment that dilutes the facts. But, hey! Freedom of speech, right?
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  46.  @BRMCX69  Here is some education. During the 1990s, Chomsky felt very sympathetic toward the Milosevic Regime. Because of this, he utilized his linguistic skills to twist the fact. All to deny the Bosnian Genocide carried out by the Serbs. Similarly, you are twisting the facts due to your Russian sympathies to deny the state-sanctioned ethnic cleansing in Crimea.
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  47.  @BRMCX69  Okay bro. One the Russian Empire IS DEAD so Cathy the Great IS IRRELEVANT. Jesus, you sound like Putin talking about "Greater Russia". The Bolsheviks were the ones that reconquered the territories of the DEAD Russian Empire (and then some). And Stalin was the one Lenin sent to subdue the Ukrainians and the Pole. It was then when the Red Army militarily annexed Crimea. I gave Stalin the credit because he was the one responsible for the ethnic cleansing that followed the annexation.
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  48. It seems my generation is starting to experience the spiraling realities of Cold War brinkmanship.
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  49. You started a really cool easter egg. #wheresputin
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  50. 14:19 That's surprising. Not the Harris lean, but the Non-American lean. Does that mean more non-Americans are subscribed to this channel than Americans?
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