Comments by "" (@baronvonlimbourgh1716) on "Russia: a Terrorist State. The Kremlin’s Grand Strategy Failure." video.

@adriannv2562 russia had chances enough to tighten relations with ukraine, bond with it economicly and offer it a bright future in a partnership with the russian federation. Like how membership within the eu works. That would have attracted ukraine to russia, their history and culture lies there as well as most of their existing economic links, and would have cooled ukrainian relations with the west and would have stoped talks about eu and/or nato membership and would have kept the usa at arms length. Russia chose to "bond" with ukraine by trying to undermine it's government and trying to isolate it and push it out of international economic relations before anexing ukrainian territory. Seems to be a logical reaction of ukraine to seek relations westwards, even if it is just to strengthen economic ties with the eu for prosperity and growth. Ukraine only had 2 choices, grow closer with an area where sovereignity of economicly weaker countries is respected and where the international community activly helps and works together to advance the economic fortune of weaker countries. Or grow closer with a partner that does not respect your sovreignity, has little intention to develop your country economicly and only wants to use you as a pawn in international politics. Ukraines desire to switch west is completely russia's own fault. It is something russia could have prevented if it had wanted to and if having a buffer state between eu/nato and russia was that important to them. Russia knew what the options open to ukraine where and chose to seize it with force. Russia gambled that it could bully ukraine and control it trough force without offering ukraine anything in return and it lost. It ended up backfiring on russia but it can only be russias fault and so is ukraines rejection of russia and desire to turn west. Future relations with ukraine was in russia's hands after the collapse of the ussr and they chose to squander the oppertunity.
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You are right. It is the cost of always trying to deescalate and trying to fix things without force. It is very succesful most of the time when it works. But when dealing with bad faith actors that abuse this fact and wrongfully think it is a sign of weakness instead of a sign of good will it takes to long to accept that bad faith actors will never be satisfied with mutual benneficial compromise and will only respond to wielding a big stick. A lot of unnescesary missery has resulted from that. I hope this war will change things for the better for you as well.
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Excelent content as always.
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They suffer the same delusion as the brits. And it bit them in the ass too. Germany suffered it as well but finally got over it 80 years ago.
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It's has been their signature move for centuries, it is their solution to everything it seems.
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@nobodyherepal3292 north america.
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@nobodyherepal3292 north america is basicly a synonym for the usa for the rest of the world. Nobody remembers canada usually lol. And the guy did say try, not succeed.
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@baceniracun4494 do you mean the russian puppet government that all the deadly protests where about back then? The government that wanted to accept the deal to turn ukraine into belarus' big brother. Is that the deal you mean..... Didn't you read my post at all? That was exactly the behaviour i was talking about. Trying to control ukraine instead of offering something actually of value that would make ukrainians excited to team up with russia..
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@baceniracun4494 you can do what you want. But the eu is not trying to take away ukraines sovreignity by turning ukraine into a dictatorship. It offered ukraine self determination and easier access to the eu single market. Learn a free man to fish and offer him a place to trade it fairly and he will build his own economy. Give the man money he needs to spend with you in order to buy things that will only make things he has to sell back to you and he will be poor forever. Especially if that money comes with a bossman that is only there to make sure you don't say bad things about the one who gave you the money. Not quite the same offer is it..
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@MrDude826 indeed.
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