Comments by "Boarface Swinejaw" (@boarfaceswinejaw4516) on "CaspianReport" channel.

@Lone Wolf colonization only makes things worse.
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the people asking for the US to withdraw from afghanistan are not the same people wondering why the taliban are taking over. i think you're just conflating two viewpoints to create artificial hypocrisy. the only examples i can think of where this actually happens is amongst certain political commentators who go back and forth between populism and warmongering, but thats less politics and more just journo hustle.
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@sherkhead9638 the assumption that Russia was militarily powerful came from the cold war view of Russia as a cold powerful nation of constant secrecy. The soviet union was a force to be reckoned with, especially technology wise. First to space, first nuclear powered grid. even its military with its cheap and pragmatic designs for weaponry and vehicles. The Ak47 is still one of the best weapons ever created in terms of cost and endurance to the point where it even beat american standard rifles for a while. but as the soviet experiement came to an end, the union dissolved, and the callous psuedo-aristocrats and wannabes tsars who had always undermined the many in favor of the few proceeded to slowly dismantle the few things the soviet union did manage to create. We always thought that someone as cold, apathetic and manipulative as Putin, a former KGB agent, would be able to reflect that brutality and harshness down to the core of the military and political apparatus. Turns out instead that dictatorships that keep people shivering in fear, and docile with vodka and bribes is a dictatorship that wont last.
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the problem with fighting wars against russia is that no one is better at massacring russian peasants, burning russian villages and destroying russian food supplies than the russians themselves. their strategy of scorched earth and retreating further into russia has always been a very powerful strategy that evades most historical invasions, with the only exceptions being the exceptionally mobile armies like the mongols and germans during the initial stages of operation barbarossa. russia does not fare well in actual battles, and had invaders settled for occupying and fortifying territories adjacent to the baltic sea, russia would have an even further diminished presence in Europe.
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Otto von bismarck, whilst being ridden into the dirt by Frederick the 2nd. Bismarck was an intelligient man, but his realpolitik doomed him and germany.
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The idea that Putin invaded Ukraine to "defend Russia's borders" is absurd, when most of his rhetoric is about re-establishing old borders. Putin wants Ukraine because Ukraine has valuable raw materials. Ukraine could potentially completely subvert the need for russian gas by supplying it themselves to europe and the west.
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@BonaparteRestorationist3231 because Russia would have conquered most of eastern europe and held a vice-like grip, thus preventing ukraine, poland, east germany and parts of finland from ever establishing dreams of independance in the first place.
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@BonaparteRestorationist3231 still rather be part of the american sphere than the russian one -every baltic state.
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@LedosKell when hasn't the US had weak leadership and financial despair in the past 60 years?
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@theprinceofcrows8691 oh fuck off with this "nato expands" bullshit. Free sovereign nations that had been under the thumb of russia for centuries join nato free. These countries have just as much of a right to cooperate with NATO as Belarus has to cooperate with Russia. Putin's ambitions existed regardless of NATO's intents, and its been made very clear that without NATO more countries would have been the victims of russian aggression.
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@tonypeterson5316 shared values. You can spew all the false equivalencies you want, but at the end of the day America values democracy and freedom far more than russia and china ever has or ever will.
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@ThiccboiSalmon People are talking about the here and now. The US isnt threatening to take Japanese islands, nor is britain systematically genociding the scottish in concentration camps.
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except the US is still very much stable, with a strong central power and individual governing bodies largely adherent to said central power. combined with the fact that every party, which controls swathes of the country, wants to rule at the central seat it means that there is very little likelyhood of the US splitting.
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you say that but one of the big problems with the vietnam war was that the military was given too much reigns, which ultimately ended up with stuff like Mcnamara's morons and the whole "measuring success in bodycount" shit that happened. The end result being that people who should never have become soldiers were used as american cannon fodder whilst the slaughter of vietnamese men, women and children for the sake of "bodycount" only resulted in more support for the viet cong. make no mistake. vietnam was a political AND military fuckup.
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@ryzhik9608 question: why were protesters who carried blank signs arrested? what was the purpose? why was there such a massive crackdown, and why is referring to the "special military operation" as a war or invasion illegal?
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@ryzhik9608 Yeah, no, I fear this is one of those situations where there is an impassable barrier of information blockage. I've seen too many clips of Russians randomly detained for even the most miniscule amount of protesting to believe for a second that it's just "for public good" and to "prevent a panic". But its frankly not worth it sitting here sharing video after video of Russian authorities brutally suppressing dissent. Either you've seen it, or you haven't. And then there is the large scale deportation of Ukrainians into Russia and the fires and attacks starting in Russian cities... Yeah, no. The fact that there is seemingly very little civil unrest from the outside looking in is very suspicious.
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"china comes out stronger" i wouldnt know about that. being in the risk-zone of secondary sanctions, combined with a zero-covid policy which is self-destructive and the imminent population and systems collapse in china...
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@thediaz07 im not american and i have no love for the concept of the "west", but the fact is that China's communist era luggage is coming back to haunt them. they'll be struck the hardest by the encroaching climate change they've had a major hand in causing. the one child policy not only resulted in a miniscule population of young adults and children but one where men heavily outnumber women, and with a society where more women are independant and work regular jobs (which they have to do, due to a lack of young people who can work low-mid tier jobs) the fleshwound of age disparity will knock China on its ass. the west also has age disparity problems, but an overall smaller population with a manageable level of reproduction combined with immigration plugging up many holes in the work-market means that we will trudge along for quite some time.
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@franzjoseph1837 Dont try to pull that shit. China is just as keen on oppressing ethnic miniorities now as colonial powers were in the past. Ask the Ughyurs how much china cares about ethnic miniorities. Its obvious that the reason solomon islands is throwing in with china is because its dictator realizes that working with china means that he would recieve help in oppressing his people.
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this implies that a fractured russia or china would remain politically aligned without a central enforcer.
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