Comments by "Boarface Swinejaw" (@boarfaceswinejaw4516) on "China wants to form its own military alliance" video.

@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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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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@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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"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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this implies that a fractured russia or china would remain politically aligned without a central enforcer.
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