Comments by "" (@EbenBransome) on "On the way to a Ukraine sellout by Trump?" video.

  1. It is literally a 1990s car - created in 1993 from the Ukrainian SSR on the collapse of the USSR. It was never a Warsaw Pact country. I have enormous sympathy for the Ukrainians who suffered deeply from this, but some of the blame has to be laid at the feet of Ukrainian oligarchs who decided to go for independence. Ukraine was as corrupt as Russia but the oligarchs thought they could get a better deal from the West. For themselves. Corrupt as Russia is, Putin did reduce corruption somewhat in the early years. Ukraine never had a Putin and until the war, Zelensky was the public face of an oligarch. The fact that Trump is a greedy, amoral, possibly psychopathic white supremacist seeking world domination doesn't alter the fact that millions in Ukraine have been displaced who, had the war ended quickly with the overthrow of the Zelensky government, would not have been. People still talk about Pétain as a traitor, but there is no doubt that his settling with Hitler in 1940 saved millions of French lives. If Trump manages to find a way to end the war, even with Russia holding Donbas and Crimea, people will be able to return home and rebuild. If Ukraine wins, many Russian speakers from Donbas will never be allowed back.
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