Comments by "Marcus Aurelius Antoninus" (@marcusaureliusantoninus2597) on "DW News" channel.

  1.  @tonydevos  but there's nothing close to "genocide". It's just a war. Wars happen. The US, France, Israel and many other countries waged wars over the recent decades. Should all the tourists from these countries be harrassed on the streets for that?
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  2.  @johnstreet819  this stands for Ukrainians too.
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  3.  @thomaskalbfus2005  Could you at least google translate what this persone above was saying?
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  4. Czar Ivan, yeah, yeah, now stop pretending to be a Russian and never comment under Russian videos with that used toilet paper of an avatar.
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  5.  @jamesharris184  "Freedom"... "fight against tyranny"... why do you mess this idealistic bs with real politics? Most countries in the world do not relate to the Western ideas of "freedom" and "fighting against tyranny". Neither Russia nor the Ukraine. That's what I want Western people to understand: this is not your war. By picking sides and hating on one actor, sending military aid instead of calling for peace and providing humanitarian aid you achieve nothing but prolong the war and ruin your relation with both sides of the war - Russia now, and the Ukraine later when they sober up from the pseudo-patriotic booze and see through the West's part in this war with lucid eyes.
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  6. Why is it "important" to keep the Ukraine "united"? The less they struggle, the quicker the war will end.
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  7.  @matildemiller6012  but you don't even understand what "whataboutism" is, though you try to accuse me of it. If I tried to deny the accusations of Russia doing this and that by saying others do it, than it would have been "whataboutism". I am not addressing them though. What I am addressing is public reaction to these actions. If we don't see much outrage in the world when another country invaded other countries, that there shouldn't be any today as well.
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  8. You realise that like 90% of Russians hate Gorbachev, don't you
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  9.  @begun65vdal5  It's funny how anyone would recommend "NEXTA" as anything anywhere close to a good info source. It's even worse than recommending Vladimir Soloviev as an info source.
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  10. Do they have to care? Have ordinary civilians ever cared much about the actions of their government in other countries (gosh, even in their own)? Have many Americans cared about Vietnamese, Iraqi or Afghani civilians killed by their government? Have many Ukrainians cared about Russians civilians killed in Donbass by their army over the last 8 years? Let's face it — it's not natural for people to care much about the suffering of other humans except for the closest ones.
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  11.  @deanbarnett8538  judging by your nickname, you live in an English-speaking country. May I ask you, my good sir, why the hate and Schadenfreude? You are clearly not a Ukrainian, so what's your reason to hate on Russians? Russia is not fighting any Western country or an ally of one.
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  12.  @danc7934  not nationality, but ethnicity. There are hundreds of ethnicities in Europe alone, so every one of them suddenly has a "right" for their own national state? Why is that?
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  13. BayareaBella, have you ever been to Moscow lol?
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  14.  @attsealevel  "you are now on mute" - so you are being a little child who is shouting nonsense and then covering his ears with his hands not to hear what people tell him?
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  15. What's the problem with it? Do you have problems with Russians?
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  16. Indifference is a very important right in every free society. When you are told that you cannot be indifferent anymore, when you are forced to pick a side, it means your society is not free.
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  17.  @AstroGremlinAmerican  well, it's about Russia per se, not just Putin. The Ukraine in its modern form is an unviable form of a political entity. Any Russian leader with a modicum of national interest on their mind would consider the Ukraine #1 target for political, economic and, if necessary, military aggression. Moreover, any Western country in the same situation would do the same.
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  18. When Ukrainian army stops hiding behind civilans and surrenders, there will be peace.
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  19.  @wolfswinkel8906 that’s a great point. Seeing many EU countries slamming headfirst into a wall by botching their relations with Russia for NO REASON is mind-boggling. That’s why you don’t let ideological fanatics who serve an abstract idea over the concrete interests of the country anywhere near the helm.
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  20. but countries are not houses. Land does not "belong" to countries in the same way houses belong to people. Your analogy is invalid.
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  21.  @Here_for_nothing  Why would Russia go further than the Ukraine? The Ukraine and Belarus hold special significance for Russians since these are part of their ancestral lands that were split from Russian in the most scandalous and deceiving way without any war. Other countries, even other post-USSR countries, are nowhere close in significance and there is not a sane reason why Russians should go after them, especially if they are in NATO. I would remind you that it was NATO who first started hostile actions against Russia, not the other way around. Guys, we are just as European as you are, and we make decisions based on reason and common sense.
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  22.  @jorgentuyteleers8794  But the Ukraine is not a car. Land does not belong to states in the same way cars belong to people
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  23.  @vincentlagrange2329  my good man, why are you spreading disinformation? First, the figure of "360 dead children" appeared in the recent report by the Prosecutor General of THE UKRAINE (so much for the trustworthy source). Second, even the aforementioned report is saying about the overall number of children killed since the beginning of the war and does not specify by which side. Why would you say they were killed by the Russian army then?
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  24. Turks are smart and self-respecting people. Unlike Europe or the US, they realise it's not their war and don't pick sides.
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  25.  @nonegone7170  that's exactly because Russians do know their history. And they know it beyond just Gorby's role, they can see patterns.
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  26.  @dorotazapolnik234  Do you even realise that there were MUCH more Russians thrown into GULAG that anyone else? "Russification" under USSR, who could've think up something dumber... The USSR was a ferverntly ANTI-Russian state. "Extermination of minorities" in Russia? Tell it to North American Indians or German Slavs. All the non-Russian ethnic groups who lived on the territories taken by Russia later still live there and they're doing fine.
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  27.  @attsealevel  Why should Turkey (or Germany for that matter) care about the Ukraine's "struggle"? Russia does not fight with Turkey or Germany.
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  28.  @attsealevel  But what does "friends" have to do with Turkey-Ukraine and German-Ukraine relationships? The Ukraine is not a part of neither EU or NATO.
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  29.  @TuAFFalcon  nah, mate ancient Russian land is the Ukraine. Antalya is ancient Roman land :-)
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  30. So a total ban on Ukrainians for 8 years of shelling Donbass is a legit move then, right?
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  31.  @professionalgambling6783  But who conquered Siberia from Russia?
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  32.  @Roger-go6jc  Yes
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  33.  @gilh3947  You obviously know nothing about the region. "Flawed democratic country", "dictator"... My foot. Start thinking outside of typical CNN news talking points for Christ's sake. The world cannot be shoved into your cookie cutter mindset aka "democracy vs dictatorship". Not to mention there isn't (and there's never been) a uniform "Ukraine". The Ukraine is in fact a set of etnicities with different languages, mentality, even faith sewn together by Bolshevik tailors like a Frankenstein's monster.
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  34.  @emiltat4333  It's a perfect entity, however, I believe it's what we all should strive for.
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  35.  @Withjoyfulsenescence  pardon?
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  36.  @fischgras8334  what do you mean by "why should it stop its strategy"? If the Ukraine capitulates, Russia has no reason to keep up the warfare. They want territory, infrastructure and people, not scorched earth. Unless, of course, you fall for, say, less sophisticated Western media narrative of Russians being irrational maniacs that are waging war for the sake of pillage, torture, rape and murders.
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  37.  @moloids not integrated where exactly? Are they not German or European?
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  38.  @kkpenney444  Especially funny coming from a person with an English name. Russian history has been white and fluffy compared to many other European countries. ESPECIALLY the UK and France.
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  39.  @kkpenney444 don't "comrade" me, mate. Fun fact: during St. Bartholomew's Day massacre alone more people were killed than during the entire reign of Ivan the Terrible. If you want to say something meaningful, please do. All I am saying is that European history is not one where you would find nice bedtime stories. And Russia is certainly not among the bloodiest of European countries when it comes to history.
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  40. But that's not true. The messages of conscripts were all investigated. The alleged "conscripts" that were found there had been drafted months ago and then while serving were offered to sign a contract and go to the Ukraine. It's not that random guys were caught on the street and sent into action.
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  41.  @Fighting_Fatigue_117  Why, there's no difference between Ukrainians and Russians, ergo your phrase means "RUSSIANS are smart enough..."
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  42. Yeah, right, a picture of a child shows that Russian army is "targeting civilians". I would surprise you, my good man, but an average Russian knows much more about this war than an average European or American that only receives info from official sources.
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  43.  @pieman3007  aaand they receive their info from official Ukrainian sources...
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  44.  @AL-mc9ht  The orcs? Well, the Ukraine is certainly not doing great.
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  45.  @AL-mc9ht  The Ukraine (aka "the orcs") happened there. The very existence of this sorry excuse of a state is the root of today's problems.
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  46.  @AL-mc9ht  Wow, that's an expert opinion. Tell me something about the region I don't know, my good man.
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  47.  @AL-mc9ht  mate, I have. What exactly are you saying?
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  48. You realise that like 95% of Russians hate him, right?
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  49. There's not much "glory" left. Not that there's been at all.
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  50.  @anteromano5559  Who cares about what it's "geographically connected" with? Crimea is a legitimate territory of Russia since it was Russia who last captured it during a war and nobody took it back in a war since. Also, it's funny how you refer to Novorossiya ("New Russia", a region that is today's southwestern "Ukraine") as the Ukraine. These lands — Lugansk, Donetsk, Nikolaev, Zaporozhye, Odessa, Kherson — were never a part of Malorossiya, and were only given to the Ukrainian SSR by the Bolshevik.
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  51.  @vincentlagrange2329  a country as an actor of historical process is not confined to a political regime. Bourbon France and French Republic are still France.
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  52. Because the whole world is fed up with Ukies milking for tears. Let them better show the children of Donbass that the Ukraine has been killing for 8 years.
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  53. But Russia is not in a war with EU or its allies. If it's a war itself you guys are so averse to, should have the same standard be used with Americans after attacks on Yugoslavia, Afghanistan ir Iraq, Israel for attacking Palestine, France for invading Mali and so on?
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  54.  @edwardvalivonis23  no arguments then, only spite. Expected.
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