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

  1. So Winston, you've listed all these spheres where China helps, supports and "enables" Russian politics. However, the most important question is still left unanswered: this is bad... why exactly? Why would an average Western person even care about what is happening in the far reaches of the world between 2 non-Western countries? They only attempt at an explanation I've heard was that "Russia is an invader, so they are bad" and that "Russia did something bad". I wouldn't even start going on about how the words "good" and "bad" are nonsense in describing politics — we are not in a church, everything is either "good" or "bad" for specific players, and not in and of itself. International politics is not about morals after all. What concerns the invader argument — again, it makes little sense. By the just war theory, this war is completely justified from the Russian perspective: geopolitical course of the Ukraine directly threatened vital interests of Russia and all attempts at finding the peaceful solution were botched primarily by the Ukraine and its NATO allies/masters. In the end of 2021 Putin all but begged for NATO to give safety guarantees to Russia, a move that was laughed and shrugged off by NATO leadership. Later, Western European leaders confessed that Minsk treaties were established with the sole purpose of buying time for the Ukraine to modernise its army. The game was rigged from the start: they didn't even consider a peaceful solution.
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  2. It has never been Ukrainian to begin with. It just happened to be on their territory. Unlike sane countries such as Kazakhstan or Baltic states, who gave up their weapons without any conditions, the Ukraine had to make a show and make Russia, the UK and the US to sign so-called "Budapest memorandum" (never actually ratified by the Russian government).
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  3.  @GAndreC  You can't just join the nuclear club because you happened to spawn on a territory with nuclear weapons. Of course nobody would just let them have the weapons.
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  4. Hey, Winston, with all respect, you may be some sort of a local expert on China, but when you start talking about Russia, you are becoming a lolcow. Russian government tries to hide negative sides of Russia? Mate, are we speaking about the same Russia? YouTube is choke full of videos with negative portrayals of various sides of life in Russia, most of those made by Russians themselves. Maybe language barrier prevents you from seeing them? Well, it's not a Russian problem then, it's yours. If you knew ANYTHING about Russia, you would know that what you cannot publicly discuss in Russia is political stuff. To be precise, you cannot criticise Putin, the army or the war in the Ukraine. This much is true. Also (for some strange reason, probably it's a personal thing for Putin) LGBT. That's ALL. Everything else you can freely discuss. You can film anything (as long as these are not military/police/FSB related) and post anything. That's what's called an AUTHORITARIAN state. China, on the other hand, is a TOTALITARIAN state where you can only discuss what is allowed by the government. What you said about the US is exactly applicable to Russia. There are issues - it is indeed an authoritarian state. If you go to a rural area or a small town, you can find shitty little supermarket with poor choice. But this is not how the absolute majority of RUssians live. It's a good country with a high standards of living, functional post system, libraries (in fact, in rural areas in Russia there are libraries that you would hardly be able to find even in affluent EU countries), great medical system, accessible college education, etc. And JUST as you said, there are people who purposefully seek for problems, hype them up, amplify them and make them look like it's how the entire Russia is. Usually these people are our "brothers" from one despicable country to out Southwestern borders that will soon cease to exist (good riddance!).
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