Comments by "Marcus Aurelius Antoninus" (@marcusaureliusantoninus2597) on "Mask-Off moment for China" video.

  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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