Comments by "golfbulldog" (@golfbulldog) on "The Destabilisation of Ukraine" video.

Excellent summary but if this were the real motivation for Russian invasion, why wouldn't Putin simply stitch the story together like this and tell the world the truth? Instead he ranted about ethnic Russians endangered in Ukraine and neo-nazis etc...and sounded like a madman....how was that the better choice than simply telling the story.
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@Stup1d0zz I have heard that stuff, but the normals won't have heard that stuff in the 48 hour window prior to the invasion which is their attention span...and the neo-nazi stuff doesn't really sound believable to western ears...he should have done more homework. The most powerful thing is USA meddling,. He should have replayed the tapped telephone call used here....and added some secret stuff which he presumably has...cleansing Ukraine of USA puppets would have played much better.
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@chepushila1 i think, from my UK perspective, that neo-nazi is a rarely used expression for rare minority of white supremacists who hate non-whites who make up a significant minority of UK population. Those groups are so tiny in the UK that is is hard to imagine a similar white supremacist movement in an almost totally white Ukraine being a valid reason for invasion. Now, if neo-Nazi means something different in Ukraine, maybe that is valid. But what do the neo-nazi in Ukraine do to conform to the name?
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@chepushila1 thanks, a helpful analogy. I think after seeing what antifa did in USA in many riots where they called everyone "fascists" or "nazi", I am just a little sceptical of using similar language to define any group. It sounds like they are ultra-nationalists but without a clear political Fascist political ideology- where the modern definition seems to involve a fusion of national and private corporate interest to the benefit of the nation state. Different to free market capitalism (where individuals own and operate the business for individual and or shareholder interests) and different to communism (where the nation state owns and operates the businesses).
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