Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Why NATO can't treat Russia as an equal" video.

You see that, too? Russia, wanting to be a great power will instead become a Chinese client *because China is comfortable with Russian corruption and can work with it*.
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@palohagara105 China is still a totalitarian dictatorship, albeit a dictatorship by party committee. Xi does not wield absolute power. The Chinese seem to maintain some underpinnings of socialist ideology that give them a veneer of moral authority. They’re hampered by corruption but have limited it (so far) perhaps because the party’s ideological dimension. How long this will last and how long the CCP can maintain their authority to rule China is anybody’s guess.
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It is the supreme irony of Putin’s failure, among many ironies. He had grandiose dreams of going down in history as a great Russian, and now he will be infamous for the great harm he has caused Russia.
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@MegaBanne haha, you’re right! 😂
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You could redo this video as a 60 second short. 😄 There’s a childish mentality to the Russian leadership not dissimilar from the North Koreans. It’s the childish mentality of criminals and gluttons that defiantly grab and gobble and threaten to throw a tantrum (or worse, a nuclear tantrum) if challenged. A big part of the mentality is the rationalizing and self-justification—“everyone does it,” they tell themselves, “we’d be stupid not to do it also.” This mentality isn’t unique to Putin. We see it in Trump and LePen (thank God a majority of the French kept their sanity and didn’t elect her), we saw it with Chavez and now Maduro in Venezuela, we see it across the world: a morally retarded populism that elevates the most corrupt operators to leadership positions.
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