Comments by "Arjan" (@arjan2777) on "Anders Puck Nielsen" channel.

  1.  @peka2478  Ukraine does not do atrocities like Russia. Not just because they are not Russians and they are a democracy and want to be better people than Russians but also because to get European aid it is better to keep the moral high ground. To be accepted into the EU doubly so. When Europe and the US added idiotic limitations to the use of their aid they obeyed these rules to the letter. They are very reliable in these things. Mark that both the west and Ukraine take human rights seriously and if Ukraine committed atrocities that would have real repercussions for western aid. It would be against everything they fight for and it would be stupid That is why Russians invent these stories
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  2.  @issadraco532  You don't throw valuable airborne troops away in a feint. If you drop them somewhere you want to be there in short notice, say a few days. Putin used not enough troops because he did not think he would need them. He certainly planned to take Kyiv but he severely underestimated the force needed for that because he did not think the Ukrainians would resist effectively.
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  3.  @Jimbo2193 The Budapest memorandum says nothing about NATO. The problem was Russia invading Ukraine. Before that Ukraine did not want to join NATO and even after that neutrality was always on offer as part of negotiations with Ukraine. Ukraine just wants security from Russia. Russia is secure. It is a big country with a big army and nuclear weapons. Nobody wants war with Russia. Russia does not have security problems. Russia is a security problem.
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  4.  @coolcool2117  Nope. It weakened Russia's negotiation position during the negotiations and gave the Ukrainians hope that they could keep their independence. Combine that with Bucha which gave the Ukrainians more reasons to resist. Bucha is also one of the many signs that it was not a well organized retreat, they did not even took the time to remove the evidence. A retreat as a sign of goodwill would be organized and would take the effort of removing the obvious signs of Russia's real nature. It is clearly an invented explanation after the fact because telling the truth is not something Russia does if it is not in their interest. Johnson had no power over Ukraine. Zelensky had only his own people and his own army to consider. The only thing Johnson could do was promising aid and that would only give the Ukrainians more options to do what they wanted anyway. Because what would have happened if Zelensky had surrendered? If it was actually accepted by the Ukrainian parliament? Ukraine would have been in the Russian sphere of influence and there was nothing the US and the UK could have done about it. Ukraine fights because it wants to defend its independence against a colonial power and not because someone else wants Ukraine to fight.
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  5.  @coolcool2117  Ukraine's neutrality was always negotiable and Zelensky again offered it again just before the latest invasion. Also important European countries were against Ukraine's membership and it was never a realistic option anyway because of that. It was never about Ukraine's nato membership. That could have been achieved without an invasion. It was always about annexations and reducing Ukraine to a puppet state without democracy. And the deals are not done until they are signed and confirmed by parliament. What happened is that the situation on the ground changed and Russia did not adapt its demands to that. What happened was Russia's defeat before Kyiv. What happened was Bucha. And what happened was substantive promises of western aid which only happened because of the Russian defeat before Kyiv because Ukraine showed it was prepared to fight and not a waste of money like Afghanistan, which was what the US feared. Because Russia does not want to talk about what the Russian defeat before Kyiv meant and what Bucha meant they invent fantastic stories. These stories are completely transparent.
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  6.  @coolcool2117  Calling it dying for their ambitions is dishonest. They are dying for Ukraine's independence and their democratic freedoms. They are fighting against Russian colonialism. They are not fighting for the US or the UK. The deal seemed done because they thought they lost. It was Russia's defeat before Kyiv that changed that. If it was an organized retreat because of a sealed agreement that would never have happened.
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  7.  @rajivshah6128  And Putin would listen to that? You are grasping straws. In any war during negotiations parties try to conquer as much territory as possible to improve their negotiation position. Putin knows that because that was exactly what Putin’s great example Stalin did just before the ceasefire during the winter war. Read a good book about that. Normal Putin mode of operation is to continue after the ceasefire and conquering more. That is what he did with the Minsk agreements. Giving up all that territory during negotiations? That is a sign of weakness. Putin would never do that voluntarily.
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  8. Or Avril Haines doesn’t know either. Ukrainian operational security is that good.
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  9.  @robertscott961  There was no coup in Kyiv. The only coup was in Donbas. Ask Girkin, he is proud of it. If you want a country to stay neutral you should not attack it.
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  10.  @pauln6803 Compare Abu Graib with Bucha. You can not always prevent war crimes but the difference is what happened afterwards and what is the official policy. The responsible people for Abu Graib were sentenced. There was an inquiry. The murderers of Bucha were decorated, it was official policy. Of course things can go wrong but the Ukrainian government does not want that, tries to prevent it and will react when it happens. That is all you can ask.
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  11.  @paulzx5034  But Russia is using that logic right now to conquer land that does not belong to them that is populated by people that do not want to belong to them and is comitting all kinds of atrocities in the process. Yes Japan, Germany and Italy are a product of conquest but they are not trying to conquer more land and the population seems to agree with the current situation. We know that because unlike Russia these countries are democracies and if the population really want to disband them that is possible. See how Slowakia became independent without a war or genocide. If there were honest elections about these things in Russia Chechnya and other places would leave Russia.
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  12.  @markopodganjek845 Sometimes you have to print money and sometimes you don’t Apparently context matters
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  13.  @Jeroen_Maes Petersburg is a colonial city on Estonian and Finnish territory. Not really a Russian city. 😊 The princes of Muscovy called themselves Tsars of Russia as an imperialistic project to conquer the countries around them. It was a declaration of war.
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  14.  @pauln6803  also warcrimes Russian style is not just an emotionally overtaxed person snapping. For days they patiently waited until another civilian crossed the street and then bam. Do you think the US or the Ukrainian army would let Bucha happen? Would decorate the responsible soldiers? They can not afford that for a hundred reasons. Both practical and moral
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  15.  @MrPeterPan  They were soviet nukes and the Soviet Union did not exist anymore. Russia had no more rights on that stuff than Ukraine. They were on Ukrainian territory so they were theirs. I know your arguments but they were invented long after the fact for propaganda purposes. Nobody at that time used those arguments. It was generally accepted that they were Ukraines possession and that countries had to negotiate with Ukraine about them.
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  16.  @VadimBolshakov  Under international law a referendum organized and controlled by an invading army in occupied territory is not valid.
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  17.  @hakanpetersson2662  The power plant produces electricity for civilian usage. The refinery produces fuel for tanks and planes.
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  18.  @stevealba56  Volunteers. The word mercenary betrays you. Are you aware that if they were really mercenaries that there are far more lucrative places for them to go to. And no the Russians are hitting civilians on purpose and power plants produce electricity for civilian purposes. Hitting oil refineries causes very little civilian casualties and the fuel produced in those facilities is directly used for tanks and planes. Generally Ukraine is fighting a far cleaner war that Russia and there are good reasons for that. Not just because they are a democracy and just value these things more but also because they want to join the EU and get European aid for which this is important.
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  19.  @henriikkak2091  If Finland had not fought it would probably have ended up as a soviet republic just like the Baltic states though the continuation war might have been a bad idea it is also completely understandable.
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  20.  @PurposePods  Russian reality? Those weapons were on Ukrainian territory. They were soviet property so Ukraine and Russia as ex soviet republics had the same status. They were Ukrainian and Ukraine has enough scientists on every field to work around things like launch codes. Also Ukraine has nuclear power plants and nuclear scientists. They can build a bomb in half a year or so. Maybe they already have one. If Pakistan and North Korea can build a bomb Ukraine can do so as well
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  21.  @iamtesting3824  That is what criminals say when they have stolen something. We have to support Ukraine until the danger of Russian fascism is gone
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  22.  @paulzx5034  You call it a unification process. Every empire had these nice sounding ideas hiding murder and enslavement. Novgorod did not want to be unified under a slave master Tsar who abolished all their democratic institutions, turned them into serfs and mass murdered their elites. That was what happened. They are Russians now. That does not make it right to do even worse in Ukraine right now.
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  23.  @Jeroen_Maes  The area was inhabited by Finnic peoples. Sure it was under Swedish rule before the Russians conquered it but founding a city there was an act of ethnic cleansing. Russia first conquered the place and then colonised it You show the same lack of respect for the original population as sadly is common in a lot of countries. Throw them off their land, destroy their culture, etc. Your justification? The land was already conquered. Maybe you start complaining when it is about American Indians in stead of Finnic peoples?
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  24.  @iamtesting3824  Sorry you need to clarify your ramblings. There is no logic in it at all.
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  25.  @iamtesting3824  Also if you have any real knowledge about the chronology you knew that the theft of Crimea was possible because Ukraine had neglected its army for years because they trusted Russian assurances like the Budapest memorandum and did not expect Russian invasions. Only after the Russian invasions in Donbas did Ukraine started to build a serious army and because that was because of Russian aggression there was only one place where they could get their arms to protect themselves and their territorial integrity. Again you show a criminal mindset.
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  26.  @yellowtunes2756  The Taiwanese do. They have a real democracy with real democratic elections. They also have freedom of speech. We know what they want. They want to be left alone by the mainland.
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  27.  @yellowtunes2756  You don’t have to wait to know how any election organised and controlled by Putin turns out. They have the result Putin wants. The last real referendum held about the topic was the Ukrainian independence referendum in 1991. 54% of the Crimeans voted for Ukrainian independence. Also 83% of the people in Donbas. I suggest we organise referendums for every oblast in Russia and let me control them. I can give you the results now, waiting for the votes is just a waste of time.
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  28.  @ImperialDiecast Russian speaker does not mean Russian
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  29.  @Jeroen_Maes  Also is that your justification for the ethnic cleansing if Crimea? We conquered it? Because that explains why Russia is now ethnically cleansing the occupied territories of Ukraine.
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  30.  @hakanpetersson2662  But it is essential for modern mechanised warfare. Electricity is not. One of the reasons Germany lost the war is that they had not enough good oil sources. Their armies had a chronic shortage of fuel.
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  31. There are no nazis in this conflict. The Russians however are fascists according to every accepted definition of fascism.
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  32.  @luisbustamante9869 Nonsense. We are in nato from the beginning and we have greatly profited from our membership.
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  33.  @MrBahjatt The only reason Ukraine is not a neutral buffer state anymore is because Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014. Invading Ukraine is a direct threat to Europe and for now the only real security for Europe is an independent Ukraine. And if Russia invaded the Baltic states that means war. NATO can not afford to back down for something like that and they won’t. Thinking otherwise is dangerous wishful thinking.
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  34. @ That is pure Russian propaganda. The Maidan revolution was not a CIA coup. It was an internal Ukrainian affair. And NATO would be at war with Russia. US and other NATO troops would have died in the whole affair. It would lead to some form of retaliation even if Russia withdrew and it would lead to even more European defence spending. And yes bombing Russian military targets will probably happen and after that Ukraine can just walk in. You underestimate the US air force.
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  35.  @MrBahjatt  Maidan a US coup? Do you want to be taken seriously. Ukrainians have agency. They don’t want KGB rule. They can do their own revolutions. Also neutrality of Ukraine was always on the table before the last invasion. Zelensky offered it as late as 2022 as part of negotiations. Russia does not want a neutral Ukraine, that is just propaganda. Russia wants to control Ukraine.
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  36.  @MrBahjatt  And yes nato would react proportionally. US default reaction is always air bombardments and that will be things like the black see fleets and a whole list of targets Ukraine wants to be hit. It wouldn’t be worth it.
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  37. @ Also no it is not ideological. It is practical. Most nato members will demand a reaction because it is their security that is on the line.
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  38.  @MrBahjatt  Maidan was not a US coup. That is a Russian lie. Ukrainians have agency and they can do things without the US directing them. They wanted to get rid of a Russian puppet who committed crimes. They just elected a new one. The Ukrainian presidents after 2014 have more legitimacy than Putin ever had. They are democratically elected
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  39.  @MrBahjatt  Ukrainian neutrality was on offer up until the last invasion but Putin does not want Ukrainian neutrality. He wants to control Ukraine. He always did.
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  40.  @MrBahjatt  Invade Belarus?. The Poles can not wait and the Belarusian population wants to get rid of their dictator, they tried it before but it failed because Russia did send troops to prop him up. Tsikhanouskaya is the legitimate president of Belarus. She won the elections.
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  41. @ You have a wrong idea about the value of things. Nato is about the security of its members and not reacting to such a thing is a danger to nato itself. Nato members would question the value of their membership and it would harm the organisation as a whole. Remember nato membership is voluntary and based on what the members get out of it in protection against Russia. That is why nato can not afford not to react and it will. You think like a Russian but nato is not the Warsaw pact.
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  42.  @MrBahjatt  Also no. It was not a US backed coup. It was an internal Ukrainian affair and a democratisation process. It had nothing to do with Ukraines neutrality. Ukraines neutrality was still on the table even after Russia violated it in 2014 Putin does not believe in people wanting democracy and getting rid of corruption. He sees CIA plots everywhere.
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  43.  @GoldenChallanger  It is just that in modern warfare you can not continue without a steady supply of munitions. They just get irritated by Republican stupidity. It is in the US interest to keep them going. They are blocking the aid purely to sabotage the democrats and because they believe Russian propaganda.
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  44.  @jetserb  What are your sources? Are they half as good in checking their facts as the BBC or CNN? There are two kinds of criticism of these media. One of them is that they are superficial and biased which is true. The other is that they are lying which is usually false and serves as an introduction to the really big lies from somewhere else. So what are your sources?
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  45.  @romailto9299  They had the nuclear reactors and the scientists and other people for it. They still have a few nuclear reactors left and a lot of knowledge. I am sure they still can create a bomb in a few years.
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  46.  @ebb_  Putin is not offering peace and you know it. He wants to have it all.
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  47. That is capitalism. Companies have no conscience, only a drive for profit. That is not their fault that is how we have organised things. If you want other behaviour you have to introduce laws and enforce them. That is why all markets have to be regulated to get the best outcome.
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  48.  @noahway13  Well it is disgusting. That is just a fact. Everyone who supports Russia in any way is complicit in their genocidal war of colonial and imperialistic expansion. That are the facts. By calling it virtue signaling you admit that he is right so you start attacking the integrity of the messenger. Forget about the messenger. Concentrate on the message. You already admitted it is the right message so maybe you should change your own messaging.
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  49.  @qaz120120  Not just a right but a duty because of the Budapest memorandum.
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  50.  @qaz120120  But why do you question the right of sovereign countries to assist another sovereign country that is internationally recognized by all other countries when that country is attacked and its territorial integrity is violated? Apparently you think it is OK to attack another country but it is not OK to help a country that is attacked. What world do you live? Not a world I want to live in. What part of your country can we take? I trust you don't resist and I will install a government there and hold a referendum. I will surely win that referendum so I trust you don't ask for help either. You have no right to do so. Also I declare you are all Dutch and you should speak our language otherwise we will torture you in basements.
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