Comments by "Vincent Jenks" (@VincentJenks) on "Why Ukraine joining NATO would crush Russian power" video.

  1. Russia was doing exceedingly well economically, and developing strong ties w/ the west through gas and oil markets. There's no reason that they could not have continued in prosperity and peace, in this manner, and positively influenced Ukraine with investments and other economic stimulus. They didn't need to invade, kill, rape, and destroy everything in their way to achieve regional dominance. If they had only used the power of the market to achieve their goals, they would have won the hearts and minds of their neighbors, and created the kind of buffer they seek. Instead, paranoid of the west and NATO, which has never invaded or even directly threatened Russia, they took the the path of brutality and death...once again. It's as if they can't evolve socially past their violent imperial past, when the rest of the world has. The west would have welcomed, and WAS welcoming an open and economically cooperative Russia, and now they have ensured at least a generation of distrust, and has lost access to the world's biggest markets. This brutal and senseless war will have only cost them a great deal of lives, and their economic future. Such a tragic, pointless waste.
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