Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "How Sanctions on Russia Help Putin 🇷🇺" video.

  1. I bear personal witness to a much older, demonstrated truth of the early Cold War. Containment took decades but economic measures combined with Soviet and Warsaw Pact economic incompetence are why they NO LONGER EXIST and most of the former Warsaw Pact are free to choose their allies. Sanctions were a successful part of the containment strategy, now forgotten or of course not learned by younger people. That does in no way justify MISTAKEN or BIGOTED sanctions, but the Russian state is a war machine which must be denied as many resources as practical. Also note that trade with the West continued throughout the Cold War to include vast US grain sales to the Soviet Union. Sanctions are messy and being collateral damage sucks, but pointing out egregious examples is good because it may motivate positive change. Do not however forget the enormous Russian record of oppression and murder in MODERN EUROPE. The Soviet era is well in living memory. Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Poland, the Baltics etc suffered immensely under RUSSIAN rule and it's fortunate there is any empathy remaining. Russians today are merely inconvenienced. It bears reminding that since 1917 the entirety of Russian history has been ongoing actions of real genocide and oppression of its neighbors, older conquests like Chechnya etc. That's real and many of the perpetrators are alive and well. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45168062 "Czech filmmaker Filip Remunda has revisited the events of that summer in a new documentary, Occupation 1968, that features films by five directors from the five ex-Warsaw Pact countries that took part in "Operation Danube". "This is the first time ever we've been able to show the occupation from the perspective of the occupiers," he said. "What really surprised me was that one of the Russian soldiers, now a general, told me he still believes it was the most successful military operation in history," Remunda told the BBC. "He also believed that he was here because of the counter-revolution, that we had basements full of weapons, that an American division had penetrated Czechoslovakia and a Russian division had kicked them out. They believed that was the moment that they'd prevented the outbreak of the Third World War." "This is the perspective of generals of the Russian military. Fifty years on, and they are still thinking according to this old Soviet pattern," he went on."
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