Comments by "bj0rn" (@TheLivirus) on "The War in Ukraine Could Change Everything | Yuval Noah Harari | TED" video.

  1. Yes! Let's all march out together, hand in hand, and smash the statues and monuments our ancestors built to pass down the lessons of the world wars, so that we are finally free to repeat.
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  2. I have a really hard time swallowing that this is just about one man's delusions and not about NATO expansion and oil/gas.
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  3.  @porche9II  He seems like a far better person than someone who generalises 1.38 billion people.
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  4. This could have been easily avoided by NATO deciding to not include countries bordering Russia, but they thought that their authority is more important than European peace and security. That's the story here.
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  5.  @porche9II  Read a book on epistemology.
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  6. This makes me worried, really worried. Yuval has gone mad and the crowd is cheering him. We need to deescalate, the situation, not ramp up arms and European nationalism. This is absolutely mad.
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  7.  @MajICReiki  Fair point. I guess what I'm saying is that the explanation that is most frequently offered: "Deluded Putin seeks to restore Soviet glory by conquering Ukraine" is too one-dimensional.
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  8. You're confused. The Ukranians aren't fighting for independence. They're fighting for dependence, on EU economically and NATO militarily.
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  9. According to John Mearsheimer, no one believed Putin had deep-rooted aspirations to conquer Ukraine before 2014. This is a fairly new narrative.
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  10. "Is it true that another type of diplomacy would have stopped the war? I don't know, but it doesn't seem like it." It's simple: Reject Ukrain NATO membership. But NATO expansionist ambitions seems to have higher priority than the Ukrainian and European peace and stability.
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  11. Sure, but Russia has thousands of nukes. Do you want to give it a try?
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