Comments by "Neil Clay" (@neilclay5835) on "Lex Fridman" channel.

  1. One of the very best interviews I've ever watched, thanks loads.
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  2. So many actual Russian experts - I'll name three: Vlad Vexler, Peter Pomerantsev, Greg Yudin (and many more: just about every guest that appears on YouTube's Silicon Curtain) - disagree that you stop Putin by bending to Putin. And the West's goal currently is not regime change in Russia. We'd have seen F16s in Ukraine and NATO on the ground there if that were the case. These dangerous misrepresentations of western intent and the state of the conflict in Ukraine just give Putin what he wants. Putin wants to freeze this conflict now, and move the de-politicised masses in Russia towards his more extreme views so that he can continue the push into the ex-Soviet states. You stop Putin by showing him force. This is well understood in Eastern Europe - where this is existential - but far less so in much of Europe and the US. “You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw” - Vladimir Lenin. And in the US there are many saying that this is not "our fight". It was a common mentality before and into the start of World War 2. The US can't deal with China without a Europe that is free of Russian tyranny, GLWTS.
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