Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "Darya Dugina. Portugal u0026 Cyprus oppose travel ban. Siemens Spotify playlist, pathetic. Update 1" video.

  1. Why would they kill someone who has no real political power? Did he exercise such influence on the Russian leadership, was his pen so mighty, that it affected Putin's decision to go to war with Ukraine and that by killing him they would be exacting a righteous vengeance on behalf of the Ukrainian people, or that, somehow, it will have such an effect on Putin himself that it will effect the outcome of the war? Though I myself found Dugin to be borderline fascist with his hardcore nationalism and strident deriding of perceived western decadence, still, attempting to kill him is, in my opinion, going too far. Murdering people with no real power is not only pointless but counterproductive and comes across as cowardly. Incidentally, it's got me wondering whether the United States is in some way behind this.
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  2. A complete reversal of reality.
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  3.  Erik Hatzenbuehler  A regime that comes to power in a coup d'état orchestrated by a foreign government which then proceeds to ban all political parties, causes a civil war, and persecutes its political opponents and ethnicities, is not a democratic government. Not by a long shot. And while Putin's Russia might not be an ideal democracy according to the definition of that shining corporatist utopia on the hill that is the USA, it is nonetheless a more democratic society than what Ukraine is at the moment. Also, what an arrogant assumption it is that democracy should be the sole criterion of political legitimacy.
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  4.  Erik Hatzenbuehler  I don't think most people do call it a revolution (and if they do then they don't really know what a revolution is vis-a-vis an unconstitional seizure of power), and declaring a significant proportion of your own people persona non grata thus triggering a civil war cannot really fit the definition of revolution because revolutions are popular uprisings against oppression, not for oppression. — Oh, and in answer to your question, yes, Russia invaded Ukraine, but that fact under the circumstances is irrelevant as the government of Ukraine was engaging in widespread persecution of ethnic Russians and inviting NATO, an organisation vowed to Russia's destruction, right onto Russia's doorstep. This constituted an existential threat to Russia's security that the country simply could not tolerate, it being tantamount to a declaration of war on the Russian Federation itself.
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  5.  Erik Hatzenbuehler  Maybe by the Stepan Bandera Azov Battalion of neo-fascists and their fellow travellers, but I'm sure the vast majority of Ukrainians, whether ethnic Ukrainian or ethnic Russian, disagree. Remember, Ukraine fought fascism in the Great Patriotic War so I don't think most people actually do support a neo-fascist, ultra-nationalist government of antisemitic xenophobes hellbent on selling off everything to US corporations.
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  6.  Erik Hatzenbuehler  More of a mutiny by soldiers who were fed up with czarist autocracy and didn't want to the post-revolutionary government to continue an unpopular war.
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