Comments by "Andrei Lukyanov" (@andreilukyanov4286) on "Lex Clips" channel.

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  3.  @christophercousins184  ​ Very good. But let's try to think further than our nose: what does it change? OK you can elect Poroshenko today, Zelensky tomorrow, Kuchma back the day after tomorrow ok: 1) Zelensky was elected under the slogan: "I'll stop the war in Donbass." He had signed Steinmeyer agreement. Did it stop the war? No, because there are forces: the US, the internal oligarchs who possess most of Ukrainian GDP, nationalistic armed groups which are stronger than Zelensky. OK you have a tramway and today you can elect Ahmed as a driver, tomorrow Muhammed, and the day after tomorrow you can elect Jennifer, but the tramway will go where someone else has planned. I have a cousin who lives in Ukraine. Imagine we are in 2017 and he starts saying: "I love Russia, I think that Ru is right and we are wrong, we should be friends witht them." He will immediately be detained, fired from his job and will get plenty of problems. So what is the difference with USSR where you had the same thing? 2) I love the US. It is my second culture and I can't live without it. I have Americans in my immediate family. I learn banjo. In US they have two parties and they elect different presidents. It litterally changes nothing: US is an oligarchy and its government is functionning OF THE 1%, BY THE 1%, FOR THE 1%. No matter who you will elect 99% of the US government decisions will be first and foremost for them. 3) Absolute most of my life I lived in democratic countries and live by today. I saw 3 presidents change in my country. What did it change in the policies? Nothing at all. In China they have weird elections. Their Communist party in 40 years had put hundreds of millions of people from poverty. That is a radical change. I still think that a functionning democracy is the least worst form of governance, but it doesn't mean I cannot criticize it and try to think further than my nose.
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  17. ​ @christophercousins184  Also in Ukraine EVEN BEFORE 2022: 1)they were shooting opposition bloggers, they were arresting, torturing and killing pro-Ru people (pro-Ru doesn't necessarily mean fighters, before fighters there were just pro-Ru people who thought Ukr should be friends with Ru), 2)they come to concerts of singers who sang in Russia and wreck concerts, 3)they ban scientific books which are going against their nationalistic ideology, 4)on TV they ban any opinion which disagrees with their nationalistic crap, 5)they kick all free discussion out of history classes in schools and universities and force everyone to study the ONLY TRUE VERSION OF "TRUTH™" basically super ideologized version of the history. 6)If you will dare in post 2014 Ukraine to go on the street and ask for the Ru language to become second national, you'll have nationalistic armed men coming and roughing you up. 7)they ban all movies which are not ideologically correct 8)if you will dare to criticize their fascist hero Stepan Bandera, you'll have nationalistic henchmen coming and beating the shit out of you. OK you can elect the president in a totalitarian society, very good, but your society is totalitarian: any wrong thoughts are not tolerated, any wrong books are not tolerated, any wrong movies are banned, any wrong ideas you express are reported to competent people. Seriously what kind of freedom is this???? I left Ukr 20 years ago and I'm telling you I'm never never ever coming back. It's worse than USSR. Gorbachev's USSR had thousand times more freedom than today's Ukraine.
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  19.  @pierman4858  I agree with a lot of things you say. But I feel that your comments are very one-sided, but if you look at other non-Western countries in the World, their opinion is much more neutral and not one-sided. You look at the things from the Ukrainian standpoint, but you don't take into account the Russian standpoint and interests. Last time a country tried to put nukes at the US border, the USA wanted to erase this country from the face of the planet. And stopped on the verge, when the missiles were removed and a promise was given to never put them there again. Why for Russians it should be any different? Google the Paul Wolfowitz Doctrine. The dude made a doctrine after the Cold War: no country in the World should EVER challenge US influence. If it does, it should be thwarted in one way or another. The war in Ukraine is about geopolitics. It's about USA and Russia fighting for the influence at the Russian doorstep. USA tries to neutralize Russian influence and gain the momentum over Russians by any means. And Russia trying to resist it. In 2011 ABSOLUTE MAJORITY of Ukrainian people were against going into ANY military bloc. Anyone of these big democrats cared about what the Ukrainian people had to say?! No. They decided to drag Ukrainians into NATO anyways regardless of what Ukrainians wanted. Before Yushchenko NO Ukrainian government ever said: "We want to join NATO", neither did Yanukovych. I think if Ukraine kept that non-alignment policy, there would have been no war.
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