Comments by "Paul Gibbon" (@paulgibbon5991) on "Why Putin's ICC Arrest Warrant Changes Everything" video.

  1. There is a word: genocide.
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  2. Worth noting even the USSR didn't overtly threaten that often, even in very serious or tense situations. Compared to them, modern Russia is like a monkey with a grenade.
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  3. Look up the actual costs, and don't be bamboozled by impressive words like "billion". It's around 5% of the US defence budget, and costs you a bunch of semi-obsolete military gear that would have cost money to be decommissioned anyway. When you've done that, look at what the investment in supporting the war effort of the UK, and then the rebuilding of Germany and Japan did for the US. Clue: it made you a LOT of money in the medium and long term.
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  4. In the famous photo of Soviet soldiers raising the flag over the Reichstag, neither of those soldiers were Russian.
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  5. Have you ever seen the Evil Dead movies, where an evil spirit takes over someone's body, turning them into a horrific, shambling parody of who they once were, dedicated only to spreading evil and misery for their own gratification?
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  6.  @occamraiser  Worth noting that forced reeducation of children to erase the culture they were born with is one of the types of genocide.
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  7.  @petersinclair3997  Almost certainly. Here's the difference--we're not currently invading Canada, Jamaica or India and slaughtering their people based on historic claims. We can admit that our age of Empire was a bad thing. Russia fails to do this, and glorifies the time when they had other nations under their boot.
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  8.  @moxie591  "If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war ... One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me." --Nikita Kruschev
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  9. Russia has invaded it's neighbors 7 times since Putin came to power. Each time he snatches some land and then is suddenly all about peace and "ready to negotiate". A short while later, he picks up where he left off. He counts on useful idiots in the West rolling over in the name of peace when he barks threats loudly enough.
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  10. Oh, and peace will come. Once Russia has left all the land it stole, is caged behind a wall of NATO, and all stolen Ukranians have been returned.
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  11. Not rapidly enough.
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  12. The British Empire also did a heck of a lot of this. The difference is that we now acknowledge those acts were monstrous, and we try and repair the damage where we can and make sure it never happens again. Russia does not learn from the evils of its past--it revels in them. (And indeed, forced reeducation is very old--look up the Janissaries, or medieval hostage taking.)
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  13.  @smlorrin  OK, doomer.
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  14.  @Rocket_scientist_88  People said the same thing about Trump in 2015. Nothing can be taken for granted any more.
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  15. It's what happened to a lot of indigenous people across the Americas, Australia, Africa and beyond. The difference, small but significant, is that the West acknowledges the evil they did and tries to stop it happening again. Russia glorifies it.
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  16.  @sammiller6631  The same thing. But if you look up the definition in international law, abducting and forcefully reeducating children to destroy their culture is one of the acts labelled as genocide. This is why Russia needs to be methodically broken--economically, financially, militarily and culturally--until their ability to wage war is destroyed, then locked out of the free world and left to rot.
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  17. Yes, and before that there were the Janissaries. We learned from the evils of our pasts--Russia still revels in them.
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  18. Reality has an anti-Russian bias.
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