Comments by "Paul Gibbon" (@paulgibbon5991) on "Russia is Trying to Provoke NATO" video.

  1.  @rustysutton  "Whataboutism" is a Soviet-pioneered propaganda technique, whereas cricitisms are not answered directly, but distracted from by pointing out something that somebody else did. Whether the counter-accusation is actually relevant or stands up to criticism is not important, the intent is only to divert the attention of the audience.
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  2.  @MichaelPetek  The sad thing is, we haven't been able to RELY on the US since 2016. Yes, it's really nice when they are in a sane period like now, but Trump showed that America can never be relied on for more than 4 years at a time not to go bug-eating crazy.
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  3. Honestly, being a "lifelong" anything is antithetical to democracy. At each election, you should be changing your vote to align with whoever appeals most to you. If that's from the same party every time, that's fine, but the important thing is to be informed about whether they're actually representing your interests in terms of what they're actually doing.
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  4. After Trump exhausted his use, Putin moved on to the next Useful Idiot.
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  5.  @juliec5309  American political attitudes are why I support the continuation of the royal family in the UK. Having the "symbol of the country" be people with little political power cuts down on the risk of a politician building up a cult of personality.
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  6. The thing is, it's not being "thrown around". As a percentage of the defence budget, the money being provided is tiny.
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  7. It makes perfect sense--Putin is what Trump wanted to be, and Putin used his disinformation engine to get Trump into office.
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  8.  reddwarf5173  Thing is, we never seem to see those "good solid folk" when the Republican party is trying to turn schools into military camps, strip women of their reproductive rights via stacking an unelected junta that calls itself a court, promote homophobic and transphobic hate, court neo-Nazi militias, embrace QAnon, or cosy up to Putin.
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  9.  @unconventionalideas5683  We hoped for the same thing about Trump, then found he actually believed all his crazy promises.
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  10.  @kaythegardener  Because you want to stick it to the libs, regardless of the damage it does to the world, to the US or to yourself.
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  11.  @cyberbuttcheese9256  Here's my understanding: He's one of Putin's People, like Trump and many of his cronies.
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