Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Ukraine War Qu0026A Series: Who Really Started This Whole Thing? || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. Legacy core nations of NATO began demilitarizing while Eastern Europeans came scrambling and begging to join while they had a chance. Russia was in near free-fall in the 1990s. The only things keeping their defense production sector open were FMS orders from India, China, and some smaller customers. Most of the Russian defense programs in theftelopment of the late 1980s almost died. KGB senior Generals took over Russia's oil, NG, telecom, and mining industries under Yeltsin's absentee Kremlin. They realized they needed new leadership after the failure of the 1st Chechen War of 1994-1995, so they grabbed some former KGB and intelligentsia guys and made them Deputy Prime Ministers under drunken Yeltsin. One of the 3 Deputy PMs was tasked with kicking the Chechens on the teeth, launching the 2nd Chechen War in 1999 with a scorched-earth policy that leveled Grozny, and filled mass graves with civilians using Su-24 & Su-25 air strikes. Midway into the 2nd Chechen War, on Dec 31, 1999, Yeltsin went on Russian TV and said, "And now, it is time for me to retire. And why should we have elections when we already know who we all would vote for? So now, Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is your new President. Dasvidanya."
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  2. ​ @adamtarnowski343  And Moscow was founded by Yuri Dolgoruki, a Kievan Rus prince.
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  3. ​ @MarcosElMalo2  Finland and Poland began massive defense spending efforts in the mid-1990s by totally modernizing much of their forces, starting with air power. While everyone else in Germany, France, UK, and the US were celebrating "the end of history" and the "peace dividend". They didn't need a wake-up call, just a look at the family album or cemetery. Finland replaced its old Saab Drakens and MiG-21s with brand new F-18C/D Hornets and full air-to-air weapons packages. Poland began buying F-16C/D Block 52 multirole fighters. Then genocide broke out in Yugoslavia to remind everyone European history never ends, but most preferred to ignore it.
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  4. ​ @I_am_MaX_Frost  NATO has always been controlled by a rotating member nation Secretary General, while the US foots the bill. It was and is about European security to prevent things like The Great War or WWII from happening again.
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  5. ​ @ak-od7mf  Ukraine didn't park theater ballistic missiles in its territory aimed at Moscow, so your analogy fails a basic logical analysis. In fact, the US disarmed Ukraine of its nuclear weapons and delivery systems under Nunn-Lugar in the 1990s, as it did with Belorussia, Georgia, and Kazakhstan. Russia escalated the Cuban Missile Crisis, not the US.
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  6. ​ @ZeZwede  Just the EU nations, not all of Europe, had a combined GDP of $17.1 Trillion in 2022. US 2022 GDP: $25.462 Trillion The US is also expected to provide security for Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Middle East, and the global trade routes, in addition to European security.
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  7. ​ @seashackf1  Crimea was annexed in 2014 under Comrade Barrack Hussein, not Trump. Trump literally threatened Putin that if he did anything in Ukraine, the US response would end him. Trump also is the only US President in history to authorize the decimation of Russian forces in Syria at the Battle of Khasham Feb2018. Biden, (who literally got into the Senate with help from the Soviet/Russian front, Council for a Livable World), tried to pull Zelensky out of Kiev so Ukraine would be leaderless for Putin to then occupy. Eric Trump never said any such thing. Trump made his fortune legitimately building hotels and large mega projects, not taking money from corrupt donors like the rest of the political class does. Feb 2014, Putin had Elena Baturina wire $3.5 million to Hunter's front company, Rosemont Seneca, jointly owned with John Kerry's son-in-law, Chris Heinz. "10% for the big guy." Then Hunter magically got on the board of Burisma in May 2014, which was under investigation for defrauding Ukraine and sending the money into accounts controlled by Putin associates in Cyprus, Switzerland, Panama, Singapore, and Grand Camans. You have it all very backwards.
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  8. Moscow was also founded by Yuri Dolgoruki hundreds of years prior to that. He was a Kievan Rus prince who expanded the Kievan Rus up into the Eurasian steppe on the Moskva River.
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  9.  @betterdonotanswer  I’ve personally seen Yuri Dolgoruki’s statue in Moscow with him dressed like a knight, sitting on top of his horse. Moskva was just a little outpost, but then expanded into a fortress under his guidance as part of an expansionist campaign ordered by his father in Kiev. That was in 1156 when he fortified Moskva, over 100 years before Mengu-Timur. This is what they at least teach in Russia when I was there.
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  10. You have to study Russian influence in US media and universities dating back to the 1930s, especially after FDR formally recognized Stalin and the Bolsheviks over Russian Nationalists in 1933. Every journalism student has been thoroughly indoctrinated with Marxism-Leninism, anti-US sentiment, and views US foreign policy through a curated perspective driven by Soviet and Russian disinformation. Since Russia could never go toe-to-toe with the US militarily, they knew they had to rely on subterfuge, lies, propaganda, and co-opting politicians with aggressive MICE attacks via the open US society. That's why they financed the Senate campaign of a young recent law school graduate in 1972, who suffered from uncontrollable pedophilia tendencies. He was a nobody, zero political career, never did anything notable. Then through a Soviet front company, he magically had campaign financing to unseat an incumbent Senator in Delaware that year. His son lists him on his iPhone contacts list as "Pedo Pete", but most know him by the name of Joseph Biden.
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  11. ​ @lemdixon01  You missed the part where Russian fronts in German student groups, universities, and government have beat an anti-nuclear powerplant drum for the last 50 years, right about the time Russia transitioned from an oil net importer, to net exporter.
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  12.  @lemdixon01  Yes, the whole point of NATO is to block the doors so Russia can't come in and murder, rape, and steal from anymore people in Europe again.
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  13.  @boynamesue7720  Yup. Putin himself inquired about joining NATO, which would have cut the other members nations out of being able to intervene when he executed his plans to take Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Notice how NATO doesn't get involved with Turkey and Greece over all their disputes, including Cyprus?
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  14. He forecast the Russia-Ukraine war for the past 20 years, including a risky and bold statement that 2022 was the last year Russia had enough fighting-age males to pull off a successful invasion and occupation of Ukraine.
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  15.  @Knightonagreyhorse  Putin and the Russian intelligentsia look down on the US as a temporary inconvenience. They have 1000 years of Russian history and the most balshoi country in the world in their minds. Throughout the Soviet times, they were told how great Russia is, biggest, baddest, best military, first in space, best in space, best in industry, best at everything. Anytime the US outclassed them in each of these metrics, it was ignored, not reported, nit-picked, or counter-reported. Putin was raised in that environment with Sputnik, Yuri Gagarin, Salyut, MIR, Buran, MiGs, Sukhois, Tupolevs, etc. He was never told about how Russia stole or acquired all these technologies from abroad, but that the great scientists of the people's revolution produced the best minds in human history, who then of course birthed these amazing achievements for USSR, led by Russia. He has no time to listen to things from the little capitalists and their silly USA. This is Russian thinking of that era. I lived there and witnessed it first-hand, have been studying them since the 1970s.
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  16. Many of Ukraine's elections have been more legitimate than the US's, especially after they overturned the results in 2006. Even still, Putin eventually got his puppet in with the 2010 election, Yanukovych. Ukraine finally threw him out in March 2014, then coincidentally, Russia invaded Donbas. Putin also funneled millions to Vice President Biden's family that year, with $3.5 million to Hunter in Feb 2014, and Hunter getting placed on the board of Burisma by May, to shield the investigation into Zlochevsky. Sep 2014, Obama flew to the UK to meet with David Cameron, demanding that MI5 and MI6 shut down their investigation into...Zlochevsky. Zlochevsky was the CEO of Burisma, acting as a front for stealing Ukrainian energy revenue and funneling it into Putin's accounts in Cyprus, Switzerland, Panama, etc.
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  17.  @williedigital  Russia has been moving ethnic Russians into Krim for centuries.
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