Comments by "Her Royal Fluffiness Celestia, Princess of Cake" (@CakePrincessCelestia) on "Ret. general warns Putin stalling to distract West from his real objective" video.

When I was in school and we watched a what if documentary called "The Third World War" in '99, I said we need to get an alliance that has Russia in it and if it's just getting them into NATO, otherwise this shit might be going to get real at some point, at least in form of a Second Cold War and we'd all see it happen. I had been laughed at, even by the teacher. Well, here it is. I'd like to laugh now, because I knew better, but it's too sad to laugh about...
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@paulinewait6575 Well, the "mistake" is that I bascially didn't know anything (they're barely scratching the paint in that limited time you get in school), but I think the general idea to somehow get all of mankind under a common hood isn't too bad, it's just utterly hard to achieve, almost utopian. Who could have known pre-2k that basically the KGB would rule Russia during the following decades? Most of those who have vital positions within the Kremlin still live in their very own version of the USSR, it never died in their heads, it just went some sort of Capitalism. And the West was too reluctant to do anything against that during the early years, and noone has listened to Poland and the Baltic states which always have been warning them...
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@jessefisher1809 Yes, I know. Putin was told to go the official, bureaucratic way to get there and was offended by that because he thinks he's something special just because Russia is the largest country on the planet and was the main force of the former USSR and WP...
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@jinde75 Certainly not. But as he's very much acting against the world (both the west by his actions and 3rd world by inducing famine) and not willing to change something about it, so he somehow has to be stopped by making it clear to him that he doesn't have the power he thinks he has. The regime change should happen from inside, people in Russia should stand up and drive him out of the Kremlin. I know it's hard, but I guess it's not impossible. Invading Russia would be a clear, direct NATO intervention, we have to prevent that from happening at all cost to prevent WW3 becoming real. TL;DR: It's complicated. Very complicated.
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