Comments by "Peter Lund" (@peterfireflylund) on "Ukraine and ‘The George Floyd Effect'" video.

Russia does not to defend itself against NATO. Putin is fully aware that NATO won’t attack. It’s just a story he tells the dumb rubes back home. What he doesn’t want is NATO’s *defense*. He wants to be free to threaten all of his neighbours.
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@ashlevrier what is childish about it? NATO doesn’t threaten anyone. Russia does. Russia wants the ability to continue that. A NATO expansion prevents that. Putin still had lots of options left, primarily that of not threatening anybody. He doesn’t have to do that, you know.
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@ashlevrier The US was already fighting an undeclared war against Japan before Pearl Harbour. NATO defending against Russian aggression is not in the same category.
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@moose6869 pardon me, but Yanukovich was a Russian puppet “elected” by Russia. Ukraine has had a Democratic government ever since they got rid of that traitor. Sure, there are still lots of problems in Ukraine: corruption and oligarchs being the two big ones (of those that aren’t Russian war/occupation). Those are not exactly something Russia can help them solve, are they? The EU can, though.
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What coup? Getting rid of an unelected Russian puppet is not a coup. There have been two Democratic presidential elections since. Ukraine is a democracy now.
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