Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "Ukraineās Kursk Incursion Continues: Can Russia Halt It?" video.
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Ā @makavelithedon801Ā
I rather believe him than russian propagandists that have been wrong a million times since the war started and does not have ny best interest at heart, and just wish to hurt the west and do not care about truth, rule of law or moral rules based world.
Russia have told us they were going to win this war in 3 days. Now have this war been going on for 900 days. And russia has been retreating and retreating. They lost the battle of Hostomel, then the battle of Kyiv, they lost Chernigiv, lost Sumy, lost Charkiv, lost snake Island, lost Khersun, and now they have even lost control over the western black sea to a country with no navy.
This must be the most incompetent military in history. And I cannot say russias performance has been any better elsewhere in history. Not at Tsushima or the winter war.
This argument saying they have runned out of manpower is extremely ignorant. It was debunked many months ago by Anders Puck Nielsen, and yet do dumb people repeat this sh*t.
Ukraine has 40 million people. France also had 40 million people and they keept on fighting world war 1 even after they lost 1.3 million men.
Ukraine has lost say 100.000- 200.000 men. So they could easily keep on fighting this war.
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Ā @worldinsights930Ā Empire means just taking land by force. And that is a bad thing in itself. Of course can plots of land join an empire out of free will like small states in Germany joining Prussia in creating a new country called Germany. Or how small states joined Giuseppe Garibaldi to create Italy.
However things do become problematic with empire when freedom and independence and democracy gets taken away without the consent of the people living in one area. So multi-ethnic empires are mostly just held togheter with the iron fist of a dictator. And if he no longer rules by fear and opression, then do the empire instantly falls apart. This is what happened to Yugoslavia, and to the Soviet union and its dominance over Eastern Europe, or with modern day Iraq when Saddam died which now sees fighting between Sunni and Shia, and between kurds and ISIS.
It ends in a tragic bloodbath.
To avoid opression, lack of freedom and fascism there must be consent by the people that are being ruled over. They must feel like they benefit from being a part of the empire. Having one country just dictating the rules to another country (like Nazi-Germany ruled over Norway) is not a nice way of ruling an empire. And that is not an empire I wanna be a part of regardless of how nice uniforms the soldiers have, or how amazing technologies that country invents or how nice military parades it makes or how popular the leader is in his home country.
So for this reason am I pretty skeptical of the idea of empire. It usually requires someone holding the empire togheter with an iron fist. During medieval times was multi-ethic empires with strange borders often created, like Spain that included the Netherlands, Italy and Portugal, or Austria that included Hungary, Belgium, Italy, and the Balkans.
But today we no longer sees that. Multi-ethnic states like Switzerland, Canada and Belgium exists, but nearly everyone from those places are not much in favor of those artifical states.
I do not think that diversity is a strength but rather a weakness. If diversity was a strength, then I think that africans would rather thank us Europeans for creating such strange artifical borders for newly created African states that just lumped togheter large numbers of african tribes randomly togheter into one country and thereby creating diversity. It turns out that many instead accuse European colonial powers of having created unnecessary ethnic conflicts by doing so, and hampered Africas development instead of helping it.
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