Comments by "Mitch Young" (@mitchyoung93) on "Full interview: European Union's top diplomat Kaja Kallas" video.

Kaja Kallas. Former the head of a 'nation' with a population the size of San Diego, California. A nation which, despite yipping for years about Russia, finally stopped taking electricity from them in mid February 2025.
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@specifiko5877 Her father was editor of the Estonian communist party newspaper, member of the Soviet house of deputies, and a Soviet military officer early in his career. It's interesting how so-called 'elites' persist across radical changes in system. Kallas's own husband had a trucking company which derived profits from the Russian federation will into this phase of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
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Kaja Kallas. Former the head of a 'nation' with a population the size of San Diego, California. A nation which, despite yipping for years about Russia, finally stopped taking electricity from them in mid February 2025.
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@jonathanwatkins222 So have I. There is no guarantee of protection. Just a commitment to go to the UN Security Council if the Ukraine's sovereignty or territorial integrity is threatened. And we did that. And the Ukraine never really had command and control of the strategic nuclear weapons on its territory.
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@dougthomson5544 The didn't have command and control of 'their' strategic weapons...Soviet weapons on their territory. They were controlled in Moscow. Tactical nuclear weapons were in control of local commanders, many of whom were either ethnic Russians or ended up continuing their military careers with the Russian Federation (or both). To make matters worse, the Ukraine couldn't even maintain delivery systems; they had to 'sell' eleven Tu-160 bombers to Russia which were basically rotting on airfields, in return for forgiveness of their gas bill. People think Russia was/is a basket case, the Ukraine was/is twice as bad (as measured by their per capita GDP and their place in the Human Development Index) rankings.
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@jonathanwatkins222 There was no Ukrainian national identity then. It was simply a region....literally borderland. The people called themselves Rus, or identified with their locality. Ukrainian national identity was formulated mid 19th century.
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@shremich4583 There were no security guarantees. The signatories agreed to go to the UN Security council to seek action if the territorial integrity of one of the states giving up 'their' nukes (most of which they didn't control) was violated.
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@Sadgoilia LOL, her father was a Soviet military officer, the editor of the Estonian communist newspaper, and a member of the all-USSR house of deputies. So her own family was pretty key to the 'occupation'.
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