Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "Some on the Left Hate NATO... here's why - TLDR News" video.

  1. If Russia wants expansion so much, then why wasn't Georgia completely invaded in 2008? Why did Russian troops capture two small separatist regions in August 2008, but did not capture the whole of Georgia? If Putin is so eager for expansion and wants to capture neighboring countries, then why didn't he completely capture a small weak Georgia, which the Russian army would simply crush? If Putin's goal is expansion, then why did the invasion of Ukraine take place in 2022, and not in 2014 or 2015? In 2014 and 2015, Ukraine simply did not have an army. If Russia had attacked Ukraine in 2014, it would have been an easy and quick victory. But instead, for some reason, Putin gave Ukraine 8 years to prepare for war, although all of Ukraine could have been captured in 2014, when Ukraine was very weak. And so it turns out that Putin gave Ukraine 8 years to prepare for war, although he could have captured it without a fight in 2014.
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  2.  @megasin1  in 2014 Putin had more reasons to attack Ukraine than now. Firstly, the revolution in Ukraine, which took place in December 2013 - February 2014, was really carried out by right-wing radical Nazi groups. And when the government was overthrown in Kiev and there was a change of power, there really were right-wing radicals in the new government of Ukraine. But by 2016, the democratic institutions of Ukraine had spat them out from the top of power. In 2014, Putin had every reason to invade Ukraine just as the United States invaded Grenada in 1983 - "an unconstitutional overthrow of the legitimate government, and the seizure of power by right-wing radicals, the threat of destabilization of the region." And I will explain why Putin did not attack in 2014 - it was possible to negotiate with Ukrainian President Poroshenko, he was bribed. President Poroshenko has a lot of business in Russia. And Poroshenko guaranteed Putin non-entry into NATO and the EU, although Ukraine's policy was pro-Western. But in any case, the question is about NATO and the EU. Ukraine is a post-Soviet Slavic country, culturally and ethnically close to Russia. The post-Soviet space is a zone of life for Russia, from a cultural, economic and historical point of view, the post-Soviet space is a zone of influence of Russia. And the expansion of the Western World, both cultural and economic (EU) and military (NATO), is perceived by Russia as an existential threat. Again, America during the Cold War similarly did not allow communists to take power in the countries of South and Central America. The United States supported dictators in Latin America to prevent the Soviets from coming to power there. And when the USSR placed its nuclear missiles in Cuba, the United States raised a howl to the whole world and were ready to start a nuclear war. Russia also sees a threat in NATO and American nuclear missiles in Ukraine. On the other hand, it is impossible not to admit that Russia has lost fair economic competition to the West, since there was a revolution in Ukraine, where the revolutionaries' goal was to overthrow pro-Russian President Yanukovych and join the European Union
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