Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "War in Ukraine: March 12, 2022" video.

  1.  @russafra  Afganistan attacked United States on 11th september 2001
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  2. Putin believed in his own propaganda about the alleged Bandera in Ukraine, and thinking that the Ukrainian people were suppressed by their state, Putin expected to take Ukraine in 3 days. This is evidenced by the words of Russian propaganda (I live in Russia), as well as the situation at the front now. Russian military command apparently didn't prepared sufficient supplies, and the Russian troops don't have any numerical superiority over the Ukrainian army, although the attacking side suffers greater losses than the defending side. At the same time, Ukrainians have high morale, and Russians are demoralized and don't want to fight with the fraternal people. The Russian army is advancing without normal supplies and doesn't actually establish control over the territory, moving with the help of convoys vulnerable to ambushes on the roads. And after 2 weeks, the Russian army got bogged down, having just reached Ukrainian cities and achieved average success - Kherson and Melitopol were occupied, Mariupol and Chernihiv were taken in encirclements. There is no supply in the encirclements. And the Ukrainian troops in the encirclements are doomed. Russia need to reinforce the Ukrainian theather and form the frontline, stopping the attack by roads and establishing control over the territories. Russians need to build supply infastructure. When Russians doing this, Ukrainians would have opportunity to mobilize manpower and counterattack. Russia would win this war, but there would be high casualities from both sides and the war would last for a long time. There is possibility that Russia would accept a peace threaty, like in 2008 - when Russia didn't fully conquerred Georgia and peace threaty was made.
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  3. Kiev isn't surrounded yet. And wouldn't be
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  4.  @dianal2034  Russia have a lot of foreign peoples living in its territory. This is hypocriticall for Russians to talk about historical lands
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  5. Russia invaded Ukraine, because Ukraine was trying to join NATO, and Russia considers NATO as a threat to its safety. Russia have rights to be concerned of her safety. Just like in 1962 US were concerned about Soviet missiles on Cuba, and in 2003 US were concerned by nuclear programm of Iraq. Putin isn't targeting the expansion and conquest - good example is Russo-Georgian war in 2008. In 2008 Russia didn't fully occupied Georgia. This is the evidence, that Putin's target isn't agressive expansion, but just what he was saying for the last 22 years - NATO spreading to the East. He invaded Georgia and Ukraine, because he didn't wanted to see them as a part of NATO alliance. And Russia don't have rights to be concerned of her security, I don't think that Putin's target is a full conquest of Ukraine
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