Comments by "Halfdan Ingolfsson" (@Halli50) on "UATV English"
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Naturally, information coming from Ukraine, a nation at war with a much larger aggressor, has to be taken with a grain of salt. Just a tiny little grain, compared to the truckloads of salt that go with the glaring misinformation Russia has been spewing.
Ukraine apparently had a hard time handling the chronic Soviet/Russian corruption they inherited when the USSR imploded, a genuine attempt with Yushchenko, a relapse with Putin's puppet Yanukovych and the beginning of an return to democracy with Poroshenko. We do not know how Poroshenko would have turned out in the current crisis, but by electing an unlikely president, Zelenskyy, Ukraine appears to have hit the jackpot! A comedian leader that turned out to be a PR genius of the same caliber as Churchill is definitely a bonus.
Ukraine is doing all the fighting for the west-European democracies against authoritarian regimes like Russia, the least we can do is to support them to the hilt - bureaucrats and politicians be damned!
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Propaganda-wise, I think Ukraine is going a bit over the top by trotting Russian POW's in front of cameras. A prisoner of war humbly apologizing for obeying orders that break international law is simply not credible. These Russian POW's most likely are telling the truth, but they are also between a rock and a hard place. They never had any choice. I might be mistaken, but I believe putting POW's in a situation like this is not strictly legal.
Make no mistake: The Ukrainians undeniably have the moral and legal high ground, and there are no indications they are mistreating POW's - except possibly by trotting them in front of cameras like this. I certainly hope that Ukraine continues to successfully fend of Russian attacks and I am aghast that the West (mainly the US) is still shying away from heeding the desperate call of a beleaguered democratic and sovereign nation to protect the airspace of that sovereign nation. It is only postponing the inevitable: If Putin is not stopped now, NATO will soon have to meet Putin's forces on the battlefields in Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Russians will most likely leave Finland alone for now - once burned, twice shy. But - by that time, Putin just might have whipped his now-inept military into shape, and the task will be that much more painful.
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