Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Interviews from Ukraine" channel.

@romeob.8369 There were defeatists and collaborationists like you in WW2 as well. "Please rule us, Hitler! We want peace! We'll do what you say! Forever!" Their lack of spine kept Hitler in business longer. You would do well to emulate Zelenskyy yourself. He's a man, not a mouse. Ukraine strongly supports him.
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It's very simple. Trump would quickly put Putin in his place. But he is wisely afraid to say so, since Putin probably has the ability to tilt a close election in the favor of the candidate he prefers. Just a million votes may be enough, and with the billions and billions of Russian state-sponsored posts flooding US social media, Putin can likely achieve just that.
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@ChosenOne6666 Of what?
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@ChosenOne6666 Which one, in what way?
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@1midnightfish I'm grateful for all kinds of things. For me, every day is Thanksgiving. You, I don't know where you're coming from, except a place of sanctimony.
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@bcorr42 I'm in close agreement with you on a lot of that, mostly, except for a couple of bits where I didn't know what you were referring to, like whatever it was you meant in your first thing. It's kind of a long thread now and I posted a few replies.
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@1midnightfish 👎 Who says I'm not grateful, o sanctimonious one? Indeed I am, to Zelensky, for instance, and all the members of the Ukrainian armed forces. Who I'm not so thrilled with are (most of) these people on the sidewalks of Lviv. 'For the last time' is right!
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@hotcheetoman86 Don't be ridiculous. If possible.
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@michaeljohnston980 A complaint is not a threat. How's that for nuance, pal? More nuance: gratitude isn't fealty. Btw, I never even said I'm an American, and it so happens I'm not, so there's some more nuance for you...pal.
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@Weeks25 Thanks for your reply. Actually if you check out Part 1 (same title) from a month earlier, the people speak much more warmly of the US. Which is nice. 🇺🇦! 🇺🇸! + many more!
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@qksf1645 You don't understand how much global security has to do with your own country's prosperity and that of yourself personally. The billions being spent aiding Ukraine is like lunch money considering what it does to keep you and your country safe and well-off. The cost of addressing this later would be in the tens of trillions.
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@IsmailKhan-jb3et Your comment is accurate. However, it is best for the world if India continues to buy some Russian oil. If there was a 100% global boycott, then there would not be enough oil on the world market. Oil would soon shoot to $150, $200, or more, causing great economic problems in every country except perhaps those which export a lot of oil. I don't like this either, but it is reality. (Still, it is best if India refuses to pay Russia the full world price!) All the best to you, Mr. Khan. (P.S. If you are from Pakistan, I would like to thank your country for its sale of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine. I appreciate that your government is doing a good thing.)
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Oh, they get it. The ones who don't get it are the ordinary Russian vatniks. They're the frogs in the pot which is nearing a simmer. Be ready to till a corner of ground for root vegetables, Sasha.
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@ssvinny2536 That's a possibility. :) In reply to your longer post, it might be pointed out in fairness that Trump approved lethal weaponry for Ukraine within his first year in office. At the time that was a pro-Ukraine escalation.
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@ssvinny2536 Don't take my word for it. Look into it yourself. If you need the word of the the WaPo to convince yourself of the holy truth of the matter, so be it. It's there in their Dec. 2017 coverage of the approval. The breaching of the line of so-called "lethal weaponry" was a big deal. Don't let hyperpartisanship be your guiding light towards truth. Let facts be your guide and give into the unpleasant ones as soon as you discover them. Facts are great; egos are not. My reply of a few minutes ago along these lines has vanished into thin air for some 'reason'. I hope this repetition of it makes it through to you.
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True. Russia is still a feudal, quasi-medieval country. The tsar and aristocracy still think they have legitimate rights over the serfs; the serfs still think they owe fealty the other way. The Enlightenment has never fully taken hold, nor maybe even the Renaissance. Ukraine meanwhile is breaking free of feudalism towards European rights-based democracy. Perhaps it's because independence took away the tsar and aristocracy necessary for the people to recognize themselves as serfs.
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@larrymayfield6118 No, it isn't my 'metric.' What are you, hard of reading? Wait, don't answer. From the fact that you don't know the difference between 'then' and 'than', I can see you are.
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@larrymayfield6118 Nah, that wasn't "my metric" at all. I was suggesting it wasn't that at all. Oi, are you hard of reading?
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@BTinSF Maybe the young are about to bear the brunt of the casualties as the war intensifies. Maybe the older men predominated at first in order to build (at scale) a core of experience and competence.
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@qksf1645 That goes without saying. But he said Ukrainian fighters are legendary, not Ukrainian-made weaponry and wealth.
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