Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "Russia Preparing for War with Ukraine? Why is Russia Sending Soldiers to the Border? - TLDR News" video.

@georgebrisuela4284 And you're not mentioning how "people voted" AFTER RUSSIA TOOK OVER THE TERRITORY AND PREVENTED ANY INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS FROM WATCHING THE ELECTION. So yes, Westerners have every reason to be suspect with Russia.
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@Inf1n1t3 Kevin It's okay not to trust the US government, but plenty of people seem to think that they're brilliant when they automatically take any government that's anti-US at their word. Blindly trusting any anti-US government is as stupid as just blindly trusting the US.
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@csbalazs01 Okay??? And??? I'm not shitting on Russia for expanding across Eurasia, am I? That was a different time, but things have changed and it's in everyone's interest to not allow countries to literally take another's territory, you bot. And Russia's is fucking that and fucking a European democracy. So Russia gets the black eye if it continues.
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@BlindManInsane Great, but not all people in power are the same, and not all people in power even like each other. A person in power in Switzerland trying to keep their country tucked away in neutrality is not the same as one threatened to get invaded. Enough with this simplistic "99% vs 1%" narrative that makes zero sense in reality.
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@BlindManInsane There is no such thing as a unified 99% in the first place. Nor is it always that the 1% is even wrong, and the very concept of it is Marxist stupidity anyway. Who's "we" in this? What if some in the "99%" want to place a new fascist/Marxist dictatorship and the 1% does not? Does that mean everyone else has to unite under them because "fuck the 1%"? Fuck that. Stand for your ideology, but just as the "99%" is varied, so is the 1% that are extremely varied from country to country in the first place.
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@BlindManInsane It's better to have a war with Russia than let Russia just take territory in Europe, smart one. Russia won't fucking stop with Ukraine, or have you never heard of the poem: "First they came for..." before? The only one that seems to have forgotten history is you. The Nazi's expanded their power greatly not by acts of war, but through intimidation of war. Aggressive states that expand their territory don't stop after being sated once, they push and push until they can't anymore. So you need to place a line and say "we won't allow you to go any further". But hey, if you wanna bend over for Russia, feel free to do so. But not at another democracy's expense. Die a slave rather than a free man.
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@BlindManInsane Nazi's aren't Russians, but this specific instance of aggressive territorial expansion is like that Nazi strategy of exploiting Western weakness for power, yes. Western powers didn't come close, it's Russian neighbors that wanted to join NATO, and only because they were terrified, rightly so, of Russia fucking them again. In 2014 when this whole crisis began there were barely any NATO forces in Eastern Europe at all, you propagandist. NATO had made ZERO moves to harm Russia until AFTER Russia attacked Ukraine. "Europe needs to improve relations with russia and strive for cease fire in Ukraine" AFTER Russia took over Ukrainian territory??? It's like asking a battered wife to return to their abusive husband, Jesus Christ. Why the hell should Ukraine trust a single word from Russia after their "brothers" attacked them and supported separatists in their lands, huh? It was Russia that destroyed Ukraine's positive image of them, not the West. And everything you suggested involves bending over for Russia with zero consequences for their actions. Imagine my shock.
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Why is that crucial? Ukraine's position has been static these past few years, so why is re-iterating that point in policy supposed to have changed anything?
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I suppose it's better to just let the lands be conquered then, right Chamberlain? Peace at any cost!
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@0816M3RC Nukes won't be involved due to the nature of WMD's. They are a weapon of last resort, and the Kremlin doesn't want to die any quicker than Washington. People are always screeching about nukes being used and don't even know how the concept of deterrence works. Russia won't use nukes unless nukes are used on them, same with the US.
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@Alertacobra12 Well then that's a stupid comparison since every country ever has used this logic.
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@Alertacobra12 Uh, no. That's stupid. Iraq only got off the dollar in reaction to the US harrassing Saddam Hussein for his actions since the invasion of Kuwait. More than that, Iraq refused to use the dollar for 3 years and no change occurred to the dollar at all. Seriously, this oil-dollar conspiracy has been dead for decades now.
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@plankalkulcompiler9468 US has done it, like, 4 times in its history. 2 of those times pretty legitimate at least.
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@merlinhotspurs Enough with this "Biden won't do anything" BS. Biden has no choice, and if he doesn't then Congress will. Trump being there doesn't change shit.
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@BocaoZ Western media is filled with different narratives, smart one. There is no "united" Western media source, so the comparison makes no damn sense.
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@Kannot2023 NATO is still here, you troglodyte. How could Trump destroy something that still exists and functions?
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@l.ferrandino5939 Saddam literally stopped using the Dollar since 2000, you idiot. The US had zero problem with this. It wasn't until 2003 that issues arose after 9/11.
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@user-do1kg1py1d And the US never accessed Afghan mineral reserves, and Iraq never wanted to sell oil in gold -it wanted and DID sell it in Euros as well as everything else since 2000. And the US didn't give a shit about Libya. You people are just making stuff up now.
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@G M >Anything bad happens. >You: It was the US.
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@odycz There was no treaty whatsoever, and the guy that made the verbal agreement never had the authority to make such a demand either.
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@csbalazs01 So if the US annexes Moscow, does that make it their borders? Is that how this works? Edit: Also, the point of contention is that Russia is threatening their ally, not that Russia's borders are threatening. But hell, Russian bot gotta bot, right?
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@lazaryanya9407 Witness what myself? What, do we need to see something personally to understand and talk about it? I guess I can't believe in the Big Bang since I never saw it, huh? We live in an improving world where new rules are made so that big powers can't just do whatever they want without some pushback. Even if it's only pushback haphazardly; we can't allow Russia to take new territory just as we can't allow anyone else barring an internationally-surveyed referendum. Or at least due to rational fears like fears of genocide. Stop making excuses here; Russia is wrong, and ther eis no logical way to explain away them being fucked up here.
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@alexsilent5603 The fall of the USSR was the greatest event in human history rivaled only by the fall of Nazi Germany. World standards in freedom and prosperity jumped after their fall; so idk what you're crying about lol
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@a_m5115 Oh, I think the locals that lost their lands and are under foreign occupation lose too. But hey, just ignore that unpleasant little detail, eh?
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@BlindManInsane The Middle Eastern crisis started after Merkel invited Middle Easterners in, with many refugees crediting her for it. The most refugees came from Syria and Libya; with the former being a civil war that the US didn't get involved in until later, and the latter being a FRENCH and BRITISH operation that the US was dragged into. Since those are civil wars we're talking about, I can't say. I can't say the Westerners were good guys, but I can say that neither was really anyone else. You know what I can say? That Russia is the bad guy here.
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@forwillemii6907 Why is it that Western Europeans are so damn bigoted against immigrants in general? Immigration is not migration or illegal immigration, guys.
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@gabrielles6992 Poles are not exactly welcoming of foreigners either, though. Maybe of other Europeans, but non-Europeans? Not really.
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@samueltrusik3251 KGB hasn't existed in a long time.
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@vladavuckic5262 By every international metric, democracy exists and the Western way of life in terms of material value is superior.
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@zunlise2341 Psht, that incident in the US Capitol wasn't even an insurrection, but a riot. No one involved really had any intention to usurp the vote outside of a few individuals within. And they were prolly far-right, but they still have little political power compared to most of Europe that have active far-right parties that outside of economics make the Republicans look left-wing. Europeans in general have pretty far-right parties that makes me feel sick. But the police issues are true enough, if exaggerated. 300 million people means a lot of cops and interactions with cops lol.
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@Jorg Reuser Racism in Europe is a plague compared to America, wut? Europeans barley consider brown people as native Europeans and there are literal parties that associate with ideas that advocate for kicking them out because of color. Nothing in the US even qualifies to casual European racism. The US just has more violence in general.
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