Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "Are Sweden and Finland About to Join NATO? - TLDR News" video.

@Hurao48999 You do realize that the "pool of blood" was only American, right? And that relatively few died in that conflict for the US? And that it has NOTHING to do with NATO? Kremlinbots literally can't get this through their thick skull; thinking that anything a NATO member does is just NATO action.
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@spugelo359 We mostly hate foreign tourists here in New York too, and generally flip them off because they're always privileged jerks. Especially Western Europeans like Spaniards and French. So the feeling is generally mutual.
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@coderentity2079 As if you can provide evidence of yourself raising a voice against crimes in Iraq back in the day. Also where is your complaints about Russia's crimes in Chechnya, Georgia, and Ukraine in 2014 while you're at it? Ultimately all of these are deflections. Russia is doing a bad thing NOW, and here you are trying to defend Russian mass murdering because "someone did something before". Disgusting.
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@apyllyon As if the US needs NATO to engage in a war. With or without NATO, the US will act as it acts; NATO is not in this consideration. Join it or no, that's your choice, but don't buy Kremlin propaganda in believing that NATO is some sort of US attempt to leverage other nations to do its bidding. Especially when there is still a decent chunk of Americans that would like nothing more than to abandon Europe to begin with.
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@PrestonSartorius Considering how France and Germany has been acting up until this invasion, its likely that they'd sell parts of Eastern Europe to Russia to maintain "peace" without NATO around. Russia went ahead with this precisely because, if anything, NATO has not been doing ENOUGH. The fact that you bought Russia's gaslighting on the situation when they're the aggressors is gross.
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@nonyabisness6306 Begged? The US prodded to be sure, but it didn't need the help. It asked for help in the case of Iraq to give it legitimacy, Iraq War was made up of something like 80% US troops with 90% of the equipment. Not to say it wasn't appreciated, as foolish as the war ended, but don't mistake US Coalition building as a "need".
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@jyrkihyvola3680 Treaty of Lisbon demands that EU member states aid other member states in the case of a war, NOT a defensive pact. That means that countries can effectively only send some aid money and never send any troops in their defense; it's too flexible...by design. If Finland was invaded by Russia instead of Ukraine, it would effectively have been stuck in the same position with EU and US sending aid, but no troops out of fear of escalation.
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@nonyabisness6306 US deployed 466k. UK with 45k. That's with a quick check on the Wiki in the Invasion of Iraq, not talking about the time after that. No, the US did not really need help. At all. Legitimacy would be nice, but that's just a bonus, not a necessity.
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@quinntinmann I love how Putinbots unironically are experts in gaslighting. "Why are you causing tensions while my armies are butchering a country not in NATO? Don't you understand that I'm hurting you because you're threatening me???" Literally sound like a deadbeat boyfriend beating on his girl for trying to call the cops lol
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