Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "Is Putin Blocking Gas to Europe? Russia's Plan to Blackmail Europe? - TLDR News" video.

@goranstojanov1160 You screech about propaganda while echoing propaganda. Merkel tried to call out the idea that the US wanted to force Germany to give up Russia's fuel for US LNG by promising to invest millions in return of stopping sanctions on Nordstream. The Americans declined, and reiterated what they really wanted; for Germany to not support Russia while the rest of the EU was against it. And yes, this was as much the EU vs Germany as much as it was the US vs Germany. But your propaganda conveniently forgot to mention that, huh?
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@tingleblade4274 You realize this is literally the same exact logic used by those who claimed that Russia attacking Ukraine was just "Hollywood garbage", right? Then it turned out that Russia cannot be considered a rational actor. So preparing for the worst is prudent. and no Russian authority is the exact opposite of prudent; prudent would be to lessen fears of Russian invasion and thus lessen the feeling of need for NATO. They did the exact opposite, and guaranteed another generation of Anti-Russian feelings to everyone near them, barring China, I guess.
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@JuanManuel-ii1ov Oh please, this is hardly just Russia. In the Australia-France submarine deal, it was called a "backstab" by the US despite them being a third party in the entire ordeal.
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@dunzhen In what world do you live in is China in any good geopolitical position? It's connections to other countries are either frayed or unproductive, it's actions in the SCS have created unnecessary wariness and suspicion to it instead of a new alliance structure, it has united Western ire even in the small countries like Lithuania because of its bullish diplomacy, and it is overall isolated in its corner of the world. That doesn't even get into domestic issues in China.
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@carlosandleon US and Nazi Germany weren't geopolitical adversaries while they were trading; Nazi Germany seemed highly nationalist, but it wasn't until after the beginning of WW2 in the West that anything resembling "geopolitical adversaries" became a possibility, leading to the US to stop trading with Nazi Germany. A better comparison is the USSR and Nazi Germany, who DID trade a lot despite both wishing the other ill from the beginning.
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@Stewiehleba Sanctions for invading another European democracy has more to do with it; Russia under Putin has ALWAYS treated anything west of them as a political adversary, no matter what.
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@carlosandleon Np, buddy
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In what world could anyone even depend on another country's support in this. Hell, even if the EU built an independent military (which won't happen anytime soon), how will that stop Russia from challenging it? It uses asymmetrical warfare, not actual direct conflict.
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@SwordOfTheSpirit-I- 1) No international organization accepts that there was a "West led military coup". Besides, a coup requires an illegal co-opting of a government, and by every law in Ukraine's Constitution the removal of the prior President was legal. So no dice there. 2) Crimea was FORCEFULLY unified after Russia invaded Ukrainian territory long before any attempt of discovering what Crimea actually wanted. It's akin to the US invading Siberia and then making a referendum with armed troops while preventing any international organization from verifying how honest the referendum was. It's in every way dishonest and suspicious, making it illegal. Thus, Russia deserves more sanctions, and perhaps embargoes. Since obviously Russians are no longer just innocent bystanders, and are actively supporting this blatant imperialism in the modern era. Nobody steals territory anymore...besides rogue states like Russia, anyway.
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@alexsilent5603 International organizations were present as East Germany legally and fairly voted to rejoin West Germany. Russia intentionally denied any and all non-Kremlin backed organizations from surveying the referendum in Crimea...AFTER illegally invading it. No amount of Kremlin-backed propaganda can obfuscate the truth of the fact that Russia is a state that deserves sanctions and more. It's a 20th century imperialist state in the 21st century, unfortunately.
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