Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "RUSSIA VS SANCTIONS: how they affect regular Russians" video.

@snowsnow4231 Literally nobody threatened to put nukes near Russia. Nobody. The US had the option for decades, and never did so; because the US understood that that was unnecessarily inflammatory. Hell, the US barely put any troops near Russia's borders UNTIL 2014. Edit: NATO exists as an insurance for countries that naturally feel that their independence is under threat by Russian imperialism. Not by Russians themselves, but their leaders. NATO has never been a threat to Russia; you want it to disband? How about you insure all EE countries that they are secure first?
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@snowsnow4231 A separate conversation, genius. It's harder to tell what is a righteous war in defense of a nation-state vs a war for liberation of an oppressed people. Stable democracies are easily in the former, ruthless dictatorships are much harder to discern. And I'm willing to guess that, considering your dialogue, you are the latter. Apologies, but there is no guarantee of anything, not because you don't have blond hair, but more because of your government's structure and lack of personal expression from the public due to gov repression. It's the same in Belarus and Russia, if you haven't noticed. And most of NATO doesn't have majority blond hair or blue eyes either. Hell, the US is far more mixed than that; Marco Rubio is having fun digging through Russian intelligence and he's Hispanic and all for this. I don't care what Belgrade felt. I'll tell you now that no American cared about Belgrade after the shit they pulled with the Bosnians and the Kosovars. No tolerance for genocide in the 21st century, if anyone can help it. If the US does some crap like that, I'd be all for a liberation army to end that crap too. I'll apologize for Chile with Allende, though. I'll apologize to Iran for the 1950's. And unless they're enemies of the US today, they generally get a lot of US aid which saves many lives too. Notice the difference yet? Chechnya is literally Russian territory now, genius. Americans don't celebrate rebuilding the South after the US Civil War; that's to be expected. Did Russians rebuild anything they destroyed outside of their de-facto territory? East Germany? Afghanistan? The answer is generally no, but I am not holding that against Russia right now. That's the past. This is now. And you people need to get over this whole whataboutism BS. No one is bringing up past Russian atrocities, outside of snide Eastern Europeans. I don't blame Iraqis for wanting a new security apparatus to protect themselves from the US, or other victims of US power. That's understandable, generally -then you should understand the same for EE countries. Bruh, unironically using the nazi reference when the country we're talking about (Russia) literally refuses to acknowledge Ukraine's right to exist and is trying to steal territory. No self-reflection whatsoever.
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@Cooe. Aye, good point. Not only that, but Ukraine has been a peaceful and respectable member of the international community for decades since independence. It isn't like Iraq or Yugoslavia where they were either involved in aggressive wars themselves or in the midst of some major war crimes. It's hard to just let this go when even the most peaceful of democracies can be subjected to an invasion.
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