Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "Jake Tran"
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@LancesArmorStriking You realize that you contradicted yourself, right? The US sent ADVISORS to Yeltsin, not governors or anything like that; ultimately the US couldn't do anything that Russia itself didn't want. The US suggested for example that via privatization that Russia diversify its economy to multiple sectors and utilize the money garnered from that in other projects. The US did not for a second expect the utter corruption in the process where massive sectors of the economy were sold for literal pennies leading to the oligarchs. The US could not control or stop that, it could only vaguely hope for the best and ignore Russian actions abroad in the hope that it will just get better. Unlike Ukraine today, the US just tacitly let Russia do whatever it wanted since 1991 to 2014.
Kyiv is the origin of the Kyivan Rus, the origin of the Slavic nations of the Russians, Belarussians, and Ukrainians. Novgorod is another contender, but while they were the next most powerful city of the time of the Kyivan Rus it was not THE capital of the people like Kyiv was. Thus Kyiv carries that torch of the "capital of the progenitors of the East Slavs" or something.
Idk anything about Pozner so whatever.
Bruh, what realm of existence do you live in where the West didn't acknowledge Russia as a country? If anything the West bent itself into pretzels for Russia trying to justify their actions. Even US Presidents were trying to do so until 2014; with Republican President contender Romney claiming that Russia may be a threat to US allies getting him laughed by President Obama and the rest of the US -because the idea was considered absurd since Russia was "peaceful" now. That attitude changed in the future, but I remember also scoffing at the idea as a teenager at the time, and thinking that Eastern NATO members were letting their prejudices get the better of them.
Russia is just a country, but its also a country that argued that Ukraine had no right to exist and it had to be "de-Nazified" by being "de-Ukrainianized". That's effectively what the Germans wanted of the Soviets in WWII, so I think the Ukrainians can be excused for seeing Russia as evil for a while.
Don't blame the West for Russia's actions. Seriously, even during Yeltsin, the so-called "puppet" of the West, he tried very hard to convince Clinton to split Europe between the US and Russia and forcefully silence the smaller nations for their own interests. Russian imperialism remained alive and well even in Russia's weakest moments post-USSR; even if Russia had a clean transition from the Command economy of the USSR, the fundamental issue of Russian imperialism would remain a massive issue from which the likes of Poland and the Baltics; the closest victims of Russian imperialism, would never accept Russia.
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@LancesArmorStriking Bruh, there are already missiles in Kaliningrad. It's true most EU states would object, but they wouldn't threaten an invasion, would they? And that's the important context here; there is ZERO fear of a Western invasion of Russia, meanwhile there are very REAL fears of Russian invasions of neighbors.
And no, the Europeans would not really expect Russia to listen to them. Russia has literally never listened to them, why would they start now? Russia only seems to listen to strength. Germany disagreed and believed Russia could listen to economic interdependence...but that ship has sailed.
Europe literally has no legal reason to say anything against Russia placing nukes in Kaliningrad. It can literally and figuratively do nothing about it. But it can complain, or throw sanctions, or ban them from international orgs. That's their right, especially if Russia's actions make it harder to align with them. Which is kinda the point; yes ultimately nations can do whatever they want to an extent, but international relations dictates that certain actions are considered "unwise" for long-term stability.
So Russia, say, placing nukes in Venezuela could invite a response for the US to place nukes in Georgia, Japan, South Korea, Poland, and Estonia for example. It's a tit for tat that international law really has no answer for since its technically not violating the sovereignty of anyone assuming everyone agreed to it. Just like there was a reason why the US didn't just attack the USSR when Soviet pilots shot down US pilots in Korea, there is a reason why Russia has not placed more nukes in Kaliningrad. The unofficial response can be not worth the price for the action.
Geopolitics is not the be all, end all. Geopolitics presume that Poland would be better served forming its own bloc in Eastern Europe, and that aligning with Russia actually be an option to put both Russia and Western Europe against each other for their own benefit. However, historical animosities and cultural background makes that option impossible for the foreseeable future. This is the problem with a purely geopolitical lens; it removes context for a lot of very human aspects.
That being said, I'm not sure what in particular you're criticizing about my viewpoint here. So please clarify if you want a more concise response in regards to my "Individualist" approach.
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@keoniramo7099 Jake Tran is generally the worst place you can go to for actual facts; it's just salacious rumor mongering for the most part with a few sprinkles of truth. ColdFusion is infinitely better unlike Jake Tran who always has massive leaps of logic.
In general corporations will always seek more, it's kinda what they're supposed to do, but acting like the US invaded Iraq for oil has always been an easily debunkable braindead theory. The US Government does not need corporations to convince it to literally further its own enlightened self-interest to protect an area from Russian imperialism either.
Ultimately, the MASSIVE problem here is that everyone in this damned channel can't help but try and be edgy teens and play the "everyone sucks" angle. If people lived in the 1940's ya'll would be crying that the US was just fighting the Nazis because corporations pushed it to do so. At a certain point it looks a lot less like trying to be fair, and more like an attempt to downplay the really screwed up actions of another state.
For example; Jake Tran released a video crying about "Stop pretending like you care about Ukraine" which while is good for those that never heard about the Georgian War -is also completely braindead in its assumptions. Like acting like the West was 100% convinced that Georgia was wronged and thus maliciously ignored it for their own interests; when the reality was that Russia played the same game its playing now by obfuscating the situation to make it seem like they were in the right. In short, Jake Trans mentions situations, and ignores ALL CONTEXT of the situation to make a point for which his audience eats it up without thinking or even checking on the situation.
Wanna complain about US actions in going into Iraq int he first place? Feel free, but when Jake Tran can't help but always "b-b-b-ut the WEEEEEEST THOOOOO" then you're already long gone as an actual source. Just like you can't cry about Russia when the US does something bad, you can't cry about the US when Russia does something bad. Is this simple concept so hard for "eNliGhteNeD cEnTriSts" to understand?
I also love how you cry that the US is benefitting from war when the US explicitly tried to stop this war. No doubt some "centrists" will come along and act like the US throwing Ukraine under the bus would have unironically stopped this war, and thus the US instigated it; but that says more about them then me.
Final fun fact; there is ALWAYS war going on, so making a new war does little but cost the US time and money, let alone benefit it. It requires a massive war which has nothing to do with the US for the US to explicitly benefit -like WW2 prior to US involvement.
Welp, that's all I had to say on the subject. Sorry about the bunch of stuff I wrote, but its kinda hard to debunk small sentences of BS without laying out the foundation, ya know?
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