Comments by "turquoisestones" (@turquisestones) on "Vladimir Putin announces partial military mobilisation to fight Ukraine war – BBC News" video.

  1. So, how is this not a threat to Russia's sovereignty? NATO has been creeping toward Russia since 1991 despite its own promises not to do so. It started to do so when Russia posed absolutely no threat to the West! NATO has been building missile systems in Eastern Europe (with only 5 minutes for missiles to reach Saint-Petersburg) despite Russia's multiple voiced concerns. And again, it started doing so when Russia posed no threat to the West. NATO was the first country to violate the International law by bombing Yugoslavia without the UN Security counsel in 1991. Then NATO violated it once again when it bombed Iraq - again without the UN consent. The West was also the first to violate the principle of indestructibility of European borders and of the territorial integrity of a nation when it turned one part of Serbia (Kosovo and Metohija) into a separate state named Kosovo - without holding any referendums there! Then the West fully supported the violation of the Constitution of Ukraine in February 2014, when, as a result of a coup, was deposed a legally elected president that had previously been recognized as such by absolutely all countries on earth, including the ones in the West. Then the West began to support those regions of Ukraine who refused to submit themselves to the new unconstitutional authorities in Kiev. Then the West was hypocritically turning its blind eye to the constant shelling of civilians in those regions by Kiev, while at the same time pumping Ukraine with weapons and NATO military instructors during the course of 8 years - while Russia was still waiting for Kiev to observe Minsk agreements instead. Besides, NATO built labs for developing bacteriological weapons in Ukraine and still holds such ones in Georgia and South Korea - at the doorstep of Russia - while, again, ignoring Russia's multiple concerns in this regard. Then Zelenski made an announcement in Munich - right before this war - that he was planning to develop a "dirty nuclear weapon" to be used against Russia. And the West, again, simply ignored that announcement and even chose not to report it in its media. Now, how is that "not a threat to Russia's sovereignty"? Only a fool would think that the West, given its "nice" behavior since the collapse of the USSR, still didn't pose any threat to Russia. Take a random guess on what the USA would do if Russia messed up in a similar way right at the US border. And if you lack imagination, then recall the Caribbean crisis and the US' response then to the USSR's move to install its missiles in Cuba.
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