Comments by "turquoisestones" (@turquisestones) on "CNN" channel.

This colonel about 2.5 years ago was saying that Russia had run out of missiles. And CNN still interviews him! LOL!
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Another nice spin from CNN. Putin never even said this phrase "tough time".
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"If Russia didn’t want Ukraine to attack them they shouldn’t have attacked Ukraine first. How is this hard to understand?" - In February 2013, Viktor Yanukovych, the legally elected president of Ukraine recognized as such by the whole world including the West, was deposed as a result of a revolution, which was an act of gross violation of the Constitution of Ukraine. The Constitution explicitly allows for changes in state power only through democratic elections, and it prohibits any form of revolution as a means to alter the government. Following this event, eastern regions of Ukraine, including Crimea, Luhansk, and Donetsk (the last two collectively known as Donbass), which are home to significant ethnic Russian populations, rejected the authority of the illegal government in Kiev and declared their independence. That was a de facto collapse of the state of Ukraine. In response, the acting Ukrainian government under Oleksandr Turchynov deployed military forces to Donbass in April 2014 and initiated heavy shelling of the region, thus, killing a lot of civillians. Donbass mobilized its forces and retaliated. This is, in fact, how this war started. Since then Russia had repeatedly voiced her concerns over that, but the West was always ignoring Russia's concerns while still supplying the illegal Kiev's regime with weapons and miltary instructors to help Kiev submit Donbass. In 2022, when it was already obvious that the West was not going to stop and that Kiev was still going to submit Donbass by military means, Russia went ahead and recognized Luhansk and Donetsk as saparate states and then sent its troops there to protect those regions from Kiev's agression. How is all of this hard to understand?
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@DavidLaFerney "Russia actually annexed those areas of Ukraine..." - You annex some areas of another state when that state exists and has the legal control over those areas. When Russia showed up in Crimea and 8 years later in Donbass, the state of Ukraine that is defined in the Constitution of Ukraine had already collapsed and was no longer existing. And the new authorities in Kiev had no legal right to have any control over those regions. The Constitution of Ukraine, which is the very law that defined the state of Ukraine, DID NOT allow a change of state power by means of a revolution. However, revolution is exactly what happened in February 2013. Hence, the new authorities in Kiev were illegal and no region was in any way obliged to submit to them. Hence, Crimea and Donbass declared their independence. This is how the state of Ukraine defined in the Constitution stopped existing. Therefore, if Russia "annexed" anything, it only annexed Crimea of Crimea, and Donbass of Donbass. However, both Crimea and Donbass, being ethnicly Russians, were more than happy with that kind of "annexation". "...annexed those areas of Ukraine and in 2022 invaded with the clear intention to take the entire country" - If that intention is so clear, then answer: Why Russia didn't try doing anything like that before the unconstitutional revolution of February 2013 took place in Kiev? After all, Uktraine was much weaker then as the West hadn't yet started supplying it with weapons and military instructors as it did later. "I suspect next there will be ethic Russians in Moldova that need protection. Yes?" - Sure. If something similar to Ukraine happens there, that is, a coup or a revolution - an unconstitutional change of state power - with the new illegal authorities yet trying by force to submit Russian-populated regions and those regions consequently declaring their independence, then Russia will have all the rights to recognize those new states and then provide its protection for them.
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@DavidLaFerney "do You actually believe what you’re saying?" - What a stupid question! Those are simple facts. One does not need to believe in them. Just knowing them is well enough.
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@dimitarchardakliev5351 "None of this is true though." - Really?! :) Are you trying that no revolution took place in Kiev in February 2013? Or, perhaps, a revolution is okay with the Constitution of Ukraine? :) Or something else? Okay, just pick at least one "not-true" point and show me how it is not true.
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@DavidLaFerney "None of that - true or not - change the FACT that Russia invaded Ukraine in violation of international law..." - International law allows any country to recognize any independant entity as a state, sign agreements with it and, according to the agreement to provide protection. That's exactly what Russia did with the Republic of Crimea, the Republic of Luhansk and the Republic of Donetsk. "...in violation of their own promises not to invade Ukraine made in the 1994 Budapest Agreement": - First of all, that promise was never ratified - neither by Russian, nor by American parliament. Secondly, the promise was given to the State of Ukraine defined in the Constitution of Ukraine. The problem is that state stopped existing when the unconstitutional change of the state power - revolution - took place in Kiev.
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"Russia needs another visionary leader like Gorbachev" - Do you even realize what kind of misery we Russians had to go through as a result of his policies? For you, guys, outside of Russia, he was a good one; for us, however, the time under Gorbachev and the following time under Yeltsin was nothing but great suffering.
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@TruthFiction "Did Carlson ask about the WSJ reporter held in Russian prison since the Ukraine invasion for speaking out against it or did he not mention him at all?" - LOL! Carlson DID ask Putin that question.
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Guys, have some mercy on Cooper here - it's really a hard job to imitate a decent interview by asking interviewees questions and not letting them answer at the same time. :)
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@NerickovaNoha "you seriously believe this bullcrap ?" - You seriously believe those facts that I've presented are bullcrap?
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@cadtaingrey Absolutely true! Thank you for this addition.
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I almost burst out crying when he said, "We've landed." Wouldn't want to be in that situation.
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@Muttinchopsforever "Is Putin making it better for you now?" - Of course, it's better! It is better than during the Gorbachev's time and WAY better than during the Yeltsin's time.
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This a suicidal act for Ukraine. Pretty much a mortally-wounded animal move. Now Russia has all the reasons not to negotiate and go all the way down to the western border of Ukraine.
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@cainesy7913 Well, yes, that's true. However, he said that it was people in Kursk that was going through tough times. It's not that he admitted tough time on the-whole-country level as the CNN title suggests.
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"Yes. Starting a war of aggression against a peaceful country might just have consequences, Mr. Putin" - LOL!!! Peaceful country?! Dude, get your facts straight! For your own good, find out how many thousands of ethnic Russians in Donbass—including civilians—were shelled and killed by the illegal Kiev authorities (who had come to power through an unconstitutional revolution) between 2013 and 2022. Also, check how many times Russia had been warning the West about it and how many times the West ignored all those warnings and only suppoprted Kiev in those murderous acts.
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The Ukraine is definitely losing its territories and its people. The Ukraine now is simply paying for killing ethnic Russians in 2014 and the West is paying for supporting Ukrainians in that.
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This talking white head about one year and a half ago said that Russians had completely run out of missiles.
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"Their own" - I've always liked it how America is so much concerned about how people suffer in other countries, but just don't care how many people they kill in other countries. Really, just go home and take care of yourselves.
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"Ukraine has done incredibly well in this fight" - the Kursk invasion has already been stopped and the Russians are already slowly, but methodically pushing them back, Luhansk and Donetsk regions are almost fully under Russia's control, two other regions are under Russia, Crimea is nowhere near the point of being "returned". That's what "incredibly well" means.
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And did the judge finally apologize to her for saying "adjouz"? After all, it was exactly for saying that word to him that he gave her an additional punishment, after which he himself committed exactly the same "crime".
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With that young girl, Judge was absolutely wrong. She said adjous in a good manner and didn't mean anything bad by that, but he took personal offense to it and punished her and later he himself committed the same "crime" - he himself said adjous to her.
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Putin never said, 'We can go after the USA,' and he never meant it! You are a shameless liar! You've spent so many years in Russia—you know the country, you understand the mindset of the Russian people, and you've always been nice and kind when interviewing them. Yet, you continue to spread lies about Russia and its people when you share your 'insights' on CNN. Aren't you tired of being so hypocritical?
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@anjafark No what?
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@anjafark "Any possible inner conflict in Ukraine never was Russia's buiseness" - No more than it was ever the USA's business when it bombed Yugoslavia in 1999, or Iraq in 2004, or when it showed up uninvited in Syria. However, there is a difference: unlike Ukraine and Russia, neither Yugoslavia, Iraq, nor Syria shares a border with the USA. "If you want to fact-check - please: ..." - Thank you. I just finished watching that German talking head. I haven't laughed so much in a long time! If you call that 'fact-checking,' then you're really disgracing yourself. The only possible justification you might have here is the chance that the auto-generated translation into English (I don’t understand German) isn’t fully accurate. I wonder what kind of 'neo-imperial voices in Russia of the mid-90s' that pundit is referring to. Yeltsin basically let Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia go, and even after he stepped down in the year of 2000, he once visited those states, where they praised him for 'granting them freedom.' Neo-imperial voices in Russia in the mid-90s are simply a product of imagination of that German guy. I remember very well what Russia was like in the 90s. If there were any 'imperial voices,' they only began after NATO started bombing Yugoslavia in 1999 without UN Security Council approval, thus violating international law. Another funny thing he says in that video is that 'Crimea was given to Ukraine by Khrushchev because of infrastructure connections between Crimea and Ukraine.' LOL! He really doesn’t know what he’s talking about. It was all the USSR at that time. Even if there were any closeness in terms of infrastructure, this connectivity would have existed perfectly well without the need to assign Crimea to Ukraine. Besides, it’s a well-known fact that Khrushchev gave Crimea to Ukraine simply on a personal whim. It’s obvious that he wasn’t in Donbas or Crimea right after the coup took place in Kyiv in February 2014. It’s hilarious to me, as someone who WAS in Donbas at that time, to hear him claim that pro-Russian sentiments in Crimea then 'were not strong' or that 'separatism in Donbas was brought from outside.' And, of course, he said nothing about Kyiv's starting to shell Donbas in April 2014, which is how this war began. There are way too many absurdities in that video for me to address them all. But one more is worth mentioning—how that idiot calls the revolution in Kyiv in February 2014 a 'democratic movement, in which President Yanukovych was removed,' while conveniently 'forgetting' that it was a gross violation of Ukraine’s Constitution, which didn’t permit revolutions. Heck, even the impeachment procedure against Yanukovych—which the Constitution required—was never initiated! In fact, according to the Constitution, the Parliament had no right to appoint the acting president, Turchynov, at that time or to announce early presidential elections without impeachment. The new authorities that came to power did so through a violation of the Constitution, which is the supreme law of the state. As such, the new authorities had no constitutional right to exercise control over any region of Ukraine. This is why Donbas and Crimea declared their independence from Kyiv, after which Turchynov decided to 'return' Donbas by force—leading to the deaths of thousands of people there. Again: this was the starting point of this war, which is going on untill today. None of this, of course, was ever mentioned in that video. So much for 'fact-checking'! :)
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@richardlawson6787 "They ramped up production get" - LOL! Yeah, and they "ramped up the production" right on the next day after that interview when they continued their missile attacks :) . That only showed that he simply didn't know what he was talking about.
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Blagoevich did good here. It's nice to see how Cooper loses it.
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@Otterstone "I didn't hear about there being one in Kosovo?" - This one really made me laugh a lot. :) Nice irony, man!
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@Otterstone Are you asking about how the Soviet Union was rebuilding itself in Kosovo? :)
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@Otterstone I am talking about the question that you've asked. The user named unclesmrgol dragon said, "The reason for today's war is the desire by Stalinistic people to rebuild the Soviet Union using the same force with which it was originally built back in the day." And to that you replied with a question, "I didn't hear about there being one in Kosovo. Do you have more information?"
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@Otterstone "Oh no I was replying to the comments where he said..." - I see. Well, then quoting the point you are exactly referring to may come out really helpful. Otherwise, it is naturally assumed that you are replying to the user's latest words on the thread.
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"Russia whines about getting what they've been giving" - Where on earth do you see whining here? Russia is simply stating the obvious: any further escalation of the conflict by NATO—like this one—will naturally trigger further equivalent response from Russia. Only a fool would think that Russia has already exhausted or even attempted to use all her resources in this war. And reasonable people understand that the day Russia uses her last resource marks the end of the world.
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@pajmott9945 "wish you and your family were from Ukraine cause you wouldnt be talking this bs" - Wish you were from Donbas of April 2013 and on when the illegal Kiev authorities started shelling the ethnic Russian population there and killing thousands of civillians - which is how this war started - most likely you wouldn't be talking now either.
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Another nicely concocted piece of "exclusive news"! Good job CNN! Continue brainwashing your audience until you fully lose it. All the pictures and videos that you have shown of Russians in Africa are, in fact, pics and videos of Russian legal forces in Central African Republic. Russian presence there has never been kept as a secret by Russia. It is done in full accordance with UN regulations and with full agreement of Central African Republic. Clarissa Ward - a new ugly liar from CNN.
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