Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "Tim Pool: "We Should Apologize To Russia!" #whoopsie" video.

@robfl100 Russia is preventing the US from re-establishing its hegemony. They've assisted several Sahel countries in expelling literal French colonial outposts. Come now. Don't be dense
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@PuffDaMunkey This is the best the pro-Ukraine people can do? If it's so obvious that I'm wrong, why don't you just say it, so everyone else can see??
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@redrick8900 You're right It doesn't need to be, but the US is trying to. And I'd argue Russia is rather capable of fighting it, considering the entire idea of sanctions is failing thanks to the failure of the US to affect Russia in a meaningful way. Oh and depleting NATO's artillery reserves:)
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Fighting against modern day colonialism doesn't mean it was never colonial itself...
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@profipfuscher3229 Yeah, it's not like the US has a history of using neighboring countries to train and arm agents to send into adversary counties! Oh, wait...
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@berjanbeen7188 Chechnya invaded Russia in August 1999, you dolt. Not the other way around. And Amnesty International (among others) recognizes that Georgia started the Russo-Georgian war. They shouldn't have bombed the South Ossetians.
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@redrick8900 Yes, they are. China is the sole manufacturing superpower, the US no longer is. The trade war and Biden's IRA make that very clear. And thanks to the war, countries are using the dollar to trade in oil less and less. It's ironic that you're calling my argument propaganda when all you've done is accuse without evidence. You can't even address the contents of my argument without implicitly admitting you're wrong. I'll try this one last time: how is the US' own admission that its sanctions regime didn't affect Russia how it had hoped, "Russian propaganda"?? Countless Western outlets have talked about this. "Fortress Russia" "Shadow fleet" "Smuggled microchips" are among the terms used to explain how the sanction failed. But the admission is undeniable. The US can't wield sanctions as a weapon anymore. I'm giving concrete evidence, and you're giving nothing. That alone should tell you who's correct here.
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@redrick8900 China is the sole manufacturing superpower, so yes, the US is trying to reestablish that. The trade war and IRA make that abundantly clear. And Ru is fighting it, rather well. Sanctions don't work anymore, and the whole world knows it.
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@robfl100 Yes, that's part of the deal— Wagner gets rid of ISIS militants, they get to access the goldmines in exchange. It's really no different than France's arrangement with all of Central Africa, except Russia doesn't require anything to be traded in rubles, or that the countries NEED to have 50% of their budget physically held in Moscow, or that they get first access to their markets. You might cope and seethe, but Russia is objectively better to have as a partner than France. In Central and West Africa, at least. There's a reason they all hate the explotation of Francafrique— it's textbook neocolonial policy. The same economic relations were kept in spite of nominal independence. So no, what you described is not "about it". The terms that the countries were made to contractually agree to when joining the CFA (under threat of coup— which France has made good on, many times) were economically draining. I'm not painting Wagner as angels either, just pointing out that Russia is better than France here and that Russia is, in fact, anti-colonial in its approach here.
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@TheMasterMind144 Yes, I'm aware of 1994. Chechnya WON that war, and they could have kept their independence and left things alone. What did they do instead? Gather 4,000 soldiers, invade Dagestan, and declare a jihad on Moscow. Brilliant. Even better is that this operation was organized and funded by Saudi Arabia and the US (via Shamil Basayev). Doesn't matter that Putin (allegedly) faked apartment bombings, they ACTUALLY invaded Russia. Yet everyone thinks the Chechen War (the big one, where Russia re-occupied Chechnya) was started by Russia— when it wasn't. Same with Georgia— you literally ignored the point. So I'll try again, do you think Georgia had a right to oppress its Abkhazian minority group?? Doesn't really matter that Russia meddled; every country does that and you're being selective in your accusation. Georgia (again, according to Western sources) bombed Sukhumi University and threatened to genocide the Abkhazians. If anything they deserved to be invaded, they might have made good on their promise. No one blames the US for invading Germany in 1943, after all.
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@TheMasterMind144 Yes, I'm aware of 1994. Chechnya WON that war, and they could have kept their independence and left things alone. What did they do instead? Gather 4,000 soldiers, invade Dagestan, and declare a jihad on Moscow. Brilliant. Even better is that this operation was organized and funded by Saudi Arabia and the US (via Shamil Basayev). Doesn't matter that Putin (allegedly) faked apartment bombings, they ACTUALLY invaded Russia. Yet everyone thinks the Chechen War (the big one, where Russia re-occupied Chechnya) was started by Russia— when it wasn't. Same with Georgia— you literally ignored the point. So I'll try again, do you think Georgia had a right to oppress its Abkhazian minority group?? Doesn't really matter that Russia meddled; every country does that and you're being selective in your accusation. Georgia (again, according to Western sources) bombed Sukhumi University and threatened to genocide the Abkhazians. If anything they deserved to be invaded, they might have made good on their promise. No one blames the US for invading Germany in 1943, after all.
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@roaldruss4211 Can you explain which specific part of what I said is factually incorrect, and correct it? :)
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@PuffDaMunkey Ukraine's strongest keyboard warrior
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@lovinsubs Yes, helping the Vietnamese gain independence from France's literally colonial rule is colonial... somehow.
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