Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on ""The President's Patience Is Running Out"" video.

  1. "how high?"
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  2. ​ @saadhasan2300  Their strong tradition is also what keeps their tribal mentality alive. They can't seem to move past their bronze-age beliefs in superiority (despite not having created a civilization like the Persians, Greeks, or Romans) even into the 21st century.
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  3. ​ @社会主義惑星人民連邦  Good historical view. Actually, Putin's story is different. He wasn't "pretending" to be pro-Western. He genuinely wanted to be a part of the system. Listen to his speech at the Bundestag, he was a different person then. After Yeltsin's failure, he probably adopted the idea of "the West will only respect and eventually include countries that are successful in their own right". He gets to work installing technocrats in the Kremlin and rebuilding the Russian economy, and yet Russia is treated like a third-world country. NATO continues to expand as if the USSR still exists. The tipping point for him was Libya, according to former aides. Seeing a person much like himself— unifying and rapidly developing a backwater country, if ruthlessly— be overthrown in a US-backed coup, changed him. If the US promised to normalize relations with Libya after he agreed to halt its nuclear program, and ended up throwing the country into a civil war— what moral boundary prevented them from doing that to Russia? Add to that the fact that Russia's woes in the 1990s were largely the US' fault to begin with, and you get a man bent on eliminating US influence in the world. He tried for over a decade to play nice, and was repeatedly snubbed in both the geopolitical and economic sphere (for example the Pentagon blocking the sale of Opel to Russia in 2008, or opposing the opening of Nordstream I). Trusting the West was the biggest mistake Russia ever made. Putin's personal evolution is an embodiment of that fact.
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