Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "Can Russia Disintegrate Territorially?" video.

@frankthetank5708 Unless you think that Russians in Sakha are comfortable being a smaller, weaker, landlocked state... Everyone in Russia understands on a deep psychological level that the territory must remain intact. Everyone inside it benefits from a larger potential reach. We remember the 1990s very well Strength in numbers as they say. The only way Russia stays divided is if the West imposes it onto Russia, against their own Western values.
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@frankthetank5708 Yes, they are. In the same way Americans are the inhabitants of Oklahoma. Also again, whatever improvements would be made to governance would quickly hit a cap that could not be overcome without re-unifying Russia (giving each territory access to all the other ones). It is to everyone's benefit to keep Russia together, besides maybe Western companies who want our resources.
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@frankthetank5708 You went off on a tangent about language. Stick to the original point please The point is that the new smaller countries' political stance would not magically be anti-unification. They might not love Moscow, but most people remember the 1990s, what political weakness brings for the ordinary person. They would quickly re-unify unless a capricious Western coalition knowingly sought to keep them divided and weak.
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 @vladimirbazhaev7851 Like the other person said--- it seems the commenters here are allergic to even entertaining the idea that Russia could win.
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 @recoil53 Yes, benefiting from colonialist instructions will do that for you. That doesn't make it morally right.
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Germany has already refused (and would need to somehow de-arm it), Japan will also need to de-arm Kurils and has already legally renounced all claims after it lost WWII, Karelia has been evacuated of Finns (who shouldn't be there anyways, Finns are not Karelians) and Finland would bankrupt itself trying to integrate it and pacify it, and South Ossetia and Abkhazia will die before they let themselves be part of Georgia. Georgia has no right not claim to those areas.
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 @Mark-uh3un And what happens if the Kaliningradians show a popular will to rejoin a Russian state? "no not that kind of democracy, we're intervening for your own good"?
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 @triadwarfare Rules for thee, not for me? I swear this videos attracted the most feverish Russophobes I've ever seen
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 @TheRezro Famous last words. All it takes is one good nuke
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@recoil53 The point flew right over your head. There is no difference between exploiting some African country to make your country richer, or Russia exploring Ukraine to make itself richer. They are morally the same thing. Arguing that it would be better for human rights as a whole if Ukraine becomes Western is simply wrong. All it would do is make Europe more capable of exploiting other countries for its own benefit (but with Ukraine as an added beneficiary). When I say Russia isn't discriminatory, I mean that they don't draw a distinction between Europeans and Africans, or Southeast Asians etc. They won't reinforce the colonial policies of targeting third world countries specifically.
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@iivarilappalainen9836 Tougher nut to break. Russia as it currently is is 70% ethnically Russian. You could only do it along political lines, and frankly Zyuganov would probably unite it quicky. And disintegrating would make Russians' lives worse so the West would have to work overtime to trick them into thinking that their new, smaller country will somehow be more prosperous and safe from foreign influences.
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@notusneo They bring it up because you people single out Russia specifically, and advocate for real action to be taken against it, claiming that you do it because you care about human rights or democracy. Yet I never see these types calling for the US to be sanctioned and cut from SWIFT because of Iraq. They violated human rights in an even bigger capacity, yet pro-West people don't call for punishing the US. So the only conclusion I can draw is that you DON'T actually care about those things that you said justify action against Russia. And if you don't really care then this begs the question... why are you singling out Russia? I think you know the answer. I just wish you'd be honest about your true feelings and motivations.
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@davidford3115 Has the 1996 war taught you nothing? Or the history of the Caucasus in general? That entire region is best out under one banner, Russia collapsing would just lead to in fighting and a scramble by the West for even more money and resources. Just more neo-imperialism, really. That's the whole point of this video
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Wow. So you genuinely, truthfully just want only Western countries to stay together and geopolitical challengers to the West to collapse? Thanks for re-affirming that the imperialist mindset is alive and well. You've done a rather good job hiding it behind rhetoric, but it's nice to see someone be completely honest about what Westerners really want
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@nsevv If it means continuing to subjugate third world countries by forcibly liberalizing their markets and then employing slave labor to enrich the EU? Yes, it's just as bad. I would even say worse. Russia, if you believe its cruelty, is at least non-discriminatory.
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@recoil53 It has to do with them joining the EU because they are just continuing the cycle of colonial exploitation. The success of the EU as a trade bloc rests on the institutional power built up by the UK, France, Spain, etc. My "rant" is that it's just about getting yours and telling everyone else to piss off, rather than valuing self-determination or freedom. I just wish the post-Soviet Eu members would be honest about that instead of moralizing
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