Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "Good Times Bad Times"
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Ukraine: "In public schools, you will speak ONLY UKRAINIAN!"
vAtNiKs: "In Russian regions you will learn BOTH languages. In Sakha, ethnic Russian children have mandatory schooling in Sakha".
See the difference? Russia actually respects regional cultural identity.
If you wanna call me a propagandist, then maybe you'll listen to the Polish, Hungarian, and Romanian governments, who've all voiced similar complaints about THEIR ethnic minorities' language rights in Ukraine, following the 2019 language law which bans its use in public schooling as a primary subject, and which demotes official status in any area where less than 10% of the population uses it.
That's an ethno-nationalist approach to unity, artificially imposing that which you could not do diplomatically and democratically.
Doing it forcefully is "fine", but I expect all countries claiming their support is based on "fighting authoritarianism" to stop sending a single cent to Ukraine.
Poland was a good start.
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@TheTokkin
Wow, that was insane. Easily the dumbest, most wishful thinking I've seen all week.
You're unironically an idiot.
"A chance to build something better"
You think that a Libyan state will just magically spring from nowhere once a Parliamentary vote is established? What exactly do you think people vote on? Infrastructure, food security, unemployment, education- domestic issues. Can you guess what Gaddafi was working to improve during his rule?
"Just because the people of Libya failed"
You mean, the loud minority of rebel fighters that received training and backing from the US? Yeah, they failed.
"doesn't mean that the policy was a failure: it's perfectly possible that they might be do so in the future"
This is what boils my blood the most. You are comically naïve- ideological, childish in your approach to nationbuilding. You think the principles come before the material gains, and are willing to sacrifice people's lives just to satisfy your own finnicky little needs.
Do you think that before democracy, all countries were unstable messes just waiting to emulate the Constitution so that they could start 'being good'? What a load of shit.
"I agree its risky, but the risk is partly why I love it"
You're sitting comfortable in your developed nation, of course you "love" it. You seem to treat politics like it's sports. But I wouldn't expect anything else from a Westerner. Especially an American.
The people of Libya don't need stability 'in the future', they need help NOW. The Tripoli government is a radical Islamist faction, I find it laughable that you think women or minorities would have a better life there.
Slaughter the Tripoli government, if you really stick ot your values.
But I'm sure you'd survive just fine down there, since you're so committed to putting those values before everything else. Spend a few months there and tell me how great the American plan is.
Let's see how much you love "risky" when your next meal depends on it.
I fucking hate people like you-
you're no better than a Maoist or a Jacobin; you refuse to base, or at least temper, your principles based on what's actually going on in the world, and stubbornly stick to your values for your personal emotional reasons, no matter how detrimental they are to real, living people.
And I hope you're willing to extend those same sentiments to your allies in Saudi Arabia. The entire family would need to be murdered. Same goes with Naftali Bennet, and Bibi in Israel. And the UAE, and Brazil, and Hungary and Poland. Be my guest, please.
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@richhagenchicago
No, you shouldn't have, and I am very glad you didn't, and never will.
"No country, not us"
Well there is the problem. You are more than happy to protest the US destabilizing and messing up the world... but action is never truly taken. However, when a rival to the US is doing the same, they need to be stopped!
So you fail to realize that, in the current system, your "upholding of values" just leads to a one-sided outcome: the US gets a scolding, and China/Russia/Iran get military action. This is unacceptable.
I do, but I do not believe it. NATO is an extension of American military power. Show me the instance where a coalition of European NATO members called the shots-- they are equal members of an alliance, no?
Europe has no political or military autonomy, it is all directed by the US. They can formally protest, but no country will ever act against their master.
I referred to Israel and Tibet because NATO's justification for bombing Libya and Afghanistan were human rights abuses.
I see a selective application of force-- only bomb if they are rival nations or connected to rival nations. Saudi Arabia beheads people for adultery, yet I see no NATO warplanes flying over Medina.
And your last statement is exactly why Russians hate the US- it pompously sees itself as a "father figure", despite being the youngest nation in the world.
It thinks that its way is best, and that other nations need to be treated like children- hence the language of "we need to put [head of state] in his place!"
"Putin needs to be punished for its aggression"
Then so to, do you.
Americans need to suffer for supporting presidents that have wreaked havoc on the developing world.
Let's see if you survive a period like we had to, in the 1990s. Imagine, gangs on every street. Social services, gone. Bribery everywhere.
This is what you get when you trust the US to intervene in your affairs.
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@spencerkitchin2985
Rules for thee, not for me?
the problem is that you're more than willing to say "that's bad!" but you are unwilling to suggest anything that could change the US' behaviors.
Frankly, I see no world where the US is actually humanitarian and peaceful. So, by saying "what the US did was bad, but WE HAVE TO STOP THIS OTHER COUNTRY", you are creating a scenario where the US gets a finger wag, but other places like Russia, China, Iran, etc. get real action taken against them.
You expect the US to magically change its way, but it has shown that with or without a rival power, it will abuse its own, and wreak havoc on smaller nations if they don't open up to trade and Americanization.
Absent any evidence that other countries being peaceful would motivate the US to do the same, you are basically one-sidedly condemning any country that threatens America's power, while tacitly allowing America to continue.
If America gets to abuse its power, what exactly is the moral problem with allowing others to do the same?
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@leme5639
France's oppression of Brittany, Catalonia and especially Basque's close call to independence, Northern Ireland breaking away from the UK, (technically not in Europe but still) Kurdistan's independence movement
In North America, Hawaii's suppressed independence movement, California's flirtation with independence, Texas' brief calls to secede, and some minor rumblings about Yucatan.
The channel's selective nature when discussing which countries to support splitting up should really give some insight into what their bias is.
The channel creator is Polish, so it makes sense that he'd want to politically hurt Russia.
Most Poles I've spoken to are personally very bitter over having lost their empire to the larger Russian one. Some even talk about retaking Lwów, as it was Polish right up until WWII.
They're a nefarious force that, through their diaapora, have an outsize influence on US policy.
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@kasugaryuichi9767
By that logic, Albania's hopes for joining with Kosovo should be crushed, permanently.
Same with Tibet and Xinjiang, Northern Ireland, Catalonia... is this really a status quo the US is ready to uphold?
To the same extent, Chechnya will never be allowed to leave, either.
You ask "so what"? What else is a nation based on? Governments do not form in a vacuum, the only reason the US deluded itself into thinking this could happen is because the English colonists, ironically, formed a different nation.
But in every other case, it's built on the basis of language and culture, with few exceptions. Sorry bud.
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@KronStaro
I think that neighboring countries are actually the worst for objective analysis.
I mean, Poland (Franciszek Duchiński specifically) is responsible for the idea, supported by Ukrainian nationalists, that Russians are Asian, Ukraine + Poland + Belarus are the "true" Slavs, Moskals, etc.
This was made to counter the (ironically) correct idea promoted by St. Petersburg that all Slavs are related, and the pan-Slavic idea under a Russian Empire.
So, while they may have intimate knowledge of their neighbors, I have little faith in Ukraine or Poland to bo objective. I would expect those areas to reliably produce narratives that suit their own interests. Not the interests of objectivity.
And yes, quality of life in Russia is worse than in Poland. Don't forget that Poland received enormous amounts of Western capital and technological information to quickly move it away from Russia, while Russia had most of its money laundered out by oligarchs, whom the U.S., England, France and others were more than happy to service.
Russia is still poor partially because of the same country you seem to defend.
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