Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "PolyMatter" channel.

  1.  @Homer-OJ-Simpson  I also find it amusing that Westerners soyface over Chechnya when THEY INVADED. August 1999, the Republic of Ichkeria (Chechnya) invades Dagestan (Russia) with 2,000 troops and declares a jihad on Moscow. If that's the type of behavior you're going to display when given independence then you've lost those privileges. They won the first Chechen war, they kept their independence. So what do they do with it? Invade and try to turn Russia into an Islamic Republic. Great idea.
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  2.  @Homer-OJ-Simpson  That's also a piss-poor justification for not letting Russia in. Saudi Arabia has been a US ally for 100 years, they literally behead people for adultery and stone them to death for being gay. To this day. Yet the US media gives most of its attention to "Putin's human rights record". Why? Not because they care about that (if they did we'd see them reporting on Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt) but because Russia is a geopolitical challenger to the US. That's it. The media does the bidding of its government and society. Russia is a big country with lots of resources and a long history of ambitious central government. They basically have the potential to do exactly what the US does, and that threatens their profits and global power. They have the potential to source everything inside their borders and not rely on the US. That would mean less control for them.
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  3.  @Homer-OJ-Simpson  Do you have the attention span of a goldfish? Or are you diverting the topic again on purpose? I was explaining why Putin got involved in Ukraine specifically. Not Georgia, not the UK. If I had to guess, involving himself in Georgia was threefold: establish regional presence and prevent Caucasian infighting (Dagestan did get invaded by Chrchbya after all), stop Georgia from stationing US troops on Russia's southern border (2008 was the year both Ukraine and Georgia were declared to be future NATO members by NATO itself— Westerners claims that "it was never gonna happen anyway" are laughable), and to stop Georgian warcrimes (Abkhazian fears of being assimilated into Georgian culture stretch to before the early USSR days, they almost had their own SSR but Stalin, who was Georgian, dissolved it back into Georgia. During the Abkhaz hostage crisis, Georgian military commander threatened to wipe them from the face of the Earth).
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  4.  @Homer-OJ-Simpson  "Russia didn't stop it and they could have. So how could this be a turning point for Put1n?" It was a turning point because of the outcome. And the steps that the US took to get to that outcome. Libya could have ended in a negotiated settlement, while keeping some semblance of a functioning government intact. Instead the US chose to plunge the country into chaos. It was such a colossal failure that even Obama couldn't hand-wave it away. "My worst mistake was probably failing to plan for the day after what I think was the right thing to do in intervening in Libya”. Putin, at that point, the aide said, was then convinced that the US didn't just do it once-off in Iraq. In a post-Soviet world, the US felt completely comfortable ruining entire nations just because it could. And it was clear that Russia (given its treatment in the 1990s) was not on the list of countries exempt from the US nation-destroying tactics. "So how is this a western thing if the Arab League also supprorted it? Bet RT news doesn't discuss that." Except they DID discuss that, and you were too lazy to even check. There were articles written WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING: Lavrov pointed out that the UN resolutions on Libya called for measures that would protect civilians in the conflict-torn North African state, “but the result was slightly different, to say the least,” The Arab League wasn't supporting the no-fly zone because they wanted the West to enforce it, in fact quite the opposite. From Al Jazeera in 2011: "The bloc also stressed that it had rejected any “foreign military” intervention in Libya, and Moussa said the no-fly zone must be lifted once the crisis has ended." "Like Russia after ditching communism?" Have you ever wondered why it turned out like that? I mentioned the 1990s already, care to take a guess at which country directed Russia's economic transition to capitalism? Or who helped rig its 1996 elections? Or who helped create the same oligarchs that it loves to criticize now??
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  5.  Khalid Ibn Alwaleed  Better than melting and burning under the sun in an Arabic country
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  6. It's not. The Algerians aren't even a dot in France, nor are the Syrians in Greece or Italy.
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  7.  @lensy6  London =/= England lmaooo "wHaT's tHe pRoPoRtIoN oF ViEtNaMeSe iN WaRsAw" We can do this for even the whitest countries, what's your point? Cities will always be diverse sorry bud
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