Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "DW News" channel.

  1.  @CedarHunt  Occupying? I have already met 3 crmiean ukrainians (2 in europe, 1 in usa) all of whom support the 'occupation'. Like it or not, that land has been under russian cultural and economic control for 230+ years. An undemocratic transfer of land as a 'gift' to soviet ukraine in 1954 means nothing. Even in ukraine polls, 60% of crimeans in 2013 were ethnic russians, 99% speak russian. In every election, they voted pro-russian party. They tried to secede in 1994, but ukraine parliament declared it illegal. SO we are supposed to accept this? Scotland can hold referendums, but it's okay to disregard democracy when it hurts an American adversary, ok I understand!
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  2.  @Dash101  There is such a thing as punching above your weight. Russia is engagaed on every continent, militarily and economically. It's not the 1990s anymore. Only the US, China, the UK and France are currently doing the same. It's a superpower. It may not be the biggest of the 3, but it is one.
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  3.  @coraltown1  The things they pay Russia for (energy, raw materials) are not frivolous or replaceable. They could certainly stop 'bankrolling putin', but the loss it would incur may force the Europeans into energy dependence on the us, which is exactly what a more unified europe is meant to avoid.
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  4.  @faultier1158  Fine, but don't cry when somethi9ng bad happens to ukraine. Pick one
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  5. Location matters. 60% of russian land is economically difficult, frozen. Ukraine land is a buffer state, and arable.
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  6.  @QWERTY-gp8fd  not even 80 years ago, there are Chinese living today who remember it
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  7. ​ @boctunes1853  Their troops occupy Kosovo. And (in an indirect way, since they led the bombing campaigns in 2011) northeastern Syria.
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  8.  @Wanderer628  Well, because many of them are landlocked, they will have no choice to. Creating a bloc (like Visegrad or a Medditeranean alliance) won't allow them to project power. It's either Germany+France, or UK+US. They must make a choice.
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  9.  @juansantana8448  Honestly? If Russia were given free access to the ocean to trade and project power in America's direction, as part of the alliance deal, it might work. A united Europe would be a force to be reckoned with. With Russian resources and European tech, it could become a self-sufficient powerhouse
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  10.  @piotrtrebisz6602  This sounds familiar to me :)
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  11. Yes, but the benefit will not be long term. It will create construction and tourism jobs, but no ship will pass through because it is not profitable to pay anything just to pass. Cheaper to just wait for the Bosphorus to let them through. Turkey will spend much more money than it earns from this canal. So long term economic benefit is negative. Only thing it will do is allow US ships to sail to Russia, but that will be bad for Turkey too since tourists don't want to vacation near a warzone.
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  12.  @shamimfoysal4641  Turkey is not legally not allowed to block traffic through Bosphorus. All they can do is conduct "inspections". And Russian cargo ships won't pay Turkey to pass, so it will always be clogged. So many will be waiting in line that it might be impossible for ships to even pass through the canal!
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  13.  @account-369  Are you forgetting the 1994 independence declaration?
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  14.  @account-369  then you understand there was a genuine desire, and referendum held, for crimea to return to the russian federation.
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  15.  @majorrgeek  Actually, it is, and it does. Ukraine's stated reason for joining NATO is Russia. So "it has nothing to do with Russia" is a full lie. You do not understand- Ukraine says it wants to join NATO because of Russia aggression, but Russia is being aggressive because Ukraine wants to join NATO. Chicken and egg.
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  16.  @pindot787  As I've mentioned before, Crimea has already (even if we humor your assumption that the referendum was 100% rigged and no one wanted to rejoin a Russian state) independently vying for autonomy from Ukraine and a dual citizenship program with Russia, in 1994. The Ukrainian Parliament declared this illegal. If the West was unwilling to hold referendums from then until 2013, only offering to send observers after the 2nd referendum started, why should its impartiality be trusted? And, unlike Ukraine, there aren't millions of Russians in Finland living in what had been Russian land for hundreds of years.
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  17.  @pindot787  "lets say NATO create their own little blue man" ...They did. The US and NATO sent countless spies into the country, and did their damndest to encircle the USSR, and Balkanize it. It succeeded. Imagine the Norteños and Mexicans of California and New Mexico were given their own separate country after the collapse of the US, following a failed Cold War with China. Would Americans take that lying down? You tried to pose the question like it is "gotchya" moment, when it already happened to Russia. So my answer is no, of course not. Never again.
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  18.  @pindot787  "Russia need to get over it" You would love that, wouldnt you? Americas actions led to enormous suffering, not just for russians but for Soviet republics (because they convinced the leaders, 1 by 1, to go quickly into capitalism with no deep knowledge. Destroyed them). Russia will not forget that, and as you can see, it is taking steps to prevent anything like that from happening again. You can comment all you want, but I think you need to get over it. It's happening.
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  19.  @pindot787  The US interfered in Russian election in 1994. Yet you now say what no country should never be allowed to make a decision on other countries referendum. Where was this sentiment when Yeltsin was elected with fraud in southern Russia? What about Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Bolivia?? and they tried in Veenzuela but failed (lol) If America can do it, you cannot tell me that other countries cant do it too. America cant even follow it's own rules, so nobody else will. We got you back for meddling in our elections in 2017, the fun will continue)))
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  20.  @BrokenBackMountains  Your need to patronize reveals how little confidence you have in your ideas. I find it humorous that you think this is 'suffering'. For the collapse of what many people see as a lengthening of the rus empire, a few dozen people killed, following the official dissolution (no bloody riots), is very peaceful. Compare to France, USA, even previous russian civil wars. And I have. Baltics are nice, Poland social services has been declining since 2010s, ukraine is about same as it was. I cannot believe you think you could get away with an obvious bluffing. You go there, tell me why EU is about to cut off poland and hungary! There are many things to admire, but I am not jealous)
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  21.  Mike Johnson  Lol, nope. 'TDS' hasn't killed 130K in a few months. You Trump supporters are really reaching, since the reality that 'yOuR pReSiDeNt' failed so hard is becoming so obvious to even average people that you're scrambling to distract them. Eventually it'll get so bad that you'll be forced to admit that it's a shitshow that he could've easily prevented in January.
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  22. ​ @leslierhs  It's an obsession, because the punishment isn't equal. Until the US is punished, Russia shouldn't be. Otherwise, the US' entire claim to "being a world leader" (valuing human rights) is a farce.
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  23. ​ @dotexe4981  How? Explain.
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  24.  @SkullKing11841  So if a rival and ally are both doing the same things that the US supposedly calls undemocratic, why is Russia a rival and Saudi an ally?
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  25. ​ @federicopinto9353  Well, the last election was technically in March. But if you mean "what's the last election that was truly free", it was Yeltsin's first one. I just want to point out that the reason it was Yeltsin's second election that marked the end of democracy in Russia (and not Putin's inauguration) is because the US rigged the 1996 elections. You might care about dmeocracy, but the US doesn't. You're not supporting democracy by supporting the US and its allies.
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  26. Why won't Western media ever detail the flubbed transition to capitalism in 1990's Russia? They hate Putin, but are also the reason that he came to power. Honestly I think they just want to politically control Russia, simple as that. They want to keep it in line so they can extract money from it, like they managed to do back then.
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  27.  @AlexV6  While I agree that Russiaa economy and government is getting worse, Eastern Ukraine actually is very pro-Russian. It's been settled by Russians for 100s of years
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  28. ...Really. Sure. Official laws mean nothing to the US. They got Turkey accepted into NATO, for god's sake. They will do anything that is geopolitically convenient to them. An opportunity to further encircle Russia, they would have happily taken. The scheme you have laid out is false: Europe always saw reason to give NATO membership (to spite Russia), they just couldn't legally do it yet.
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  29.  @Luke_Go  And I am rather disappointed that my first comment keeps getting deleted, even as I re-type it. I will try again.
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  30.  @virtuosa69  gdp =/= human development also he is talking about the strength of the ruble, not the economy The most sanctioned country on earth and the currency has stabilized anyway
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  31. A valuable lesson: getting away from Russia doesn't mean becoming like America is a good alternative
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  32.  @r2hildur  Same goes for every other country. But if we're both being honest, it would only take a few dozen strategically dropped nuclear weapons to irradiate most of the earth. Which is my point- using the us reaction to 9/11 to threaten retaliation for a nuclear strike is ignoring the entire principle of MAD
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  33.  @mrplease66  Ironically, Germany could have gotten away with Austria. It was when it invaded Poland that it crossed the red line, So far, Russia has not doe this- Crimea is ethnically Russian, as are Donbas and Luhansk. But time well tell.
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  34.  @mrplease66  Well, so far, as I said, even by your standards, Russia has only taken in areas which had already been happy to be a part of Russia (as evidenced by Crimea's independence declaration of 1994, along with a 80%+ vote for dual citizenship with Russia). And you lack a depth of understanding of Belarus and Russia. The protests are not anti-Russia, they are anti-Lukashenko. If your first reaction is "well they're allied, so a protest against one means they also dislike the other", then you are not as smart as you assume yourself. The 'straw that broke the camel's back' was not the rigging of elections (those happened many times before) but the poor approach to coronavirus- which not even Russia treated so badly. Under a more Putin-eque leader, the protests likely would not have started.
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  35.  @mrplease66  That is fine. I think most Russians also gripe with the vast corruption present in their own country. The reason we oppose the 'majority' opinion, though, is because it comes attached with the influence of a foreign power right on our door. Belarus wants better governance, fine. But there is no world in which that is done without putting American power projection kilometres away from Russian heartland. Joining NATO or even the EU does not happen in a political vacuum: both are funded/dominated by, and trade policy heavily informed by, US. Their intentions simply cannot be trusted. Russia tried that once under Yeltsin, and he paid dearly for it, with average people's lives. Research the QoL indicators during his tenure. Clinton personally helped him commit election fraud to win re-election, and extended my family suffering. If it were not for that, I do not feel Russians would have any issues.
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  36. ​ @larryenobakhare9040  Seriously. Germanyvs economy came out of its slump in 2000, the exact year Putin came to power and negotiated cheap gas deliveries to Germany.
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  37. ​ @thomasbaader6629  ...What? Yes, it does. Duress is a factor for throwing out contracts, are you dumb? Besides, Kaliningrad, much like Crimea, are ethnically Russian. If you think that's a "mistake" that should be "fixed" then I expect you to consistently apply that principle to every country, which requires you to endorse the US being shrunk back to the Louisiana Purchase. The people of Crimea voted in a referendum against Ukraine in 1994, and countless polls from both before and after the referendum in 2014 show the same results: the people wanted to re-unite with the Russian federation. If you support Kosovo's right to split without consent from the country they're leaving from, then you should also support Crimea. You can't have it both ways.
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  38. ​ @talkinghand122  Dictator in South Korea, Taiwan... who installed those dictators?
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  39.  @talkinghand122  Are you telling me that violently putting down student protests and sending the secret police to silence or assassinate leftists, and holding no elections for decades, isn't the definition of a dictator? Synghman Rhee and Chiang Kai Shek were dictators. Both propped up by the US and Europe. Sorry that it hurts to acknowledge that the West never had any values.
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  40. @Stefan well, if it is ok when the usa does it then nobody can complain about russia, right? that's what your're saying?
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  41.  @dayegilharno4988  You're assuming those wide spectrum of measures will be employed. At least in the U.S. and Latin America (where most countries seem to be ignoring the incoming virus altogether), we will likely need to make that choice.
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  42. Enjoy Island Istanbul :))
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  43.  Janardhan Parweshwar  I suppose that is true. But I would at least hope for some honesty from the U.S. side, then. Their geopolitical actions' motivations should be explicitly stated: we're doing this to make ourselves more powerful. Of course, that would ruin their image. But that's true of any country- if Russia, China, India, anyone was honest about their motivation, everyone would hate them. So at the very least, why continue to give the U.S. trading and military benefits if it doesn't actually agree to the terms it signed on to? (The dollar being the default currency, on the promise that the U.S. would not restrict the flow of trade outside of its jurisdiction).
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  44. Looks like a second coup is coming, maybe this one will overthrow Erdogan but Covid could make the Turks so impoverished that not even that is possible :(
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  45. ​ @DSan-kl2yc  LMAO. Sure buddy. Our values are worse. WE'RE the ones with the history of slavery and couping foreign nations to steal their resources. WE'RE the ones who use democracy as a cloak to commit crimes, instead of just being honest about what we're doing.
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  46. ​ @dylanvogler2165  Sure. Keep talking yourself that. Let me know when the US finally creates public healthcare despite most of the country wanting it. Or anything else that lobbyists have blocked.
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  47. ​ @markuss4133  The funny thing is that you think that's a guarantee that things will change, or that somehow indicates that the people have control. The illusion of democracy is something Westerners like to level against their geopolitical challengers, but never seem to realize happens even more in their own countries. Bread and circus. Pick between the neoliberal coalition, and the other neoliberal coalition:)
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  48. ​ @dylanvogler2165  Using ))? I'm sure your name is actually "Dylan", Oleg...
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  49. Not sure, Europe still needs protection from Russia and China, and EU's political structure means it can't respond to economic or military threats very quickly.
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  50.  @item6931  Why is that relevant? 1) Russia already offered it to Germany, they rejected the offer. Same with the Lithianian SSR. 2) it is not connected by land to Russia proper, so it poses no geopolitical threat. Not the same as NATO coming up to Russia's border and conducting wargames 3) Why should I care about your opinion? You are literally no one, you have no effect on what happens in reality
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