Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "WHO THE F--- IS THIS GUY" video.

@ImAmirus There are weapons. There are systems of weapons. Systems control the individual weapons— coordinate simultaneous strikes, guide smart missiles to their targets, keep tabs on depleting stock. But sure, "Star Trek". You, like the other person, avoided addressing the main point. I simply said that the US does actually decide if Ukraine cedes land or not because it's the one that controls Ukraine's physical capacity to fight on. The US could force Ukraine to negotiate by simply refusing to send anything else. After all, they have the factories which make all the weapons, not Ukraine. The Ukrainians know they'd quickly lose and would do as the US says. This is my point. When you control the means of production, you have the power to make decisions.
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It's simple— support for Ukraine has become political orthodoxy in the West and especially the US. If it were questioning Iraq in 2003 he'd receive the same response. Anything that concerns America's sense of safety or pride (like closing nato's open door policy) hits a nerve with the political establishment, of which the media are part.
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@maxmensch8910 That would make sense if everyone agreed upon an international-law based order. But we don't. There's a nebulous "rules-based order" with no admission as to who determines those rules. Also... do you advocate, then, for Kosovo being returned to Serbia with haste? Or for Taiwan and China to be officially reunited under one government? You can't have it both ways. Either you believe in the law and face its consequences when your faction violates it, or you don't, and sit quiet when your enemies so exactly as you do.
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@maxmensch8910 "Every country has signed the UN charter so they agreed to uphold this rules" Okay. Do they uphold of those rules? I think you know the answer. I'm not saying how things should be, I'm saying how they actually are. "the founding members did". No. Which conference established the "rules-based order"? As I said before, it's not the same as the UN-based international order. That's the language the US started using after it illegally invaded Serbia and split Kosovo from it, despite not having a UN Resolution to do that. "Well I am currently more concerned about the ongoing war in Ukraine" Sounds like you're trying to have it both ways. You don't want to punish Bush or the United States, but you want to punish Russia. You're a hypocrite. Either you do both, or you do neither. If you only want one, then you don't care about international law— and neither should Russia, then.
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Because Ukraine doesn't have the military capabilities to fight of their own accord. With their own weapons systems. You can say that we should leave that decision up to Ukraine, but you can't honestly tell me that they're waging this war independently of American support. If that support dries up, then the outcome is pretty apparent: Ukraine will lose. So, it is American weapons which determine whether Ukraine loses or keeps on going. The US is the party that ultimately decides what happens to Ukraine, because they control the means of military resistance. Their hand is on the spigot, not Ukraine's.
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@@fyaunzaun You think we should listen to the most emotionally invested people for an objective view on what to do? Brilliant, consult the Captive Nations lobby, straight from Reagan's playbook. You're such a committed Progressive.
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@juvenilia_in_hell "bud" lol Classic Reddit move. "Nothing personal, kid" Now can you actually tell me how I'm wrong? Or are you just gonna keep hurling insults to avoid addressing that I explained very well how Ramaswamy potentially alienated himself?
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@juvenilia_in_hell Still avoiding the original question. Please answer next time or don't bother replying. How did I not explain Ramaswamy's misstep???
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@juvenilia_in_hell I think we're done here lol
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@maxmensch8910 "Good". No, not good. It's led to censorship and becoming the very thing you claim you're not. "Just like it was political orthodoxy to support the Soviet Union against Hitler" It wasn't. "Better Hitlerism than Bolshevism" was a common phrase leading up to the war. Henry Ford and Prescott Bush (Bush Sr's dad) did business with Hitler during the war. The US didn't pressure companies to leave then, lol. Coca Cola started Fanta to keep selling in Nazi Germany.
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