Putin is 'rebuilding Russian empire' says Senator McCain - BBC HARDtalk
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2014
- Vladimir Putin plans to rebuild the former Russian empire, US Senator John McCain has claimed. He told presenter Zeinab Badawi that the Russian president aims to separate eastern Ukraine from the rest of the country, which Putin has previously denied, before reclaiming Moldova and the Baltics.
The former Republican presidential candidate also criticised President Barack Obama for refusing to supply Ukrainian forces with arms and intelligence, which he claimed had encouraged Putin to take a more aggressive approach within the region.
This aged very well.
It did not age well for Zeinab Badawi. The problem is, these BBC commentators look like idiots when they are looked at in retrospect. McCain is giving her valid information, and she is saying idiotic things like, "Putin has never said he wants to invade eastern Ukraine...." (Actually, Putin has made it very clear for a long time that he is still mad that Gorbachev would not let him leave the Dresden barracks to put down the Eastern European trends toward democracy.)
This is the problem with the media. They have a Weltanschauung and they will not report anything that differs from that view. They ask questions to show their viewers/listeners that they are smarter and better than the interviewee. This is particularly true when interviewing Republicans or British interviewing Americans. The mems are that (1) Americans obviously are not as sophisticated in diplomatic affairs as those older and wiser Europeans and (2) Republicans/conservatives are stupid. How's that working out for the audience? They are getting dumber and dumber watching the BBC, NBC, ABD, reading the Washington Post and The New York Times. And they don't even realize the effect they are having on the electorate in these democratic countries. The media are destroying democracy in order to save it. They will be multiple autocracies and war.
What a pity he didn't win the republican candidacy against Bush.
It didn't.Putin has no interest in doing that.He tried everything to avoid this war.
I'm not sure how well this actually aged. Is it cool that McCain predicted the Ukraine war? Yes.
Is it absolutely terrible that nobody wanted to listen to him just because he was a Republican? Also Yes.
@@ShadowLancer128 Except trumpist Republicans are the ones who actively try to stop ukraine aid packages and let Putin win.
This has aged like fine wine.
bloody hell, that's right on the money
Yeah, follow the money.
I wish John McCain never had cancer he would’ve been an awesome voice for Republican moderates.
He isn't a moderate he is a democrat in disquise
@@PunchingCacti Hell no. During the 115th Congress (2017-18) McCain voted with Trump 83% of the time. More so than Mike Lee and Rand Paul.
Just names. No arguments.
@@davidnavarro4821 Trump was a pretty shitty conservative too so thats not much to brag about
@@PunchingCacti Trump was a totally shitty President that’s for sure but he wasn’t a Democrat and neither was McCain.
He was a disgusting war hawk.
He was right !!!
Mccain even mentioned Moldova and there have been lots of talks going on that Moldova is next after Ukraine falls
yes, completely and everyone thought he was a warmonger at the time.
Yes he has been right all along. He also said: "Russia is a Gas station, controlled by the Mafia, pretending to be a country". Which is probably the most spot on description of Russia that you could give in a short sentence.
He was right it was created exactly as this warmongering 🤡 planned it
stopped clocks and all that...
Crazy how accurate this man was on the topic. Rip
Not at all. The USA silently invaded Ukraine before 2014, committed a coup there in 2014 and planted puppets there in the government, which have allowed and cheered to murder of 14000 people in the Donbas from 2014-2021, so before this falsely so called 'war'.
The crime of the people in the Donbas and in Crimea is that they speak Russian. The Ukranian oligarchs funded neo-nazi militias to hunt them + jews + roma.
McCain was a great guy, and the interesting part is that he commented on what was happening while most others preferred to close their eyes.
@@TShevProjectwar criminal calling other people war criminal
@@garymccormick7551
Prove it.
@@garymccormick7551 And we're still waiting for you to prove it.
At least someone in the west who really understood all of the context of what happened in Eastern Europe back in 2014
he not only understood it, he orchestrated the illegal coup in 2014, encouraged the ukrainians to start a war against Russia.
To him and his fellow felons; piss off, USA, and go to hell, as God intended. Mind your own business inside your fuuked up country. deal with low wages, high crime, drug addicts and you rich tax fraud government. leave the free world alone
Nah he was just a warmonger who demonized Russia for a living
Lies
It's the other way around. This guy lies like crazy. Eastern Ukraine was part of a genocide made by Ukraines ultra nationalistic right wing people.
I miss elected officials that can speak the truth with humility, like John McCain. That's why Donald Trump hated him. Maybe he would not have made a good president, but he was a GREAT senator and statesman.
No, john Mccain overall was a TERRIBLE senator. Voted 99 percent of the time in favor of corporations, against basic social justice, and never met a war he didnt like. I’ll admit to some degree he was a man of character and stuck to his principles, however most of his principles were awful. It shouldnt be a shocker that a warhawk like mccain was able to see through putin’s bullshit. And i’ll give him more credit than that i think he knew in detail the depths of Vlad’s evil intentions on a level other warhawks didnt. To his credit, he was always spot on with his views on Russia and Obama did screw up royal during the Crimea situation. That said i also understand why Obama failed with Russia. Foreign policy in general is a hella complex thing and while i consider myself a firm Leftist, not a Liberal, and somewhere between a Social Democrat and a full on Socialist, i’m more centrist when it comes to Foreign Policy and never been one for Isolation policies or the blatant statement that the US should mind its business and let countries do whatever they want, thats how the Holocaust happened. Im not saying the US should invade russia or start killing Russian trumps in Ukraine, but there have to be hard lines set and support for Ukraine or Vlad will literally just use nuclear ransom to control half of europe
He would have made a great president! As would Bernie Sanders, but unfortunately you yanks keep digging up the doozies. We didn’t think it could get any worse than Bush - but then you unleashed the orange cretin on us…………👎🏾🇦🇺
We didn’t hesitate to pressure Ukraine 25 years ago to give up their ballistic missiles, nuclear weapons, fighter jets, in exchange for our promises of protection. Now we’re backing out of the deal meanwhile they are finding fragments of the same exact ballistic missiles in Ukraine that they handed over in the 90s during that agreement.
circuis
Damn wish he were still here...
To pay for his crimes?
@@johnchisholm2896 To wip the Republicans back to their place.
@@johnchisholm2896how's life at the troll farm?
@@joeywelander1833 you're disgusting
If only people took this seriously when Crimea was taken and took actions back then. So many lives could’ve been spared.
If I was US citizen I would not be a Republican, but I highly respect McCain's foreign policy insight. R.I.P
I second that. Even though I might not agree with John McCain on everything, I highly respect the man. RIP
Who cares?
I know you may not understand from an outsider's perspective, but BOTH of the Republicans and Democrats are the right and left leg of the same military industrial complex machine. There was a time many years ago when Democrats were against war. Now it's a blur between the two parties.
If you think trump and McCain Are the same thing you couldn’t be more wrong. And to be a Republican means to be In support of trump. Because all Republican politicians are afraid of trump and fall right in line with him. So even if you don’t vote for trump but vote for a Republican politician, you’re still supporting trump. Let’s not forget, trump tried to withhold arms from Ukraine until he got “intelligence” about the Bidens.
His forign policy can be simplified as "WAR WAR WAR"
McCain you were a smart man
his is dumb man
@@MegaFarah78 in the middle east the people reject their own freedom, insisting on their own continued oppression and corrupt leadership that steal all your oil and keep most of the profit to themselves. All because the lack of freedom and the authoritarian dictatorship is so much in line with Santas big book of fascist little elves. Middle east is so fucked up man. Tyrant after tyrant after tyrant. It's all about murdering your way to power and then oppresssing someone, until someone murders you and takes the power and starts oppressing someone else. Constantly fighting each other. You do realize that that is what the democracy is for right? It's for turning all this fighting civilized. Democracy is a proxy for a civil war. And that civil war is fought between parties and even within parties, without any bloodshed. It's civilized way of fighting for the power. Voters determine the outcome. Middle East continues to be uncivilized. We constantly see many young men entering our free countries, fleeing war in the middle east and leaving women and children behind. And then we sometimes see them go back to the middle east to fight and chop the heads off of all the infidels. The only thing that really unites people in the Middle East is their hatred for the zionist state Israel and their hatred of the free world. It's a barbaric culture down there. Even the Russians are more civilized with their pretend-democracy, at least the lesser intelligent part of the Russian population think that they are civilized and believe they have democracy and the smarter part of Russian people knows they don't have democracy but want to have democracy. Middle East straight up doesn't want anything to do with democracy. They'd rather keep all their barbaric internal fighting with full-on bloodshed.
He was
spot on. real american, real human being! may he rest in peace.
Yes, real >>american
I'd say the earth took a breath of relief when this man died, an utter warmonger and a liar, and if you think he was a great man, then no wonder every U.S. government is worse than the one before it and why the U.S. is being left in the dust by the rest of the world and going down the drain.
@@muhammaDEsmustafa I couldn't agree more.
@@muhammaDEsmustafa the rest of the world like iran, nicaragua and north korea 😂😂
@@lmao.3661 Mud hose again.
Seeing this one and that Romney interview in which Obama laughed at him - while Romney was absolutely right.
What happened Republicans?
Which one?
@@shake4259 ua-cam.com/video/T1409sXBleg/v-deo.html
If McCain were alive and healthy, he would wipe the floor with Ramaswami. Had McCain won in 2008, none of this would have happened
McCain was right about Putin.
"... and perhaps a land bridge to Crimea..." - in retrospect a stout prediction. Mr. McCain made some very good points, it's a shame he's not around to day to help keep the Republicans from marking one bad mistake after the other.
Wow. It's chilling how accurate he was.
How exactly is this accurate? Russia has done absolutely nothing to expand. Crimea voted to be Russian so they incorporated Crimea. Russia might be the least imperialist country on the planet. Now the USA on the other hand....
@@shonuff4323whatever you are smoking, I want some of it.
@@shonuff4323 That has to be the most asinine thing I have read in weeks. Good jorb.
@@Nimish204 Are you pretending the last 30 years didn't happen?
@@shonuff4323lol Russia the least imperialistic country 😂 Answer this, how do you think Russia became the Worlds biggest country? It was not an accident
yup McCain was spot on.
God the world needs this guy back...
Clear vision of the enemy and situation, understanding of the actions needed to be undertaken and readiness to undertake them all in one
Hahahaha what a fucking moron. He started it all up you idiot!
The world is soft ...and tough man ...is always brought down by a weak world and then we look back at Mcain and regret it.
trump discredited and disrespected him for no reason.. the maga and republican people cheering trump because of such comments broke cain... he was a decorated hero.. a smart man who wanted the best for its country.. its a shame and one of the reasons why russia got that big of a threat, because trump and others (like fox news etc..) blurred the facts around this threatening state.
i think the trump comment was something like this( i dont like guys that let them get caught like cowards.., because cain was taken war prisoner.)
This guy is a legend; a PROPHET
Yup, one of the missed opportunities to have a real great President.
Legend. He was spot on
Nbs
@make a wish He was spot on.
@make a wish he was, look at what russia is doing to ukraine now
Wow, he really was. Shame about what he Republican party has become that this guy is hated by a large part of the party now.
@@beefknuckles I think they will change for the better soon
A lot of Russian trolls in the comments
Not as much as Western trolls who praise this warmonger and repeat his propaganda
The down votes have to be Russian trolls. McCain is absolutely spot on here
Had only he been president…..
John McCain from wherever he is now:"I fuckin' told you so!"
The world could do with John McCain right now, he is greatly missed.
Why dont't you upload whole program? It would be great.
well...
Clever man. As a european I miss more of his kind in his party. He and Reagan would never have failed to support Ukraine. @GOP
100%
An absolutely prophetic prediction!
Prophetic? Hardly. The writing was on the wall in early 2000s. No one decided to do anything bc of cheap gas/oil greed
Well said. Actually, this talks also applies to Taiwan situation.
Is Russia in Taiwan or is the USA in Taiwan?
@@hongry-life China is trying to be...
@@wishusknight3009 But in fact the USA is.
Btw the USA will be sending troops again into Iraq. It's called an invasion. Their Ukraine vs Russia project is on hold now and their next project is Taiwan vs China then. Haiti invasion also in the works.
With 'USA' I mean + EU + British empire, so 'the western world'.
Or actually: the oligarchs behind the curtains funding this all, because those psychopaths have these mental diseases like unlimited greed and power lust.
John McCain was simply Brilliant in understanding Putin's Stratergy in occupying Ukraine and the Baltic States. So many in Congress are naive about Putin's motives in occupying Russia's neighboring countries of Ukraine and the Baltic States and Europe. USA and EU and NATO countries need to wake up and investigate and study Russian history for the last 100 years. Putin must be dealt with through Strength and not Negotiation.
I knew McCain had a good perspective of the reality of politics.
Miss you John.
He also said(different interview) that Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. Dude was right on the money a decade ago
McCain was 100% right.
*McCain's words were prophetic?*
00:59
Yup
Almost scary how right he was
He knows he knows how did he know. He tried to tell us
Greatly missed
One of the most clever and pragmatic politician in US. Rest in peace ❤
McCain was right on about it. Shame he isn't around now. He would be a great help.
He is.
Where is the full interview?
What a fantastic chap, so sad he’s no longer with us. His accuracy predicting the future events on Ukraine didn’t really surprise me too much Senator McCain talked a lot of sense.
Senator McCain was ahead of time. He said it and people didn't believe him!
Majority have an attention span of a squirrel. The mass is dumb.
Who remembers when we did not have to vote for geriatric democrats because there are no longer any sane republicans? I did not always agree with you John Mcain, but thank you for your service.
You're not forced to have just two parties.
Politics in USA has a serious problem of representativity
"Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice" --- somehow Ronald Reagan and John McCain were listening to the "old man" on that day in 1964.
where can i see the full interview
"Nothing that provokes Vladimir Putin like weakness..." watching this as the Wagner forces occupy Rostov on Don and Putler has flown off to his bunker in Valdai.
Where is the rest of this insite, ?
BBC seems weirdly to have deleted it. Hmmm ?
McCain would've been such a great president. If only he won in 08
No, he wouldn't have. He would have been another Reagan. And the GOP already did enough to plunder the economy.
wow, so prescient.
Deep respect to mr McCain, this aged very well.
Russia is a criminal state that should not be allowed to exist after this war.
Nah leave the Russian state, but give Ukraine their Territory back, Moldova, Georgia and give Kaliningrad back to the Germans as punishment.
didnt know he wrote the simpsons!
Wow how prophetic
I never expected my self to agree this much with that old geezer.
It's almost like he was reading from the newspapers of the day this current war kicked off.
And boy was he absolutely right. More people need to see this.
He presents it so well with such clear language and ironclad examples… basically, he showed it’s obvious to anyone who wasn’t putting their fingers in their ears and singing to themselves 😂
Everyone knew this and decided to ignore it during Obama’s tenure, who was did not want to take the lead on foreign matters like taking Gaddafi out, which France wanted, nor sending aid to Ukraine, which Germany didn’t want.
It's actually frightening.
This guy was absolutely geniusssss
All these bot comments are telling.
damn
Everyone talks about John Mearsheimer.
But John McCain isn't given the credit he deserves as he's view has been the most accurate. It's a shame no one took him seriously, and it's a bigger shame that the Idealism of the Republican Party of Reagan died with him forgotten.
He was right and his prophecy was fulfilled, unfortunately.....
Called it
Russia TV called about Him, " hi is craze ".
Rip
Good man. He' will be missed.
Gosh, I miss John McCain. His death left a colossal hole in American politics and world affairs.
100%
Obviously! Hope this will be stoped soon!
If only he was around today.
Great man. Rip
McCain was SPOT ON!
Prophetic words
mfw he was completely right
The only republican that I ever had respect for. Wise and brave. RIP.
Super. Everybody needs to see this.
Thank God for collecting this human debt.
Great man! 😉
Respect for this man
He was so right, saw right though everything
Yes he is building back the Russian Empire. Thats why you should support him. You dont know how holy and blessed that empire was.
BASED
@@kaktus_sanchez
Based on a serious case of substance abuse.
Even back in their empire days, life was crap for your average Russian serf.
They had famine upon famine. An egg is expenive but no egg? That's free.
@@kaktus_sanchezare you brain dead or something?
Instead of McCain, we got Obama. Yeah, that worked out great.
We need such leaders everywhere in all the UE and NATO.🇷🇴🇺🇦
:)
Looking at the BBC journalists, one could well assume that on the British island, there are no white people left and that nowadays black people make up 100% of the population. But according to the British census of 2011, white people represented 87% of the population, while black people only 3%. Does the BBC employ people exclusively on a racial base? And by "racial" I mean: "Everyone but not a white, indigenous people". That would make the BBC the perfect example of that phrase that white people are accused of today: "Institutional racism".
By the way, it looks like in the "West", in 2014, everybody was so involved in creating social instability, creating internal social unrest, creating classes of "Oppressors" and "oppressed" people, women against men (Feminism 3.0), LGBTQA+ against straight, black against white, and in Balkanizing the society that nobody was taking care of what authoritarian regimes (Read Russia, China, Iran) were planning around the world. Well, the long game played by Moscow, the target of the planned "Ideological subversion" has been achieved.
I like how you see a man predicting how a far right extreme conservative will invade Ukraine and create an imperialistic authoritarian state and what yoj learned is that a black person in TV is the downfall of western society
WTF are you even on about? Did you forget to take your meds ?
Bot invasion
Back then in 2013, Ukraine under Yanukovych was weighing trade deals and loans. The EU promised Eastern Partnership, but it would compromise the Ukraine-Russia-Belarus Customs Union. Among others, such a trade deal with the EU would heavily burden Ukraine with its notoriously convoluted regulations and standards given its economic realities, and would relegate it to the fate of Romania: become cheap migrant workers abroad, minimal improvements at home. The IMF also offered loans with conditions of liberalization (i.e. selling assets to globalist companies) and lessening subsidies for its people. Russia, instead, offered roughly the same amount of loans plus cheaper gas, on the condition Ukraine stays friendly to Russia.
After this, the NGO-led insurrection against the Yanukovych presidency was instigated.
Remember, this is the same McCain that pushed for intervention in Libya and cheered the toppling of Ghaddafi, leading to the flood of Middle Easterners and Africans into Europe.
If those of you who comment here fond of McCain are conservatives, what exactly are you conservative about? Conserving the Military-Industrial Complex that send your sons to foreign wars with lies and dubious national security goals? Conserving the globalist companies that push D.E.I. policies and mass migration diluting your demographics, toppling your cherished monuments and promote gender-confusion to your sons and daughters as if they represent the same honest capitalism as your mom-and-pop shops (which, btw, have been gobbled up by Walmart and Target)?
Please, realize there is a difference between the US people and the US hegemonic institutions! You do not benefit from endless wars. You do not benefit from US interventions. You do not benefit from US companies exporting its industrial capacity from your homeland to any desperate country to run sweatshops. You do not benefit from your tax-money sent to Ukraine for weapons while Philadelphia has people who are zombified. You do not benefit from the inflation as result of debt for the cause of war in Ukraine.
I appreciate the flair of including a motivational speech in the standard Kremlin narrative blah blah blah... nice initiative and thank you for the much-needed variety, I think I actually started to hear a symphony swell in my head towards the end. Really, the repetition of the same 5-8 bullet points of verifiable bs makes me wish I was the type of idiot to have a gun in the house so I can blow my brains out spontaneously at the 100th mention of a US-backed coup, after which Obama literally just told his new pawns "welp, good luck!" and hopped away without giving them any weapons to fight, as McCain says. Which sure is stylistically different from how past US-backed coups were carried out, but maybe coups don't need weapons for your new puppets to play with or any significant follow-up/a plan/a crap to give about the region the country is in (which Obama famously didn't, given his reply in 2012 to Romney saying Russia was the biggest national security risk was that the "Cold War called and it wanted its foreign policy back" and was a China hawk). Maybe the US does coups just out of habit or addiction now, or just to prove they still can, even if the fallout is seen as a huge inconvenient distraction from actual geopolitical goals.
In the real world, the medal for the Crimea theft given to various war criminal hero liberators shows that the start date for the mission was 20 February 2014. Which is particularly interesting as the snipers did not do their massacre until 21 February and Yanukovych did not "flee for his life" (after 3 days of CCTV footage showing leisurely loading of endless tacky (like, the Russian kind of tacky, not the regular kind) truckloads of totally public sector salary possessions, mind you) until early hours of 22 February like a little bitch. Or like a little Putin, who sure was MIA on the crisis line until it was clear that Moscow was safe, like a true Russian patriot.
The only evidence for a "western coup" is a leaked call where Nuland was discussing who of the protesters would be best positioned to hold the country over until the next election in the deal she was brokering between them and Yanukovych. She had a preference for which of the three would be best in the PM role since Yanukovych needed to replace his (the one with government experience and the logical choice, shocker). That's the whole thing. Then there was an election in May. Then another in 2019. So the guy she chose was effectively in charge for three months. That's the whole thing. Yanukovych's annoying dead son was whining about western coups from December 2,, so basically one day after the POS coups did their favorite thing and beat a few dozen college kids peacefully protesting because they had to clear them to install a Christmas tree and this caused hundreds of thousands to join the next day. All cops being bastards caused the Maidan Revolution, except in the minds of schizophrenics in the Kremlin and their bitch-ass dead puppetsons who are certain that the US must surely stage as many events as their loser country does for something as casual as filling a stadium. Therapy might have helped not see the CIA behind every corner, but alas the paranoid freak has outsourced his personal traumas to the world and his idiots, useful or otherwise, spread the western-backed coup gospel far and wide, always with no detail or explanation, never mind any actual evidence. But hey, at least you had a motivational speech!
Really is interesting about the whole February 20 thing though. Somehow the liberation of Crimea started two days before the event that supposedly provides the justification for stealing land like a bitch because "Kyiv junta, illegitimate, poof magic, no treaties such as Budapest Memorandum apply, everyone knows change government turmoil in sovereign states nullifies all of the country's borders and treaties,I steal land now, all dots and is crossed, sanctions are Russophobic since we did things so lawfully, like, it would totally work in Russia, I don't understand why you Russophobes don't accept our world-renowned judicial system where social media posts (only if true) get you ten years in jail and a mutiny with a private army that shot down pilots gets you a payout and a relocation package, it just makes sense, just like Crimea always being Russian and us always being innocent victims, if you don't let me steal land I will nuke you or at least pout on the bench for an hour, because being the sorest of losers is one of the Russian society's main cultural traits (be it losing their SMO, their fencing match badly, or their superpower status 30 years ago,, which the denial and inability to come to terms with is really at the core of everything else, isn't it).
The only people who could possibly prepare an operation in advance of presumably shocking events to come in the next few days are the coup plotters though, so it must be nothing since it's not Obama that has a medal for the liberation of Crimea starting on February 20th, and certainly no one could ever suspect Russia to be behind the coup, because everyone knows it was a western-backed coup, perfectly proven by overly overwhelming evidence that Nuland, as a diplomat, had an opinion about something diplomats should have opinions about, 100% smoking gun. Actual documented GRU presence/meetings in Kyiv around the 20th-21st makes me even more sure that this was a CIA-backed coup as I'm sure the Russian spies were only there to hunt down all the CIA operatives stage-managing the snipers. No evidence of any, but evidence is unneeded to know that the CIA-backed coup is the justification for why Russia was forced to do a crisis management land grab in Crimea that otherwise would not have happened except it started two days before said provocation happened. It all makes sense once you understand that time is not linear and the CIA probably has time dilation weapons it was testing for use against ethnic Russians and so that explains everything perfectly and biolabs in Ukraine, QED.
Unless... it's not like he had a top pick for who would best fill in as PM for a few months so things settle down as a stop-gap until elections as part of diplomacy while working as a diplomat or anything equally defitive, but there is audio via the Surkov tapes in which be is coordinating all the various payouts for people to be "protesters" in Crimea, and Odesa, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Mariupol, Kherson, Luhansk. Most fizzled out, two regions had critical Ghirkins in enough numbers to almost pass off the local criminals and drug addicts and mafia types agreeing to take such money are actual independent separatists and it's totally an organic civil war and the Russian military totally isn't just waging war on Ukraine(because Obama legitimately did not care about this region and couldn't be bothered to react more than he absolutely had to to Russia being a clown show, never mind that Ukrainians gave up nukes and were actually promised something more, hope the smug prick loses a kid so he actually feels something real).
Kremlin propaganda is all you spreadz
@jasminekaram880 Kremlin my fckin ass, it's not a narrative it's a simple concept you can't understand for some reason which is that NATO was originally invented to protect Europe from the Soviet Union which does not exist anymore so why did NATO persist for 3 decades, don't say because of Russian aggression cuz that shit didn't start until after NATO was already on Russia's border which is a valid security concern. NATO is an aggressive offensive organization, when they killed Qaddafi that was not defensive, when they bombed Afghanistan, that was not defensive, when they destroyed Syria, that was not defensive and when Serbia was bombed in 1999, that was not defensive either. This is all a tactic pushed by people like John McCain and Mike Pompeo to move closer and closer to Russia's borders to provoke them and to make money from the weapons companies who are desperate to empty their stocks. This is a valid security concern Russia has had long before anybody heard of "tHe TYrAniCaL DIctaToR pUtiN." NATO didn't only expand but swallowed almost all of Russias neighbors, which any country would see this as an aggressive posture like if Mexico, Cuba, and Venezuela jumped into an alliance with China to counter the US, you would quickly see aggression. The encirclement from an Alliance that did all those horrific acts I mentioned before is lead by the US which is the only country to ever use nukes mind you and says Russia is enemy #1. Also don't forget how our Boris Johnson told Zelensky to pull out of the peace talks in Turkey which would have solved everything but Zelensky as the agent he is did as he was told.
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"Putin wants to rebuild the old Russian Empire"--so? why does that harm the US?
cuz if mccain from dixie. I understand why)))
Feb 27 2022. Look at the news now
Might want to delete this post now Pablo..
@@barryw8011 I ask the same question-what relevance for the US? We’ve pushed Russia firmly into China’s camp-you’re telling me a Russo-Chinese axis against the US is better than Russia assuming its Tsarist borders? Hope you like having your Internet censored by Xi
@@pablononescobar you stand up for what you believe in or you go baaaabaah 🐑
Ok, so where is the negatives? Make Russia Great Again🇷🇺
keep coping
Negatives are that Russia is stealing foreign territory so non Russians will be forced to stop you even physically if necessary.
Verbrecher
To much honor.
McCancer, we do not forget that you provided support to ISIS in Syria.
Absolute nonsense
The BBC thinks it wise to interview a first-class warmonger and takes him seriously.!
And yet he was right.
@@baneofbanes You may think he was right
He was right because it was planned from 2014 or maybe even earlier on
@@4uvak666 There is little point in arguing with people who do not know the facts and who base their opinion on "hearsay". In 2014, the lawfully elected Ukrainian government was overthrown by means of the US, among others, through a "coup". Russia's position is similar to that of the US. in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. But taking into account your ignorance, these facts are probably beyond your comprehension.
@@AM-sm9ol There was no "US coup" in 2014. Ukraine's parliament voted to remove the president who committed serious crimes and ran away to his handlers in Moscow. There were no US ballistic missiles parked in Ukraine either.
obviously bribed
Really?
The world is a slightly better place without John McCain.
at least he was brilliant one of the best in his profession.
@@andrewflow7033 You are kidding, right?
@@kljmaq why? he did all his targets. Syria, Georgia, Ukraine. or isnt?
@@andrewflow7033 yeah he was awesome as the pilot ;)))
Actually No