Why Kaliningrad, Russia's Exclave in Europe, Is So Strategic | WSJ
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- In a rare trip, Vladimir Putin visited Kaliningrad, a Russian region surrounded by NATO member states. WSJ explains why the exclave, which has been at the center of escalating tensions amid the Ukraine war, is so important for Moscow.
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Kaliningrad can only be "defended" through the threat of the nuclear annihilation of civilization. In a conventional war it would fall so fast Pootin's head would spin. Of course Kaliningrad would also be obliterated along with much of mankind in that nuclear war...
The same way they can obliterate Kaliningrad, Putin can also obliterate all the capitals of all the puppets in NATO, most cities in the US as well, they would all be turned in ash. Russia has more advance nukes than anyone else on earth.
Your language and they reversed the formulation of autism into a synthesized process while you could reverse it into natural, clean dialectic like English. But nobody would understand you. Dude it already happened in ww2. And all these homeless people in Canada living in oak shacks.
They’ll just go into the mountains and fight in the caves.
@@thief_fnm8993 our secret robot dogs equipped with recoilless rifles will
The Russians gave Germany back their country in 1989. The Russians went home. The Americans have since used Germany to prosecute wars in the middle east and Afghanistan, U.S. troops are stationed in Germany on a permanent basis. Casualties of American wars overseas are patched up in German military hospitals, before returning to the U.S.
Germany is as an occupied U.S. colony. Poland is about to have American military bases. Romania has U.S. military bases. Japan has thousands of American military stationed on a permanent basis. South Korea is also occupied. Taiwan is about to get some tough love from the Americans. The Americans are only interested in the use of Taiwan as an unsinkable aircraft carrier. If the Americans love their freedom and democracy, why are there so many Americans locked up in prisons. America has the highest divorce rate in the world, America has three times the number of single parent families in the developed world. America is the most racist country in the World. The Americans continue to promote their war economy, to include any country that wishes to decide for themselves. The Americans continue to practice divide and conquer, promoting instability and chaos anywhere they do not get their way. This makes a fortune for the American weapons manufacturers. The U.S. continue to expand their U.S. NATO in Eurasia under a false pretext. NATO has no reason to exist, following the dissolution of the Warsaw pact. The Europeans have absolutely no control over what Washington military planners intend to achieve using their E.U. vassal states, riding shotgun. E.U. U.S. led NATO expansion into Ukraine was about America needing fresh meat. Ethnic Russians were targeted by the Ukrainian NAZI's who were trained and armed by the United States. The United States repeats this pattern of behavior, with exactly the same outcome every time.
The U.S. are using their E.U. vassal states like a coalition of the willing. Obviously U.S. led NATO is about transatlantic militarism and promoting American values and changing the psychological dynamics of the world to cultivate good consumers The Americans operate a war economy. The Americans are able to fund their excursions, because everyone who uses the U.S. dollar for foreign exchange is assisting the Americans in their own destruction. If Russia has a problem concerning E.U. leadership and their apparent inability to make decisions concerning their own right to self determination. The Russians take it up with Washington, this is where all the E.U. plans are made. As a European and a person who lived in the U.S. thirty years. I do not trust the U.S. Absolutely no way. Criminal Enterprise Involving Public Officials is rampant in the United States.
“Politicians and diapers should be changed often and for the same reason.” Mark Twain
Twain lived in the 19th century, and his words are still relevant to the present.
agree
Königsberg was part of Germany not just under the Nazi period, but was established around 1286 by the knights of the Teutonic Order and remained part of Prussia and then Germany until the end of WWII. Russia became the new owner under the agreement reached by the U.K., the USA, and Russia at the Potsdam Confrence 1946 (having occupied East Prussia and Königsberg in the winter of 1944-45). The philosopher Immanuel Kant was a professor at its University in the 18th century. My wife's mother fled from Königsberg in early 1945. Most ethnic Germans that remained in East Prussia when the Red Army arrived were shot immediately since Russia already decided it got Königsberg -- an ice-free port on the Baltic Sea-- as partial compensation for the crimes the Germans had committed in Russia.
The Kazarian Banking Mafia Snake, AskeNAZI Bolsheviks, slaughtered 11 million ethnic German people, 60 million Russian people. Stalin was Jesuit trained and lived in Sweden.
But it belonged to Polish before. Germans took those lands from Poles during the northern crusades.
Yet Germany did not get any compensation from the 60 yers of Russian occupation and atrocities over German people at least USA fixed half Germany other half still lived in Russian missery during Russian occupation.😳
@@peterpanini96 What Germany suffered through 50 years is nothing compared to what Soviet people suffered in 5 years. Germany got a very light handed punishment compared to what crimes it did in ww2.
That's a lie!! You're trying to re-write history, Russians didn't shoot any civilians, unlike the Germans which they did, all the Germans that were left in East Prusia after the war ended were shipped to what is today Germany, the same thing happened to the Germans who ended in what it is today Poland, but it was German territory before the war ended, they were shipped to Germany and were re-populated by Poles.
1:15 that entrance reminds me of the movie Troy, where Achilles starts his "special military operation" with his Myrmidons.
All very interesting
why would he fire fight?
Kaliningrad born and raised here, you can ask any questions if you want
they are afraid to learn something first-hand. this may be very different from the official narrative
Can you still travel to neighboring countries or have they stopped giving out visas? Also would Kaliningrad be worth visiting after the cessation of hostilities between The West and Russia?
When are you Europeans going to learn from your 20th century wars? And stop plunging the world into wars?
@@MilaPriima Well go on then. Clearly you're the boldest of them all and have the ability to adjust our world view by asking compelling questions.
Oh wait, you don't have one?
Oh well then clearly you must be totally shook about your narrative being changed. **facepalm**
@@vice.nor.virtue Vitya, I agree, you should be ashamed that you write nonsense
In a real conflict, Kaliningrad will not be able to defend itself. That is the basis of Russia's strategic nuclear doctrine. It does not provide a strategic anything to anyone.
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Kaliningrad (Königsberg) used to be German🇩🇪
NO ONE WILL EVER KEEP ME AWAY FROM MY POOKIE.
It's Konigsberg, the old heart of Prussia.
Indeed. Folk should strive to return it to Germany.
@@jakecommonty2042 There were some certain folk who tried to return it in the 30s and 40s.
Russia - P-russia - Prussia - P-russia - Russia
@@noobzie8963 it should be annexed either by Poland or Lithuania
Does Prussia exist? no? then it's Kaliningrad.
i can cry
Don't feel bad, all the Nazis are crying in the comments too
why does it hurt but not
papa and grandpa were as far as time pilots
2 fingers it is ok?
Give königsbergen back to Germany.
NEVER! WE CZECH ANNEXED THE TERRITORY!
i ll try
ill try a other way to the sea?
Respeckt my Hero.....
it belongs to the original Baltic prussians but they are all gone now.
Siberia belongs to the Siberians!
That was 1000 years ago so it isnt in any way baltic anymore
Make Kaliningrad Königsberg Again.
Make Germany German again
i am born and raised in Kaliningrad, come try us muppet.
@@vasyapete4kin910 you are just a second / third generation russian living in königsberg.
@@bigboss337 And what? It's our land. Here live only Russians.
@@vasyapete4kin910 you will be tried. some day.
Let's go brandon.
grandpa was a spit fighter? pilot
he was a post man
why?wsj told him to make a mansion there
Bit like that piece of Cuba...😉...
i roofed did a few things
ill play a free run song im not in
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papa was a bomber he was a fire fighter so
as far as time
The story is what is called in the industry as filler. It's the same exact news story that all the other news agencies report when there's nothing else to report. They might as well have just passed the script around and reused it instead of spending time finding new ways to say the same thing.
**clap clap** aren't you a clever boy
Lithuania backed down. sad
i i liked air soft but my grand parents
Bet alot of good looking women in high heels are in kalingrad
yeah perfect hmm
1:05 Can the WSJ not afford voice coaching for its reporters? I hear similar disastrous enunciation everywhere, including on their podcast. Come on - you can do better than this.
Sweden Has Awesome Submarines
Keep The Bear On Land
Sweedish submarine fleet on its own not even close to russian submarine fleet!
@@khabibnurmagomedov9707 Russian submarine fleet could not even TELL if Swedish submarine fleet was close 😏😏
Too busy sinking
@@danjohnston9037 wow 😲😲😲😲😲 u are so intelligent that u should go and work for the intelligence of your country
@@lucavs3933 " Should " ??? 😏😏
ALL American Citizens Add To The Intelligence Of Their Country. Just That Some Are Adding NEGATIVE Numbers 😏😏
LOL
But now that Sweden and finland is nato, Russia's little enclave is encircled and nato can just destroy it with artillery and cruise missile and MLRS.
Lucky your not a general
What are you going to do with nuclear weapons?
@@Fillipok bomb it too duh
@@mbolton oh but I am one
@@nesseihtgnay9419 stadards are very low then, what milllarty you in lol
I'm glad not to be a politician, because I would be very bad at it. I would just let those raillines be ripped out of the ground and put in a brick wall, just like they did in Berlin after ww2.
I am also glad you are not a politician, but let's be honest you probably couldn't win an election if you tried
@@willharrison3740 like you would've attracked full crowds other than to laugh at you
CHICLAYO PERU 🇵🇪
President❤️
When an American hears the world kilingrgrad. We hear murdergrad. It would like no thanks don't think I'll be going there.
When I hear Texas. I hear Criminal Enterprise Involving Public Officials.
When everyone hear US + UK + GERMANY we think of blood and mass murder.
Your ancestors helped destroy it by going to war with Germany. Twice.
@@erik6165 Puerto Rico is doing fine
@@erik6165 hmmm wouldnt be different if russia was in americas place
Blockade it, block every railway, just allow Ships trough international waters. See how it crumbles in a Month
Huahauhauauah try it mate its russia they are challenging not nigeria will eraste lithuania out of the map mate
@@ghostofwolverine6065 Lithuania is part of Nato the EU and uses the Euro currency, It would be WW3, the Russians are not that stupid
@@ghostofwolverine6065 🤡
My friend, when Lithuania seceded from the USSR, there was a contract in front of it, and in the contract there was one of the points of withdrawal from the USSR. Lithuania is obliged to allow transit to the Kaliningrad region. From a legal point of view, Russia had every right to the entire territory of present-day Lithuania. I understand that you have become cool NATO EU, but do not forget your history, and before you write something, open Wikipedia and read. It will be useful for you, you will definitely discover the book of knowledge, because your whole history has been rewritten for a long time.
@@flockakut396 Russia is breaking the 1994 Budapest Memorandum and the United Nations Charter when it decide to start this illegal Invasion, Russia agreed "to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine.
Nice cover.
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Gives russia not putin !
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Give Germany it back I would way rather have a little Germany there since every European is rushing to Germany for work anyways they seem to be the only country to deserve it. Plus it was theirs for the longest of times and was stolen after the war
Poland also got some territory near Kaliningrad from Germany after WWII. Take that territory back first, then we will discuss about Kaliningrad.
Europeans in the comments divide our country into parts, and then they say on the net that NATO is a peaceful union. Funny...)
If Russia were to agree on giving Kaliningrad back to Germany, would we agree to give Ukraine back to Russia? Hugely embarrassing double standard. Kaliningrad became Russia fair and square. Cope.
@@FillipokGermany is a U.S. colony.
@@erik6165 no way. remember that Soviet Union was the bad guy, so the world was generous to allow them to exist for such a long time. General Patton had a plan to liberate Moscow from Stalin
😪😪If the Russians follow thr Poles and demand a WW2 compensation, it's going to literally bankrupt the Germans!
Wonder how the Russian geopolitical pundits miss this?😋🤪
grand hmm
Zero threat🤠
is ok wesley james urie canada ontario whitby sks a song
im wes i drew a cities paint
Mess with it
For being so politically important, Kaliningrad does have a really bad economy and is neglected.
because its need to be always dependent on the mainland. And most of the goods come from the outside, territory is too small to be super-productive
@@wagaboond6443 Sure,and the rest of Russia has a good economy...
After 19 years since the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, has the West forgotten this war?
The Iraq war is said to have resulted in 1 million deaths the difference is russia have weapons of mass destruction
A message to the future generations never make russia feel threatened
the difference between "looking dangerous" and "being dangerous".Russia
describes military doctrine as defensive military doctrine. With regard
to nuclear weapons specifically, Russia reserves the right to use
nuclear weapons: in response to the use of nuclear and other types of
weapons of mass destruction against it or its allies,in case of
aggression against Russia with the use of conventional weapons when the
very existence of the state is threatened
Russia has the World's Largest Bomber
As of 2022, the Federation of American Scientists estimates that Russia possesses 5,977 nuclear weapons, while the United States has 5,428; Russia and the U.S. each have about 1,600 active deployed strategic nuclear warheads.
Russia has the most nuclear weapons of any country, at 6,257. Of these, 1,458 are active, meaning they are already deployed, 3,039 are available (can be deployed if needed) and 1,760 are retired (out of use and awaiting dismantlement
How do Russian nuclear weapons compare to the rest of the world?
Russia - 6,257
America 5,550
UK - 225
France - 290
China - 350
Israel - 90
Pakistan - 165
India - 156
North Korea - 40
When you tell the truth it's always gonna be controversial.
USA bombing list : the democracy world tour
usa nuked japan
-Korea and China 1950-1953
(Korean War)
-Guatemala 1954
-Indonesia 1958
-Cuba 1959-1961
-Guatemala 1960
-Congo 1964
-Laos 1964-1973
-Vietnam 1961-1973
-Cambodia 1969-1970
-Guatemala 1967-1969
-Grenada 1983
-Lebanon 1983-1984
(both lebanese and syrian targets)
-Libya 1986
-Elsavador 1980s
-Nicaragua 1980s
-Iran 1987
-Panama 1989
-Iraq 1991 (persian gulf war)
-Kuwait 1991
-Somalia 1993
-Bosnia 1994-1995
-Sudan 1998
-Afghanistan 1998
-Yugoslavia 1999
-Yemen 2002
-Iraq 1991-2003
(US/UK on reguler basis)
-Iraq 2003-2015
-Afghanistan 2001-2015
-Pakistan 2007-2015
-Somalia 2007-8 and 2011
-Yemen 2009 and 2011
-Libya 2011 and 2015
-Syiria 2014-2015
Never forget who's the real threat to the world !!
Who have killed more people in last two decades ?
America or Russia
how many people have been killed and wounded in Iraq since the 2003 United States invasion. However, we know that between 184,382 and 207,156 civilians have died from direct war related violence caused by the U.S., its allies, the Iraqi military and police, and opposition forces from the time of the invasion through October 2019. The violent deaths of Iraqi civilians have occurred through aerial bombing, shelling, gunshots, suicide attacks, and fires started by bombing. Many civilians have also been injured.
Because not all war-related deaths have been recorded accurately by the Iraqi government and the U.S.-led coalition, the numbers are likely much higher. Several estimates based on randomly selected household surveys place the total death count among Iraqis in the hundreds of thousands.
Several times as many Iraqi civilians may have died as an indirect result of the war, due to damage to the systems that provide food, health care and clean drinking water, and as a result, illness, infectious diseases, and malnutrition that could otherwise have been avoided or treated. The war has compounded the ill effects of decades of harmful U.S. policy actions towards Iraq since the 1960s, including economic sanctions in the 1990s that were devastating for Iraqis.
Despite more than $100 billion committed to aiding and reconstructing Iraq, many parts of the country still suffer from lack of access to clean drinking water and housing.
still using the whataboutism handbook, comrade? how outdated
These are just examples of west spreading peace and democracy by putting their puppets on weak countries
Wow, that was a great over Simplification. Nice job on that.
@@bullpup1337 What handbook? There's' no handbook, he is telling the truth, you as a typical American, can't take it, but that's all in the history books, and the history doesn't lie. I'm not Russian, nor do I have any Slavic blood in me, I'm from the west, so don't call me comrade to try to shut me off, it won't work - own it! You, your family or your ancestor's took part in those crimes.
@@bullpup1337 whataboutism or not. they commited these crimes
Russia should be kicked out of Kaliningrad or Königsberg as it should be called
So its target number 1. Surround it, cut it off the differences between the effectiveness of the same tactics defines the difference between our weaknesses and theirs.
That’s the same thing the soviets did with Berlin… the US is better than that. Russia hasn’t (YET) done anything to NATO or US to justify a military siege?
Russia is trapped in the Kherson pocket. Low on food & ammo with No bridges & 35 thousand Angy Ukrainians in their face! 💛💙 Slava Ukraine! "Fortune favors the brave!"
Western Delusion at it’s finest
@Milan Vukovic that would be the biggest party on the planet! The downfall of Moscow. Haha! Yass! But sorry your military is not as good as you thought it was. 👊😁👌🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸🇺🇸
EU should take it.
It's Konigsberg it was German for almost a thousand years it will be German again one day
Even Germany proper isn’t German anymore, keep dreaming. The most European part of Europe is Russia, the west is becoming a global hub for everyone
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brawski
narova
I think Lithuania and Poland should split it between them.
And Russia will happily nuke Poland and Lithuania if they try…
Kaliningrad is armed with nuclear missiles, both Poland and Lithuania will be ashes before they do anything
No Germany should get it back. Although I'd rather your proposal than Russia keep it for any longer.
Soviet Union is coming back soon
In your dreams buddy
is? grandpa spit fighter
not even a kid grr
Europe should take it back!!
Come and take.
Why?
Try to take it back, and be nuked.
@@humanno627r5 Because it is German territory illegally occupied by Russia.
@@tylerbozinovski427 like Poland occupied eastern German territory 😏
America should arm Kaliningrad to be free from Russia
@『─Galaxy ─』 Yes, they should do that!
Der religions fuehrer und seine anhaenger ..
Not for much longer.
germany will take kaliningrad.
right after America takes back Alaska....
@@gorussia3355 Alaska is already American you numbskull.
By law and agreement Germany will not be able to claims any lands. Germany agreed to this so they can unite with east Germany. So good luck lol
@@legokingtm9462 what agreement?????? no germany will reclaim those lands.
@@legokingtm9462 If anything, there's an agreement stipulating that Germany has a right to lay claim to its lost lands if it pays reparations to Poland. Which has even more of the land than Russia does.
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Poland will have to denazify Kaliningrad one day
poland is a joke
@@erik6165 Poland hates Russia. Stalin killed millions of Poles , and implemented a communist dictatorship. Poland has nothing to be grateful.
Good luck with that 🤣😂🚀💀
Poland will disappear from the map like in all its history 💀
Try it and it will be the end of poland
BEcause is in the middle of the EU. Case closed.
Kaliningrads real name is Konigsberg! Yes Prussian/German land!
Kaliningrad, my native city. Lucky to live here. (“thanks” germans for a local architecture, your red brick houses will withstand anything)
Ummm maybe all kinds of weather perhaps, but artillery is a different story!
I don't think that most of the houses are over 78 years old. So more thanks soviet architecture?
@@Toykio house that I live in is built in 1921. And you’re right, a major part of houses is founded in ussr
@@vice.nor.virtue all depends on what power of artillery.
@@Alexnomatch A red brick house isn't going to survive a direct shelling. There is going to be destruction.
The end of Putin is here
Ah right Kaliningrad, another part of europe russia stole. The west thought capitalism is what unites, but that is wrong. The political ideology is what matters.... and russia never was a republic or a federal democratic state. Russia was and is an empire that is ruled by iron fist or it will fall appart.... The west is now learning that the hard way. We are different in structure and mindset, time to accept that and work with it.
No.
in the US, Putin is more popular than Biden ( a.k.a Brandon ).
Hahaha true 👍👍
sure Ivan
Actually neither leader is liked
Oooooooh looks like we got a Kool Aide drinker kids! Quick, stuff that nuclear codes papers into your florida mansion closet, and pretend that you have absolute power over an entire country that would make Hitler Blush!!!
Pagans
ruzzian Konigsberg is oxymoron
in case of war kaliningrad will get full strike from nato countries
Ukraine just needed a change in the leadership, someone new who would cease murdering residents of Donbas. Instead of doing the right thing, here we are blaming Russia for the mess we had created
Remember the hope the US had for Russia when President Reagan visited Moscow University?
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There was hope that one day Russia would join NATO when Putin first took office. What has changed?
Putin
Now all the honor and respect that the world has had for Russia and the respected Russian soldiers during World War II IS LOST.
Russia wanted to join NATO but USA refused and no the respect is not lost. We lost respect for USA decades ago because they are the main cause of war in the world. Russia saved Europe in WW2, USA joined in at the last minute and claimed to be heroes.
Russia stepped into Syria and the American funded ISIS were destroyed in months
@@dylanmurphy9389 The US did not reject Russia to join NATO.
NATO has requirements which Russia did not meet. This is also why Ukraine could not join NATO prior to the war.
General NATO requirements:
* must uphold democracy
* has market economy (or shows progress toward market economy)
* military power comes from civilian elections (or other method)
* must respect other nations sovereignty outside their borders
* compatibility with NATO military.
Russia did not meet these requirements.
The US was hoping Vladimir Putin would progress toward meeting all of these requirements so that one day Russia would become a NATO member.
Now, because of the war, Russia will never become a NATO member (most likely).
@@_SamUSA_ Russia did not meet Americas requirements.
Sounds very democratic! 😂
@@_SamUSA_ do you not realise the whole way you delivered that was with the assumption that USA is going to run NATO. This is why Russia wasn’t allowed to join, it isn’t just a military alliance, it is political.
The free way to Kaliningrad is our next task😎 Let's crush and freeze Ukraine first😅
P. S. Get higher taxes anyway🤓
Leave the boundaries as they are, we have more important things to do in our lives.
Fist it was a stupid mistake to allow nuclear weapons and long range artilerry in Kaliningrad. Second it was stupid to give Russia territory in the hearth of Europe.
russia took territory nobody gave it
@@frankrenda2519 Yeah because Stalin was a mental nutcase.
Who gonna stop the Soviet from taking those lands? The german was utterly destroyed back then
glory to the USSR
russia is going down...Slava Ukraine🤬🤬🤬🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Stand by Lithuania. Stance against evil.
No
Yeah block Russia's internal trades make civilians suffer... So kind and thoughtful you are.
@@legokingtm9462 How did Russia survive before they owned Kaliningrad?
@@shitslayer8a They don't, the Baltic fleet basically just stay in port for more than havle a year. Thus when they are required to fight they loss badly due to no sailing experience.
Target Russian invaders Moscow this war will end. The Ukrainian soldiers have the fire 🔥 power to reach into Moscow, Russia,Crimea bridge. Power to Ukraine.
Ukrainians have been getting a lot of equipment lately,all better than Russia's , but their artillery can't reach Russia.
THE U.S.IS USING THE HAVANA WEAPON ON MY SISTER TO READ HER MIND .
One leader against 30 odd jokers of EU. Courageous versus coward.
Russia's leader is not courageous, he is hiding like a coward
@@shitslayer8a Zelensky is hiding in the bunker.
is Ukraine a democracy "of our values"?
1/ the laws on languages are anything but not democratic, it is a linguistic dictatorship for the sole benefit of the Ukrainian language. Russian speakers who represent half of Ukrainian speakers do not even have the right to education in Russian for their children at school, neither television in Russian, nor menus in restaurants in Russian nor subtitles in Russian at the movies or at the Opera
2/President Zelensky frauded his country's tax authorities (Pandora Papers investigation by 100 top journalists), his main mentor is Ihor Kholomoisky (who embezzled the equivalent of 5% of Ukrainian GNP!) he is an oligarch and a criminal
3/ In 2010 President Victor Youtchenko declared "hero" of Ukraine Stepan Bandera a collaborator with the Nazis and icon of the infamous Azov regiment... The European Parliament and the Simon Wiesentahl Center had condemned this heroization
4/ Parades in memory of the Ukrainian SS division Galichina took place on several occasions, the last of which was in Kiev... There is a monument commemorating this SS division in the city of Lvov, the only memorial monument in the world for the SS. ...
5/ In the Economist Intelligence Unit, Ukraine ranks only 83rd place in democracy.
6 / And in terms of corruption according to "Transparency International" Ukraine comes in 123rd place out of 180. Indeed it is common knowledge that 5-7oligarchs have their strong hands on the economy.
7/ Ukraine orders its "partners" to cut off Russian gas at the risk of seriously damaging Europe's economy while Ukraine itself receives Russian gas and even royalties by pipeline passage thru Ukraine...
8/ Presenting itself as always "Paragon" of virtue, Ukraine is nevertheless pinpointed out by Amnesty International for endangering the lives of civilians by using civilian buildings as military bases. To think that they would use their own population as a shield human there would be only tiny steps. Ukraine even accuses Amnesty of collusion with Russia, which is on border of ridiculouness.
9 / Unlike truly democratic and peaceful states, Ukraine was part of a coalition violating international law under false evidences, of the USA and its 2003 invasion in Iraq which caused a total of 1/2 million deaths,
Ukraine is surely disqualified for her incessant demand for respect for international law when itself broke this law.
Ukraine also refused to implement agreements it had itself signed; the Minsk 2 agreements, under pressure from Ukrainian neo nazis ultra-nationalists and probably from the USA, dragging its country into the war.
Whereas these remarks are all verifiable, it is up to everyone to judge whether or not Ukraine is a democratic state defending the "democratic" values of the West as it is systematically affirmed
Hi Louis! I hope you have nice weather in Leningrad. Ukraine's democracy is certainly perfectible, as it inherited a lot of the dysfonctions of the Soviet Union, but there is a will to improve the situation. What about your country (should I still call it The Russian Federation or the Russian Empire or the USSR or Putin's Empire?)? Are you proud to be ruled by the mafia? Happy to see the Stalinism back? I hope you will be liberated in your lifetime and Russia will eventually come back in the European family thanks to a government who genuinely works for its people. In the meantime, I wish you good luck!
@@VioloneuxFou putin has built russia up kid also ukraine has banned 9 political parties
I hope Navalnyi becomes the president in Russia and Russia gets freedom that we all have in the West and Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺
All the information above is great, but Ukraine also has downsides
All dead teens from Russia going to help🌻season
the city of Koenigsberg was founded on the site of the Prussian settlement of Twangste by the Teutonic Order, in the next few centuries the Prussian population was completely exterminated by the Germans, the Prussian language is a dead language, what right do the Germans have in this region? the same right as that of robbers and murderers for the loot, although if you look at the map of the two Americas, the situation is the same there, you have no rights ..
"What right do the Germans have in this region?" I think nobody in Germany has demanded any rights there. It's an impoverished, isolated region which has very little Germanic heritage left anyway.
What rights do the Russians have in comparison, anyway? None. The Germans at least have a rich history in East Prussia, just like they do in the rest of Germany. "oH bUt [insert obscure ancient entity here] hAd cOnTrOl oVeR tHiS lAnD bEfOrE!"
@@eddie0lutetia Trying to delegitimise German claims doesn't automatically legitimise Russian claims, which makes your comment insanely laughable.
Crusaders stole the land
I LOVE YOU PUTIN.
Poutine best président world
Putain?
🇷🇺❤🇮🇳
Putin is smarter than US and EU 😂😂😂
Yeh “smart”! I guess murdering children is considered smart today.
Oh sorry LOL
good joke lol
Lol Dead men are the smartest!!
Long live Putin! if y’all knew how much of hero and a roll model he is to open eye people like me and others. Protect this man at all cost
Would that include people falling out of windows and the liberal use of Novichok?
@@PK-999 Would that include all the crimes NATO committed in Iraq and Afghanistan? Over one million CIVILIANS dead in Iraq (over a lie that they had WMD, when Washington and ex-president G W Bush knew well ahead of the invasion that it was a lie/excuse to launch that criminal war on the country) and Afghanistan.
@@loumcast At least the millions of Americans and Europeans that protested that war didn't get locked up . Putin is dissapearing those that comment on his war . You think that's a good thing ?
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@@shawnv123 Anna Politkovskaya
Russia has done what was needed to show EU and US its place. Russia is the king of Europe accept it or ask Zelenskyy
Zelenskyy is making Russia look like a fool. Thought Russia being one of the most powerful military’s would’ve taken all of Ukraine by now. Hasn’t even taken half the country as of now. Russia can keep throwing everything they have at Ukraine and just keep weakening itself.
When it comes to economics there's nothing about what you're saying that's going to help the Russian people economically, GDP Per Capital in Russia was already at a low point, and getting lower by the day. Showing how strong you are militarily does not indicate how strong you are economically. The man is literally destroying Russia economically, but you probably haven't noticed since so few know how economics work.
Ukraine just needed a change in the leadership, someone new who would cease murdering residents of Donbas. Instead of doing the right thing, here we are blaming Russia for the mess we had created
@@inGodtrust5hmkj4 The Russian economy was destroyed by Western partners and institutions that broke into Russia like vultures after the collapse of the USSR. people still remember with horror the 90s, when there was no work, banditry flourished, the state did not pay pensions and benefits. for 20 years, the country has risen from its knees. the special operation as a litmus showed everything brighter
@@MilaPriima Obviously you're not an intellectual.
Well done Russia 🇷🇺 .
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Could you, please, not show photos and videos of Putin the killer? This is sensitive for many people, tortured, crippled by the Russian invaders, with their houses destroyed.
I agree that it is very important to make such shows. But it is quite possible to do this without his face.
No one is more of a killer than Poroshenko, Zelensky and the AZOV Battalion - Fascists and Neo-Nazis who discriminated, oppressed and killed thousands of innocent people in the east and south of Ukraine for the simple reason of speaking Russian instead of Ukrainian. Your lies, are just that, lies and propaganda!
Should we also remove all the US president face from news?? They all are murderer too. While they are at it, they should also remove face of actually murderer so people can't indentify them in public, they should also remove all murderer from history books so people don't cry....
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Anyone still recognizing Russia as a sovereign nation, and Russians as human beings should be terminated with extreme prejudice.
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So you dehumanise an entire ethnic group and then be a bigot to anyone that questions you? Yikes
@@dylanmurphy9389 Referring to Russians as an ethnic group implies they’re somehow human. We’ve been at war for over 6 months! Get with the program.