Comments by "Geoff Lepper" (@geofflepper3207) on "Peace is not an option for Ukraine" video.

@markusdittrich-rw4mg So you're saying that Russian forces outnumber Ukrainian forces 4 to 1 but despite that and despite using up vast amounts of military supplies and equipment that Russia took 80 years to accumulate Russian forces haven't been able to make any significant gains in the past year whereas Ukrainian forces have made huge gains in the south and in the east? You do realize that you're making Russian forces look even more incompetent and dysfunctional when you say that their failures came despite having a massive manpower advantage? You do understand that simply having more troops is not a measure of victory? You do understand that even if Russian forces have a 20 to 1 manpower advantage that is not a measure of victory when Russian forces have shown no ability to make a significant advance? You better be more careful with your posts or Putin will stop paying you Rubles to put out Russian propaganda and will send you to the front lines. I don't think that Putin will like the fact that you put out a post that creates more embarrassment for Russian forces and for Russia and thus for him.
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@moonfly1 yes, more and more I think that in 2022 NATO should have quickly intervened to destroy Russian forces in Ukraine and drive all Russian invaders out of all of Ukraine and then set up NATO bases in Ukraine including in Crimea including at Sevastopol and then even though if technically speaking Ukraine was not yet a member of NATO basically create a situation in which that was effectively a fait accompli. NATO avoided getting directly involved to reduce the chances of nuclear war but I think that whether Russian invasion forces were on the verge of collapse in May 2022 due to NATO actions or Russian forces end up on the verge of collapse in May 2024 due to Ukrainian military actions doesn't change the fact that what ever time Russian forces face collapse is a time with heightened chance that Putin will resort to using a nuclear weapon. NATO forces deciding to not get involved hasn't got rid of that threat - rather it has just delayed that threat from 2022 to 2023 or 2024. Plus I think that every day delayed so that the war is still going is an extra day that has a tiny but real chance of Putin going nuclear. If NATO had got involved in the conflict early and driven Russian invaders out of Ukraine by June 2022 then after that the chances of Putin using a nuclear weapon would be basically finished. What would be the point of Putin using a nuclear weapon after his invasion forces had been destroyed and driven out of Ukraine forever and he no longer had a chance to ever occupy Ukraine? Another advantage of NATO getting involved early is that it would have sent a clear message to China that western countries likely would get directly involved to try to stop an invasion of Taiwan even though China has nuclear weapons. And another advantage would be that Russia would not have had so long to build up so many defensive fortifications to make a counter offensive difficult. Also, Ukraine would not have had to suffer so much for so long. Finally, if NATO had quickly got involved and defeated Russian invasion forces then disruption to world fertilizer, food and fuel markets would have been much shorter and this is not a trivial matter as likely many of the poorest, most vulnerable people in the world have suffered greatly due to this disruption but without getting the same headlines that people suffering in Ukraine are getting.
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@jugo1944 I don't think that Ukrainians would suffer many casualties to take Crimea. If they make it to the Sea of Azov and then send rockets to destroy the bridge between Crimea and Russia then Russian forces in Crimea and Kherson will be isolated and cut off from supplies of men, food, shells, equipment and everything else they need and then gradually isolated Russian forces would run out of all those things plus the blowing up of the dam has cut off water supplies to Crimea and much of Kherson region so I think that in that situation Ukrainian forces won't try to quickly take back Crimea but rather will keep firing missiles to destroy the assets of Russian forces in Crimea and eventually those Russian forces will start running out of everything and will be forced to surrender even if Ukraine never launches an attack into Crimea. Also, reporters on the ground say that overwhelmingly average Ukrainian citizens they talk to say that the war cannot end until Ukraine has all of its territory back.
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 @LearnWithVikram7 you think that the peaceful and democraticly elected government of Zelensky is the same as the brutal, repressive dictatorship of Assad? Seriously?
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 @goenzoy if Russia doesn't go broke before the 2024 election I don't see how Biden winning another election will help Putin at all.
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I'm afraid that until the Russian government runs out of foreign reserves and goes broke and faces economic catastrophe and can no longer afford to continue to fighting the war no Russian regime will agree to recognize Ukraine as an independent country including Donbas, Kherson, Crimea and Sevastopol and agree to hand over Russian war criminals and agree to pay full reparations to Ukraine and to the poorest, most vulnerable people in the world who have struggled to find and pay for food and energy because of disruption caused by the Russian invasion. And absolutely Russia must in the end do all of the above at the end of the war and these will not be thngs that Russia chooses to do - rather Russia will be ordered to do them. The problem is that if a bankrupt Russia with a destroyed military and a mass exodus of its brighest, most talented young people and with massive demographic problems feels it has no choice but to sue for peace and agree to pay massive reparations then who the heck is going to be willing to lend that broken down, broke Russia vast amounts of money so that Russia can pay those reparations? Even China will say that that would be taking friendship too far, especially as apparently Russia already owes a huge amount of money to China. And for anyone who says Russia should be allowed to take decadss to pay reparations to Ukraine and to poor people around the world, I would say that that is not a reasonable idea. A Ukrainian farmer who has had his house blown up, his land badly damaged, his tractor stolen, his wife killed and his child badly disabled by a Russian shell and who has lost two years of income cannot be told that he will have to wait 20 years to get any financial help. That Ukrainian farmer will deserve to be compensated by Russian reparations as soon as the war is over and he shouldn't have to wait for compensation or spend his savings or borrow money for expenses that the Russian regime should be covering.
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@bhaashatepe5234 remember, in 2014 at first the Russian government was still trying to pretend that it had not invaded Crimea or Donbas and as far as I know right up to February 2022 the Russian government kept denying there were Russian troops in the Donbas. Likely Putin felt that with a full scale Russian invasion into all of Donbas and the fighting that would then occur against Ukrainian forces it would become impossible to keep up the lie that Russia had not invaded Donbas. I know that it is hard to believe that someone like Putin who blatantly lies so much would ever worry about whether his lies were obvious lies but it is very possible that he thought that his lie would be so outrageous and the west would be so upset about a full scale Russian invasion of Donbas that Russia would have faced even more severe sanctions. One thing is for sure - whatever reason Putin had for not launching a full scale invasion of Donbas in 2014 it had nothing to do with ethics or morality or caring about avoiding doing something horrific. Obviously head terrorist Putin has never cared in the least about those things. Putin's focus is always on doing what he thinks will benefit him personally the most and morality and ethics are never a consideration.
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@bhaashatepe5234 so in 2014 Russia launched unprovoked invasions into Crimea and into Donbas and then held a gun to Kiev's head and said, "Sign this agreement or else" but you think that agreement should have any credibility? Seriously? Imagine that a gang of thugs invaded has your house, occupied and stole part of your house and at the same time your one son who is very violent attacked and killed some of his siblings and tried to take over control of another part of the house with the help of the thugs and then he drove other members of the family out of that part of the house and then the thugs held a gun to your head and ordered you to sign an agreement giving control of that part of the house to your violent son or you would face severe consequences and so to save your life and under coercion you signed the agreement. Do you really think that agreement you signed at gunpoint should have any legal validity? Would you really be ok with that plus giving up the other part of the house to the violent gang of thugs who years earlier had signed an agreement in which they promised to never interfere with your house in return for you giving up powerful weapons you had? I can assure you that there is not one chance in a billion that you would be ok giving up part of your house to those thugs and another part of your house to that violent son and there is not one chance in a billion that you would say later that the agreement you were forced to sign at gunpoint was valid and of course nobody else other than the thugs and their buddies would say that that agreement has legal validity. Well, of course that is basically the same situation as when Russia launched unprovoked genocidal invasions of Ukraine in 2014 and then forced Ukraine to sign the Minsk agreement at gunpoint. So your ranting about the Minsk agreement is meaningless because anyone who is logical and decent and ethical would agree that the Minsk agreement was signed under coercion at gunpoint and thus has no validity. Only a Russian troll would rant about a pro-Russian agreement which has no credibility because it was signed at gunpoint and under the threat from Russian invasion forces after Russia had in the Budapest Memorandum said that it would never interfere in Ukraine. If you're not a paid Russian troll then you can prove that by admitting that the real problem is that the Imperialist terrorist Russian regime violated the Budapest Memorandum and launched unprovoked genocidal invasions into Ukraine in 2014 and 2022 and admit that a Minsk agreement signed at gunpoint has no validity and also that that agreement to let a gang of thugs and your violent son steal part of your house has no validity because you were forced at gunpoint to sign it. Otherwise do tell us how many rubles you get paid per post. Just curious. And as you clearly don't understand the overall picture in Ukraine I'll explain it to you. Starting in the 1400s a number of European nations became Imperialist on a grand scale and started building huge empires. Around the middle of the 20th century for various reasons all but one of those Imperialist European nations started giving up their empires and going back to just being small European nations no longer having any significant territory outside their countries. However, Imperrialst Russia was the exception and refused to give up much of its empire for many decades until a man called Gorbachev came along and realized that the era of empire was over and so gave up a lot of the colonies of the Russian empire while still keeping some of the Russian empire. In every former European colony there were citizens of the European colonial power left behind but at a certain point Britain, France, Spain, etc told those colonialists that where they lived were now independent countries and that if they still wanted to live in British, French, Spanish territory then they had to move back to the country where they or their ancestors came from. However, a lot of Russian colonialists in now independent countries that used to be part of the Russian empire refused to accept that they were no longer living in Russia and that the vast majorities of people in those countries wanted to be independent of Russia and so instead of doing the logical thing and moving to Russia as British people had left Kenya to go to Britain and French people had left Algeria to go to France those Russian colonialists acted irrationally and launched violent insurrections in places like Moldova and Ukraine and attacked their neighbours and drove them away and tried to subvert democracy by creating fake independent states that would really be client states of Russia. These violent Russian colonialists didn't care that when Ukraine became independent the majority of people in Crimea voted to stay in Ukraine and that in the Donbas the vast majority of people voted to stay in Ukraine, nor did they care that both Crimea and Donbas had been part of Ukraine a very long time. To make matters worse Russia got a new very Imperialist leader named Putin who is living in the 17th century and who wanted to reconquer independent countries that had previously been part of the Russian empire and so he decided to invade countries such as Moldova and Ukraine to help those violent Russian colonialists steal territory from those countries. Those violent Russian colonialists and the Imperialist Russian regime also clearly didn't understand that the reason why almost all of Europe has been at peace since 1945 is that other European countries gave up the idea that they should be constantly attacking each other to try to regain territory they used to control. Obviously some governments of Serbia have also not understood this and it is not clear that the current leader of Hungary understands this. So many Russian colonialists in Moldova and in Ukraine refuse to accept the reality that they no longer live in Russia and because they don't care what their fellow citizens want and because they are very violent and aggressive and because Russia now has an aggressive Imperialist dictator who has the delusion that it is still the 17th century era of empire and so has repeatedly launched unprovoked genocidal invasions of other countries ..... As the resukt of all that we have seen wars and violence in parts of Europe not seen anywhere else outside of areas attacked by Serbia. The solution is simple. The Russian regime must like other European countries move from the 17th century to the 21st century and recognize that the era of empire is over and must end its invasions of Ukraine, Moldova and other countries and take its troops back to Russia and then hand over all Russian war criminals to the Hague and pay full reparations to anyone hurt by their actions and then start behaving like other European countries and just live peacefully with its neighbours the same way other European countries do and then those Russian colonialists who are violent and extreme need to do the logical thing and move to Russia once they have served appropriate time in custody for any violent actions in their uncalled for insurrection they may have committed. The Russian government, Russian elites, Russian military, Russian people and Russian colonists in other countries must do the same thing that happened in other European colonial regimes and with other European colonialists 60 years ago and come to grips with the reality that the era of empire is over and that it is not the 17th century anymore. And then finally Europe will have peace again.
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@bhaashatepe5234 It shows how desperate you Russian trolls are for anything to brag about when you go from bragging about Russian forces taking Kiev and conquering Ukraine in days to bragging about Russian forces taking a year and wasting vast amounts of supplies and losing vast numbers of Russian soldiers and military equipment to take 42 square kilometres of rubble that has no strategic purpose while at the same time Ukrainian forces had made huge advances on 2 fronts. Taking a year to take 42 square kilometres of rubble from a much smaller country and after spending 80 years accumulating military equipment and supplies is really a pathetic performance. By the way, what happened to you in life to cause you to abandon all morality, credibility, integrity and self respect and to become a propagandist for a terrorist dictatorship which keeps launching unprovoked genocidal invasions of other countries to try to steal territory from those countries? Doesn't it bother you in the least that you have completely destroyed your reputation and that any time you cross a border there is a chance that border agents will discover your support for terrorism and genocide and give you a very severe interrogation? Most countries don't like pro-terrorism extremists who try to sneak into their countries and will respond to that very harshly.
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@CatCitySliders somebody said that it will take years for Russia to rebuild its military after this war so likely if Russia got a "peace treaty" in which the conflict is frozen then Russia wouldn't likely attack Ukraine again soon but once it rebuilds its military I think there is a significant chance that Russia will attack Ukraine again or attack another country because Putin may feel he needs to live up to his words and get rid of the "fascist regime" in Kiev plus and more importantly Putin is living in the delusion that it is still the 18th century age of empire and that he is the reincarnation of Peter the Great and he has said that to him the falling apart of the Soviet Union was a horrific event and I think he wants to reverse that and reconquer regions that used to be part of the Soviet Union plus he is a very weak, paranoid, insecure man who thinks everyone is against Russia and trying to destroy Russia and he is terrified that every other country might invade Russia and so has a habit of attacking other countries in "reemptive strikes". Of course his fears are delusions just like his belief that it is still the era of empire is a delusion but that doesn't mean he won't make policy and consider more invasions based on his delusion.
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@hanskloss7726 Oh, did the Ukrainian military fight back against violent Russian colonialists in Donbas who took up arms and murdered their neighbours and drove out a lot of people with the help of Russian soldiers with the aim of stealing territory from Ukraine? And when Ukraine became independent the people in those regions voted overwhelmingly to stay in Ukraine and those regions had been part of Ukraine for a very, very long time? Go figure. A country fighting back against violent, anti-democratic insurrectionists who represented only a small, extremist minority in the regions involved. In other words the same thing any country would do in that situation.
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