The Average Joe Files
Straight dropping’ bombs.
He’s got some points but he’s wrong.
Sachs means well but frankly after 3 years of this shit with Russia the apologist in him needs to shut up. I’m serious. He’s an earnest, honest dude, but he is wrong to be so charitable to the Russian government. Russia is a rogue state akin to a new North Korea. The Russian government is an agent of chaos, it is self-serving, and it will never stop gobbling up sovereign territories unless the world makes them or they finally bite off more than they can chew and the defending nation makes them pay for it. Period.
The ethnic pleas he makes like with Estonia are the exact arguments Russia uses. It’s like watching a sloppy game of EU IV where a leader just does flagrant bullshit to earn “cassus belli.”
Russia invaded Ukraine claiming it was for “de-nazification.” Have we seriously forgotten this? How can Sachs say all this with a straight face? The “they feel hemmed in by NATO” argument is not sufficient, especially when they cite the aforementioned “we need to remove the Nazis!” bs.
Again I respect him. He means well and is a smart dude. But he is wrong.
What are the ethnic pleas with Estonia?
He specifically talks about how 25% of the country is Russian and builds a case off it. It was in your video.
I must have looked at a different transcript. I’ll have to watch it again.
I don’t really know what there is to doubt here. It’s in the video - the video that you posted. But you’re also focusing on this one little thing and not consideringthe broader point I am making: he is far too sympathetic to Russia. They are an aggressor nation, Putin invaded a sovereign nation with a nonsensical premise. Russia is solely responsible for countless deaths and unimaginable suffering for both nations. We cannot tolerate this in the modern era. Russia invaded Ukraine for imperialist ambitions just as they have done multiple times to other sovereign territories in the last 20 years - why should we condone this behavior? They do it over and over again.
They are the ones who have to back down. They are the ones who have to be told by the world that enough is enough. They are going to keep doing this over and over again because the government sees people as a resource to be spent for their personal glory and the consolidation of power. That is it. There is no nuance to be gleaned here. If you are sympathetic to Russia, you are part of the problem and you are wrong.
He forgot to mention how the US was Russia’s invasion of Chechnya, too.
