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About half way through this short clip Oliver Stone tells Putin that he does not see how Ukraine joining NATO poses any threat to Russia. And Putin gives his response, which is illuminating:

So now you understand why Putin had to attack Ukraine. He had to attack while he could, to secure his country's future. The best time to attack Ukraine is when there is deep peace and calm. So your country will be safe in the future. Your logic, not mine. I don't know. These are extremely complex matters. There are no simple answers. I know little about Norway.

Because that's what unlimitedness must be. All of its attributes stem from the fact that there is nothing outside of reality to limit reality. No, these attributes are Absolute. They don't just seem that way to "us" or to "humans". YOU ARE GOD. No Infinity is infinitely intelligent. So whatever you see is the result of an intelligence so high that it is literally the highest possible. It's happening as part of this dream you are dreaming. Have you never had a dream about a nuclear war? And then you wake up.

How much do you know about Putin's personal mental life?

What Russian offenses triggered the expansion of NATO from the 90's through the 00's?

@hello1234 You know, right, that psychiatric evaluations are not be done of people remotely who you haven't even met in person? You are doing a psychiatric evaluation of a person from a different part of the world with a very unique job via the lens of Western media and your personal survival agenda.

I know I could buy my salt at the store, but I prefer to it get naturally from the tears of baby animals. It's more spiritual this way because it's more natural and done with their consent

If Putin has a therapy session, the therapist will leave crying.

Another good video:

@Bow24 Of course China is going strong, but fundamentally it has huge problems with its political system and it is still much lower in overall Spiral development than the West. They have a lot of corruption and other problems. The West will remain more powerful for a long time to come.

@Cykaaaa If WW3 happens there won't be anyone left to look back.

I agree Ironically Putin's invasion will create a whole bunch of hard right Ukrainian nationalists and extremists. Putin created more nationalists in a week than were created since the fall of the USSR.

Don't be so sure about that. Russia and China are building an alliance to rival the West. Of course it won't be as powerful as the West, but it can still survive for a long time.

Thank God no one gave you any power. You sound more insane than Putin.

Again, this is relative. This is how it looks from the Western perspective. They fail in the long-term. But until then there's the matter of starting WW3. A catastrophic failure of Russia is not in the interest of the West.

Well, we call MAGA folk Neo-Nazis here sometimes. I generally agree with you there. The problem with Putin's justification is that pretty much every country has crazy hard right nationalists in it if you go looking for them. That does not justify an overthrown of their government. Hell, even Russia has hard right nationalists. Does that give NATO valid reason to depose Putin? Obviously not. Trump was supported by Neo-Nazis. Does that mean Russia can now invade the US? This logic is silly. Yes, that is Destiny's basic critique. He refuses to acknowledge that NATO is legit threat to Russia. I think this is too much of a Western perspective though. It's easy to not see NATO as a threat when you are deep within NATO and benefit from it. Economic security and military security are deeply linked. The threat to Russia is not merely a direct invasion of Moscow via Ukraine. The threat is more about who gets to control the world order and sets its rules in his own favor. Russia wants a significant role in the world order. You can't just boil down geo-political positioning to nukes. If that were true, why does the US have 100s of military bases around the world? Why does the US care about the Middle East or Taiwan?

Well, don't come crying when the autocrat you poked decides to give you a taste of your own medicine.

How can you trust nature if nature made man? Checkmate.

@AdeptusPsychonautica Good luck with your work. My work stands on its own. I am happy to have people compare my work with your work and discover for themselves which gives them a deeper understanding of consciousness.

What claims need verifying? He's presenting a perspective. Have you verified whether NATO is actually a thread to Russia? How about you start there.

I have not, but I have listened to Vaush's and Destiny's critiques, and I was not impressed.

Here is an alternative, pro-Western perspective:

You really need me to prove to you that the US uses its global hegemony to benefit itself first and foremost? The entire point of becoming a global hegemon is that you get to set the rules to favor you country's economic development and security. This is what all international politics is basically about. It's about posturing to become the top dog with the leverage to overpower all other countries in negotiations. The more power you have the better negotiating terms you get.

Taking Crimea was not self-defeating. Russia gained important strategic access to military ports in the Black Sea.

But I live in the West. I don't benefit from Russia overturning the US-led world order. I benefit from US hegemony. If anything you should be accusing me of a pro-US bias since that's where my bread is buttered. It's that since I was born in Russia it's easier for me to see how biased Western media is when it comes to world perspectives. It's very hard for Western media to see their own biases and to see the world from a non-Western POV.