10 reasons why Russia invaded Ukraine (Jake Broe)

A financial investor named Jake Broe has a video channel on youtube. Usually, his input is financial in nature, but he has invested a serious amount of time into the illegal war being waged upon the sovereign nation of Ukraine by Russia.

This video of his lists 10 reasons for why Russia started this war, but actually, he stated 11:



1.) Their stated objective is to "denazify" Ukraine, which is intellectually lazy at best as the President of Ukraine is a Jew, part of his family was murdered by Hitler's Nazis and part fought alongside Russians in WWII.

2.) It's a war over energy resources: Ukraine possesses 1.09 TRILLION cubic meters of natural gas, largely untapped, mostly under Lviv, in Crimea and in the Donbass.

3.) To stop Ukraine from joining the UN and NATO and claiming that NATO wants to attack Russia.

4.) To get a land-bridge to Crimea.

5.) To control the water supply to Crimea via the North Crimean Canal, which had been built by the Ukrainians and turned off when Russia invaded and occupied Crimea. Because of this, Russia has had to transport water over the one bridge to Crimea.

6.) To get complete control of the Sea of Azov, which is a sea within a sea; this is probably why the Russians are being especially brutal in the attack on Mariupol, a key port city on the Sea of Azov. This also has to do with water supply and a soviet-era project called "The Unified Deep Water System of European Russia" which was built over 6,500 KM from Murmansk (Barents Sea) through St. Petersburg and then all the way down to Rostov-an-Don, which is a Ukrainian port city on: the sea of Azov. As long as the Ukrainians control Rostov-an-Don, then the Russians cannot transport fresh water from Barents to Azov, it's really that simple. Jake Broe made a comparison of this to an enemy using our Mississippi River against us, so this point is understandable from a military standpoint.

7.) the 2018 Moscow-Constantinople schism, where the Ukrainians want to have their own Ukrainian orthodox hierarchy and the Russian Orthodox hierarchy does not want this. For 500 years, the patriarch of Moscow has been in charge of Ukrainian members of the Orthodox church. Putin condemned the creation of an independent Ukrainian Church. This explains why the Russian Orthodox Church is casting a blind eye to Russia's war-crimes, because yes folks, it's all about power, even in religious circles.

8.) The 100-year anniversary of the creation of the Soviet Union (12-30-1922). Russia was hoping to conquer Ukraine quickly and then celebrate twice: On May 9th and on December 30th. Dictators love those big parades.

9.) To test out new war technology, ie hypersonics.

10.) To impress China, a country which may buy Russia's military technology.

11.) To subjugate/enslave the Ukrainian population with a reinvogoration of the soviet Era gulag-system, in order to reverse Russia's demographic decline. Russia's population peaked in 1992 (148 million).

If these things remind you of Hitler's Germany, then *Ding-Ding!* you win the prize for the day.

You may or may not agree with all of his points, but he does expatiate over all of them. It's worth watching, to say the least.

I will be posting more such videos from Jake Broe here in this forum (Latest US and World News, yes, I selected the right forum for now), directly on this thread.

-Stat

 

This Jake Broe video is from 10 days ago and has proven to be more accurate than even Jake Broe thought:



Just watch it. He mentions a ton of things that are worth noting.

-Stat

 

Stat, you're more knowledgeable at this as I'm still learning. However, as a successful business owner, I'm a little stuck on #10. Much like DeSantis brown-nosing Orange Jesus (why copy a dumb@ss we fired?), why on Earth would the Chinese be interested in getting any "military technology and/or intelligence" from Russia? I'm not a military strategist but it doesn't sound like they are doing too well in that area of operations.

 

Jake Broe mentions in the video that it is not at all certain that the Chinese are even interested. The Russians want and equal relationship with the Chinese, who surely see themselves as superior. Read that as: Putin is auditioning to curry Beijing's favor.

 

Thanks, Stat. That is certainly how it looks on this side of the monitor. I think Putin had a better shot before he showed his leadership to be wanting in many key, even critical, areas.

 

I don't think that right now Putin would be trusted to invade Moscow. What I can't see is why he hasn't been overthrown yet. I realize dictators are very dangerous people but so are Oligarchs and I wonder just how much most of them can take in the way of confiscated yachts, estates and frozen assets before the say enough and try to get back in the world's good graces.

 

The only reason for the war in Ukraine is the West's violation of the security balance in its favor. NATO tried to create conditions in Ukraine for the destruction of Russia with impunity.

 

Virtually all of China's current generation weapon systems i.e. jet aircraft, missiles, submarines, surface vessels and armored fighting vehicles etc were leveraged off first Soviet and then Russian military technology that China purchased. But since the 90's China has purchased advanced weapon systems off Russia and then simply copied them to produce its own versions, just like it's done with Western technology. While this strategy allowed China to make great progress in becoming more self reliant for military military technology two things happened. (1) Russia wised up to this process and became much more cagey about handing over the kitchen silver. (2) The more it;s relationship with the West deteriorated the more relational Russia became on China economically.

So Putin's Russia faces a dilemma i.e. how to be treated as an 'equal' in a relationship with a 'partner' that that will literally steal the kitchen sink if it can. So it has to demonstrate it's superiority in any area it can. And even now Russia is still ahead in areas like jet engine production and things like hyper-sonic missile development as well as certain other vital military technologies like radar. Also thanks to Putin's foreign policies Russia has to levy all the advantages it has with China because it's burnt it's bridges with everyone else. And this is also a reason Putin was undoubtedly hoping to impress China with Russia's 'swift and decisive' victory in it's war with Ukraine. (Sadly for Putin I don't think China's anywhere near impressed, the opposite in fact. If anything he's weakened Russia's position in Beijing's eyes.)

 

Seems very plausible to me.
Do you know comrade Pootin's "Mein Kampf"?
--> http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181

Btw, if the page doesn't load, please look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Historical_Unity_of_Russians_and_Ukrainians

 

Monash, thanks for taking the time to expound on this for me. The weirdest thing is that I'm not a foreign policy kind of person as I think we have enough stuff to worry about domestically, but, even a perfunctory look shows gigantic, big, red neon signs not to trust China. I'm not anywhere near that business or have Putin's background but they aren't actually stealth about it.

Every time I read a new update I think about the quote attributed to Lincoln "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt." — ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

Putin definitely had more street cred before this Barney Fife <censoring myself>.

 

Sorry for the poor grammar. It was a rushed response on my way out the door. But you get the drift (I hope). In the Sino-Russian relationship Russia was once (30 years ago) the alpha dog. But those days are long gone. The Chinese economy has boomed while Russia's has stagnated and population wise there's no contest. The only thing Russia still has superiority in are nuclear weapons and a few key areas of military technology (like as I suggested high performance jet engines etc). This means Putin has very few 'cards' left to play in it's relationship with Beijing apart from natural resources when it comes to positioning Russia on a more or less equal footing with China. China's star is rising and Russia's is falling. Putin knows this and so does Xi.

IMO (based on as much reading as possible) Putin probably hoped to leverage a quick victory in Ukraine into a demonstration that Russia was still a military power to be reckoned with i.e that it was still able to project significant conventional military force like the US or China could. All he's done is prove the opposite. Yes Russia still has it's nuclear arsenal but if Afghanistan and Ukraine prove anything it's that nuclear weapons cant let you 'project' political, economic and military power effectively. All they can do is protect you from other powers who have nuclear weapons i.e they are basically reactive, not proactive.

 

Ukraine was part of the UN before USSR broke up. Did you mean the EU? If so - Russians don’t object that Ukraine joining the EU anymore.

While the main point is accurate, most of these arguments are inaccurate.

 

I think his analysis is very reasonable, #11 did give me something new to ponder further. #10, I'm not so sure China would buy the physical armament but they are always in the market for acquiring tech.

 

Your Putin propaganda will not play here.

 

Excuse me, you are right. That was an honest typo. Yes, I meant EU, not UN. Ups.

 

Right. He wanted a quick victory to prove that he is worthy to Beijing.

 

NATO missiles in Romania and Poland, which take 10 minutes to fly to Moscow, are reality, not propaganda. Russia does not have such bases.

 

I hope they'll fly much faster.
Comrade Pootin must be stopped!

 

This means that Putin has every right to kill you before you kill him. That will be fair.

 

Yes. I'm not well-versed in any of that and it's fallen just in the few years I've been trying to educate myself about geopolitical climate.

Indeed, he has. I have been scratching my head this whole time because it's just almost impossible to fathom how he could have miscalculated to this extent. It's like when the talent scout show up at your games. You have to bring an "A" game or they don't come back.

Yep. It's like the schoolyard bully won't mess with the kid with a big brother.

Thanks again for expounding on this for me. I'm learning!

 

More infos. Lots of good for thought.

 

And about those "cope-cages":




For stuff over those silly, worthless contraptions, start at 6:50.

This is more proof of the piss-poor condition of the Russian military.

Srsly, it's more like a scene out of a Monty Python film, only without the coconuts.

 

As of this morning:



19,300 russkis KIA.

 

How Russkies see themself as the master race ...

 

Kaliningrad is surrounded by EU countries and is full of all kinds of defensive and offensive missiles. A direct threat to all northern EU countries.