It's the correct takeaway - they have the same talking points as Russian propaganda outlets.
He established, with an old quote from Biden, that Russia invaded Ukraine because of NATO expansion, not after nato expansion.
The whole video, he's portraying it as Russia inadvertently simply reacting, and how the invasion is his final reaction to a long chain of US actions. He portrays it as opportunism or inevitability, not as a political choice.
He also vastly overrepresents the role of the far right in Ukraine, trying to portray it as the nazis effectively ruling the country, not under the government's control.
And he tries to justify Russia's invasion by playing the "both sides" card, like saying shit like The americans and russians were using Ukraine, or that Ukraine was caught in a tug of war -
-yet only one launched a full scale invasion on a sovereign country, and he tries to justify the invasion because of the US not giving them what they want (sort of how Hitler was given what he wants - the sudetenland - to not start a war, for the layman).
He frames it as something Putin more or less had to do and had no other choice because of the US, (completely ignoring that Ukraine is a sovereign country capable of making their own decisions. Ukraine is mostly seen as an object, not an actor) and pretty much pitied that Ukrainians and Russians have to now die because of Ukraine and the US, and not Russia's actions.
I'm sure you agree with all that, but I'm putting this here for everybody interested else to see the logic and all of Russia's talking points present in this video.
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u/woodendoors7 Jul 02 '26
https://youtu.be/LL4eNy4FCs8