Ukraine should negotiate with Russia due to reduction of vital foreign aid, argues Finley Armstrong
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- Finley Armstrong, Regent's Park College, speaks in proposition of the motion that This House Believes Ukraine Should Negotiate with Russia to End the War Now.
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"This is the first speech of six." - Better to have put that in the title (as 1/6) rather than in the description, like this channel used to.
Send Boris Johnson immediately to the battlefront
That's what justice would look like.
The young man is right in calling for negotiations! Thanks for his courage and engagement for peace ! Istanbul papers would show a fair and good way out of this mess.
Negotiate ? So if England were invaded , what part of England are you willing to give up ?
Odessa
@@Val_Smith Not just Odessa... Danube river and Transnistria included.
haha
Eastern Ukraine is Russian 🇷🇺. Get it right, ethnic Russians want nothing to do with the Ukrainians.
Nothern Ireland seems to be the right answer.
Wow, I’m not used to hearing such sanity come from a Brit.
"If we allow the war to continue" - who is "we"? you Oxford students? do not you think a bit too much of yourself?
lol, The guy forgot the fact that Putin said the entire Ukraine is Russia.
No, he said eastern part of Ukraine was part of Russia most of the history till Soviet leaders handed over that territory to Ukraine
Read Istanbul papers from 2022 and you will know what Putin wants and was ready to accept. The same for Zelensky. Had not been a No from USA/UK, war already ended one month after the beginning!
Finally some sane words from the UK
1st to see this super speech
Congratulations!!
Ukraine is NOT the top priority of Americans nor the USA. The USA has more pressing issues like its own native population, securing our borders/ mass deportation, and restoring our nation🇺🇸
"Native people of North America" have never been USA priority ;p
Speak for yourself. I don't want one singular penny for the border that isn't matched with aid for our allies. We don't deserve security if we can't also keep our promises.
We can have both. I'm American and the security of Ukraine+Eastern Europe is indeed a priority to me.
The US can multitask. It's a superpower. All nations need to address multiple issues simultaneously, and Americans should expect nothing less thn for the country to be able to 'walk and chew gum at the same time', as in address the very real problems at home, while also meeting it's commitments abroad.
US support for Ukraine is not the cause of America's problems. Ukraine is not the reason why the US is unable to secure the southern border. Ukraine is not the reason for crime in US cities. Ukraine is not the reason why the US does not have free or affordable healthcare. Ukraine is not responsible for poverty or homelessness in the US. These are all legitimate problems that should be addressed, but US support for Ukraine is not the reason for them or why they're not being addressed by American politicians, and we should not be fooled into believing that it is.
Cannot believe there is still a debate, its obvious we need peace deal. The more escalation only bringsww3 closer. Russiacanendukraine in hours if it wants it. To be honest the west actually wants that move,so it can isolaterussia🤦♂️
Nonsense. Russia can't 'end Ukraine in hours if it wanted to' lol. They've been trying to do that for over 2 years now. 😆 The 3 day SMO isn't going too well. 🤭
& Russia is doing a good job of isolating itself from the rest of the world by making itself totally economically dependent on China lol.
Hah. "Russia participates in this war without aid from other countries" is just factually wrong. Where do they get drones from? Why did Lavrov, a minister of foreign affairs, travel to North Korea? It truly amazes me how a member of the most privelleged socioeconomic class of the British society discusses how other sovereign nationw should behave and how they should submit to a dictator. The stench of imperialism coming from that young gentleman wearing a fancy suit has striking similarities to the one coming from Putin.
I couldn’t agree more with what you just said. Words coming out of this guy’s mouth are truly dangerous and disgusting. Russian propaganda has indeed found its way into the West and instead of fighting it we are letting people like him lecture us… truly embarassing
I am not ready to give up though and neither should any of us who believes in freedom and democracy - we are going to prevail in the end
Ukraine has 40 countries giving it aid. North Korea and Iran are not exactly powerhouses of industry. They are heavily sanctioned failing or on the verge of failing states. 40 to 2, percentage wise, pretty much Russia has no help.
If you are going to say we have to be exact, well let's do so where it actually matters. Western leaders said there would never be Western soldiers in Ukraine, that was Russian propaganda to say so. Well why did they not mention the Western soldiers in Ukraine right now as proved by leaked German audio? It truly amazes me how Western leaders, members of the most privileged socioeconomic class of the Western world would directly lie to us and risk WW3 in our name.
Don’t be obtuse. Russia manufactures and purchases its own weapons. ‘Aid’ is something else entirely. It is u.s. imperialism which brought this war about and the only reason it pointlessly continues as we pay for civilians to be dragged off the street and thrown into a trench to give their life for nato’s ‘sacred open door policy’ to which they will never join. It’s wholly irrational. But It’s so easy to sacrifice others isn’t it?
A fantastically eloquent speaker devlivering a measured and thought-provoking speech. I'm a fan.
Watch the guy. He is a future Chamberlain…
he is an idiot repeating empy slogans - but he does understand: NOONE can defeat russia on the battlefield
But... but why do we even spend trillions of dollars on NUKES being sold as a deterrent instead of perpetual conventional wars?
At last!
Shouldn't these children worry about the UK's disgraceful situation before daring to speak about other countries?
He is very handsome!!
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and destroy itself in the process? ))
@@freevlad1
Possibly, would you play the Russian roulette with ..... the Russians?
democracy?? do not use empty words if you have mno idea what they mean. you are like bolshevics - fanatics of dogmatic ideology.