Adapting to The New World of War, with Military Expert Mark Galeotti 

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Competition is good for you. Keeps you on your toes.

I try to learn something new every day. You’ve given me that opportunity as I have no idea what you’re referring to? Thanks

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Your point? Did you anticipate Russia invading Ukraine? Some of the great thinkers of all time, such as Socrates, are noted to be sophist. The USA intelligence warned that war was coming. So….. I enjoy the man.

It's not behind, regardless of the outcome of the situation in Ukraine the asymmetrical war will still go on as indeed it is now through sanctions etc, Putin was right when he said they were "acts of war" as indeed almost everything is these days.

A valuable observation on your part. I glad I read your comment with most of the video still to watch. I have, however l, seen and heard enough to be very impressed. There are several dynamics going on. Most visible to me are the news toddlers (referring to their relative knowledge of the highly complex reality of warfare). Next are the so-called experts which the news people bring on. Most of these are stuck in a past paradigm for the most part, although they aren't completely useless. Then there are those who are analyzing events as they happen with fresh eyes. These are very useful except that they seriously lack depth of knowledge and are also sometimes easily swayed by propaganda. Finally, those who seem to be least visible, are those who have a really good grasp of the warfare paradigm shift. I think we are watching one of those few in this video. Ultimately, it's not even the rare expert who understands the new paradigm that matters most. It's the leaders and thousands who support this or that leader putting the new paradigm to work that matters. It's not a huge surprise to me that a new underdog (new meaning not deeply entrenched in a rigid political and social ideology) is much more capable of exploiting the new paradigm than a gargantuan adversary politically fueled on crusty old agendas.

I also noticed the Ukraine comment but I didn't get the impression he was saying it wasn't going to happen. It simply dated when this interview happened

@@refuge42 It's about the overall context. The entire point of his video here is that an invasion like we see in Ukraine is a thing of the past. When you look at the fact that so many experts, and I would really have no doubt this gentleman is well, believe that at most we would end up seeing the Russians admit they had troops in the contested eastern regions and create breakaway republics as they did in Georgia. Even his tone as he refers to the Russians on the borders around Ukraine is one of "I know what it looks like but this is an exception that proves the rule of my premise."

@@johnschmalbach8243 He said exactly that conventional war has not finished, but just rarer, and referred to what was happening in Ukraine.

The bad guys are the people bombing maternity hospitals - Russian fascists.

@@looper3117 always double standard dumb propagandized chump. Like the so called "Syrian gas attack" , Irak WMDs. Oh and the artistical high of the "babbies thrwon out of incubaters " 1st Irak war. You can call any boy names and be set on the general hysteria but being a historical revisionist is not going to change history apart maybe in history books. Where do sociaies go when their knoledge is not connected to realities. Hint: history repeats it self... Why not see thatvthe west has activly been supporting neonazis in the Ukrainian arny??? Why blind oneself? Why do you have to be so much one the "moral highgrounds" when in fact we are in the sewers in that regard... YOU are not more moral than any one of us.

@@sunseb5124 The far right vote in Ukrainian elections was 2% … yes all of 2%. Selenskey is a Russian-speaking Jew who was elected on a platform of ‘peace’ and an agenda to try and resolve the issues with Russia. You can find small right-wing groups in virtually every state worldwide. Are you going to invade all of them? As for the ‘whataboutery’ of the everything else you mention … shame on you for trying to deflect from everything that is happening in Ukraine as I type this. Russia has become a murderous, Fascist state with a misplaced sense of victimhood.

@Looper Russian troll....don't waste the ink per se

@@looper3117 you havent been paying attention. We are not talking about far right voting. We zre tzlking about strzight out neo-nazi trained malicias incorporated to the military. This is not new it has been reported way before the this invasion started, at least 14000 people have died in Dombas since 2014... This is not deflection, deflection is stiring up tensions like US and UK have been doing and when things blow up put the entire blame 0n the "other", systematicly. Now this may contradict your "I'm good/they're bzd" NARROW view of the world, but that is just how things are. Playing the shame game isn't going to make this fact go away. Playing the shame game doesn't bring anything to the debate, in fact is THE sign that there are no real argument there. You may follow brainlessly the narative butvthat does not show you are thinking by your own means. Sheep jump into the void , so do people following propaganda, triggered by basic clan and fear emotions. This is whats dangerous in nuclear world, people THINKING herdwise. When the wave of negativ emotions has build up sufficient energy, no politician or CIA or MI6 or KGB can stip the tsunami. All the above are nuclear powers... every one should see kubriks "Dr Strangelove" as a reminder. "Black rain" is another film of the sort. Ukrain8ans have been a tool for CIA and MI6, a bait to poke the bear, now you shed crocodile tears for the victimes you helped creat by being propaganda chump. Truely inform yourself, check the history of this situation that didn't come out of nowhere or from some suposidly deranged mind. 6 basic rules for war propaganda among others: - Hide history - Hide economic and strategical interest - Diabolize the enemy - white wash our politicians and officials, - monopolize information - shut down all debate, all decenting voices. Oh there's one more: blame the enemy of things you are donig, so as to blur the scene.

Russia is good to bomb people, right?

@free do you understand what's occuring in the west? The rampant imperialism. That has led to 90,000 airstrikes since post 9/11, the increasing censorship, the rise of information warfare. There is no good guy, we need critical analysis not blind partisanship

No, he was pretty soft on Russia. Do you expect him to praise them leaving Novichuk in Salisbury? They covered disinformation. I guess facts and truth hurt.

They supported Assad genociding his own country, they bat no eye lid backing the Kremlin doing the same

Putin trolls unfortunately. This is their actual job.

I'm not a Putin lover nor a troll, but I'm concerned with the very one eyed assessment of geopolitics both from the press, academics and citizens. I don't understand how the USA can conduct literally, 90,000 air strikes since 9/11 (American military stats) , yet there is no critique, corporate or banking embargo, confiscation of wealth from American millionaires or corporate exudus, or banning of US media. Time and again we have had the truth come to light that the US govt and its allied media have lied to us: Iraq rationale for invasion, the Syrian gas attacks, Afghanistan being involved in 9/11, Lybia being a terrorist state, Yemen etc. The issue we are all trying to point out is the severely biased media, it feels like we are in a late chapter of the book, 1984

Well Aleksandr as the topic suggests, the war is going on everywhere, even here. The "frontline" is everywhere now.

@@superstock9261 You mightn't be "a Putin lover nor a troll" but in times like these when it is nearly breaking out into open hostilities theres no place for whataboutery, you're either on the side of the West or you're a traitor.

Which aspect

@@liamwinter4512 the title suggest there will be people left intact after the nuclear Blasts stop.

Academia has been infiltrated by agents. We see this clearly in sociology and its obsession with post modernism and we see it in this idiotic, propagandist military academia that Mark participates in, either as a useful idiot, blind patsy or agent

Fascist Russia is the country currently bombing maternity hospitals, and the country responsible for 2.5 million refugees in Europe in 2022!

@@looper3117 are you still falling for this propaganda? We had the same type of propaganda in the first Iraq war, ie that Saddam was stealing baby humidicribs. We are in the midst of an American led information warfare campaign, the first ever of its kind. Read my other longer comment I posted

@free @free now you ARE admiting thzt you are propagandized. And now YOU are usi.g the whatboutism argument. Yes all countries use media as a means to controle people's mind. Now we have made progress in the debate. This is where taking a neutral look, as much as it is possible, is crucial to avoid society being dragged in yet another mass formation psychosis. The agravating factor is herd mentality and basic instinct triggered by propaganda. It demands a real efforts to extratact oneself from this sticky mess.

@@superstock9261 It’s not propaganda. The difference with this war (for better or for worse) is that we watch it on TV and on social media and in real-time …

I sure hope so! It would make me feel more comfortable for my grandkids if there were no nuclear bombs.