For anyone that wants to criticize Zelensky and follow Russian talking points. He stayed in Kyiv at the start of the war when there was a very real possibility that he would be captured and executed on television. From the first days he provided a model of bravery and f-k you - alongside many other acts of resilience and resistance from the Ukrainian people - that set the tone for this whole war.
And he leveraged the moment of invasion and his bravery and ability as a public speaker in English to get immediate assistance for Ukraine where he had been dismissed and refused before. Think how Trump humiliated him instead of helping Ukraine). He took control of the conversation and made it a competition about how much to give Ukraine not whether to help Ukraine. I watched Servant of the People before he was elected President so I was already impressed with how he could turn a popular TV show about defeating corruption into a successful presidential run. I was hoping that the people saying he was corrupted by oligarchs were wrong - and he has proved he is not corrupt.
I am from Kyiv Ukraine. Since war begun in Ukraine i haven't leave Kyiv. I was surprised when at 11th day of war I met indian man on the street near my house. I have seen indian never but i recognice him at once. I had ask him what he is doing in Kyiv. And he said he is newspaper reporter from Arisona. I had making selfy with him. It was unusual time. On the streets was nobody. Constantly in evening shots were fired. Probebly police had detains drg and marauders. I was worry about my dauter -disabled persoon and my wife, they live whith me. So, every night i have to sleep i stand my mossberg 500 near bed. I am 73 year.
We seem to have a worldwide problem with guys that clearly should have retired rich and respected a decade ago, but stubbornly refuse to relinquish power well into their dotage. Everywhere you look there's some Septuagenarian fouling things up.
I read this comment on another website this morning: In my native Bulgaria, there is an expression dating back in the soviet era that "Russian" is moreover a diagnosis rather than a nationality.
I'm Czech, I've talked to Russian speaking refugees from Ukraine, I don't like Russia since my childhood as I grew up under their sphere of influence (occupation), I've had many questions about the war, them speaking Russian made me suspicious, hmm, maybe I'm biased, so let them speak....They all believe in Ukrainian win, the best summary gave me Polina, Russian speaking refugee from Kharkiv, she said "I speak Russian but I am a proud Ukrainian, this Putin's need of protection of Russian speaking population is a complete BS, he is waging a criminal war against our nation, Zelensky and Ukrainian soldiers are our heroes and only outcome of this war will be Ukrainian victory".... what can I say to that? ... Sláva Ukrajině! 🇺🇦
It's not surprising that there are Russian speaking refugees. People from eastern and southern Ukraine are significantly more likely to be Russian speaking, even as a first language.
@cici bienc Your translation app doesn't work very well, as your comment is largely incoherent. But I think what you are trying to say is that politicians are liars, and I can agree with that.
What was the point of backing Ukraine from the start, if not to see it through till the end? That would have been just a huge waste of resources and money.
Backing Ukraine is not a waste of resources and money, if you are a military contractor supplying weapons and making huge profits. Perhaps the profits and paid off politicians are real reason for the U.S. support for Ukraine.
I think the point was that while Ukraine might want Crimea back, Europe might not care to back them _that_ far. But I think it might be a moot point, in case US military-industrial complex wants to keep the war going forever. A war where neither side can afford to back down, where USA can always give enough support to keep it going, without losing American lives, testing weapons against Russia instead of some some third world army? Is it heaven?
The whole of the west must support Ukraine. Putin has already shown he wants to control the sea ports, and what crops can/cannot be exported if he gains control - he wants Ukraine so he can bring the west to it's knees with regard to him controlling all wheats, grains, oils etc.,currently produced by Ukraine. Anybody who doesn't see that are idiots. If Nato and other countries had been "brave" and given Ukraine heavier backing in the beginning, this could have been nipped in the bud and we wouldn't be facing such a global crisis of food, heat, etc. Now's the time for every country to give Ukraine the "big guns" as well as anything else it'll take to cripple russia permanently now. There is really no other way.
Ding!Ding!Ding! and we have our afternoon BINGO!!!! We can fight them there or all over Europe or the world. I have been shouting basically your post from the top of the Rockies since this started in Crimea. Thank You! I will have the first🍺for you today!
@@redred222 Putin won't use nukes. He has been using the mention of nukes as a scare tactic. If he used nuclear weapons that is the end of Russia and he knows it. Right about now, Putin is looking at an exit strategy because the Ukrainians are never going to stop fighting Russia.
Absolutely. Russian imperialism in Ukraine must be completely defeated. Or Putin and his cronies will continue their crazy push to "restore" the defunct Soviet Union.
I lived in Kyiv from October 2013 to February 24th, 2022 before walking into Poland in the 27th after a rather arduous journey through three cities (Kyiv, Rivne, Lviv) that were being bombed. Seeing the video at 1:41, which is of a car-jammed Prospekt Peremohy (I believe the author of the video may have been standing on the bridge at Shuliavska facing towards Politek Institute) still makes the hair on my neck stand up. I walked the length of Shuliavksa Metro (the metro was closed for use of the soldiers from Shuliavska onwards at this time) to Zhytomyrska Metro station where I met a former student of mine caught in this massive clog of humanity fleeing the city. We spent all night driving 120 km to the village of Sokoliv in Zhytomyr Oblast. At the time, it was the most surreal day of my life. I feel a peculiar mix of exhiliration and noxiousness when I think about it.
you are right, it is Shuliavka. I was traveling from Kyiv to Lviv on 6th of March, late evening, some 40 minutes before the curfew hour, i needed to get to the train station from Shuliavka. It all looked like a set from a horror movie, everything was shut, almost no lights, 3 huge apparment buldings with 25 floors had only a few windows with lights on, on a rare ocassion a car would pass by, literally no people on the street at 8.20 p.m. i was standing by the road waiting for a taxi, a car pulled up, offered me a lift to the train station, but i politely declined, because my taxi was pretty close to me, would have been rude to cancel it. I will never forget that scene. But it all pales in comparison with scenes in Bucha and Mariupol at that time...This very moment the battle for Kyiv was raging and a 40 mile convoy was being annihilated somewhere on the outskirts of Kyiv by our brave soldiers against all odds...
I was in Kyiv when the Russians attacked, on feb 24th I had a hangover if I recall :/ The thing was I couldn’t really leave easily because I had my cat and everything was a bit hectic. Managed to come back to England about two months ago… took me two weeks to travel through Europe because I had to get an emergency travel document and needed paperwork to import my cat to the uk, it was awful.
If they are so eviil why are europe and the us suffering underdog sanctions while isreal does not take part in sanctions with no media cover. This war is being fought for isreal. Isreal is in the midst of creating a multi tiered apartheid state while undertaking other genocides. They are in the process of stealing Syrian-Palestinian-Lebanese gas water mineral phosphate, land wheat oil and future pipelines. Isreal has worked with Saudi Arabia and the United States to take everything from Lebanon and Syria and get control of the eu energy market. In fact it was a Zionist billionaire and his tv network that created zelenskys persona. Isreal knows that if russia stabilizes the donbas and crimea they will have the steel gas oil warm water ports and industry to save the people of syria. At this point us special forces are keeping Syrians from their grain while they are es corting isis convoys of stolen oil to Iraq. This will end when russia comes to Syria in force. If course they huge gas and oil finds in Crimea donbas don’t help shape peace either. Russia wants its turn, they don’t want to be a global slave class anymore. And let’s face it the USA and isreal supported the South African apartheid government taking the oil in Angola and cuba/Russia stopped it. And isreal itself would not exist if not for Russia. Also as expected everyone else is paying much more for russian sanctioned goods while isreal does not even take part in sanctions.
@@pitjepuck9673 Do not have to imagine much. Of course there is certain exaggeration, but is not that far from the truth, worse than that - most are actually too poor or have no chance (too old, only know how to work for Russian government)
Are you well off enough to just leave your country buy a home and support yourself until you can start a career in your new country? There are 40 million working homeless in America and all off you are still too think to realize what is being done to you. They put up a story about a trans sexual swimmer or drag wu ens in schools and you all freak out while they change the laws and keep stealing from the people. The Russians want a chance they don’t want any to be a slave class in the world and to do that they have to have a non freezing port. They will never leave Crimea and the main thing reason for it is America can’t be trusted to abide by the UN!
@@pitjepuck9673 Well seeing and reading comments like 'wow they have tarmac roads, take their washing machine and toilet bowls', hearing their amazement of wealth in Ukrainian villages they might. That however is in no way any excuse to go thieving, rapeing, torturing or murderling your neighbours...
I get really annoyed about this useless back and forth about nukes. Yes Vladimir, you have nukes and we have them too. Strike and we’ll respond in kind. It really is that simple. We don’t need the media to keep regurgitating what EVERYONE KNOWS WILL HAPPEN 🤷🏻♀️
Russia is talking about a nuclear strike on a country which does not have nuclear weapons. Unless you are saying that we should start nuclear war for a country that has no agreements with us?
Important to note that the issue is about Russia using nukes in Ukraine. We would nuke Russia if they nuked us. Easy. But will we nuke Russia if they nuke Ukraine? Tough call.
Remember when Boris Johnson wrote for the spectator and when Putin invaded Crimea he blamed the European union instead of Putin? His party also have some very uncomfortable links to Russian oligarchs. SO the idea that we should listen to any spectator journalist with any kind of good faith is hilarious.
Eww. Why did the USA overthrow the previous Ukrainian government in order to push NATO expansion, propaganda robs all context to the point you want to talk about assassination, disgraceful.
Whether rich or poor Russians will be shamed for their deadly attack upon their Neighbour Ukraine for many many many decades to come. Ignorance of what was happening to their folks across the fence will be NO excuse.
"Russians will be shamed for their deadly attack upon their Neighbour Ukraine" Many Russians will be the last to know , or want to know, the atrocity Putin has committed in his disastrous invasion ..... shrugging it off and replying , "I don't involve myself in politics," or just keep bathing in the warm soup of Putin's propaganda , until it boils over.
Tell that to 13 thousand Russian civilians Ukrainian government killed in past 8 years. Tell that to 53 burned Russian civilians Ukrainian government paramilitary forces burned alive on 2nd May 2014 in Odessa's Union House. Tell that to residents of Doneck and Luhansk cities that are being shelled to this very day by US-supplied shells. Until you sort this our with your consciousness, shut the f up.
We MUST stop Putin & the Russian people's lust for their neighbors lands. And please note, I blame the PEOPLE of Russia who would rather murder their neighbors than stand up to their own tyrant.
Okay your not excused for the Iraq war and all the thousands of civilians killed in drone strikes. Also the war in Yemen we are supporting and Gaza strip. See how this game is played? Don't blame the people for being manipulated or you will start tribalism.
@@mottedreissig7874 In Russia authoritarianism and tyranny is the norm. How about that? The world is quite skewed but there are level of skewedness worth considering.
I think I get what he do now. He started this mess in 2014. But after 8 year, it still not ended, and cost money. A lot of money. So he tried to end it once and for all as quick as possible in February... But now, he's in a position where this war is lost. He has no option to end this war without committing a political scuicide which could easly lead to his death. So if this war ends he dies. That mean, he must keep this war running as long as possible and hope that the West will surrender Ukraine to him. But the longer the war goes, the higher the Russian losses the harder to call any gain to a victory. So this war will ends when Putin dies.
@ForCommentsLOL NATO was created as a defensive alliance against any threat. Not against the USSR. But the USSR created the Warsaw pact to "counter" NATO and forced it's occupied puppet states to join. And as a defensive alliance, nations who were FORCED to join into the Warsaw pact choose to join to NATO to protect themself against the same crimes what Russia do with Ukraine now. Any country can request to join to NATO, but also every member should allow that. As NATO is a defensive alliance, nations like Austria who has no enemy threats not need to join into the alliance. While those who are threatened by an agressor, like Sweden and Finland want to join. Countries like Croatia joined to NATO to get protection against Serbia after the south-slav wars, and Serbia simply don't want to join, but if they would, they could be blocked by Croatia. However Serbia has no enemy around them who is as dangerous to give them any need of a NATO protection.
the world can not must not award an invader of a peaceful nation in any way ever . a tyrant can not win the price in the long run is way too high. because the tyrant never stops with out being stopped.
Just my opinion, the west has not lost interest in the war and their support for Ukraine has not waned. This is especially true in Europe. Russia completely underestimated the western response.
It's quite hard to forget about a war while you house millions of refugees from the country in question. That said, we will of course keep taking them in for as long as necessary. But they really _want_ to be able to go home again.
@@harmless6813 Most of the Russian emigres cannot go home again unless the changes to their Constitution and laws are removed. That means that whatever regime takes over from Putin had to be a more moderate one and I don't see that happening. When Ukraine defeats Russia it has to get the same sort of treatment that Nazi Germany did after the end of WW2.
@@harmless6813 understandable for them to want to go home and the fact that your country has taken in so many refugees is commendable. Wish we could return things to before 2/24.
Ouch that's a bitter ending (for me as a German). We should probably apologize, and all countries need to re-evaluate their relationships with autocratic, saber-rattling regimes.
Don't feel bad, we have the same issue here in Australia. Globalization has pushed us into the arm of a potential enemy and everyone is blinded by the shiny colour of money. Well, not everyone, but the big corps that pull the strings are :(
Very interesting conversation. I'm constantly fascinated with your program and your delivery of information is top notch IMO. Thank you for something to consider not previously thought of. 👍
Only the United States, Nato and the Kiev regime commit terrible war crimes. Russians and Ukrainians are fighting together against the criminal Kiev-NATO regime. I advise you to learn how to use the Internet, search for information yourself, think and analyze. There are honest Western journalists who write the truth about the crimes of Western and Ukrainian Nazis in Ukraine. For their materials, reports, testimonies, they are subjected to real persecution in their homeland. Adrian Boke, Scott Ritter, Anne-Laure Bonnel, Laurent Briard, Xavier Moreau, The Duran, Patrick Lancaster and other Western journalists were investigated in the West for telling the truth. Just like before - Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, etc... Western oligarchs earn hundreds of billions of dollars from war and false propaganda, so they block all channels that tell the truth.
To clear things up, vast majority of people understand russian, some if those won't want to admit that. Another thing is some people here in the west of Ukraine actually don't understand russian. But the feelings of the east o U are heavily influenced by years of Moscow information strategy, access to Russian TV channels that started colouring their messages from, as some sources here in Ukraine point out, as early as the Yushchenko/Yanukovych clash in early 2000s. Which, in reality, is the 3rd massive information wave since 1900s - first one being the Holodomor, where houses of the dead sere given to people from other USSR areas that were moved to east/central parts of Ukraine and 2nd one was donating money into late 50s/60s to Donbas and Kryvbas mining areas for funding and local tv propaganda campaigns. P.S. ur vid name is clickbait - theres nothing bizarre about it, just state of reality
Hi, what is up with your username? I see a lot of people in the comments with usernames of the format "user-random string of digits and letters" that seem to be pro-war and very vocal about it. I was starting to suspect them to be bots!
@user-yf2xi1tk3d Gotcha! Your name shows up as "user-yf2xi1tk3d" in comments, but I do get the Cyrillic letters if I go to your page. I guess RU-vid assigns you a random name if you use special characters?
It's like having a police review board comprised solely of police officer's wives and fanboys. They review human rights abuses in order to officially declare them to in fact *_not be_* human rights violations.
@@bryan805 you would negotiate for the country you love with someone who has stated unequivocally that your country does not deserve to exist? What’s there to negotiate with such a person? Would you naively expect Putin to stand by any agreements? Putin is not the person to negotiate with… perhaps his successor. Zelensky does well to press hard against Putin.. it’s the only language he understands and respects.
@@xolisamlali50 not shocking. Expected. Usa is the good guys. You must have been a little terrorist or democracy hater if you hate usa so much. Rip in piss all russia supporters
In terms of foreign policy, Putin is considered a moderate within the Kremlin circles. There are worse people that could occupy his seat. But it's true, as long as the army follows his orders, he will remain in power. Able bodied men of fighting age would rather flee the country than stage a nation-wide revolution and have him removed by force.
Because Putin has spent the last 20 years purging anyone who demonstrated a shred of the courage needed to do so. The only people left are craven yes men.
Same question could have been posed re Hitler Nappy or Stalin, but these murderous psychopaths are ultimately cowards who surround thermselves with security.
the guys most likely to take his place- and there are about four or five in the wings waiting- are even MORE extreme and psychotic than Putin is. Most of them think he isn't going far enough, and advocate hitting NATO directly as well. If Putin goes down and one of those nutcases takes over, the much-feared (but largely unrealistic) scenario of nukes clearing the benches becomes a helluva lot more likely. Remember, scary as it is, Putin is considered a MODERATE in Kremlin circles, not an extremist.
There were plenty of Ukrainians sympathetic to Russia all over the country. That changed dramatically on 24th February when almost all identified as Ukrainian. The problem with the Donbas and Crimea is that they have been cut off for 8 years and subjected to Russian propaganda all that time. Nevertheless, I think there are good reasons for Kiev to suspect that sentiment has changed to some extent in these regions too - a gradual change in Crimea as their tourist industry sank and they found themselves living in a military base - what one man called a kind of police state - and a more immediate one in the Donbas as the war started and their men were mobilised and sent to the front without training. Russia doesn’t care about people. To Putin they are tools.
There are NO Ukranians who support Russia- NONE. I always laugh when Putin's pimps say Ukranian people want to join Russia. I have NEVER in my LIFE seen HATE like I see in the eyes of Ukrainians when they talk about Russia. 30 years ago I met a Ukranian guy and I swear to God, I STILL remember the burning, trembling HATRED when he spoke of Russia. He said Ukranians drink hate for Russia with their mothers' milk and I believe him. THAT is the truth.
@@raylopez99 it’s different with China in Tibet. No Tibetans ever thought they were Chinese. I don’t know what it’s like now but I spent a month in Tibet in 1996. There was some support for Russia in eastern Ukraine, but given how the Russians have behaved, I’d be surprised if it was anything higher than a smallish minority in the occupied regions of Ukraine.
*While Zelensky seems-to-be-seen to be defending Ukraine* the little trickster is taking a stand¹ that ensures its destruction. Ten million fled, 10 million cold and 20 million citizens left in the dark. Nothing is said to dispel the mistaken notion of Ukrainians that their action is securing this land for themselves. _The little imposter knows where he is coming from and knows where he is headed._ Ukrainians do not. ¹ Zelensky knew how Russia would react and brought on the conflict. Zelensky is culpable. The blood is on his hands. Missiles launched into Russia are calculated to provoke a response that draws NATO into the fray before they stop supplying weapons to Ukraine. ³ For more than half of a century a thinly veiled hate campaign was carried out in Canada against Ukrainians. People vied to contrive a pretext to lash out in fury at Canadians of Ukrainian descent in a bid to preserve their careers by thus establishing that they were not deniers. The influence of Canadians of Ukrainian heritage resulted in citizens of Ukraine voting the little imposter into office as atonement in order to attest that they were a people of compassion, not realizing that they had empowered a monster that would deceive, destroy and depopulate Ukraine. ¹¹ Both Syria and Ukraine were cited prior to the Balfour Declaration. Syria should cease to exist as a nation in order to gain legitimate title in a reverse takeover. Ukraine is the _promised land_ of milk and honey. ¹² _Dairy farming_ and _beekeeping_ are significant endeavours in Ukraine. A former world leader knew that _a land of milk and honey_ was not a sliver of arid sand and decided that Ukraine should be _lebensraum_ for the 1000-years-Reich. _The plenty of game and fish, the innumerable bee-hives, deposited in the hollows of old trees and in the cavities of rocks, and forming even in that rude age a valuable branch of commerce, the size of the cattle, the temperature of the air, the aptness of the soil for every species of grain, and the luxuriancy of the vegetation..._ (A.D. 244 during the reign of Emperor Philip). ² The earth and the increase that it yields was not promised to Ukrainians. ¹³ Should Zelensky’s operation be successful, Ukraine is to be transformed into a nation of tenants struggling with financial Ponzi by placing a halt on the further use of land, causing home prices to skyrocket beyond reach, adopting a process that proved effective in Australia and Canada, with rent at maximum levels extorted from residents and shunted directly into the pockets of the chosen few. The aggregate of rental income dwarfs revenue from taxation accruing to government. Ukrainians that realize their children cannot become established do not raise families. Their reward following a lifetime of hard work is to die homeless on the street. Massive immigration maintains population levels. The economy will function like one gigantic enterprise in which the lifetime earnings of residents are exacted through rent with tenancies replenished from nations worldwide while its native sons vanish into oblivion. Ukraine will be populated by others that are strangers to this land and not by the heirs of those that are fighting and dying. They have sacrificed their lives in vain.
It is. Matthews on the right claims that the people in Moscow are deliberately ignoring the war. He goes on to explain (in summation) that there’s not much that they can do, and so they’d rather pretend it isn’t happening
@@evanwithers9158 fight, flight or freeze. When you can't flee Russia and you can't stop the war on your own, you freeze by pretending the war isn't happening in the first place.
@@thaliacrafts407, or you simply support it with all your heart, we are freeing our people locked and killed on our territory. And Ukraine position on that is simply irrelevant by that point, they had it long coming.
My Uncle was Ukrainian. Fought in WW2 in Russian army, POW under Germans. He had to escape Russia after war as he was being seen as a German collaborator. He was a Dr and ran the POW hospital , helped soldiers escape...tortured by Germans but still seen as a collaborator
It was called the Soviet Army, not Russian army. Just like there is no English army but it is British, there was no Russian army in the Soviet times. No such entity.
Wow I called my local congressman Friday and talked to his office they said they are getting lots of calls from folks asking for more military and other aid to Ukraine. Said they are going to really ramp up support in the coming months and we will start to see it soon probably before the end of the year. This is very heartening. I think the USA has barely started with the support they are going to give Ukraine. Thank you folks for talking to your representatives it is starting to make a big difference!
I have been writing the President at Whitehouse.gov since March, at least 50 letters complaining about the US not supplying the weapons Ukraine needs starting with the MIGs Poland had offered in the beginning, finally this week they responded, Did not say much I wanted to hear but then this week on the news I heard we were going to send Ukraine a package of undisclosed weapons. I'M hoping cluster munitions and long Range HIMARS Missiles. Thanks to you also for arguing for more support for Ukraine. The USA needs to stop letting Putin back us down with words/lies.
@@alexxela9502 putin will never have a moral right for anything. He invaded a sovereign country and is now facing war crimes charges. It's russia that the world is sick of except for you little terrorist friends Iran and North Korea. Putin is just a little man with a complex using his countrymen to commit his crimes.
I live in the United States and it is my sincere desire to see our country stand with Ukraine until the end of this War, whenever that may be. If putin and russia are allowed to continue the whole World will be at risk, they must be stopped here and now. Just my opinion, my fondest desire as well.
it’s not just russia and POOtin that needs to be DEFEATED, countries like china and xi and others of their ILK need to be given a message that what russia and POOtin did CANNOT be tolerated.
Yeah so you spoke for yourself. Not this Red Sox-loving American. We might want to check our American self-righteousness as the US employs all manner of techniques to undermine non-compliant nations who don’t go by our arrogant playbook, including bombing and even invading (Iraq 2003 1 million lives lost unnecessarily on a cooked up WMD lie).
Russia and USA should move this squabble over to Alaska. It is a shame and tragedy that Ukraine has to be the fighting ground between two huge and combative rivals.
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S100 billion is money and weapons already. Wonder how much of a dent that would make in the homeless problem? This is just another money grab by the military industrial complex. Is it still racist to believe that covid came from a lab? Point being CNN viewers believe whatever they are told.
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Imagine how the world would be different if the west had contained Hitler & the German army before they entered Poland. Now imagine Hitler with NUCLEAR WEAPONS. We MUST stop Putin & the Russian people's lust for their neighbors lands. And please note, I blame the PEOPLE of Russia who would rather murder their neighbors than stand up to their own tyrant.
A tyrant will go to ANY lengths to keep his hold on power. Law by decree protects only the man who can make it. To lose power is to sign your own death warrant.
I'm sure Moscow is shielded from the consequences of the war, completely deliberately and at the expense of the rest of the country. If Moscow lost power or gas, I wonder what they'd do.
Ruzzia has had the advantage ... so far. Ukraine has shown heroic restraint! Ruzzia has unleashed horror on their neighbor's territory, blasting it to smithereens while expecting their corrupt mafya leadership to remain intact shielded by continuous nuclear saber rattling? These pathological criminals have overstepped multiple boundaries.
From what I've seen in most videos, the average Russian still living in Moscow is dumb as a box of rocks. They would probably assume Putin announced 'Let there be Dark!' and anyway, everything is always going according to Putin's brilliant plan.
I've been to Russia both before and after the start of the war. And yes, I agree, you would not have been able to tell that the country is in a war - unless you have private conversations with people, in which case you quickly realize it's topic number one. It's also a useless observation, because that's perfectly normal. Life goes on. Just as Ukrainians and Russians now - there may be a war, but you still have a job to do, you still need to buy food, and you still want some leisure activity. No different between Great Britain and Germany during WW2. People didn't just randomly run around screaming in panic - they still just lived there lives, if they could.
The United States of America (the worst war criminal and human rights violating regime on earth) has been at perpetual war for decades. The fascist dictators of the US start one illegal war of aggression after another far worse than anything the Russian government is currently doing. In fact, the US regime is directly responsible for the anti-Russian proxy war in Ukraine. Yet Americans are being so severely affected by nonstop propaganda (especially of US state propaganda channels like CNN) and are subject to extreme brainwashing and censorship that when talking to them they are totally disconnected. The average American is unaware of the horrors their country is guilty of and actually is condition to pledge allegiance to their flag and thank their war criminal troops. Americans (who live in the most totalitarian surveillance state on earth with an authoritarian militarized police force that throws more people in jail than any other country on earth) believe to be free and live in a democracy while their anti-democratic meddling and military intervention is a force for good. Americans unironically believe Russians (modern capitalist Russia being created by the Americans themselves after the fascist-cause destruction of the USSR) are the bad guys and think that China (the most peaceful and democratic country on earth) is an dictatorial aggressor state. Americans/Westerners live in an alternate reality. They never question their propaganda.
Russians who entered Berlin at the last days of the war were shocked at how amazing the Berliner’s life were. The Russians could not understand what there was to be unhappy about! They mentioned the tables still had white table clothes. Russians were starving and living in literal filth and mud. Millions starved to death. Many more millions then Jews who died during ww2. Just a random fact I learned and was amazed by.
@@alyciamarie4163 Germany had like a ten time higher gdp per capita than the soviets and was one of the richest countries in the world at the time. what people dont realize is that german genocide wasnt driven by poverty but by greed and megalomania.
As US citizen-Russian/Ukrainian, I know both sides. And all I can say, I feel for people of both sides. What could of been solved without a war became a world money pit, no stopping for the pigs, they smelled the money at first, and then they taste it, and now they are eating well. Don't forget whoever feeding the war are taking big chunk for themselves. It was never about the people. 😢
This is the best comment here. There is profit to be made by leaders / war industry of US/Russia or they would not continue the conflict People forget that war is about profit but masquerades as higher intentions
It's always conspiracies for you people, isn't it? Not even giving a thought about Russian irredentism and their barely hidden neo-imperialist agenda. Economies perform best during peacetime.
You're saying everything I think about this war. The russian people clearly don't want this either. Russian refugees it's already one million. I feel devastated for everyone. Hugs from Portugal.
Never let a good war opportunity slip through your grubby fingers. There's money to be made - in arms for the big scoundrels, books for the little ones.
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No to the West asking Ukraine to stand down at any point. We need to back Ukraine all the way until it has recovered all its territory. As the author said , putin thinks the past will be like the future, in other words it is because of our half-hearted ambiguous reactions to his belligerence in the past, that we currently face the biggest upheaval in international relations since WW2. I hope we act with determination, bravery and fortitude built on the foundations of ethical principles because anything else such as mere self interest will be shameful.
Jokes aside, if an invader took Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Florida, would we Americans leave one state behind? Or free all of America? We have seen leaving countries cut in half doesn't work out very well. Or having occupied territories .
Imagine how the world would be different if the west had contained Hitler & the German army before they entered Poland. Now imagine Hitler with NUCLEAR WEAPONS. We MUST stop Putin & the Russian people's lust for their neighbors lands. And please note, I blame the PEOPLE of Russia who would rather murder their neighbors than stand up to their own tyrant.
I agree on your overall attitude regarding this war, but I’m not sure if there’s much to win or let’s better say if the sacrifices and risks that have to be made to win Crimea back (if that is even possible), are worth it. I have to say I’m not that well informed about all aspects, but I assume there’s not much or not even anyone left in Crimea who is standing to the Ukraine, and as far as I know Crimea is a military stronghold of Russia, isn’t easy to attack and by that could cost a lot of lives on the Ukrainian side. And Crimea is something very very important for Putin, the reaction, I’m convinced, would be over the top. I don’t think anymore that Putin would be so dumb and extend this war again or even attack other countries now, it cost him too much and there’s nothing to win for anybody in his regime, the Ukranian army fought him back like he would’ve never imagined. I know it wouldn’t be the perfect outcome, not what Putin would deserve, but it would be a realistic one in my eyes if Crimea would stay as it is now (of course not recognized by other countrys as part of Russia). I hope I don’t offend anyone on that, that’s just my stoic view on this, but I admit I’m no expert and could be wrong on that.
One of the men on the video asked whether it is possible that Putin is going to get to a point where he will be willing to negotiate. I must be misunderstanding the question.
It just shows his desperateness. Ironically, nuking ukraine will end up making majority of his nukes useless. They all need service from Ukrainians and parts from the west.
Why would you have ANY respect for Russia? The people of Russia would rather murder their peaceful neighbors than stand up to their own tyrant. To hell with them. NO SYMPATHY for those thieves, rapists and murderers. SLAVA UKRAYINI!
Crimea controls the Sea of Azov and therefore the entire east coast of Ukraine, including many ports used to export grain. In that regard, I cannot see how Ukraine can ever afford to allow it to be in Russian hands. However, for Russians, it is a point of national pride _and_ similar strategic concerns. What to do? The talk about Russians using tactical nukes is now practically moot, as they have done that much damage already. Much of Ukraine is now rubble. Therefore, what the world needs to do is cheer on the Ukrainians while reminding Putin that if Russians nuke the world's breadbasket, Russians everywhere had better go into permanent hibernation.
Russia in a state of complacency that is why Ukrainian missiles need to wake them up. I don't wish for them to die but they need to be shaken up - have a bit of a taste of the threats of war. A revolt against Putin is the best case scenario.
Ukraine is not rubble. WTF. There has been loads of people living in the warzone all this time. They have some problems with electricity, that is all. Ukraine is even still producing goods, that are sold to the EU populations.
@@harmless6813 I would offer Russia a lease of Crimea if they withdraw from the rest of Ukraine. That is the only concession I would make. Russia can have a long term lease if they leave. Ukraine will join the European union but not NATO and Russia retreat back to it's border and agree to not fund or arm separatists or we can continue to kill each other for the next decade.
One of the best interviews I've ever seen on CNN. Concise, clear questions, clear answers and obiviously highly qualified guests. Opinion of a conservative republican voter.
you've got that backwards. The Russians can afford to lose, or rather they *could have*. Ukraine cannot afford to lose, or everyone dies, so they won't.
That's why it's so important that we keep talking about this war. Yes, other things happen in the world but we can't let them distract us altogether or it could end up being very costly.
Think it is already very costly for Ukraine. Thousands of dead including babies and little children. Homes in thousands smashed to bits. No water or heat in this freezing winter for millions. Any agreement needs Russia to step out of every inch of Ukraine and then pay billions to repair Ukraine. They must pay....not be paid.
@@ettaariane True but I think if Russia is allowed to go back to the pre-Feb 2022 borders, the USA would push for a settlement, Kissinger-style. Then UKR should do like Poland and completely forget Russia, and turn their economy to trading with the EU.
Russia loses more troops in a month than the US lost in 20 years in Afghanistan. They have lost more troops in less than a year than the US lost during the entire Vietnam War. Could you imagine being subject to that level of combat exposure and not knowing why you are fighting? Why would they tolerate this level incompetence among their leadership?
Foetal Alcohol Syndrome. It's the only logical way to explain how anyone could become stupid enough to fall for kremlin propaganda - brain damage caused by all the vodka their mothers drank while pregnant with them.
People in Russia who speak up against this madness or expose the ongoing war crimes are typically imprisoned or killed. For some, it's enough to press a "like" button next to some anti-war post on a social network to be promptly put to jail. Protesting on the streets is impossible as well - the special police and other internal security forces comprise a significant proportion of the population. They are absolutely loyal to Putin, extremely brutal, well-equipped (unlike the regular army) and even outnumber (!) any potential protestors many times over. It's really not even close.
I hear they are debating some key questions like, "Are non-Russians actually human?", and "Do protesters have the right to remain silent when they are being tortured?"..
It is really frustrating to hear that 'russian language was prohibited and it created dissent' over and over again. I've been talking russian and a lot of my friends still talking russian up to this moment and had no problems. There have been attempts to enforce ukraininan in buisenesses (cafes, restaurants etc) and after couple of months everything returned to how it was originally. Nobody wanter to go to some extreme lengths to really enforce the law for buisnesses. This language conundrum is only used for propaganda purposes and is totaly not the main issue of the war!
When western nations consider whether to continue helping Ukraine, perhaps they should remember that Ukraine is helping the west by fighting an aggresive, criminal nation.
You are under propaganda, congratulations, study the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the causes, and you will understand that you support Nazi Ukraine, which has been killing civilians in Donbas since 2014, and many years before that, it organized Nazi and Russophobic formations in its country.
The west were helping themselves by using Zelensky as a puppet to act out a globalists agenda along with sanctioning Russia in the hope this would weaken them! Unfortunately Russia have had eight years to prepare for this annexation and have prepared both on an economic and military level so the best thing for all involved is to negotiate!
You are seriously god damn naive. This is a war between capitalists, Only the rich benefit. All working class people are suffering because of this inter imperialist nonsense. Don't pick a side, This is a war for the rich fought by those who are poor. That's ALL it is.
The most important indistinguishable sign of "good luck" in the Russian people, is his sadistic cruelty (Maxim Gorky. 1868-1936. Russian writer and playwright) “Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty “Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.” A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
@@fazelfayazi6985 Wherever it occupied, Russia has always denigrated others' culture, it renames streets, squares, parks etc after famous Russians trying to obliterate older, local memories. And they wonder why they are despised everwhere they have been. Pushkin
@@danrook5757 Most people who grew up in the Soviet Union can speak Russian. In some places, people speak Russian more than Ukrainian. The languages are also very similar so it’s easy for people to learn Russian
The most important points are made at the very end of this. Two questions; How far will the West support? Will they say enough is enough once Ukraine reaches the border of Crimea, and at the very end; that Putin expected it would be like the past and the West would quickly lose interest and then sign deals like Nord Stream 2. Sadly, the West set the basis for this war by a weak response over Crimea. A bit of huffing and puffing and some speeches in the UN, but really, very little. Enter the pan to take ALL of Ukraine. March in, government topples, Russia steps in to ‘keep the peace’ and Putin walks away as the new Alexander the Great. So two things… 1. Putin has to keep going as to concede defeat condemns him. He is already condemned, but just maybe a settlement can enable him to come out looking ‘less bad’. He is in this for personal survival 2. If the West calls a halt at some point, we just reinforce the lesson that triggered this entire conflict. It’s the same test Hitler posed with the annexation of Austria and then the Sudetenland. See how far you can push, and if you don’t receive a hard push, you know to push harder next time We need to wake up before Putin, or a replacement with the same mentality, attempts to repeat the errors of Hitler before them
Putin could withdraw from Ukraine anytime and tell the Russian people whatever he wants as they don't care. As for point 2, it's not up to the the US or anyone else to tell Ukraine that they can't liberate their land.
From Canada: Iain, I was going to give a thumbs up but it wouldn’t be enough. I want to thank you for you clear and very accurate analysis. And I want to state my wholehearted agreement with your predicted outcome if the west backs down or backs off. It’s time for the modern and troubled world to bear down against the creeping plague of autocracy and it’s time we recognize that this mass murder instigated by Russia will no longer be tolerated by the free people of the world.
@@thomthom6268 Donbas. It means the Donets Basin, the basin of the river Donets. I hope they liberate it next year. The winter is forcing more of a defensive stance right now, but Ukraine will soon move in to retake more territory.
The West lost leverage a while back because Ukraine began reverse engineering some of the gear the US and EU gave them and began manufacturing their own new weapon systems based on it. Not as advanced, granted, but still FAR better than what Russia brings to the table. So, if the West does try to tell Ukraine that they have to stop booting an invader out or they will lose the military support, I guarantee you Ukraine will tell them to sod off and keep going with their own equipment and munitions, even if it costs them hundreds of thousands of lives to do so. There is no way the West can force Ukraine to stop short of military intervention, and the West would be morally wrong to do so unless Ukraine counter-invades and starts seizing actual Russian territory in retaliation. All it will do if they try is prolong the war, cost more lives, make the West look weak and wishy-washy, and increase the risk of greater escalation and possible nuclear strikes even more.
Frankly one of the better interviews I've seen recently on CNN, I actually thought it was DW and was surprised to check the browser history and find it was CNN.
@@mkodyChallengesYOurexistence no, I usually am working with a different window while listening to news. You mean to say you just set there and watch the screen while listening to news? Is there much to see? Am I missing something?
@lqr824 I know you've addressed this to someone else, but I just wanted to add a thought. I've found it helpful to glance at the screen ever so often for the visuals - though like you, I also tend to listen in. The part where the gentleman mentions being too rich or too poor to leave included some "poignant" shots of people with luggage. I would have missed that had I just listened only.
My Daughter returned to Russia months before the War. Everyday, I wonder, if she is alive. She didn't like the USA felt happier and safe in Russia. She had hatred for Ukrainians . This hurt my soul. I believe, she was programmed to have hatred. I live in area where people of white skin still have racism towards people of color. Especially, if you own land, didn't have to work from dawn to dark, if your parents gave you gifts of cars, home or just money. They are so jealous. Lots of Christians who forget the book. The world is dark ....like a Stephen King novel.
Your daughter returned to Russia because she seeks validation, something you could have given her before your relationship deteriorated to a degree where "everyday you wonder if she is alive". Trust me she's alive. I live in Moscow and literally nothing changed after the war began. Literally the only thing that changed is that Sprite, Fanta and Coke a la Russia suck, like you'd vomit if you tried it.
@@ritad452 You don't know me. You don't have a clue about our life. I've tasted vomit before. I have no ill will towards Russia . She taught me alot about Russia . The beauty of St Petersburg. You are wicked , vile and mean. I don't give two Pooh's about your opinion . You don't know the facts. Just your hot bullshit. Satan kisser.
I believe that the little man has been talking with Nicolás Maduro the president of Venezuela with regard to fleeing there when it all gets too hot for him to stay in Russia. The amount of damage that he (the little man) has done to Russia & the Russian people is immense, and will take decades (if ever) to recover from. "Little man you've had a busy day, it's time to go to bed"
There are lots of Americans, myself included, who would be very upset with our politicians if they told Ukraine to stop short of some big goal like Crimea. The money sent to Ukraine was our money. The weapons sent to Ukraine were paid for by taxpayers like me. Unless Russia makes it clear that they are going to escalate with nuclear weapons I think the US needs to let Ukraine see if they can take their country back.
Backing down when putin threatens to go nuclear would be a terrible mistake. Putin and north Korea would know that they could do anything they want to, and every despotic regime in the world would try to get hold of nuclear weapons. We have to face putin down. There is no choice. .
Imagine how the world would be different if the west had contained Hitler & the German army before they entered Poland. Now imagine Hitler with NUCLEAR WEAPONS. We MUST stop Putin & the Russian people's lust for their neighbors lands. And please note, I blame the PEOPLE of Russia who would rather murder their neighbors than stand up to their own tyrant.
I would like to speak Russian, it is a beautiful language. But I also think that Russia is in desperate need of more democratic and humane leaders! The Russian people deserve much better!!!
@@neffritalina horts a borchst a shribini dooboovah. yeah, those noises of one pig fucking another pig while the second pig is being butchered so beautiful. NOT.
