Defending "Democracy?": Western Media Acknowledges Ukraine's History of Stifling Dissent 

R.I.P. Gonzalo Lira🙏😢, American citizen and independent reporter, who was arrested, tortured, and ultimately killed by Ukrainian government for reporting from Ukraine.

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Who represents the rights of Ukrainians that don't want to fight in the war ? Silly me.....they have no rights in Kiev's Democracy.

Censorship is a cult behavior

You should interview Diana Panchenko, a ukranian independent journalist. She asked too many questions, went to Donbas to talk to people there to find out the truth, she criticized Zelenskiy and yet she's the most popular journalist in Ukraine. And that's why Zelenskiy wants her in prison.

calling Ukraine a democracy is the same as calling NATO a defensive alliance

The current year is 1984

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Zelensky is an illegitimate leader.

That Zelenskyy is quite simply,diabolical

Seeing him without his military uniform costume for the first time is like looking at a smug little bully who doesn’t have any friends.

“We don’t shoot deserters because we’re a democracy.” - zelensky a few months ago after we all have seen footage of them not only shooting deserters but kidnapping their own recruits

Who will come to restore democracy in the U.S.?

Don't forget Denys Kiryeyev. He was a member of the Ukrainian negotiating team that was negotiating with Russia just four days after February 22, 2022 at a location near the Belarus border. He was assassinated for all the world to see. This was a strong signal to the rest in Ukraine about negotiating with Russia and was probably one of the reasons they had to move negotiations to Turkey.

Peace in 2022, what a lost opportunity.

I heart goes out to all the families that have lost loved ones in this horrible useless war! There is so much more going on here!!!

Ukraine isn't a democracy. Far from it. In democracies there is more than one TV Channel, main political parties and main Christian denominations aren't banned, no mass extrajudicial killings, disappearances and torture, men from 18 to 60 aren't banned from leaving the country, people aren't rounded up in the streets and dragged to their death. Democracies hold elections after all. Well, it's a quote from The Time article. Zelenskyy top advisers say about him: “He deludes himself, ” one of his closest aides tells me in frustration. “We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that. It is immovable, verging on the messianic.” According to the Economist Zelenskyy is literally screaming at his generals at this point. One Austrian artist was in a similar state in 1945 . Zelenskyy "achievements" to date: 500,000 Ukrainians are dead, 3x that mangled and crippled for life, half of Ukraine's population is living as refugees scattered all over Europe and Russia right now, they're drafting women because they've run out of men to kidnap off the streets, gyms and public transport. NYT wrote about these mass kidnappings that were happening only in Zelenskyy Ukraine and Hitler's Germany in 1945 in an article ‘People Snatchers’.

Закрытая для выезда страна с нелегитимным президентом, в которой законодательно отменены права человека. Мужики прячутся по домам от ТЦК и десятками тысяч бегут через границу через горы и реки. Хотя что нового, защита демократии ведь так хорошо сработала в Ираке, Ливии и Афганистане.

Imagine pointing all this out to people since 2014 only to be told to put the foil hat on. Eventually these people have to acknowledge if there is anyone with an obfuscation hat on, it's not those who read and paid attention and have eyes wide open all along. The real issue is of course the lives lost while waiting for these people to forcibly extricate their head from the sand. Do try to keep up next time, which sadly we can only assume there will be at this point.

Money worshipers just can't figure out why the world is being destroyed....

Great truth teller, thanks great video

Democracy with a lot of corruptions

Glenn, very well said. Clear and concise. That's why you are one of the greatest journalists of our time. Thank you so much.

On Thursday April 25, Bogdan Syrotiuk - a socialist opponent of the fascistic Zelensky regime and the NATO-instigated Ukraine-Russia war - was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine, the SBU, in his hometown of Pervomaisk in southern Ukraine. Under Zelensky, the Ukrainian people are prohibited from supporting a peace plan, of any kind. Bogdan, who is 25 years old and in poor health, is being held in a prison in Nikolaev under atrocious conditions on fraudulent charges of serving the interests of Russia. In fact, Bogdan is an intransigent opponent of the capitalist Putin regime and its invasion of Ukraine. He fights for the unity of the working class in Ukraine, Russia and throughout the former Soviet Union. Without actual democracy and critical media in Ukraine, peace is obstructed by force and violence - by Zelensky, the EU, and the US- led NATO.

NAFO trolls are beyond pathetic.

Ukraine seems to be defending the outrageous and excessive profits of the corporations of the military industrial complex more than anything, AND, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of innocent Ukraine lives!!!!!

“Spying through peepholes in the wall” - Ukraine is surely hi-tech. 🙃

And also very poor treatment of all minorities not allowing them the right to use their own languages or be taught in them. 100% correct

Power of

Excellent segment.

Great points!

Little Zelenskyy. He’s only 5ft 5 and no longer President. As his term ended in April 2024.

Thank you Glen.

Thanks fot saying what the news hides. Very important truths!

Thank you for showing the other side of the coin. I am astonished nobody holds the media responsible. They really should be investigated

These are the developments when too many people are treating parasites as pets. 18:05 BTW, Schröder also admitted in a TV interview that he violated international law when he waged war in Yugoslavia.

Why don't we, ever, hear those simple, clear points in any of the oligarch-owned media?

Now we know where the billions are going.

.... but the question is why are these criticisms are now allowed to be openly reported and make available to the general audience? 😮😮😮

It's a crime rhat you don't have a bigger platform Glen. You're my fucking hero.

Zelensky is evil

"to the last ukrainian" we slavs will never forget what the west did to our people

Neutrality Studies: Ignorance of European leaders is getting worse with Ezequiel Luis Bistoletti

Ukraine was not a democracy before 2014 let alone after

My government says it seeks peace and would never sacrifice blood and treasure for empire. As a good citizen, I always believe what my government says, about everything.

Ukrainian regime promotes the fancy history of Ukraine absolutely disconnected from history of neighbouring countries such as Hungary, Romania, Poland. According this "history" Ukraine is 3000 year old civilization. Those Ukrainians who denounce this nonsense are persecuted, some were killed by nationalism extremists.

This man is correct.

Ukraine is a “democracy”; you can’t get a statement that is more opposite from the truth than this

Will ignoring and protesting the draft be treated like BLM or college campus protests?

I hate that peace and cooperation...1991.

If we were fighting to defend democracy in Ukraine, it would for the first time ever. Why do people who say this act like that’s something the US has previously done ever??

Great report as always. However, Glenn seems to underestimate the actual pressure and the orchestration of the conflict by the US elites.

In 1864 we held a presidential election right in the middle of the civil war. Elections are always a good idea. Maybe the people don't want more war.

I love every time when Glenn calls the New York Times, the paper of record. I mean, it's true but also shows you how F'd history is.

I think everyone who loves peace and has common sense needs to share his video as widely as he/she possibly can. I certainly did.

It's not democracy we're defending, that's for sure. Damn, I wish our government would stay out of things that aren't the business of the United States.

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Glenn's thoughts are always welcome here, they are.

You only have to look at crimea , it’s always populated vastly more by Russians. In the 50’s is was given Ukraine when full of Russians , after 60 years they had enough of kyiv and wanted back to Russia. Democracy is understanding it’s always been a Russian population that’s 80% and zelensky is saying it’s Ukraine land with only 60 years of ownership..

Does this put Glenn on Ukraine's kill list (on Myrotvorets) or was he already there? Either way, thank you for having the courage to speak out.

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Exact same line is said about Taiwan.

100%

Glenn Greenwald cites the UN as a moral standard. That says as much about Glenn Greenwald's morals as it does the UN's.

The lack of democracy un Ukraine is never rebutted by the west. At the same time the west want ro preserve democracy there?

The Russian propagandist doesn't like being called a Russian propagandist. Imagine that.

The US is now a Corporatocracy with the MIC sitting at the head of the table

I don’t understand how there’s such silence from people in Ukraine in the age of internet. Gazan’s pushed their war images to the world for example which helped mobilize the anti war movement but Ukrainians are just taking this?

Considering the level of public hatred there was towards the Japanese during WW2, internment turned out to be ultimately for their own safety.

Didn't Russia already have an agreement that they would have that buffer zone?

Gonzalo Lira

If I were becoming filthy rich by being Ukraine's "Churchill" I'd stifle dissent too

If Putin is a criminal What is the EU and Zielinski...

I never would have guessed that GG is two years oled than TC. Blown away.

Has somebody an example of a person inprisoned in USA for beeing Oppositional to WW1?

Are we talking about the Ukraine that reacted to democratically held Referenda with sending troops and starting to shell and bomb people for having voted "wrong" ? THAT Ukraine ? Democratic ? Tbh, I did not laugh .

Hi Glenn, please check out the story about Viacheslav Morozov, a professor of political theory who has just been sentenced to six years in prison for activities against the Republic of Estonia. It is crazy story.

Not that the NYT is a great proponent of press freedom.

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Democracy in Ukraine. 😂😂😂😂😂.

Closing TV station not telling lies for the previous separatist democratically-elected government also happened in Taiwan. America is at least consistent when it comes to supporting oppressive government.

Conflict in Ukraine is not about defending democracy, according to Sen. Lindsey Graham, it's about 10-12 trillion dollars of Ukraine's natural resources, plain and simple. 🤔🤔🤔

They're just doing what the American gov't does at home.

Played the piano with his what ?

Yea but while in the Ukraine the government is narrowing press freedoms that isn't any different in the USA.

exactly, but how to enrich..... if peace in the world?

Ukrainians hated Zelenskyii before the war. Then they liked him when the war started. Now they hate him again during the slaughter and the tyranny. Which way will the smoke from the ammo dump explosion blow next?

This is exceptional thank you. Russia will never give in there will never be an end to this war if they do not negociate and if the west does not stop to give mlitary assistance. It is a terrible tragedy l

the espionage act from 1915, is that not the law assange will be prosecuted under?

since feb 2014 they never offer referendum to the east region. instead force the population with banderites militan to control east side that they actually held referendum have legal standing as new state LPR DPR

He had a stupid tv show about a school teacher that becomes president

Really is van nuke

We’ve known about these talks for months (from independent news.) As well as Johnson tanking them (for US too.) NYT late to the game? Late to tell the truth

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Lincoln held an election. So what is the problem?

Zellensky is a nice puppet

Hi glens team do you know about audio issues at 15 minutes

The Policy Institute at King's College London "Peter Turchin on End Times: Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration"

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