The US politicians refuse to address the homeless situation, and the healthcare crisis in the US but just okay an 350 billion aide package to Ukraine. Let that sink in.
US is not praticing what they preach, they're liars and hypocrites and Ukrainians will end up like the Kruds in Syria, weak and aimless. And dividing the Americans.
I think most that follow western mainstream media aren't fully aware of the strings that are typically attached when it comes to American aid. Your 1% don't get to earn from helping your homeless. In Ukraine, the MIC wins as the weapons are purchased from them while your banks are paid the high interest owed. I wouldn't be surprised if you get access to their oil & gas fields too.
As an American I’m also surprised by the attack. However, what we don’t know is exactly how “uncooperative” the West (USA) was with Russia’s security requested. It’s likely that the USA fully intended provoking Putin into a war. What the West didn’t expect is how badly they have shot themselves in the feet and knees as America will lead the West into a ressession. Putin recognizes this; that it is the West who are vulnerable to the sanctions\s effects. . What’s clear now, yet not clear to my fellow Americans, is how thoroughly, from top to bottom, US propaganda is and how long that propaganda machine has been controlling Americans]’s reference frames about our so-called enemies. The USA has a tight grasp on what it’s people are allowed to think too.
The US very much provoked Putin into a war. They baited him so they could shut down NordStream 2 and _(attempt to)_ kill Russia's economy. The US desperately wants a single-front war with China before 2030, so they had to tie up the Russian front. That's my guess on what their calculus is. Oh also it's great for Halliburton & Raytheon.
Watch Brian's videos on "The New Atlas" channel. He explains it clearly. And then SHARE IT with all yr fds n contacts. Everyone. Ask them to do the same.
I definitely don't support Biden's hard line or Trump's idiocy but this is a long term American project of global hegemony, regardless of the administration, there has been no significant changes in foreign policy since WWII which begs the question, who is running foreign policy if it's not affected by the administrations?
Listening to this guy, I see clearly why after the Russian 1917 Communist revolution, USSR had to go through a Civil War to weed out the Fascist forces within Russia
@@OP-mz3hr My point is that contrary to US propaganda, which is almost 100 years old, Russia/USSR had/have various factions just like America. Example, US has Liberals but also Conservatives. Liberals tend to be Socialistic, while Conservatives can have some Fascit tendencies. Thus just like in US had Civil War, Communist Russia had civil war where the Left prevailed on the Right(Fascist) Here is a video that lays things out quite well ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Fb5grDNww6U.html
I'm little bit angry, because this guy is talking about the people that didn't want a war in Ukraine, the people that recognised the atrocities of the ukrainenian militcia in the east, but my question is, what did they do? Nothing, to be clear I'm against the russian intervention in Ukraine, but what choise the Russians had, when the president of Ukraine was talking about get nuclear weapons? I'm Cuban and my people remembers well the USA reaction when they discovered soviets misiles in Cuba 1962! All this lefist in Europe, does nothing, all they do is fight for little things, they forgot what the real revolutionary is! That's why Europe is nothing but servant of US intereses!
One can talk about virtues or justice, but in the real world, might makes right - it's a sad fact but is true. In the face of NATO arming Ukraine to the teeth, would Putin do the virtuous thing, to wait for NATO to bring insurgency into Russian borders in 5 years, or decide to act now? I believe Putin made this decision based on his understanding of military and economic realities.
Im also cuban and i just found this channel. Good for you that have a clear understanding on the issue unlike most of our cuban youths only guided by Facebook narratives and fake news. Russia had no other option , thats what happens when NATO corners a bear. No fear to tell the truth 👍. Seemingly, 14k deaths in Donnbass means nothing to europe. USA has no morals to teach any nation about respect or peace
It's kind of a bit strange that I never hear about this Alexey. You should call some one like Boris Yulin or Konstantin Syomin or maybe even professor Michael Popov. I hear he talk about panic in Russia. Maybe there are somewhere in Moscow or St.Petersburg, but not in the Siberia. Here in Siberia workers feel how price growing up, but they understand why this happened and show support our government. And they truly happy that our businessman and politics cant no longer keep their money on the western bank and spend their money on the west. They hoped that all that money now will going to spend here in Russia and for government and peoples needs. As I see that is most popular opinion here (that is not a social statistic, its just what I see and I maybe have mistaken).
He is the typical peiti-burgeoisie big city left who is no that far from just being liberal, always annoying when these people get to speak for a whole country, they are always overrepresented in the discourse.
I would suggest also adding Boris Kagarlitskiy (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Kagarlitsky) in that list. Honestly not sure about Popov -- afaik he's taken effectively (but not explicitly) the regime's side on the matter.
What I find weird in Sahnin's analysis is that he focused pretty much on moralistic arguments which come from a perspective that I don't really understand. I have a huge issue of painting this and every other war by personalisation of the leaders, deducing the current historical course from supposedly "narrow" thinking of individuals (Putin, Lavrov, Shoigu, who "didn't take into account this or that"), bafflingly ignoring the whole caste of politicians, consultants and figureheads involved in such huge decisions. Also, downplaying the complete integration of nazi elements in Ukrainian military, economic structures, political institutions (how do you think unpunished pogroms against Russophone people or Roma people could take place otherwise?) by saying "those are some militarised soldiers" is really misleading, and I don't understand the purpose of this. You can absolutely oppose the invasion, but don't take the people who are talking to for idiots who cannot grasp nuance by diminishing the horrible chauvinist political climate in Ukraine. I've seen lousy arguments claiming nazi Svoboda party gained only 2% in the last nationwide elections, so they're not that relevant, ignoring that their leaders have won many local elections and were gaining loads of political momentum. Also, Russian invasion didn't mobilise Ukrainian "patriots" against it, decades long Russophobic propaganda did that. These things don't happen overnight. It's quite telling that there isn't any significant peaceful anti-war movement inside Ukraine which would appeal to pacifist notions - people with those leanings are atomized and afraid, but they're not afraid of Russian tanks, they're afraid of "their own" paramilitary and National Guard gangs. Various groups and fractions of those unaccountable mobs (Azov, Aidar, C14, Pravyi sektor, Svoboda paramilitary) may or may not have the absolute support from the state, but they certainly cause the state to close both eyes to their fascist reactionary violence. I have zero sympathy for anyone who fights for that regime.
kako može krivit putina za to jbga,kom. partija je ta koja je vršila pritisak na njegovu vladu u vezi ukrajine.akop ja u hrvatskoj to znam ne kužim šta ovaj blebeće,u biti razumijem zašto
It's weird that he said "Putin didn't give explanation for the invasion". Hasn't Putin gave AN HOUR long speech of his reasons for the special military operation, has he????
Yes, he did. And he explained everything, not only the Neo Nazi piece. And he actually gave several speeches. People do understand the reasons, some support and some do not which is normal. I don’t understand what this guy is talking about.
@@elgi9291 he's your typical 'liberal' in Russia who would gladly divide the country up into 9 parts and host an American NATO base on its soil after surrendering all nuclear weapons to the USA
Putin gave a very strange explanation- blamed Lenin for creating Ukrain, said that Ukrain has always been part of Russia, practically, that there is no such a nation at all / His speech wasn't expiring at all/ Another thing is that things weren't developing in favour of Russia in Ukrain, and we know that Americans were anticipating this conflict and do everything to make things worse
@@natglagla56 But not incorrect. The US and British right wing since 1917 has been involved in a project to fracture the Soviet Union. And they tried to do it by supporting Nationalism in the Ukraine. But part of that Ukraine Nationalism ended up supporting the Nazi and being collaborators in a holocaust. What ever your opinion of the communists may be, this is a historical fact. The fact that both the EU and USA are now willing to ignore a Ukrainian Nazi ideology which continues gaining ground is a continuation of this. You now have German Social democrats and Poles who were murdered by Nazi sending aid that ends up supporting Nazi. Putin’s main goal is imperialism and resources. But do you think He or other Russians like the idea of Ukrainian children being taught to commit a Russian genocide?
I am sure the Russian administration and military would have discussed all scenarios prior to the liberation. And why would the oppressed Russian speaking population in Ukraine flee into the arms of their oppressors once the operation started. This guy has no idea.
I am guessing he is talking about pro-Russia people outside of Donetsk and Lugansk. Those people seem pretty supportive of the invasion because they experience it as an end to shelling in their cities (well after the first few days anyway) but there were also pro-Russia people in the central and western parts of Ukraine too and now they have shells coming down on them. I can see those people being pushed towards Zelensky unfortunately.
@@jgee9160 Yeah for all the posturing that western "leftists" do about condemning war crimes, I haven't heard much talk at all about how Ukraine's blocking people from evacuating the country. Once this war is over I hope Ukraine's criminal actions get seriously prosecuted.
Actually he is wrong to think that Putin thought it was going to be a quick job. Putin was going very softly at first and gave Ukraine chances to talk. If they didn't give in then he would ramp things up. Zèlensky prefers to be a heroic symbol so he resisted but putting more of the country in line of war. Putin just gave Zèlensky what he wanted.
west have demonize the Russians, by cancel culture and removing their products making the Russia solid as ever. Remember went Hilter invade Russia, the Russian turn to their leader Stalin to fixed the crisis, history repeat itself. Can't Blame them, plus their resolve is very strong and allies are on par. GJ west, could had work this out, but fund the Nazis instead, Russia existential enemy.
kind of "Mandate of Heaven". most people pissed he doesn't do enough, too cautious. anyway when I hear "Putin, Putin" more then hundred times within a few minutes there is always question of personal integrity
A story about democracy: A farmer asked his son before he died, "Pigs complain about poor feed, cows complain about heavy work, and chickens complain about dirty nests. What should you do?". The son said: "Change to good feed, buy more cows, clean up Chicken coop." The farmer shook his head and said. "No, don't do anything. Let them vote, let them choose you or your wife to take care of them, and let them think they control their own fate”. Democracy is only meaningful when the rulers represent our interests. When a government genuinely puts the interests of the people ahead of their own, it doesn’t matter what system is in place.
A little story about civilization : «We have such a great civilization, it is superior to your tribal life», the man said. «You are just domesticated. Your soul no longer free, your mind no longer open, your spirit no longer a part of nature and your body no longer able to provide you with everything you need.» said the tribal man.
lmao, People use this story in China to attack Chinese government system. Same story, except farmer told his son: "Tell them there are wolfs out there". Now I know where does the shit comes from. 🤣
Zeis Siez - I agree with you but I would say it in very simple way: Democracy is rules of Mejority. And present fake democracy is rules of few! These are definition of real and fake democracies!👍
Interesting. The thing of it is, as one usually surmise in such situation, is that since time immemorial, neither the East or West has experienced true real democracy. Whereby the citizenry and those they elect takes true responsibility for their choices. We have always been led to "believe" rather than encourage to "think for ourselves" consciously. To fear, to hate, to smear, to detest and to punch in the nose those who don't comply. Rather if we value each other like we value ourselves, we can create a just and proper society that builds upon real true effective love, freedom, harmony and peace.
About Ukraine: nation created in Lenin's time (not to be confused with the history of the city of Kiev and/or with Kievan Rus & its Rurik dynasty started by Prince Rurik of Novgorod; Novgorod is an ancient Russian city), but only theoretical/administrative terms, since it remained under Russian control in the Soviet era, the conformation of its territory today consists mainly of territories that have historically belonged to the Russians (from the center to the eastern and southern side) and the western side has historically belonged to Poland. Important issue about Poland: the h4tred of the Poles towards the Russians is immense and it is they who have partly influenced the western part of Ukraine, this h4tred is historical, since Poland and Russia have had multiple w4rs for several centuries, even the Poles invaded Moscow at some point and were driven out by the Russians (look for the monument to Minin and Pozharsky in Moscow's Red Square). Now if you add this historical h4tred towards Russia with Neo-Naz1 elements (in western Ukraine) that by default relate Russia to the greatest enemy of the Naz1s, that is, the Soviets, who ended up destroying their beloved H1tler, you will have a gigantic anti-Russian national1sm, which the United States has been able to use as a geopolit1cal tool against the Russ1ans. On the current crisis: The people of Donbass are ethnic Russians and they did not support the 2014 coup, as those who took control of Kiev (with US backing) are openly xenophob1c against the Russians, they even banned the Russian language in Ukraine, which is the native language of the people living in Donbass. Ethnic Russians have lived in Donbass for several centuries, so at the moment they are defending their families and the lands where they have lived for many generations. People living in Donbass voted in a referendum to gain more autonomy and stay *inside* Ukraine, the latter being important as it shows that the Western narrative that the Donbass conflict was started by "pro-Russian separat1sts" is not is so true and this was part of the typical western pr0paganda to confuse the world about reality and adapt everything to the western narrative of "it's Russia's fault", I repeat "the people of Donbass did not vote for independence from Ukraine and/or to join Russia, they voted to have more autonomy within Ukraine", in fact this is the basis of the famous Minsk agreements that Kiev and the West refuse to implement (accusing Russia of not complying with them, when Russia does not has obligations in the agreement), and it has to be repeated that the people of Donbass wanted this because they simply never accepted the 2014 coup, which brought to power people who h4te ethnic Russians. The Ukrainian army launched an 4ttack on these regions in 2014, moving its entire 4rsenal against the civilians of Donbass, this topic is important since the w4r takes place in the lands of Donbass, therefore civilian v1ctims are always the civilians who live in the Donbass (usually the Western media always interviews Ukrainian civilians living in regions that do not suff3r the real consequences of these w4rs), the people of Donbass won practically all the b4ttles, there were a lot of material on youtube about these b4ttles, where they showed civilians f1ghting aga1nst the Ukrainian army, but youtube has cens0red almost everything. These victories should not really surprise us too much, since the people of Donbass were defend1ng their homes against people who h4te Russians (their ethn1city), any of us would fight with full force if you see that your family is thre4tened by crazy rac1sts that h4te your friends and family, today after all the 4ttacks they have received by Kiev, if they hold a new referendum it is very sure that they will vote to join Russia, they have already seen the true face of the Westerners and of those they control Kiev today. It is interesting that the West always supports autonomies when they are initiated within en3my nations: H0ng K0ng in Ch1na, the K*rds in Syr1a, K0s0vo in Serb1a, Ch3chny4 in Russ1a and a long list. It is true that Russ1a supports those Russ1ans who live in Donbass, in fact it has more right to do so than the illegal military presence of the Y4nkees in northern Syr1a ("support1ng" the K*rds and steal1ng Syrian oil along the way), the inhabitants from Donbass are ethn1c Russ1ans, they are in lands close to the Russ1an border (secur1ty issue), they have an obvious connection with Russ1an culture and above all they share many family members with Russ1ans, for this reason after 2014 many residents of Donbass have obtained a Russian p4ssport (Russian citizensh1p). Possible w4r: If a w4r breaks out between Russ1a and Ukra1ne, it will be when K1ev attacks the Russ1ans living in D0nbass, because Russ1a has said for years that it will intervene with the Russian 4rmy to protect its citizens in any part of the world, including the D0nbass region, some believe that Russia will r0ot out the pr0blem, even reaching K1ev to cle4n up the g0vernment house that is under US c0ntrol. The US n4rrative about a possible Russian 1nvas1on of Ukra1ne is based on this last point, because the Y4nkees know very well that a provocation from K1ev is enough for Russ1a to 1ntervene and the Western med1a will have "pr0of" of the alleged 4ggress1on against the "peaceful" K1ev. The western n4rr4t1ve has always been based on l1es, they are heirs to the Br1t1sh emp1re, experts in this type of str4tegy: ly1ng, caus1ng d1vis1on and succeed1ng. The objectives of the Un1ted States: Everything written above explains some symptoms, but not the real cause of the confl1ct and the main objective. As everyone knows, the United States became the hegemon1c world power when Europe was totally destroyed in the Sec0nd W0rld W4r, destruct1on that also extended in Asia, China was the second nation to suffer more hum4n l0sses after the Sov1et Un1on. Therefore today, in a world where Ch1na has managed to 0vertake the United States in terms of GDP-PPP, becoming the first und1sputed w0rld p0wer in economic terms, the United States has no other alternative than to resort to w4r in order to ret4ke the hegem0ny that has been l0sing, a new c0ld w4r is necessary to d3str0y Russia economically and gain full c0ntrol of Western Europe (in ec0nomic and p0litical terms), this will help to c0nfr0nt Ch1na (the Western med1a is already mention1ng Ch1na in this European confl1ct). You have doubts? Just look at what N$TO's first secretary general, Lord Ismay, said, explaining NATO's goal: "to keep the USA in, the Russ1ans out, and the Germ4ns d0wn." The US is the one who needs this w4r, that's why the western med1a controlled by the western el1te push this w4r, the Ukrain1ans are just a che4p t0ol for the westerners. Now we must write using numbers to avoid western c3ns0rsh1p, long live fr33 w3stern express1on haha.
Yeah it is terrible these days the censorship in the west I feel like I'm living in North Korea. I don't know if it makes it worse that it's not the government that's censoring but the corporation's.
Right? If you didn't know her you'd think she completely agreed with everything he said. I saw another interview with this guy several months back and I tend to think he's a bad faith actor.
This guy doesnt understand anything in the history of mankind if he is actually perplexed that a world superpower atacked a smaller country, which actually gave it many reasons to do so, but even if it didnt most invasions in history were not provoked. Why did Rome invade Britain ? What did those druids do to offend Rome ? Why did Britain invade North America, India and so on ? What did those indians do to offend the queen ? Why did the US invade...insert list of invaded countries here ? Was he as perplexed when the US invaded Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and so on ? Or when the British Empire invaded most of the world ? Most superpowers are created by invading weaker nations who are seen as inferior, like the europeans (now americans) did with the indians, and they are maintained by many other invasions for world domination, protection against others empires expansion, or for natural resources, oil, gas, gold, uranium, and so on. This is the only invasion I've seen in recent years which is not just about oil or gas btw.
I didn't agree with your last Russian guest (the professor). I guess this one is giving you more of what the other said. These two seem not to understanding of what would happen if Ukraine becomes part of NATO.
14000 according to the UN. The Odessa Msssacre, May 2 2014? He’s either ignorant or a tool. Raina you rolled over for this ignoramus. Sorry to see this here.
It's mainly himself that trust his own version of propaganda... Ukraine people aren't this much united and even the one who are today antirussian may change there mind in the future, mainly when industries as antonov will restart etc. In fact is point of view is mainly short termist, exaggerating Ukrainians argument or strength and minimizing Russian and Donbass elements. I must say that there are others and better arguments to be against the military intervention; in fact Lenin's writing and action still expresses most of them...
I wonder how this guy can be so sure what Russia and Putin thought when they started the so-called military operation. One day to accomplish it? I wonder where he took this information, did Putin call him directly and gave this explanation? I am not a fan of Putin whatsoever but who is this guy to know all the plans? Not sure he is of some importance to raise this particular point.
The problem of the divided parties between the left and the right There is always someone who will criticize you even if you are doing something good for your country
Yeah,but this guy totally forgot mention the war that is been going on in Donabas region since 2014 and people who died there and policitical influence of neonazis Banderist movement's on official Ukranians policies, together with pro Western Neoliberals and Ukrainian's Oligchar's as well.He gave a good critique of Russian oligarchs ,but he forgot to mention other side of the story.Thats why,The Russian communist's and Left front most likely gave the support,to this unfortunate war,an invasion, intervention,how ever you want to call it.
I have a feeling he's so hyped on his own ego, like he couldn't wait to be arrested. Those kinds of people are usually very individualistic in their thinking and are disregarding the perspectives and subjects that the marxists hold the most valuable for a quality analysis
True but his accent is quite thick.. to the point I had to rely on the subtitles sometimes, so I guess the person listening would have made some mistakes, hopefully they issue a correction
On the side: Its always good to see an interviewer who lets the interviewed talk. I like most of your discussions and I especially appreciated your coverage of the war in Ethiopia. I didnt agree on a lot of what this guy said, but then again I never been to Russia and dont feel it. But I feel it in the West and there is not much trying to understand the background for Russia's move in the media here.
A lot of trolling going on. On hot-topic issues, trolls will just blanket the comment section, it seems with the aim of demoralizing viewers. Best not to give them any importance.
@@susank1646 I tend to err on the side of assuming a person is not a troll because almost always they're not. Especially if they type a long post, that shows thought and effort.
@@zhaoyun3153 he basicly completly flipped most of his positions he was holding for several decades. he also had no problem to advocate to put unvaxxed ppl into camps and other bullshit.
After watching Patrick Lancaster, it is hard not to wonder to what degree this gentleman knows the true situation in terms of sentiment. It's often so common with the left that their intolerance of right wing opinions forces them into groups of likely minded people, thus failing to grasp and acknowledge the full complexity of the situation. Waiting for the next guest to fill the gap.
Rania, you asked the fellow to predict whether or not the war will escalate to a Europe-wide war. Please remember that whether or not that happens depends on what we do. Rania, something YOU can do is to give links to peace petitions, email actions for peace and groups who are organising peace demonstrations, and you can encourage people to do those actions.
@@ChrisSmith-bh2hg I gotta admit, I thought trap, at first. But bait makes sense, too. But if it's bait, then there's a lot more s**t that's going to hit the fan!
Dear video host I've to say that there is only one Mathematics and there's only one math and there is no any other or Perspective of it. That apply also to Left too. Unless someone is being ignorant as it obviously appears with your guest Mr. Alexey Sakhnin! You might be Doctor in some prophession but it doesn't make you to be Doctor in geopolitics. As it's case with Mr Alexey Sakhnin. What I'm trying to say is that you dear video host you've wrong person to talk about Ukrainen problems. Mr. Alexey Sakhnin has no ideas what is going on in Ukraine and whay. Better luck next time!! I know Who real Left is as soon as some one open his mouth and Mr Alexey Sakhnin isn't even close to. Left is left and rest is BS? However, if we're talking US Left then that could be anything! Regardless of my comment don't Stop doing wonderful Job.👍
Didn't a lot of anti war protesters get arrested? I'm not sure about the context though. I saw some western backed think tank posting videos asking Russians about it and many said they didn't wanna say much because it's risky right now to even call it a war. Does this hold up at all or is it selectively put together showing only the people who said stuff like that? Anyone who lives there please fill me in if you can please.
usually before a war is about to begin a country has to put out a buncha propaganda explaining why the war is even necessary. putin didnt do that instead he gave an hour long speech explaining it. no wonder people are pissed at him. even so, i saw a poll showing that 60% of russians understood that nato is the true problem on this issue but im too lazy to find the poll sorry
@@KingMinosxxvi “60%” has to be one of the most repeated % in Russian polls, both state and so-called “independent” polls (financed by the west). Long story short, don’t believe these polls.
@@KingMinosxxvi I am simply pointing out that state polls and western backed polls consistently throw out the same percentages for a laundry list of topics year after year, so they should not be believed as actual Russian public opinion. This is a sign of doctored polls done by both sides. Western media and pundits love quoting these polls & don’t tell me they don’t notice the same %’s coming up over and over. It’s obvious Putin’s regime doesn’t care about the truth on Russian public opinion, but neither does the west. If you knew some Russian and followed news on Russia carefully from multiple sources, this would be obvious.
@18:00 only slip made by Alexey. He does not understand currency systems. The ruble is worth whatever the monopoly issuer (The Duma) says it is worth (whether they know it or not). They are the sole tax authority in ruble, they say what a Russian needs to do to earn a ruble, they can drive as much domestic employment in ruble as they need, in perpetuity, as long as the Duma stands. Russia's problem is with foreign exchange rates, which impact the _import capacity_ of ordinary Russian workers and firms who produce real goods but need import inputs. However, over the years Russia has built significant domestic capacity, thanks to prior sanctions, so they can make do without a few otherwise crucial imports for a fairly long time. Russian lower-middle class standards of living will suffer, but if Putin was engaged in a _justified_ war they could withstand. Seems their problem is there is no popular support for Putin's actions, and that is why they probably cannot withstand a prolonged assault on Ukraine. Same story in Turkey by the way. Turkey can sustain full employment indefinitely, at any inflation rate, if they choose to employ Turks in lira, because they are the monopoly issuer of lira and they tax only in lira. Turkey's problem is they have interest rates backwards: when the government is an _enormous_ net payer of interest through Treasury bonds, they are injecting free basic income into their economy --- basic income but _only for people who already have money._ That's all demand with zero supply, a huge inflationary pressure. If you plot the Turkish CB interest rate against inflation there is almost perfect correlation. That'll almost always be the case when the government Treasury issue is about 50% or more of GDP. They should just stop issuing Turkish bonds, stop the free gifts to the rich. Instead, they should inject lira by giving workers a guaranteed job _option_ in the public sector. tradingeconomics.com/turkey/interest-rate tradingeconomics.com/turkey/inflation-cpi You need to discount the sharp jump in covid inflation, which is all supply shock cost-push, not interest-income demand pull. Same in most countries that run a floating exchange rate, their inflation is highly positively correlated with the central bank interest rate floor --- when the bond issue is more than about 50% of GDP --- and absent commodity supply shock cost adjustments. It is _different_ for countries on gold-conversion, fixed exchange rate, or _pegged to the dollar,_ their inflation is correlated with the currency (or basket) they peg to, not to their CB interest rate.
I hear lots of people on other videos talking about how NATO has provoked Russia by pushing ever closer to the Russian fringe across Europe .Also ,the hipocrisy of the USA/NATO condememing Russia's area targeting system of ordinance, which the USA used inexcusably and devastatingly in Iraq and Afghanistan killing many civillians ex cetera.However; that in no way can ever or will ever justify Putin's actions previously and currently in Ukraine. If one employs this philosophy a nation could justify anything . Justifying an illegal occupation by exampling a time another illegal occupation was committed is morally vicious. Even if let's say, Putin's arguments are correct, he loses his argument and reasonings as soon as he stops diplomatic and democratic action and just starts attacking , which HE KNOWS will kill many ordinary people. How is owning Ukraine more important than a persons life? I don't get it...sad same goes for other nations at times . when two elephants fight the grass gets trampled. .
It's great that you have guest from all sides. This time it was a kind of sentimental biased monologue. It is a "miscalculation" now? In 20 years? In the historical process between the unipolar and the multipolar world. How to measure?
Is he anti Putin to start with? Certainly he provides one of the views quite clearly and there is a lot of merits. If that's the majority view a possible solution is if Putin resigned and called for a new election, giving Russia a new identity. Ie without civil riots.
From the sounds of Alexey's commentary, I would guess that Alexey must have been absolutely delighted during the 1990s when Russia was being stripped bare of their assets by the west, along with their Russian Oligarch partners in crime.
If u ask from anti war russian or russian military personals or russian natinalists, they all gives defferent answers. So what is true answer im russia?
As someone who comprehends a good amount of Russian and knows people who’ve taught English around the country (& know Russian)… I think most Russians are against Putin and this war, but understand the hypocrisy of the western elite. However, this view isn’t really reflected anywhere officially. In other words, it’s a largely voiceless population and none of the powers that be care to actually voice the real majority. There’s Putin’s regime which is insane and full of Shit in many ways, then there’s the communists (some who are critical of Putin), then there’s the western funded “liberals” (read: neoliberals) who are pretty elitists & don’t really interact with ordinary Russians but go on western media and scream “99% of Russian society is brainwashed and backwards but not us, we’re the intellectuals.” (They tend to scream they’re anti-war in Russia,but are shills for western imperialism). The groups I mentioned above have their loud followers, western media shows them, but omits normal grassroots activist who don’t have black and white views.. thus creating a very boxed portrayal of Russia & Russian society.
He isn't speaking any "truth." He talks about how there was no provocation when there have been numerous scholars who have spoken about making Ukr a vassal state infringes Rus3i1n security. Even UnitedYank Prez Bye-Den in 1997 had said when he was a senator. This guy is the typical liberalNavalny fanboy and he's no 'left'. Shame on BT News for giving a platform to this guy
@@AnkanBasu7 thank you Basu ;) you are of course entitled to your opinions, hard gathered from scholars & far way bought & paid for pundits. But you are not entitled to your own facts! the guy speaks the truth - right from his own backyard...
@@GOBEF3 you're right about pundits and bought off scholars, because the people I'm referring to are US National Security advisor, current CIA director, numerous other professors and pundits with state backing. I'll reiterate my point of how he isn't speaking any truth - calling influence of neo-nazi elements marginal is at best ignorant, if not complicit (look up C-14 leader talk on influence of Neo-Nazis on Euromaidan protests) He's right about soaring prices but his views about '' dictatorship " in Russia is far-fetched from reality. He stands on western viewpoint more than his country's sentiments (I'm not talking about the government) and that tells you a lot.
@@AnkanBasu7 Dear Basu, With all due respect again, "US National Security advisor, current CIA director" are D-LEAST dependable voices I consider now :( We (US) have lost our military capabilities and only able to fight Media & Economic wars. But since this is a kinetic war, best we wait for the current super thick Fog of War to subside. You + the US National Security advisor & current CIA director will be utterly embarrassed & dumbfounded, I believe ;) I wish you best of health & be happy to buy you a drink when this tragedy is over...
@@GOBEF3 i don't think so you're getting my point - It was to support the argument of "no provocations" line spoken by Alexey. When the US camp itself have had predicted and warned against further expansion, funding and cornering Russia would lead to a war or crisis in Europe (which still happened), why in the world would a self-respecting Russian believe mainstream weapons manufacturing narrative? Please don't shift the goal posts about military capacity (700+foreign bases are contradictory to that) and other things, that's not at all constructive. Buy me a drink when all of this is over and I'll buy you a drink as well.
I enjoy your posts but I'm a little alarmed that everything you do is published on MSM controlled channels. Don't you have anything on say, Telegram, your own website or something on onion?
Isn't it surreal Alexi pointing out the nuclear weapons developed by the defunked Austro-Hungarian physicists from WWI is what that Brit said last week that scared Putin to go to a higher DefCon?
his he even aware of nato being expanded to his own borders aiming missiles at his country?!! he ain't even clued in abt those 15-20 biolabs in ukraine funded by americans. idk, he should've asked more than 40 people about putin's move.
@make a wish he is a joke. I am Russian too and I am surprised (to put it mildly) to see this person here as a guest. Who is he? I wish Rania could find someone more knowledgable, this one is definitely not.
@make a wish well, as far as I understand, it is a bit different. They don’t support the war but they don’t want NATO or Nazi threat either. And the second point is stronger and more important for them than the first. Which is quite logical I believe.
@@philipganchev2306 I don’t live in Russia, so I would like to get facts and a better picture, not just his own point of view and talking without any feasible arguments. And yes, he was introduced at the beginning but no one knows him, it would be great to find someone more visible (and there are those people there) than him.
#1 this guy is not old enough to talk about things based on his own experience, besides he was reading wrong history books, because the points he makes not adding up. The way he speaks he is probably somewhere in England. And he is not Russian think he is Ukrainian nazzi. In my opinion.
I've been looking at Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. Just had a 800th birthday in 2021. Maybe 2018. A very international HI-TECH city. Even using METAVERSE technology for their transit system as a model. Very interesting impressive city. A very international technology city. Duck duck go and a vpn. Interwebs maybe shut down. I don't know.
Bro literally all Celebrities and News is standing with Ukraine, I still don't fully understand who's at fault but I learnt not to judge a book by its cover at a young age... Just hope all this can be resolved coz the World Economy will suffer...
There's good amount of incentive for standing with the mainstream narrative propped up by Western regime. You van see how many Russians online have had to apologize with their words or their livelihood. This is something which never happens whenever a western regime initiates war, commits atrocities both in their past and present, it is brushed off as "Meh, that happened, it definitely isn't happening anymore." Any other source of information which doesn't cater to their line is censored or dismissed without any debunking done in public. When this is done by Eastern nations (mostly done in scenario when there's deliberate defamation) they're vilified, portrayed as animals-ghouls you name it. You can find multiple evidence of Ukraine's government and its armed forces having Na$$i in their ranks(From mainstream media as well from 2-3 years back). Coming to the point, all these celebrities have a lot to gain from hopping on this Russophobic bandwagon. Their country benifits as its oil resources, weapon manufacturing companies and dying influence are all rejuvenated. Anyone who dares to go against will be silenced, and have world of pain inflicted on them.
All these celebs are literal hypocrites, especially people like Stephen King and Alyssa Milano. King is on a Twitter mission to have every company banned in Russia, which will only hurt ordinary Russians, when he’s from a country that has committed genocide against over 1 million innocent Iraqis and that’s only one example…..
@15:50 c'mon Rania... not too quick on the uptake are you? Give the ESL guy a hand. "How do you call it? Hunter stuff..." dude obviously meant "bait." Several other moments you could have helped him with his English (previously he meant "trap" or "gin trap"). Despite that Alexey did a good job in getting his points across. So good interview I guess.
My initial thought was "trap", but "bait" makes sense, too. But if it's "bait", then it would continue an escalation. At least with "trap", it's more or less endgame???
@@AntPictures even worse. finnland making a pact with nazi germany to invade russia -> losing -> russia invades back -> poor finnland. the same goes for poland....the poor victim, that never did anything bad or had no imperialist ideas like uk or france. that whitewashing of history is asthonishing.
@@AntPictures That was exactly my point. Pre-text matters, and for him it does not seem to matter at all. I understand why leftists, myself included, are, to say the least, not sympathetic to Putin as a country leader. However, Russia attacked Ukraine not b/c it was trying to capture new markets. It is merely trying to prevent the 3rd party from taking what's left. So, it's not quite a classic "imperialist war"
Alexey made a very good point, at least to me. "The anti-war and pro-peace people are defeated because the evidence is out that Putin is a crazy bloody aggressor, and he is." How do we remove this full dictatorship from power without war? I don't even know what the ideal anti-war solution is but i sure as hell know the west isn't giving up anything to Putin without spending a lot of money and innocent lives on weapons and economic warfare. Similar to Alexey's final words: The only difference between early 20th century imperial wars and now are that we have nukes, a LOT of nukes. I just hope we can navigate our way out of this one humanity.
Good point, this guy is just like a normal western liberal, he was never talking about Donbass people, wtf is going on with those pseudo left in Russia? They are reading too much western-backed media, too much Meduza
Yeah idk how anyone is supposed to get rid of the fascist government that the US installed in Ukraine without war, especially considering it was already involved in a civil war. It's not like Ukraine was listening to the Minsk agreements and the US isn't exactly known for its diplomacy either. idk why Putin decided to take military action now though. Is there intel that he has that no one else is privy to?
It this guy a liberal or something?But he did make some great points, Question is,Was Russia was prepared for the military action ,The war it's going on for a while now,since 2014 in Ukraine .My concerne is,that this could make further division between Russian and Ukranian people..two brotherly nations or peoples.Also ideologically speaking,Putin and his political agenda,are also Neoliberal..Maybe now under Western pressure,he might change his political direction further left.We''ll see.
Putin said the way out of the current economic problems is to maximize economic freedom to encourage “entrepreneurship”, basically induce greater austerity to keep the economy afloat. If Russian left forces can seize upon this opportunity to push forward their agenda, they should also support the defeat of the Ukrainian junta so that these popular movements can spread to Ukraine.
@Mozhiq Oh okay,Jacobins are more some sort of Ultra liberals,rather than a real leftist,At least by my opinion.The thing is,We are not really certain which type of socialist ideology,could work the best in reality .USSR model failed due, by opinion due lack of wilness to adapt and modernise.. Yugoslavian model beside Chinese one,gave the best result so far.So their ideology it's sometimes confusing,I don't blame them.
@@Gigika313 Well the fact is,it showed the best results so far.. Soviet's should've done the same thing,instead of rollingback to primitive capitalism.
15:25 Actually you started the war along with Germany when Hitler and Stalin agreed to invade Poland. And then, unlike Putin, Stalin didnt have any reason to invade Poland other than Hitler asked him for help. So Hitler and Stalin were allies, and even signed a non-agression pact, until Hitler got greedy and decided to invade Russia.
“They were such close allies they even signed a non-aggression pact” this sentence tells me you are a historian because allies and friends often require written agreements to not attack each other, unlike enemies and rivals who simply trust each other to not go to war. Also, the Soviet Union invaded Poland for no reason, just like how Poland magically acquired a bunch of Belarusian and Ruthenian lands beyond the Curzon line that required no aggression of its own while the Soviet Union was fighting a civil war.
@@therollerlollerman you talk to someone that knows only 5% of history of this episode. the dictatorship in poland is being whitewashed over time as the poor victim. the same goes for france and uk...the poor countries that just wanted peace..lol
@@klauskinski5969 Absolutely agree. It's important to highlight Polish victims of WW2 (I believe that they had the highest ratio of victims to populations of any nation involved in the war), but whitewashing of Polish interwar governments, their ultranationalist and fascist policies and willing siding with Nazi Germany is unacceptable to everyone who values basic historical truth
