Historian Anne Applebaum on Ukraine and what Putin wants | DW News 

Absolutely, Putin won't be happy until he has his troops in all the former soviet states and is on the border of East Germany.

Agree.

how can u say its just a distraction ? i mean ... you want to tell me if nato will sign that ukraine will not join nato ... there will still be russian army at the border?

@@haydeezz Has there been any change in Ukraine's status in relation to NATO in the past year? Any major announcements I've missed? Any accession progress?

I have said for TWENTY years that Putin’s claims about Nato are just a red herring distraction. So have thousands of other serious history and foreign policy analysts. Putin simply wants to conquer Ukraine as a pure revanchist act of rank land imperialism in order to recreate his perverted notion of a restored Soviet Empire.

She's great, she's an expert on Eastern Europe, wrote several books on that. She speaks Polish fluently and I've seen her many times on Polish TV, I have a great deal of respect for her opinions.

Spot on. And all nonsens about Russian security is nothing but a handy distrraction.

Couldn't have said it better myself

@Vladimir Smith Anne A = mint quaily. Well known worldwide.

Meaning NATO is not important any more? Meaning NATO is no longer powerful and significant? If that is what you mean, I have to agree. This is the “elephant in the room” no one is stating aloud.

@@user-ks5cg5cd7m Meaning NATO expansion into eastern Europe does not constitute a physical threat to Russia.

She's married to Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland's former Minister of Foreign Affairs. She's also a historian with an interest in Easter European history. :-)

She wrote like dozen books about history of Russia and Ukraine.

@@MichalKaczorowski REALLY!? IS THAT TRUE!?

Unfortunately if the Russians go for Kiev the Unkranians sole option is to draw as much Russian blood as possible. Make 'em pay. If the Russians go all out they will technically win militarily but the Russians may get tired like they did in Afghanistan and Russia is not as strong as it used to be. And the Russians might not fight well offensively. This is a sacrifice that could pay dividends for future generations and the Russians might not like losing people. if the Ukrainians roll over and give up, Ukraine is finished as a nation, long and short term. Take the example of Poland....fight, fight, fight.

I am a Ukrainian American who lived in the United States longer than I have lived in the Ukraine and I can tell you that among the college educated people there is a lot of knowledge and understanding of the politics of countries other than their own. Especially since 2014 many people have read up and educated themselves due to Ukraine being in the media spotlight much more frequently.

bingo, when you see even Grandmas picking up AK-47s and joining volunteer forces, that rings a bell.

@@user-vy1bf4jx3v When you see a 'government' giving every citizen a weapon, factually using them as decoys, be afraid, be very afraid. As a European not watching msm warmongers, I guess I have a different view of the world. What I do know for certain is, Putin telling the world that this time if war comes, it will not be fought in Europe and Russia alone. He will take it to the instigators, meaning the us/uk. Now stay in your smug bubble as long as you want, keep believing her nonsense and keep pushing for war, the us will get everything it deserves and more.

@@mariadamen7886 Actually as far as I know, government just offered a weapon to anyone willing to fight, everyone else should evacuate the city, some did just that, most took the weapon.

She's a anti Russian andd this is the message she is putting out there which couldn't be so far from what's actually happening. Russia has no interest in Ukraine...

@@busterdan22 But alas, Putin took Crimea. While Putin says the west violated a non-written/non-verbal agreement of NATO to not move west.... He violated a signed treaty, with UK and US as guarantors, that Russia was taking Ukraine Nuclear weapons in exchange for respecting the existing Ukraine full territorial sovereignty.... Nobody is a saint, but they are bigger evils out there.

@@Aspis7NATO's plan is to accept Ukraine in NATO and kick the Rissian military bases out from Crimea, but Putin is one step ahead, so Russia took back Crimea while the west are groaning until now.

@@julwiezdeghorz5089 Might be right, but nobody signed a treaty saying NATO won't do anything like that. But is not up to NATO nor Putin to make that decision...at the end is the Ukrainian people the ones that need to make the decision...so??

putin invading ukraine because he a desparate failure. He jealous of Xi because Xi made China 100x richer then russia in same time period. putin dont know how to make russia successful in the world so he invade ukraine instead

Shes the wife of former polish minister

You should check out her books then. She won Pulitzer for her ‘Gulag’

‘Twilight of Democracy’ is a chilling must read.

She is a bitter old neo-con who shouldn't be let near the remote for the telly, nevermind "analysing" geopolitics.

@@wbafc1231 say what? she said nothing that i was against. We need to stand firm against aggression. If you disagree, i suggest you have a look at history...

Intervening with military force in other countries differences would oppose the very founding idea the EU has.

Tomorrow is too late! EU matters to be resolved by EU not British and yanks! 🇪🇺EU military to resolve EU matters.

Europe needs the United States of Europe and their own army and their own intelligence services.

Europe already in invaded Russia back in 1941, what happened then?

Not too late, each country send 10k troop now.

It is absolutely staggering how people can believe "its all about NATO", while watching Russia amassing troops EXACTLY in the place were there is NO NATO, and NATO explicitly stated many times "our army is not going there". If NATO is an enemy, why not surround Lithuania, Poland or Estonia then??? Such an absurd... and people buy it.

Russia is haunted by the past and fearful of the future.

@@bogdanpanchuk296 Enough is enough.

@@richardextall2002 Putin is Russia and Russia and the Russians is not Putin.

@@joekey8464 well said

Idk he looks a little flustered

Putin does not underestimate Ukraine. He just wants to change the puppet called the president without too many civilian deaths.

Putin used to be patient and play to win, but this attack on Ukraine is way more of a gamble than he usually does, I cna only conclude that Putin feels he is running out of time.

check out Amit Sengupta on youtube too.

Why doesn’t she take Jen psalms place lol

Her "guerilla warfare" regarding equal size of armored brigades and motorized infantry brigades on both Russia and Ukraine was a bit off. If she cant remember or is too young - the Soviet tanks, APCs and IFVs used to be designed, developed, manufactured and modernized in Ukraine.

@@HanSolo__ she is right. Ukraine has BMP 2 T64 T72. Very few updated. The ammunition has little prospects against modernized Russian T72 T80 and T90. They have a lot of modern weapon aiming systems, ammunition and highly effective explosive reactive armor. But the main problem is the Russian Air Force. It has enough modern planes to crush the Ukrainian Air Force in a short time. The Ukraine only has around 70 Mig 29 and SU 27 which are long out of date and have little trained pilots. Then there is the Russian air defense which can cover the back of the Russian air support (fighter-bombers and attack helicopters). Ukraine does not have modern air defenses. The most modern are shoulder-launched short-range missiles.

Тебя реально удовлетворяет такое поверхностное освещение темы? Даже если я откину мысль о том, что это повесточка ихняя, это ж все равно бросание пыли в глаза. Никакой аргументации, просто постройка соломенных чучел и метание обвинений. Ладно бы хоть пруфанули наконец. Хоть одно из заявлений. Я бы хотел видеть, как Путина разоблачают, учитывая что с годами у него лицо становится лишь шире. Но я походу реально с такой западной риторикой больше на стороне своего авторитарного правителя. Пусть даже из двух зол не хочется выбирать ни одно...

@@Solaire_au_Frohmage expose the corruption of Putin and the Oligarchs. Russians can do it. Shame the corrupt elite. This is the best course of action.

@M W The Donbas region is rich in coal.

@@undercrackers56 Who wants coal?

putin invading ukraine because he a desparate failure. He jealous of Xi because Xi made China 100x richer then russia in same time period. putin dont know how to make russia successful in the world so he invade ukraine instead

@@alexl4342 Putin and Xi wants to secure their dictatorship. Putin is set to rule until 2036, and his buddy Xi, rules for life. They think they are immortal...greed and absolute power corrupts.

@@joekey8464 at least Xi know how to be successful. putin is too old fashion to lead russia into the future. russia is economy going to collapse way before 2036.

Did you know President Zellensky is from the same ethnic/religous background as Lazar Gaganovich, Lazar starved 4 million Ukrainians to death in the 1933, and that whole movement, the Bolsheviks was funded by New York banker Jacob Schiff, from the same ethnic/relgious background same as the Anne Applebaum herself, she did a talk on the Holodomor and convientelly left out this fact same as the Rothchilds Isiah Davidvichberg invented the gas van in the 20s, he's from the same ethnic/relgious background Filipp Goloshchyokin wiped out 42% of the population of Khazakstan, also from the same ethnic/relgious background Same as Gendik Yagoda who ran the Gulag slave labour system, ] Same as Yakov Yurovsky who shot the Tsar and his kids Same as Naftaly Frenkel who was in the Cheka police read about their attrocities on wiki, the same ethnic/relgious background that owns all big news outlets in the US accept for Fox new which is owned by Rupert Murdoch but it's completley ran by the same people,

@@truth5705 Anne is a left wing propagandist

@@truth5705 what to speak about the fact that they are all of the same origin as all the rest of us... all coming from Africa, and from monkeys before that. ultimately we are all the same family as lions, elephants and frogs!!!😯😯😯

@@malgorzataojoj4256 yes, but would say that if someone look at what "white people" have done, they've colonized other people, would you make the same argument there, I dont' hear many people making that argument in that case

Warmongering you call that intelligent? Search for the lecture of Professor John Mearsheimer if you want to hear someone intelligent.

The Russian quagmire. The vast majority of Ukrainians will not yield to Russian hegemony.

Similar but not the same. Ukraine has civilisation.

Best let Putin invade Ukraine and suppress the population as Lukashenko has done in Belarus. Lukashenko like Putin knows how to deal with dissent - murder them or just break bones. Ukraine has no right to think they are a sovereign nation. Putin is a kind and gentle man and will treat the Ukrainies well provided they comply. He can always put some adverts on TV where he is bare chested wrestling with bears. The Russians love that and I am sure the Ukranians will as well. Russia has the right to move its borders back to where they were in Soviet times as the whole idea of soveriegn nations deciding their own fate is nonesense. So Poland and Hungary and the Baltic States should be invaded next. Then of course Xi Jinping has the perfect reason to invade Taiwan and of course by the same logic has the absolute right to do so.

She’s talking nonsense!!

@@apexkevv8904 what you mean?

NATO is a distraction putin uses tjis excuse. But truthfully putin is protecting his own power. He needs to stay in power. Can you imagine a russia like a present day Germany & Japan? 3rd and 4th strongest economies in the world. And they dont have a person up there doing putin things.

He is leading eastern Europe and western Russia to disaster. He has created an illusion that we and he are military peers.... This will cuase millions of casualties... We have the ability from very great distances to neutralize his forces and what ever army he has in Russia ,

@@raybon7939 Keep repeating that until you see Russian mushrooms over your head.

She’s way too anti-Russian and anti-Soviet to be taken seriously. Way too biased.

@@user-qe9tr9gp6b what’re they Putin in your head man

Analysis yes, statements about western unity and zelensky - no.

You better go to ZZZ

no, many Russians believe that the collapse of the Soviet Union is a big meanness that Yeltsin and Gorbachev committed. They began to destroy a mighty and strong country. They are hated for this in Russia. Putin has nothing to do with it, he is part of the Russian people, and thinks like a people.

@@user-pq4ft1vu7m It's nonsense this shrew... She is not a real historian but an intelligence agent... When I have the opportunity I ask the former citizens of the USSR (Armeniens, georgiens, russes, belarus)... Of which I begin to pronounce Gorba. .. The reflection is practically the same... TUH PEDERAS

@@enzomartin7703 yes, his family still lives on the money he received from the Americans for the collapse of the USSR. Yeltsin is also hated in Russia, he was controlled by the Americans, who at that moment penetrated into all branches of power in Russia. And his family lives on the money received for the destruction of the industry of the USSR Looking at the history of the country, it seems that it had only two rulers who thought about the country and its future, tough Stalin and softer Putin.

@@davidnoelfranks1124 you are funny. Where do you get any information that in Ukraine people are under attack of the Ukraine government? Russia insight? State media! Go there and see for yourself.

Nato want to slave the planet, they are the elites.

@@esterbaque7757 what has NATO to do with Murderers killing Ukraine people And enslaving them in their own country. Ukraine is no part of NATO. I am but I’m as free as can be! I can even travel to Russia for fun or work or a good prostitute. Whatever I want!

@@davidnoelfranks1124 there was 8 millions in Donetsk and Lugansk in total. Russia control only one third. A lot of people moved from Donetsk and Lugansk. So not 8 millions but less than 1.

@@gerardvriend729 the so-called Russia-backed separatists are, in fact, ethnic Russians, who were a part of Ukraine, and are now a part of self-proclaimed republics, which are unrecognised to this day. Kind of similar to Transdnistria, though still different in a couple ways.

Applebaum is a KNOWN psyop agent.

Thanks for the timeline! So, in your opinion, isnt the Ukraine and Crimea Russias playground, bread basket, and year round ice free port? Would that be worth Putin going in? I'm not pro Putin, but the Ukraine has been strategic to Russia since the czars. Food or oil, cant live without either. Would like your perspective. Thanks!

Dont forget the swede vikings org the først slavic States... Rurik (swede) first emoerare." Swede" dynasty till Romanovs took over. Guess history tell that Russia should be proparty to Sweden?. By the way. When will Russia give back land you stole from Finland 1942?

Leaders hate history

@@franznarf Dictators hate history as it is. They will have the vertion that suit E their agendas. Thats why Putin sendes decrrets on what and how tracher shal talk about Sovjetunion ++.. " normal" political leaders will have the history to be told by historien skilled people, and leave the subject this way

Ukraine existed in 482AD?

The Nuke Agreement? You know Putin hasn't forgotten. The "west" is trying to ignore it. That's why people are accusing the west of appeasement.

because Ukraine is getting used and not a single Western country cares about Ukraine i am sorry it may be harsh but facts are facts the only thing Ukraine gotten from all of this is some spotlight and HUGE economic hit which Ukraine really really didn't need, and about the speaker she is politically motivated dont mind her

Tell me why Western nations should get involved in Ukraine’s civil war? We have no way of judging who is in the right, the government or the separatists. Russia is clearly wrong to take advantage of this crisis (especially if they created it in the first place) but NATO has no duty in any civil war.

You're pointing out what everyone knows: Putin is a treacherous liar. The Budapest Memorandum was a pledge by Russia not to attack Ukraine after they gave up their nuclear weapons, but a plege from a treacherous liar isn't worth much. What is there to say? Putin is a cancer.

@@user-ff9sr6ce4t The West is robbed blind Ukraine and left like a thief in the night...

It's neocon claptrap of the worst sort. You want a reasoned analysis search RU-vid for "Mearsheimer Ukraine" and watch John Mearsheimer's U of Chicago lecture on why the West is responsible for this crisis.

She is a leftist scoombag, nothing more!

She is not honest and saying what DW wants to hear

We agree

@@noop9k How so? Please explain your statement

Agreed! Very grounded and insightful.

Then you need to broaden your horizon.

You should follow her work in general. She's one of the best analysts and historians alive today.

what? you mean Don Lemon isn't accurate, objective, informed, indepth, or fair enough????

She's an agent. A shill.

She 's a monster incapable of any balanced view on Russia. It is based on a 3 months stay in the country in the mid 80s. With the help of her husband a polish rabid anti Russia she spreads her lies. Her rants are devoid of reality and the stooopid uninformed americans base their world policy on this? God help us all.

be weary of rulers who never leave office, its the most important thing.

Russia cannot eradicate poverty. It’s a demographic and geographic mess. And Geography forges national destiny and destiny is all.

It is hard to tell whether you're talking about USA or Russia because 50% of usa citizens are living below the poverty line

@@Ravakeksis being poor in America is better than being poor in most other countries.

@@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869 probably, but poor is poor everywhere

Germany is a puppet of the yankis

@@mikeboydus Exactly. Have they even delivered that one field hospital they *promised* Ukraine? Germany is the snake in our house. That has been made abundantly clear. But Macron is suspect too, willing to sell out the democratic rights of the Ukrainian people to appease the Kremlin. That is what Finlandisation means, and he proposed it...

Yes. Very sick.

@@mikeboydus how about the nordstream 2? They need permission if the yankees to use it

@@camocas a puppet ia a puppet no matter who is the master

My heart goes out to the people in Donbas which are shelled for 8 years

By their own fascist ukrainien asov-goverment

@@jfk-shotbybanksters479 Meaming what? Stalin just started attacking them. Your post is designed to bait. Coward

It was all bs.

Dude xD renewable energy won't do suqat to support societies as we know it at scale. In fact, since these require russian raw materials and support in form of gas turbines, are actively supported by Russia xD

@@piotrd.4850 Renewable energy already accumulates enough energy, the problem is that its not reliable because our ability of storing that energy is very, very bad. The world is working on that issue and i believe we can fix that before we have nuclear fusion...imagine mankind has access to nuclear fusion which frankly i believe we are another 50y away, what will Russia do when the world does no longer need Russias natural resources.

Putin's Net Worth is estimated at 700 Billion USD 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳

She’s way too anti-Russian and anti-Soviet to be taken seriously. Way too biased.

@@wokeaf1337 People that are anti nuclear energy are not thinking this through, yes I understand their fears whether they have foundation or not. The problem being that Russia will use any type of blackmail or bullying tactics to get it's own way to protect itself and its tyrannical government. This will not be the last time that Putin flexes his muscles and if the west doesn't like it he will simply turn off energy supplies until we agree to his demands. Only an ignorant foolish government would put themselves in such a weak vulnerable position and in the end will probably end in a East Vs West war. So I would sooner have nuclear energy now than have nuclear warheads dropping on me in the future, there is no room for idealism in the present climate.

After WW2 soviets spent about 10 years rooting out resistance in Ukraine. And it were soviets - much more ruthless and effective compared to current Russia leadership. That's why I bet Putin will not annex Ukraine completely. Annexaton will destroy Russia from within, since Russia already has problems with Chechnya and Tatarstan.

@@tftfgubedgukm7911 Please tell us your address. Couple Spetznaz would like to visit you.

@@tftfgubedgukm7911 good joke, tell some more

@@slavenskazajednica7912 send to mine, just get the address from the FSB and I'll be waiting for your martyrs.

Thanks for sharing! We, Ukrainians were colonized by others, but always and forever independent !

Too bad shes wrong.

Did you know President Zellensky is from the same ethnic/religous background as Lazar Gaganovich, Lazar starved 4 million Ukrainians to death in the 1933, and that whole movement, the Bolsheviks was funded by New York banker Jacob Schiff, from the same ethnic/relgious background same as the Anne Applebaum herself, she did a talk on the Holodomor and convientelly left out this fact same as the Rothchilds Isiah Davidvichberg invented the gas van in the 20s, he's from the same ethnic/relgious background Filipp Goloshchyokin wiped out 42% of the population of Khazakstan, also from the same ethnic/relgious background Same as Gendik Yagoda who ran the Gulag slave labour system, ] Same as Yakov Yurovsky who shot the Tsar and his kids Same as Naftaly Frenkel who was in the Cheka police read about their attrocities on wiki, the same ethnic/relgious background that owns all big news outlets in the US accept for Fox new which is owned by Rupert Murdoch but it's completley ran by the same people,

The Atlantic is a US news source. The initial interview is with the Atlantic

Deleted automatically AGAIN! So much for free open exchange... Putin doesn't want the Ukraine, he just doesn't want the EU and NATO to have it. Its a security matter a child can figure it out. He's already lost Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, the EU is bullying Belarus and the Ukraine is the final brick. Doesn't anyone know how to play connect four with countries... Take a look at a map people and realise it's the west threatening Russia and Russia is getting scared...

Anne shows up on American news shows and NPR fairly often. She is also interviewed for a bunch of print pieces, as well. The media is filled with a bunch of blabbering dotards, but they do allow smart people to speak every so often.

@@daveofyorkshire301 so why is Russia feeling threatened more important than Ukraine feeling threatened?

@@nighthawk6692 Because Russia is a nuclear power and if that hasn't dawned on you then you need to look closely at the geopolitical and tactical situation...

We ain't free! So many of us can't even work unless we get endlessly injected now.

Yes salute the outstanding courageous Ukrainian people to be crushed under Russian boots. US and Nato only had to demonstrate overwhelming air superiority over Ukraine to stop Putin cold on his tracks. Too bad they didn't even want to put on an air show for Putin to save Ukrainian people.

You will join Ukraine militia? lolllllllll

If they had "outstanding courage" why does their government need to resort to conscription? All free people ? Nothing free about conscription

Who lacks freedom in this day and age? I really can't understand that saying.

The interviewer was also noticeably well-prepared, and did a good job in a foreign language.

Yeah CIA talking points were spot on

The woman is an expert on tyrannies. You should read her book Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine.

@@deborahfreedman333 that's all well and good and i am very familiar with golodomor. I am more concerned about her views on current events. Her being on the board of NED (well known CIA thinktank) is a red flag however.

She’s a writer,lots of political and social commentary

Dude she's a historian not a politician.

She is not a politician.

Dont insult an academic scholar by calling her politician.

This is a pointless statement

Sorry but the usa and canada have been arming these pukes for years. History says zelensky is a puppet or fascist or both.

If Russians see Ukrainians living better lives, they'll start to question why they need Putin

or missiles in cuba ?

@@davidnoelfranks1124 I see you are a Russian troll. It's so easy to ruin your agenda with facts: 1. Ukraine just had a record GDP. That's considering occupied territories that used to add about 25% to overall GDP. AND considering lack of investments due to continuous threat from Russia. This record GDP is precisely because Ukraine is moving towards West. 2. Ukrainian minimum wage is higher than russian. By about $47. Fact. Anyone can look this up on Wikipedia. 3. Ukrainian average salary is only about $200ish lower than in "mighty" russia. Considering russian natural resources, it's a joke 🤣. If russia didn't occupy parts of Ukraine in 2014, obviously the numbers listed above would be much much higher.

@@sergeybebenin Fun fact: GDP PER CAPITA of Belarus is twice bigger than GDP PER CAPITA of Ukraine.

@@sergeybebenin *GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS INDEX* According to the *Global Competitiveness Index (published by the World Economic Forum)* which assesses the ability of countries to provide high levels of prosperity to their citizens, Russia 🇷🇺 is ranked 43rd, right next to Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Lithuania, Malta etc. Which is pretty average for Europe, I must admit. And not that bad after all. Whereas Ukraine 🇺🇦 is ranked 85th next to Sri Lanka, Moldova, Algeria, Tunis, Lebanon. Oopsie.

She’s way too anti-Russian and anti-Soviet to be taken seriously. Way too biased.

putin is the most anti russian person on earth. i know he pays you to post here, but we both know it doesnt pay well. putin is seriously hurting russians and russia with the system he put in place and the measures hes taking to keep it going.

@@absdef331 Bravo 👏🏻

@@user-qe9tr9gp6b stop copy pasting your comments you look like a Russian bot

Ari G Fims. Spot on

U.S.? You obviously know little about why so many countries look to them for help.

I’m behind Ukraine 100% defending themselves !!! But America is not Russia and never has been.

Spot-on. America stands for Freedom and Democracy. Letting Putin conquer another democracy [that likes us] is not who we are.

@@burtonkephart6239 Agree. But Vietnamwar and Iraq2 war = complete disasters.This fact just dont justify a even worse mistanke from Putin.

Is it really? Think twice.

@GooberBear 👍👍

She is able to speak the truth because she isn't a politician and she isn't speaking officially on behalf of any nation.

PUTIN is STRONG ! Definitely !

Putin is an imperialist and 19th century thinker. He does not care about what people feel.

Indeed.

Do your research before making such Unbelievable the naive ignorant uneducated idiotic comments

...based on what?

@@bearkowlbama6352 based on every thing that you heard on the video

@@andreaspapapetrou5691 I see. So, your opinions are formed by picking who you think sounds smart, and just pretending that's what you think. Got it.

Lol.. Now Crimea Enjoys being Russian..😝😝 There are tonne of vlogs where people enjoy in Crimea. Infact they feel like its Comeback of USSR...

@@scienceisreligion5618 you're a dork and likely a Russian troll. I was just watching a documentary about a man who owned a zoo in Crimea and was very pro Russian until they turned Crimea into a military base to attack Ukraine and now that man's zoo is closed and worthless. He even said he didn't know what he had until it was too late. Putim is acting cause he is scared him and his buddies will lose their money. That's it. Period. That's all it is. A greedy man willing to start a war and kill your young for his money and power.

@@scienceisreligion5618 Do you think that living in Moscow or St Petersburg is worse than living in Kiev of Kharkiv? On the contrary, Russia had a better standard of living than Ukraine before 2014 when Crimea was annexed by (joined) Russia and still does. Ukraine should not control Russian Crimea just because the communist USSR leaders drew the map that way.

@pUrP!€ @nArX!$t lol, Dont listen to Western medias. Go and see there for yourself!!! Travel russia and travel Crimea. See for yourself

@@urikayan2368 man, Trust me.. There are stuffs that are too much propogandas.. dont trust anyone. Just Visit Crimea from Russia. This is too much of lie people get in. Too much propogandas and People needs to know truth whoever it is. Just because its Russia or China.. blame shouldnt be done. Just visit and give feedback

Exactly. This isn't about NATO as so many tend to think

Yes , and can you name a country that has become a global bully , which is always protecting it's own position by sticking it's nose in everyone else's ? Honestly I have faith in Putin and do not believe we will see real conflict, since he has always been a cool customer to deal with . Not that he is better , but if we had to rely on the same genius's that have only by luck not acted on their paranoia, the kind that ended up killing hundreds of thousands on intelligence that claimed there was stock piles of WMD"s , this situation would be doomed !

@@murrayflewelling1258 Nice semi-covert attempt at whataboutism.

@@peabase Whatabbouterism it's a valid argument even in a court of law. Find it funny how the West can do all kinds of atrocities like Serbia, Lybia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, same time criticize Putin for Not (lol) invading Ukraine and expect that people don't point out the West's crimes and hypocrisy!! Have you no shame?

@@murrayflewelling1258 you trust Putin? That's foolish! Putin is a thug that resorts to aggression when he doesn't get his way! His man in Kyiv was ovethrown and couldn't control himself, the cut off their gas supplies. His actions are not that of a genius, if he didn't have a temper tantrum in 2014 he and Russia would have been in a much better position today to influence Ukraine and Ukrainian public opinion. Instead 8 year's of war later Ukrainian public opinion because of the numerous deaths and constant threat have hardened their opinion against Putin's Russia. They don't say Russian brother's anymore they call Russia "historic enemies". Now Ukraine is in a much stronger possition militarily to fight and therefore more Russian soldiers will die. This is not smart!

can't, because of the influence of the United States

@@ngakadaakhlak8314 Bad take.

The war has been going on since 2014.

It won't be a long one. Putin is increasingly losing his popularity and hence, people willing to die for him. Russia, despite all the oligarch money is extremely poor and could not sustain anything beyond a very quick conflict.

That would require putin getting removed.

Not really. If you know enough about the history of warfare then there's plenty of similarities you can draw by looking to similar conflicts. This also isn't the first time wars of this scale have been fought in this region. Only time will tell what actually happens, but there does seem to be a limited number of reasonable outcomes that we could expect to see from this, most of them bad.

@@mrscripp7091 That may be so, but Ukraine's president implied in a not so veiled statement that the west, meaning the US and company, has lured them (his country) into the deep end of the pool to down. 😳🧐

@@Brewed-mi1ue He told the truth. The uk/us, the primairy instigators of the chaos in Ukraine couldn,t care less about the country. This whole mess isn't about Ukraine it's about keeping Germany down, Russia out off Europe and the us in. The 3 nato principles. This woman Applebaum, claims to know Russia from her 3 months of having lived there some 36 years ago. She's married to a Polish rabid anti Russian. Polish are known to bear a grudge, playing the eternal victim. I came across this show, thought to take a look and as a European must admit I'm again deeply shocked that viewers seem to accept her anti Putin, anti Russia rants for truth, pure gold and the gospel.

@@Brewed-mi1ue Which statement are you referring to? I've read/watched most of them so far. He's clearly not happy with the level of western intervention, but I didn't get the impression that he was blaming the west for some sort of baiting type tactics.

@@mrscripp7091 at this point, it really doesn't matter. Eyes 👀 open. He's been MANIPULATED. He would not have put his and his country's neck this far out unless he felt that admission to the club, NATO, had a chance. He gambled and lost. Repent and bow to the God of Israel, then stock your home with food and water... There is more to come🧐

Soy de los Estados Unidos. Debe ser orgulloso sobre tu progreso en la lengua. Continua a appender 🙂

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No it’s not complicated at all. Putin is on a land grab. No more complicated than someone stealing from you. Am I missing something?

Is it really that complicated?

@@smhdpt12 nope 👍🏽

Unless of course you're both wrong.

DEAD LAUGHING....

Russia's and Putin's ways seem for strange reasons be best explained by a bunch of women: The four best, that I know of, are Fiona Hill, Anne Applebaum, Constanze Stelzenmüller and Miriam Kosmehl

@@jmolofsson Each to their own taste... Stelzenmüller is the most horrible Atlanticist journalist in Europe, Fiona Hill and Anne Applebaum are not public figures but intelligence agents who shuttle between official offices and (reserved) posts in the newspapers or in universities.

@@enzomartin7703 Martin, you are of course right that they are intelligence analysts. Stelzenmüller too, if I'm not wrong. That's where Russia-specialists go. That is where they get paid. And I dare say we'd needed to do the same on our side of the Atlantic. _"The most horrible"_ is your judgement. Maybe that's so.That was not my point. Rather that they are good educators. And disliked by Putin's advocates, of course.

She summed it up pretty well. Putin is afraid to lose power. Period.

Bs she reduces every position from russia

@@TheHR1973 yeh she's great

@@heroisdacrise2024 she was a big anti-communist back in the day and Putin is carrying on like the KGB agent he was. She sees write through him

@@stephengrahn2383 Her husband was one of the best polish foreign ministers.

A man with so many weapons and nuclear bombs what can destroy the world why would you want to put them under so much pressure my protein sanction on him and he as not attacked as yet? You will push him to world war and even wipe the world out

@@gabrieltrumpet3932 if I thought he wasn't going to attack I'd agree with you but really he's going to attack because he's a evil man who needs to be taken out of power and if only way is to get to him is by hurting him where it hurts do it I am sick of putan and Russia a big powerful country so scared of a small country like Ukraine it shows he knows Ukrainian people are so strong

Not “people” just Putin. Many Russian people want peace. But Putin wants to expand ussr. He talks about it all the time.

She is distorting facts. Ukraine is a failed state, look at its GDP PPP per capita, it is even worse than Cuba, 60 years + under the US sanctions.

Better to stay with the failed vaccinated western european and american, pure democracy similar in Canada. 😀😀

So.. a victory for China, possibly a large one if they use the opportunity to attack Taiwan, for Putin loses access to the Pacific soon after. The German navy leader in India was right.

@@BoycottChinaa Shoot, China could go ahead and take swaths of Siberia.

@@marmac83 Not happening. Russia has a mutual protection treaty with China. And if all fails - Russia has the biggest nuclear arsenal of the world. It can be used for directed counterattacks or for broad destruction up to the annihilation of the human race. And they allow themselves the unrestricted use of them in the case of a serious attack on their territory.

@@MetallicReg Putin, you forgot to take your meds...

@@pierrepracht Read their defensive military doctrine. As it is defined "The world has no right for existence without a free Russia."

It's better that she remains outside the political process. Politics ruins intelligent people.

I've read two. Good reads, but nothing I did know from other sources.

She is a war propagandist.

I am also interested in reading the history of Russia written in the West. I'm sure it will be funny, the West has never been able to understand us.

@@user-sn2oo4jy4m as she said Putin doesn't know it as well

@@frederickhartray8364 I disagree. Yes, she is a non-Trumpian Republican. If I were American, I would be a Democrat. She writes about the Russian Gulag Archipeligo, the Holodomor in Ukraine, the USSR techniques used to take over countries following the end of WWII and so on. I have read a lot of her articles in the Atlantic and she has never advocated for or against war. But she does say the West is generally much too naive about Russia. I think she is right about that. I've read a lot about, for example, Russia (ex. Solzehnitsen's Gulag Archipeligo). She is an historian and writes magazine articles. She is not a politician and I have never seen her advocate for or against a war.

European countries do not fight alongside Ukraine as 1. Ukraine is not part of NATO. 2. This would lead to all European NATO Members Including America to be at war with Russia. ....leading to WW3.

@Blu Mahou That's not how NATO works... Poland can send troops to Ukraine and fight alongside Ukraine without ever dragging the other countries into the conflict. Look at how many Conflicts France is in.. Why isn't NATO fighting in the Sahel alongside France? The answer is because Article 5 only applies if that country is attacked directly meaning, If Poland were to join Ukraine and Russia were to bomb Warsaw then Poland could trigger Article 5 if it chooses, however, Polish soldiers getting bombed or killed in Ukraine would not, since Polish sovereignty is not being directly attacked.

But thats how wars begin...because we are alone...and when you are alone its easy to pick up with you. Never the less Ukrain its not in the midle of Africa, its in the midle of Europe. If Putin decides to invade Ukrain the world will never be the same.

@@antoinedemm7533 This is your point of view. Russia would have the opposite point of view seeing Polish soldiers in Ukraine. The difference between other conflicts and this conflict is that Russia is capable of nuking Europe, most probably in a couple of hours Europe would cease to exist if ie Poland invoke article 5. This is exactly the reason why Ukraine will never see NATO. Besides, this lady has no idea what she is talking about. Putin never engaged in a war he can't win. Taking Crimea was no problem as this was easy, historically Russian territory with the majority of population Russian. Taking Ukraine would need a lot more resources. It just won't happen. They are now claiming victory for sth that was never about to happen, let them have it. It looks like the US needs `war` so it can feed the ever-hungry military complex and block the selling of Russian gas to Europe.

@@hrvojelasic5794 exactly 💯.... To many people brainwashed from the western media.

No.

Sickening isn’t it?

She's horrible, evil, probably gives G.W. Bush footrubs.

Someone should REMIND her isn't the America's & western warmongers has been doing all along installing puppet governments around the world ! end of the day their all the same is just Putin wants a bigger cut of the cake 🎂

Thanks for reminding us of the 2002 article.... oh yes, Saddam was dumb enough not to pursue nuclear or other WMD so he was invaded and killed... remember Colin Powell's show of "powder" at the UN Security Conference...just as Blinken repeated the show few days ago?

The war that killed about 1 million people, half of them were children, Iraq has been a failed state. DW interviews such a person? I cannot believe it!

and if you were wrong 20 years ago, you cannot be right today. Right? I don't say she is right or wrong. I say that your reasoning is bullsh!t

It´s nothing personal. They are just afraid of ww3.

Ukraine is not unique. Nations are blaming each other all the time. For Ukraine, it's neither the first time, nor the last. Most nations remember when they were abandoned and had to suffer. I live in Spain, where many lament the too weak support from the democracies during the civil war. My relatives in Finland lament the too weak support from Sweden when the Soviet Union invaded. My Swedish relatives think the Swedes supported Finland as much as they could. It will be just the same with Ukraine, if Russia invades: The EU will support, economically above all, and will be told to have done too little too late.

@@alexeben7776 sure.ignoring Putler will stop him. Great strat

"... is a disgrace for all of you in the west" wow! For ALL? I live my average life here in the West. Disgrace on me that I don't support a country I have never even seen? what's next from you? Disgrace on me because, by not supporting them, I let children starve to death every day? Some did fukkn die while you were writing your comment, and while I was writing mine. They are DEAD. No disgrace on you for that? But disgrace on me, because I let LIVING Ukranians fight alone. what do you think I should do to avoid this "disgrace" on me in this Ukranian matter?

@@jmolofsson so not being able to learn from history and taking military challenges seriously is normal and should stay this way?

I will have to read it 👍

@@ladysman1531 its an extremely well researched and thoughtful piece of work. You won't regret it. I think Solzhenitsyn himself would've been proud. She should have more airtime.

Reading it now

The Petro dollar democracies and the system will be protected, this entertainment will end poorly for Putin if he proceeds.