Putin and the Presidents: William Taylor (interview) | FRONTLINE 

What is the root of Frontline hostility toward Russia?

@@jakebredthauer5100 The crimea invasion.

@@StayPrimal Did the US invade Crimea? If US wanted to rule the world it would invade Crimea.

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@jakebredthauer5100 Perhaps Putin kidnapping Ukrainian children and deporting Ukrainians to Russia. Perhaps Putin’s Orcs blowing up residential apartment buildings. Perhaps Putin being Putin.

There’s another series called I think ‘The Putin files’, excellent also. Silicon Curtain also has brilliant interviews.

@ItAintRocketScience really? What lies did he tell? Support your claim that it was a lie with source citation presenting hard and credible evidence that it was a lie.

@ItAintRocketScience So, you have no evidence to cite and present. Didn't think so - but you deserved the opportunity. Extreme bias (or simple-minded trolling) blinds one to balance and reason, to facts and to truth.

And one-sided

@@tselisomokhali3088 the series provides inputs from a number of players with visibility or perspective on the series’ title. Putin’s evil (and by extension, Russia’s evil) in Ukraine …… nuf said.

remember how Hero Biden demanded to fire proaecutor who investigated his son corruption?

слава россии🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

My sense is that there are more people of integrity in government than you acknowledge. Unfortunately, our politicians seem all too often to be focused on obtaining and retaining power, and in pandering to whatever interest groups are perceived as necessary to election at the primary level. This problem is exacerbated by gerrymandering which promotes tribalism and gives far too much power to vocal albeit relatively small interest groups to the detriment of consensus building and compromise necessary to actually get useful things done. And then there was Trump who was willing to abuse his office powers and sell out the Ukrainians absent their support for his illegitimate coercion of them to aide his campaign against Biden. As between Taylor and Trump, they are at opposite sides of the measure of integrity.

Please report Hindustan times to RU-vid. This channel is constantly spewing pro Russian propaganda and anti west hatred and lies. In the same way that RT and other Russian media were shut down . There is no free media in India because it's all controlled by Modi and his gangster friends. Please report Hindustan times with me. It's highly probable are being directed by and directly paid by Putin.

@@sanjushah3061 glory to Russia 🚩🚩🚩🚩💪💪💪

@@mohammednaemwarqa9698 never. Disgusting regime.

Victory to Ukraine 🇺🇦

Wilfull ignorance

Nonsense. Russia will never attack a NATO member and no NATO member will ever attack Russia. Poland and all three Baltic States are NATO members.

🤡👆 neo nazi lover 😂

USA foolish foreign policies , they thought they rich in 90s from selling weapons they can do what ever they want. And they want to be the good guy and the communism is bad. They are just tired of racist against black ppl so now communism is the new enemy. Ukraine has always been pushed by USA to fight Russia since USA use propaganda to break apart Russia (Soviet). Its the USA who wants to be the good guy and bully others through sanctions to because they think they are better than everyone else. USA still cant help being racist. And that concludes, USA its a country of Tyrants.

Only if your a Russian apologist.....

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It doesn’t seem like it, it is.

LOL - koolaid goes down easy

Its much easier to detect the propaganda in fox news that's for sure!

@@GeoMaddock Which koolaid? Would you prefer 2 or 3 minute analysis by people that have no idea?

@@GeoMaddock Koolaid, sheeple, blah blah blah. Have an original thought.

it's fantastic anti-Russia propaganda, agreed

So it should be , why should only Putin be lying nonstop

@@romadolnyckyj1706 I'm not going to start lying just because others do, and that's because I have something they don't --integrity

@@marcosvidal4940 What do you consider propaganda?

​@@Power_to_the_people567 biased or misleading information used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view

Individuals with as much Power and Prestige as he had don't like Whistleblowers.

Vindman Whistle Blower hero? John Paul MacIssac ! ! ! ! (the mac shop owner who turned in the laptop to the FBI 2019 before the impeachment hearings, with evidence of Biden's selling access to the V.P.'s office) why doesn't PBS open up that story and interview MacIssac? Doesn't fit PBS narrative - Democrats are good guys.

@@kennysartwork5827 Kenny’s dead!

I don't think the name of the whistle-blower was ever revealed.

@jasonlehfeldt1577 “Vindman is a political hack in a uniform.” -former Commander

dumb, and now dumber

Government funded media....🙊🙉🙈

He just a lair, everything he is saying here is a lie, the man doesn't even know that Crimea is part of Russia historically and not Ukraine, since 1783, till it was transferred to Ukraine in 1954. US has been planning to destroy Russia decades ago to break it into smaller countries, what that man is saying is pure lies he is hidden the truth behind what is happening now.

​​@@mohammedabdullahiattah6803and I'm from Sweden and once we ruled Brittain, northern France, Sicilly and even Tunisia. I would like to have them back now, let's invade!

@@huldaliljeblad3611 you once ruled where and with what army very funny, conquering villages in those time is not considered to be anything important, did you fight the Mongols or the Persians or the ottomans, I can remembered that you were brutally rule by the Romans empire isn't it, so please keep quiet.

@@mohammedabdullahiattah6803 you'd better read up on European history, the Romans never even reached continental Baltic Sea coast. Ever heard about the Normands? Google King Roger of Sicilly and Norman Africa! But perhaps you are confusing Sweden with Switzerland?

@@mohammedabdullahiattah6803 and did you know, Sweden is the only country who has invaded Moscow since the middle ages?

when lying meets poetry. That's you

Come on the man is a lying neo-con, it's bizarre how he can fool so many ppl..

Wake up

@@itsaustraliadayeveryday7234 Woke is a joke......

@@bryanbrewer4272 yes woke is a joke but it destroying the west like a cancer

@@bryanbrewer4272 Stay asleep.

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Interference with election? Great Knowledge of Ukraine, like bis sons? Bitches or what?

Based on facts are you sure? Russia had over 100 thousand soldiers at the border of Ukraine and Putin gives Nato his demands and finished by saying if you don't accept these demands I will have to do something, Surely you don't need intelligence to tell you his going to invade knowing they said NO to all of them, You only can say this is BS if you know some facts, you can always google Putin demands to Nato

stop lying

Almost everything Taylor said is a lie...

You don’t get to be an ambassador without being a skilled liar that’s what I’m seeing here

in leftist propaganda yes...

Why? It would be WWIII now.

nope. just anti-Russia propaganda

He actually doesn't reveal anything that isn't already public knowledge. He knows how to cover his own behind.

To the ignorant people who know nothing!

What do we in America know about democracy (which if we had one wouldn't be so great for its mandate to impose the will of the many upon the concerns of the few anyway)? How is it even possible to achieve democratically-elected representation by artificial constraint of the (fully -lobbied) candidate pool to two (fully-lobbied) parties? Rhetorical I'm not being personally aggressive with you 😐 or trying to sound that way. I'm just pointing out it isn't even necessary that our elections are real with a semantic trick like the very term democracy at work falsely implying informed dissent within a governed electorate never rises to a majority. Just is what it is man. All governments are plutocracies because no impulse to govern over others arises from anything but self-interest...which is a big duh that we are not accidentally dumbed-down about. One-party sells people too stupid (maybe naive but distracted by greed) to realize ripoffs like student loan forgiveness of course come right out of their very own taxes and the other one pretends to be about smaller and less government while legislating such bullshit as marriage and reproduction. Even the most nobly idealistic soundly-chartered government is inevitably corrupted because politicians are like beauty pageant contestants. Like I said, is what it is. So yay democracy but AFAICT our mutual misapprehension of Slavs is that we do not fathom that they are more cynical than me and they do not believe we are as idealistic as you.

Glory to the Brave Ukrainians defending their variety of corruption.

The United States is a Republic actually not a democracy!

@@paulbryant6654 Good point.

they get paid by the comment, don't stick around for the replies though

I'm not Russian. That is absolute bull shit. The typical American bull. You only see the way you want. I guess every country in the world know your regime change mode of operation. Utube is in cohort with the deep state...

@@andrewwong2605 youre a liar tho

This war could be over in a heartbeat……Putin just needs to withdraw his troops How about directing your anger to him It’s an illegal attempted takeover of a country BTW. I’m not American but I do live in a free democratic country that calls bullshit when we see it

You just sound like you are swallowing your countries' propaganda, hook, line and sinker ... the hate your feel for your 'enemy' is coerced by the very people you think are your friends, but control you .... patriotism is tribalism ... and not healthy for integrity or decency ... question what you read ... treat others as you would like to be treated ... one simple rule xXx

I don't think I agree and would agree more with ambassador William Taylor's characterization that Putin's personal ambitions to right the wrong of the fall of the Soviet Union is the primary motivation for invading Ukraine. Putin's autocratic view of the world is transactional, even domestically. He cares little for anyone but himself and by extension the cadre of supporters that keep him in power. As long as he felt his position a the President of Russia was secure and revenues from the Russian oil industry was secure I don't see him viewing his rule in Russia as a failure. In fact, by his KGB standards he's been an extremely successful leader, unchallenged and all powerful of the largest country in the world in land mass along with its immense treasure of raw minerals and a military considered second only to the US. Russia fears China but felt China was contained. No, Putin invaded Ukraine only because he thought he could get away with it. He thought he had properly prepared beforehand from the lessons of Crimea in 2014 and built up his currency reserves so he thought he'd be immune from any new sanctions. He thought that the Ukrainian people would welcome Russian troops with little to no resistance like in 2014 because there is no such thing as a Ukrainian culture or identity. Ukrainians were willing members of the Soviet Union and desired Russian rule agan so Russian troops would be welcomed as liberators from an oppressive West.

@@tonysu8860 your point and mine are separate issues

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I was guilty of being anti-GB too, but I’ve grown and learned since then… he did a damn good job, given the circumstances. I’m still a democrat, but I also feel drawn toward sane republicans these days. Too bad there aren’t any currently….

A rational and reflective politician? Didn’t he invade Iraq under false pretenses? The invasion killed hundred thousands of Iraqis and several thousands American servicemen. The debacle after the invasion led to the rise of ISIS.

I think ambassador Taylor is referring to President GW Bush, not the father HW Bush. President GW Bush didn't have have the same reputation as his father, accused improperly of being an alcoholic and elected only because he was a Bush family member. In fact, the first year or two of his Presidency was dominated by neo-conservatives led by VP Cheney. In the end, GW Bush proved himself of special mettle when he reversed course in the middle of his administration and turned it inside out expelling the neo-conservatives that ran his administration led by VP Cheney in the first couple years and Bush led his Presidency for the remainder of his term. IMO very few people or Presidents would have done what GW Bush did, that showed GW Bush was more of a person than a lot of people thought. President GW Bush was respected much but turned out to be a better than expected President.

​@@staciehahn9175 he was a bad president then and he is still a bad president now. His presidency just seems a lot more conventional because of everything that happened since. It has been a linearly decent into madness ever since mr watergate at least. That is as far my knowledge about things is good enough to have an opinion on the matter.

George the Elder. The Younger just played at President when he could not longer play as President of the Rangers.

I don't see it like that I see a lot of flaws and what he saying. I'm not a big fan of Putin. But this guy sounds like he's doing a sales pitch for Joe Biden. I strongly suggest you watch John mershimer watch him on RU-vid. He analyzed the ukrainian-russian situation 8 years ago you're going to get some facts. And a lot of them are not going to coincide with what this guy is saying.

And of course he never has a bad word to say about George W. Bush.

He implied that by giving voice to Ukraine joining NATO without pushing it over the line actually put a target on Ukraines back.

@@williamyoung9401 He's a diplomat. I understand that's not a very well known type of thing these days when saying shocking and controversial and even rude things will get you a lot of attention. But a diplomat is careful and says things in a way that doesn't offend. Diplomacy. He was also very careful in criticizing Mr. Obama. These folks aren't usually the blue red divide types, if they are good at their jobs. They aren't usually critical of US Presidents.

Good point.

A great voice that reveals nothing.

Indeed.

nothing innocent about this liar

His lying proves he more a criminal than a truth loving man...

@@hanvroman and you think your dumb assumptions without any proof let you look like a truth loving man? no. no it really does not.

It’s remember not remeber

This is the most bias interview I've ever heard not informative get your facts right man

That is an excellent point which hadn't occurred to me. Any picture of how Putin interacts with US Presidents would certainly be given an extra layer of depth by also discussing how he interacted with Merkel.

But Crimea had no water other than the canal from the North.

@@anthonycook6613 Merkel spoke Russian, grew up and did well in the DDR, and gained political influence from the increased natural gas imports and Nord Stream 2.

@@michaelwaldmeier1601 yes, and that’s a very interesting geopolitical feature: Ukraine probably shut off the water supply after the 2014 invasion.

@@michaelwaldmeier1601 Hi Michael 🙂 As far as I know, at the time when Merkel was at school in the DDR, it was pretty much standard to learn Russian. Nowadays all German school students learn some English (I'm saying this as an expat living in Germany, btw), but back in the day, West Germans learned English and East Germans learned Russian. That was just the way it was, so I don't think we can use that to help us form an opinion of Merkel. But I do think it's fair to criticise the naivety of the "Handel durch Wandel" (change through trade) dictum that regulated German-Russian relations under Merkel's stewardship. It was naive at best, cynical at worst, and it sold out a number of other European countries, including Ukraine. Right now, in 2023, Germany is hosting 1 million Ukrainian refugees, and overall doing a very good job of it. That's not something to be minimised. For example, the UK - whose media inexplicably seems to see itself as the moral compass of this conflict - have only taken about 20,000 refugees. So y'know, they can FRO to their Murdoch sex dungeons and never come back. One million refugees is a lot of state resources and a lot of care to devote to people who need it. That said, there probably is a parallel universe in which Merkel got far more serious about the threat from the Kremlin, and this full-scale invasion was deterred by a much more robust response from Europe to the Crimean annexation - including the closure of Nord Stream. In this respect she definitely has to carry the can somewhat, and the recent interview in which she expressed "no regrets" shows that she isn't (yet) willing to do that. One last point: if you're looking for German Chancellors who definitely *did* benefit personally from the Nord Stream deal, Merkel's predecessor Gerhard Schröder is probably your guy. Schröder helped the original deal go through, all the while accepting personal sleigh rides from Putin through the Russian snow, and then went on to become both chairman of the Nord Stream project itself, and later chairman of the Russian oil company Rosneft. He is a sickening, nauseating man, who celebrated his 70th birthday with Putin in St. Petersburg while war raged in the Donbas in 2014. Not a person who would be easy to meet in person without being sorely tempted to punch him in the face ;-) Anyway, regardless of whether we agree or disagree about some of these issues, I'm glad we can have this discussion. Have a good one, Michael :-)

Very interesting, thank you

mr taylor is good dipllmat a kind of perspn we need im govt

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You feel smarter huh. You just got a lot more stupid as what happened these guys lie and if you believe it you're none the wiser. John mershimer he tells the truth

utter garbage. An obscene exercise of propaganda

Really sad that Ukraine has gave up their only guarantee of security...

Moscow held and controlled the nukes, not Kiev.

To what message..?

I was waiting for someone say thanks for supporting Ukraine because that's exactly what they're doing. And they were doing it when Ukraine was terrorizing the Eastern portion of Ukraine, shelling innocent civilians killing people no one knew about it. CNN did a report on it but they're trying to hide it was 10 years ago

Don Lemon might not agree...

@@GeoMaddock Lemon's on the way out. Fun Fact: Sometimes cancel culture works.

The finest Journalism...Pravda

The Taliban sure learned their lessons not mess with America. “Thanks for leaving us your weapons stupid Americans!”

What is this stupid sh1t? We’re a joke right now. We are no position to tell the world how to behave.

The U.S. can't solve its own problems but they want to solve the world problems.Clean your house first.

What rich person in the us would give money to fund that episode? Coming up next, an in depth critique of medical insurance in the US brought to you by Blue cross and blue shield

@@davidobriend8560 Good one!

They're even trolling peppa pig and Bluey nowadays. My daughter was like, "Dad, did you know ukraines really a real country," the other day.

That's RU-vid's fault. Give credit where credit is due.

not american. german, french and italian corporations made a killing there. especially germans, and germans also getting cheap oil and natural gas.

Lol Putin's invasion of Georgia? You are aware that the conflict between South Ossetia and Georgia did not begin in 2008, since 1989 South Ossetia has been seeking independence, the first military clashes began in 1991. In 1992, peacekeepers and OSCE observers were introduced. In 2004, the conflict resumed again and shelling began. Further, on August 8, 2008 (at 0:06), Georgian troops began a massive artillery bombardment of the capital of South Ossetia, the city of Tskhinvali and surrounding areas. A few hours later, the city was stormed by Georgian armored vehicles and infantry. On August 8 (at 14:59), Russia officially joined the conflict on the side of South Ossetia. Another important detail is that Dmitry Medvedev was the president of Russia in 2008.

@@user-tp4yl4iu6e yes, Im fully aware. doesnt change the fact that ruzzia invaded georgia. same with moldova.