Ukraine Through the Eyes of Peter Pomerantsev 

What a brilliant guest and conversation. Thank you Peter for your work

Thank you for inviting such an interesting guest. It’s a great pleasure to watch a conversation of this quality!

Peter Pomerantsev is one of the most outstanding intellectuals that is making amazing job of Prosvita,or helping the world to understand this war of russia against Ucraine. I'm so grateful for such extraordinary commitment to the Ucrainian cause !🎩👏💙💛💙💛

Thank you very much for this interview in English!

Peter is always great, cutting edge info war.

Thank you very much for this interview. Truly hope that as a society we will find the answer to the big question on how to come together as a community that respects one’s life and dignity.

"Whatever you do, just bring a couple of drones" ❤Love this ending, love this interview. Will send it to some of my International friends. Great job discussing important subjects. Keep up the good work 💪

Thank you for this, great guest, great interview, will share with my friends in whole world.!❤

Thanks for posting this; will share.

This is fascinating, and I love his work. Just some pithy thoughts to get out there as I listen to it: All information is influence, just as every stimulus needs a response and every response a stimulus. He covers that nicely in his own way, but I think my first four words there - “all information is influence” - makes it more succinct. Whether people use it for moral reasons, as he indicates, or for achieving a self-ingratiating end, such as making money or spreading malign influence, confusion, denial, deceit, doubt, or causing a distraction in an innocent or unwitting community alters whether the message is good or not. Obviously, Russia is deeply in the wrong here. Second, evidence within his books and other writings, such as ‘The Menace of Unreality,’ points to the fact that Russian society, and especially Russian leadership, don’t value truth, much less their target audiences, and shows that they believe that truth itself is subjective and therefore malleable to one’s own biases, interpretation, and liking. This, of course, means to the interpreter of truth that the interpreter of the truth is right, not the truth, and that any other interpretations are not and the truth itself gets quashed. This is a major fallacy, because the truth does not change based on interpretation; it merely says “I AM.” And if the interpretation is far off, consequences inevitably follow. (For example, different interpretations of January 6th may dilute what actually happened and lead us down roads where the problem simply gets left unresolved, but the truth behind the event is still there. I’d love to give other historical examples here, but let’s just say it’s bad to treat a single interpretation of the truth as gospel, especially if it’s from just one source that lacks credibility.) But we especially in the West (and even in ancient Chinese literature) believe that the truth is objective, with only its interpretations being malleable, which of course creates faults in understanding truth but gives us a way of course-correcting when we misinterpret it. It also gives us the ability to leverage diversity of thought to come to the best interpretation of what the truth actually is. And that’s why we succeed in virtually all areas compared to Russia, which suffers the consequences of relying on only the government’s interpretation of something, nefariously given or not. Okay, now I’ve become long-winded. Sorry! But just some thoughts.

Come and do whatever you want, but bring a drone or two with you 😁What's enlightening about this interview is how boring and mundane the real work against bad propaganda is. It won't be a fun exercise of implementing a silver bullet strategy. It takes years, it takes funding, it takes millions of hours of volunteer work. Make it a part of your life.

Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦 Also visit and spend money in Lviv. My relatives in Poland go very often. It’s a cultural Mecca. I was there in 2015 and can’t wait to return.

Interesting video.

this a quality talk. thanks!

Amazing interview! Please keep inviting such interesting guests for interviews!

I’m excited. This information very important

Very interesting and educational

The interview is indeed interesting, have watched it both in Ukrainian and English. Thanks. The questions I have missed there and would like to hear Peter’s answers: Are values still/ again important to the world, and how they can help in debunking the Russian propaganda? Is it totalitarianism/authoritarianism that makes Russian propaganda work on so deep unconscious level?

Extremely interesting guest and topic, thank you! (The uni must be the Johns Hopkins)

This was extremely interesting, I really hope we'll find a way to implement what he suggested.

Should have more views

Absolutely critical point about the need for a reckoning! There is so much evidence of lies and crimes, yet so little justice. This is a root cause of our collective madness.

Thank you for the interview! In terms of propaganda and bot farms, it would be interesting to hear Peter's thoughts of what an individual can (should?) do to fight them. For example, in twitter or facebook, there are different approaches, but engaging doesn't seem to work (in the means of a real person reading the conversation, if they don't have vast knowledge of Ukraine or what really happens and read somebody disputing with bot, they might not identify who is a bot or what is the truth); ignoring doesn't seem to work (bots flood the space and it feels like the only "truth" out there is what they say which easily transforms into "we cannot know what's happening"); trying to share more of say "our propaganda" doesn't work (because it is read as propaganda=it's always bad=you're a bot too). Is there a point at all in trying to, say, make our point of view heard?

Kyiv! Not Kiev!!

That pseudo-opposition analysis and explaining it to the western audience would be so helpful now.

Дякую за інтервю. За можливості перекладіть українською для ширшого охоплення.

Tx Mr. Pomerantzev

Very interesting but I found it depressing. It helped me to understand the Russian culture of disinformation or lieing. He who has the power holds the moral high ground and rewrites the moral compass of a country. I guess that's the outcome when a country is run by a corrupt mafia or gangster based regime.

О, згадала …. На темі ботів почала зивати, бо поки чогось важка тема🙈 не зрозуміла

Interesting about Johns Hopkins, philanthropist who has family name Johns as first name Johns. The “s” confuses Americans, too.

I can't believe the same Yulia Tymoshenko that ran the Ukrainian Petrol Corporation and led the Orange Revolution got to sit down for an interview with Peter Pomerantsev, truly incredible! /s

Wonderful interview. Thank you very much for the insights. Profound.

*33 Article Geneve.* Collective responsibility is very harmful

Ukraine might have won the information campaign, though everyone outside the Ukraine bubble just laughed at the silly Ukraine. What counts is the actual battlefield situation. No amount of false information campaign can change that.

Why kiev...

I’m wholly independent and I fully understand why Russia chose to invade and can also understand why Ukraine repels back. Ultimately, the west is responsible for all this death as it was within their power to avoid it. However, Zelensky has the blood of Ukrainians on his hands as he sold them out, in full knowledge that this would happen. In true Jewish fashion.