Why Does the West Hate Putin? - RAI with A. Buzgalin (10/12) 

Because Putin has dumped the petrodollar !!! End of discussion !

My lord we all need to give Putin (Russia) some respect he’s already shown everyone how important peace is to him by trying to protect ppl around the Middle East

I enjoyed the part where Buzgalin has to rain on Paul's fantastic notions of western social democracy.

Love this interview and analysis! You just can't get this in the mainstream media.

I think you just hit the nail on the head. After the fall of the USSR, the US dreamed and demanded global hegemony. Russia desires its 'sovereignty'. World domination means domination in the military and economic spheres, but also in those of thought and culture. Russia holds out here too in its criticism of neoliberalism and the consumer culture it depends on.

Paul Jay, why say 'the Assad regime'? and not, 'the democratically elected government of Syria'?

You speak for the American government when you say Americans hate Putin and like the Saudi's, as an American citizen I like Putin and hate the Saudi’s the Saudi’s are not our friends.

It's refreshing to listen to a political dialogue where competing ideas can be discussed rationally without the conversation devolving into name calling.

We love Putin for his security politics and raising military strenght. Orherwyse the US would have pushed the NATO into more troubles with Russia. Balance of power is the only force the Neocons respect. Regards from Switzerand ☀️

I’ve been in this fight all my life, I can remember marching with my Grandmother for equality and thinking “If this is the most Democratic country in the world then why is there so much inequality.” I’ve been studying Marx lately and I believe he is one of the greatest philosophers of our time; because he defines the Human Being in a transition of becoming through the evolution of Capitalism. Anyone that studies Marx knows that the US is the Poster child for “contradiction that leads to Crisis that eventually leads to collapse.” The ultra right wing Libertarian doctrine that Trump and his Puppet-Masters are implementing in this country and the world is the contradiction that leads to final collapse. This Cabal is the result of Capitalism mutating because of its refusal to deal realistically with the over-determent contradictions of the 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s. Some of the contradictions contributing to the final collapse we’re presently in are 1) destroying the social safety net when the West is aging 2) dividing the world into makers and takers when society is where it is today because we are ultra-social individuals and the notion that 3) we can continue to soil in our nest and think it won’t become uninhabitable. As Marx points out there are an unlimited number of over-determinants that are a part of Capitalism and for the last 250 plus years it has been able to mutate. There is no Democracy in this country it’s just another one of the contradictions. The US has been living off of the rest of the worlds Dime since the end of WW2 and it's coming to an end; that is why we have Bernie and Trump. I watched as the housing market imploded, my kids and wife tried to get me to join the something for nothing Gravy Train. I watched friends and family members buy homes they couldn’t afford then keep refinancing them to buy STUFF they didn’t need and when things imploded saw the blame get shifted to Sub-prime buyers. I’m so tired of hearing liberals talk about Obama blew it; Obama was so much the mirror of me, the dialectic which is America. The child that is not accepted as Black or White, the child that embraces the “Will to Power.” If the crash of 2008 had of happened just a couple of months later it would have been Hillary’s problem. All the people of the US wanted from Obama was to get the something for nothing party started again. The reason China is the villain now is because they told the west it’s time to shut the party down. It’s pretty rich of the US to look at another country and say they are doing it wrong when we’re the enablers of the genocide going on in Yemen and Gaza and no one seems to be concerned with the fact that over 60% of America’s population has been deemed disposable surplus. Trump can’t find money for affordable health care or money to relieve student debt but he can find $12 billion for a crisis he manufactured. Trump and his band of Sociopaths are doing what is in their nature to do; the $ Million question is why are we allowing it. Because we are the real contradiction that leads to Capitalism’s collapse “We think we’re separate entities from the Universe when we are a part of this complex living organism. Russia, China and the rest of the World see the collapse that is coming; we can’t see it because we’re to use to living off of someone else’s Dime so we put the Trump Circus in charge hoping that contradiction won’t lead to crisis and we can avoid collapse.

Great to see Paul Jay peddling CIA talking points on Syria.

Thanks for posting these.

Good interview, thanks

If Putin is the boss in Russia, who is the boss in USA?

Interesting to see the disagreement on the existence of social democratic opposition. Buzgalin is right that until last few years there was virtually no such movements in the West. Paul Jay is right in that some have appeared recently. I don't know about Russia. This series is excellent for the in depth look at a terra incognita.

His explanation about USA "democratic" system vs Russian "democratic" system was excellent. Both countries in reality are under plutocratic system nothing else.

The European people had no hate for the Russians or Putin -I would say they had sympathy both political and cultural during the 22 years I lived there as an adult. Perhaps their leaders today do.

Well done.

Remarkably weak analysis. Sanders, the standard bearer of a social democratic movement in the US? LOL!

This interviewer is interviewing himself some how

Well, the results of US hegemony have not been good anywhere, we have actual history to show that. We also know that it is not people orientated, but rather for corporate and military interests. It is also apparent that US hegemonic activity is always ultimately aimed to achieve illegal regime change and frequently if not always foments dissent to bring about regime change under the guise of promoting democracy and at the same time demonising current leadership. Subsequently destabilising legitimate governments, which are labeled 'Regimes', with so-called colour revolutions, has been a favourite methodology. Therefore this approach has encouraged strong central government in countries under threat. Without the constant threat of US hegemony natural political development is more likely to proceed everywhere as long as the US does not continue to meddle and act as the 'values' policeman of the World under the guise of US exceptionalism when in reality US values are a myth.

❤️To Putin from FL🏖☀️

He's actually trying to slow the positive affect that is coming from the opposite side of the world

Why do western reporters insist on talking over there hosts, its annoying.

Admit your awareness and give in to the change so that you can.sleep better

Oh..don't forget about The Koch Brother's!

Paul Jay, the duopoly has does everything it can to eliminate social democracy and the word 'socialism' from our political discourse. We have no effective left -unlike Europe, where multi party systems, the ability to organize, stronger unions, massive demonstrations in the main streets and the right to put on a general strike. We have none of that here and Buzgalin's question to you is more than justified. I ask myself every day the same thing. Most of what progressives here try to get to the table has existed in Europe for decades, such as 12 month maternity leave, 40 days of paid vacation, healthcare, etc.

Why do you call Putin a dictator when the majority of the public voted for him but you don't call any US president a dictator?

Can you stop interrupting Buzgalin so much?

whether 'we in the West' hate Putin or not, and whether he is a Dictator or not, it's clear he is not _our_ Dictator. We like _our_ Dictators, people like Augusto Pinochet. The way Thatcher and Thatcher's government honoured Pinochet made me sick to my stomach.

Also, animosity with Russia guarantees development of new generation nukes!

Korean subtitles.

What cities in Syria did they blow up?

You have to accept change because it's coming and berni is nothing to do with it

It's time to use equal terminology in relation to US empire and call it Trump regime or Obama regime etc

Brown canadian here! I like putin more than Trump ill put it that way.

Big issue not disused, how many extremist would spill over tomorrow across slack borders into Russia, and strategically, two bases in Mediterranean only flight distance fro home bases are valuable assets, worth maintaining. We heard from US sources where the monies and military "experts" come from to train the various factions that could in future be linked to predatory capitalism, it is investment goes the argument...

Duh! Putin's the Richest Man in the World, isn't he?

President Putin has such a kind soul I not only Love him but I am in Love with him.❤

You know that the label's/word's/term's/phrases and symbol's are scrutinised-and-stigmatised by socially-culturally-politically-legally-economically ignorant people/person's since the people/person's who engage in protesting/activism are widely-known and commonly-referred to as emotionally-charged and carry negative connotation's due to portrayal's/depiction's by the marketised/commercialised/ merchant mainstream mass media of themselves and their placards which convey label's/word's/term's/phrases and symbol's that denote being emotionally-charged and negative connotation's

Some elite of the west only.

Because he has no sympathy for Palestinians faced with genocide.

because they are jealous....he is better then them

Wow so airlines shot outta the sky and overt pollution smelter were not enuff? Pfffft

The level of this "professor" is so disappointingly low ....

And caused a femen lady to commit suicide .. Torture women..etc.. Whos to blame?

Why are you so attracted to dictators? Are there god dictators and bad dictators?

He's just a thug. Pretending to like such a piece of shit when he keeps antagonizing everyone, there is no reason not to despise this man. Just because the western states get along with Saudi Arabia, because Suadi Arabia is less in our way is not a reason not to despise Putin.