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Russia and Latvia: A Case of Sharp Power
This book explores Russia’s relations with Latvia, arguing that Latvia, with a higher proportion of Russian speakers than other Baltic states, is especially vulnerable to Russia’s “sharp power”. The book highlights how authoritarian and totalitarian regimes are unable to exercise soft power based on the attractiveness of the country's culture and values, which would help them gain the favor of the audience of the target countries, but instead, as in the case of Russia, use public diplomacy, compatriot policy, media policy, propaganda, and disinformation to produce a destructive effect, distorting the democracies of target countries and increasing national security risks. The book provides in-depth detail on how Russia is making use of this “sharp power” in Latvia, examines the consequences and assesses the dangers for the future.
Author
Andis Kudors (PhD candidate) is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Latvia. He was also a Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Centre for East European Policy Studies from 2006 - 2019. His research interests include Russian foreign policy, sharp power, propaganda, disinformation, and informational warfare, and he is the author of many analytical articles about Russian foreign policy and Latvian security. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2014-2015) and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs (2021-2022). Since 2011, he has been a member of Foreign Policy Council at Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in 2021 he was appointed Commander of The Cross of Recognition by Egils Levits, former President of the Republic of Latvia, for his contribution to the research of Latvian national security. He is a 1996 graduate of the International Law and Economics Program at the University of Latvia’s Institute of International Affairs and studied political science at the University of Latvia, specializing in Latvian-Russian relations and earning a BA and an MA in political science.
Discussants
Andrea Kendall-Taylor is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Transatlantic Security Program at CNAS. She works on national security challenges facing the United States and Europe, focusing on Russia, authoritarianism and threats to democracy, and the state of the transatlantic alliance. Prior to joining CNAS, Kendall-Taylor served for eight years as a senior intelligence officer. From 2015 to 2018, she was deputy national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).
Christopher Walker is Vice President for Studies and Analysis at the National Endowment for Democracy. In this capacity, he oversees the department that is responsible for NED’s multifaceted analytical work. He is co-editor (with Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner) of Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy (2016), and co-editor with William J. Dobson and Tarek Masoud of the book Defending Democracy in an Age of Sharp Power (2023).
Moderator
Robert W. Orttung is Professor of Sustainability and International Affairs at the Elliott School and Director of the Sustainability Research Institute. Prof. Orttung is an expert on Comparative politics, Democracy, Energy security, and Sustainability. He is a visiting fellow at the Center for Security Studies of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. Prof. Orttung's most recent research is focused on urban sustainability and its intersections with democracy and global affairs, using Russia as his case study. Prof. Orttung has a Ph.D. from University of California-Los Angeles.
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Ukraine's Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022
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Why did the Minsk-1 and the Minsk-2 agreements fail? Ukraine's Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022 (Cambridge University Press) suggests that a domestic negotiation failure within Ukraine is at the heart of the better-understood diplomatic failure. At the diplomatic level, what stalled implementation for eight years were matters of ordering and sequencing - classic hallmarks of int...
Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War with Paul D'Anieri
มุมมอง 33910 หลายเดือนก่อน
Drawing on research presented in his recent book, Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War, 2nd Edition (2023), D’Anieri will explore the factors that led to Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. The war has eliminated few of these factors, and has exacerbated many of them. The question we must address is how can peace be maintained in the long term if the underlying causes of ...
Gayfriendly: Acceptance and Control of Homosexuality in New York and Paris
มุมมอง 9911 หลายเดือนก่อน
What does it mean to be gayfriendly? Having gay friends, supporting gay marriage, remaining unfazed when one's son or daughter comes out? Going to gay bars or questioning one's own sexual orientation? There is no single model of 'gayfriendliness,' but rather different attitudes which vary according to age, sex, country and life circumstance. Acceptance of homosexuality has undeniably grown, and...
Staging Democracy: Political Performance in Ukraine, Russia, and Beyond
มุมมอง 141ปีที่แล้ว
In this series of talks, the IERES Petrach Program on Ukraine offers the DC-area community in-person opportunities to engage leading scholarly Ukraine experts on their important new books. In this lecture, Dr. Jessica Pisano will discuss her recent book Staging Democracy: Political Performance in Ukraine, Russia, and Beyond. Across both democratic and authoritarian regimes, from Moscow to Kyiv ...
Between Russia and the West: Armenia's Dilemma and Azerbaijan's Future Outlook
มุมมอง 323ปีที่แล้ว
Ongoing crises and the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh have highlighted the precarious position of Russian peacekeepers in the region. When Moscow brokered a ceasefire agreement on November 10, 2020, sidelining other members of the Minsk Group, no one could have predicted the developments of the following two years. Russian peacekeepers either lack the capacity or the will to avert humanitarian cr...
The Zelensky Effect
มุมมอง 266ปีที่แล้ว
About the Event This event will begin with opening remarks from Dean Alyssa Ayres of the Elliott School, followed by a presentation by the co-authors, and a moderated Q&A with the audience. This event is hosted by the Petrach Program on Ukraine and the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES). The talk will be in-person and livestreamed. About the Book You cannot understand...
Decolonizing Ukrainian Culture:The Role of Art Institutions in a Time of War
มุมมอง 111ปีที่แล้ว
In this lecture, Petrach Fellow Dr. Svitlana Biedarieva will explore how the Russian war against Ukraine has affected institutional development in the Ukrainian cultural sector, with particular attention to changes in art organizations. She will discuss the war's impact on culture, which triggered decolonization processes in Ukraine at all institutional levels, from private grassroots initiativ...
The Afterlife of the 'Soviet Man': Rethinking Homo Sovieticus
มุมมอง 485ปีที่แล้ว
A well-known trope that originated during the Cold War, Homo Sovieticus has experienced a comeback in the public debates over the last decade or so. It resurfaced specifically after Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, and is also used to explain Russians’ current attitudes toward the war with Ukraine. What does the term mean? Who created it? Why did it gain currency then, and why is it used tod...
Russian Exceptionalism? Messianic Narratives of Great Powers in a Comparative Perspective
มุมมอง 292ปีที่แล้ว
With the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Vladimir Putin’s talking about Russia’s "special" role in world affairs, many commentators point to Russian immanent messianism. The story of the chosen nation pursuing a special mission in the world is not unique in world history. However, each nation tells their messianic story differently. Alicja Curanović argues that the status of a country- as defin...
Indigenous Siberians in the Context of War
มุมมอง 384ปีที่แล้ว
Russia has entered a new period of instability, made especially precarious due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. From the Arctic to Lake Baikal and the magnificent Altai mountains, Indigenous peoples are striving for degrees of self-determination. Despite curtailment of civil society under President Putin, many are defending their lands and rights without being secessionist. Some have fled into ...
Armenian-Turkish Relations After the Earthquake
มุมมอง 145ปีที่แล้ว
Despite the ongoing confrontation over Nagorno-Karabakh, which pits Armenia against Azerbaijan and Turkey, Armenia's response to the devastating earthquake in Turkey earlier this year has renewed hopes for rapprochement. Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mizoyan made a surprise, historic visit to Ankara on February 15, and Armenia sent rescuers into the country. For the first time in three decad...
Wartime Suffering and Survival: The Human Condition under Siege in the Blockade of Leningrad
มุมมอง 61ปีที่แล้ว
This book explores how people survive in the face of incredible odds. When our backs are against the wall, what are our interests, identities, and practices? When are we self-centered, empathetic and altruistic, or ambivalent? How much agency do the desperate really have-or want? Such was the situation in the Blockade of Leningrad, which lasted nearly 900 days from 1941 to 1944. Perhaps over on...
Living the Independence Dream: Ukraine and Ukrainians in the Contemporary Socio-Political Context
มุมมอง 193ปีที่แล้ว
For many Ukrainians, 1991 was a crucial point when their long-held dream of independence came true. The book project Living the Independence Dream takes a multi-dimensional look at the period of regained independence as a time of advancement towards the realization of collective dreams shaping the post-Soviet nation, even through everyday disappointments, anxiety, and uncertainty. The collectio...
How to Survive a Russian Invasion: Ukrainian Psychologists Discuss Trauma & Resilience Amidst War
มุมมอง 147ปีที่แล้ว
Join us for a round table discussion on how teachers, students, and refugees are dealing with the emotional and mental health strain imposed by the Russian invasion of their country, featuring a panel of psychologists currently based in Ukraine. Panelists: Olena Merzliakova, PhD. is an Associate Professor at the Teacher Training Institute of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University (Kyiv) and a member ...
Voices of Freedom: Contemporary Writing from Ukraine
มุมมอง 96ปีที่แล้ว
Voices of Freedom: Contemporary Writing from Ukraine
Introducing a Minority Institutions Database
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Introducing a Minority Institutions Database
Post-Soviet Borders: A Kaleidoscope of Shifting Lives and Lands
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Post-Soviet Borders: A Kaleidoscope of Shifting Lives and Lands
Populism, Vaccine Hesitancy, and Threats to Unconsolidated Democracy: Some Evidence from Ukraine
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Populism, Vaccine Hesitancy, and Threats to Unconsolidated Democracy: Some Evidence from Ukraine
A Year Living Dangerously: Dynamics of Ukraine-U.S. Wartime Relations
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A Year Living Dangerously: Dynamics of Ukraine-U.S. Wartime Relations
Imitating History: How Russia Weaponized Historical Narratives Against Ukraine, 2014-2016
มุมมอง 513ปีที่แล้ว
Imitating History: How Russia Weaponized Historical Narratives Against Ukraine, 2014-2016
What is Going On In Lachin Today?
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What is Going On In Lachin Today?
Putin's War or Russia's War? with Leonid Volkov
มุมมอง 477ปีที่แล้ว
Putin's War or Russia's War? with Leonid Volkov
Female Emancipation in Doctors' Hands:The New Short History of Abortion in the USSR
มุมมอง 103ปีที่แล้ว
Female Emancipation in Doctors' Hands:The New Short History of Abortion in the USSR
Framing and Governing Climate Change and Environmental Problems in the Urban Arctic
มุมมอง 87ปีที่แล้ว
Framing and Governing Climate Change and Environmental Problems in the Urban Arctic
What Makes Ukraine Resilient in theAsymmetric War? A Study of Local Governments' Emergency Responses
มุมมอง 261ปีที่แล้ว
What Makes Ukraine Resilient in theAsymmetric War? A Study of Local Governments' Emergency Responses
Songs about Death and Love: A Ukrainian Writer on Language and War
มุมมอง 124ปีที่แล้ว
Songs about Death and Love: A Ukrainian Writer on Language and War
Winter Worries: Impending Concerns for Ukraine's Civilians
มุมมอง 97ปีที่แล้ว
Winter Worries: Impending Concerns for Ukraine's Civilians
Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia
มุมมอง 138ปีที่แล้ว
Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia
Belarus and Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine
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Belarus and Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine

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  • @artursbondars7789
    @artursbondars7789 หลายเดือนก่อน

    People shoud understand, that in world there are many different countries. Some of them are based on ethnicity, like Latvia, where national language and culture is important for state formation and further existence. Latvian political elite shoud be more braver, and ignore ignorat and oppressive opinions of others. Because they do represent Latvian interests, they do not respect Latvia, nor they understand it.

  • @Kavala76
    @Kavala76 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A disappointing rehash of selective histories presented with glaring omissions, half truths and misrepresentations.

    • @williamkingsbury3044
      @williamkingsbury3044 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Care to elaborate? I'm a student at the college he teaches at, and may wind up taking one of his courses.

    • @Kavala76
      @Kavala76 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@williamkingsbury3044 One "quickie" for you off the top of my head... 25:47 "...it [Russia] wanted to take back Ukraine". If this is true: 1. Why did Russia sign and abide by the Minsk 1 and 2 Accords up to 2021 which retained Donbas as part of Ukraine? 2. Why in the Istanbul negotiations of 2022 didn't Russia claim the Donbas along with Crimea? Ukrainian neutrality (not joining NATO) was Russia's primary concern, along with the rights of ethnic Russians within Ukraine. NATO membership is what Russia has been warning against since 2008 following the NATO summit in Bucharest. Also in 2008 William Burns, the then US ambassador to Russia, warned Condoleezza Rice about a possible military conflict if Ukraine joined NATO. Please find and read his memo titled "Niet means Niet", it's available on Wikileaks I believe.

  • @jessiejb4684
    @jessiejb4684 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Unfortunately murdering their way to democracy wasn’t going so well for Ukraine. This guy is full of it. You cannot possibly argue that growing a massive military alliance swallowing up all of Europe reaching the Russian border was good for peace. It defies logic. We have diplomatic notes from president Clinton and yeltsin’s meetings in early 90’s where yeltsin practically begs Clinton not to expand nato most especially and specifically in Ukraine. Clinton was utterly uncompromising. If a historically large chinese lead military alliance was building a presence in Canada and attempting bring in Canada, that we would allow this or be expected to allow it. And in addition to the Canadian gov being overthrown with Chinese support and in the aftermath that gov then waged war on British Columbia for their opposition to the overthrow and denial of civil rights for nearly a decade. Of course we would support B.C. In this hypothetical.

  • @faqeer59
    @faqeer59 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi, Peter! How are you? I'm Ravil from Moscow. Glad to see you and listen to your voice after so many years.

  • @markshovchan3134
    @markshovchan3134 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for uploading!

  • @faithvirtue6524
    @faithvirtue6524 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Russophobic garbage. Dumb warmongering nonsense

  • @ashcarrier6606
    @ashcarrier6606 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They put a father in prison for two years because his daughter made a painting about it being wrong to fire missiles at people. Do you really need to ask if Russia is fascist?

    • @BenWeiss-f9p
      @BenWeiss-f9p 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Authoritarian does not equal fascism. They are extremely authoritarian, however they only meet half the planks of ur fascism, and their economy is as different as possible.

    • @ashcarrier6606
      @ashcarrier6606 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BenWeiss-f9p Yes, the relationship the German State had with German Industrialists in no way resembles the oligarchs and siloviki of Russia today. Did you hear that Putin's niece was just appointed Deputy Defense Minister?

    • @BenWeiss-f9p
      @BenWeiss-f9p 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ashcarrier6606 haha oh my bad, most ppl on the Internet will claim they are, I miss took your post. No, not surprising though--isnt nepotism is a universal on earth currently?

    • @ashcarrier6606
      @ashcarrier6606 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BenWeiss-f9p The sarcasm is weak in this one...

    • @BenWeiss-f9p
      @BenWeiss-f9p 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ashcarrier6606 I mean, it doesn't particularly. The German economy was far, far less regulated and the industrialists had far, far more control. Also Putin is missing like have of Umbertos ecos planks, and does not see violence as way to renew the nation. They are extremely authoritarian, but that does not make them fascist. Can you define fascism? I find many people on the Internet cannot.

  • @omarlocke4351
    @omarlocke4351 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    this study is a perfect example of bogus science. why not do a questionnaire and report the results. there wasn’t anything scientific about this. self selection alone invalidates the findings and indeed ridiculous opinions and claims by the author. vaccines shouldn’t be political. why would you encourage that with this kind of study!? what a waste of time and effort.

  • @joshuapaul2022
    @joshuapaul2022 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well, it's a quote from The Time article. Zelenskyy top advisers say about him: “He deludes himself,” one of his closest aides tells me in frustration. “We’re out of options . We’re not winning. But try telling him that. It is immovable, verging on the messianic.” One Austrian artist was in a similar state in 1945. Biden administration doesn't see Ukraine beyond a spring next year.

  • @ibsonntag
    @ibsonntag 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Marxist atheist idiology is the party and this party moulds Soviet man through everlasting communist world revolutions.National socialism, international socialism, Lenism, Trostzkism, Stalinism, Maoism, are all manifestations of this everlasting world revolution to make man a raceless, cultureless and godless party member all over the world. The party is always right and a person is only a tool of the party.

  • @Forest_Knight
    @Forest_Knight 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Three years on, the writing was on the wall but Marlene didn't see it. Russia was rapidly becoming a far right ethno-nationalistic state.

  • @kentduncan3252
    @kentduncan3252 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "promosm"

  • @jwh0122
    @jwh0122 ปีที่แล้ว

    23:01 byproduct -> authoritarianism 27:07 hierarchical egalitarianism 27:53 exiled anti-communism scholars are disappointed about their lives; the ideal society promised by communism vs true imperfect Western society 40:52 heart of a dog = Homo Sovieticus 54:10 dispositional vs situational factors

  • @jakef.7126
    @jakef.7126 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is really great!! Thank you and I pray for freedom of the peoples occupied by Muscovy. I want the Sakha to have a nation that I can visit, they have an amazing culture, same with Chechnya!

  • @mavisgrobler8806
    @mavisgrobler8806 ปีที่แล้ว

    Narcissism!

  • @vivianacostasantiago8358
    @vivianacostasantiago8358 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bello

  • @tatianalyulkin410
    @tatianalyulkin410 ปีที่แล้ว

    My Lenochka!

  • @Albert-Arthur-Wison225
    @Albert-Arthur-Wison225 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was fascinating. If only more time was available.

  • @jeffclark7888
    @jeffclark7888 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great!

  • @karinegregorian937
    @karinegregorian937 ปีที่แล้ว

    If the lady will base her analysis on what pashinian says, her research will be very superficial

  • @karinegregorian937
    @karinegregorian937 ปีที่แล้ว

    The lady blames “both sides” for 120,000 people including children and elderly starving and freezing to death. How tired are we for this “both sidism”!!!!!

    • @அவானிஉயர்ந்தது
      @அவானிஉயர்ந்தது 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nobody starved or froze to death and the road was open to the Red Cross and other humanitarian aid minus the trucks sent for the Armenian/French propaganda. At the end all the illegal habitants of Karabakh, mostly Armenian passport holders, left voluntarily to Armenia. Furthermore you guys are better stop repeating that ridiculous figure, 120 thousand, because there’s hardly 70 thousand people lived including Russian soldiers’ families and Official Employees sent by Russia, Armenia and diaspora 😂

  • @karinegregorian937
    @karinegregorian937 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Azeri guy is outrageous. The word and the country Azerbaijan has been created by Bolsheviks

  • @stanislavastartseva9639
    @stanislavastartseva9639 ปีที่แล้ว

    Okay, so the chief of staff for Navalny, a major opposition leader in russia, doesn't know about russians actions in Syria, he isn't an expert, wow 🤡 He also hasn't answered anything specific as for national minorities in russia. Well why should he know about Syria or minorities if his main goal now is to whitewash russians as soon as possible in order to demand a Marshall plan for russia without deimperialisation of russian society. Once again everything must be circling around poor russians who're of course shouldn't bear a collective responsibility burden, it's putin's war, yes)

  • @SerwerW
    @SerwerW ปีที่แล้ว

    voice quality is poor. too much chorus

  • @mikefly5291
    @mikefly5291 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dont forget about ARMENIAN TERRORISM

  • @birlikberaberlik346
    @birlikberaberlik346 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm from Central Asia and I noticed west doesn't really know about Russian standarts on fascism. I think, reason is that West holds its narratives forwarded. Come to Central Asia and I will show you several aspects how Russian fascism works.

    • @moyprofile
      @moyprofile 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      you can tell us in a comment

  • @ridorydar5614
    @ridorydar5614 ปีที่แล้ว

    Je to veľmi jednoduché! Ľudovít Veleslav Štúr vedel veľmi dobre prečo to nazýva nárečia. Nemohol to nazývať jazyk pretože Slovenský(eng. Slavic, new 19cent. Slovanský) jazyk bol 1000 rokov predtým schválený pápežom ako 4tý bohoslužobný jazyk je v ňom napísané krásne literárne dielo Proglas. ( Dvaja pápeži nazývali Svätopluka môj jediný syn čo je titul cisársky) a všetky dnešné štátne jazyky sú jeho nárečiami. Preto sa Slovensko nemôže stať súčastou Ruska lebo Rusko je súčasť Slovenska. Nemci onemeli. Maďarsko a Rumunsko sú štaty už pod Talianskou( Rím) vlajkou kde pozmenili dejiny, jazyk aj písmo atď. Juhoslavia= southslavic. ...... Nech žije Nitra

  • @InnerAtmos
    @InnerAtmos ปีที่แล้ว

    Short answer; Yes.

  • @faithvirtue6524
    @faithvirtue6524 ปีที่แล้ว

    Delusional

  • @indigenousnorwegianeuropa4145
    @indigenousnorwegianeuropa4145 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Norway Official policy states that Norway was founded on the territory of two peoples, Norwegians and Samis. In addition, Forest Finns, Kvens, Jews, Romani, and the Norwegian and Swedish Travellers are recognised as national minorities.

  • @faithvirtue6524
    @faithvirtue6524 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Racist, Russophobic nonsense

  • @ctcole77
    @ctcole77 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    YES

  • @TheSackblabbath
    @TheSackblabbath 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Outstanding. Thank you.

  • @othalabro8663
    @othalabro8663 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    She implied that Russia is pushing an ethnic element to the regime’s ideology: What might that be? I do recall Putin writing the article, “On the Historical Unity between Russians and Ukrainians”, where he claimed that Ukrainians and Russians were one people. One people along historical, religious, and ethnic lines. Does this imply that Putin is a Slavophile? I do find it odd that these self-claiming, “anti-liberal” Russians, such as Putin and Dugin, feel the need to declare their lack of ethnocentric ideals. That, “Russia is a diverse country”, but again, aren’t they anti-liberal? I fail to see an ethnic element to the Putin regime’s ideology. Unless one of you can enlighten me.

  • @bertrecht913
    @bertrecht913 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    No, its just Communism.

  • @GaneshGunaji
    @GaneshGunaji 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    So if you clearly saw Russia was not equipped for imperial ambitions, why is that the narrative? And if you see they seemed coercive on Ukraine, maybe it was because they told us that was their red line multiple times. Interfering in our elections makes sense if they seek to change US foreign policy.

  • @MagnusSeverus
    @MagnusSeverus 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Media: We support freedom of speech! Nobody shoud be silenced for having a diffirent opinion! Also the media: *anyone who is aganst ukraine deserved are fascists and deserve to be banned from the internet!!!1!1* Ah yes *“freedom of speech”*

  • @joepvandijk7949
    @joepvandijk7949 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why, when talking about past fascism, the only example that is being brought up every time is Nazi Germany. Actually, Germany was not fascist, but nazi/"national socialist". In the strict sense of the word, Italy was the only fascist country in history (even Franco called his ideology by another name). "Fascism" is not inextricably connected to "death camps" as some speakers seem to suggest. Comparing other countries to Italian or other forms of "fascism" is of course possible, but not very fruitful, in my view. Putin's Russia has many features that make it an unpleasant country. It has not been like that completely since the start, but minority groups are in danger, not of being sent to gas chambers, maybe, but there is a lot in between that and total integration and tolerance.

    • @TheZombaslaya
      @TheZombaslaya ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah exactly, Mussolini's regime is very different from Hitler's. Hitler didn't even like fascism, he saw it as an inferior ideology, and no where did he ever call his regime fascist. Mussolini never set up death camps, and jews in Italy were largely protected from the holocaust until 1943 when Mussolini was overthrown and the Nazis took over. Fascism was much less homicidal to its own population than under national socialism or communism.

    • @mortenrobinson5421
      @mortenrobinson5421 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mussolini was the inventor of fascism, but it is generally agreed that nazism is also a fascist ideology and that fascism is an ultra-nationalist, imperialist and expansionist ideology, that in a nutshell romanticizes about a lost greatness of the nation, whines about terrible humiliation imposed by surrounding world and promises to restore the nation's greatness. Mussolini was on a quest to restore the Roman Empire and Adolf Hitler Wanted to restore the German Empire a third time. There was nothing particularly socialist about nazi Germany, just like there is nothing particularly democratic about the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea. Nazi Germany was driven by privately owned enterprise that made great use of slave labour, whereas everything is "stateowned" (Controlled by the Party) in communist socialist ideologies, but also tend to make equal use of slavelabour.

    • @nicholasbostelman7761
      @nicholasbostelman7761 ปีที่แล้ว

      Guys, I found the Nazi sympathizer.

  • @Hardy00000
    @Hardy00000 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is Russia fascist? The answer is YES! They committed numerous genocides in their history. Some of the most terrible and sadistic genocides committed by russia is forced famine in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, which led to cannibalism and serious population reduction. In Kazakhstan this resulted in a -50% value of the whole Kazakh nation. So, we don’t have to speculate about russian fascism and build new justifications for world crimes. Putin openly spoke with a quote - "Russian land does not end anywhere!” - that quote should give you a better picture of russian mentality. And for many years, russian people have been brought up on propaganda about permissiveness for a russian person. Putin is not the only initiator of this idea, but he is only an executor. He gives what the Russian people crave, and this is blood, war, violence, robbery and the conquest of foreign lands. Along with this, the average russian person is very poor with a low income, but he is comforted by the idea of ​​​​a further opportunity to push around other ethnic groups and mock them at the first opportunity.

    • @mrsentencename7334
      @mrsentencename7334 ปีที่แล้ว

      Committing genocide isn’t fascism though. Facism was started in Italy that was close to socialism but incorporated syndicalism and corporatism. War isn’t facist, and all stood in a crowd chanting for war isn’t facist either. We have been conditioned to think that.

    • @Lykosas
      @Lykosas 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mrsentencename7334 Calling them fascistic aligned is absolutely correct. Love for authority, suppressions and murders of opposition, belief in military superiority, enemies are weak, but also strong rhetoric, cult of personality, rewriting history, constant glorification, anti-lgbt, blood and soil rhetoric to reconquest all lost russian lands up to Poland, prejudice against other ethnicities (Most notably Ukrainians and calling them derogatory names), seeking war or conflict, perception of Ukrainian and Belarussian languages as off shoots or fake, galvanization of people. War isn't fascist, but fascists love conflict. Of course modern russia is not = to Italy or Germany from ww2, but it really is taking notes from them and is aligned in their way of doing things and thinking. Also, no, I don't believe that since russia participated in the defeat of nazi germany, that it makes them immune to fascist beliefs.

  • @gilh3947
    @gilh3947 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    yes, Russia is now a fascist state.

  • @andrewgetwin
    @andrewgetwin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Russia is fascist state! 1. Autocracy 2. No freedom. Repressions. 3. Leader cult. 4. War cult. Military parades every year showing its superiority and greatness. 5. Government is untouchable. People have no right to uprising. 6. Promotion of mythical "russian spirit" or Russian world" 7. Creation of foreign enemy against which all people should unite. 8. Annexation and occupation of foreign territories. many more points...

    • @andrewgetwin
      @andrewgetwin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Let me proceed. So some missed concentration camps in Russia or that Russia doesn't have plans to conquer the world. Well nobody knew about Hitler's or Stalin's plans at the time either! Nobody knew about concentration camps till after the war and till much later in case Soviet Russia. Everyone probably heard Putin's facsistic speech before raging bloody war in Ukraine. Forgot to mention governmental propaganda on in mass media.To mention as well that all mass media is controlled by government including Internet!

  • @alrun2546
    @alrun2546 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well apparently it is. Damn..

    • @mrsentencename7334
      @mrsentencename7334 ปีที่แล้ว

      Going to war for territory and political gains isn’t facism. Standing in a crowd in unison chanting for war isn’t facism. But the way the Russian government is set out id argue it is like Italian facism and syndicalism and corporatist.

  • @k.1701
    @k.1701 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Russia is totally fascist. When Russians tell Ukrainians that there is no such thing as Ukraine- it’s fascist

    • @EASbear
      @EASbear 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      that's it, just ONE sentence to tell the whole truth.

  • @nhatho6186
    @nhatho6186 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Few people wonder where Hitler had got the money to start the second world war. After the first world war, Germany was in a very difficult situation. Suddenly, after taking power, Hitler had a huge financial source to manufacture weapons, recruit soldiers, set up and trained elite SS forces, built a powerful propaganda system... Then he took off the army, invaded everywhere. For wherever they occupied, they sought to kill Jews there, and finally put all their strength into fighting the Soviet Union, almost forcing Moscow to remove the communist regime. This indicates that whoever provided the resources for Hitler must have been a Jew and communist hater. For example, there are two restaurants in the same neighbourhood who are in insidious competition with each other. The owner of restaurant A wants to destroy restaurant B, but does not show up. That owner just uses the money to hire gangsters to cause trouble with the excuse of idleness, and then destroys restaurant B. If the owner of restaurant B can't stand it, he will sells his restaurant to the owner of the restaurant A. In that case, the owner of the restaurant A will buy the restaurant to show his sympathy. After that, the gang was arrested and imprisoned by the police. No one knows who hires the gangsters. Hitler was a type of gangster hired to attack the Soviet Union for someone, who was afraid that the communists would threaten their vast fortune. Killing the Jew was also a side hustle because the boss went along with it. Two people contributed money to Hitler, both killing communism and exterminating Jews. Then kill Hitler and erase all traces. Unfortunately, the plan was not successful because the Soviet Union fought so tenaciously. Seeing that the Soviet Union counter-attacked effectively, the US had to participate in order to have merit and have a good reputation in destroying the fascists. Now the old boss appears, pumping money to create a new fascist in Ukraine, also to fight Russia like before. This time Russia took action first, not allowing the powerful fascists to attack Russian territory. The boss (who specializes in creating fascists) furiously ordered to surround Russia in all ways, massively pumping weapons to fight Russia's weakness. This time that guy wants to drag the whole world to fight Russia. Hopefully Russia is brave enough to defeat fascist in Ukraine, and reveal the true face of the man who created fascism for several times.

    • @Hardy00000
      @Hardy00000 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      U r the true fasict yourself with your russians

    • @othalabro8663
      @othalabro8663 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Who might this Jew be that supported Hitler?

    • @andrii.romaniuk
      @andrii.romaniuk ปีที่แล้ว

      Cool story. Btw, how is the situation in your alternative reality going?

  • @Jy3pr6
    @Jy3pr6 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a sad sight to see, a Russian Ukrainian groveling at the feet of the eternal enemies of Holy Rus. Everything negative she said about Russia is either more true about Ukraine or entirely false, for example, the phone calls are obviously easy to fake and the numerous ridiculous propaganda stories, pushed by the highest authorities in the Ukrainian government and media, about the ghost of Kiev, the Snake Island martyrs and pickle jar throwing grandmothers. Bucha and Kramatorsk were, by any dispassionate analysis, perpetrated by the Ukrainian armed forces. But what we do have video footage of is Ukrainian soldiers torturing and abusing Russian soldiers from the very beginning in the most horrific ways. And if she is to be consistent she would have to be opposed to Ukraine invading Russia in a situation where Russia was bombing ethnic Ukrainian and Ukrainian speaking Russians and the government made moves to ban the Ukrainian language in schools and Ukrainophile political parties and media outlets, and on top of this after a friendly pro Ukrainian government was established in a coup by the worst geopolitical enemies of Ukraine and the puppet president of Russia started to talk about developing a nuclear deterrent (as a side note, just think for a moment that the US doesn’t allow Iran to develop nuclear power half way around the world). With how much Ukrainians have been brainwashed for 8 years to hate their Slavic brothers, this is simply impossible to believe. Had they been the nuclear superpower they would have possibly even nuked Russia the way Yulia Timoshenko said she would like to. Very sad to hear such a presentation.

  • @zguyofficial6206
    @zguyofficial6206 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    this is aged well

    • @hazelwray4184
      @hazelwray4184 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      'is aged well'? - is?

  • @UltimateHandler
    @UltimateHandler 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is Russia fascist? Is water wet? Russia has decent people too, but most are brainwashed by state-run propaganda and see it their mission to invade other former Soviet countries. They are a terrorist state under a dictatorship. The worst is Russia claiming to eradicate fascism in Ukraine even though what it is doing is the very definition of fascism.

  • @joanofarc6402
    @joanofarc6402 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    She’s right. America is a racist horrible country. Russia is so much better.

  • @joanofarc6402
    @joanofarc6402 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so very much for sharing these stories. This really helps Americans understand what’s going on in Ukraine!! I hope we can help all Ukrainian people and secure peace for them in their country! 🇺🇦🇺🇦

  • @gyanendrakumar2350
    @gyanendrakumar2350 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    If Germany shut off Russian gas then Germany would loose €220 billion (acc. expert). And, if Germany won't shut off Russian gas then 2,200,000 Ukrainian loose their life. Each Ukrainian life < €1000.

    • @M4tti87
      @M4tti87 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The calculations are wrong for how much Germany would lose. I dont know where you got those numbers. Also Germany couldnt produce any medical supplies and whatever else is needed to survive. Germany is shutting of gas as soon as it hurts russia and wont destroy Germanys whole economy. That would make things only worse. Russia most likely will sell to China and India then since they support Russia anyways. Just like with the Oil Putin makes more money of Oil now then before countries decided to cut it of. Its a recource and the price will only rise if you cut down one market. And also you wont know how many people will die. Too many obviously. Kinda cynic of you to calculate life into cash.

    • @gyanendrakumar2350
      @gyanendrakumar2350 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@M4tti87 number was given by expert on DW channel