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Great discussion, thank you guys!

Pretending it’s about Ukraine lmao. It’s about immigration dude

Ukraine is not the main issue, far from it, although the Kremlin has taken the opportunity to take advantage of it. Putin's propaganda has managed to, somehow, establish the Russian F. as a defender of traditional values that are apparently dear to the populist voting crowd. What has been able to inflate these parties is: - Stagnation of individual financial perspectives. Lack of perspectives for the future for too many people (includes housing). This is a complex issue, but is at the root and can be explored by populists. - Lack of control of immigration. - Too much emphasis on cultural issues that are dear to a certain urban elite (culture wars - a lot could be said here). - The Green agenda that collides with too many sectors of the population, such as farmers of so many countries. Dear Greta, the Just Stop Oil and other groups (who often support other causes, such as Palestine) are also irritating far too many (people do see what they already pay for energy). Off course this is a very simplistic summariy, but this is often what concerns people and they feel the traditional parties are ignoring their concerns. The populists are very quick to give voice to these concerns. Just want to point out that not every populist party is against Ukraine, at least not oppenly. Portuguese Chega (off course I don't support it) claims to be pro-EU and doesn't oppose Ukraine, although not enthusiastically.

Dago's sure know how to talk dago.

There is a difference between "populists" and "thinkers". Populists created and provided the Green Party the platform into politics. Thinkers know that greening, Net Zero and controlling global temperatures are nothing but Quixotic but to the benefit of those planning to acquire the world's rich resources of farmlands, fossil fuels and minerals with "green financing" as a fence for private equity to come in. And this is what has become very clear and demonstrated in the EU Election Results. Hopefully there is still time to save the EU from the "Old Bureaucrats Club."

Your institution is stupid

1 year later - this talk was a lot of nothing. all of these so-called experts had no idea what would happen. "clearly Ukraine has better morale, better trained and better led."

this beautiful lady obviously spoke ugly things, Taiwan is China and US should put his hand off.

NATO should have no future... except its speedy demise. The phobia the western political powers have over Russia is real enough. However, within it there is a sham process by which the continued existence of NATO is sought. This is all well and good for all those on the very lucrative NATO career ladder. But extremely bad news for any of us idealists hoping for a stable, peaceful world to emerge at some point. With NATO continuing to exist by spreading some fear from one quarter or another and western powers more than glad to supply the instability required to generate even a sham fear, we will never get there.

In which terms and at what extent will the US accomplish its disingagement from Europe ? Apparently european countries have been asked to fund their own defense systems so as a consequence I guess they will be given strategical autonomy...Right ? These two sides of the new european deal look tightly linked to me. Any suggestions are welcomed :)

Peace, at last a word of wisdom

You all seem like nice people, and you are trying to be realists, but we all know how this will end. (1) Russia will keep every square meter that was won with Russian blood. (2) Ukraine will give concrete assurances that they will never join, or engage with, NATO. Ever. Ever, ever. (3) All Russian foreign assets will be unblocked, with every penny of accrued interest paid. (4) Other serious shit, quite possibly a moratorium on E.U. membership, quite possibly a normalization of trade between the two nations. Putin won't be compromising. At all. And if you move quickly - and in good faith - he might let you keep Odessa. You're welcome.

Most likely it is the West that will be contained by the global South.

I only heard one voice of reason in this podcast, the one speaking out for peace. Others seemed to be stuck 30 years in the past. Cheers all.

Why are there + 2million ukranians living and benefiting of our taxpayers money in Europe? Lots of them could go back and join their armed forces and be patriotic to the ukrainian cause and desruction? The ukranian oligarchs left their country 1 week before the russian invasion and are now in Switserland living a wealthy lifestyle. Their sons and daughters are not in the ukranian army..! Nobody talks about this..! Isn't that strange..? The Eu countries could force them out like the Eu does with the african people that try to enter the Eu. The Us and Eu use double standards when it comes to letting people in: Free entrance and help for ukranians and no help + restrictions for entry of the african ethnic people..! Talking of western hypocrasy..! Please give your reactions..!

Flappy gums are great

this kimmage is on a different reality. i want what he is smoking

The containment of the US and NATO is the real problem. Russia and China are not a threat unless threatened.

DREAM AND FANTASY

Strange name, Institute for Peace. This discussion resembled classic neocon talking points. How disappointing.

Contain yourself, idiots.

Is Ukraine really the rightful owner of Crimea? They annexed Crimea in 1995 and deposed the President. In 2014 Crimea voted to join Russia. Shouldn’t it be up to the people of Crimea to decide?

5:34 containment more viable?

Deluded chauvinist fools coping with western incompetence and decline.

I watched expecting yet more western establishment drivel but was pleasantly surprised to discover I was wrong. 1:14:04 The heart of this issue. Well said Mr. Latham!

Both parties are war mongering that screw up the world by their dominance politics of containment, confrontation and cold war. This think tank is a joke calling itself for peace and diplomacy.

A peace and diplomacy think tank talking how Russia, a nuclear state, should be defeated, contained or blunted! These are either stupid or dangerous people talking under the guise of peace and diplomacy!

No wonder diplomacy and peace never occur. Think tanks that call itself for peace and diplomacy comprising warmongers talking about how bad Putin is and about regime change, containing and blunting Russia. All Russia wanted was a buffer between itself and Nato. It doesn't want Ukraine (as shown by negotiated deals with Zelensky but stopped by US/UK. It's so hard for warmongers to understand why Russia is fearful of Nato military buildup in Ukraine when JFK found it unthinkable for Soviet to install a military base in Cuba. These are strategic experts yet have so much misunderstanding of Russia (and China). Think tanks like this are never get Mearsheimer or Jeffrey Sachs on the panel for fear of lies being exposed.

US must be contained.

Hahaha try reading the comments to see what people actually think. You ain't fooling anyone. Everyone knows you're full of it 🤣

What about containment of America and there hedgmony.

Its' a war of self-defense not a war of aggression. The west has attacked Russia for years on many fronts, economically as well as militarily (bombing donbass and preparing military action there) etc. etc. Further the west has openly declared the destruction of Russia by splitting it up and install puppet regimes to exploit it's resources etc. etc. So if you start the talk by saing that Russia is performing a war of aggression, looking at all the pieces as well as comparing russian restraint with UA-T.E.R.R.O.rism etc. that would usually make me skip away. It's the presence of Mr. Petro to whom I listened many times that keeps me continuing, just that you know that such little details can make the difference. After all, there are MSM-Articles with 90% correct analysis only to end with with the usual out of context narratives that will stick to average brains due to it's placement in the article at the very end, for example.

All these people are getting pay cheques from the industrial Military Complex indirectly or directly

Of course containment is an existential threat for whatever country and NOT the imagination of one person and his "cronies" as you naively call them. What about if it were applied to the USA?

I think NATO containment is the real issue for this period in history

What's all this bollox about containing Russia. How about working with Russia, that woukld make more sense.

It is we in the qwst that will be contained in the future,becourse the global majority knows that we always have a nasty plan if they are not doing as they are told.

It's the west that must be contained, not Russia.

just start listening what Russia is saying for years - especially about NATO expansion - ignoring Russia on pretty much every position is not just childish, but pathetically extremely arrogant and highly very irresponsible and incompetent

"Institute of peace & Diplomacy" There is nothing peaceful or diplomatic about this Orwellian title. Is "War is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength" your motto too? What a joke, Orwell would have had a field day with this nonsense. Jokers.

Gentlemen, why is there no word from you on the US' role in this mess; from their involvement in the Maidan coup to the relentless expansion of NATO despite giving assurances that NATO would not move one inch eastward. Russia and Germany were doing just fine, but the US couldn't stand this and has therefore been trying for years to bring an end to this partnership. Would love to know your thoughts on who blew up Nordstream, Gentlemen. Also, how is it that the US is perpetually involved in military conflict somewhere in the world? I don't see that with Russia, China, or anyone else, but with the US it's one war after another. Well, Gentlemen??

LMAO => Institute for Peace & Diplomacy is anything but ....

Anyone wanting to contain Russia and China is not interested in peace. Their objective is Western imperialism.

I had recently seen a somewhat older interview by Putin where it was about the boundaries regarding Polish aggression and the negative lobbying of the Poles, Baltic states around western Ukraine against the Russian-German Nordstream 2 gas project. Putin said discussing border issues in Eastern Europe is like opening PANDORA'S BOX. -2019 A contract was concluded between US;POLAND:UKRAINE as GAS INTERMARIUM. This was a goal of the USA to damage Germany and permanently separate RUSSIA from Germany. There are also the RAND COOPERATION STUDIES against Russia and Germany. This works for the current German government, which was elected with lies. Germany will be impoverished by the sanctions, as under Brünning, because the Greens are using the sanctions policy under false prerequisites whose climate change ideology is used to drive the green energy revolution according to Graeme Maxton, Club of Rome, and Germany down to living standards of 1978.

Henrik by questions you are still wearing short pants. You are not educated at ALL and never in your life you will be.

Andrew is wrong!!! Pres Putin was justified in the SMO due to history (2014 US involvement) and the west trying to get Ukraine into nato. The collective west was warned but ignored. Putin is not the bad guy here, the US, UK, EU & Zelensky are.

These hopelessly ill-informed NATO/Nazi/Neocon propagandists are symptomatic of the utter stupidity and evil of the pro-war military/media/Congess/Zionist faction that is presently grossly mismanaging our foreign policy. Careerist fellatio can only explain the fact that what they advocate is so obviously a lie that it must be part of a conspiracy by their owners to drench the world in blood for profit. These pundits are of the same despicable immorality and corruption as those presently conducting genocide in Gaza.

The western powers should contain themselves, not Russia. They are the problem, far and away the problem. Their ambitions to retain their dominance across the entire globe is constantly the problem other nations face, their constant interference based upon some spurious belief in their superiority. The aggression we have seen transported from behind closed doors in Whitehall and Washington are a vicious plague upon our world. That gentlemen is where you ought properly to seek containment. The western powers have no business taking the law into their hands and quite flagrantly. Your views are clearly informed not by facts, but groupthink prejudice.

You're all intelligent people, but doubtless with sponsors & employers to keep on side, so let me deal with the elephant in the room. The nation that had almost no notable colonies, who did not exploit slaves (derived from the word "slavic", who were themselves enslaved) to get rich, who liberated Europe from facism, who then withdraw all of its forces from Europe voluntarily, who didn't kill & injure millions of people in Vietnam, Laos, Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Yemen & Gaza, who saved Syria from ISIS, who put an end to the 14,000+ Russian genocide in eastern Ukraine, who doesn't regime change governments all over the world, who doesn't have 190 military bases scattered all over earth, who lost 26 million dead in the most recent (4th ??) invasion of its territory from Western Europe and who finally (in general) minds its own damn business, ISN'T the nation that needs to be contained.

The United States, my country, needs to be contained: not Russia; not China. My country, the so-called "cradle of democracy" is the inheritor of British Imperialism since the end of WW2 and the world's worst terrorist state, according to opinions recorded by a Gallup poll in 2014.