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Great historian we as historians love him he is our pride

This historian with zilensky is an example of weak men creating hard times....

Many of these famous people are "compromised" either through money or blackmail......it's concerning to think about....

Harari's history would make a decent high school anthropology text book. That's it. It can give you a basic orientation of the sweep of history and has enough fatuous conclusions that a high school student could learn better and return to it to understand what was left out.

Putin wants security - something the US should understand. The idea that Trump threatens democracy is insane. People like Snyder will help demolish Ukraine.

If you're going to put together a hit piece on Timothy Snyder, you'd do well to provide arguments to support your propositions. You haven't even cited any "big lies." All you've presented here is a lot of conclusions about Snyder's character and _On Tyranny_ , your prediction about the outcome of Russia's genocidal invasion of Ukraine, and an expression of hope that Snyder will come to terms with the things about him that you don't like. Glaringly absent are the arguments that one would expect to hear in support of even one of these statements: you haven't even begun to make a case for any of them. (The circle of self-gratifying commentary in the comments section is equally vacuous.) If it's not too much to ask, please present convincing arguments to support your conclusions. Otherwise you're preaching to the converted and wasting everyone else's time.

Considering that Britain and France took the lead in supporting Ukraine not USA. Should give pause to this argument

The infant mortality rate issue never takes into account the massive amount of immigration. And the lack of child birth in Russia.

Your end sentence saying that morals are not beyond the viewer are poignant. Morals are for the us commoners who have no power. For those in power morals are a thing used to justify war, explain failure and drive pointels debates on policy set in stone. Unfortunate reality that has been part of humanity since the beginning, it won't change until our end. Lovely stuff as usual, keep them comming.

I got bored of waiting for the point to turn up

I think Professor Mearsheimer is right (chiefly because he agrees with my own views). I once thought I was wrong about something, but as it turned out, I was mistaken...

NO NEED of conservative-reactionary, fake leftist boomer arrogant "intellectuals".

A well timed transition from historian to public intellectual predated by just a couple of years the events in Ukraine (2014 coup). Where did he get the idea to make this, at that time, strange move? Was he part of a conversation with Victoria Nuland & co?

"banalities of virtue"???

So Hitler wasn't evil?

So, a historian is not allowed to take sides when he sees that his research warrants the partisanship? You yourself obviously take sides, so why the hipocritical snub?

"In a war to expand NATO"???

And who are YOU???

jeff Considering Tucker Carlson's interview with Putin, which I find masterful, no matter how much the Western trash press, Wikipedia, and Western historians like Timothy Snider lie, ¿what lies, distortions, and denials did Snyder and other Western historians tell about the Carlson's interview with Putin?

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Britain and France were the main torchbearers of what was deemed ‘the west’ in 1900. The Boer War and Afghan conflicts saw the stresses within the ‘west’ but the rival within the ‘west’ being “middle Europe” or central really saw the locomotive for civil war within the ‘west’. We saw the Anglo debacle at Dardanelles and surprise Ottoman victories and the other non Europeans being Japanese defeat traditionally ‘western’ powers. The so called west went more westwards to “America” and post 1945 the Anglo settlers convict states (Australia) and South Africa and Canada and New Zealand became under American sphere of influence. We saw wars of independence and western retreat from Indo~China and China itself go Communist. As did Cuba. Francis Fukuyama termed the end of history supposedly with collapse of Soviet Communism. Hence Pax America from 1991 really reassert “the west” until 2001 or 2003 before losing ground over two decades. Now it is this modern post 1990 and Bill Clinton triumph that was unravelling this image of “west” now led over the Atlantic that it being questioned as a pinnacle of human social development

aaahh "humans are now hackable animals" and "free will- thats over" guy.... he is so anti-human on every level

Timothy is not history . Real history has a long memory but Timothy’s interpretation of history based on today’s political propaganda. He just used political figures in his own way. Fakes

i am not a hystorian but i often imagine...what would happen if we would to start teaching children how we all became friends and overcame terrible past?

I am ashamed of being a British born Canadian and that ever wear the uniform to serve and protect. NATO is a warmongering instrument of US foreign policy. The EU is a joke.

Great contest and analysis.

The thing that stands out with this video (headline), and the comments that could have been expected, is that polarisation is king. It's all black and white and whoever says and writes anything has to be either "destroyed" or glorified. Bloody hell, get a grip! If you are incapable of exercising kind critique and get into the details don't post anything rather than parading your intellectual lazyness!!

There is a scenario where everyone loses. And I think its more likely at this point. The west has large military dominance relative to everyone else in the world. If they fail to bend them to their will, they are finished. Use of force will expand.

Yes, why don't we spend more time blaming ourselves for what is happening in Ukraine and Gaza, and at the same time why don't we take our focus off the politicians and power brokers who are directly responsible for the carnage? Yes, more sanctimonious navel gazing is what is required, and not looking at what and who is actually responsible for these situations. Yes... yes... what we need more of is deep philosophical pontification and more blaming of ourselves - this is the obvious solution! But as far as identifying and blaming those who are ACTUALLY responsible goes... it is a case of "nothing to see here". Implying that "WE” are all to blame sounds very sanctimonious, but it only causes those who ACTUALLY ARE to blame to blend into the background and become invisible. Excellent work.

Never heard of Snyder. There are so many pseudo-intellectual propagandists around nowadays. Well funded by such worthy institutions as the National Endowment for Dictatorship.

AIPAC plant.

Why on earth did Cormac McCarthy never win a Nobel Prize? Is it because he was not a "political progressive"?

Actually, when the first conflict started after 2014, Ukranians were generally unwilling to fight the Russians (and vice versa). It took a lot of replacements, reshuffling and right wing nationalist propaganda, placing Azov affiliated figures in key positions in the military, and so on, to be able to turn the tide of Ukranian reluctance to fight the Russian forces.

Fortunately, you have few subscribers!

Most of the stuff here, and in the presentation, is just mud-slinging nonsense, not rooted in anything in Harari's book. We have empty generalizations ("reductionist," "controversial," "elitist", "highly suspicious","not really convinced", "not original" - someho, daring and careless and yet "old hat."). It's just a form of intellectual McCarthyism dressed up in pleasant tones. Frankly, I don't care whether he has and hasn't charisma. I don't care whether he is a particularly pleasant person. I don't care whether he has anything to do with the WEF (why shouldn't he talk to Klaus Schwab?). I don't care that "professional historians" don't like his work - of course they don't! If you want traditional histories - they're there - just read Toynbee, the Durants, JM Roberts, or William McNeill, etc. Harari tried to do something else, and he was spectacularly successful. Does his book have flaws? Yep. (1) Amaziingly, for an acolyte of Jared Diamond, none of Diamond's wonderful insights about the effect of the biome on conditining the development of complex societies finds their way into Harari's book. (2) He completely misunderstands the period known as The Enlightenment, by stating that the defining characteristic was "do your thing" - it was anything but that. (3) His statement that prior to 70,000 years ago sapiens' effect on the environment was similar to that of jelly fish is wrong - for hundreds of thousands of years sapiens fired the landscape, with huge effect. (4) The notion that the most sapiens can aspire to is "pleasant sensations" is ridiculously reductionist - see philosophers from the Greeks, to Martha Nussbaum. Still, it is a stimulating read and his latest, "Nexus" is a perceptive view of the dangers of AI - he is far from a sycophant of Big Tech. We hope for better, more reasoned, and less ridiculous commentary on this site.

RIGHT YOU ARE, Timothy Snyder, Mr. Burning Archive! But these days, it all goes a bit beyond just telling us big lies, but actually re-writing history -

As an historian he continues to hold on to fake Zionist narrative. He talks about reality and yet he continues to live in an occupied land

So, he should have written an encyclopedia instead of a book, so he can delve in all these issues you mentioned at the end? I am still not finding a valid critique anywhere in the comments, it's all vague seemingly biased assertions about his work from people who obviously dislike him for w/e reason

Give Rushdie his Nobel prize!

If you can’t pivot from understanding the past for the sake of that itself to using that understanding to mine the future what fun are you having anyways?

We just need to accept that we will not progress beyond the middle ages, the crusades, the Inquisition, the Holocaust, the Israeli genocide of Gaza, until the rest of the world shuts down depravity.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fail.

Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize for waging wars. That is one of many scandals of the Swedish Nobel organization utterly controlled by the imperialists and colonizers. Sweden is now a member of the NATO colonizers "defensive?" alliance that plan to expand globally especially into East Asia in the near future according to chief Stotlenberg. How is this for peace?? Just look at what they do, not what they preach & lied.

Ireland is part of Europe and a member of the EU and we are massively against American support for Israel's annihilation of the Palestinians. (Neither do most Irish people support American led NATO encroachment on Russia).

Firstly, when you say “western intellectual culture has fallen into the abyss”, please explain that. I have my ideas on that, I want to hear yours. Examples would help. Secondly, I know you can do much better in that you ask umpteen hand-wringing questions and only in the last minute share your view more clearly, albeit with photos rather than the extensive text-based commentary and book references of which I yearn as a resident in Australia and of which you are eminently capable of providing. So that’s a request, for you to speak your mind openly and fulsomely, with book references on my two points. The Gaza Genocide requires it of all of us. Still, thank you for this introductory video.

Simply put, yours is an output of verbal diarrhoea. Lots of words without any content. Waste of time to even attempting analysis of your monologue.

I got to 1:17, then they say that the only two people who are sober and could save the entire human race are the bad guys. I think we deserve what's coming.

Harari has realized the importance of showmanship, sprinkled with some controversial history, for the purpose of getting rich and lots of attention.

Anyone with a decent amount of common knowledge about history and insight into European history knows that Timothy is a liar and a person who deliberately fuels hatred towards Russians and other Slavic peoples. He’s a disgrace to the historian faculty.